“All over the world, wherever there are capitalists, freedom of the press means freedom to buy up newspapers, to buy writers, to bribe, buy and fake ‘public opinion’ for the benefit of the bourgeoisie.” -Lenin, tapping the sign.

Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis@jeffjarvis.bsky.social · yesterday

Shameful: The #BrokenTimes hands David Ellison op-ed space rather than challenging his bullshit pap and propaganda about journalism with the receipts he has already delivered at CBS. That would be journalism. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/o...

You can never just move on from this, even after he's gone. Without punishment and ostracism for everyone who has participated in his crime spree over the last 18 months you can forget it- we're all just treading water until the next tyrant

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · yesterday

“.. Trump has leveraged his control of the federal government to instead escape the scrutiny that every other modern president, not to mention every other regular taxpayer, has been subject to.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/b...

And I think what makes the growing stuff truly infuriating is how she is singularly financing one of the most horrific acts of bigotry in the world today, and boycotting her affiliated products remains one of the simplest acts in the world, yet millions of people still refuse to do it.

More people, especially in the US, simply have to understand there is effectively no mechanism in the UK to stop Rowling. Their entire legal system is set up to allow her to get whatever she wants by spending money on lawyers for it. The best chance at opposition will come from protest overseas.

A genuinely irredeemable act on the part of Amnesty, in that in addition to permanently shattering any sense of safety or reliability oppressed groups might have found from them in the face of adversity, it also yielded them nothing because Rowling intends to continue suing them anyway.

Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE@leftistlawyer.com · 4d ago

Amnesty International correctly called out Rowling's transphobia. She threatened them in response. And @amnesty.org surrendered. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

When the gods want to test a man's character they put him on the computer

project 2025 was ultimately a vision of authoritarian consolidation, and while musk, vought, and milller (amongst others) have caused untold destruction and misery, they have not accomplished that and have made it significantly less likely through their own incompetence

American trucks are too big

Zach Weinersmith@zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

99% of the time, when someone accuses you of selective outrage, it’s a way of politically demobilizing you and shutting you up “Why are you angry about data centers instead of fast fashion” isn’t about making you care about fast fashion. It’s about shutting you up about data centers And visa versa

maybe people go "say it's a genocide" about Israel in particular because, in our political culture, that's the genocide that gets denied the most

The data center mania happening at a time when climate change is already such a serious and obvious problem feels like a taunt. You are pissing me off on purpose

Jeff Sharlet@jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 7d ago

"By the end of 2030," reports NYT, the amount of energy used by data centers"is expected to quadruple, eclipsing the power used by all countries in South America and Africa combined." This is extinctionism.

We are all going to have so many kinds of diarrhea

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 2y ago

Trump is reportedly expected to nominate anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services

Hey all, it’s publishing day for my book “How to Sell a Genocide,” which is a data-driven account of centrist and liberal media’s role in creating the conditions of mass death in Gaza. 100% of royalties go to @mecaforpeace.bsky.social. > www.plutobooks.com/product/how-... > a.co/d/00CQcElr

How to Sell a Genocide - Pluto Press

A gripping exposé of how the corporate media fuelled genocide in Gaza

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and that's a bargain they'll lose the more human beings are murdered on our dime as a policy choice

August J. Pollak@augustjpollak.bsky.social · last wk.

For the record, “okay, everyone, how about this: what if we just like, agree to disagree on Gaza? Wouldn’t that make everyone happier?” is what you would commonly refer to as the “Bargaining” phase.

Centrists in Congress (anonymously) threatening to leave this Democratic Party. James Carville calling for a schism. Top Dems refusing to endorse Dem primary winners. Pouty (also anonymous) pro-Israel donors in MI calling for a donor strike—I wrote about the emerging centrist Uncommitted Movement.

A new, centrist Uncommitted Movement has emerged

Except this time it’s in support of genocide, rather than trying to stop one.

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damn, the howls of pain from the institution/class/people I’m helping target and destroy really proves the point about how they gotta go and even brought this on themselves actually

Yes, the Problems are bad, but this is no time for radical things like Solutions

The problem the Atlantic et al is having with DSA-governance-scolding is the only example available is a strained critique of Zohran Mamdani, who keeps fucking up their entire argument by appearing to have accomplished more as an executive in eight months than Democrats have done in a decade.

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The simple reason organizations like the DSA are growing while the Democrats languish is because it is, in fact, long past time to start asking what your country can do for you.

I especially love when this applies to housing because the inevitable I-am-very-intelligent response is “but there is government housing and it’s terrible” as if it is both physically and economically impossible to just build non-terrible housing

A very solid position my exposure to Bluesky intellectualism has quickly taught me is the minute any conversation leads to the line “no one will do this because they can’t make a profit doing it,” stop. Right there. You have just identified the thing the government should be doing then.

Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈@maxdubler.com · 2w ago

The two hardest and most unforgiving facts in housing policy are that it actually costs a lot of money to build new homes and that the rents that poor people can afford are not enough to pay off the cost of construction.

"tell me i'm smart, tell me i'm correct, and only when you tell me that can we start to address problems". like this goes beyond any sort of political agenda, it really is egos and the wounding thereof

it is kinda funny that we're in this deep to trump 2 and he's been doing all kinds of shit that very obviously fuck the economy at both a macro and individual level and chartfuckers still won't take an offramp when the economy is brought up because that would mean conceding other people have a point