Dems will win an impressive number of seats, flipping the House and maybe even the Senate, but then squander any opportunity to meaningfully address our descent into increasingly more overt forms of fascism.

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 3d ago

The nonpartisan Cook Political Report projects Democrats will most likely flip between 12 and 22 seats in November — potentially giving them bigger majorities than the ones they won during blue waves in the 2006 and 2018 midterms.

Making a change.org petition to "Give Vivek Ramaswamy Mega-Cancer"

Yeah this is just what a government is.

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 4d ago

Who's in charge of this country because it sure isn't us and it doesn't even appear to be the government anymore A bunch of paunchy moon-faced degenerate dead-eyed parasites forming a human centipede of investment in each others' vanity conglomerates, not a scintilla of civic virtue among them

JK Rowling explaining why she doesn't want trans people dead:

I remember when this came out and everyone was totally outraged lol. The level of pearl clutching was off the charts

Xun-ling Au 歐迅灵 🏴@xunlingau.bsky.social · 6d ago

Just dropping this here, cause its good & relevant to the current discourse. Really grateful to @vickyacab.bsky.social for this one, while the US isn't my context or where I live, the arguments contained are broadly applicable.

Hey, so like, I don't know how else to put this, but this guy needs to die.

Your Scary Ad Here@cooluser354.bsky.social · 7d ago

Malfoid is quietly becoming a symbol of the West's cultural counter-revolution.

Got on TikTok to catch up on cat videos my partner sent me and I see this. Just a guy with a Stalin pfp straight up lying about an anarchist bookstore (The Big Idea in Pittsburgh) because they have books critical of the USSR.

*Cops, murdering with impunity, beating their partners, sexually assaulting the vulnerable, defending fascists, helping ICE kidnap people, brutalizing protesters, etc. Malcolm Gladwell: Wow, we really need more of these guys around.

Ah, good ol' Steven Pinker, the thinking man's racist pedophile pseudoscientist.

Rebecca Sear@rebeccasear.bsky.social · last wk.

The Committee for Academic Freedom has launched an investigation into Professor Arday’s hiring, and appointed Steven Pinker - listed as a referee on the CV of Arday’s accuser - to the panel. Because Cambridge should not have the freedom to decide its own appointments?

The French are burning shit down and the best we can do are some get-out-the-vote circlejerks. Embarrassing.

Something like this, with appropriate munitions.

Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social · last wk.

question for the audience: if you were ultra rich (let’s say $25M), what completely frivolous thing are you buying?

I've never got more compliments in my life as I do now with a skullett. Men and women included.

'This kind of leftier than thou queer theory scolding does not work on me because I have no principles or values. Hope this helps 🙂'

Data center fumigates a neighborhood with toxic exhaust? Sorry, the government can't do anything about that. Young people protesting genocide? No problem, they'll send in the death squads.

Brad Johnson@climatebrad.hillheat.com · 2w ago

My god. A Virginia data center ran backup diesel generators full blast for 24 hours, creating a giant cloud of toxic smoke that choked its human neighbors. The government claimed there was nothing they could do.

I got crab rangoons

𝖇𝖊𝖈𝖔𝖒𝖎𝖓𝖌-𝖛𝖛𝖝𝖗𝖝𝖛𝖛𝖝𝖑𝖋@novatoreanhovvl.bsky.social · 2w ago

i'll pay for everything

This quote has always baffled me because, well, yeah. Correct, I DON'T think we should aspire to power lol.

Katherine Alejandra Cross@quinnae.com · 3w ago

Wynn's Law remains undefeated.

I'm not gonna upload my ID to some database so I can see boobies and buttcheeks on the internet. That's insane.

A horse girl learning about the land of the Houyhnhnms from Gulliver's Travels for the first time: "You have my attention."

NPR host: Trump shouts "White power" at press conference, a phrase some interpret as hate speech.

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3w ago

We're maybe a week away from a Trump official shouting "White Power!" at one of these conferences.

'Anarchists don't have a solution to X problem we have to deal with in our current top-down, oppressive society, so we should continue with the sort of top-down, oppressive arrangements that produce X problem. Checkmate anarkkkiddies!'

Saw a lib this morning say, "If a nazi gets punched for being a nazi it‘s the same reason a nazi punches a minority. Hate." Which is a good reminder these people can't ever be trusted.

I'm issuing a moratorium on calling things "performative"

This was fucking amazing

If you don't think fat women are gorgeous I kinda think you're a loser coward

Actually, yeah, I do support ruining men's lives "for no reason"

the Cornell case should make us question prosecutors and police all the time: the same DA offices discounting college students’ sexual assault cases (the lacking investigations, the disbelief) are happy to jail countless women for far less, day in and day out, when most people aren’t watching

I really can't add much to the Cornell news or say anything that hasn't already been said better by others, but I don't believe for a second that anyone seriously doubts the victim's claim. The denialism is only meant to demean and humiliate her and victims in general.

Funny Kropotkin would write something like "Wars and Capitalism" then turn around and support France in WWI like two years later

Look, is Michael Tracey deserving of life? No. Does he have some redeeming qualities. No. Should he be beat to death? Yes. Is he a vile sack of oozing filth? Yes, but... uhhh, you know, I forgot where I was going with this.