it should probably be a bigger story that Republican operatives are boosting a socialist candidate to siphon off votes from Sherrod brown

They don't have the guys to stop us

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 22h ago

Students from North Carolina A&T can be seen marching back to their HBCU after voting on the first day of early voting in the state. The Guilford County Board of Elections voted to remove the school’s on-campus polling site. (video via Todd Simmons) greensboro.com/news/local/g...

How come I’ve never heard a leftist say Republicans need to lose to teach them a lesson?

"Are LLMs conscious?" "That's the wrong question and it valorizes human institutions and human ways of knowing and being and structuring society in really problematic ways. "

It was brought to my attention that Meghan Markle did the Key & Peele thing at a public appearance with Harry today

The Roads Have Eyes! 👁️ Turn on the Surveillance Layer in Map Options to see known license plate readers from Flock Safety, Motorola Solutions (Vigilant), Genetec, Axis Communications, Axon, Leonardo (ELSAG), Neology, Rekor, PlateSmart, Ubicquia, Verkada, and other outdoor surveillance cameras.

That's conservative, they count those

Rita, antifascist🏴@oldsquida.bsky.social · 3d ago

“My goal, as an anarchist, isn’t a reformed government that’s nicer to us, that condescendingly ‘grants’ us rights. My goal is a self-governed society run by local assemblies that federate in a bottom-up structure to collectively make larger decisions.”

what i think is interesting about the position articulated here is that it is, in the abstract, not particularly new or groundbreaking: it's just the basic right-wing nationalist position of any given continental power

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 3d ago

Israel's foremost natsec think tank says Israel's new doctrine rests on these principles 1. Jewish supremacy over democracy. 2. Peace is illusory 3. No such thing as an independent Arab state 4. War is key to security 5. The US is declining, Israel does not need it 6. Settlement is key to security.

Treating reality as a fictional, discursive abstract rather than an actual shared human experience, among many other things, enormously boring.

No no, *my* community's embarrassing affiliation to a massive political movement with state power and a dark record should be judged by the diversity of its members and their intentions, *your* community's embarrassing movement is obviously judged by its actions only

Relatedly: in retrospect one of the dumber bits of political ZIRP that shows how unserious all the discourse was during Obama and Trump 1 was people sneering at the army, cops, CIA, etc making generic “love is love, diversity is good” type statements because they were ‘inauthentic’ or some shit.

Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈@maxdubler.com · 6d ago

Corporations publicly celebrating LGBT+ equality is a good thing and I am glad to see it coming back.

It's funny how NIMBYism is such a religious conviction for some people that developers will just say this worldwide without fear of repercussion.

BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 6d ago

great to see this piece! www.londoncentric.media/p/london-pro...

see in my view that IS capitalism pro-market is anti-capitalism in practice, because a good chunk of actual capitalists will do anything, up to and including setting it on fire, to avoid having to compete in the market economy

Irenē@irenecolth.bsky.social · 6d ago

Americans don't actually believe in capitalism as much as the world thinks we do! Not the mutually competitive market for goods and services or land or labor, anyway.

American small business owners largely see themselves as lower-level rentiers in a quasi-feudal economy as opposed to service providers in a competitive market economy, and part of that means not having to actually be competent at providing services

Dangubiti@dangubiti.bsky.social · 7d ago

I’ve lost track of how many small business owners in DC are shocked that their customers respond extremely negatively to their public tweets supporting Trump

tired: enthusiasm about bombing RU data centres because you believed disinfo about Russian bot disruption wired: enthusiasm about bombing RU data centres because Russian civilians are malding about it like, they gotta make it hurt for people. do i wish we did not live in that world? no, but

SE Gyges@segyges.bsky.social · 6d ago

watching how badly RU civilians seem to be taking their service outages convinces me that data centers should be prio targets actually

The purpose of politics is to take control of state power and use it to implement policies that meaningfully improve your material circumstances. If your activist leaders aren’t working toward that, ask why.

The Fig Economy@figgityfigs.bsky.social · 6d ago

Coupled with “awareness” as currency, there came the sanctifying of “activist” as a label that put somebody beyond reproach, beyond the need to ask whether their methods or focus were effective at anything, let alone what they said they were trying to do

my mentions are full of people *furious* at the DCCC for trying to win more races instead of hoarding cash in a bank account and never spending it. like they *want* the DCCC to be scrooge mcduck swimming in gold coins instead of trying to win races. I am going to start drinking.

“Give us the money we need to make Stephen Miller cry on national television”

escapedexplorer.bsky.social@escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 7d ago

Honest to god a DCCC text saying "[Name], we are going to crush these motherfuckers in November. I know we've been sometimes desperate sounding in these texts before but right now I'm telling you if everyone kicks in $30 we can rip their still-beating heart out before their eyes" would work on me rn

All forms of conspiracism go through a process of convergent evolution akin to carcinization, except instead of turning into crabs they end up as, well, you know

Sam@samd.bsky.social · 2w ago

gotta say I really don’t love the use of the Israeli flag here especially when some of the largest foreign institutional investors in data centers are not even Israeli (primarily the gulf states) Sunrise has truly lost the plot ngl

I'm taking my "Norway's wealth tax didn't reduce tax revenue" victory lap.

James Medlock@jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 2y ago

I've spent a lot of time debunking claims that way overstate the migration impacts of wealth taxes. But fear not - if we put our minds to it, I do believe we can design a wealth tax high enough to get Elon to flee the country

Wait does having a goth pokemon pfp make me look Japanese?

Tim@timzhu.io · last wk.

I don't know how else to say it but there's a whole genre of leftist posters who have chosen their profile pics and online persona to try to give the impression that they're not white

Repeating my sotto voce refrain that I think we are very soon going to have to deal with the plain (but seldom spoken) fact that police are simply not under the control of the political leadership who command them on paper.

George Pearkes@peark.es · last wk.

I hope Mamdani clarifies whether NYPD support for this action was at his direction or if the NYPD acted on its own; if the latter, why do they have that latitude and what is being done to reign in a rogue agency?

I really hate this sort of take. someone saying "we're better than this" is speaking aspirationally! you are not clever for insisting we aren't, you are giving people an excuse not to try to be.

Buttadeus@thewanderingjew.bsky.social · last wk.

Ok white girls, I guess you don’t have to be mad about this.

Please tell uninformed “allies” to trans people who repeat Erin Reed or Alejandra Caraballo narratives to shut the fuck up. There is nothing more helpful you can do for trans people than this. Destroy the doomer narrative and help save our community

I miss when the trans community said things like "I love being trans, it's great and I'm successful and people should look up to me" & had hashtags like "RealLiveTransAdult" instead of screaming "everyone hates us and is going to kill us and if you have hope I'll enjoy spitting on you in the camps"

this is on the one hand a totally insane thing to say, but it's interesting to see it as kind of a legacy kludge from fusionists past, where the "communists want to remake the social world" was part of what kept the cons in coalition with the hawks and the libertarians

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Q: How do you define socialism personally? JD VANCE: I think in reality what it actually means in the American context is you want to replace American workers with foreigners workers, and you want boys to play in girls' sports