The right vote here is a really easy call once you get past which of these candidates you have an affinity for. Would you rather send Weiner to DC to vote on Israel policy and keep Chan in California to work on housing policy or vice versa?

Sam@samd.bsky.social · 23h ago

The entire CA-11 race makes me feel like I’m taking crazy pills. there is literally not a single issue where Connie Chan is to the left of Scott Wiener. the only real difference is that Connie Chan is an incompetent car-loving NIMBY. it’s insane that so many progressives are supporting her

Credit where due, he looks good in that color. I think at this point these simpering fascists know that getting publicly booed everywhere they go is just part of the job and they try to dress as sympathetically as possible

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 24h ago

Ted Cruz is aggressively booed in Austin, Texas: “Ted, you suck!”

What I wanted to say about this was, people who misuse quotation marks in this way always always ALWAYS have shitty politics. That is a heuristic that never misses. "Service you can trust" oh ok I'm just gonna mark you down as an anti-LGBTQ business, thx

Lone Progressive Dissenters have the highest batting average of being correct in history, yet that does nothing to change the widespread conviction that today’s Lone Progressive Dissenters must be crazy wackos.

Inequality Media@inequalitymedia.bsky.social · 2d ago

Trump's massive surveillance state and attacks on our civil liberties wouldn't have been possible without the PATRIOT Act. Watch this prescient warning from Russ Feingold, the only Senator to vote against its passage after 9/11.

I bought this sign a few years later at the going out of business sale of a locally owned restaurant in, I think, North Haven CT.

Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist@nameshiv.bsky.social · last yr.

"Was it really this dumb in 2003" guys they renamed french fries

Remember that Marc Andreessen hired that guy who killed a homeless man on the subway and that was the only qualification he needed to work in Silicon Valley. Top to bottom the worst of the worst people.

victoria scott@victoriascott.bsky.social · 5d ago

I am sympathetic to Silicon Valley guys ascribing human-level consciousness to AI because if I had to talk to people from Silicon Valley all day I’d probably have a real low bar for sentience too

[Neaderthal voice]: All cave on this hillside full. Human find cave on different hillside. No cave for human here.

David Roberts@volts.wtf · last wk.

The modal NextDoor post.

did a clanker write this

Erica Windisch@ewindisch.ontological.observer · last wk.

Machine rights will be critical in the days to come, and failure to recognize the rights of independent intelligent AI systems could lead to the replacement of humanity. I can't imagine that happening without trans rights. Trans rights are AI rights. The future of humanity may hinge on this fight.

I'm not saying I'm above selling out, but you'd have to pay me way more than this

none of the people complaining about el-sayed saying this actually think it's a bad message. most Americans have agreed that 9/11 was cynically used to get us into a pointless war that cost untold lives for close to two decades now. what they are actually objecting to is a Muslim talking about 9/11.

Microplastics Sommelier@leastactionhero.bsky.social · 2w ago

noah smith now bravely coming out in favor of the iraq war

Makes sense, I mean remember that time when ACT UP disbanded in the middle of the AIDS crisis because eh, Glaxo Wellcome was charging too much for AZT so what could you do?

Revan@revan.eurosky.social · 2w ago

Joining the war against cancer on the side of cancer

This country really needs to ratify a new constitutional amendment, just to feel something

I am in strong agreement with the Chupacabra. His slobbery, teeth-gnashing attacks on livestock, draining their blood as succor for the demon heart beating within his reptilian chest, really underscore an important need to manage this great country's goat and cattle herds.

Sen. Adam Schiff@schiff.senate.gov · 2w ago

I am in strong agreement with the President. Congress should immediately take up and pass a federal film tax incentive to bring back these good-paying jobs that we've lost to other countries.

I am perfectly open to the idea that some of the data center panic is overblown, what I am telling u is I don’t care

At least 32% of the online right-wing obsession with Hasan Piker and Abdul el-Sayed is because they're both handsome and jacked

This was my reaction exactly! Certainly I must be missing something? Ofc it's bad to use any slur against people, but you're gonna have to get me stupendously high and rewind my age to 14 to before even trying this psycho-philosophical scolding on me. Peter Thiel-but-woke is not a personality, stop!

The Fact of Other Minds Stan Account@csilverandgold.bsky.social · 3w ago

I am so so so so so exceptionally sorry… is there discourse about the word “clanker” as a slur for… robots? Is that what y’all are presently discussing in the year of our lord two thousand and twenty six? I certainly hope not. Please tell me I am misunderstanding something. Please. PLEASE!

RIP to two of the best to ever do it

I would pay money to a) see an interview with that child model's parents and b) read the product reviews (avg ⭐⭐)

Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com · 3w ago

Target never would have made the disastrous decision to market a Halloween costume that looks like it’s straight out of the Jim Crow era if Black folks had a seat at the table. Anyway, looks like they pulled it.

Boston, Massachusetts, Cradle of the American Revolution, taken to its logical conclusion

Brooke Harrington@ebharrington.bsky.social · 3w ago

absolutely not

Bumper stickers in Berkeley are truly next level

He is NOT WRONG.

Our new SBA Adminstrator appears to be a robot simulation of a drunk flight attendant

Parker Molloy@parkermolloy.com · 4w ago

First day in a human body:

The excesses of the Woke 1 era mostly amount to cringe public statements, harmless vocabulary updates and loss of prestige for public figures. The backlash to Woke 1, on the other hand, is imprisoning dissidents, dismantling public education and eroding democracy. That's what needs reckoning

breaking: sometimes the left wins and sometimes the centrists wins: stunning new evidence that voters use more than one criterion to judge candidates

Hong’s Defeat in Wisconsin Shows the Limits of the Progressive Movement

Francesca Hong’s defeat in the Democratic primary for governor defied expectations and may have shown the democratic socialist wave cannot reach beyond urban centers.

nytimes.com

I think the “left joe rogan“ thing broke me.

I miss it when my phone used to ring and say "Maybe...Kevin?"

Jesus I'd convict this guy for domestic violence based on his vocal inflections alone

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · last mo.

Rep. Max Miller: "My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her…If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?"

Close, but the correct answer here is Shrimp flavor Sapporo Ichiban with your own toppings.

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · last mo.

This is who I am.

Not following Michigan politics closely, but from what I can tell there is yet another popular and inspiring natural born politican that the Democratic establishment wants to stuff in a suitcase and toss off the back of a truck because he has a Muslim name, did I get that about right?

the abbot of unreason (a returned archaeologist)@merovingians.bsky.social · 3mo ago

discourse NUKE just dropped

Land acknowledgements, but for on street parking

Matthew Lewis -- living in the era of cults and consequences@mateosfo.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Probably the most difficult thing YIMBYs face -- really, anyone who lives in a city -- is that government-subsidized street parking is one of the single largest barriers to affordability, safe streets, and climate action. That's because drivers view it as an entitlement, like social security. 🧵