March for Billionaires, and billionaire ball-massagers at right-libertarian magazines like Billy Binion at Reason, praise Sergey Brin for giving the world "a search engine that works." Meanwhile in the real world, billionaires invest their money in asset-stripping, enshittifying, and breaking stuff.

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11h ago

It's a deadly combination: Google has committed hundreds of billions to stock buybacks and its AI money-furnace, financed by mass layoffs targeting the people who keep the core services useful. 17/

The US military tested a GPS jammer and murdered a bunch of civilians on a civilian plane. futurism.com/science-ener...

It Appears That the US Military Accidentally Killed Everybody on Board a Civilian Medevac Flight in New Mexico

A days-long electronic warfare drill was one of the causes behind the loss of a four-passenger medevac flight.

futurism.com

He would stand a very good chance of winning the nomination should he run. Watch the 2028 general be Tucker Carlson vs. AOC

Sharon 🪳🌹@sharonk.bsky.social · last yr.

horrifying thought that Tucker Carlson could lead a dissident right movement in 2028 if the Trumpist right implodes over Iran

Democrats have been accused of being spineless for years, but voters are finally sick of the Republicans' shit under Trump, leading to them voting for fighters and organizers over insiders who've been more than happy to offer platitudes while refusing to punish the corrupt in the name of "unity"

Andrew Lawrence@ndrew.bsky.social · 10h ago

if establishment candidates want to start winning primaries again all you have to do is say that rich people have too much money and that youll prosecute trump admin staffers and republicans that have broken the law

Palestinian and Israeli protesters staged a sit-in at the Religious Zionist Party’s headquarters in Shoham on Wednesday. Demonstrators accused far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s party of funding outposts linked to settler attacks in the occupied West Bank.

Talarico’s argument is simple: Stop treating marijuana like a crime. Legalize it. Regulate it. Tax it. Stop wasting police resources on low-level marijuana offenses. Clear the records of people whose lives have been derailed by nonviolent marijuana convictions.

people who invest in elon musk kind of deserve it

"Stop taking Elon's claims seriously" challenge, for media and other rich duds. People think he's brilliant simply because of his big net worth, never mind that he's a 55 year old drug addict who rots his brain on 4chan twenty-three hours a day

Brendan Nyhan@brendannyhan.bsky.social · 7h ago

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

"Aid support" is one hell of a euphemism for "genocide funding"

Nathan Kalman-Lamb@nkalamb.bsky.social · 10h ago

love to see it

Its embarrassing how many grown ass adults live in these fantasies where people work for some nonsense like the artificial cultures oligarchs manufacture over survival.

Showing once again they're just boys confusing their toxicity and laziness for manliness. All the conservative men who helped raise me would be shaking their heads in disapproval if they heard a grown adult say he doesn't wipe his ass

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · yesterday

Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.

Yes, America has two major political parties, and one of them supports violent attacks on America, believing that seditious conspiracy should be covered up or celebrated. It’s… not great.

Welsh rarebit@welshrarebit.bsky.social · 11h ago

The majority of Republicans in Congress voted against confirming Biden’s election, making them in effect the insurrectionary party. The party should change its name.

If you show up to Bluesky without following anyone, you'll be treated to a series of posts about art, music, and dogs. If you show up to X without following anyone, you'll be bombarded with right-wing conspiracies and white supremacist slop. It's weird which one is seen as a "political bubble"

The rumors are true. Stand by for more.

They're probably hoping you won't hear about this. But tomorrow in TX, Tarrant County officials meet to vote on a GOP plan to cut almost HALF of Election Day voting locations, plus 8 early voting locations, some of them on campuses. Not hard to guess why. fortworthreport.org/2026/07/30/t...

Tarrant County considers cutting 140 Election Day polling sites for November

County commissioners vote Aug. 4 on proposed reductions to the number of early voting and day-of sites for the midterms.

fortworthreport.org

It's making a comeback baby... press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Pax Economica

The forgotten history of the liberal radicals, socialist internationalists, feminists, and Christians who envisioned free trade as the necessary prerequisite for anti-imperialism and peace

press.princeton.edu

Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈@josephpolitano.bsky.social · yesterday

DSA-aligned Democrats are now the most pro-free-trade voting bloc in the United States, in an incredible turn of events www.theargumentmag.com/p/who-suppor...

The Republican Party will become a regional racist party for white supremacists and domestic abusers and extremely divorced men who are afraid of needles. The wages of MAGA were always going to be this.

G Elliott Morris@gelliottmorris.com · 2d ago

Dems strongly favored to take the House in our new election forecast. Senate just better than a tossup: Iowa: 41% Dem Texas: 48 Alaska: 51 Ohio: 53 Maine: 68 Michigan: 69 North Carolina: 84 Georgia: 94 www.gelliottmorris.com/p/democrats-...

I can’t believe we’re doing another cycle of pretending to have a deal with Iran. This is so stupid.

going TERF is like the fentanyl of prejudices. you can’t just dabble in it and return to normal life, you gotta double, triple, quadruple down until you’re trying to get a hit on a podcast with isabel brown

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

Sophie Cunningham is getting booed every time she touches the ball here in Minneapolis

Fucking phenomenal. One of the best horrors of the 2010s and a top four performance from Cage

Stella Sacco@antlervel.vet · 3d ago

First time watch

When I made a public break with the right wing back in the Bronze Age, I took an enormous amount of shit from right wingers mocking me for “seeing Nazis under the bed,” but guess what? i was right, they *were* under the bed. And now they’re in charge of the US. Sometimes it sucks to be right.

Paths of Glory Dr. Strangelove 2001 Clockwork Orange Barry Lyndon The Shining

MassDisillusioned@massdisillusion.bsky.social · 3d ago

I see Stanley made it. List (only masterpieces): 2001 Clockwork Orange Dr. Strangelove Full Metal Jacket Shining

Leftists support migrants because they believe a human being's worth should not be dependent on where they were born. Some people who consider themselves part of "the left" are actually just reactionary nationalists of the subaltern class, who would instantly be on the right if their side ever won.

As am I, Sir Patrick

depths of wikipedia@depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 3d ago

the last line of patrick stewart's article

Ex Trump Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Matthews: "Advisors were telling him he lost. I think Trump has always been a broken man, but losing in 2020 fair & square to Biden permanently broke his brain… He's the weakest, most thin-skinned baby of all time."

Are you saying the DOJ withdrew that pool vandalism indictment… upon reflection?

IPA and bourbon with a horror movie after a night of BJJ

The following are two entirely different things: 1) Being mistrustful of the establishment, but being capable of critically evaluating claims against it; 2) Being a mindless contrarian who, lacking critical thinking skills, reflexively embraces any "anti-establishment" narrative that seems plausible

Post-Left Watch@postleftwatch.bsky.social · 5d ago

what

No, it just makes you a fucking idiot who believes anything you hear on a podcast. You're only replacing one kind of mindless credulity with the opposite kind -- you're still defining the truth in relation to "the establishment."

Post-Left Watch@postleftwatch.bsky.social · 5d ago

The plot thickens