Politics is expressed through "culture war" to the extent society is multicultural. It only seems like things used to be more principles-based or driven by economic fundamentals because huge swathes of people were (more) disenfranchised and suppressed.

i am also planning this

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 6h ago

$SPCX - SPACEX PLANS MOON FACTORIES POWERED BY HUMANOID ROBOTS

Imagine if there was a series of breathless centrist interviews with people who didn't turn out/organize for Harris but turned out/organized for El-Sayed.

from the video (on FB) bro got off his electric unicycle (lol) when he heard cries for help and just kind of maneuvered to give the woman a chance to get away. he didn't even end up having to fight the guy. peak performance www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/g...

Good Samaritan describes helping stop Georgetown attempted sexual assault

A man leaving an early morning showing of the new Spider-Man movie at the AMC Georgetown sprang into action to help a woman yelling for help from the bushes in the nearby waterfront park.

nbcwashington.com

I know we are chalking the success of some leftist candidates almost entirely to the DSA. However, it seems like the more common theme is that these are candidates with organizing experience?

I’m telling you this as a political scientist. The person who is electable is the one who is elected. This can and does change over time. Any and all speculation about “electability” is either puffery or anxiety and is often both.

Julia Azari@juliaazari.bsky.social · 16h ago

One way to be safe is to never write an electability take

The entire Republican Party, and a chunk of the Democratic Party, have a direct interest in convincing you that conservative wins are a mandate and anything else is not.

if you've been hearing about "NSPM-7" and the federal crackdown on movements for justice, this is the piece for you. sent a chill down my spine while contextualizing this push historically. we have to know the enemy to defeat it. by @hannahcrileyy.bsky.social www.thenation.com/article/poli...

The Chilling Trump Order Threatening All Americans

Why National Security Presidential Memorandum-7 is so important.

thenation.com

It's fascinating to me, in a good way, how many people are angry about the Flock cameras who I would've assumed wouldn't care about them.

A nice tribute to Johanna Fernández after her passing, from Amsterdam News. amsterdamnews.com/news/2026/08...

Johanna Fernández, Young Lords historian and prison abolitionist, makes her transition

Dr. Johanna Fernández, the Dominican American historian, prison abolitionist, and movement scholar, died on July 30.

amsterdamnews.com

Wrote about this a little more here. sojo.net/articles/cul...

‘Brand New Day’ Makes Peace with the Powers of Surveillance

Walter Wink argued that the Powers are most dangerous when we stop naming them. Marvel's newest Spider-Man movie is proof he was right.

sojo.net

huck mason@tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 2d ago

grimly funny that in The Dark Knight, Batman’s city-wide surveillance is the moral crucible, the point at which he has clearly gone too far, while in Brand New Day it’s just something that Spider-Man does.

your reminder that HRC endorsed Angie Craig and have not revoked that endorsement. give that tshirt money to Transforming Families or @tigerrsmm.bsky.social instead

Human Rights Campaign@hrc.org · 2d ago

The look everyone’s talking about can now be yours: show your support for trans youth now ➡️ hrc.im/transkidsbelong 🩵🩷🤍

It's funny how far we've come from 2025 when the Frey faction of the Minneapolis DFL was scolding anyone irresponsible enough to make a big deal out of the Lake and Bloomington raid.

taylr@taylordahlin.com · 2d ago

anders folk is using footage from lake & bloomington raid in his ads featuring people who actually showed up to the scene to defend their neighbors who do NOT support his campaign folk obvs has no footage of himself there and his campaign shouldn’t be bolstered by these brave minneapolis residents

You've probably noticed that a lot of right-wing ghouls love The Lord of the Rings: Giorgia Meloni, Peter Thiel, J.D. Vance, many such cases. In my latest essay, I set out to put neofascist affinity for Tolkien in religious and historical context - and to show why the far right gets Tolkien wrong.

Fascism and Faërie

Fantastic Antitheses

queerandback.substack.com

But they will be

Steffen Rayburn-Maarup@rayburnmaarup.bsky.social · 3d ago

I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.

“Will you accuse Republican officials of lying when they are obviously lying” is a much bigger problem for the future of news under its current system of elites than how they handle invisible watermarks in fabricated imagery. Its fascinating to see them obsess over the latter and ignore the former.

This week, Inquest shared a call to decarcerate social work, and published a personal essay on the bureaucratic hell of parole. Get the full recap: mailchi.mp/inquest.o...

Next Tues August 4 @reentrylab.org (a recent community partner through the Liberal Arts Engagement Hub residencies) hosts a "Better Things" series discussion and open mic at @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social in Minneapolis:

Better Things August | Moon Palace Books

Your neighborhood independent bookstore located in south Minneapolis. Selling new and used books since 2012.

moonpalacebooks.com

I’d like to go to a Lynx game this year. I think it’s been since before the pandemic since I went to one.

@cassidyhett.bsky.social another Georgian! I always get excited to find another person who moved from Georgia to Minneapolis!

Cheryl Reeve’s shirt today:

Did you know MLK spent much of 1966 talking & working with Chicago gang members? King was a listener, Stones leader Jeff Fort explained & saw a "wealth" in their potential. He drew their respect because King "stood" on his commitments-a "warrior without a gun". www.chicagotribune.com/2026/08/02/o...

Jeanne Theoharis and Erik Wallenberg: The unknown history of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Chicago housing movement

Chicago’s movement too often appears as a failure, but Black residents organized to expose the city’s relentless segregation in housing.

chicagotribune.com

I hope you read this vital, powerful writing from @reproutopia.bsky.social in today's edition of The Key: "This is what it looks like when a society has settled the question of who counts as rapeable – which is to say, who counts as human." www.thekeymagazine.com/p/israel-rap...

“Everything Is Legitimate”: How Israel Uses Rape as a Tool of Genocide

The rape of Palestinian detainees is so commonplace that it’s no longer hidden. It’s filmed, joked about, and celebrated in parliament. This is no mistake; it’s core to Israel’s colonial project.

thekeymagazine.com

Every once in a while leftists relearn online that MLK had guns in the 50s and treat it as winning an argument about guns that certainly lasted the duration of the Southern Freedom Movement. I think it’s unfortunate that they don’t also learn that Bayard Rustin convinced him to get rid of the guns.

Fannie Lou Hamer said she didn’t know much about communism, but “if we push just a little farther than they think we should push... then they say, ‘This is communism.’ So I began to wonder about communists because from what the people is really telling us, it must be very good.”

I didn't know about this book but it looks like an important one for punk scenes. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/741635...

It Starts with Anger by James Spooner: 9780593701386 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

From the award-winning filmmaker and graphic novelist comes the untold origin story of the multimillion-dollar AFROPUNK Festival—beginning not with big stages or brand sponsorship, but with one Black....

penguinrandomhouse.com

🎉 THE GREAT LAKES WON TODAY. MISC just vacated the permit for Enbridge's Line 5 oil tunnel — 6 to 1. The oil tunnel has no state siting approval, which is required under federal law. This victory belongs to the Tribes who never stopped fighting: They led. The Court listened. #ShutDownLine5

this is what Zoltan Hajnal argued in his excellent book Dangerously Divided. The divide is white/non-white. Control for that and most urban/rural political divisions vanish. www.cambridge.org/core/books/d...

Dangerously Divided

Cambridge Core - American Studies - Dangerously Divided

cambridge.org

Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · 6d ago

Also, as we all know, there are lots of rural areas that don't vote GOP. Coincidentally, they're all the rural areas that aren't majority-white. We do ourselves a real disservice pretending the "rural-urban divide" in politics is real. It ain't. Full stop.