Seems bad.

here is what i think: we're not consumers or spectators, we are participants with agency. you should not hope that democrats will do anything. you must work to force them to do the right thing. the odds are long, but we are far from the first americans to face long odds. we will win.

jamelle@jamellebouie.net · last mo.

you know, when someone says something like "these are the things that need to be done to avert disaster" and your response is "you think democrats will do that?!?" all you're telling me is that you think politics is a spectator sport

greatest president on climate change in history

George Pearkes@peark.es · 2mo ago

Welp *USDA CONFIRMS DEADLY SCREWWORM IN US CATTLE

Hillsdale, man. But also, like...those native polities still exist. They're recognized by our government. We have an entire bureau in the Department of the Interior to manage the fact that we have at least 574 *other countries* in our country, which predate our country.

Thomas Lecaque@tlecaque.bsky.social · 2mo ago

the world." COOL. COOL COOL COOL. He also dismisses Native polities and civilizations, that "These cultures rose, flourished, and fell, blazing a trail across time but leaving behind for us little literature or history, only a few poignant material reminders of them." Hillsdale, wtf.

difficulty scheduling the follow-up session is also true to its inspirations

Mike McMahan@mikemcmahan.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We should be two “D&D Honor Among Thieves” sequels deep.

As a society we have many visions of what a futuristic San Francisco or Los Angeles looks like. Now, here is futuristic Sacramento!

Burrito taxi is a luxury and should be expensive, housing is a staple necessity and should be cheap and plentiful

Ned Resnikoff@resnikoff.bsky.social · 3mo ago

If we legalized dense homebuilding across high-demand metropolitan areas, the burrito chauffeurs there would have a better standard of living and you would have more disposable income to request as many burrito taxis as you want.

i remain convinced that part of our problem in this country is that our taxes are unnecessarily complex and a pain in the ass to file, both of which heighten negative sentiment

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li@sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 3mo ago

any realistic discussion has to start from the ground truth that america is a *very* low-tax society compared to similar nations we collect about 25% of GDP as tax revenue. germany? 38%. denmark? 45%. we are already a turbo low tax society!

It's such a breath of fresh air to see @aoc.bsky.social stand against gutting our tax base.

NOTUS@notus.com · 3mo ago

The differences between Rep. AOC’s and Sen. Bernie Sanders’ approach to tax cut plans are indicative of the divides Democrats must bridge as they form their agenda going into 2028. https://www.notus.org/economy/democrats-tax-cut-plans-splintering-progressives

And yet no one is willing to option my screenplay about someone rushing to get a project entitled on the one day a year when zoning doesn’t exist

DiscussingFilm@discussingfilm.net · 3mo ago

First look at ‘ONE NIGHT ONLY’, starring Callum Turner and Monica Barbaro. The film is a rom-com version of ‘The Purge’ where premarital sex is outlawed except for one night every year. In theaters on August 7.

we need less five-over-one and more five-over-FUN

Eric Panzer@ericpanzer.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I think my single worst architectural take is that I semi-unironically love this stupid building and think that we should have more stupid buildings

documentary in which the Minions reenact their past atrocities in Indonesia.

NASA and Mamdani are proving that Americans are desperate to see their money spent in ways they feel good about. This, however, is not the same thing as simply spending the money on things we would feel good about but never know happened. People need to be able to see it.

the strait of hormuz is in a quantum superposition of open and closed that only collapses when you try to take a tanker through yourself and see if you get shot at

Who can't help but wish that we sent more rockets into space and fewer missiles into the ground?

Today is the 128th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision on birthright citizenship in U.S. v. Wong Ark Kim.

Kinda funny for "Department of Defense dba Department of War" to immediately make a hash of the first war it started

I think this is a crucial point. It turns out there are in fact things that are *much* worse than hypocrisy.

Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast@irhottakes.bsky.social · 5mo ago

We are now seeing what non-hypocritical US foreign policy looks lIke. Behold unapologetic open imperial greed and deranged bloodlust!

I have lived in Los Angeles for nearly two decades and I have never experienced the kind of yellow smog that used to define this city why? because we cleaned that shit up none of this is beyond salvation

jess m. 🌤️@jametc.bsky.social · 5mo ago

see? here's the thing. A lot of people are like, the earth is fucked, it's beyond salvation, it's hit the tipping point, but time and time again we see that if we just fucking fixed the problem, it rebounds so incredibly fast. Imagine what could be done if people actually cared

Listen up liberal,

"iS tHeRe a tEcHnoLoGY tHe leFt Is eXcItEd aBoUt" yeah, renewable energy, mRNA vaccines. Lots of cool stuff like that! Probably not the one whose main promise was cutting payrolls

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 6mo ago

for better or worse, this will probably be the most successful and compelling argument by communities against ICE concentration camps being built: (from this piece: archive.is/eGsQf)

jail

Sacramento deserves a regional rail system. What would it take to build it?

Chat is it good for your chances in court when the judge is writing 18th century broadsides about "the perfidious lust for unbridled power" as their opinion

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 6mo ago

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Judge orders US to release father and 5-year-old taken into custody during Minnesota immigration crackdown.

The American Revolution started over less

neolithic guys get pissed if you tell them their cultures are organized by the type of pots and jewelry they made. "we called ourselves the blood hunters" "we conquered villages far beyond this horizon" sorry bud you're the western linear pottery culture now

probably the grimmest thing about the law review process (speaking as a former articles editor for a relatively prestigious journal at a big fancy law school) is that, as unqualified as the student editors are, they absolutely improve the articles they receive. most law professors cannot write.

Mrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq.@clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 2y ago

it’s impossible to explain the law review industrial complex to the general public without sounding like a guy you'd avoid on the subway platform. "the articles regularly cited by judges up to and including the supreme court are edited by students" like what? no surely that can’t be how it works.

"This is a critique of the concept of multiculturalism from the left" No, that's dumb. Desist.