"The condition is structural. The structure is the rentier capture of the assets that constitute a viable life. The cure is to break the capture."

David_j_roth@davidjroth.bsky.social · 4h ago

I thought this essay was quite good: henryfudgeofficial.substack.com/p/degeneracy...

"New Yorkers will flee ..." "Massachusetts citizens will flee ..." "Californians will flee ..." Sure, sure. Any day now, sure.

Jeff Sharlet@jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 3h ago

WaPo making same claim that’s been disproven again & again. Who do they imagine these people are, willing to pay the price of abandoning home, friends, lives they’ve built. “Sorry, kids, we’re leaving the only home you’ve ever known & all our friends to pay 7% state tax instead of 8%.”

It's very telling how every word a Black or Muslim or Brown candidate like Darializa Avila Chevalier or Abdul El-Sayed or Zohran Mamdani or Cori Bush says is scrutinized, turned around, overanalyzed, and endlessly debated by the same people who see Elon Musk *literally sieg heil* and shrug.

I get that it's hard for younger folks to grasp how immediately, completely insane 9/11 made this country, so I'll just point out that George Bush, a widely despised clown, pulled 90% approval for doing absolutely nothing- liberals would attack you for suggesting he was less than infallible

Highly usable post from last year

MS NOW@ms.now · 4h ago

MS NOW EXCLUSIVE: In fiery meeting, military families confront acting Navy secretary over conditions on the USS Lincoln www.ms.now/news/navy-me...

We got you. Stay hydrated, New York.

WaPo making same claim that’s been disproven again & again. Who do they imagine these people are, willing to pay the price of abandoning home, friends, lives they’ve built. “Sorry, kids, we’re leaving the only home you’ve ever known & all our friends to pay 7% state tax instead of 8%.”

i think national dems should pay careful attention to the mayor of new york's willingness to think creatively and act swiftly to make big changes using the full scope of executive authority he has unique power to wield, and i think it's the kind of thing people are looking for in a president

also isn't it endangering private citizens that the president, his cabinet, and agencies he commandeered are drawing attention to private citizens on social media? it's incredibly creepy/unsettling and it's so weird this goes undiscussed

Parker Molloy@parkermolloy.com · 6h ago

It really is amazing that Trump keeps pushing to throw some random guy who didn't seem to commit any crime into prison for a decade and this isn't being treated like a huge scandal.

"Women accounted for 100 percent of the decline in the labor force in July, according to a National Women’s Law Center analysis of the Bureau of Labor Statistics’s latest dismal jobs report. Overall, the economy lost 23,000 jobs in July: Women lost 32,000 jobs, while men gained 9,000."

Trump’s Terrible July Jobs Numbers Only Hurt Women

And the number of women who have left the workforce since January is more than double the number of men.

newrepublic.com

The fact that US laobr force participation rate has dropped to the lowest level in 50 years - which most seem to attribute to “people giving up on getting another job” - may also help explain why so many people feel bad about the economy.

Job seekers giving up: Labor force participation rate falls to lowest in 50 years, outside of Covid era

A drop in the unemployment rate helped provide some upside to what was an otherwise downbeat jobs report — but it was for all the wrong reasons.

cnbc.com

we had the american model of tv (one million episodes a season with some crap inevitably ending up in there) and we had a british model of tv (3 episodes a season but each one's pretty good) and somehow streaming ended up with the worst of both parts (3 dogwater eps in an 8 episode season)

i feel like more people need to know that the “men don’t read books anymore” blogger also posted one of the vilest transphobic rants about trans boys i’ve ever read. she says that hrt for trans teen boys is worse than anorexia. as with all gateway clickbait there is something NASTY under there

"We thought the economy gained 80,000 jobs but it actually lost 23,000 jobs. Whatever. On a cosmological scale we didn't make that big of a whoopsie." Damn, economist has to be the best job in the world.

the problem the GOP has is that the american electorate has never been more interested in throwing the bums out, regardless of who will replace them and few people have ever embodied 'the bums' more than the modern GOP

Exclusive: GOP plans socialism telethon at midterm convention

They're essentially planning a "Yes, but they're worse" campaign centered on the Democratic left.

axios.com

I get that the Trump White House has decided that Congress is a vestigial organ, but I think there should be more coverage of the fact that Brendan Carr just up and said "yes, Congress put a 39% cap on media ownership, but I think I can ignore it for reasons."

Techdirt@techdirt.com · 11h ago

Brendan Carr’s FCC Rewrites Media Ownership Law Only Congress Can Actually Change There are many ways to describe the Trump Era, but the executive branch's conviction that it... https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/07/brendan-carrs-fcc-rewrites-media-ownership-law-only-congress-can-actually-change/

We are on the verge of a climatic upheaval greater than any of us can imagine. Global leaders and media aren't paying attention. They are focused on a series of self-inflicted crises that have left us dangerously vulnerable and totally unprepared. My latest. charlieangus.substack.com/p/what-keeps...

What Keeps Me Up at Night

Rising temperatures in the Pacific will blow away any previous “Super” El Niño by a “truly mind-blowing margin.” - Zeke Hausfather

charlieangus.substack.com

I’m telling you, corruption is what‘s pissing off most normies flocking to the data center resistance. this kind of thing is really activating

Matthew Gault@mjgault.bsky.social · 12h ago

the city that arrested the person for clapping during a data center meeting has decided to take its town halls virtual and eliminate public comments all together

I dunno...I think it's time to stop interviewing James Carville.

years and years of “actually the president doesn’t have that much power to directly affect the economy” and damned if donald trump hasn’t managed to turn that thing right around

Timothy McBride@mcbridetd.bsky.social · 14h ago

from Heather Long: Bleak July jobs report: -23,000 jobs lost in July -264,000 people leave labor force -Wage growth falls to 3.2% = lowest in 5 years (and totally wiped out by inflation right now) ***Lowest labor force participation rate since February 2021*** @byheatherlong.bsky.social

Posts I see from New York City: Mamdani just came over to my workplace and beat the shit out of my boss with his bare hands and filled every pothole in the vicinity Posts I see from San Francisco: I used Claude to buy blood diamonds made with extra slavery and are getting them delivered via Waymo

In Maine, people never lose the right to vote because of a felony conviction, even while they’re incarcerated. Many incarcerated people are keen to vote in this year's election for governor, which could have big ramifications for criminal justice.

Maine Prisoners Organize to Protect Their Rare Right to Vote - Bolts

Maine is one of the only places in the country where prisoners keep their right to vote. But logistical barriers to voting still contribute to their larger exclusion from the political process.

boltsmag.org

I am speaking for just myself here but I think one reason it is obvious that whatever I say here about the Israeli government isn’t motivated by anti-Semitism is clearly I’d feel this annoyed if Norway kept doing this

Trump now claims to have obtained OVER $20 TRILLION in foreign investment (the entire GDP of the US is barely $30 trillion, so this is nonsense)

Trump takes a break from fear-mongering about communism to brag about seizing the means of production: "We had a problem with Intel. And we settled the problem. They gave us 10% of the company. That was worth $12 billion."

So we're calling the ballroom a "Military Center" now, huh.

Lawrence Hurley@lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 10h ago

This might be why no single judge authored the ruling:

I was in one of these recently and it was no big deal. I'm still a closed loop individual of individual sapience. There's definitely no humming of the collective mycelium spirit in the back of my mind. Don't worry about these

Seth Masket@smotus.bsky.social · 13h ago

Are deadly fungal storms bad

We keep screaming from the rafters that we are being fired/not hired in numbers that can only be due to discrimination, but no one cares.

Bryce Covert@brycecovert.bsky.social · 11h ago

Yikes. Women accounted for all of the job losses and all of the labor force decline in July, according to @nwlc.org

It sometimes feels like we're living in a ridiculously exaggerated folk tale with wildly implausible villains. For example, as the president takes billions for himself and his family and *coats his things in gold,* the soldiers fighting his war can't get toothpaste, hot water, or a clean toilet.

Moldy showers and no soap: Military families are outraged by conditions on USS Lincoln

The aircraft carrier's long deployment in the Iran war is raising concerns that the sailors and Marines on board are facing poor conditions, low supplies and fatigue.

ms.now

To quote Harry Reid on Collins, "always there when you don't need her."

Chris Hayes@chrislhayes.bsky.social · 12h ago

The moment Collins announced she was a no on Blanche, you KNEW they had the votes.