The media's takeaway from an El-Sayed win is the same as it would have been from a Stevens win, and the same as it will be if El-Sayed wins the general, or if he loses it: everyone, no matter who they are, needs to take several steps to the right.
Mike Freeman
@mfreeman.bsky.social
Rhode Island. Author of Neither Mountain Nor River (Riddle Brook) and Drifting: Two Weeks on the Hudson
The Pope isn’t condemning AI just cause he sees its manifold late capitalist woes and obvious issues of morality, it’s also cause of Silicon Valley’s ties to Opus Dei and their direct meddling in US democracy. I know that reads like a conspiracy theory but it’s not, as long as Peter Thiel is around.
The youth claim to hate capitalism yet they purchase goods and services in order to survive ahaha and I am very Fortune Magazine
They got people dying in camps now and they’re happy about it. bsky.app/profile/joho...
Jonathan Howard@joho.bsky.social · yesterdayThese guys are freaking out over their own imaginations again.
"don't make enough money" is a fig leaf All those degree programs--social work, art, etc.--have disproportionately female student bodies. This is designed to make it harder for women to attend college--college education being a key factor in women's autonomy from men & left-leaning voting pattern.
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d agoPresident Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v
I added just a few final touches to darken up the wings, added some shadows, and signed my name. Ready to be waxed and framed for my dad!
*reluctantly climbs into boat, sits there, confused*
Sen. Lemon Gogurt@ugarles.bsky.social · 2d agothe era of big government is here
MATEWAN is film that all of you should watch. It's a masterpiece that's more relevant now than it was in 1987.
‘A reminder of why we have unions’: Matewan writer and director on the film’s lessons for the labor movement
John Sayles’s 1987 film, which dramatizes a 1920 labor conflict, shows how class solidarity can overcome prejudice
theguardian.com
Philadelphians seeing a "cheesesteak" on a menu and it has green peppers
Please hire my partner so we can move somewhere that’s not Boston! (Also my partner is very smart and experienced):
Sifa ID 🪿@sifa.id · 2d agoCheck out D Scarnecchia's path so far on Sifa 📄 @scoiattolo.mountainherder.xyz
NYT is covering for Trump 2 on the diarrhea lettuce the same way they did for Trump 1 during covid. 'Underlying health issues' is their favorite phrase to wave away responsibility from the people in charge
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2d agoBreaking News: Two deaths in Michigan have been linked to cyclospora. Both people who had the parasite also had underlying health issues.
www.mirror.co.uk/sport/golf/g...
Golf course where North Korea leader 'scored 11 holes-in-one in first round'
Stunning pictures of Pyongyang Golf Course show where Kim Jong-il - current leader Kim Jong-un’s father - played his one and only game and outshone every pro golfer who ever lived
mirror.co.uk
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d agoTrump: “The Winning Shot in the Bedminster Club Championship! Thank you very much to all of those who participated. I won with a 70, & am so honored in that, unlike the rest of the field, I’m given very little time to practice, bc I’m focused on many other things. It’s called TALENT, and I have it”
I think it also revealed just how quickly a bunch of otherwise very hard problems can be to solve with global collective action. The fuckin Ganga was running clear water for the only time in my lifetime because for 2 weeks nobody threw garbage in it. The canals in Venice had fish.
Dave Andress@davidandress.bsky.social · 4d agoCovid lockdowns demonstrated, in a deeply imperfect way, the possibility of large-scale social solidarity for a higher cause. That is a prime reason why so many powerful people want us to run screaming away from them into the comforting arms of selfish individualist competition.
you know what, let circe cook. let her cook those men.
can't believe i accidentally locked myself out of the posting factory for a month
I just find this so sad. Imagine loathing America’s children so much www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/u...
Trump Administration Plans to Upend Head Start by Deregulating It (Gift Article)
The White House tried but failed to block funding for preschool for poor children. Instead, it will seek to strip away standards on health, literacy — and brushing teeth.
nytimes.com
they take this more seriously than police shootings
Los Angeles Times@latimes.com · 5d agoLAPD officer who recorded colleagues' racist comments to be charged with felony eavesdropping
Maybe Hassett can sell his house and move to a small town next to one to set a proper example for the peasants. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d agoHassett: "Data centers are very good for towns bc they create so many jobs & bring people in with high incomes that can buy houses & stuff like that. So if you take a sleepy town that hasn't seen much in the last 30 years & put a data center there, there are gonna be a bunch of happy residents."
Well this is true I suppose. trump can’t be bought; he is subscription based. You have to keep bribing him forever www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Exclusive | ‘The Boss Wants This Money’: Inside Trump’s Unprecedented Fundraising Operation
Meredith O’Rourke, nicknamed ‘princess of darkness,’ carries out the president’s desire to wring hundreds of millions from companies for his projects.
wsj.com
Most of the land in most farm counties is owned by 1-5 families. They run the place like their own personal kingdoms. There is SO much resentment and straight-up fury about this in rural areas. The fact that no political party's even really trying to speak to it is wild.
looking at the headlines and reflecting once again on how all the smart, hard-working, honest people I know feel like they’re going at least a little insane in our era of total Stupid Immoral Asshole ascendancy
These things don't bother them because most of them aren't violations of their world view, they're part of it.
emptywheel@emptywheel.bsky.social · 6d agoParticularly given that Trump has done so much of this or similar, I'm a bit sad they didn't include "defraud MAGAts at scale." The support numbers would still be sky-high. But it would be a useful demonstrative. www.politico.com/news/2026/07...
This week's newsletter is out, and it's about a specter haunting the Democratic Party - former Lincoln Project staffers trying to do mini-January 6s link.heartlandsignal.com/v/443/b6619d...
Since the story is about Bronze Age heroes and warriors but the audience isn't, it's like there's a shout-out to each of the kinds of guys who might be listening: farmers, hunters, swineherds, goatherds, shepherds, sailors, carpenters, etc.
A friendly reminder that A Fish Called Wanda anticipated most of the right-wing politics we‘re currently experiencing
The news and rumors about Haitian people being fired because they don't have legal status or not knowing if they should pay their mortgages is gut wrenching, and it is imperative that we elevate the FACT that "this community is as old as America itself" Share the history. Repeat it. Share it again.
Ben Railton@americanstudier.bsky.social · last wk.A couple weeks back, as part of a series on American Catholic Saints, I wrote about a Black women's congregation in early 19C Baltimore, the Oblate Sisters of Providence, founded by Haitian refugees. This community is as old as America, & as inspiring as our best. Fuck the fascists. 🗃️