so i mean take it or leave it, but that's the formula it seems to me at least that the entire point of criticising dems is to have mainline libs (who are the primary voters who decide leadership) hear it, & so you want to be persuasive to them bsky.app/profile/polp...

Toby Buckle@polphilpod.bsky.social · 2d ago

for what it's worth, here's why libs hear my criticisms of dems: ▪️i never use or imply 'low agency' narratives that blame dems/libs for fascism ▪️i never threaten (ge) abstention, or imply there's no point voting ▪️i never express sympathy with abstention, say i understand, or kinda defend it

If you don't want people to celebrate the deaths of evil men, create a system where bad people suffer consequences and death isn't the only thing that can free us from them.

Unironically think the strong men/weak man meme is true but it’s actually just about generations with living memory of fascism.

Insanity 😡

Hear me out. Instead of AG congress needs to create an independent office of public corruption. Basically IAB for government and Jack Smith should be its J Edgar Hoover/Elliot Ness

Time for this classic again.

i agree with the key point here and will add to it that there IS a reward, it’s knowing you did one right thing instead of walking around plagued by the nameless shame that afflicts all men who are determined to live the most frictionless lives possible

Hannah Vardit@hannahvardit.bsky.social · 2w ago

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

Diabolical.

derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2w ago

This is true. In 2016, I got into an argument with a gay man on a menswear forum. I've since made it my mission to make every man dress gay, thereby destroying his ability to tell who is actually gay and, ultimately, his chances of finding love. I built my social media following to achieve that goal

"We're here today to say... war criminals are not welcome in this city &.. this is bigger than just Netanyahu. This is about the fact that our govt has been funding and enabling genocide & apartheid & it has to stop" Beth Miller from Jewish Voice for Peace in New York yesterday.

*unpack The court(s) is (are) already packed, so the remedy is unpacking.

This is the most masculine video on the internet right now

The man who won't let you have paid sick leave or health care returns to Congress after getting free health care and 90 days paid sick leave

You don't 'need therapy', you need to learn R programming language. The tidyverse would fix you.

Shanah Tovah, New York! Wishing all Jewish New Yorkers celebrating a sweet, joyful and meaningful Rosh Hashanah. Here’s to a new year filled with health, happiness and blessings (and yes, even another Knicks championship).

Hi @mrjamesob.bsky.social. Great show. Just want to pick you up on a bit of wording. Gary Stevenson isn't proposing 'Redistribution'. Gary is _resisting_ redistribution. (He might like to reverse it, but his plan just slows it). Redistribution is rich folks making 8% while your listeners make 2%

Garcia: We are going to hold the Postmaster General and anyone at USPS, particularly those that are at the management level, that are implementing this, accountable for what we view as an illegal action by USPS.

"Today it’s Lake America, but tomorrow the propaganda coming from south of the border could be both more serious and insidious, and the actions of Google, Apple and other companies show plainly that they will not be on our side." —  @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social

ANALYSIS: 'Lake America' makes one thing clear: we can’t trust U.S. tech companies | TVO Today

The president’s decree is dumb. Why is anyone going along with it?

tvo.org

Woke socialist car dealers, franchise owners and for-profit prison guards are being censored. We need a national campaign to ensure they are properly represented in those fields.

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

ICE agents shouldn’t be executing people on the street even if they ARE the target of the warrant

Read/listen all about how a "land value tax" can discourage land speculation & encourage dense building on the highest value land, ie, land near urban cores. www.volts.wtf/p/want-less-...

Want less sprawl and more urban infill? Try a land value tax!

A conversation with Greg Miller of the Center for Land Economics and Kitty Klitzke of the Spokane City Council.

volts.wtf

a rehabbed rapist, assuming such a thing exists, would not seek power or leadership because they would understand that they shouldn't be trusted with that. people who use power to abuse the powerless should not be allowed power, and the sign that one is reformed is that they don't seek it.

This week on the blog: a few thoughts on the Declaration of Independence for its 250th birthday, with particular attention to "every act which may define a Tyrant." acoup.blog/2026/07/04/c...

If you watch one thing today make it this. Absolutely phenomenal debunking of the idea that social media and cell phones are causing a youth mental health crisis, and who that false narrative ultimately serves

What we're getting wrong about teens and tech

For years, the warning has been: smartphones are destroying a generation. But developmental psychologist Candice Odgers says that decades of data on teens tells a different story — violence, alcohol u...

ted.com

No, I don't remember that. I do remember when they used to lie about liking free speech so they could be hateful without being confronted.

This rules.

Tree man: Aotearoa@dfromaotearoa.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Also, there's this: m.youtube.com/shorts/H_pqq...

if we're arguing social media is too dangerous for kids 16 and under, we're basically saying it impacts the brain and potentially body like an addictive drug. this IS kinda true. people seldom carry that logic to its end. doing that would mean admitting every adult online is getting fucked up 24/7