a reason that Stevens lost and other AIPAC candidates are losing despite the huge infusions of money is that Dem voters don't want to vote for a candidate who is funded by the same org who will immediately turn around and fund the Republicans
Andrew Solender@andrewsolender.bsky.social · 14h agoAIPAC: "Our members remain determined to ensure that voters reject Dr. El-Sayed and his radical anti-Israel agenda in November."
Putting these @ettingermentum.bsky.social posts here mainly because "One day we will get you that free childcare for your children with names from the Titanic manifest and you will deserve it more than anyone has ever deserved anything" is a perfect sentence.
"training in Marxist economics tends to give you a) a weird, unrealistic and largely useless theory of economics plus b) a clear understanding of how economics relates to political power. While a training in mainstream neoclassical economics only gives you the first of these."
rent, always rent
economics of the Zohranmarket
backofmind.substack.com
This is a big Adorno was Right moment in a lot of ways.
talia jane@taliajane.bsky.social · 2d agoAnother person conducting ICE abductions in New Jersey has been identified: Mike Smith of Warrington, PA, described by Jersey Counterinfo as “41 years, is married, is a homeowner, has two children, and is a Disney Adult.” He evidently is a U.S. Marshal: jerseycounterinfo.noblogs.org/nj-ice-agent...
Experts aren't always right. That's why I put my faith in morons who are never right
if that stupid as fuck terf t-shirt was ACTUALLY* biologically accurate * don't get me started on XX/XY mosaicism, Swyer syndrome, de la Chapelle syndrome and more, we only get the one t-shirt
there are a lot of philosophical concepts that get egregiously misused out of the seminar room (and in the seminar room, to be fair). but in terms of sheer pernicious misuse "social construct" has gotta be top 5 somewhere and it's not number 5
Scott Bryan@scottygb.bsky.social · last wk.Channel 4 has announced documentary “The Great ADHD Myth?” It “seeks to determine whether ADHD is a genuine neurodevelopmental disorder, or a social construct.”
We are at the “r/finance is posting fancams of Chair Powell set to Taylor Swift” point in the cycle of regret over Temu Greenspan.
politics right now is so simple, everyone wants everything to change without anything becoming different, easy
All the Fauci stuff is a modern day version of the POW/MIA stuff after Vietnam - a way to try to rewrite the history of a huge failure of conservative ideology to be instead a story about how liberals and foreigners stabbed us in the back.
There are only three possible futures: a) everyone in the Trump admin goes to jail, rule of law partially restored; b) Dems retaliate in full, and maybe that's a deterrent; c) neither (a) nor (b), so lawless authoritarianism wins again, and when Republicans regain power they ramp it up even more.
Murshed Zaheed@murshedz.bsky.social · last wk.“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
"marco rubio thinks chiang kai shek is a chinese god that grants him wishes" i say to myself, rocking slowly back and forth on the floor
Sharon 🪳🌹@sharonk.bsky.social · 5mo agoi still find it absolutely fucking incredible that Marco Rubio has a imagined version of Chiang Kai-Shek that he's turned into a ancestor spirit for the GOP
🚨🚨 TRUMP APPROVAL IS UNDERWATER WITH WHITES WITHOUT DEGREES! February 8, 2025: +27 July 25, 2026: -6
Studio execs are going to want to adapt more poems for the big screen now
America is an integration engine. Even our mullahs be recording sunglasses selfie videos in they truck
very intrigued by this because it's the same criticism that nolan got in oppenheimer
EMILY WILSON@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · last wk.7. The film centers Odysseus's guilt over his war crimes, but never shows us the POV of his victims, and instead glorifies the perpetrator for feeling bad about himself. I found this unsatisfying ethically and worse, imaginatively, because Damon's character is given only one mood (Troubled).
Kasamatsu Shirō (Japan, 1898-1991) Tidal Hour, 1964 color woodblock print 14 1/2 × 9 3/4 in. (36.83 × 24.77 cm) LACMA, Los Angeles #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
Tfw mothra gave you power of attorney
“politically homeless” as in, struggling to decide which of my luxury homes should be my permanent address, not “politically homeless” as in I’m caught up in the endless cruelty of bipartisan encampment sweeps
Luke O'Neil@lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 2w ago
And I think that’s important because it has really acted to turn the behavior of the Democratic electorate into two functions: (1) voting; and (2) donating. That’s what “participation” looks like. And it’s not great for democracy.
Someone in DC set up a “little free blockbuster” with DVDs inside instead of books lol
