It's funny how when [redacted] goes on one of his days-long rants it's always against some random poster making a general statement or a video on TikTok or a webcomic, and never, say, the PhD thesis by an actual economist arguing against his "vibecession" theory. Ah, I'm sure it's a concidence.

May I point out that both El-Sayed and Stevens are Millennials. Generational shift. It's here. It's time. November up here won't just be about progressivism vs. fascism. It will also be about the future vs. the past.

Apparently King Bela I of Hungary died because his throne fell on him or collapsed while he was sitting on it, and that's definitely made it on my list of things I'd like to see if I had a time machine.

Abdul El-Sayed’s win represents a big blow to the politics of bygone days. Because if one campaign can show that *that* much money and *that* much old guard support doesn’t guarantee victory, it cracks open what can be imagined. It widens the aperture of what’s possible.

Will This Be AIPAC’s Biggest Defeat – Ever?

Prem was on hand in Michigan to witness the nail-biter between Abdul El-Sayed and Haley Stevens, which appears to have gone down as an astonishing failure for AIPAC.

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i don't like to police genre, but it's not dark academia unless somebody gets squished in one of these bad boys

I've had to change the sequence of planned episodes for TURNING MODERN because otherwise the list of episodes would have been "horrifically violent revolt", "horrifically violent revolt", and next "horrifically violent revolt."

Of course. "The progressive won the bitterly contested election that got national scrutiny but he didn't get Rank A in the final battle so it doesn't count."

Politico@politico.com · 11h ago

Progressives didn’t get the big election night they wanted

Abdul El-Sayed has won, NBC News says. And there are other wins for the left in Michigan: —William Lawrence wins his U.S. House primary. —A DSA-backed candidate is leading a Democratic incumbent for state House. —Abbas Alawieh, co-founder of Uncommitted, leads for state Senate.

ATTENTION TO ALL DEM TAX CUT SLOPULISTS

True bewilderment is to stay up one night and discover that multiple members of a listserve you were in 15 years ago are winning competing primaries.

I apologize @shanellejackson.bsky.social It was rude of me to say you would get beat by 40 points when you only got beat by 38 and change.

Do you think the have to keep the mirrors covered in his house to stop him screaming about strange men staring at him?

katie@supermathskid.bsky.social · yesterday

okay now he's gone too far

I had a lot of fun listing favorite music videos, so I thought I'd share the ones that almost but didn't make the cut. Here's a classic one I remember seeing even at a time when I was very little and barely had any concept of who even the President was. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yq7F...

Genesis - Land of Confusion (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by Genesis

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they are literally paying people to stop the transition to safer, more sustainable machines but reality keeps getting in the way

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 2d ago

Japan carmakers' U.S. sales rise in July as Mideast tensions boost hybrids - KYODO

We’re going full mask-off baby!

public libraries ftw

I'm mostly sure that the cute guy who lives across the hall from me has broken up with his girlfriend (wife?) who lived with him and she's moved out. Maybe if I run into him I can just ask him if he likes snails *and* oysters.

The always delightful Readful Things has made some truly fantastic posters based on those "READ" posters found in libraries & classrooms. This one's my favorite, but I'll post two more in the comments. 💙📚🩸📽️🎨

Harvey & Joyce's adopted daughter Danielle is trying to raise funds to deal with Pekar's raw archive; basically four storage lockers full of notes, outlines, ideas, etc. Note this is not Pekar's comics per se. Those rights have been tied up in court for years. Long, ugly story. Worth backing.

His Name was Harvey Pekar

Saving the legacy of Harvey Pekar:Urgent mission to rescue four full storage units of American Splendor history before its lost forever

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Imagine seeing what happened to Pyrex and Instant Pot, two inexpensive products, and being gullible enough to write this thread and say that other people are coping. Lmao.

Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈@maxdubler.com · 3d ago

Blaming this on villainous far-away capitalists is what the kids call “cope.”

Stop talking about Nigel Farage and start talking about how compere, performer and drag king Mojo Jones has a new act called C*nty Binface 🗑️💖

I love how cats, despite their overall dignity and calmness, act like prison gangs whenever they encounter each other, even if they've been living together (more than dogs do, even!).

The stuff you're buying sucks? You stupid proles aren't buying the stuff right. Your gov't sucks? You all didn't vote right. It's always you. It's never them.

Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈@maxdubler.com · 3d ago

Online shopping eliminated these gatekeepers and disintermediated the market, allowing consumers to express their desires more directly. And it turns out that what people really want is cheap disposable goods, not more expensive but higher quality stuff that lasts a long time.

I've said it before but the infuriating thing about "Stancilism" or whatever you want to call it is that it keeps putting me in a position to defend the average consumer/voter. I'm supposed to be the elitist one here!

I really liked and appreciated this thread, which speaks to my own suspicion that a problem with not just conservatives and libertarians but some liberals is that they give far too much agency (and even culpability) to consumers.

Nathan Tankus@nathantankus.bsky.social · 3d ago

I think this is fundamentally wrong but in an interesting way I will need to write about sometime. The key is a) consumers do not choose what is produced, or how, they choose between what is produced. This is a crucial difference

b) consumers do not choose how goods are distributed, they only choose between distribution channels. This is also crucially different c) consumers do not choose their incomes or overall income distribution. also crucial.

I think this is fundamentally wrong but in an interesting way I will need to write about sometime. The key is a) consumers do not choose what is produced, or how, they choose between what is produced. This is a crucial difference

Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈@maxdubler.com · 3d ago

I think my most genuinely unpopular take is that a widely held and genuine consumer preference for cheaper, lower-quality goods, not private equity, is driving the decline in quality of consumer goods like clothing and housewares.

It's crazy how Obama helped to hollow out his own grassroots base of support and ground-game in conspiracy with the corporate wing to give to a reactionary consultancy class that have flubbed so hard that they have no credibility with donors or voters so the DSA and dark horse candidates are eating

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 3d ago

This is a story of DSCC consolidating around the worst possible moderate and enabling Abdul to steamroll and it seems like some of these establishment figures chose to do this because of psychosis