Yeah, for us well read as Isaiah is, he clearly has never had to do canvassing. I have had someone say *to my face* that they don't care if restrictions on reproductive healthcare kill my partner who can't safely carry to term because "what about the price of milk"

Daniel Gilmore@gilmored85.bsky.social · 7h ago

We had a president that made several very good and important speeches about rhe importance of democratic institutions and maintaining our relationships and news media belittled him and voters ignored it. Like, this feels like a big "is vs ought" issue

See, Isaiah is both correct, and misses the point that we are 72 days until the midterms, in which being able to fix this will hang on the opinions of 72,000 of the most fickle humans alive. 600 million of us care, 60 million literally hate the concept of morality, and we're trying to

here is the thing. if you tell me that you believe that race is a biological category and that it is a guide to the objective superiority and inferiority of groups of people, i am not calling you a racist to *insult* you, i am calling you a racist because it best describes your beliefs.

Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · yesterday

not only that, they are demanding that they not be called racist when they are observed to be signing up to support the racist

sometimes I think about how the daily horrors of the Trump administration could have been stopped almost entirely if Scalia simply died 14 months earlier and RBG died 4 months later out fascist-enabling Supreme Court is a historical accident. this all could have been avoided.

My favorite part of boomers trying to appeal to gen Z/alpha is how much they fail to understand what appeals about certain kinds of influencers, and thus think that a pretty person dancing nondescriptly is going to do anything for anyone's opinion about a political candidate or a Disney attraction.

Sam@samd.bsky.social · 2d ago

y’all need to see the latest Bruce Blakeman campaign video. I am dying lmao i cannot believe this is real, Hochul is gonna win by 20

They didn't like Aaron Swartz's goals (making scientific knowledge more accessible to the public) and they do like the LLM companies' goals (permanently crushing the labor market for knowledge workers)

Chance the Lawyer@chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 3d ago

say what you will about the myriad valid concerns with current LLMs but I personally will never get over the fact that Aaron Swartz was prosecuted to his literal death for downloading JSTOR and then a decade later, they downloaded & ingested the entire world and our IP laws just went ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I don't know about you people, but as a person with a spreadsheet job I have received no benefit from AI that would not have been equally as effective by having one person in our morning meetings take notes. And doing so wouldn't involve setting the planet on fire.

official & enacted policy of USA is white supremacist pogrom of ethnic cleansing being carried out by secret police who are running a network of concentration camps & literally murdering people in the streets in broad daylight. This is done in your name. My name. Until we make it stop.

David Faris@davidfaris.bsky.social · 5d ago

It's unconscionable to treat people who were here legally literally yesterday like this. It's not just that it's morally bankrupt to rescind the TPS order. It's fucking shameful to bait and switch other human beings who came here for refuge and have done nothing wrong other than existing.

I continue to be quite concerned the Trump is so isolated from his unpopularity that he will presume foul Play when the GOP has its teeth kicked in this November.

Sky Marchini@sky.skymarchini.net · 5d ago

at this point does the WH even have a plan to arrest their approval ratings collapse or www.economist.com/interactive/...

I had a Smart board in my classroom in a public school in 2010

Just my thoughts 🇨🇦@bc60.bsky.social · 5d ago

US spends unlimited money on wars; next-generation blackboards in China🇨🇳. Different choices define different futures USA: no $ for that; we spent $ on shock gloves to torture children in concentration camps..China’s doing this for their kids, and we’re putting the Ten Commandments in public schools

Sea power So I'm either just in the navy during the mid 80s in which case I'm probably fine or I'm in the navy in the mid 80s during a cold war gone hot scenario in which case I'm screwed

Nina Marotta ☢️💙@mrschief7.bsky.social · 6d ago

You're offered $250,000,000 but to claim it you must enter the last video game you've played and stay there for a full year. How are y'all faring in this deal?

Can I just say it? Discourse sucks, I genuinely hate it when my entire feed is just talking about one thing, especially when it's just the same 8 takes regurgitated endlessly.

It's also just about the cheapest instrument you could possibly buy, especially considering they're going to be a lot more Hardy than most of its other competitors like the Kalimba and never need to be tuned

ex-Lethality Jane@lethalityjane.bsky.social · last wk.

You played the recorder in part to strengthen your fine motor skills and in part to introduce you to basic music theory concepts like rhythm, the C-major scale, and reading basic music notes. Your teachers wanted to make elementary music education available to all, not just the rich.

You could argue, correctly I think, that the current willingness to tear down the post war order is rooted in the fact the folks who could tell you why it was built are almost all gone.

BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · last wk.

There’s been surprisingly little about how we are in the very last years of living memory of service in WW2.

IMO there should be an option to specifically mute likes on posts, because if any of your posts does more than 25 or 30 likes it just clutters up your notifications, I want to see comments on some of these posts, just not a separate notification every 5 minutes.

Note that NYT only takes the inhuman conditions in ICE detention seriously when it happens to Republicans. They don't think we are real people and don't care when liberals and minorities are thrown to the wolves.

Jon Collins@jcollins.bsky.social · last wk.

'The man was a federal agent, and after questioning Ms. Bobreneva for about 15 minutes, he led her away in handcuffs to an unmarked vehicle. “I’m only doing my job,” he said. “Everything will be OK.”' www.nytimes.com/2026/08/16/u...

As somebody who has worked a field program or 6 does she not have a list of the local Republican committee members for staff to call through? Like, I was able to get like 120 people in a room on like 4 days of notice for a congressional primary, how is a sitting senator doing worse?

Collins Watch@collinswatch.bsky.social · last wk.

Susan Collins pulls into town in a bus full of her supporters; then they all get off the bus; and then she addresses the folks who were on the bus with her as if they were regular Mainers; and legacy media covers this, pretending it isn't deeply bizarre. (Notice the guys with cameras.) #MEpolitics

I just really want more media that treats a third world war is a real thing that can happen as opposed to a sword of Damocles to be avoided but never discussed further.

Ian Comings 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈@seedofcheif.bsky.social · last wk.

Late cold war gone hot show like RSR except 1. We get more than three words out of the president 2. No giant oil crisis to create an artificial deadline for conflict termination 3. No weird rape/pregnancy fetishism. 4. Events outside of Europe are more important than a footnote.

Late cold war gone hot show like RSR except 1. We get more than three words out of the president 2. No giant oil crisis to create an artificial deadline for conflict termination 3. No weird rape/pregnancy fetishism. 4. Events outside of Europe are more important than a footnote.

☀️ Starshine@starshine.bsky.social · last wk.

youve got 5.6 billion to make a 7 season 56 episode show airing over 15 years, wdyd

I know that there's levels to this shit, but I feel like if someone's family are low-level millionaires they definitely count as rich kids, and those people absolutely use Bonne Maman and other products in that price/quality bracket. Source: I dated a girl with a >$1,000,000 trust fund in college.

Snowden St.@snowden.st · last wk.

Saw someone refer to Bonne Maman jelly as something for rich kids, and I need folks to update their stereotypes and understanding of the shelf price situation. Bonne Maman isn’t rich, it’s midgrade now.

Look, put simply, people should not be comfortable saying that in public and the way to fix society runs directly through making them afraid to say it again.

Gregory Kohn@kohngregory.bsky.social · last wk.

In the wake of Arday's death, Nathan Cofnas (who led the X mob against him) states his motivation. Beyond whistleblowing, he states that after a 'revolution' removes professors like Arday, it will open opportunities for him to become 'head of the department of eugenics and race science at Harvard'.

I think that it's funny how when I was in college people were talking about how Cape shit was going to die one day due to oversaturation, and while there is a bit of oversaturation, it seems like the main issue that actually cropped up is that studios have decided they don't even want to try anymore

Some of y’all can’t handle two high agency males going at it, and it really shows

It's the bonne maman jam jar that does it for me.

Gravel Influencer@gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · last wk.

This has got to be the saddest police "trophy shot" I've seen. Some Coors, Angry Orchard, a few marijuana buds, and a couple of bongs following an underage drinking bust.

These are people who legally entered this country and now, because of ancestry and a conspiracy theory pushed by an aspiring politician, are being pursued by the government and fitted with special monitoring devices. This should remind of the darkest events in history.

Ohio Capital Journal@ohiocapitaljournal.com · last wk.

Haitians living in Springfield, Ohio are being required to wear ankle monitors and turn their passports over to United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/08/14/h...

Indiscriminately putting ankle monitors on an entire nationality, thousands upon thousands of people living in a small community, all of whom were living here entirely legally until a few days ago when you revoked their legal status. It’s an authoritarian nightmare.

Ohio Capital Journal@ohiocapitaljournal.com · last wk.

Haitians living in Springfield, Ohio are being required to wear ankle monitors and turn their passports over to United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/08/14/h...

So much discourse is trying to parse some hidden (and more rational) meaning when these are people who very openly say what they mean. In part because it feels unsophisticated for professional take-havers to just say, for example, "Elon Musk is a white supremacist." But it is actually that simple.

Alan Elrod@aselrod.bsky.social · last wk.

Really glad @polphilpod.bsky.social is making this argument at length at @liberalcurrents.com The fascists really do believe what they say. That’s part of what makes them so dangerous. www.liberalcurrents.com/fascists-rea...

American military hegemony burning itself to the grown under a despotic manchild and none of the very serious national security people can seem to work up the same white hot anger about it they showed when Biden made them finally admit to their 20 year fuckup in Afghanistan.

Patrick Chovanec@prchovanec.bsky.social · last wk.

This is absolutely ridiculous. For all its potential pitfalls, the Ford aircraft carriers are built entirely around the EMALS system, and "replacing" it with steam catapults - which require large amounts of space and personnel - is simply not a realistic option. www.wsj.com/us-news/trum...

This is precisely the stuff of Christian nationalist fever dreams about Democratic administrations -- that they will surveil and spy on their churches in order to prosecute them for their religious beliefs

Brian Kaylor@briankaylor.bsky.social · last wk.

So the church in question is an Episcopal congregation in St. Paul. Federal agents surveyed who was parked there & an undercover agent attended a meeting inside the church. This is such a violation of the church's rights. bsky.app/profile/josh...

Look, The New York Times can't report on *everything* Yes, yes, this Republican congressman urged a military-backed coup to overthrow an election. But did you know that a gubernatorial candidate said she didn't like Thanksgiving? You can't cover it all. It's all about priorities, people.

Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social · last wk.

Rep. Ralph Norman, who’s in a Senate runoff with Lindsey Graham’s sister Darline, secretly urged a military-backed coup in 2021 to keep Trump in power. But the NY Times thinks it’s no big deal. In its last 92 stories mentioning Norman over 3 years and 7 months, it hasn’t stated that fact once. 1/7🧵