Exactly. Its white supremacy all the way down. Nothing more intellectually interesting behind the mask—just more white supremacy.

LunchCounterPunch@theultrasecret.bsky.social · 11h ago

The only “controversial truth” that rich white sadists and their slobbering followers are interested in is the lie that white people are more advanced than non-white people.

One from the archives In 1984 Dunnes shop worker Mary Manning refused to handle South African goods & was backed by her shop steward, Karen Gearon. Both were suspended. 9 colleagues came out in support. The strike lasted 3yrs & forced the Irish govt to ban the import of all SA goods. All heroes

Since there are no rules anymore, who says we can’t?

Gwen C. Katz@gwenckatz.bsky.social · 2d ago

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

I would very much like if we, politically engaged people on the bluesky dot com website, could get in the habit of giving Dems the smallest benefit of the doubt.

Dana Houle@danahoule.bsky.social · 4d ago

My reaction to this was “huh, doesn’t sound like Duckworth.” So I watched it. She’s talking about tariffs & funding USAID & farm bankruptcies & it’s obvious that the “save face” bit was acknowledging these things will change only if Trump agrees & you get him to do that by letting him think he won/1

Barack Obama drove a lot of white people insane. This was the election version of being ordered to integrate the town swimming pool, and choosing to fill it with cement instead.

Return of the Cmonmacques@cmonmaque.bsky.social · last wk.

Still crazy to me that Donald trump essentially ran the campaign penguin ran from Batman returns including career ending recordings and still won the presidency twice

"Le code du bâtiment, c'est moi"

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5d ago

WAPO: The architect quit “after warning repeatedly that Trump was insisting on a preliminary design that did not provide adequate emergency exit routes or fire-containment measures .. .. ‘I am the code,” Trump said.” @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

But what if I told you that thinking isn't always efficient and that learning demands grappling with complex ideas in smaller groups, so you can't just "scale up" something like a course on advanced Arabic or Hegel or Feminist hermeneutics of testimony without losing the learning itself.

Reading this book about colonial Rhodesia and I couldn’t help but be reminded of today’s America when I read this absolute banger: “perhaps [the Rhodesians] worst collective fault was an almost infinite capacity for self-deception.” What can you do when everyone around you just wants to pretend?

Made me really happy

Digital Brain@yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 2w ago

A man rapped with his dog at the Apollo, the stage famous for booing acts off before their first verse, and the crowd went wild for both of them.

This week, we welcome nearly 1,000 members into Class 4 of our first-in-the-nation Maryland Corps/Service Year Option! These new members will help create new pathways of service, enhance workforce development, and forever change our communities for the better. 💪🏾

Once again, neither Woke 1 nor Woke 2 actually happened, & we could just talk about inequality & political economy like serious people, instead of lazily adopting the far right authoritarian party’s talking points about every single issue in our politics: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

The Economist@economist.com · 3w ago

A chocolate heiress. A $1.5m family-funded home. A $400 Ralph Lauren sweater. The Democratic Socialists of America are giving conservatives plenty to mock. But does privilege disqualify someone from fighting inequality?

This fact also completely defangs any argument about “job creators.” Job creation means nothing when the jobs being created don’t lead to any reasonable standard of living.

Brian Goldstone@brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 3w ago

A Labor Day reminder: having a job is no longer enough to protect millions of Americans from homelessness. For many workers, the greatest threat isn't losing their job. It's that their job will never pay enough, never provide enough hours, never offer enough stability to keep them housed.

I don't mean to get too far into special-pleading here, but I think there is something to it; you can't be poor MAHA because MAHA is expensive!

This would have destroyed me as a kid. Reading was EVERYTHING. And not children’s books. Even at a young age.

Alex Ip 葉清霖@alexip718.com · 3w ago

Jesus Christ: after a recent ruling by the Eighth Circuit that allowed Act 372 to take effect, an Arkansas county has banned all children from checking out any books in the adult section, bringing home any DVDs, or using the self-checkout kiosk in its public libraries.

Our society's unfathomable cruelty to homeless people is not just morally unjustifiable, but more expensive than housing people would be. Cruelty against the homeless is an unaffordable luxury. Abandoning homeless people to avoid offending the Protestant work ethic is an unaffordable luxury.

ProPublica@propublica.org · 3w ago

ProPublica spoke to dozens of people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote:

Black Americans are being found hanging in 2026. For generations, Black people were lynched while institutions stood by and did nothing. We cannot repeat that history. I’m demanding a full investigation from the DOJ.

In today's newsletter I wrote about J.D. Vance's role in the death of Pierre Damas Bel, the 20 year-old Haitian refugee who took his own life in Springfield, Ohio. It's things like this which make me wish there was, in fact, a god who punishes evil. www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...

Murdered by the callousness of the Trump administration. My heart is broken for this young man and how alone and hopeless he must have felt. Haitian immigrants are the best of America who have been through shit the rest of us can only imagine. So sad. Such a waste of a young life.

Tom Joscelyn@tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 4w ago

“A Haitian immigrant who had grown increasingly distraught after losing his protection from deportation and being outfitted with an ankle monitor was run over and killed Monday in what his family believes was a suicide.” www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

There's no forgiving this. No living it down. It's a stain on our humanity. When all this is over, the monsters who did this should be pariahs. And the soulless thugs who cheered it on while dehumanizing Haitian immigrants should be reminded of what they did every day of their lives.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · last mo.

The situation in Haiti is terrifying. On Sunday, 150 gunmen swept down on a town to kill, rape, loot, and burn. 22 people were executed in a churchyard. 52 were taken hostage. Stephen Miller mockingly says Haiti is safe and ICE just sent its second deportation flight this month; with kids on board.

One more great thing about Dolly. She was a paid-up union member — American Federation of Musicians, Local 257, Nashville. And she had been for 58 years. www.afm.org/2026/08/afm-...

AFL-CIO@aflcio.org · last mo.

Dolly Parton knew what it was like to struggle as she fought for working families her whole career. From providing free books to kids to giving working women our "9 to 5" anthem, she was an icon and an inspiration. Rest in power to our union sister. We will always love you.

Bouie is 100% correct here. The goal for Democrats should be to grind the Trump administration to a halt and prompt Trump officials to abandon their posts in humiliation and despair.

jamelle@jamellebouie.net · last mo.

tl;dw: the job of the dem majority over the next two years, should it materialize, is to make life hell for the white house, not find points of cooperation

tl;dw: the job of the dem majority over the next two years, should it materialize, is to make life hell for the white house, not find points of cooperation

What Democrats can learn from Mitch McConnell

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youtube.com/watch?v=RU_k... as a bonafide nerd about figure skating words cannot express how much I loved this. I’m crying from the joy.

Unified Adaptive skating to 'Wicked', Rob Hanley & Rowan Martey at National Showcase

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Just to be clear—and bc the Atlantic article about liberals vs. conservatives having babies just popped up on my feed and made my head explode—hayden panettiere is dead bc her parents saw her as a piece of property who had no right to independent emotions. This parental attitude fills America.

Again the fact that this guy is getting published in the Wall Street Journal indicates a kind of institutional derangement redolent of the the backlash to the Reconstruction and the fact that he’s using his position to characterize himself as a fearless truth-teller is less laughable than obscene

So spot on its scary

NY Times Pitchbot@nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 11mo ago

(5/X) The Platonic ideal of a donor is a divorced finance guy who thought his daughter would forgive him for leaving her mom when he pulled strings to get her into Penn but instead she came home at Thanksgiving wearing a Che t-shirt and talking about intersectionality.

Devoured this and it was everything I wanted

Mark Hebden@unionlib.bsky.social · last mo.

Did you read the Will Self piece, it's majestic substack.com/home/post/p-...

BOSTON…😕 ✈️

I think this is wholly correct with the fascinating rub that what that crowd crave is an apartheid society but some of them are mad enough to believe that you can ethnically cleanse your way to it.

BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · last mo.

I think it's key to understanding their worldview that they imagine a world not *without* immigrants, but one in which immigrants' inferiority is permanently asserted and they become a subservient caste. All these people worship the Gulf States.

Books.