If and when Dems are able to take back power, I cannot tell you how much any question about the debt or deficit needs to be met with loud mockery and extreme derision. Just an aggressive, ‘Oh NOW you care about the debt? GTFOH.’ Over and over and over again.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11h ago

Donald Trump and the Republican-controlled Congress are accountable 10% of America’s $40 TRILLION DEBT since gaining power in January 2025. Republicans don’t care about the national debt as long it benefits CEOs and billionaires.

yeah corporate pride posting is kinda bleh, and they won't have your back in the pinch, but what it means is the C suite execs think you are winning and/or must be placated

Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈@maxdubler.com · 2d ago

Corporations publicly celebrating LGBT+ equality is a good thing and I am glad to see it coming back.

Uh well wow yeah okay Yeah do that

Common Dreams@commondreams.org · 8h ago

After another shooting and the raid on Ilhan Omar's home, Rep. Delia Ramirez says abolishing ICE isn't enough. She has introduced a bill to "dismantle" the entire Department of Homeland Security.

How the hell is Steve Martin still so fucking funny? Dude's 81 and putting out gold. Ridiculous.

Ok it is obvious that people fake engagement with bots, and that this is often done for political reasons, but the reality is that there are tens of millions of republicans in america, the number of people who would vote for Trump is even larger, and as elections show, these people really exist

God damn, it's bad. They finally made a bad Evil Dead movie. I was hoping Burn would be good and expected it to be okay, but it's just bad. The practical effects are great, but the CGI is ugly as sin. The cinematography is often solid, but half the time seems to only be based on looking cool.

rainbow capitalism is important not as a statement of any corporation’s values (for that, look where they donate money and talk to LGBTQ employees!), but because they have access to consumer data we don’t have and they’re conservative by nature. a pendulum swing right now is useful data

Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈@maxdubler.com · yesterday

Yes, of course McDonald’s posting about National Coming Out Day is “performative.” Nobody thinks Ronald McDonald threw the first brick at Stonewall. Nonetheless, the biggest and most influential institutions in American life performing affirmation of LGBT social and civil equality is a good thing.

no coming back from this without punishing the entire chain of command from the officers carrying out this shit to the people at the top giving the orders

The Independent@the-independent.com · 2d ago

Trump’s feds raid home of Ilhan Omar as part of criminal investigation

Not only no culture, but no *commons*. The dependency on the capitalist overlords will be complete, because you can’t ask for help or context from others when there is no common frame of reference. This has already happened in coding, the first space where they destroyed the commons we’d all built.

onion person@junlper.beer · 3d ago

this is the ultimate end point of capitalism, ai will completely atomize everyone and there will be zero shared experiences. there will be no culture, only pure consumption. this must be resisted

Stop treating "fat" like a slur. Calling someone fat isn't fat shaming. Getting offended on behalf of someone being called fat is.

Aubrey Gordon@yrfatfriend.bsky.social · 2d ago

Fellow fat people/people who wear plus sizes: what would real solidarity from your thinner friends & family look like for you? (Once again, asking thin & midsize people to sit this one out & just listen. Take notes & take action!)

Yeah, gotta admit, I never bought into the party flip narrative, but I also never thought the explanation was as simple as "he's a miserable bum"

Daniel Gilmore@gilmored85.bsky.social · 3d ago

People on social media have built this whole narrative of Fetterman as this guy who is chomping at the bit to flip to Rs the second he can in order to fuck over Dems, but in actuality everything we've seen paints a picture of a miserable, mentally unwell man who absolutely fucking hates the job

Okay. Let's go over the stupid: "I CAN'T WAIT FOR THE BUBBLE TO POP SO I CAN BUY ALL THOSE GPUS REAL CHEAP." Those "GPUs" only barely qualify as such. Many of them don't even have a video output, or can't be used outside specialized servers. They're no good to anyone. They're future e-waste.

This is a common story across states and demographics, and an extremely optimistic signal for two reasons. First, the only way to overcome voter suppression is with greater turnout, including negating a lot of the effects of gerrymandering.

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 4d ago

Remarkable: As of now, Latino early vote is outpacing where it was at same time in 2024 in both percentages of vote share and in RAW VOTE TOTALS. That's big. Presidential turnout is usually higher than midterms. I obtained new analysis from Dem firm TargetSmart: newrepublic.com/article/2164...

If Trump were working directly for Putin this whole time, people ask, taking orders to destroy US democracy and the Western alliance, would anything look different? Yes. Trump would be more subtle about it.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

Wow — listen to these new comments from Trump. Thanking Putin, trashing Zelenskyy, characterizing Russia as eager for peace and Ukraine as intransigent. The mask is totally off.

So much of modern politics is manufactured from whole cloth. Algorithms instruct you on what matters to you, and the death spiral of labor exhausts you further into relying on the noise. Democratizing labor must go hand in hand with and democratizing tech.

Alina Pereverzieva 🇺🇦@perevaa.bsky.social · 3d ago

And now the best part: Bot traffic from the #Yandex network has plunged to near zero following the strike on its Vladimir data center. Bot traffic includes automated requests from search crawlers, scrapers and other online services. Twitter must be a ghost town by now.

I'm convinced Newsom isn't running for President at all. Sure, he might have a committee and use it as a slush fund, but he's running to be appointed to corporate boards and fake think tanks and stuff. Just too many examples of him going out of his way to show he's not aligned with the Dem base.

CalMatters@calmatters.org · 3d ago

Gavin Newsom backs measure to kill the billionaire tax and ban future wealth taxes Gov. Gavin Newsom isn't just fighting the billionaire tax. He's backing Prop. 42, which would ban future wealth taxes in California, too.

Is getting harder and harder to differentiate how much of this is cosplay and how much of this is crazy

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 4d ago

I keep trying to think of any historical example where a given technology's PROMOTERS AND TRUE BELIEVERS were like 'we are absolutely going to ruin your fucking life so be prepared like it's the end of the world'

This is very important. They're not offended by state murder. They love it. They understand what Hegseth doesn't: taking the abstract notion of capital punishment and presenting it in broad daylight won't encourage people to get in line. It'll upset them.

lauren@lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 4d ago

oh? republican senators are balking at pete's plans to do government sanctioned faces of death stuff on twitch?

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

I can’t stress enough that this notion of if and when It will gain consciousness is Bible fanfic. It’s not real.

damniel spookradski@self.agency · 5d ago

since we know so little about how consciousness forms, the presumption is that if and when a.i. gains sentience, we won't realize until it's too late. so pascal's wager is, maybe we should be nice to it now so when it is conscious, it doesn't remember how shitty we were to it and hold it against us.

If more of them talked like that, more of them would.

Richard M. Nixon@dicknixon.bsky.social · 5d ago

You don't talk like Ossoff did unless you're going to win by 10-12.

Do not watch the public execution. You will not be okay watching someone kill a person. That experience will bury itself in your nervous system and change you forever. You cannot prepare yourself for it. Do not choose to traumatize yourself with bloody murder.

This IS what this country is. It's not the only thing that it is but it is absolutely violent and barbaric. The US. is one of 55 countries that still maintain capital punishment. 140 countries have abolished it. This IS what this country is. Might as well televise the killings.

The deployment of National Guard troops into cities has been so normalized that it barely merits a mention in the press or among the public anymore. D.C. remains occupied, Memphis is occupied, so is New Orleans... It's incredible to me.

Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf

I feel like we don’t talk about millennials in particular, hitting our 40s - in earlier generations many of us would be reaching the peak of our careers, but because of disaster after disaster, locust after locust eating our industries, many of us are on our 3rd or 4th fresh start.

I cannot stress enough that ICE is acting the way cops have acted for years. These are just "starlight tours" for Indigenous teens applied to the rest of the population.

ProPublica@propublica.org · last wk.

4/ Fernando Vasquez, an 18-year-old citizen, was on break from work when agents chased and handcuffed him, then put him in their truck. After realizing their mistake, the agents left the teen alone in the woods, with no way to get home. Then they threw his ID out of the truck.

Sometimes I wonder if I could have eventually successfully made it as a TV writer if I'd picked myself back up, put myself back together, and tried again just that one more time, and I think at this point the answer has to be: no, I'd only be going a different kind of crazy.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · last wk.

with each passing day it feels more surreal to be an independent journalist. like playing with a toy train while vanderbilt owns the railways.

they're taking over the country and destroying it as revenge for MeToo

IGN@ign.com · last wk.

Former Activision CEO Bobby Kotick is joining David Ellison's board of directors at the newly christened Skydance following Paramount's now-completed acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery. https://bit.ly/470r7D8