Spencer Thomas
@spencer-thomas.bsky.social
Creator of Opir, a political Industrial music project, and faint signs of life, a dark electronic music project. Childfree, atheist, socialist. 48. Cis. He/him. Brooklyn, NY Join DSA https://ffm.to/faint-signs-of-life
It's been a long-time article of faith in certain quarters that specific things like judgeships, government administration, bureaucracy, regulation, or even human rights aren't political. These are all political, and the sooner those quarters dispense with the denial, the better
Good work, @mayor.nyc.gov. Maybe do periodic announcements of all the meetings you reject
The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 21h agoNew York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
More non-starters. Medicare for all or a true NHS or just shut up www.forbes.com/sites/joshua...
Senate Dems Post Memo On Reforms To Make Health Insurance More Affordable
The debate between Medicare for All and Medicare by Choice advocates, both of whom seek better affordability, is shaping up to be an interesting one in the coming years.
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We should be replacing masses of parking lots with housing and parks
Martin Austermuhle@maustermuhle.bsky.social · 2d agoOne part of Trump's $22 billion makeover of Dulles that's been missed is his big, beautiful, world-record 32,000-spot parking garage. That's *way* more parking than recent estimates show the airport needs, and it would tower over the historic terminal: www.notus.org/metro/dulles...
Single payer is the compromise. We should have a real national health service. Instead we have this www.commondreams.org/news/medicai...
'So It Begins': Trump's Medicaid Work Requirements—as Designed—Wreak Havoc and Pain | Common Dreams
"Pregnant woman disenrolled by mistake. Long waits to get through to the call center for help. No clarity on the rules. Medicaid work reporting requirements don’t work."
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We need free, universal, no-questions-asked abortion on demand absolutely without apology and free birth control for everyone. And the forced-birth nutjobs that rule us must be totally disempowered
Headquarters@headquartersnews.bsky.social · yesterdayTrump's Acting AG Todd Blanche has reportedly met with conservative faith leaders and promised that the anti-abortion laws will be "permanent in every state" if confirmed. Senators will vote on his confirmation today.
Why did Kropotkin hate apartment-dwelling club-goers
It's always prison for protestors, but news interviews for mass murderers by policy
How many people do they have to harass, disappear, imprison, financially ruin, injure, deport, or kill before something gives here. What is it truly going to take
The nexus of delusional, evil, and in possession of far too much money
“Civility” being construed as only stylistic concern rather than a material one is and always has been a disaster. The difference between the current regime and past ones is obviously success and scale of destruction, but also style. The heart of the project was always the same, though
www.techspot.com/news/113264-... How many different ways can the wealthy and powerful show just how out of touch and/or delusional they are
Sam Altman says AI won't shorten the workweek because humans secretly enjoy being busy
One of the many benefits promised early in the generative AI boom was that it would boost productivity to the point where most of us could work...
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Jonathan Harker when he finds out that Dracula may have forged some paperwork when attempting to acquire Carfax instead of using a meticulous legal process:
neongrey@neongrey.bsky.social · last wk.VLADDY STOLE HOME???????????????????????????????????
www.ms.now/news/schumer... Recognition of the problems is good, but depending on local police forces to help (lol?) instead of getting independent enforcement capacity is a complete joke. It doesn't help that Schumer's actual competence at doing useful things is non-existent
Schumer convenes Democrats to prepare for election doomsday scenarios
The unprecedented preparation is essential, the Senate minority leader said: “If every time Trump did one of these things we just froze, he’d win.”
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Things Should Get Worse More Slowly party now neck and neck with Everything Terrible Forever party
Fascists need to be removed from public life. They should not be in any political, judicial, or administrative office, nor allowed to direct any media outlets. Paradox of Tolerance is about stopping the intolerant in the general sense. Actually allowing them to keep *power* is way over that line
Shut down his companies, take almost all of his money, then arrest, charge, try, convict, and finally, punish him for his many, many crimes. What needs to be done does not require much creativity; it requires will newrepublic.com/article/2119...
Elon Musk’s Race War Just Took Darker Turn—Time for a Global Response
The violent fascist riots in Belfast reveal the future that the trillionaire really wants. We need an international movement to constrain him.
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www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j... Perhaps "arm journalists" is a bridge too far (though that's debatable), but "have companies that do journalism hire security to accompany their staff at all times and guard them at home" seems perfectly reasonable. We cannot have a self-censorsing 4th estate
UK journalists ‘self-censoring stories about Trump and the right over safety fears’
Government-backed investigation finds risks are normalised amid ‘a narrowing of the public conversation’
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How much defense of the status quo rests on the belief that "even the poorest are better off than the richest from arbitrary time period in the past," ignorance of vertical social distance, and ignorance of the corruption of democracy / non-responsiveness of political systems to the poor
The bigger reason IMO is that they are viewed, rightly or wrongly, as a (non-traditional) western country in the Middle East. Many have long believed that they are "one of us" instead of the sui generis apartheid state they actually are
Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 2w ago“Why is Israel a bigger deal than KSA?” Because we send them free money “Why don’t we hear about Sudan?” Because we don’t send them free money “What about Hezbollah/Hamas?”Most Americans hate those groups, so we don’t send them free money
www.thetimes.com/us/news-toda... If we had real political parties, just how big a share of the vote do we think the Socially Liberal Republican Party would get? 5%?
Inside the elite social club for ‘politically homeless’ Democrats
A group of educated, well-dressed women are meeting monthly in Manhattan to discuss how they can support the people — without being a far-left progressive
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No political tent that intends to do good can have room for fascists, fascist-lite, fascist-adjacents, or fascist enablers. It can only have anti-fascists. This can never be up for debate
People Keep Dying in the Concentration Camps. 13 Democrats Back a Bill to Abolish the Concentration Camps. At least 53 people have died in Concentration Camps since President Donald Trump’s return to office.
Truthout@truthout.org · 2w ago“Jesús Manuel Arenas-Silva went without medication during his detention until he tragically died in ICE custody on July 13 … I am 100% certain that he did not receive proper care.” said his sister. At least 53 people have died in ICE custody since President Donald Trump returned to office.
Us: Medicare for All. Everyone in. No one out Republicans: how about a loan www.commondreams.org/news/trump-r...
Under Healthcare 'Dystopia' Envisioned by Trump, Cash-Strapped Patients Would Take Out Loans From Insurers | Common Dreams
The Trump administration's proposal to have Americans take out loans from health insurance companies for medical bills is a cruel and dystopian solution. Are we okay with turning insurers into loan sh...
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www.latimes.com/california/s... Multiple things that are so wrong about this. All education should be free at the point of service with living cost stipends like Denmark, even if their earnings aren't good. That's the starting point.
If your degree doesn’t pay enough, you can’t borrow. Federal loans cut for low-wage programs
Students in low-paying college degree and certificate programs will no longer be eligible for federal student loans under a new rule.
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Society must be restructured so that this stuff is simply not possible. It manages to be both Boring Dystopia and stomach-turning
Erin Fogg says Free Link@criminalerin.bsky.social · 2w agoI just think in any system of government that even remotely claims to be democratic that elected politicians signing non-disclosure agreements with corporations would be as illegal as gambling on election outcomes but what do I know I'm an anarcho-communist aka a threat to the American way of life
