I think ‘rote memorization’ is underrated. Having a ton of shit laying around in your head leads to connections and being able to more precisely describe things.
i fear that the politics of the future in major industrialized powers are HKSG Hukou Kafala Stimmies Glonzo
Hemry, Local Bartender@bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 4d agoi feel like "american hukou" would be even more popular and disastrous than "govt mandated free parking"
I seriously think folks are underrating how devastating "Roger Marshall arrested me to make me pay my miscarriage bill" could be in an ad
“Exquisite Class” Posts@embittered.bsky.social · 5d agoHamilton also has probably the dumbest candidate running against him. Guys is a fucking gaffe machine and just like oozes vileness. Compound that with him running an obgyn that was predatory in a state that constantly defends abortion on referendums?
So @radtranslib.bsky.social, who started writing for us this year and quickly became one of our core contributing editors, is kind of funny in that she contains within herself the multitudes that make up the @liberalcurrents.com community in general www.liberalcurrents.com/drive/
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Adam Gurri@adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · last wk.Returning to @radtranslib.bsky.social, she has spent a great deal of time thinking about how we take the civil service that Trump has broken and was already in a sorry state before that, and turn it into something world class www.liberalcurrents.com/how-to-rebui...
This point, from my recent interview with @perrybaconjr.bsky.social for TNR, is so crucial. Trans people are desperate for relief from the relentless Republican attacks impacting all of us. When Democrats move right, they signal relief may not be coming, and that engenders a lot of despair.
Remembering the Oscar winning ANNE BANCROFT — born 95yrs ago today. AN AUDIENCE WITH MEL BROOKS (1983)
Pretty funny that Ed Sheeran seemingly only hired Irish people and yet didn't see this coming.
I mean if you really want to hear Ed Sheeran without any opening acts you can simply get put on hold with your bank
we won! the court just declared the Brooklyn Democratic Party's attempted coup null and void in a victory for democracy and common sense, Justice Jill Epstein finds that outgoing District Leaders had no right to change the rules after an election they lost iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewD...
Mexico’s fight for independence is the triumph of a people determined to shape their own future. Today, I was proud to be the first New York City Mayor to march in Sunset Park’s Mexican Independence Day Parade alongside a community that has fostered cultural pride across generations.
Despite two and a half years of polling which demonstrates that the vast majority of Democratic voters, up to 80%, have a negative view of Israel, Congressional Dem Leadership appointed a pro-Israel stalwart to head the MENA Subcommittee within House Foreign Affairs. This divide isn't going away.
The Democrats’ Divide Over Israel Comes to the House Foreign Affairs Committee
US Representative Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) was selected by the Democratic party to become the ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee’s (HFAC) Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Afr...
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"We need a Dem Joe Rogan" "Wait, not like that" "Wait, not like that" "Wait, not like that" "Wait, not like that" "Wait, not like that"
whenever I think about barnburner House investigations I am invariably drawn to the impeachment of Alcee Hastings, then a judge for the Southern District of Florida, and the scandal which led up to it. the whole package deserves a movie honestly, it's 70s/80s Miami madness from start to finish
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Kevin@reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 3w agoDemocrats are going to go in with the expectation that they're doing normal tepid oversight but crimes are going to start simply falling out of nooks and crannies. shaking new crimes out of the couch cushions and such. crimes wedged under furniture, crimes hidden in the mattresses
A climate scientist complaining about a planned protected cycle lane because of car parking being affected sadly does not surprise me any more. I've seen too many environmentally-minded people fall for/propagate classic anti-sustainable transport arguments against cycling, buses, trams, metros etc.
Horses Soften Their Behavior When Interacting with a Human Baby
it’s crazy how Michelle Wu ran on being the transit mayor and then turned around and started governing like Doug Ford
Alaina Pitt@alainapitt.bsky.social · 3w agoMayor Michelle Wu billed the plan as a “generationally transformational” layout. 🫠 www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/04/m...
NIMBYs: "The state is using money that was supposed to go for clean air to pay for people to ride bikes instead." Uh, yeah. Paying people to ride bikes is *literally* buying clean air.
Every time we bike together as a family on our cargo bike, our kid says "I don't wanna go home yet!" So my partner said one time "let's take the long way home" and now every time we want to take the long way home. I wish everyone could experience this bike joy.
This is how fast oil use can disappear China's reduction in oil consumption during first half of 2026 due to replacement of fossil vehicles with EVs exceeded the UK’s entire oil consumption during that period China’s CO2 emis fall Q226 due to plummeting oil use carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...
Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions fall in Q2 2026 due to plummeting oil use - Carbon Brief
China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions fell by 1% in the second quarter of 2026, as oil consumption plummeted amid the strait of Hormuz crisis.
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Even worse in context. The thing about philosemites is that they love Jews precisely up to the point where you stop validating their fantasy version of Judaism, and not one inch further.
The degree to which the establishment are a bunch of genuinely stupid racist people can not be overstated.
Eoin Higgins@eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 4w agoAt a certain point you might think establishment Dems would speak out about the head of their main think tank indulging in the kind of rank bigotry that damages election prospects
Sliwa is fucking wild on Adam Friedland, my god. This is incredible television
Frank Lowenstein, senior envoy on Israel-Palestine under the Obama administration, conceded in an article today published in the New Yorker that the two-state paradigm is basically dead and has been for years, rendering the same old rhetoric about supporting a 2SS fantastical without policy changes.
New Maps Show How Israel Has Thwarted Hopes for a Palestinian State
The breakneck expansion of settlements in the West Bank has rendered American talk of a two-state solution increasingly irrelevant.
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