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Dad to kids and cats. Former brewer, current Political Science & US History adjunct in Central Ohio. I study beer, unions, and labor politics. He/him.
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the destruction of chattel slavery is one of the great accomplishments in our nation's history and the reason conservatives hate celebrating it is because doing so legitimizes the black counter-narrative of the united states

I need y'all to understand what the NYT, Dem donors, and centrists are doing here. They're pushing the narrative that trans people went too far and we deserve what is happening to us. It's pure victim blaming and it's not done yet, there's a Confessore piece in the works with the same framing.

This is shocking. Pure totalitarianism from DHS, and also blatantly unconstitutional. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Universal cat distribution system dropped another little one in our laps yesterday just before the storm hit. The kids named him Pancake. He’s three months old and a little underweight, but is otherwise healthy, active, and super sociable.

Remember the long struggle for emancipation. Celebrate Juneteenth.

They were all successfully purged following the first administration. Equally alarming is that the same process took place across the entire GOP and at every level of government. They are all thralls to the dear leader.

Israel is using the war on Iran to further its colonization and annexation of the West Bank, turning Palestinian communities into caged enclaves. mondoweiss.net/2025/06/how-...

Liberation must be collective, prosperity mutual, and security shared. We’re all in this together. We must all lift the boot off our necks and tell it in one voice, “No more. We can and will do better.” It’s Juneteenth. Honor those who came before us in the struggle by recommitting to our own.

Starting to think you miscreants are waging a clandestine war on fun punctuation; first the em dash, now the Oxford comma? You’ll have to pry the semicolon from my cold, dead hands.

Instead of sending expensive American jets to bomb a far away country, can’t we just fix our airports. I am sitting on another delayed flight. But hey there’s always money for war. What a joke.

Listening to the drumbeat for war from every quarter was rattling. I was 16 and marched in New York that February with a bunch of classmates. None of us bought the bogus WMD arguments and we were pilloried for it. It was an education I’ll never forget and what got me into politics.

There are no distractions. It's all bad. Systematically stripping trans people of their rights, guys in balaclavas shoving any brown person with a tattoo into a ummarked vans, ending healthcare for millions. It's all in service of fascism and technofeudalism. It's all one thing. That's the point.

Justice Sotomayor's dissent in Skrmetti (which she's now reading from the bench) is deeply pained, accusing her colleagues of abandoning "transgender children and their families to political whims" and badly damaging "bedrock" principles of equal protection. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Even as a brewer and an avid fan of fermented beverages in all their forms, this is insanely irresponsible.

It’s that time again. 6-3 decision upholding a TN gender-affirming care ban and calling it non-discriminatory. Brutal.

historians is it good when the robe Nobles are able to buy the positions and honors typically reserved for the sword Nobles?

Look at unser Führer, dawg. We’re getting smoked.

Having actually read transcripts from closed-door AIPAC, DMFI, and WINEP meetings, you get a different picture of what pro-Israel advocacy looks like than the common public perception. In those meetings, everyone admits that it is now often wiser avoid the topic of Israel if you're pro-Israel.

Twitter feels like what I imagine Orwell’s “Two Minutes Hate” would be like. Truly carcinogenic vibes right now.

administration should just put up a “no niggers” sign and save themselves the trouble of writing out each country

Mike Lee Stresses He Would Have Posted Same Thing If Own Family Savagely Murdered

#booksky #writingcommunity

Hi, this is Meg Barnette, Brad's wife. While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE. This is still developing, and our team is monitoring the situation closely.

Dean Moses with the photo that fully captures the lawless, anti-democratic, inhumane thuggery of this administration and its program of mass violence. Incredible.

Ohio Republicans looking on and salivating

Senior former Marine leaders speak out against the deployment of #Marines to #LosAngeles www.military.com/daily-news/2...

Important piece that speaks to broader national conversations we’re not having:

Every time.

Never has it been clearer that “no one is free until Palestine is free” is not a chant but a warning, as we all stare into the abyss of another world war.

A “shift” never happened. A chaotic raid at a worksite and a warrantless sweep in our communities have the same outcome. Bullshit rhetoric aside, they’re hunting us down while we’re trying to feed you. Who’s actually in charge?

From a military perspective this is all very simple: we couldn’t win a war with Iraq. We will not win a war with Iran.

NEW — Here are the 12 members of Congress who have so far signed on to efforts against the Trump-Vance administration's moves towards war on Iran. 2.2% of Congress

Beyond shameful. This is a stab in the back. A disgraceful betrayal for which there is no forgiveness. Fuck ICE. Fuck Trump. Forever.

The Atlantic should be ashamed of publishing this nightmare piece from Liz Bruenig, whose callous dismissal of Adriana Smith's dignity is one of the most shocking things I've ever read.

Friends

I don't think I've ever felt more like burning it all down than I have while witnessing the elite project to turn Zohran Mamdani and Brad Lander into scary, incompetent monsters while turning an actual incompetent monster, Andrew Cuomo, into a merely complicated fellow who just made an oopsie.

Look I don’t mean to kink shame or yuk anybody’s yum, but if you’re out here cranking it to your Bluesky timeline,,,please seek help.

we have an elite impunity problem and a lot of the people and institutions that nominally oppose Trump will burn down their own before admitting that this helped produce him

The Ohio legislature is at it again

Yet another reminder that the people at the top of this country’s social, political, and economic order don’t want the rest of us to have nice things or any degree of control over how we get them.

Trump announces a mass deportation mission in a long post on Truth Social, and of course, just randomly throws trans people in there because why not?