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And then this shit just came out. When you’re making over $700k a year, gaining $12k is nothing. It’s a nice vacation, redoing the garage, giving a niece/nephew a car. When you’re making $23k a year, losing $1600 is “are we paying for food or for the house or for medical bills” territory.

submitted 1 day ago • 212 comments

you know, i’m not militantly pro city-run groceries — i think it is an interesting idea to pilot and try out! — but i’m getting negatively polarized into being a big supporter just from these incredibly vapid, brain-dead posts.

submitted 20 hours ago • 299 comments

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

submitted 1 day ago • 654 comments

This is the use of the military for domestic law enforcement; I don’t see any other way to describe it.

submitted 2 days ago • 55 comments

How do we electrify/decarbonize our transit systems? They used to be 100% electric. We don’t need to wait for battery tech or hydrogen to “catch up.” We did this a century ago. Wires. It’s time for both the transit and environmental communities to collectively pull their heads out of their asses.

submitted 5 days ago • 37 comments

The media does 500 stories about "are the Democrats commiting political suicide by deposing deportations?!" when Trump is +2% on immigration, but when Trump is 20 points underwater on Iran they don't ask the same thing about Republicans. It's interesting!

submitted 4 days ago • 19 comments

It's understandable we all mostly take it as a given that Trump doesn't bother to adhere to Constitution or the laws passed by Congress, but it is still both (a) absolutely necessary for our democracy and (b) good political strategy for Dems to file articles of impeachment over this.

submitted 5 days ago • 55 comments

illegal war started by a man constitutionally ineligible to be president

submitted 5 days ago • 443 comments

"The media continues to cover politics as if it is still the 1990s. 'Both parties are basically center-right or center-left parties.' The journalism infrastructure in our country wants to pretend that that’s the world that we live in. The instinct is to treat everything politicians say as valid."

submitted 5 days ago • 638 comments

Of course I worry, I would be crazy not to. As you say, no one is safe. The question is what do we do about it? We all need to find our own way to stand up and speaking out. For me that means fighting in court, writing, and speaking in public.

submitted 6 days ago • 93 comments

turns out climate change will cost dramatically more than economists predicted, and the cost of addressing it is actually negative. oops! prospect.org/environment/...

submitted 6 days ago • 117 comments

an important point with Mamdani is that he hasn't run a divisive candidate. this isn't like the Bernie 2020 campaign where Bernie's staff went after everyone else, it's a mutually supportive, cross-endorsing, fuck Andrew Cuomo campaign.

submitted 6 days ago • 40 comments

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

submitted 7 days ago • 180 comments

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

submitted 7 days ago • 557 comments

When I did missions for Human Rights Watch in Congo, Rwanda, and Burundi, one of the things we looked for were illegal prisons, places where people were being detained incommunicado without proper facilities. This sounds an awful like that. (Link to a chapter on that research below.)

submitted 8 days ago • 47 comments

Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.

submitted 8 days ago • 260 comments

It is pretty telling that the thing a lot of people in the media absolutely loathed Biden for was ending a forever war, him supporting bombing Gaza wasn’t a scandal in the media, what he did with Afghanistan was

submitted 8 days ago • 10 comments

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.

submitted 8 days ago • 173 comments

the story of 2019-2024 was institutions from Silicon Valley to the police facing a modicum of accountability and radicalizing themselves into support of a leader and party who promised unaccountability

submitted 9 days ago • 13 comments

Both sides news coverage is killing democracy and there is no place where it is more dangerous that in how legacy media covers the GOP attacks on free and fair elections. For my latest and to access all Democracy Docket premium content, sign-up now. newsletters.democracydocket.com/member-meblu...

submitted 9 days ago • 211 comments

Really fascinating that years ago all political and economic focus was steered toward tech to the detriment of education, critical thinking, and disciplines like the humanities that promote empathy and we ended up in a fascist tech dominated dystopia where everyone’s drowning in conspiracy theories.

submitted 10 days ago • 17 comments

This is continued journalistic malpractice from the @startribune.com normalizing a violent white male suspect. He owned a private security company called Praetorian Guard, traveled overseas to preach against abortion and LGBTQ+ people, and attended a bible college that preaches "violent prayer."

submitted 10 days ago • 168 comments

the fact that trump is the most corrupt president in U.S. history isn't of interest to the brunchlord press

submitted 10 days ago • 45 comments

A lot of speculation about how things got so Stupid and Evil and I think one reason is we've collectively been too tolerant of Stupid and Evil for too long

submitted 10 days ago • 95 comments

Notice how wealth class media will spend years normalizing authoritarians, giving them the benefit of the doubt, and if someone who is even considered remotely leftist and wants to help people gains momentum they'll change every rule, twist history, and attack them relentlessly.

submitted 10 days ago • 33 comments

political press is doing a real disservice by basically not reporting the nuances of public opinion on deportations, and creating the appearance that most americans support the stephen miller-style gestapo tactics

submitted 11 days ago • 258 comments

In 2020, when I told people that I was building a pro-democracy media outlet, people thought I was kidding. When I told them it was because the fight for democracy was the fight of our time, they thought I was being overly dramatic. Well...here we are. Please subscribe now. hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0

submitted 11 days ago • 130 comments

I'm going to restrict myself to one (two part) comment, which is: 1) the entire range runs from execs making 290x what their workers make to execs making 350x what their workers make, and 2) this should frame everything else such execs encourage you to be mad about

submitted 11 days ago • 20 comments

Also, the way that every event, no matter how shocking or horrible or unprecedented, gets fed into the far-right social media hallucination machine, and twisted beyond recognition until it supports the far-right's own nonsensical worldview, is the very core of why we are where we are as a society.

submitted 11 days ago • 36 comments

It's pretty obvious that a lot of US mainstream media either doesn't recognise authoritarianism or doesn't want to call it out. Either way, it's an excellent way to destroy trust in your institution.

submitted 12 days ago • 490 comments

I'm sorry but the largest protest of my lifetime is not the 7th or 8th biggest news story in the country behind "what does Gen Z want from Instagram?" This shit is humiliating. Rearrange your layout to meet this moment. Omitting the thing happening in every American city is malpractice.

submitted 12 days ago • 677 comments

great reminder to all of those Democrats and liberals saying that we need to abandon red states because they are gerrymandered into right wing autocracies where the vote isn’t in their favor instead of accepting that we are gonna have to fight for every American no matter where they are.

submitted 12 days ago • 30 comments

In re: LRT, Minnesota is the opposite of a news desert - the Twin Cities has dozens of responsible news outlets staffed by incredibly professional journalists. They do not need your breathless, speculative assistance in covering this story. Post local coverage as it emerges, and ignore the noise.

submitted 12 days ago • 17 comments

Imagine if Cuban took the perspective that it would be weird to pivot your entire politics to persecute 10 people in the entire country just trying to do sports. Instead of whatever the fuck this is.

submitted 13 days ago • 5 comments

"They didn't realize they were tackling a Senator for asking questions, they thought they were tackling a journalist for asking questions" oh, ok then

submitted 14 days ago • 60 comments

When we throw up our hands and say none of it matters, we're doing the fascists’ work for them. They don't need to hide their corruption if they can convince us it's pointless to look. They don't need to silence truth-tellers if we've already decided truth is meaningless.

submitted 15 days ago • 23 comments

New euphemism for authoritarian lawlessness just dropped

submitted 15 days ago • 348 comments

Genetic material shed by tumors can be detected in the bloodstream three years before cancer diagnosis, according to a study led by investigators at Johns Hopkins University. That study was made possible with federal funding. Now, many studies like this are canceled. hub.jhu.edu/2025/06/04/...

submitted 15 days ago • 59 comments

GOOD NEWS: The Georgia Supreme Court ruled that the Republican-led State Elections Board exceeded its authority in passing a handful of controversial anti-voting rules last year. Paige Moskowitz and I explain. www.youtube.com/watch?v=16wS...

submitted 16 days ago • 58 comments

A more accurate rendition of what is happening in LA if it had happened in any other country

submitted 17 days ago • 8 comments

we are still under the six month mark for a couple weeks and it is incredibly difficult to see how this is sustainable for 3.5 more years

submitted 17 days ago • 63 comments

OG ANTIFA

submitted 20 days ago • 3 comments

I do not understand this tendency among journalists to reduce every political event to a prediction about whether it will be a lasting news cycle. On the merits, we have a billionaire who helped a fascist get into power and now believes he can dictate policy. That matters! A lot!

submitted 20 days ago • 73 comments

If both sides are mad at you it's possible you are doing something right. It's also possible you're doing everything wrong. Two journalists chat: “I've been beaten up by both the left and the right for being too hard on Musk and too soft..." www.cjr.org/laurels-and-... via @bgrueskin.bsky.social

submitted 20 days ago • 34 comments

This has to be one of the most obliviously disastrous policy proposals since the Iraq War. It’s almost guaranteeing that crypto causes a financial crisis and then taxpayers bail out crypto companies. Crypto is just an elaborate scam—and this is its ultimate heist.

submitted 20 days ago • 28 comments

And some say women are too emotional for positions of leadership 🙄

submitted 21 days ago • 68 comments

If only the New York Times had made this big of a deal in December 2022 when Trump called for “termination” of the Constitution. (That ran on Page 13. Yes, Page 13.)

submitted 20 days ago • 61 comments