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Brother ain't ready to be reincarnated YET.

submitted 16 hours ago • 2 comments

This piece doesn't use the phrase "political prisoner," but that's what it's describing. Ozturk is a political prisoner. She's not the only one, and if Trump and Rubio have their way, there will be many more. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/o...

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

“There isn't a single part of the entire thing that stands up to the smallest amount of scrutiny. The whole thing, the entire enterprise is just sheer lawlessness,” says Chris Hayes.

submitted 12 days ago • 20 comments

Seasteaders being back in the news gives me the chance to post one of my favorite pieces that I commissioned/adapted while at ITT, China Mieville on “Floating Utopias”: inthesetimes.com/article/floa...

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

The great thing about fighting back against this stuff is that if you end up losing anyway you get the same outcome you’d have gotten from complying but you don’t have to fucking hate yourself too.

submitted 14 days ago • 53 comments

Thank you to @inthesetimesmag.bsky.social for publishing the text of my letter to Notre Dame after they canceled my speech. inthesetimes.com/article/notr...

submitted 21 days ago • 5 comments

Oligarchy is the theory that the business elite know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Imagine spending a half million dollars to attend Police State University, where you’ll get to experience NYPD brutality up close and where they might just revoke your degree for wrongthink even after you’ve graduated.

submitted 23 days ago • 81 comments

maybe we shouldn't be disappearing students via secret police for opposing the actions of a state that behaves in this way

submitted 24 days ago • 17 comments

In Hawaii for vacation, and so moved to somewhat rectify my extraordinary (and shameful) ignorance of how Hawaii became a state. It reads like a fucking parody of US imperial malfeasance

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

it is because they want to impoverish the country! they don’t want high end manufacturing. they want americans working subsistence wages making t shirts and clothes hangers

submitted 24 days ago • 230 comments

The Woquefort Mind Virus

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

To me, if you're writing a big picture look at gaps between the parties and where the electorate stands, the main takeaway would be "I don't think most of the electorate voted for a dictatorship, no public services, and a return to Jim Crow." Opinions differ though. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/o...

submitted 30 days ago • 18 comments

Congratulations Dr. Bill Cassidy! It’s rare for one man to beclown both his chosen vocations with one vote but you truly went for the gold.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

The great champion of independent, speak-truth-to-power journalism, and of the democracy that can only survive if the press is free, Robert W. McChesney, has died at age 72. He fought the media oligarchs and the politicians who served them — and often won. Now, we must carry the fight forward.

submitted 32 days ago • 27 comments

This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 33 days ago • 2088 comments

Being snatched off the street for your opinions. I'll say it again. We are deciding, right now, whether the aspirations we hold for this country are finished. Whether we're going to let these hoodlums and grifters throw what's left of the American idea into the garbage for their own profit and gain.

submitted 33 days ago • 220 comments

Becoming a “thank you for your service” guy for a car dealership is the logical endpoint of American conservatism

submitted 34 days ago • 330 comments

Labor friends in Washington state tell me that ICE “violently” detained farmworker activist Lelo Juarez today. They’re looking for immediate support. More info at this link, and below. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

submitted 34 days ago • 7 comments

@michaelstipe.bsky.social Don’t know if you’ve seen the new Daffy/Porky movie that uses “End of the World As We Know It” but thought you might enjoy hearing that the sequence with it sent my 6-year-old boy careening into a state of bouncy ecstasy. A real vicarious thrill for me, so thanks for that.

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

“The cost, though, is that I would have squandered some of those precious remaining years and months before I was forced to spend so much of my time and energy thinking about one of the most worthless human beings ever to live.”

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

We are definitely more in the territory of "Brazil" than "1984": a dystopic regime that doesn't know (or care) if it's got the wrong person, because the point is to make everybody and anybody the right person to get. If they get got, it must be right.

submitted 38 days ago • 2 comments

The Tesla takedown poster riffing on the city of Chicago rat abatement signs is art www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/iv2o2...

submitted 38 days ago • 3 comments

I have been appreciating @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social's writing a good deal these days www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-more-y...

submitted 40 days ago • 4 comments

Chuck taking the Zeno’s Paradox approach to whether democracy is at risk. That’s a bold strategy, Cotton…

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

Hard not to read this and think we could’ve avoided this whole fucking nightmare if Biden had bit the bullet and sacrificed the Kennedy Center by giving it to Trump and letting him program whatever awful dreck his heart desired: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/a...

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

I still feel like we should be able to beat these guys.

submitted 42 days ago • 6 comments

submitted 43 days ago • 10 comments

/concerned, gesturing frantically to arena security staff "Oooh wah ah ah ah!"

submitted 45 days ago • 15 comments

these people swore an oath to defend the constitution but i guess that’s just too hard

submitted 46 days ago • 590 comments

Chamberlain. Quisling. Schumer.

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

McConnell abused the filibuster to make America worse. Schumer is refusing to use the filibuster to... accomplish what, exactly?

submitted 46 days ago • 222 comments

submitted 46 days ago • 56 comments

The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.

submitted 46 days ago • 3631 comments

If Cobb said anything else, he'd be asking the people it's his job to protect to take very dangerous risks. It's horrible that he is reduced to this, but it was the responsible thing to say.

submitted 47 days ago • 2 comments

The counter-argument is that Hickenlooper's worst-case scenario is indistinguishable from what's already happening

submitted 47 days ago • 14 comments

The embodiment of Democratic Party resistance. “They’re throwing out the Constitution. I’m not sure how I’ll vote on it.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 47 days ago • 338 comments

They're going to fucking wreck the university with one of the best hospital systems in the goddam world

submitted 47 days ago • 117 comments

Musk and Trump could not possibly be sending a clearer signal that the Tesla protests are working than this pathetic stunt today.

submitted 48 days ago • 1085 comments