Sage

There is hope for some of the newer voices in the Democratic Party like AOC and AES because they realize you have to actually stand for something to build a movement and draw people toward you. The old guard must all be overthrown. Their laziness and cowardliness can never defeat fascism.

Popularism has been a total failure. It does not work. Since it became the unquestioned gospel creed of Democratic elites in the latter half of Obama II, they have only had victories after titanic Republican screwups. They were not earned by Democrats. They were cries for help from the public.

If you're wearing a glucose monitor and you aren't diabetic or have some other medical issue that makes it necessary, you are already unhinged

"Weirdo Furry Socialists" slaps as a band name NGL

This is quite simply not going to work, and in the process of not working is going to reach absolutely horrific levels of animal cruelty

Lol the founding fathers didn't think I should vote, go to college, wear pants, or have control over my own money

I don't know what it says about capitalism that we had almost no ride service in my region prior to rideshare apps. I want workers to get a fair wage but also for people who aren't able to drive to get rides, so I'm conflicted.

no amnesty

Thinking of little Millennial kids learning what a blow job was thanks to Kenneth Starr

Start asking every Republican at a campaign event if they disavow Vivek Ramaswamy

Everyone remembers the "it's not a tumor" line from Kindergarten Cop, but fails to understand that it takes far more courage to be a kindergarten teacher than it does to be a cop

Moving your retirement funds out of the S&P 500 (which is dominated by tech corps) is a legal and possibly effective form of protest

State-run media, like Stalin had.

Some real Nazi shit, jesus

I must be doing something right because this made me think of all these fine podcasters doing the work @kavehmd.bsky.social and @maintenancephase.bsky.social and @iwriteok.bsky.social and @sarahtaber.bsky.social

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

Yes, when the "researchers" say that AI could destroy humanity, it's stuff like this (& of course climate crisis) rather than some existential thing. Hallucinating a nuclear war that becomes an actual nuclear war is another option

r/preppers on fire today

They’re live-streaming the execution of the person they think they can get away with doing that to first. It’s a test. If they can do that, they’ll expand the margins of permission.

It's telling that men would rather try to invent tech to replace humans' role in caregiving than step up as equal partners in parenting. Telling, that is, in that it shows how financial capitalism and patriarchy work together to dissuade men from doing "unprofitable" labor, like the work of care.

reading this, recalling how quickly the killing of Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman slipped out of the news

Senator Bernie Sanders, Representative Ocasio-Cortez, and Senator Jeff Merkley introduced the Ban Flock Act on Friday, which would stop federal agencies from using automatic license plate readers.

A year ago, @propublica.org told you immigration agents had detained more than 170 U.S. citizens. We’ve updated our count, and we’ve got all the receipts. The tally: At least 506 citizens detained. Sometimes held at gunpoint, handcuffed, or even deported. projects.propublica.org/american-cit...

Less than 1% of major party nominees for Congress are working class. It is one of the most fundamental ways that Congress is not representative. And their views, e.g. on unregulated gambling websites, are apt to be different. www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

I was early on in getting email and could always tell when a family member got email for the first time because they would send the kidney story, and so I would have to describe why it was bunk.

The most ordinary man imaginable came to my home state to tell me to ‘get out of America’ while he & Absent Ashley enjoyed the comfort of buildings my ancestors helped build. Imagine standing on the shoulders of the ppl who built this country & then telling their descendants they don’t belong here/2

But sure, centrist Dems think Dem Socialists are more of a threat than fascism

And even the "perfect" victims are often downplayed. Witness Brock Allan Turner's rape of his victim: out in the open where two men witnessed and reported it. And yet, went to trial and got an extremely minor sentence. Later changed his name to Allan Turner to try to hide from his past.

www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

Weird how nobody has remade Thelma and Louise

Why can't we do the Haber-Bosch process using the hydrogen from water instead of methane?

What if every mayor and member of every city council was a Mamdani type? Every governor and member of every state legislature? Every member of Congress? Every president? Like just think about that for a minute. Every elected official just doing stuff people want instead of being crappy.

Replace "AI" or the specific name of the AI with "their dog" and it sort of sounds like the appropriate level of seriousness

the two big ai stories to kick off the week are - meta ai giving your address to strangers on fb marketplace - stole a scientific breakthrough and presented it as its own work this is what we get instead of healthcare or third spaces or public transportation or pick literally anything else

Ugh. If they want to remake some dark British story for kids, they could do a Dickens tale but that takes place in 2020s United States. David Copperfield but a foster kid caught in the system. Oh wait, just option Barbara Kingsolver's novel.

they are going to come for your contraception, it is literally only a matter of time. I just replaced my IUD and if you think any of the long-term methods of contraception would be a good fit for you and/or your partner, now is the time to do it

*tucks in my back pocket for the next time some 'vote blue no matter who' Dem starts in on the whole 'but DSA wats to abolish the Senate!' sealioning convo*