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Adding to Tom Steyer discourse

Has anyone asked Steyer and Becerra if they will support a super blue gerrymander (i.e. Votemaxxing) in California? I would be considerably more likely to support the candidate that would.

Some Democrats are better than others, but I'm still waiting for someone who runs on a platform of making extreme wealth illegal.

Tax billionaires out of existence.

All I’m saying is, some of you have been a little hasty in writing phrenology off as a science.

I noticed something weird in Twin Peaks

Los Angeles deserves a mayor who believes in housing as a human right.

Fifty million dollars is enough for anybody

A fun case study since there have been 72 million articles on the cold in the east and 4 on the warmth in the west

Rest in Peace Alex Jeffrey Pretti🙏🏾 The VA ICU Nurses send him off right 💔

The only annoying thing about the repubs getting destroyed in the midterms would be seeing the NYT talk about what a genius Chuck Schumer is

Finally deactivated my X account. This grok stuff is horrible.

It hasn't even been twelve hours, but all three of us have been overwhelmed with requests from media for comment and I'm mostly writing this now so they'll leave me alone.

Full disclosure this account is based in Far Harad

VP Cheney will be honoured with a 21 gun salute accidentally aimed directly at 21 of his friends

You never know when it will be, but there is one time that will be the last time that you will ever hear the monster mash.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tfy...

Well, that's one way to stop immigration

I'm so appreciative of all of the citizen journalists doing great work on Bluesky right now.

I saw this question over on the other site & I was curious how answers might differ over here.

I'll toss one out there (likely to die stillborn but still): Favorite song by a band or artist about another band or artist. Mine is a simple choice: "If I Was A Mekon" by Too Much Joy. "If I was a Mekon/I'd drink pints of beer/If I was a Mekon/And talk about Adorno."

Imagine taking the doodlebug up to see your best gal and your rival shows up in a flying hamburger

David Bowie's father: hey i have an idea why don't you reinvent yourself as somebody who mows the goddamn lawn

one of the things i truly believe is that a significant portion of this country is in the grip of a death cult

Happy sesquicentennial of the birth of the great Maurice Ravel! I know that everyone is probably celebrating in their own way, but if you just got caught without a plan, how about a listen to his String Quartet in F major? Or you could just watch 10.

Anora really was a good movie. It seems like the Oscars have strangely good taste lately.

Absolute 100% required reading in re Big Balls and the Federal payments systems and [waves hands around] all this paulkrugman.substack.com/p/musk-in-yo...

We could just be reading great books, watching good movies, and eating fruit. Instead we have to survive/fight miserable power hoarders. What a waste of limited time.

I'm old enough to remember when right wingers said that one of their big problems with Obama was him doing executive orders.

RIP to the amazing David Lynch. This year so far...

I don't know about others, but I personally don't like it when people post too much. One a day is great - let people chew it over, comment, argue, etc. If you're doing like one an hour or more, they'd better be awesome or there's a pretty good chance of an unfollow. You have been warned.

My son, after taking AP US history, “Mom, we need another FDR. We need a liberal who’s not afraid to be a bully.”

On Patrick O'Brian's birthday celebrating the long trip audio book goat.

Very disappointed that my city council member, Hugo Soto-Martinez, voted against this.

It's the Bach and pears time of the year again

Krugman was never perfect, but he was fairly progressive when many other public economists were not. He was also a good gateway to better thinkers. Best of luck to him.

Every time that I go back to check on X it's worse and worse. Bluesky is like a progressive Galt's Gulch.

in hindsight the NYT anti-trans crusade is one of the most despicable things that any big time journalism outfit in this country has ever done. a perfect and clearly intentional layup for the fascists on the Supreme Court