Luke

watching my own country collapse in real time is making it difficult to beat the insomnia tonight

You always have to remember that the New York Times lost board members over their connections to Epstein. They DO NOT want to cover it fully or investigate, they want it to go away.

If you encounter ICE, here's what every New Yorker should know.

Another adjacent @jdcmedlock.bsky.social essential hit

observation: gigantic illegal medical bills are not generally paperwork errors, they are part of the quasi-criminal extortion process by which every part of the healthcare system operates. they take people for what they think they can get

I accept your apology. I wish it had come sooner before an army of randos demanded proof of my all too common experience. It has been an overwhelming 24 hours defending/explaining myself. And my original point still stands about not being so kneejerk combative with everyone who disagrees with you.

really pisses me off that if this weirdo just dropped out we would probably be favored to flip Montana

Abolish ICE. Nuremburg trials in 2029. Give the people rough justice.

Some folks at the Bulwark do great work, but if you subscribe be aware your money is going to people who actively want the Michigan Senate nominee to lose

Guys like this should be expelled from the party.

yeah, the reason republicans are just not going to budge from texas is the reason why armies try not to abandon their capitals. it isn’t necessarily a strategic defeat to lose the seat of power, but it is a profound blow to morale.

i’m not usually an hour long YT history guy (i’d rather read a book or a longform article) but this video really is excellent for contextualizing who, exactly, the Iran War is really for

Every French presidential poll LADY HITLER - 35% JEAN D'AUSTÉRITÉ - 18% CHUD COMMUNISTE - 17%

it’s not 2018 and no one is obligated to pretend a bunch of chud conservatives are principled anti-Trump voices. The current collapse of America is the natural product of their ideology, not an aberration. Unsubscribe!

this is simply damning. a lot of it has been reported previously to some extent, but seeing it all pieced together like this is just horrifying. do not look away

Woodrow Wilson was like, slightly more racist than average for his time. Trump 2 is Klan-posting in a country whose most popular recent president was black, shit is insane.

My answer to this will probably always be the same.

A billionaire dictator who'll lose everything if the opposition replaces him on Jan. 20, 2029 is stockpiling killer drones and high-powered rifles on towering monuments and ballroom roofs I'm sure it's nothing to worry about

the replies to this post are truly incredible. People justifying the mass murder of semi-prosperous local peasants (kulaks) in the Year of Our Lord 2026

I’m up at 6:45am arguing with Stalinists because my broken-ass spine hurts far too much for me to sleep. Not quite living my best life out here

I regret to inform you they already are and have been for about two hours lol

Poor Khruschev gets so much flak from leftists to this day for being the only Soviet leader to realize this! Aside from Lenin, of course, who pre emptively condemned Stalin but we’re not allowed to talk about that

Mao and Stalin did more than any two people in modern history to discredit the desperately necessary socialist polices we are fighting so hard to enact. Leftists who defend them are defending their own marginalization! Cut it out!

The idea of an antiwoke Taylor Lorenz is so hilarious given how “Woke 1” she is about masking…in 2026

If anything, he might be closest to, like, Zhu Yuanzhang, a Great Man of History who was also absolutely a dogshit person. Then again his policies were, by the standards of a 14th century emperor, not all that bad.

I think he was pretty clearly a lot worse than most of those. He's closest to Stalin imo, a Great Man of History who was also unambiguously a monster both personally and in his policies, which were broadly disastrously bad even if outweighed by the overwhelming fact of "no more civil war"

It’s striking how almost everybody who actually makes a living as an influencer now seems to be completely miserable + on the point of total breakdown from having to churn out content essentially every waking hour (as that’s what the algo requires). Living like that is inhuman.

Unfortunately, at least in my field, we've reached a point where your academic patron cannot get you a job but they *can* blackball you in the field. Which is the worst of all possible worlds when it comes to abusive advisors.

Funny that leftists claim to hate elderly politicians but they don't have that same energy when the old guy is relatively good and the younger guy fucking sucks so bad.

Basically any rando person off the street can get ~40% of the vote in a primary against a geriatric Dem incumbent in this political environment and Seth Moulton is probably going to get like 30% of the vote max 💀💀

contradiction in terms

Yell at me for being a doomer but I mean, of course they're falling for the Piker thing. Of course they're going to fall for the next thing. Of course they're going to be scared off of any major reforms or accountability. The media hasn't changed, Dem leadership hasn't changed, it's all the same!

"Bessent will either caper for the degenerate emperor’s amusement, or he will be replaced by an even dumber groveling sycophant." prospect.org/2026/08/24/s...

Anecdotally down here in Florida, I will say the Trump signs have come down everywhere, and they were omnipresent even in 2025. Angie Nixon could do this. We could have Gator Socialism.

wait a minute, natalie harp is 35? weird. could have sworn i'd seen her before

pretty incredible to see Angie Nixon topple that hollow man Vindman down here in FL. Chud country. Things are changing!

hey do you think running tv ads in primaries is important?

i heard the newest Minions movie is set to introduce Haley Stevens if she loses tonight. vote Abdul if you love The Minions

The Democratic Party shouldn't be afraid to experiment, and the DSA is happy to try new things. That's good, that's something it should embrace.