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People like Matt Yglesias treat the militarized border as an unchangeable reality and an automatic political loser when in reality it is an incredibly recent lurch to the right whose consequences are now in full view of the citizenry.

Ditch-digging is pleasanter work than full-time job searching & almost definitionally pays better

it's kinda funny the two-fold gap between: 1. people should probably job search more (and we should provide more support to overcome labor market frictions) 2. the amount of job search people want other people to be doing is totally insane

There's this concept that unemployed people should "treat looking for a job like it's full time work" that doesn't really survive first contact with the *actual* labor market. There are very quickly diminishing returns to looking for work.

peoples sympathy for "the poor" is always man in hard hat and not like... homeless queer 16-22 year old, venezuelan migrant laborer, guatemalan mayan lady washing dishes, filipino lady taking care of old people in a hospital, indian sysadmin...

"Run high profile viable campaigns around socialist policies that excite people" being a jackpot strategy is one of the most screamingly obvious lessons that we can learn from the last century bsky.app/profile/vict...

the thing to focus on is how few democrats are actually doing it. the vast majority of democrats running this fall are not cutting bigot ads, which is good because it means we can crush these people in the future

If Democrats actually win big because people want a check on Trump corruption I expect every move to do so will be covered in the corporate media as being risky to their 2028 position.

Given the shift in media ownership over the Trump era, Democrats REALLY need to learn to ignore media handwringing now. Because I have no doubt their every move for accountability will be attacked from every possible angle.

Tonight's #HalloweenRecs isn't one movie, it's five! That's right we're talking Creepshow One of the best horror anthologies ever, this movie by Stephen King and George Romero is a salute to old EC horror comics and it captures the tone of them perfectly (TW for bugs though, lots and lots of bugs)

Briff showing off his championship belt at London mcm

told yall this is where the recent "strengthening IP" conversations were gonna go

Skydance coming for one of the few things I still enjoy (deeply romantic depictions of Roadrunner and Coyote)

"This is about regulating against illegal content, it's not about regulating sexual kinks," Baroness Bertin told Sky News. Um, when the British government declares certain consensual sexual behavior between adults "illegal," that is pretty much the definition of regulating sexual kinks.

This is the issue when the government tries to regulate consensual sexuality between adults. The more legislators move away from relatively bright, easily demonstrable, lines (consent, age), the more likely you end up with porno copypasta that can be interpreted broadly and enforced arbitrarily.

Disgraced "anti-sex trafficking" org Operation Underground Railroad — now Our Rescue — is shifting to deportations. It won a $158M contract to provide legal services to migrant minors, despite little experience and clear ICE ties. Advocates say it could help facilitate trafficking.

Operation Underground Railroad founder Tim Ballard left the org after women filed claims accusing him of sexual assault and grooming — and sex trafficking — during his years-long campaign to "rescue" victims of alleged sex trafficking.

Hey! You! Do you live in Washington, Texas, California, New Jersey, or Wisconsin? Your rep may be a fucking shitstain scumbag DCCC chair or vice chair! You should go yell at em!

Debanking — when financial institutions close the accounts of those flagged as problematic, including at the behest of the government – appears to be growing. @reitman.bsky.social reflects on the use of debanking, from Wikileaks to the Southern Poverty Law Center to the NRA. kpfa.org/episode/agai...

Preach. 🙌 What’s shocking to me is how many people who want to get rid of 230 actually just have no idea how it works.

I think Dolly would rather you fix the school funding formula so that our public schools can afford to teach kids to read, actually

there is an urgent need to break beyond repair the ideological avarice that allows a billionaire to do this. it must become socially unacceptable, anathema to national self-consciousness

proud as hell to earn this endorsement again 🌹 i am member of DSA because i believe it is possible and necessary to change our politics through mass organization. what do we want? well, here’s the worker’s deserve more program program.dsausa.org help us build it act.dsausa.org/donate/membe...

I'm a big supporter of accountability & I really want Dems to pursue it, but I just want everyone -- pols & ordinary Dem voters -- to be prepared for the scale of the pushback against it. It's going to be immense. It will take intense focus & commitment to really follow through on it.

I hope Democrats are ready to blow up the system with campaign finance and transparency reforms. Trust is already at an all-time low. We don't get out of this mess without rebuilding trust.

Commander biting a bunch of Secret Service guys after Jan 6th made him the only member of the administration to take Jan 6th as seriously as it deserved. They didnt even clean out all the INSANELY sketchy Secret Service guys WHO WIPED THEIR TEXTS FROM THAT DAY AFTER A JUDGE TOLD THEM TO SAVE THEM

It's impossible to overstate how twisted and evil those Texas mailers are; this is one of at least a dozen reasons. There are no depths to which the GOP will not sink, and they must be resoundingly defeated everywhere we can manage.

Tumor Necrosis Factor is a rail-shooter kinda thing like your old lightgun games and looks... awesome!

“Star Wolf: Introducing Andrew” originally posted on my Patreon: www.patreon.com/omny87/posts... The Star Wolf gang meet their newest recruit.

still a few days until my first pay, and about a week until the second when it can go to food and necessities past bills (assuming my first ones enough to cover car fees) i appreciate those of you that have helped and shared 💜 pretty work pic from yesterday cashapp: $nekosophia ko-fi.com/holyneko

Hey, so the test results came back, and it turns out you have a severe deficiency of the indefinable essence that gives people value. Yeah, no, MATERIALLY you're a fully realised person with real hopes and dreams, but ONTOLOGICALLY you have roughly the same moral worth as a moderately clever gerbil.