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Online leftism is a powerful system of self-surveillance that effectively captures & counters righteous anger. People who want to fight fascism have to actually fight it & not be consumed by timeline wars, leftist influencer rage bait & manipulation by outside forces, warns @williamcson.bsky.social.
Another way out: Those who won't fight power will fight each other
People who want to fight fascism have to actually fight it and not be consumed by timeline wars and leftist influencer rage bait
prismreports.org
September 16, 2026 at 7:14 PM
Online leftism is a powerful system of self-surveillance that effectively captures & counters righteous anger. People who want to fight fascism have to actually fight it & not be consumed by timeline wars, leftist influencer rage bait & manipulation by outside forces, warns @williamcson.bsky.social.
Anyway, I can't recommend reading Omar El Akkad's "One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This" enough. We're getting closer to that one day: penguinbookshop.com/book/9780593...
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This: National Book Award
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad comes a powerful reckoning with what it means to live in a West that betrays its funda...
penguinbookshop.com
September 15, 2026 at 10:21 PM
Anyway, I can't recommend reading Omar El Akkad's "One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This" enough. We're getting closer to that one day: penguinbookshop.com/book/9780593...
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wow. with this announcement, all of ed sheeran's openers for this tour have pulled out:
Lukas Graham, another support act on Ed Sheeran’s tour, also now withdrawing from the tour.
September 15, 2026 at 8:17 PM
wow. with this announcement, all of ed sheeran's openers for this tour have pulled out:
Having to blast Thrift Shop was not how I wanted to spend 2026 yet here we are
goddammit i am so mad about having to hand it to macklemore
September 15, 2026 at 12:20 AM
Having to blast Thrift Shop was not how I wanted to spend 2026 yet here we are
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For people thinking, what's the big deal about the 4% cut in global oil production coming next week, that's the scale of the 1973 OPEC crisis and 1979 Iran war oil crisis. Each followed by a major recession.
Prices and supply are global. And global oil stocks are already gone. It's a calamity. 1/
Prices and supply are global. And global oil stocks are already gone. It's a calamity. 1/
September 14, 2026 at 1:14 AM
For people thinking, what's the big deal about the 4% cut in global oil production coming next week, that's the scale of the 1973 OPEC crisis and 1979 Iran war oil crisis. Each followed by a major recession.
Prices and supply are global. And global oil stocks are already gone. It's a calamity. 1/
Prices and supply are global. And global oil stocks are already gone. It's a calamity. 1/
Massive layoffs today at McClatchy's local newspapers in Lexington, Kentucky; Miami, Florida; Sacramento, California; Charlotte, North Carolina and more. Reactionary politics depend on an uninformed populace and here we are: www.lpm.org/news/2026-09...
McClatchy guts Lexington Herald-Leader newsroom, among nationwide layoffs
McClatchy laid off 13 journalists at the Lexington Herald-Leader, a majority of its reporters, as a part of its deep, nationwide layoffs.
www.lpm.org
September 10, 2026 at 9:15 PM
Massive layoffs today at McClatchy's local newspapers in Lexington, Kentucky; Miami, Florida; Sacramento, California; Charlotte, North Carolina and more. Reactionary politics depend on an uninformed populace and here we are: www.lpm.org/news/2026-09...
I mean. You didn't think they were going to stop at disenfranchising just Black people did you?
BREAKING: The Supreme Court has cleared the way for President Trump's executive order restricting mail-in voting ahead of midterms.
Supreme Court clears the way for Trump mail voting order in advance of midterms
The Supreme Court has cleared the way for President Donald Trump to move ahead on his executive order restricting mail-in voting, though it remains unclear how much his administration can implement before the fast-approaching midterm elections.
bit.ly
August 24, 2026 at 11:59 PM
I mean. You didn't think they were going to stop at disenfranchising just Black people did you?
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Join us for another round of our popular Green Density Tour on August 30th! This time we'll explore Bernal Heights ecology and talk about opportunities for further greening to create a safer, more welcoming environment for pedestrians and new neighbors. RSVP: actionnetwork.org/events/berna...
August 24, 2026 at 4:18 PM
Join us for another round of our popular Green Density Tour on August 30th! This time we'll explore Bernal Heights ecology and talk about opportunities for further greening to create a safer, more welcoming environment for pedestrians and new neighbors. RSVP: actionnetwork.org/events/berna...
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There’s a petition signed by more than one hundred academics (& counting!) in support of Nathan Cofnas—the racist who instigated the pile on that led to J. Arday’s death—because he lost his postdoc. Apparently there’s nothing a white man can do that deserves consequences.
forbetterscience.com
August 22, 2026 at 3:02 PM
There’s a petition signed by more than one hundred academics (& counting!) in support of Nathan Cofnas—the racist who instigated the pile on that led to J. Arday’s death—because he lost his postdoc. Apparently there’s nothing a white man can do that deserves consequences.
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ICE just spent $1.5 BILLION to purchase two massive prisons in California it was already using for detention, in an effort to avoid oversight from the state, which has been pressuring the private prison company that owned them. CoreCivic will continue operating the facilities.
July 6, 2026 at 9:06 PM
ICE just spent $1.5 BILLION to purchase two massive prisons in California it was already using for detention, in an effort to avoid oversight from the state, which has been pressuring the private prison company that owned them. CoreCivic will continue operating the facilities.
Pope Leo is a G and they're never going to let us have a Black American pope again
Everyone’s enjoying the excommunication drama but there are also lessons for pro-democracy political actors. Decades of accommodating and appeasing this sect did not work and only emboldened them. You have to go whole hog. When you have power, break the back of the reactionaries. Shut them out
OH MY GOD GUYS
okay so priests who want back in have to find a bishop willing to vouch for them, swear fealty to Vatican II and then HAND-WRITE THE POPE AN APOLOGY LETTER (I gues so he knows they didn’t use AI? 😂) and are on probation for 1-3 years
this is ten times spicier than I even thought
okay so priests who want back in have to find a bishop willing to vouch for them, swear fealty to Vatican II and then HAND-WRITE THE POPE AN APOLOGY LETTER (I gues so he knows they didn’t use AI? 😂) and are on probation for 1-3 years
this is ten times spicier than I even thought
July 3, 2026 at 7:24 PM
Pope Leo is a G and they're never going to let us have a Black American pope again
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In 1770 Crispus Attucks was the 1st martyr of the American Revolution. Son of an African father & Native American mother, he'd liberated himself from slavery & joined the multiracial ranks of northeastern mariners b4 sacrificing his life, as G.W. Williams put it, “on the altar of a people’s rights.”
July 2, 2026 at 2:01 PM
In 1770 Crispus Attucks was the 1st martyr of the American Revolution. Son of an African father & Native American mother, he'd liberated himself from slavery & joined the multiracial ranks of northeastern mariners b4 sacrificing his life, as G.W. Williams put it, “on the altar of a people’s rights.”
What it's like to work the polls ahead of America's embarrassing 250th birthday! cailles-newsletter.beehiiv.com/subscribe
July 2, 2026 at 7:59 PM
What it's like to work the polls ahead of America's embarrassing 250th birthday! cailles-newsletter.beehiiv.com/subscribe
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Today I learned influential photographer August Sander had a son, Erich, who was a socialist & activist imprisoned for high treason by the Nazis. Erich Sander smuggled a camera into prison where he took photos like this one of French Resistance member Marcel Ancelin weristwalter.eu/project/port...
July 2, 2026 at 2:53 PM
Today I learned influential photographer August Sander had a son, Erich, who was a socialist & activist imprisoned for high treason by the Nazis. Erich Sander smuggled a camera into prison where he took photos like this one of French Resistance member Marcel Ancelin weristwalter.eu/project/port...
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if you have feelings about SCOTUS after today, and after the last week, and after the last months and years,
remember that at least you can vote for state supreme courts in many places this year, and those matter a ton too
my state-by-state guide to every state supreme court contest:
remember that at least you can vote for state supreme courts in many places this year, and those matter a ton too
my state-by-state guide to every state supreme court contest:
Your State-by-State Guide to the 2026 Supreme Court Elections - Bolts
Abortion, redistricting, and ballot access remain heated issues as voters face dozens of supreme court races across 32 states this year.
boltsmag.org
July 1, 2026 at 12:42 AM
if you have feelings about SCOTUS after today, and after the last week, and after the last months and years,
remember that at least you can vote for state supreme courts in many places this year, and those matter a ton too
my state-by-state guide to every state supreme court contest:
remember that at least you can vote for state supreme courts in many places this year, and those matter a ton too
my state-by-state guide to every state supreme court contest:
I love you Danny and all of San Francisco does too
Legendary actor Danny Glover reveals in a Today exclusive interview that he has been living with Alzheimer’s disease for multiple years.
‘Things are going to be different’: Danny Glover reveals Alzheimer’s diagnosis
The 79-year-old “Lethal Weapon” star shared with Lester Holt that he was diagnosed with the progressive neurodegenerative disease a few years ago.
nbcnews.to
July 1, 2026 at 4:40 PM
I love you Danny and all of San Francisco does too
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The idea that people genuinely believe in things, let alone the moral imperative of a genocide, and that these beliefs ought to mechanically translate into real and observable action is entirely foreign for a disturbingly large subset of American leadership. Like it is an alien form of life.
If incumbents want to sneer at primary voters, they'll probably keep losing. Serious "No, it's the children who are wrong" energy here. www.axios.com/2026/07/01/m...
July 1, 2026 at 3:30 PM
The idea that people genuinely believe in things, let alone the moral imperative of a genocide, and that these beliefs ought to mechanically translate into real and observable action is entirely foreign for a disturbingly large subset of American leadership. Like it is an alien form of life.
Absolutely correct.
This is what the moderates got us.
June 30, 2026 at 4:42 PM
Absolutely correct.
Even moreso than he LIKES the Fed, Roberts acknowledges the importance of the Fed to his top interest group, which is corporate interests. Same with mail-in voting: It would hurt Republican voters most, and Roberts needs them. All "good" opinions from him are best for his preferred Americans.
Ugh. Supreme Court rules in Slaughter, 6-3 that Trump can fire people from the FTC.
But in Cook, Court rules 5-4 that Trump cannot fire everybody from the Fed.
Roberts writes both majority opinions
There's no real difference between the FTC and the FED other than Roberts likes the Fed.
But in Cook, Court rules 5-4 that Trump cannot fire everybody from the Fed.
Roberts writes both majority opinions
There's no real difference between the FTC and the FED other than Roberts likes the Fed.
June 29, 2026 at 3:53 PM
Even moreso than he LIKES the Fed, Roberts acknowledges the importance of the Fed to his top interest group, which is corporate interests. Same with mail-in voting: It would hurt Republican voters most, and Roberts needs them. All "good" opinions from him are best for his preferred Americans.
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None. Because wealth derives now entirely from predation, not production, so actual journalism inherently threatens it.
How isn't there one uber rich person who just wants to spend like $500M to run break-even local papers in a few places? Like, literally no rich people even believe in journalism at all anymore?
June 28, 2026 at 11:40 PM
None. Because wealth derives now entirely from predation, not production, so actual journalism inherently threatens it.
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Ivanka and Jared’s Island Resort Could Bring Down Albania’s Prime Minister
What began as a “flamingo revolution” to protest the $1.4 billion development on Sazan Island has spiraled into mass protests against a ruling party that thousands now want out. | WIRED
www.wired.com/story/ivanka...
What began as a “flamingo revolution” to protest the $1.4 billion development on Sazan Island has spiraled into mass protests against a ruling party that thousands now want out. | WIRED
www.wired.com/story/ivanka...
Ivanka and Jared’s Island Resort Could Bring Down Albania’s Prime Minister
What began as a “flamingo revolution” to protest the $1.4 billion development on Sazan Island has spiraled into mass protests against a ruling party that thousands now want out.
www.wired.com
June 26, 2026 at 4:06 PM
Ivanka and Jared’s Island Resort Could Bring Down Albania’s Prime Minister
What began as a “flamingo revolution” to protest the $1.4 billion development on Sazan Island has spiraled into mass protests against a ruling party that thousands now want out. | WIRED
www.wired.com/story/ivanka...
What began as a “flamingo revolution” to protest the $1.4 billion development on Sazan Island has spiraled into mass protests against a ruling party that thousands now want out. | WIRED
www.wired.com/story/ivanka...
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June 25, 2026 at 10:22 PM
Three Great Society-style Democratic wins in NYC AND we get rid of James Carville????? Best political night I can remember in decades!
‘I’m Done, I’m Not in That F*cking Political Party’: James Carville Freaks Out After Progressives Win Big in Democratic Primaries
‘I’m Done, I’m Not in That F*cking Political Party’: James Carville Freaks Out After Progressives Win Big in Democratic Primaries
Democratic strategist James Carville called for a "schism" in the Democratic Party, stating that he wants nothing to do with the likes of three candidates who won their Democratic primaries in New York.
The post ‘I’m Done, I’m Not in That F*cking Political Party’: James Carville Freaks Out After Progressives Win Big in Democratic Primaries first appeared on Mediaite.
dlvr.it
June 25, 2026 at 2:37 AM
Three Great Society-style Democratic wins in NYC AND we get rid of James Carville????? Best political night I can remember in decades!
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this is simply no longer a winning electoral strategy anywhere — not in PA, not in NYC, not in the USA, not on earth. the people of the planet are rejecting the us-israeli war machine. the only way this politics can survive in democracies is by subverting the will of voters and democracy itself.
Fetterman: “I'm going to continue to follow Israel through all of this and their interests and the kinds of security that they demand.”
June 24, 2026 at 3:24 PM
this is simply no longer a winning electoral strategy anywhere — not in PA, not in NYC, not in the USA, not on earth. the people of the planet are rejecting the us-israeli war machine. the only way this politics can survive in democracies is by subverting the will of voters and democracy itself.