ivysorta
@ivysorta.bsky.social
leftist, not anti-liberal
trans, not transpessimist
Jewish, post-zionist and anti-ethnonationalism
Cynicism poses as rebellion while upholding the status quo.
trans, not transpessimist
Jewish, post-zionist and anti-ethnonationalism
Cynicism poses as rebellion while upholding the status quo.
Reposted by ivysorta
Just 2 haters becoming waiters at the table of socialism's success
December 5, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Just 2 haters becoming waiters at the table of socialism's success
Reposted by ivysorta
the democratic response to this must be, in the words of @dennycarter.bsky.social, to go goblin mode on redistricting in the states where they have a trifecta. eliminate every republican district in those states.
This isn't a Supreme Court, it's just six Republican operatives imposing law on the rest of us in order to help Trump and MAGA destroy the Constitution and impose authoritarian rule.
BREAKING: Supreme Court sides with Texas Republicans in fight over congressional map. The new gerrymandered map will be used in the 2026 midterms. The vote is 6–3, with the Republican appointees siding with Texas.
December 4, 2025 at 11:25 PM
the democratic response to this must be, in the words of @dennycarter.bsky.social, to go goblin mode on redistricting in the states where they have a trifecta. eliminate every republican district in those states.
Reposted by ivysorta
Yeah this is absolutely not how I would phrase a question about Platner if I wanted to get an accurate answer about how an informed population would vote for him
December 3, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Yeah this is absolutely not how I would phrase a question about Platner if I wanted to get an accurate answer about how an informed population would vote for him
Reposted by ivysorta
a) run candidates in every damned district.
b) districts that were Trump +25 are meaningfully in play and they won't be able to fight for all of them all at once.
c) they're diluting their OWN districts b/c of gerrymandering.
d) being aggressively liberal is not a downside even in R+25 districts.
b) districts that were Trump +25 are meaningfully in play and they won't be able to fight for all of them all at once.
c) they're diluting their OWN districts b/c of gerrymandering.
d) being aggressively liberal is not a downside even in R+25 districts.
December 3, 2025 at 2:21 AM
a) run candidates in every damned district.
b) districts that were Trump +25 are meaningfully in play and they won't be able to fight for all of them all at once.
c) they're diluting their OWN districts b/c of gerrymandering.
d) being aggressively liberal is not a downside even in R+25 districts.
b) districts that were Trump +25 are meaningfully in play and they won't be able to fight for all of them all at once.
c) they're diluting their OWN districts b/c of gerrymandering.
d) being aggressively liberal is not a downside even in R+25 districts.
Reposted by ivysorta
If you are a state legislator, city council member, doctor, or scientist in an R+20 or better district and for some reason you want to be in Congress, you should probably start making calls tomorrow to form an exploratory committee.
December 3, 2025 at 2:48 AM
If you are a state legislator, city council member, doctor, or scientist in an R+20 or better district and for some reason you want to be in Congress, you should probably start making calls tomorrow to form an exploratory committee.
Reposted by ivysorta
the thing is - and i know in my heart that this is WHY they say shit like this - i can feel my OWN moral fibre fraying as a consequence of having read this. some part of me is off in its own private domain imagining Kelly encountering Hell the way a sentence encounters an exclamation point
Megyn Kelly on alleged war crimes: "I really do kind of not only wanna see them killed in the water, whether they're on the boat or in the water, but I'd really like to see them suffer. I would like Trump and Hegseth to make it last a long time so they lose a limb and bleed out."
December 2, 2025 at 5:39 PM
the thing is - and i know in my heart that this is WHY they say shit like this - i can feel my OWN moral fibre fraying as a consequence of having read this. some part of me is off in its own private domain imagining Kelly encountering Hell the way a sentence encounters an exclamation point
Reposted by ivysorta
I cannot apologize to the college feminists on my campus in undergrad enough. They were clearly the real materialists and I was LARPing. It really is gender all the way down.
lol it's just "big truck big".
*TRUMP TO ANNOUNCE PROPOSED ROLLBACK IN AUTO FUEL ECONOMY RULES
*TRUMP FUEL-ECONOMY ANNOUNCEMENT EXPECTED WED. AT WHITE HOUSE
*WHITE HOUSE MEETING TO INCLUDE EXECUTIVES FROM GM, FORD
*TRUMP TO ANNOUNCE PROPOSED ROLLBACK IN AUTO FUEL ECONOMY RULES
*TRUMP FUEL-ECONOMY ANNOUNCEMENT EXPECTED WED. AT WHITE HOUSE
*WHITE HOUSE MEETING TO INCLUDE EXECUTIVES FROM GM, FORD
Trump to address White House at 2:00 pm ET Tuesday
December 2, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I cannot apologize to the college feminists on my campus in undergrad enough. They were clearly the real materialists and I was LARPing. It really is gender all the way down.
Reposted by ivysorta
fuck it, for the people in the back:
the jeff bezos owned washington post is the outlet responsible for making sure the primary complaint about AI was water. this may have been in part because jeff knew it was bullshit, so when amzn gets blowback they can easily prove their water footprint is small
the jeff bezos owned washington post is the outlet responsible for making sure the primary complaint about AI was water. this may have been in part because jeff knew it was bullshit, so when amzn gets blowback they can easily prove their water footprint is small
not to be conspiratorial but the outlet that successfully pushed this line and made it the primary complaint was wapo
December 1, 2025 at 1:44 AM
fuck it, for the people in the back:
the jeff bezos owned washington post is the outlet responsible for making sure the primary complaint about AI was water. this may have been in part because jeff knew it was bullshit, so when amzn gets blowback they can easily prove their water footprint is small
the jeff bezos owned washington post is the outlet responsible for making sure the primary complaint about AI was water. this may have been in part because jeff knew it was bullshit, so when amzn gets blowback they can easily prove their water footprint is small
Reposted by ivysorta
nobody with good intentions will validate your fears infinitely. if that's what you fundamentally crave you're basically lost
December 1, 2025 at 6:14 PM
nobody with good intentions will validate your fears infinitely. if that's what you fundamentally crave you're basically lost
Reposted by ivysorta
"That's Numberwang!"
November 28, 2025 at 9:19 PM
"That's Numberwang!"
Reposted by ivysorta
They believe that Trump will use the formal powers of the government and whatever informal powers he may have to extract costs from them if they do not play ball and they equally believe that the anti-Trump coalition will not extract these costs.
So we need to extract those costs.
So we need to extract those costs.
given how unpopular Trump is, it’s insane that civil society/universities/law firms are still asking themselves “how do I stay on Trump’s good side” rather than “how do I avoid facing consequences for complying with Trump’s illegal demands”
New Gallup poll shows Trump's approval hit a new low for his second term:
-36% approve
-60% disapprove
His approval among Republicans went from 91% in January to 84% in November
news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
-36% approve
-60% disapprove
His approval among Republicans went from 91% in January to 84% in November
news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
November 28, 2025 at 6:09 PM
They believe that Trump will use the formal powers of the government and whatever informal powers he may have to extract costs from them if they do not play ball and they equally believe that the anti-Trump coalition will not extract these costs.
So we need to extract those costs.
So we need to extract those costs.
Reposted by ivysorta
'Democrat' is not a species with DNA: it is an empty box into which any combination of politics may be poured, same as 'Republican.' Try to pour in something good and useful.
Perhaps this jumps out at me more clearly because I do not identify as a Democrat myself.
Perhaps this jumps out at me more clearly because I do not identify as a Democrat myself.
November 28, 2025 at 7:01 PM
'Democrat' is not a species with DNA: it is an empty box into which any combination of politics may be poured, same as 'Republican.' Try to pour in something good and useful.
Perhaps this jumps out at me more clearly because I do not identify as a Democrat myself.
Perhaps this jumps out at me more clearly because I do not identify as a Democrat myself.
Reposted by ivysorta
The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
November 28, 2025 at 1:40 PM
The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
Reposted by ivysorta
Reposted by ivysorta
I went through every proclamation once. The first to mention the Plymouth colony was JFK. Before the 1940s, the proclamations at most mentioned "an ancient tradition" of thanksgiving festivals.
The first time a Presidential Thanksgiving proclamation mentioned the Plymouth colony as being the source of Thanksgiving was JFK's 1962 proclamation. First mentions of the 'pilgrims' at all are by Truman, became a theme under Eisenhower.
November 27, 2025 at 6:50 PM
I went through every proclamation once. The first to mention the Plymouth colony was JFK. Before the 1940s, the proclamations at most mentioned "an ancient tradition" of thanksgiving festivals.
Reposted by ivysorta
Lincoln’s original proclamation of Thanksgiving Day from 1863 doesn’t really go into colonist-native relations, but it does recommend “humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience.” www.battlefields.org/learn/primar...
November 27, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Lincoln’s original proclamation of Thanksgiving Day from 1863 doesn’t really go into colonist-native relations, but it does recommend “humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience.” www.battlefields.org/learn/primar...
Reposted by ivysorta
It’s really funny how a generation will roll its eyes at parents who watch Fox News but doesn’t see why being immersed in Twitter is having the same effect. Lots of serious people show up on Fox News too but that shouldn’t be your primary source on the news.
November 27, 2025 at 9:52 AM
It’s really funny how a generation will roll its eyes at parents who watch Fox News but doesn’t see why being immersed in Twitter is having the same effect. Lots of serious people show up on Fox News too but that shouldn’t be your primary source on the news.
Reposted by ivysorta
this applies to both Yglesias-cluster centrist weirdos who insist that you can just dangle money in front of the rubes and it'll Work, AND to the people very concerned about being the correct kind of communist on the internet, in almost the exact same ways
November 27, 2025 at 6:44 PM
this applies to both Yglesias-cluster centrist weirdos who insist that you can just dangle money in front of the rubes and it'll Work, AND to the people very concerned about being the correct kind of communist on the internet, in almost the exact same ways
Reposted by ivysorta
"welcome to Bluesky, the site where we all pretend that our political views are based on what's best for poor people, a category of people we reason about from first principles"
November 26, 2025 at 5:10 PM
"welcome to Bluesky, the site where we all pretend that our political views are based on what's best for poor people, a category of people we reason about from first principles"
Reposted by ivysorta
oh my god that stupid "$100k is the new poverty line" slop got published and i'm sure you can guess where
November 26, 2025 at 5:15 PM
oh my god that stupid "$100k is the new poverty line" slop got published and i'm sure you can guess where
Reposted by ivysorta
go support liberal currents, seeing new media rise from their decline makes the nyt and atlantic very sad
November 26, 2025 at 8:05 PM
go support liberal currents, seeing new media rise from their decline makes the nyt and atlantic very sad
Reposted by ivysorta
Reposted by ivysorta
Reposted by ivysorta
This is the type of hater energy that will fuel us in the years ahead.
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:42 PM
This is the type of hater energy that will fuel us in the years ahead.
Reposted by ivysorta
To be blunt, most people's lesson from "listen to marginalized voices" was "find the first person who claims to be marginalized and agrees with my priors and use it as a permission structure to call the ones who disagree with me uncle toms"
I genuinely do not think it is possible for non marginalized people to uplift marginalized voices at least through something as crude as social media shares. I Basically never see someone share a marginalized perspective they disagree with, so then all you are doing is amplifying your own view.
But people like MRO are doing the whole "Listen 👏 to 👏 Palestinians" and presenting their most deranged poasters, kinda like the weird Hasbarah accounts who do the same thing with Jews, and the Jewish Voice you should Listen to ends up being Meir freaking Kahane ימ"ש
November 25, 2025 at 10:27 PM
To be blunt, most people's lesson from "listen to marginalized voices" was "find the first person who claims to be marginalized and agrees with my priors and use it as a permission structure to call the ones who disagree with me uncle toms"