@radicalrealism.bsky.social
To continue winning, DEMs should also talk about the rampant corruption of the Trump regime & the GOP, a/w/a the general derogation of the rule of law to political whim, i.e., denying due process in enforcing immigration & the extra-judicial murder of or war crimes against Venezuelans in intn'l H2OS
Jesus, just stop. Democrats are winning now.
And if some voters feel this way about Democrats, a major reason is that THE FUCKING CONSULTANTS KEEP SAYING THE PARTY IS TOO LIBERAL AND OUT OF TOUCH. They incessantly reinforce the stereotype.
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And if some voters feel this way about Democrats, a major reason is that THE FUCKING CONSULTANTS KEEP SAYING THE PARTY IS TOO LIBERAL AND OUT OF TOUCH. They incessantly reinforce the stereotype.
washingtonmonthly.com/2025/12/10/t...
Tough Medicine for Democrats: “Too Liberal” and “Out of Touch”
Democrats are riding high after special elections, but that doesn’t mean they’re popular. Strategist Simon Bazelon has advice on what to fix.
washingtonmonthly.com
December 10, 2025 at 6:27 PM
To continue winning, DEMs should also talk about the rampant corruption of the Trump regime & the GOP, a/w/a the general derogation of the rule of law to political whim, i.e., denying due process in enforcing immigration & the extra-judicial murder of or war crimes against Venezuelans in intn'l H2OS
The more people cede agency & autonomy to automation, algorithms, AI, & authority figures, the fewer corporeal & intellectual skills & abilities they cultivate, & the flatter their sphere of experiences becomes.
Pay for the kids to get comic making lessons!
Hire some comic artists and writers to come teach the kids!
I took a paneling class in college that changed my art forever, helping me storyboard better.
This will just stunt growth. It's an illusion pf opportunity.
Hire some comic artists and writers to come teach the kids!
I took a paneling class in college that changed my art forever, helping me storyboard better.
This will just stunt growth. It's an illusion pf opportunity.
Activist and former quarterback Colin Kaepernick visited Largo High School to launch an AI tool designed to help students create their own graphic novels.
December 10, 2025 at 5:30 PM
The more people cede agency & autonomy to automation, algorithms, AI, & authority figures, the fewer corporeal & intellectual skills & abilities they cultivate, & the flatter their sphere of experiences becomes.
Every DEM/DNC official should be talking about the rampant corruption of the Trump regime at every opportunity. Talk about the types--the acquisition of money or power--& the modes--quid pro quos, patronage, influence peddling, favorable & no-bid contracts, etc.--& unscrupulous means--opaqueness.
I would like you to, once again, observe how U.S. journalists are pathologically compelled to pretend we have a working regulatory accountability system that hasn't been completely hijacked by rampant corruption and corporate power
Reuters:
Reuters:
December 10, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Every DEM/DNC official should be talking about the rampant corruption of the Trump regime at every opportunity. Talk about the types--the acquisition of money or power--& the modes--quid pro quos, patronage, influence peddling, favorable & no-bid contracts, etc.--& unscrupulous means--opaqueness.
America is a religion only for a segment of the pop who don't question the convention of eschewing, rejecting & proscribing the application of reason--no matter how flawlessly logical--except when used to justify or rationalize obedience to religious, patriotic, et al, authority.
all a bit esoteric and it's not exactly a messaging winner, but: america is a religion, and a proselytizing one. that's what being a creedal nation means. come to america, endorse the principles of the declaration and the constitution: congrats, you are an american.
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December 6, 2025 at 7:33 PM
America is a religion only for a segment of the pop who don't question the convention of eschewing, rejecting & proscribing the application of reason--no matter how flawlessly logical--except when used to justify or rationalize obedience to religious, patriotic, et al, authority.
Every U.S. middle-school boy has had this thought. That's how original & profound it is.
Trump: "When you look at football in the US, soccer -- we seem to never call it that, because we have a little bit of a conflict with another thing that's called football. But when you think about it, shouldn't it really be called football? We have to come up with another name for the NFL stuff."
December 5, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Every U.S. middle-school boy has had this thought. That's how original & profound it is.
Whether or not these actually were drug traffickers, framing their activity as a "fight" is in character for Tom Cotton, cowardly & disingenuous.
December 4, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Whether or not these actually were drug traffickers, framing their activity as a "fight" is in character for Tom Cotton, cowardly & disingenuous.
Hey DNC & DEMs,
If you are still frittering away the hours trying to devise a powerful slogan to compete w/ MAGA, how about:
Make Corruption Illegal Again!
If you are still frittering away the hours trying to devise a powerful slogan to compete w/ MAGA, how about:
Make Corruption Illegal Again!
Trump announces a pardon of Henry Cuellar: "I am hereby announcing my full and unconditional PARDON of beloved Texas Congressman Henry Cuellar, and Imelda. Henry, I don’t know you, but you can sleep well tonight — Your nightmare is finally over!"
December 3, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Hey DNC & DEMs,
If you are still frittering away the hours trying to devise a powerful slogan to compete w/ MAGA, how about:
Make Corruption Illegal Again!
If you are still frittering away the hours trying to devise a powerful slogan to compete w/ MAGA, how about:
Make Corruption Illegal Again!
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Federal Government Announces Racial Profiling Campaign, Explains It’s Because of the President’s Personal Bigotry
Officials prepare immigration operation in Minnesota that would focus on Somali immigrants, source tells AP, as Trump says he doesn't want Somalis in U.S.
Federal authorities plan operation in Minnesota focusing on Somali immigrants, AP source says
Federal authorities are preparing an immigration enforcement operation in Minnesota, focusing on Somali immigrants living unlawfully in the U.S.
bit.ly
December 2, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Federal Government Announces Racial Profiling Campaign, Explains It’s Because of the President’s Personal Bigotry
Both corrupxn & the N. American--esp U.S.--desire for convenience are cultural artifacts of a society born of the ideas of the enlightenment but now succumbing to the ethos of a capitalist system wch generates less income from producxn than from commodities, finance, rent/use & bills of goods.
December 2, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Both corrupxn & the N. American--esp U.S.--desire for convenience are cultural artifacts of a society born of the ideas of the enlightenment but now succumbing to the ethos of a capitalist system wch generates less income from producxn than from commodities, finance, rent/use & bills of goods.
In this case it's diff to tell whthr the poster who yelled at Newsom was being self-aggrandizing, or expressing moral outrage. Mallow, who assumed self-aggrandizement was the motivation, is the cynic. Nnthlss, ambiguity, cynicism, self-aggrandizement & moral outrage are all problematic/limiting.
i quite vocally don't like the guy either but maybe don't do this when he's showing signs of bending in a direction we want. that's something you want. for cynical "i like having cultural influence" reasons of your own more than anything
December 1, 2025 at 6:47 PM
In this case it's diff to tell whthr the poster who yelled at Newsom was being self-aggrandizing, or expressing moral outrage. Mallow, who assumed self-aggrandizement was the motivation, is the cynic. Nnthlss, ambiguity, cynicism, self-aggrandizement & moral outrage are all problematic/limiting.
Why do we uncritically accept that "culture wars" or any combative orientation are the best, or only way, of political praxis? Just bc someone frames politics as battle, doesn't mean that other strategies, eg., solidarity, shouldn't be pursued.
it's also worth noting that Hanania and Moldbug and Dreyer and those types all huddled and licked their wounds and hand conversations like this about what they'd done wrong in the earlier phases of the culture wars where we beat them, and then they came back. It's not weakness to admit fault.
December 1, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Why do we uncritically accept that "culture wars" or any combative orientation are the best, or only way, of political praxis? Just bc someone frames politics as battle, doesn't mean that other strategies, eg., solidarity, shouldn't be pursued.
She's asserting, w/o Const'ly or legislatively granted authority, that she has the power to unilaterally decide wch judicial "orders . . . are lawful and binding," rather than deferring to the rule of law, & abiding judicial processes & due process. Historically, she'll be known as a petite tyrant.
KARL: Did you know about the judge's order when you issued your order for the planes to continue?
KRISTI NOEM: This is an activist judge. We comply with all federal orders that are lawful and binding.
KRISTI NOEM: This is an activist judge. We comply with all federal orders that are lawful and binding.
November 30, 2025 at 6:48 PM
She's asserting, w/o Const'ly or legislatively granted authority, that she has the power to unilaterally decide wch judicial "orders . . . are lawful and binding," rather than deferring to the rule of law, & abiding judicial processes & due process. Historically, she'll be known as a petite tyrant.
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Marco Rubio knew the truth 9 years ago, but he sold his soul for power. Yet he was correct: He will one day have to explain his support for Trump, and this is not going to end well.
November 29, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Marco Rubio knew the truth 9 years ago, but he sold his soul for power. Yet he was correct: He will one day have to explain his support for Trump, and this is not going to end well.
She's not there to make a credible argument, bc there is no practical, legal or moral justification for bombing boats--even if they had credible evidence the boats contained drugs destined for the U.S.--1,000s of miles from the U.S. She's there to sell fear-based outrage & be combative.
Stephen Miller’s Wife @katiemiller : “Can you cite the statute that makes the boat bombings illegal?”
@bakarisellers.bsky.social : “The due process
clause in the constitution.”
@bakarisellers.bsky.social : “The due process
clause in the constitution.”
November 29, 2025 at 6:16 PM
She's not there to make a credible argument, bc there is no practical, legal or moral justification for bombing boats--even if they had credible evidence the boats contained drugs destined for the U.S.--1,000s of miles from the U.S. She's there to sell fear-based outrage & be combative.
Trump/GOP/Cons' authority & power wrests on simultaneously representing themselves as victims & vanquishers--a mendacious rhetorical fantasy wch bcms ever more evidently paradoxical as Trump, et al, bully gov't, public--NGO's--& private institutions, & ppl.
November 26, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Trump/GOP/Cons' authority & power wrests on simultaneously representing themselves as victims & vanquishers--a mendacious rhetorical fantasy wch bcms ever more evidently paradoxical as Trump, et al, bully gov't, public--NGO's--& private institutions, & ppl.
Our sys isn't really "designed toward self-destruction". It was designed to protect/promote elite power/interests, w/ safeguards that are impotent agnst shameless & arrogant ambition, wch escalate thru a pos fdbck loop. Self-destrucxn, of that sys, & thereby of elites, is the unintended consequence.
Just a reminder that we could be living in an America in which Trump and his fellow conspirators are spending the rest of their lives in prison if we had serious politicians and a system that wasn’t hellbent on and designed toward self-destruction.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...
Bolsonaro to Start Serving 27-Year Sentence Over Coup Plot
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Our sys isn't really "designed toward self-destruction". It was designed to protect/promote elite power/interests, w/ safeguards that are impotent agnst shameless & arrogant ambition, wch escalate thru a pos fdbck loop. Self-destrucxn, of that sys, & thereby of elites, is the unintended consequence.
If this man is not running for office, I respectfully request that he consider doing so! Rarely does anyone hit so hard with factual details & contextualizing truths. Most resort to mere rhetoric to hit so hard, but rhetoric can offend those who are most uninformed, so it fails it's mission.
November 24, 2025 at 5:22 PM
If this man is not running for office, I respectfully request that he consider doing so! Rarely does anyone hit so hard with factual details & contextualizing truths. Most resort to mere rhetoric to hit so hard, but rhetoric can offend those who are most uninformed, so it fails it's mission.
This is a brilliantly peremptory, yet eminently humane way to defend against bigotry & simultaneously give an individual the opportunity to grow by amending their personal bias.
Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…
November 22, 2025 at 5:53 PM
This is a brilliantly peremptory, yet eminently humane way to defend against bigotry & simultaneously give an individual the opportunity to grow by amending their personal bias.
It's imperative to avoid conflating vulnerability & weakness. Trump is vulnerable, but as long as he holds office he's not weak. In fact, the more vulnerable he is/feels, the more dangerous he becomes by virtue of the power--both formal to command, & rhetorical, to persuade--he wields over ppl.
November 20, 2025 at 7:20 PM
It's imperative to avoid conflating vulnerability & weakness. Trump is vulnerable, but as long as he holds office he's not weak. In fact, the more vulnerable he is/feels, the more dangerous he becomes by virtue of the power--both formal to command, & rhetorical, to persuade--he wields over ppl.
Trump & the GOP's #OneBigBombasticLie is bad for anyone outside the top 10% income &/or wealth bracket. It's just a matter of time before the harm will be experienced. Some are delayed a year or 2, like the lower tax bracket cuts wch expire in 1 - 2 yrs while the upper bracket cuts last.
Trump and Republicans’ “One Big Beautiful Law” will kick 15 million people off their health insurance.
This is bad news for EVERYONE.
This is bad news for EVERYONE.
November 19, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Trump & the GOP's #OneBigBombasticLie is bad for anyone outside the top 10% income &/or wealth bracket. It's just a matter of time before the harm will be experienced. Some are delayed a year or 2, like the lower tax bracket cuts wch expire in 1 - 2 yrs while the upper bracket cuts last.
No matter how paltry the data, how specious the premise, or that their "theory" is devoid of causality, if the Right can play aggrieved victim rather than contextualize data, analyze premises, or admit their theory is spurious, they will build a grievance narrative. Any credulous cohort will do.
The “canceled people” database listing victims of cancel culture, which includes oft-repeated cases such as Bret Weinstein (Evergreen State College) and James Damore (Google), has a little over 200 entries across 18 years.
canceledpeople.org
canceledpeople.org
New: Reuters has tallied job losses, suspensions and investigations stemming from the reaction to Charlie Kirk's Sept. 10 assassination. Its findings: More than 600 Americans have been punished, and the figure is likely to be an under-count.
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November 19, 2025 at 4:35 PM
No matter how paltry the data, how specious the premise, or that their "theory" is devoid of causality, if the Right can play aggrieved victim rather than contextualize data, analyze premises, or admit their theory is spurious, they will build a grievance narrative. Any credulous cohort will do.
This Warzel piece reveals the shallowness, callowness & callousness of every elite who had contact w/ Epstein. Their interactions are all transactional, i.e., offers or offer-seeking in the mode of quid pro quos.
Importance: High
subj: An article for U (gift link)
i wrote ,,,,,, about jeff epstein. s emails.
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subj: An article for U (gift link)
i wrote ,,,,,, about jeff epstein. s emails.
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
When QAnon Meets Veep
The dumb, abhorrent truth at the heart of the Epstein scandal
www.theatlantic.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:09 PM
This Warzel piece reveals the shallowness, callowness & callousness of every elite who had contact w/ Epstein. Their interactions are all transactional, i.e., offers or offer-seeking in the mode of quid pro quos.
A 27 screen cineplex operaring 24 hours/day doesn't project this much. Not even in a year.
Trump just now: “Epstein was a Democrat, and he is the Democrat's problem, not the Republican's problem! …Don’t waste your time with Trump. “
November 14, 2025 at 6:10 PM
A 27 screen cineplex operaring 24 hours/day doesn't project this much. Not even in a year.
That algorithms & AI often fail to distinguish reality from fiction is reason enough not to rely on either to judiciously & humanely mediate social interaction or the search for truth, i.e., to remove & dispose of errors injected--intentionally or not--into discourse or scientific inquiry.
I got suspended for an entire day once for calling Blanche Devereaux from the Golden Girls a slut. A thing she and every other character on the show said all the time.
November 14, 2025 at 5:13 PM
That algorithms & AI often fail to distinguish reality from fiction is reason enough not to rely on either to judiciously & humanely mediate social interaction or the search for truth, i.e., to remove & dispose of errors injected--intentionally or not--into discourse or scientific inquiry.
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The DOJ is suing California over Prop 50, saying it's a "brazen power grab that tramples on civil rights and mocks the democratic process."
Nothing mocks democracy like a president ordering red states to gerrymander while prosecuting a blue state for letting its voters decide.
Nothing mocks democracy like a president ordering red states to gerrymander while prosecuting a blue state for letting its voters decide.
November 13, 2025 at 11:35 PM
The DOJ is suing California over Prop 50, saying it's a "brazen power grab that tramples on civil rights and mocks the democratic process."
Nothing mocks democracy like a president ordering red states to gerrymander while prosecuting a blue state for letting its voters decide.
Nothing mocks democracy like a president ordering red states to gerrymander while prosecuting a blue state for letting its voters decide.