Every day in every way it becomes clearer and clearer just how toxic Milton Friedmanesque, supply-side-focused, late-stage capitalism really is.

I don’t know what the breaking point is where we reach the modern equivalent of peasants arming with pitchforks & torches, but it’s coming soon.

“Public intellectuals”? Seriously?

I’m Jewish and live in Texas and want you to win very much and f**k AIPAC and the ongoing genocide in Palestine and the Dem gerontocracy.

I couldn’t help but be reminded of this wonderful riff from @nealstephenson.bsky.social’s Diamond Age.

I’m confident Trump will try to un-pardon him.

Tbh I don’t think the meaning could be any more clear.

Even the leftists here call these people DHS or ICE. WE DON’T KNOW THAT. They do not deserve that presumption. Stop giving it to them. ESPECIALLY you folks who are journalists. STOP IT.

That they’re ALL men has also not escaped my notice.

Unless the agents had probable cause or a warrant, and didn’t ID themselves, *this is assault*.

I’m sick to death of nearly everyone giving those cosplaying clowns the benefit of the doubt. So long as they’re masked & have no IDs, warrants, or probable cause, *they are criminals*. Period.

“How Trump made being an overt racist okay again”

The *party* has been pissing on the left for a long time. How many “centrist” rather than progressive candidates did they support in primaries, for example? Was AOC made committee chair?

You *seriously* believe this bunch of AIPAC-entranced, corporate-money-loving geriatrics are *farther left*?

I was giving you the benefit of the doubt. While one can make an argument that the progressive faction of the Democratic Party has moved left—an assertion I think false—it’s really easy to prove the party *itself* has moved right. Who bailed out the banks in 2008? Who voted for the AUMF? C’mon now.

Now I want to see the whole video.

Probably one of those guys who insists that baseball, football, rock and roll, bar-b-que, Cajun food. Zydeco, square / tap / Lindy Hop dancing, etc are all “derivative”. By that token, *all* culture is derivative.

What does Norway have; lutefisk & Quisling?

A perfect demo of why the term “AI” is both wrong and misleading.

I have *never* seen a character in film or tv who is a tech writer. You hardly ever see characters names Doug, for that matter, but at least now there’s @pattonoswalt.bsky.social:

No; he’s teaching him to not stand by in the presence of evil.