Anyone who cared to look at the empirical evidence that was literally gathering in the streets around the country could have seen quite quickly that a lot of ordinary people cared little about the punditry’s handwringing and got busy organizing.
February 12, 2026 at 9:48 PM
Anyone who cared to look at the empirical evidence that was literally gathering in the streets around the country could have seen quite quickly that a lot of ordinary people cared little about the punditry’s handwringing and got busy organizing.
The thing is: The argument that America had undergone a massive rightward shift was less a factual contention and more an ideological assertion, an article of faith. It has proven to be a stubbornly resistant myth that is exceedingly hard to kill – just like the idea that “there are no protests.”
The thing is: The argument that America had undergone a massive rightward shift was less a factual contention and more an ideological assertion, an article of faith. It has proven to be a stubbornly resistant myth that is exceedingly hard to kill – just like the idea that “there are no protests.”
The gleeful aggression with which pundits from across the political spectrum jumped on the chance to declare that the (liberal) resistance was dead / had been pointless to begin with should have been a clear indicator that there was quite a bit of score-settling going on.
February 12, 2026 at 9:40 PM
The gleeful aggression with which pundits from across the political spectrum jumped on the chance to declare that the (liberal) resistance was dead / had been pointless to begin with should have been a clear indicator that there was quite a bit of score-settling going on.
Automatic Noodle by @annaleen.bsky.social is a labour-focused story about a group of robot friends who open up a noodle shop in a post-conflict future San Francisco.
It's a love letter to a city, as well as a paen to found family. It's great.
Automatic Noodle by @annaleen.bsky.social is a labour-focused story about a group of robot friends who open up a noodle shop in a post-conflict future San Francisco.
It's a love letter to a city, as well as a paen to found family. It's great.