There is no scale that can measure the correctness of this take.

Man, if Piker is the voice of the left for the youth we are fucked.

Please get out of the house and hang with some folks who've been in the Food Not Bombs trenches for 20 years.

I have never understood this guy's appeal. He's just an asshole with a thin leftist veneer. Like Vaush with even less substance.

It really can't be said enough: the goal of the "anti-woke" movement was always to destroy social norms against bigotry. And it worked. And there's a whole lot of purportedly "left" thinkers & commentators who helped it -- indeed, it couldn't have been done without them.

They should feel bad.

making getting assaulted by armed agents of the state into a funny meme is like unironically how we get critical masses of dumb white boys in the streets, Portland frog is a hero and a patriot

I don't get why people twist themselves into pretzels to definitively say if someone is "good now" or "bad now" before discussing what they did now, like Gavin Newsom. Just say "what he just did is good" or "what he just did is bad," you don't have to enter a score for him, it's not a required field

A Brief History of Men are Becoming Less Manly

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They voted for exactly this, but then they saw how unpopular it was and don't want to be blamed for it.

It’s important to flood social media and news channels with news about how ICE lies, so that potential jurors see it.

Half Price Himmler

There is a mistaken impression in Democratic circles that Trump's invasion of our cities and trampling of our rights and freedoms is popular. It isn't:

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

@sylvanaquafarms.bsky.social, the SUBTITLES tho!!! 🤣😂🤣

youtube.com/shorts/NOM4L...

This is a declaration they will use federal resources to deploy violence against judges, prosecutors, and attorneys general. There's no other coherent interpretation of the phrasing, including "only remedy," "legitimate state power," and connecting those people with "terror networks."

They are knocking down doors and dragging screaming kids out into the night. I don't know what to say aside from this is it. This is the goal. They have always wanted to make an example of Chicago and it's not as if they haven't other places & other ways. All of it. This is fascism, plain & simple.

Seconded. I also enjoyed this one from Steak Bently: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkWi...

Raised Catholic. Can confirm.

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.

harpers.org/archive/1941...

Please - stop doing the screenshot no link thing on Bluesky. This platform does not punish you for posting a URL. You picked up the habit from Meta apps? Stop doing Mark Z's bidding. Link ESPECIALLY to authors, reporters, bloggers, etc. where you quote the work.

Some amazing gay history. Listen up kids.

This is my regular reminder to everyone that jstor is open to the general public now; a free account there will give you access to 100 papers a year.

Call Gavin Newsom's office like you called ABC/Disney/Sinclair/Nexstar

If you live in California, it's time to call the Haircut. @jortsthecat.bsky.social can we get a boost to pile up messages taller than his bottle of hair gel??

there’s a party that will empower people in their thirties on condition they wreck the country, and a party that commands everyone to line up behind septuagenarians because it’s still their turn

i made a helpful reference