Sysfin
@sysfin.bsky.social
Unapologetically normie aesthetics.
Lover of Worker Coops.
More unions is more better.
LVT enjoyer.
Tool library hype.
Part time Wikipedia editor.
Also love MST3K, Rifftrax, Last Drive In, Svengoolie, Elvira, USA Up All Night and similar nonsense.
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Lover of Worker Coops.
More unions is more better.
LVT enjoyer.
Tool library hype.
Part time Wikipedia editor.
Also love MST3K, Rifftrax, Last Drive In, Svengoolie, Elvira, USA Up All Night and similar nonsense.
He/him
I have said it before but I am so glad I got married before the era apps. What a fucking disaster for the youth we have allowed.
I see a lot of visualizations of one year of a person's online dating (a 21M from London in this case). Seems miserable. Is getting drunk in a bar or club making a comeback as a dating strategy? Source: buff.ly/ZvAbOdz
January 28, 2026 at 2:42 PM
I have said it before but I am so glad I got married before the era apps. What a fucking disaster for the youth we have allowed.
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Jesus what a fucking weak human being. Our elite, business and government, is just a bunch of weak addled people accustomed for automatic success and unfit for what is happening at protests around this country, and worse, they know it and they hate it about themselves
January 28, 2026 at 12:53 PM
Jesus what a fucking weak human being. Our elite, business and government, is just a bunch of weak addled people accustomed for automatic success and unfit for what is happening at protests around this country, and worse, they know it and they hate it about themselves
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100%. I honestly believe political leaders ask too little of people. The thinking is you need an extraordinarily low bar - so ask people for money or to sign something. People want to be part of something and they're eager to do real meaningful work in defense of their community and their rights.
I have begun to think that Minnesota pushback to ICE was unique and a model because it gave people something to do. It wasn’t about just going out in streets for rallying purposes. People had a mission: videos, whistles, information and communication flow to communities. They had something to do.
January 28, 2026 at 3:10 AM
100%. I honestly believe political leaders ask too little of people. The thinking is you need an extraordinarily low bar - so ask people for money or to sign something. People want to be part of something and they're eager to do real meaningful work in defense of their community and their rights.
Having door knocked for a while yea I agree that some just don't want to deal with the public in that capacity. Not all and there are always some that act like this but it feels like the number has gone up over time.
Agreed. I think it's even worse: many politicians don't WANT people to do more than give money and vote. They don't want people calling them about issues, questioning their decisions. I strongly prefer politicians who come out of activism, actually care about things, and want to involve community.
100%. I honestly believe political leaders ask too little of people. The thinking is you need an extraordinarily low bar - so ask people for money or to sign something. People want to be part of something and they're eager to do real meaningful work in defense of their community and their rights.
January 28, 2026 at 3:54 AM
Having door knocked for a while yea I agree that some just don't want to deal with the public in that capacity. Not all and there are always some that act like this but it feels like the number has gone up over time.
Walz ain't perfect but he nailed it on that one.
The Minnesota governor is getting widespread criticism for comparing children dealing with immigration enforcement to Holocaust victim Anne Frank.
Tim Walz condemned for comparing Minnesota children to Anne Frank
The Minnesota governor is getting widespread criticism for comparing children dealing with immigration enforcement to Holocaust victim Anne Frank.
bit.ly
January 28, 2026 at 3:52 AM
Walz ain't perfect but he nailed it on that one.
I wanted this energy last CR fight. But its good to see them going for trophies now.
Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., rolls out his demand for supporting a DHS appropriations bill: fire Stephen Miller
January 28, 2026 at 3:42 AM
I wanted this energy last CR fight. But its good to see them going for trophies now.
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the Trump era provided bad incentives for public intellectuals to tie everything going on to their particular hobbyhorses, crafting grand theories to convince you that a tiny blip of disruptive time has in actuality been going on since time immemorial
January 27, 2026 at 7:01 PM
the Trump era provided bad incentives for public intellectuals to tie everything going on to their particular hobbyhorses, crafting grand theories to convince you that a tiny blip of disruptive time has in actuality been going on since time immemorial
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Unless the person in question is citing actual polling and historical precedent then 99% of the time any talk of "the base" is just a rhetorical maneuver to launder one's own preferred political outcome.
wait, do people think “the base of a party” is some automatic “don’t get criticized, don’t have to be told to change” standard? i’m not familiar with this idea.
January 27, 2026 at 11:21 PM
Unless the person in question is citing actual polling and historical precedent then 99% of the time any talk of "the base" is just a rhetorical maneuver to launder one's own preferred political outcome.
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I’m going to urge caution with the “targeted killing” language here. DHS has been clearly filming and IDing observers, and we’ve all assumed they’re making some kind of list of us. If Pretti had been regularly observing in any capacity, there’s a decent chance he’d been documented.
CNN is reporting that federal authorities may have been collecting information and "documenting details" about Alex Pretti before killing him on Saturday, and that officers tackled him a week earlier. www.cnn.com/2026/01/27/u...
Alex Pretti was in earlier confrontation with federal agents who tackled him, broke his rib, sources say | CNN
Federal immigration officials have been collecting information on protesters and agitators, sources told CNN.
www.cnn.com
January 27, 2026 at 10:54 PM
I’m going to urge caution with the “targeted killing” language here. DHS has been clearly filming and IDing observers, and we’ve all assumed they’re making some kind of list of us. If Pretti had been regularly observing in any capacity, there’s a decent chance he’d been documented.
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we are going to fucking win
January 27, 2026 at 9:36 PM
we are going to fucking win
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I'm going to bang this drum again: a lot of the Democratic party's problems are downstream of them having no credibility with their base. Some of this is due to bad faith online criticism from lefty content farmers, but it is by no means the majority, and I'm sick of people suggesting such. 1/
January 27, 2026 at 5:36 PM
I'm going to bang this drum again: a lot of the Democratic party's problems are downstream of them having no credibility with their base. Some of this is due to bad faith online criticism from lefty content farmers, but it is by no means the majority, and I'm sick of people suggesting such. 1/
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Neither socialism or liberalism really has much of a leg to stand on for the "only we can resist fascism", since both have some really ugly history of capitulation to it.
January 27, 2026 at 8:18 PM
Neither socialism or liberalism really has much of a leg to stand on for the "only we can resist fascism", since both have some really ugly history of capitulation to it.
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I mean, look at the way being constantly surrounded by servile yes-men has broken most of the richest people in the world. It’s not good for anybody.
So my hunch is that 4o melted brains (aside from the hallucinatory spirals) in no small part due to its very...user-centering affect. I have trouble describing it any other way than "it simped for the user".
I think centering the-user-the-person in a...servile? way is probably very bad.
I think centering the-user-the-person in a...servile? way is probably very bad.
January 27, 2026 at 4:01 AM
I mean, look at the way being constantly surrounded by servile yes-men has broken most of the richest people in the world. It’s not good for anybody.
Very easy flow chart.
Does this put us on course for abolishing ice in 2026/2028?
If yes then good.
If no then bad.
Does this put us on course for abolishing ice in 2026/2028?
If yes then good.
If no then bad.
Dems coalescing around 5 restrictions on ICE, I'm told:
DHS required to cooperate with state probes (big)
CBP stays at border
warrants for arrests
IDs, bodycams
ICE out of churches, schools
"That package unites a lot of Dems," Sen Chris Murphy tells me on the pod:
newrepublic.com/article/2057...
DHS required to cooperate with state probes (big)
CBP stays at border
warrants for arrests
IDs, bodycams
ICE out of churches, schools
"That package unites a lot of Dems," Sen Chris Murphy tells me on the pod:
newrepublic.com/article/2057...
A Dem Senator’s Harsh Takedown of Trump Hits Home: “Breaking Point”
As Trump scrambles to contain the damage from the latest ICE horrors, Senator Chris Murphy offers a sharp indictment of Trump-ICE lawlessness—and explains how Dems can meet the urgency of the moment.
newrepublic.com
January 27, 2026 at 1:56 PM
Very easy flow chart.
Does this put us on course for abolishing ice in 2026/2028?
If yes then good.
If no then bad.
Does this put us on course for abolishing ice in 2026/2028?
If yes then good.
If no then bad.
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They are wounded and flailing. Press the advantage.
January 27, 2026 at 12:08 AM
They are wounded and flailing. Press the advantage.
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Their entire strategy was based on escalating endlessly until we broke. They broke first. It’s not over but it’s a tacit acknowledgment we are stronger than them.
January 27, 2026 at 3:14 AM
Their entire strategy was based on escalating endlessly until we broke. They broke first. It’s not over but it’s a tacit acknowledgment we are stronger than them.
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you gotta celebrate them leaving.
they can't win their fights. they can't win their war.
the fascists's only hope is wanton and inchoate violence, bloodying enough noses & performing street executions on the hope people become too scared to show up and take the next hit and it still isn't working.
they can't win their fights. they can't win their war.
the fascists's only hope is wanton and inchoate violence, bloodying enough noses & performing street executions on the hope people become too scared to show up and take the next hit and it still isn't working.
January 26, 2026 at 10:56 PM
you gotta celebrate them leaving.
they can't win their fights. they can't win their war.
the fascists's only hope is wanton and inchoate violence, bloodying enough noses & performing street executions on the hope people become too scared to show up and take the next hit and it still isn't working.
they can't win their fights. they can't win their war.
the fascists's only hope is wanton and inchoate violence, bloodying enough noses & performing street executions on the hope people become too scared to show up and take the next hit and it still isn't working.
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No paywall for this piece on Minnesotans holding the line.
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January 26, 2026 at 5:17 PM
No paywall for this piece on Minnesotans holding the line.
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Please also consider becoming a paid member. Democracy Americana is solely funded by readers. I need your support to continue this work.
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You, sobbing: You can't just keep calling everything liberalism
Me, pointing at any good policy: That's liberalism
Me, pointing at any good policy: That's liberalism
March 11, 2025 at 2:34 PM
You, sobbing: You can't just keep calling everything liberalism
Me, pointing at any good policy: That's liberalism
Me, pointing at any good policy: That's liberalism
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this is a fake problem. no one is saying this to regular, offline people who are coming around. they’re saying it to people who are engaged in professional political analysis who committed professional malpractice by scolding people who saw what was coming.
no, those people shouldn’t get a break.
no, those people shouldn’t get a break.
Bluesky idea: if people who didn't agree with you change their opinions so that they do agree with you, why not be happy that you are making progress - rather than complaining that they are "only just catching up"?
January 26, 2026 at 2:49 PM
this is a fake problem. no one is saying this to regular, offline people who are coming around. they’re saying it to people who are engaged in professional political analysis who committed professional malpractice by scolding people who saw what was coming.
no, those people shouldn’t get a break.
no, those people shouldn’t get a break.
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First draft of The Charmed Reboot is a Mess (Season Three) script is done! Now to refine, record, and edit... 😭😭😭
January 26, 2026 at 2:11 PM
First draft of The Charmed Reboot is a Mess (Season Three) script is done! Now to refine, record, and edit... 😭😭😭
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Other folks have already noted much of this, but I think the MAGA 'theory of victory' here is:
1) DHS provocations trigger a riot or attack on agents which
2) Leads to widespread civil unrest in many 'blue' cities so that
3) Trump can invoke the insurrection act and send in the troops...
1) DHS provocations trigger a riot or attack on agents which
2) Leads to widespread civil unrest in many 'blue' cities so that
3) Trump can invoke the insurrection act and send in the troops...
Curious if anyone has a plausible theory of victory for the administration if it were to invoke the Insurrection Act.
How does the administration "win" in such a scenario?
Best I can tell, it is magical thinking by a certain somebody at the White House, but maybe I'm missing something.
How does the administration "win" in such a scenario?
Best I can tell, it is magical thinking by a certain somebody at the White House, but maybe I'm missing something.
January 25, 2026 at 10:51 PM
Other folks have already noted much of this, but I think the MAGA 'theory of victory' here is:
1) DHS provocations trigger a riot or attack on agents which
2) Leads to widespread civil unrest in many 'blue' cities so that
3) Trump can invoke the insurrection act and send in the troops...
1) DHS provocations trigger a riot or attack on agents which
2) Leads to widespread civil unrest in many 'blue' cities so that
3) Trump can invoke the insurrection act and send in the troops...
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The idea that we're drawing our resolve from each other, that we are willing to put ourselves in harm's way to protect our neighbors, even ones we do not know, it's unthinkable to them.
They don't understand that real strength doesn't come from HURTING PEOPLE but from PROTECTING THEM.
They don't understand that real strength doesn't come from HURTING PEOPLE but from PROTECTING THEM.
January 26, 2026 at 2:47 AM
The idea that we're drawing our resolve from each other, that we are willing to put ourselves in harm's way to protect our neighbors, even ones we do not know, it's unthinkable to them.
They don't understand that real strength doesn't come from HURTING PEOPLE but from PROTECTING THEM.
They don't understand that real strength doesn't come from HURTING PEOPLE but from PROTECTING THEM.
What a fucking penalty
January 26, 2026 at 1:59 AM
What a fucking penalty
I have changed my mind on a few things.
We have to lock up all their media guys too, not jail but an institution for those who people who are delusional and unable to cope with the modern world.
Going to Menards for handwarmers is not "complicated antifa supply lines for an arctic campaign."
We have to lock up all their media guys too, not jail but an institution for those who people who are delusional and unable to cope with the modern world.
Going to Menards for handwarmers is not "complicated antifa supply lines for an arctic campaign."
these guys are LARPing like siege commanders talking about "supply lines"
rightoids literally cannot comprehend the idea of a community caring for their own; these people live in Minneapolis their supply line is a five minute drive to the grocery store
rightoids literally cannot comprehend the idea of a community caring for their own; these people live in Minneapolis their supply line is a five minute drive to the grocery store
January 26, 2026 at 1:16 AM
I have changed my mind on a few things.
We have to lock up all their media guys too, not jail but an institution for those who people who are delusional and unable to cope with the modern world.
Going to Menards for handwarmers is not "complicated antifa supply lines for an arctic campaign."
We have to lock up all their media guys too, not jail but an institution for those who people who are delusional and unable to cope with the modern world.
Going to Menards for handwarmers is not "complicated antifa supply lines for an arctic campaign."