Glad to see the tide finally turning back to it being acceptable to say Taylor Swift makes bad music. Some of us have been holding the torch of hate in the darkness all this time

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For the LA Times, two brilliant friends of mine wrote a brilliant take on the "Department of War" name change: that it's good.

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Wow, Kamala really had her finger on the nation's pulse in trying to run to Trump's right on immigration, mocking him for not building the wall and pledging to build it.

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The @nytimes.com just can't stop repeating Israeli talking points

The @nytimes.com prints genocide denial as 109 aid groups warn of mass starvation. Over 100 Palestinians have died from sheer hunger due to Israel's barbaric siege. 21 months of slaughter of a captive population. Gaza is a concentration camp and Israel is committing genocide: another Holocaust.

Reports of 20 Palestinians starving to death in last 24 hours. Those who seek aid are shot. Tanks and drones patrol the rubble. But even AOC votes to send Israel 'defensive' aid, as if what Israel needs is more impunity.

Trying to watch a bootleg cam of SUPERMAN (2025) because I heard it was anti-Israel but I have no idea wtf is going on. Is this a sequel? Was I supposed to watch every other Superman first, did I have homework? Is this just what comic book movies are like these days?

You can tell she has the ick because at first she tries to work (write, cognitive labor) while Aidan is working on the floors (physical labor) but the "noise" bothers her (i.e. the concretization of their class antagonism)

The scene where Carrie first has the affair is when she leaves her apartment to rent a room in a hotel where Big happens to be, because Aidan volunteered to redo her wood floors. She’s grateful, but unconsciously has the ick that he would demean himself by manual labor, something Big would never do.

Being forced to watch S3 of Sex and the City and it’s clear Carrie can’t commit to Aidan and has an affair with Big because Aidan does manual labor and Big is rich (i.e. princess fantasy). It’s about class, but the show represses that and makes it about universal hogwash like ‘emo. availability’ etc

56% of Ukrainians would accept compromise with Russia to end the war. Over a million people have died; land isn't worth this much human life.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/...

Wonderful that in the 22 years since the Iraq war there is still no serious anti-war coalition in either US party.

Israelis aghast at an Iranian bomb hitting a hospital in Tel Aviv as if they haven't bombed every single hospital in Gaza. Obviously no one should bomb hospitals, it's a war crime, but the unregistered double-standard is evidence of a pathological lack of self-awareness or shame at a national level.

Kamala would have undoubtedly been better domestically than Trump but given her belligerence on the campaign trail ("Iran is our number one adversary") she'd probably already have boots on the ground.

Less than 0 pushback from Dems on the v real prospect of a new war in the Middle East—they're encouraging it! Besides Bernie, AOC—and the hard America First wing of MAGA. Leftism and fascism are both responses to liberal capitalist imperialism, but one advances cultural revolution, one regresses it.

We can’t defeat fascism in the US without defeating US imperialism abroad. The liberal resistance to Trump must understand the connection between fascism at home and US violence abroad—including support for the genocidal, fascist and extraordinarily belligerent Israeli regime. No kings means no war.

@jonlovett.bsky.social of @podsaveamerica.crooked.com just can't contain his establishmentarian snark. "But how will you pay for all this?" "Isn't your agenda too ambitious?" "Isn't it too commie to have public grocery stores?" "Do you condemn Hamas?" (jfc). etc etc.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqVQ...

This is where Israel will put the flotilla aid, in their human starvation machine gun trap

LA is showing how you actually say ‘Hands Off’ to the government, which couldn’t care less about peaceful pussyhat protests, but feels deeply threatened when crowds gather to physically fight back.

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How much you wanna bet Democrats cozy up to Elon now