Damn.
Heartbroken to hear about the passing of amazing Howie Klein - founder of the progressive blog @downwithtyranny.bsky.social.
He was a brilliant blogger (from OG netroots) who made his mark as a big time music exec. Most importantly he was a kind human & a good friend. Rest in power Howie.
He was a brilliant blogger (from OG netroots) who made his mark as a big time music exec. Most importantly he was a kind human & a good friend. Rest in power Howie.
December 25, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Damn.
My submission: All Superfund sites receive "Trump Memorial" before their existing name!
You, Too, Can Name Valuable Public Institutions After President Trump! prospect.org/2025/12/23/y...
You, Too, Can Name Valuable Public Institutions After President Trump! prospect.org/2025/12/23/y...
You, Too, Can Name Valuable Public Institutions After President Trump! - The American Prospect
Herewith, a to-do list for 2026
prospect.org
December 23, 2025 at 9:12 PM
My submission: All Superfund sites receive "Trump Memorial" before their existing name!
You, Too, Can Name Valuable Public Institutions After President Trump! prospect.org/2025/12/23/y...
You, Too, Can Name Valuable Public Institutions After President Trump! prospect.org/2025/12/23/y...
#TimeChangesSuck!
Agree with @FiatSlug below. It's now an hour before I usually end my workday - and I'm dragging.
Today, I woke naturally at 3:45 AM and couldn't get back to sleep. Now? Getting up that early is having it's revenge - I'm yawning and looking forward to a nap when I sign off work!
Agree with @FiatSlug below. It's now an hour before I usually end my workday - and I'm dragging.
Today, I woke naturally at 3:45 AM and couldn't get back to sleep. Now? Getting up that early is having it's revenge - I'm yawning and looking forward to a nap when I sign off work!
Make Standard Time permanent! It's the rational thing to do for public health.
Ah, that time of year when everyone agrees that changing our clocks by an hour is an absolutely horrible idea.
And then people argue, and nothing gets done about it.
See you all again in the spring!
And then people argue, and nothing gets done about it.
See you all again in the spring!
November 3, 2025 at 8:56 PM
#TimeChangesSuck!
Agree with @FiatSlug below. It's now an hour before I usually end my workday - and I'm dragging.
Today, I woke naturally at 3:45 AM and couldn't get back to sleep. Now? Getting up that early is having it's revenge - I'm yawning and looking forward to a nap when I sign off work!
Agree with @FiatSlug below. It's now an hour before I usually end my workday - and I'm dragging.
Today, I woke naturally at 3:45 AM and couldn't get back to sleep. Now? Getting up that early is having it's revenge - I'm yawning and looking forward to a nap when I sign off work!
This!!!
Journalist Edward R. Murrow used his platform on CBS to criticize the witch hunts led by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s.
This is what real journalism should do — hold power to account, not capitulate to it.
This is what real journalism should do — hold power to account, not capitulate to it.
October 6, 2025 at 8:58 PM
This!!!
@rubenerd.bsky.social re: Sorry for the dupe
I think I saw at least 4! I went back and forth a few times to confirm that my deja vue feeling had a factual basis!
I think I saw at least 4! I went back and forth a few times to confirm that my deja vue feeling had a factual basis!
October 2, 2025 at 10:52 AM
@rubenerd.bsky.social re: Sorry for the dupe
I think I saw at least 4! I went back and forth a few times to confirm that my deja vue feeling had a factual basis!
I think I saw at least 4! I went back and forth a few times to confirm that my deja vue feeling had a factual basis!
I've not yet abandoned Xitter - I've kept it functionally "Read Only" for a while, but today I finally got sick of all the MAGAts and RWNJs posts that Xitter chooses to notify me about - so I just changed my notification settings over there so they can only notify me of posts from people I follow.
August 6, 2025 at 3:47 PM
I've not yet abandoned Xitter - I've kept it functionally "Read Only" for a while, but today I finally got sick of all the MAGAts and RWNJs posts that Xitter chooses to notify me about - so I just changed my notification settings over there so they can only notify me of posts from people I follow.
Reposted by Steven Dorst
"We don't need socialism. We need public-private partnerships."
After Zohran Mamdani's historic primary victory in New York, establishment Democrats are already copying his signature videos. Zeteo produced our own (fake) centrist Democrat featuring Zeteo senior producer @heycappello.bsky.social.
After Zohran Mamdani's historic primary victory in New York, establishment Democrats are already copying his signature videos. Zeteo produced our own (fake) centrist Democrat featuring Zeteo senior producer @heycappello.bsky.social.
July 23, 2025 at 1:49 PM
"We don't need socialism. We need public-private partnerships."
After Zohran Mamdani's historic primary victory in New York, establishment Democrats are already copying his signature videos. Zeteo produced our own (fake) centrist Democrat featuring Zeteo senior producer @heycappello.bsky.social.
After Zohran Mamdani's historic primary victory in New York, establishment Democrats are already copying his signature videos. Zeteo produced our own (fake) centrist Democrat featuring Zeteo senior producer @heycappello.bsky.social.
Here's my thought:
"It is pointless to ask someone to show "the courage of their convictions" when that same somebody has no convictions."
Now standing by for a response that dashes my hope that I'm actually the first to have said this.
"It is pointless to ask someone to show "the courage of their convictions" when that same somebody has no convictions."
Now standing by for a response that dashes my hope that I'm actually the first to have said this.
July 1, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Here's my thought:
"It is pointless to ask someone to show "the courage of their convictions" when that same somebody has no convictions."
Now standing by for a response that dashes my hope that I'm actually the first to have said this.
"It is pointless to ask someone to show "the courage of their convictions" when that same somebody has no convictions."
Now standing by for a response that dashes my hope that I'm actually the first to have said this.
@rubenerd.bsky.social Oh please DO wax lyrical about the PowerPC!
June 22, 2025 at 12:32 AM
@rubenerd.bsky.social Oh please DO wax lyrical about the PowerPC!
Reposted by Steven Dorst
It's kinda crazy to remember that the mass protests today got their start (and name) from a tweet about congestion pricing
June 14, 2025 at 11:04 PM
It's kinda crazy to remember that the mass protests today got their start (and name) from a tweet about congestion pricing
Reposted by Steven Dorst
Really feel like I’m losing my mind: government OBVIOUSLY cannot punish an individual law firm for hiring someone it disfavors! It’s ludicrously unconstitutional and I feel like without a day of law school I could argue the case. And yet the best paid lawyers in the country are folding?
March 27, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Really feel like I’m losing my mind: government OBVIOUSLY cannot punish an individual law firm for hiring someone it disfavors! It’s ludicrously unconstitutional and I feel like without a day of law school I could argue the case. And yet the best paid lawyers in the country are folding?
@digby56.bsky.social I found the picture at the top of your recent blog post, digbysblog.net/2025/03/26/g..., quite unsettling. The people pictured struck me viscerally as ... what's the right word here? ... plastic!
digbysblog.net
March 26, 2025 at 10:53 PM
@digby56.bsky.social I found the picture at the top of your recent blog post, digbysblog.net/2025/03/26/g..., quite unsettling. The people pictured struck me viscerally as ... what's the right word here? ... plastic!
I could legitimately use the same sticker too.
FIFY:
I bought this before I realized Elon was bats#!t crazy.
I bought this before I realized Elon was bats#!t crazy.
March 23, 2025 at 11:11 PM
I could legitimately use the same sticker too.
@rubenerd.bsky.social Sorry but I don't get the "Stanley Parable" reference on your recent blog post. Oh wait! Did my own research (i.e web search) ... A video game. Explains my ignorance as I'm not a gamer in any way, shape, or form since D&D in college 45 years ago!
March 20, 2025 at 10:53 PM
@rubenerd.bsky.social Sorry but I don't get the "Stanley Parable" reference on your recent blog post. Oh wait! Did my own research (i.e web search) ... A video game. Explains my ignorance as I'm not a gamer in any way, shape, or form since D&D in college 45 years ago!
I'm already missing the daily opportunity to see @joyannreid.bsky.social in the few minutes before @chrislhayes.bsky.social on MSNBC. My schedule prevented watching her full show live, but 90% of the time I'd see the last few minutes!
March 6, 2025 at 12:58 AM
I'm already missing the daily opportunity to see @joyannreid.bsky.social in the few minutes before @chrislhayes.bsky.social on MSNBC. My schedule prevented watching her full show live, but 90% of the time I'd see the last few minutes!
Won't be watching whatever happens in a few hours. The construction industry doesn't take MLK day off, so I'll just have my nose to the usual grindstone.
January 20, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Won't be watching whatever happens in a few hours. The construction industry doesn't take MLK day off, so I'll just have my nose to the usual grindstone.
Reposted by Steven Dorst
I have the same wish!
December 25, 2024 at 5:28 PM
I have the same wish!
Reposted by Steven Dorst
Talk to one Palestinian with any connection even tangentially to Gaza and your entire perspective will shift about many of the debates we have here in America.
Too many discussions have more to do with our domestic debates instead of the actual lived realities (and horrors) on the ground.
Too many discussions have more to do with our domestic debates instead of the actual lived realities (and horrors) on the ground.
December 21, 2024 at 12:45 AM
Talk to one Palestinian with any connection even tangentially to Gaza and your entire perspective will shift about many of the debates we have here in America.
Too many discussions have more to do with our domestic debates instead of the actual lived realities (and horrors) on the ground.
Too many discussions have more to do with our domestic debates instead of the actual lived realities (and horrors) on the ground.
Reposted by Steven Dorst
The truth preached here.
December 18, 2024 at 11:25 PM
The truth preached here.
Reposted by Steven Dorst
@nurseashleyor.bsky.social I just watched youtu.be/vWA2aQYXDbo?... this earlier today!
December 5, 2024 at 3:10 AM
@nurseashleyor.bsky.social I just watched youtu.be/vWA2aQYXDbo?... this earlier today!