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February 10, 2026 at 9:35 PM
Look it's completely accurate that mainstream US journalists don't know what these references are
but ALSO they don't know what Politics is. They never stood a chance.
but ALSO they don't know what Politics is. They never stood a chance.
Bad Bunny’s performance began in the plantation, featured broken electric poles, and ended by centering a hemispheric understanding of “América”—among many other things—and some Anglo journalists are like “his performance wasn’t political.”
This is why we need to be telling our stories.
This is why we need to be telling our stories.
February 9, 2026 at 5:41 PM
Look it's completely accurate that mainstream US journalists don't know what these references are
but ALSO they don't know what Politics is. They never stood a chance.
but ALSO they don't know what Politics is. They never stood a chance.
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This is bleak: Jes Staley, currently CEO of Barclays, reassuring Epstein that popular revolt against financial elites is unlikely because capitalism and pop culture have defanged social movements, leaving people more invested in consumption than justice.
February 6, 2026 at 10:23 PM
This is bleak: Jes Staley, currently CEO of Barclays, reassuring Epstein that popular revolt against financial elites is unlikely because capitalism and pop culture have defanged social movements, leaving people more invested in consumption than justice.
These are local police.
If you were sceptical about "Abolish ICE" a few years ago, please ask yourself if you're making the same error about local PD now.
If you were sceptical about "Abolish ICE" a few years ago, please ask yourself if you're making the same error about local PD now.
🚨BREAKING: Local Minneapolis police SWARM ICE protesters making mass arrests in front of ICE prison. One protesters forehead is gushing blood ⬇️
February 8, 2026 at 12:06 AM
These are local police.
If you were sceptical about "Abolish ICE" a few years ago, please ask yourself if you're making the same error about local PD now.
If you were sceptical about "Abolish ICE" a few years ago, please ask yourself if you're making the same error about local PD now.
I've heard this kind of thing from electeds before and it's frankly disgusting. The morality of your words and votes are fair game. If you don't like it you shouldn't be in the big chair.
Also all the clergy is this article are legends.
www.ctpublic.org/news/2026-02...
Also all the clergy is this article are legends.
www.ctpublic.org/news/2026-02...
February 7, 2026 at 12:55 PM
I've heard this kind of thing from electeds before and it's frankly disgusting. The morality of your words and votes are fair game. If you don't like it you shouldn't be in the big chair.
Also all the clergy is this article are legends.
www.ctpublic.org/news/2026-02...
Also all the clergy is this article are legends.
www.ctpublic.org/news/2026-02...
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ME: I need a molded plywood splint to reduce injuries suffered by wounded servicemembers in transit
CHARLES & RAY EAMES: here you go
ME: I also need an educational film illustrating the powers of ten and the nicest chair anyone has ever seen
CHARLES & RAY EAMES: you're not going to believe this
CHARLES & RAY EAMES: here you go
ME: I also need an educational film illustrating the powers of ten and the nicest chair anyone has ever seen
CHARLES & RAY EAMES: you're not going to believe this
February 6, 2026 at 8:51 PM
ME: I need a molded plywood splint to reduce injuries suffered by wounded servicemembers in transit
CHARLES & RAY EAMES: here you go
ME: I also need an educational film illustrating the powers of ten and the nicest chair anyone has ever seen
CHARLES & RAY EAMES: you're not going to believe this
CHARLES & RAY EAMES: here you go
ME: I also need an educational film illustrating the powers of ten and the nicest chair anyone has ever seen
CHARLES & RAY EAMES: you're not going to believe this
Just do normal stuff for a while and these guys will all show up and tell on themselves.
Charles Murray, famous racist, is very mad that Lupita Nyong’o is going to play Helen of Troy.
www.liberalcurrents.com/none-more-wo...
www.liberalcurrents.com/none-more-wo...
February 6, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Just do normal stuff for a while and these guys will all show up and tell on themselves.
This is the most important one thing to know about NY politics in 2026.
Even though Hochul will win the primary + the general, and many of our Left electeds will endorse her, the rank + file Left must campaign hard and vote against her in the primary to shift the balance of power in the state.
Even though Hochul will win the primary + the general, and many of our Left electeds will endorse her, the rank + file Left must campaign hard and vote against her in the primary to shift the balance of power in the state.
I usually avoid sharing what feels like "inside baseball" political analysis here, but this merits an exception because of the stakes + scale involved.
Zohran isn't "wrong" to endorse Hochul; he has no choice. But for primary voters to back Hochul would definitely be unwise. Let me explain why. 🧵
Zohran isn't "wrong" to endorse Hochul; he has no choice. But for primary voters to back Hochul would definitely be unwise. Let me explain why. 🧵
NEW: Mayor Mamdani is set to endorse Gov. Hochul’s reelection run this week, providing her a critical inroad with progressive voters, per four sources.
It deals a near fatal blow to Antonio Delgado's campaign.
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
It deals a near fatal blow to Antonio Delgado's campaign.
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
February 4, 2026 at 10:16 PM
This is the most important one thing to know about NY politics in 2026.
Even though Hochul will win the primary + the general, and many of our Left electeds will endorse her, the rank + file Left must campaign hard and vote against her in the primary to shift the balance of power in the state.
Even though Hochul will win the primary + the general, and many of our Left electeds will endorse her, the rank + file Left must campaign hard and vote against her in the primary to shift the balance of power in the state.
It would be darkly hilarious if the key to the epistemological knot Adam Tooze describes as Polycrisis were simply, "World events were driven by elite pedophiles who prioritized their child sex pipelines and collective chumminess over rational administration of nations and firms."
February 4, 2026 at 3:00 PM
It would be darkly hilarious if the key to the epistemological knot Adam Tooze describes as Polycrisis were simply, "World events were driven by elite pedophiles who prioritized their child sex pipelines and collective chumminess over rational administration of nations and firms."
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This is tremendous. Take the time to watch it.
Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”
February 4, 2026 at 1:48 PM
This is tremendous. Take the time to watch it.
Blessings of Cailleach on you this Imbolc. We're in the grip of the big blue hag a little longer.
February 1, 2026 at 1:11 PM
Blessings of Cailleach on you this Imbolc. We're in the grip of the big blue hag a little longer.
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A genuinely more interesting article would be. ’These people were correct about the Republicans becoming facsist long before most. What allowed them to get it right, when I and many other ’mainstream thinkers’ got it wrong for so long and how does that inform how we act next.’
January 31, 2026 at 9:39 AM
A genuinely more interesting article would be. ’These people were correct about the Republicans becoming facsist long before most. What allowed them to get it right, when I and many other ’mainstream thinkers’ got it wrong for so long and how does that inform how we act next.’
Welcome to the Marxist Revolution ummm . . . uh . . . chief economist at Moody's. 😐
January 30, 2026 at 3:35 PM
Welcome to the Marxist Revolution ummm . . . uh . . . chief economist at Moody's. 😐
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But I do have one question.
When you get to your little place in El Centro, I imagine you are going to take off that handsome-looking Border Patrol uniform of yours.
A reminder that the awful & illegal things keep happening & have since 1865, because there are never any actual legal consequences.
When you get to your little place in El Centro, I imagine you are going to take off that handsome-looking Border Patrol uniform of yours.
A reminder that the awful & illegal things keep happening & have since 1865, because there are never any actual legal consequences.
January 26, 2026 at 11:52 PM
But I do have one question.
When you get to your little place in El Centro, I imagine you are going to take off that handsome-looking Border Patrol uniform of yours.
A reminder that the awful & illegal things keep happening & have since 1865, because there are never any actual legal consequences.
When you get to your little place in El Centro, I imagine you are going to take off that handsome-looking Border Patrol uniform of yours.
A reminder that the awful & illegal things keep happening & have since 1865, because there are never any actual legal consequences.
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This picture making the rounds on reddit, Columbia Heights. I'm not OK.
January 21, 2026 at 6:52 PM
This picture making the rounds on reddit, Columbia Heights. I'm not OK.
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This is a global far right power grab, so the sooner everybody realizes that and puts aside their deeply outdated notions around national identity, which got us here to begin with, the better. The only way out is through, but the only way through is all of us fighting these climate warlords together
January 21, 2026 at 6:29 PM
This is a global far right power grab, so the sooner everybody realizes that and puts aside their deeply outdated notions around national identity, which got us here to begin with, the better. The only way out is through, but the only way through is all of us fighting these climate warlords together
You know what's cheaper and more reliable than training and body cams? Never hiring ICE and CBP agents in the first place. Simply not having any of those guys. That would do the trick sure as God made gooseberries.
Minibus is out. Democrats were able to include some guardrails in about ICE:
-restricts ICE to spending $3.8 billion of its annual budget
on detention as opposed to being able to spend $10 billion
-$20 million that must be used for body cameras 1/
www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
-restricts ICE to spending $3.8 billion of its annual budget
on detention as opposed to being able to spend $10 billion
-$20 million that must be used for body cameras 1/
www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
www.appropriations.senate.gov
January 21, 2026 at 1:53 AM
You know what's cheaper and more reliable than training and body cams? Never hiring ICE and CBP agents in the first place. Simply not having any of those guys. That would do the trick sure as God made gooseberries.
The Wales Rugby Union leadership should be in prison
January 19, 2026 at 11:21 PM
The Wales Rugby Union leadership should be in prison
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A petit bourgeoisie you say, that sees its lifestyle and social position under threat you say? Finding exterior enemies and explanations from a rapidly growing facist movement, you say?
Nope. Doesn't ring a bell.
Nope. Doesn't ring a bell.
The top 10% now account for nearly half of all consumer spending.
January 18, 2026 at 5:23 PM
A petit bourgeoisie you say, that sees its lifestyle and social position under threat you say? Finding exterior enemies and explanations from a rapidly growing facist movement, you say?
Nope. Doesn't ring a bell.
Nope. Doesn't ring a bell.
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every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO
this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s
this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s
January 16, 2026 at 9:24 PM
every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO
this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s
this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s
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Unions and community orgs are calling for a Minnesota-wide shutdown in 10 days to protest the ferocious assault by federal immigration agents. They're saying on Jan 23, no work, no school, no shopping. SEIU Local 26, UNITE HERE Local 17, & others are supporting, w/ more to join. By me, Amie Stager
“We Are Facing a Tsunami of Hate”: Amid ICE Crackdown, Unions and Community Groups Call for Minnesota Shutdown in 10 Days
Following the ICE murder of Renee Good and an assault on the state by federal immigration forces, a labor-community coalition is calling for residents to refuse to work, shop or go to school on Januar...
inthesetimes.com
January 13, 2026 at 10:30 PM
Unions and community orgs are calling for a Minnesota-wide shutdown in 10 days to protest the ferocious assault by federal immigration agents. They're saying on Jan 23, no work, no school, no shopping. SEIU Local 26, UNITE HERE Local 17, & others are supporting, w/ more to join. By me, Amie Stager
