Dave Strock
@davestrock.bsky.social
Oof, what if we did good things for people instead?
Read a book.
Read a book.
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Here’s video of federal agents doing a drive by pepper spraying that hit a father and his one-year old on Saturday when the Feds were hitting Little Village and Cicero
November 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Here’s video of federal agents doing a drive by pepper spraying that hit a father and his one-year old on Saturday when the Feds were hitting Little Village and Cicero
What were they seeing back when you actually had leverage?
Kaine on why he thinks just getting a vote on healthcare is a win: "We're the minority party, but everybody will get to see who is standing for them when it comes to lowering their healthcare costs"
November 10, 2025 at 8:28 PM
What were they seeing back when you actually had leverage?
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After the Rubygems drama, I felt frustrated that I can’t escape evil people trying to dominate my life.
I found myself mourning the future I thought we would have; but also hopeful that it’s not too late to start choosing kindness.
Join me in building a better future:
okayfail.com/2025/in-prai...
I found myself mourning the future I thought we would have; but also hopeful that it’s not too late to start choosing kindness.
Join me in building a better future:
okayfail.com/2025/in-prai...
In Praise of dhh
A reflection on Ruby's past, present, and future.
okayfail.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:52 PM
After the Rubygems drama, I felt frustrated that I can’t escape evil people trying to dominate my life.
I found myself mourning the future I thought we would have; but also hopeful that it’s not too late to start choosing kindness.
Join me in building a better future:
okayfail.com/2025/in-prai...
I found myself mourning the future I thought we would have; but also hopeful that it’s not too late to start choosing kindness.
Join me in building a better future:
okayfail.com/2025/in-prai...
The most media illiterate person on the planet is pushing ads that he reads books actually.
I'll click when it's a list of his summary / take away from each book he supposedly read.
I'll click when it's a list of his summary / take away from each book he supposedly read.
November 10, 2025 at 7:48 PM
The most media illiterate person on the planet is pushing ads that he reads books actually.
I'll click when it's a list of his summary / take away from each book he supposedly read.
I'll click when it's a list of his summary / take away from each book he supposedly read.
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Amazing moment in time right now where people who yelled at us for sticking to genocide as a red line are now also disgusted with Democrats and threatening not to vote for them. So your health insurance becoming more expensive was your red line?
November 10, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Amazing moment in time right now where people who yelled at us for sticking to genocide as a red line are now also disgusted with Democrats and threatening not to vote for them. So your health insurance becoming more expensive was your red line?
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Welcome their hatred.
FDR: I Welcome Their Hatred
YouTube video by heckofjob
youtu.be
November 8, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Welcome their hatred.
It's so deeply sad how these guys can't even understand the fiction they think is a substitute for actually understanding world history.
This is the same guy that said Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy is his favorite "philosophy" book.
This is the same guy that said Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy is his favorite "philosophy" book.
I am reminded that as Tolkien described numenor’s corruption and collapse, one feature is that its fleets went from giving aid, assistance, and gifts to all the kingdoms and peoples of the mainland, to extracting tribute from them
November 7, 2025 at 2:40 PM
It's so deeply sad how these guys can't even understand the fiction they think is a substitute for actually understanding world history.
This is the same guy that said Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy is his favorite "philosophy" book.
This is the same guy that said Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy is his favorite "philosophy" book.
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I know Adam McKay's "Vice" is divisive but I thought it did a really good job of addressing this seeming complexity in Dick Cheney's character and why it doesn't actually make him a complex person, which I wrote about in 2019
www.themarysue.com/vice-movie-d...
www.themarysue.com/vice-movie-d...
Vice Deconstructs Trope of the Bad Man Who Loves His Family | The Mary Sue
Adam McKay's Vice shows the reality of the male antihero trope of the man who commits his bad deeds for the good of his family.
www.themarysue.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:16 PM
I know Adam McKay's "Vice" is divisive but I thought it did a really good job of addressing this seeming complexity in Dick Cheney's character and why it doesn't actually make him a complex person, which I wrote about in 2019
www.themarysue.com/vice-movie-d...
www.themarysue.com/vice-movie-d...
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Gonna repost this every time I come across it on socials. 💚
October 23, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Gonna repost this every time I come across it on socials. 💚
I'm still on my quixotic campaign to rid the world of the silly notion that "repeatedly doing the same thing while expecting different results" is in anyway a definition of insanity.
But for the Democratic Party, this is especially rich. Are you calling your voters insane?
But for the Democratic Party, this is especially rich. Are you calling your voters insane?
Jeffries: "Thune is divorced from reality. It's a clown show over in the Senate. 15 times you bring the same partisan Republican spending bill to the Senate floor expecting a different result? That's the classic definition of legislative insanity. Has no ability to actually negotiate in good faith."
November 6, 2025 at 5:06 PM
I'm still on my quixotic campaign to rid the world of the silly notion that "repeatedly doing the same thing while expecting different results" is in anyway a definition of insanity.
But for the Democratic Party, this is especially rich. Are you calling your voters insane?
But for the Democratic Party, this is especially rich. Are you calling your voters insane?
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Last night’s election results, in a nutshell.
(watching this legitimately made me laugh out loud)
(watching this legitimately made me laugh out loud)
November 6, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Last night’s election results, in a nutshell.
(watching this legitimately made me laugh out loud)
(watching this legitimately made me laugh out loud)
Just clicked for me that @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social could adopt The New Breed moniker of the early Mets.
"Freeze The Rent" scrawled on bed sheets, mixing with cheers of "Fuck the Yankees and Dodgers" sounds like a lot of fun.
#MetsSky
"Freeze The Rent" scrawled on bed sheets, mixing with cheers of "Fuck the Yankees and Dodgers" sounds like a lot of fun.
#MetsSky
![From the Dickson Baseball Dictionary
A Definition of the term The New Breed
The name used by New York Daily News sportswriter Dick Young to describe the rabid, anti-authoritarian New York Mets fans during the franchise's early years (1960s). Roger Angell (The Summer Game, 1972, p.110) noted that their "perverse loyalty" was in part "engendered by a hatred for the kind of cold-blooded success typified by Mr. [Walter] O'Malley [of the Los Angeles Dodegrs] and by the owners of the New York Yankees."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nekza65kc7vtize5l3ugcek7/bafkreicu3cmrjpzhdgczuhhlubdp4rntys7izpv5mj37sdrj3csutemuba@jpeg)
November 6, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Just clicked for me that @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social could adopt The New Breed moniker of the early Mets.
"Freeze The Rent" scrawled on bed sheets, mixing with cheers of "Fuck the Yankees and Dodgers" sounds like a lot of fun.
#MetsSky
"Freeze The Rent" scrawled on bed sheets, mixing with cheers of "Fuck the Yankees and Dodgers" sounds like a lot of fun.
#MetsSky
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Please take a minute to scroll through this—and share it.
It's the story of our time.
The Authoritarian Stack: How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic American—And Why Europe Is Next.
www.authoritarian-stack.info
It's the story of our time.
The Authoritarian Stack: How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic American—And Why Europe Is Next.
www.authoritarian-stack.info
The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
www.authoritarian-stack.info
November 5, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Please take a minute to scroll through this—and share it.
It's the story of our time.
The Authoritarian Stack: How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic American—And Why Europe Is Next.
www.authoritarian-stack.info
It's the story of our time.
The Authoritarian Stack: How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic American—And Why Europe Is Next.
www.authoritarian-stack.info
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ALL Haymarket EBooks are 80% off through November 7th ✊🏾✊🏿✊🏽
Haymarket Ebooks on sale for $2!
At Haymarket, our mission is to publish books that contribute to struggles for social and economic justice. We strive to make our books a vibrant and organic part of social movements, and we believe t...
www.haymarketbooks.org
October 27, 2025 at 7:16 PM
ALL Haymarket EBooks are 80% off through November 7th ✊🏾✊🏿✊🏽
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The fact that a lot of leftists despise Parks and Rec - one of the best and most sympathetic depictions of non-cop government in modern media - is a symptom of the fact that a lot of the left has no idea how to actually implement the policy proposals they want to enact.
The reason 30 Rock succeeds years later while parks and rec has aged like a toilet full of milk, is that 30 Rock doesnt shy away from portraying Liz Lemon as an obvious villian with a victim/hero complex, whereas Leslie Knope was played just a straight hero character, even tho she is a neolib shill
November 5, 2025 at 6:02 PM
The fact that a lot of leftists despise Parks and Rec - one of the best and most sympathetic depictions of non-cop government in modern media - is a symptom of the fact that a lot of the left has no idea how to actually implement the policy proposals they want to enact.
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This was her speech…. I’m boutta start crying
November 5, 2025 at 4:20 PM
This was her speech…. I’m boutta start crying
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Ms Rachel read Parenti… please and thank you.
November 5, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Ms Rachel read Parenti… please and thank you.
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If you're learning about Eugene Debs today and want to know more, @haymarketbooks.org has an amazing collection of books for you!
www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1246-t...
www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1246-t...
The Selected Works of Eugene V. Debs, Vol. I
An extensive compilation of articles, speeches, press statements, and open letters by American socialist Eugene V. Debs.
www.haymarketbooks.org
November 5, 2025 at 4:02 PM
If you're learning about Eugene Debs today and want to know more, @haymarketbooks.org has an amazing collection of books for you!
www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1246-t...
www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1246-t...
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“While there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.” —Eugene V. Debs
November 5, 2025 at 5:11 PM
“While there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.” —Eugene V. Debs
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Zohran off the very top rope quoting Eugene Debs in his *first sentence* as mayor-elect, this is going to be so much fucking fun.
November 5, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Zohran off the very top rope quoting Eugene Debs in his *first sentence* as mayor-elect, this is going to be so much fucking fun.
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I yearn for a political party where not endorsing Mamdani while praising Dick Cheney gets you automatically booted out
November 4, 2025 at 11:37 PM
I yearn for a political party where not endorsing Mamdani while praising Dick Cheney gets you automatically booted out
The epitome of US society right now
The defense team presses Lairmore on whether the sandwich really 'exploded.' They return to the photo of the sandwich and wrapper on the ground.
"That sandwich hasn't exploded at all, has it?" defense asks.
"It looks like a little bit is coming out towards the bottom," Lairmore replies.
"That sandwich hasn't exploded at all, has it?" defense asks.
"It looks like a little bit is coming out towards the bottom," Lairmore replies.
November 4, 2025 at 5:47 PM
The epitome of US society right now
It is so wild how dumbly folks parrot phrases without underwing them.
This is literally no more "seizing the means of production" than a hostile corporate take over is.
This is literally no more "seizing the means of production" than a hostile corporate take over is.
November 4, 2025 at 1:56 PM
It is so wild how dumbly folks parrot phrases without underwing them.
This is literally no more "seizing the means of production" than a hostile corporate take over is.
This is literally no more "seizing the means of production" than a hostile corporate take over is.
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I was fighting fascism with the power of love and kindness and just really getting my ass handed to me. proteanmag.com/2025/11/01/w...
November 2, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I was fighting fascism with the power of love and kindness and just really getting my ass handed to me. proteanmag.com/2025/11/01/w...
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'If then, there be such a thing as a #Liberal #Socialism... it must clearly fulfil two conditions. In the first place, it must be democratic. It must come from below, not from above... [Secondly it] must give the average man free play in the personal life for which he really cares' (L.T. Hobhouse)
October 28, 2025 at 1:10 PM
'If then, there be such a thing as a #Liberal #Socialism... it must clearly fulfil two conditions. In the first place, it must be democratic. It must come from below, not from above... [Secondly it] must give the average man free play in the personal life for which he really cares' (L.T. Hobhouse)