The inability to just tell the right wing to eat shit, fuck off, die mad about it, is based on a perverse belief that their incessant whining pissy moaning is something that deserves any kind of respect or civility.

Anything short of a wholehearted "fuck literally all of this, we are going to go Nuremburg on these freaks and then drain Elon dry to fund fixing this stuff" will lose, badly.

And there's like zero chance the dems will even think to say that.

Low bar. Kathy swerved left the moment her Lt. Gov Antonio Delgado announced he was gonna primary her, Mamdani crushing Cuomo only pushed her even more. Otoh she just approved a big gas pipeline project so im gonna need her to do better than clocking Stefanik as bein full of shit, but I did lol.

Someone is going to have the write the thing about how “vibe” has become a substitute for meaningful theory in a world where the theory is so clear — grift and power — but we collectively refuse if because it isn’t sophisticated enough to generate make work for empiricists.

In 1945, the US Army put out a training manual intended to help rank and file soldiers spot incipient fascism in the US. One of the telltale signs that one was dealing with a fascist was that they called everyone to their left "a communist." bsky.app/profile/seth...

Give Booker Hodges an honorary ACAB hall pass. Just for like, a day. As a treat.

Hey look if anyone is gonna be first to ventilate an ICE agent, strapped grandma from North Carolina is absolutely the best person to do it from a narrative standpoint - but I look fwd to Steven Miller trying to frame meemaw as an antifa supersoldier anyway.

My intuition is that the pigs are doing this with his blessing - but otherwise, this dynamic where the state police are *supposed* to serve the Governor but *not really* because their ability to leverage violence and coercion supersedes all other power is a big fucking problem.

I hear that. Needing a sufficient subscriber base doesn’t bode well for the reality of smaller market / rural / local newspapers ever being viable. And that vacuum being filled by syndicated rightwing propaganda is backbreaking. (I’m sure you know all this!)

Also shout out to @hellgatenyc.com (would definitely ID as a newsroom!)

Right on - is there a model currently out there (or trying to get off the ground) that you find aspirational? I’m a fan of @flaminghydra.com for instance - but I’m not sure if they’d even self identify as a “newsroom”.