Happy Wet Day Eve to all who celebrate! 💦🪣 @pftompkins.bsky.social @cbbworld.bsky.social @scottaukerman.bsky.social

US cities are like “we closed every school, hospital, and social program to give our police force bulletproof cybertucks with rear-mounted railguns and somehow this hasn’t solved our crime and homeless problems”

Centrists would have condemned slave rebellions and concentration camp uprisings too. “Political violence isn’t the answer” applies when we’re discussing tax policy, not when discussing whether somebody with dark skin counts as human.

The inability to see the difference is privilege.

Wow you’re talented!! 😍

Putin: “This summit could’ve been an email”

Fascism is here. We are not “getting closer” or “in danger of.”

This matters because it frames our discussion: We aren’t trying to prevent it, we’re trying to defeat it. It’s not taking over our institutions, it’s taken them over.

Otherwise, we’re always behind, fighting a past we’ve already lost.

Who else is sick and tired of campaigns? Tired of watching the same old stuff be recycled that we used for Roe - that didn’t change the outcome.

Stop campaigning and start DOING. No more useless emails, no more two hour long marches, no more activism without strategy.

Just so we’re clear: Gavin Newsom is trash and openly fraternizes with far-right bigots. If the Democrats™ nominate him and bully people-with-a-conscience about voting for him “or else you let republicans win” they will yet again lose an extremely winnable election.

So do the right thing.

We can’t ever allow Ranked Choice Voting at a state or national level because it would destroy the forced “choice” between the Evil Capitalist party and the Evil-but-a-little-ashamed-of-it Capitalist party.

We must fight against capitalist bosses, corporate media, and billionaire owned politicians to make that a reality.

I’m glad such a stupid article is getting mocked for calling vacations “micro-retirements”.

The article complains vacations happen every 12-18 months. That’s an insanely long time to work without leisure. Workers should be able to comfortably take 1-2 weeks off work every quarter.

Political spectrum graph showing Republican Party as maximum authoritarian and economic right wing, America party as maximum economic right wing but less authoritarian, and Democrats as slightly less authoritarian and slightly less economically right wing but all parties deep in the “Authoritarian Right” quadrant

Taking a guess where the “America Party” will land on the political spectrum

Y’all I’m starting to worry packing the government with evil psychopaths for the past 100 years may start to have detrimental effects to society soon

It’s not “Alligator Alcatraz” it’s “American Auschwitz”

Cops be like “buddy I don’t make the rules I just selectively enforce them based on my prejudices and also I kill anyone who disobeys or disrespects me” #acab

What if we kissed in the queer anarchocommunist book store at the intersection of Mamdani Bldv and Mangione Ave?

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Carville endorsed Cuomo for Mayor. If you’re a Democrat, you should be mad at these guys. How is the party you’ve voted in to make things better when they are propping up the worst people? The people who are blocking the progress we all want?

I saw this at dinner on Friday and my immediate thought was this bit

No amount of “pro life but killing doctors” zings will ever embarrass them because they do not care about consistency or logic only their dominion over the rest of us.

They gladly lie to our faces and laugh when we point out the contradiction because they see us as subhumans undeserving of respect

Folks need to understand the 2006 era Jon Stewart hypocrisy reels never worked. Republicans and fascists regard us with contempt. They do not care about logical consistency because their entire belief system is: “the law protects but does not bind me. The law binds but does not protect you.”

Hey America do a Headless Kings protest next #nokings #guillotines

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Stop worrying about giving Donald Trump “excuses” to do things he’s going to do anyway.

I’m excited to see @pftompkins.bsky.social at the sold out Varietopia tonight!

In the 1940s, the Taft-Hartley Act was passed. This banned sympathy strikes and boycotts, allowed employers to use paid work time to campaign against unionization, ended wildcat strikes, and created right-to-work laws. Yet, this served to do more than just weaken a union's ability to strike. 🧵

Hey instead of upending wheelchairs to see if people are scamming you why don’t you try to get the film industry back in this country or better yet fall in a big smooth-walled hole

Elon has spyware running on every government server harvesting data on every citizen, gave himself huge billion dollar government contracts, and ended all the pending investigations into his criminal activities across his companies.

He's leaving because there's nothing more to steal

Elon is “exiting the White House” the same way a bank robber exits a vault after a successful heist.

Elon Musk announced he saved the federal government infinity billion million dollars! Wow he's so smart! So glad our government is working better now! We should give Elon lots of taxpayer money as thanks! /s #doge