Nature is healing

Hypothetically I am willing to consider letting "defectors" in from the cold. But it is incumbent upon them to demonstrate that they have actually, you know, defected. Repentance requires sincere contrition; are they willing to demonstrate that?

they are calling it the perfect summary of the "keep men out of women's sports" movement

College Where Charlie Kirk Was Killed Revokes Graduation Speaker’s Invite

Billionaire funded TPUSA's goal is to police public discourse such that anyone to their left who speaks truthfully about what Charlie Kirk said or did, using his own words as evidence, will not be allowed to speak those truths to college students in red states. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...

College Where Charlie Kirk Was Killed Revokes Graduation Speaker's Invite Utah Valley University was thrilled that Sharon McMahon, a best-selling author, would speak at its graduation. And then her old posts resurfaced. Listen • 5:02 min

You'll never believe what this speaker--now cancelled thanks to "free speech" warriors like TPUSA & Sen. Mike Lee--posted about Charlie Kirk.

She said she was "gutted" by his murder. She described it as "horrific" and said it "should have never happened." And then she went on to post Kirk's words.

Elon Musk cost Republicans four House seats

Prediction Markets Are a Scam (With a Chart) YouTube video by Patrick Boyle

"it's the efficient markets hypothesis applied to everything, not just stock prices" www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0ns...

shot/chaser

To be clear: this is a joke about aesthtics and such

I'm saying this b/c of a @grayathena.bsky.social tweet but: why are we doing this for *Spirit* but didn't for PanAm?

DC's Newest Registered Democrat.

15 business days for my hard card!

I'm so fucking ecstatic now. Jesus fuck man.

OH MY GOD I A (PAPER) DC LICENSE!!!!!

Also when sweaty dudes with hammers who beat their wives get mad, there is an implicit threat of violence that simply isn’t there when girl job doers get mad. Nobody thinks teachers’ unions will go Nazi but the Teamsters might. This too is gender.

which is funny because it means i end up either getting called a radical communist or a neoliberal depending on the person i'm discussing policy with

i do occasionally find it funny that i'm in a position where i'm more or less a 20th century Labourite (somewhere between Bevin and Bevan, as someone would joke)

Gotta think SEIU instead of UAW, I am always saying this (and have been since I helped organize an SEIU union, in full disclosure)

The prevailing ideology behind DOGE and most of the right today is that all women's jobs can be categorized as email jobs where they make tiktoks about blending smoothies at work.

You can’t do that to rural voters! What are they, black people? bsky.app/profile/coll...

“Seattle’s own east wing”

…. A few ladders nobody will notice are gone.

The focus on counties rather than people is very telling.

the next shift

retvrn to reading about EP Thompson

a lot of people who say they believe in class genuinely find it hard to believe in class formation

this book should be mandatory reading, imo

more than anything i suspect if half the funding that went into paying for long-shot election campaigns in red states went into unionization drives, the latter would pay off a lot more than the former

while teamsters and UAW get a lot of attention i feel like people miss out that the average working class person in the US today is (1) a woman and (2) working a service job

everything is gender and we are being held back by the widely held belief that being a woman is bourgeoisie

case in point

www.glamour.com/story/why-is...