I don’t think this is accurate. It was much more accurate around the end of the Obama administration, but Biden’s lizardism and general good relations with people like Bernie and AOC have gone a long way to mending fences. 1/
Gaza has been hard for people, and a thriving tankie zombie griftosphere has infected some well-meaning and once more sane people with some cartoonish versions of global south anti-imperialism that horseshoe theory with social conservative Putinist America Firsters. But those are fringes. /fin
i think he thinks that a group of Dem electeds have succumbed to motivated reasoning that pretends Amazon and Google and their absurdly wealthy principals can be the Star Trek future, great virtuous meritocrats, fine donors and allies. it’s finally hard to pretend. theintercept.com/2016/04/22/g...
Google’s Remarkably Close Relationship With the Obama White House, in Two Charts
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"Jeff Bezos just forced the Democrats to see that economic power is political power." @matthewstoller.bsky.social www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-r...
Monopoly Round-Up: Jeff Bezos and the Washington Post Teach Democrats About Billionaires
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there are important distinctions between very bad and much, much worse.
people who own the media are capable of manufacturing vibes of despondency about the candidate they disfavor. fuck them. even though they are unfuckable. everyday miracles.
are the echoes of choosing this venue intentional?
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maybe a month ago? i e-mailed ‘cuz i couldn’t find you here (replied to a kind e-mail from you). i’m still very much on Mastodon, but now here too!
from @edieolmsted.bsky.social newrepublic.com/post/187537/... ht @rossmacfarlane.bsky.social @oregonthedm.bsky.social
Text: The letter urges that after the election, they can hold Harris accountable with “every nonviolent tool of democracy.” Such tools would likely not be available under Trump, who has vowed to deport pro-Palestinian protesters and threatened to turn the military against his own citizens.
the false familiarity of political solicitations makes me want to vomit. “Steve, it's Aly, and I need to have a quick ❤️ to ❤️ with you” i don’t know Aly. u are not Aly, just some fundraising flack using her name. it’s a campaign i support, have already given $ to. why do u treat me like a mark?
thanks! one never knows from which scribbler one is distilling ones frenzy, but i’m afraid i’m too illiterate to have been directly influenced by either. (@poetryforsupper.bsky.social did try to educate me about Wittgenstein a bit recently.)
I am grateful that Israel seems to have chosen a cautious, calibrated response to Iran’s prior salvo. Frankly, it’s not what I expected, and I am very glad to have been proven wrong.
i’m getting pretty tired of Jeff Bezos’ cancel culture.
i tweet on Mastodon too, though. i agree on the rotting husk of the site called twitter one cannot tweet, one can only retch or poop.
both “skeet” and “toot” sound awkward to be, albeit in different ways. we could merge them into “scoot” maybe. or “teet”.
since there’s no longer any website called “twitter”, i think “tweet” should become a site-neutral term for a microblog post on any site, or for posting one. i am tweeting this on BlueSky.
there should be a warm, comfy library on the other side.
“Musk has all the money in the world. He has the ability to be one of the best informed people in the world. And he’s built for himself a snowglobe of confirmation bias” @mmasnick.bsky.social www.techdirt.com/2024/10/25/l...
Lies, Damned Lies, And Elon Musk
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Chicken: She started it! Egg: No he did!
“I wouldn’t completely write off a Harris win in the Electoral College even if Mr. Trump narrowly won the popular vote.” ~Nate Cohn www.nytimes.com/2024/10/25/u... ht Josh Barro // on the bright side, this would be the event that could rid of us of the electoral college.
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maybe the LA Times and the Washington Post are part of a conspiracy to make The New York Times look good.