Reposted by Arielthe abbot of unreason (a returned archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 28/09/2026😍😍😍 432869
Ariel @arielmp.bsky.social · 25/09/2026this thread and the quotes have made me genuinely laugh out loud multiple times. everyone is hilarious 000
Ariel @arielmp.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I’m quibbling in the DSA slack with a ~65yo woman on the definitions of working class and she hit me with the OG Ehrenreich piece on the PMC from the 1970s so I responded with their followup Death of a Yuppie Dream from 2013 where they say the PMC is hollowed out. what a time to be alive 🤩 271
Ariel @arielmp.bsky.social · 22/09/2026just saw a podcast clip where Dana Nessel and Abdul are on together and the host point blank asked Dana if she’s voting for Abdul and she said yes and that voting for Mike Rogers would be a betrayal of her values. She answered in a longwinded and annoying way but a win’s a win 🎉 050
Ariel @arielmp.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I was positive Taylor Lorenz had done a heel turn rather than just being annoying or having bad takes when I noticed she hasn’t been on the A Bit Fruity podcast for many months when she used to be a pretty frequent guest. Matt B and Kat T are still delights of course! 070
Ariel @arielmp.bsky.social · 19/09/2026a NIMBY group really misinterpreted the online posting of what the DSA canvassing event I went to today was for and wrote us a bespoke letter begging us to adopt their NIMBY demands. total cultural victory for Left-YIMBYism that DSA is now a group NIMBYs feel they need to persuade 110
Reposted by ArielAriel @arielmp.bsky.social · 19/09/2026my new theory of the modern right that hasn’t failed me yet is “everything is psychosexual” 171
Ariel @arielmp.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I fucking knew it. Some of my Jewish family is not where I want them to be on Israel but they are all Democrats who would never vote for a Republican in a million years. This had Jewish Republican written all over it.dropsitenews.comMany of the “Michigan Jewish Dems” Backing Mike Rogers Are Actually Already Republican Supporters, Analysis FindsA close look at the signatories reveals many have been involved in past GOP efforts—including “Jews For Mitt” in 2012. 091
Reposted by ArielPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Literacy crisis: everyone is mad at Ed Sheeran, but if you actually read his statement he specifically said he’s not complicit 816245488
Reposted by ArielMcSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 09/09/20267 a.m. I wake up and get stabbed. 8 a.m. I go to my corner bodega for a Bacon, Egg, and Cheese. On the way, I get mugged. 9 a.m. I get on the subway and immediately get murdered. buff.ly/puREmHamcsweeneys.netA Day in the Life of a New Yorker, According to My Fox News-Watching Florida Family Members7 a.m. I wake up and get stabbed. 30815137
Reposted by ArielJeff Stein @jeffstein.bsky.social · 09/09/2026🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞 Big news: The Washington Sun launches w/: — Huge investment in DC & local reporters — Legend Tom Sietsema — Capital Weather — Newsroom of +100, w/ great reporters (& me) Comes after Bezos's enormous cuts to WaPo To support, sign up for (free!) newsletter: washingtonsun.com/newsletterswashingtonsun.com 581785509
Ariel @arielmp.bsky.social · 03/09/2026oh it’s definitely Bernie. Haley Stevens basically called him a jihadist today 060
Reposted by ArielKat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 30/08/2026sorry if I seem weird and intense now, it’s because I’m now weird and intense 1845865489
Reposted by Arielneuse river hag @neuseriverhag.bsky.social · 31/08/2026i think you can do it by making trump's crimes into true crime. no joke 16911125
Reposted by ArielDemocratic Socialists of America @demsocialists.bsky.social · 25/08/2026"Democratic Socialists of America extends our deepest condolences to the family, friends, and fans of Dolly Parton, a hero of the working-class and an inspiration to us all." 51811290
Ariel @arielmp.bsky.social · 19/08/2026today’s update to the “you don’t have to like Hasan Piker at all to see that some electeds/elites are experiencing severe Hasan Derangement Syndrome” discourse 161
Ariel @arielmp.bsky.social · 14/08/2026wow went on twitter and it is genuinely such a dark place. it’s extremely doomer and depressing. also a lot of people engaging in open conspiracism about the weirdest shit. glad I’ve pretty much fully transitioned to here 250
Reposted by ArielAlex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social · 10/08/2026This is a typically stellar @perrybaconjr.bsky.social column newrepublic.com/article/2141...newrepublic.comActually, AOC, Woke 1.0 Did a Lot of Good Things for This CountryThe congresswoman’s remarks Sunday ignored that things like Me Too and Black Lives Matters were positive developments. But it’s clear why she said what she did. 38328
Reposted by ArielBill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 08/08/2026idk, people are embarrassed to admit what they said and believed during BLM because the country has culturally shifted right. I don’t think hoping for a better world is a cause for shame 1688
Ariel @arielmp.bsky.social · 07/08/2026slightly blurry screenshot but long story short is that Fran Hong is still doing basically twice as good as Crowley lmao. State Navigate said they even polled more rural voters since the Michigan primary. I need every WisDem to switch to saying she is electable even if they don’t believe it 020
Reposted by ArielKras Mazov @pepperonidave.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Inside you are two wolves called it's over and we're so back. 0514
Reposted by Arielnickan نیکان @gaygirl.bsky.social · 04/08/2026there is a noticeable air of misogyny with which virtually every male 'center-left' political commentator here and on twitter speaks about Francesca Hong and it makes me really uncomfortable. they don't act the way they do toward her toward men. and without fail it's always a man doing it. 16015
Ariel @arielmp.bsky.social · 04/08/2026ok I watched the full Kaitlan Collins interview with Fran Hong and despite the minor Thanksgiving flub, Hong was excellent at redirecting Kaitlan’s questions back to the issues at hand and what she‘s going to do for Wisconsinites. Sorry she’s not as quick as Zohran, the left’s boy wonder 160
Reposted by ArielMikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 30/07/2026AOC needs to run, everyone simply needs to get over themselves 719019
Ariel @arielmp.bsky.social · 24/07/2026I’m not really sure he thinks this? he certainly won’t do anything about it himself because he thinks it’s uncool to believe in anything. He definitely viewed DSA canvassers as being performative and out of touch with the voters in the recent DC dem primary. 140
Ariel @arielmp.bsky.social · 17/07/2026some people on twitter are getting upset that AES is asking his followers to only criticize Stevens on her policies because it concedes the framing but I disagree. Sometimes it’s true you can just straight up defang an argument by acknowledging it and it can put your opponents on the back foot 120
Ariel @arielmp.bsky.social · 16/07/2026I see what this post is getting at in terms of constructively harnessing emotions but I think a big issue I have is that many electeds aren’t angry enough. They keep treating Congress like it’s a fun little club with their R colleagues and not seeing the state of the USA as worth being angry about 260
Ariel @arielmp.bsky.social · 14/07/2026god neera is paid so much and she’s so dumb. “voters are cattle who must be condescended to. and a focus group from 7 years ago about two totally different people in a totally different state is applicable.” also she literally is in an elite bubble??? 110
Reposted by ArielMekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 11/07/2026Super disingenuous framing by HuffPost. Look. I'm the king of calling Bernie and his Bernie Bros and the DSA Bros out on their anti-Black racism. This is not that. He was asking a *Black leftist*, how they address nonsense from *Black centrist* because as a white leftist, this is not his place. 442247591
Ariel @arielmp.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Local drama: DC has 2 At-Large Council seats up this year and an annoying DC law is that one of them has to go to a non-Democrat. In FPTP, we voted for the two at the same time. DC gets around this by having Dem-aligned Independents (Elissa Silverman describes herself as a “Bernie Independent”). 100
Ariel @arielmp.bsky.social · 06/07/2026I put this comment on a Know Your Enemy patreon ep on Graham Platner in October and I really don’t think this was a novel insight on my part. I‘m glad we have other awesome leftwing candidates like Zohran, AOC, and Abdul (among many others!) who have demonstrated both moral politics and character. 0140
Ariel @arielmp.bsky.social · 01/07/2026@jamellebouie.net have you ever considered running for office? Asking in totally good faith because I think you’d be incredible! 020
Reposted by ArielPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 01/12/2024the only reason that tech was ever remotely left-coded was that in the early 2010s they consciously aligned themselves with what appeared to be the dominant political party. that meant large donations to Dems and nominal gestures toward diversity. as soon as the winds shifted they swung right. 1828148914
Reposted by ArielMichael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 13/11/2024the american voters who chose this are far less responsible than the reps and appointees and judges in both parties who allowed trump to go unpunished in obvious violation of the public trust and their oaths of office 644285677
