Reposted by @edanziger.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026feels like at least part of what is happening is that a lot of people want politics to solve the "my life feels empty" problem and the populist right is directly appealing to them 973726438 3.7K
Reposted by @edanziger.bsky.socialOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026But fossil capital's ability to slow energy transition and maintain a measure of political control is a problem with a rising body count, and the sooner we usher them out of relevance the better 320235 202
Reposted by @edanziger.bsky.socialDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/09/2026"When one side rejects pluralism, electoral legitimacy, or epistemic accountability, then 'reconciliation' and even 'civility' function less as neutral civic virtues than as asymmetric constraints, and they risk unilaterally disarming pro-democracy forces." 🎯 328253 282
Reposted by @edanziger.bsky.social🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 27/09/2026formal education and instruction help you to understand what you *don't* know, and what you don't know is just about as important as what you do 425125 251
Reposted by @edanziger.bsky.socialAlan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The moral collapse of our politics is perfectly embodied by this kind of salacious tripe and a media ecosystem that can’t get enough of gossip qua analysis 2140352 403
Reposted by @edanziger.bsky.socialthe abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 20/09/2026a ravenous, murderous enemy of liberation that shuts its borders and seeks to purge the very diversity that made the American project possible. a black hole of merit or virtue on the international stage. reductio ad absurdam, as policy. 47614 76
Reposted by @edanziger.bsky.socialpmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 16/09/2026"snow angel" or the "angel of death," is the rare imprint left by an owl as it swooped down to catch prey 533872712 3.9K
Reposted by @edanziger.bsky.socialKarl Bode @karlbode.com · 12/09/2026I just think it would be neat if some of these articles mentioned that corrupt fascists gutted our regulators and labor/environmental/consumer/cybersecurity standards with the enthusiastic support of the tech sector I think that might be nice context for the reader 210522 105
Reposted by @edanziger.bsky.socialDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below. 147137394906 13.7K
Reposted by @edanziger.bsky.socialWerner Herzog's Bear @jasontebbe.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Yes certain demographics respond to this populist message more than others, but at base we can’t be surprised that the enshittification of life and the nihilism of consumer capitalism corrupts people’s souls. 022 2
Reposted by @edanziger.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/09/2026it is the same story everywhere. young men convinced by their phones that the reason they are unhappy is that they don’t live in the imaginary utopian ethnostate they think existed before they were born 2503121 503
Reposted by @edanziger.bsky.socialBill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 02/09/2026part of it is that he just sounds like an imbecile when he speaks. it's that the intelligence to turn a buck into a buck fifty is not the same intelligence that can bring beauty and insight into the world 519118 191
Reposted by @edanziger.bsky.social"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Do fascists support representative systems of government? No, they're relentlessly authoritarian. They aren't taking liberal ideas to the extreme, they're rejecting all of them, in their totality. They'd be the first to tell you - these days they openly call themselves 'post-liberals.' 131530 315
Reposted by @edanziger.bsky.social"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 24/08/2026We have to start, of course, by getting the damned fascists out of power. 1356538 565
Reposted by @edanziger.bsky.social"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Which is not to say we're powerless. Indeed, the opposite: the entire reason we perceive this impulse as 'fascism' rather than just 'normal politics' is that we have succeeded in building a world that is *better* than fascism. That is not natural, it is a creation of our effort! 361857 618
Reposted by @edanziger.bsky.social"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Fascism is not new, in a sense, it is old: fascism is the emergence of our old, pre-liberal, pre-enlightenment emotional gestures, bubbling through the cracks of modern society: suspicion of outsiders, the desire for uniformity, for a strong leader, for conquest of the out-group. 1782776 827
Reposted by @edanziger.bsky.socialSam Ulmschneider @samulmschneider.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Normally I just appreciatively read @jamellebouie.net 's columns-sharable video content just isn't my bag. But this is a very, very, very trenchant piece of commentary that captures a lot of how I increasingly understand the disjunction between the commentary environment and on-the-ground politics.youtube.comThe pundits have completely lost the plotYouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie 7729221015 2.9K
Reposted by @edanziger.bsky.socialMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026The excesses of the Woke 1 era mostly amount to cringe public statements, harmless vocabulary updates and loss of prestige for public figures. The backlash to Woke 1, on the other hand, is imprisoning dissidents, dismantling public education and eroding democracy. That's what needs reckoning 242890604 2.9K
Reposted by @edanziger.bsky.socialMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Meanwhile, the right never meant any of it. They moaned about "cancellation" for a decade but embarked on mass firings as soon as they took power. They pretended to care about "free speech restrictions" and "educational indoctrination" while embarking on them every chance they got. 131944272 1.9K
Reposted by @edanziger.bsky.socialMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Personally, I think what needs reckoning with is how fake it all was. Centrists convinced themselves annoying leftists on twitter were an equivalent threat to Jan 6 insurrectionists. They wildly inflated the threat of left-wing authoritarianism while ignoring how it was taking hold on the right. 92067330 2.1K
Reposted by @edanziger.bsky.socialWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 02/08/2026It's also INCREDIBLY DUMB. Often the key to swing-state success is the sense that a politician isn't bound to one party, that they think for themselves, that they're willing to express disapproval of both sides. By maintaining a broadly left-of-center coalition, you give them space to do that. 81417 141
Reposted by @edanziger.bsky.socialZoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 02/08/2026One thing a lot of ppl don't realize is that most of the free world has liquidated the material basis for a creative slacker class, and this is a large part of why mass media has become so sterile. Your art has to pay your godawful rent from Day 1 and you can't take risks with the rent money. 27720 77
Reposted by @edanziger.bsky.socialmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/07/2026All the Fauci stuff is a modern day version of the POW/MIA stuff after Vietnam - a way to try to rewrite the history of a huge failure of conservative ideology to be instead a story about how liberals and foreigners stabbed us in the back. 5553911355 5.4K
Reposted by @edanziger.bsky.socialDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 28/07/2026That basic problem -- the problem of the information environment, which I've banged on about for 20+ years now -- is upstream of *everything* else. There's no simple fix. It's certainly not going to be fixed with clever word choice or policy proposals. You have to shift the deep mythologies. 1754495 544
Reposted by @edanziger.bsky.socialAsha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Musk is trying to normalize selective empathy (he’s said that empathy is the West’s “greatest weakness”), because an expanded and inclusive view of humanity is one of the common features of people with moral courage. To recruit ppl to his project, he needs them to think and be small, like him. 251407274 1.4K
Reposted by @edanziger.bsky.socialAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Wrote about the stolen valor behind the racist backlash to Nolan’s adaptation of the Odyssey. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... 21871144 871
Reposted by @edanziger.bsky.socialChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 16/07/2026At this point I don't really think anyone is even bothering much with denying climate change, instead there's just this insidious loss of interest, and resignation, but the thing is as bad as it is and will get it could still get a LOT worse depending on what we do 801621180 1.6K
Reposted by @edanziger.bsky.socialStu F. @sdfstu.bsky.social · 07/07/2026This is the correct take, the timeline went off track not in November 2016 but November-December 2000. It was a curse brought on by the dark magic of butterfly ballots and Sandra Day O’Connor’s fateful choice. 624120 241
Reposted by @edanziger.bsky.socialHari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Has any politician in history been worse at reading the room than Hakeem Jeffries? “Yay for Trump’s corruption! Kickbacks get the job done!” 1628158 281
Reposted by @edanziger.bsky.socialNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 06/07/2026When the govt of a nation founded on religious liberty has been taken over by Christian Nationalists, abusing state power to impose their anti-Constitutional vision, I’d like an opposition party leader to speak the truth about history instead of adopting the Cristian Nationalists’ preferred fiction. 11568138 568
Reposted by @edanziger.bsky.socialLaura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 05/07/2026This has been the most spiritually bankrupt celebration of anything I've ever seen and that's it, that's our 250th. We don't get to go back and redo it, this one's in the books: Temu Arch, cheesy architecture, horrible displays, AI everywhere. Far right propaganda. Jokes at our expense 323944774 3.9K
Reposted by @edanziger.bsky.socialMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 02/07/2026UK Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy quits TwitterX. This should be the first of many. 28473551373 7.4K
Reposted by @edanziger.bsky.socialDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 02/07/2026It's just like MAGA, except it wants a more tolerant, egalitarian society, where everyone has healthcare and the material prerequisites of a life of dignity. I guess from the perspective of the theater critics in media, that difference is invisible. 702881492 2.9K
Reposted by @edanziger.bsky.socialDavid Nir @davidnir.com · 30/06/2026SCOTUS reform won't just simply happen if Dems take Congress & the White House. A case has to be made for it—to a skeptical public, to reluctant politicians, to a hostile media. The blowback from the right will be intense and terrify a lot of weak-willed pols. The case has to be made starting *now* 251220362 1.2K
Reposted by @edanziger.bsky.socialWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Call me crazy but probably the first step of Project 2029 should be "Reverse every part of Project 2025 and encode it all in law"???? Shouldn't that be the bare minimum??? 3653674 536
Reposted by @edanziger.bsky.socialMelanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 18/06/2026One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 0185 18
Reposted by @edanziger.bsky.socialghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 17/06/2026i think boarding school teenage masculinity is a part of masculinity but not of manhood. we have to get away from the concept of the opposite of "man" being "woman." the opposite of "man" is "boy" 1254388666 4.4K
Reposted by @edanziger.bsky.socialDr. Tessa Fisher @tessafisher.bsky.social · 16/06/2026There is no condemnation of modern day capitalism more scathing than all of the money has someone accumulated in the hands of the most gullible, mediocre doofuses imaginable 1166 16
Reposted by @edanziger.bsky.socialBirb_at_Arms @birblib.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Gotta say, it's depressing to realize that you have a solid path to power in most countries if you are: A) terrible at governing B) able to lie confidently C) fashionably racist 16310 63
Reposted by @edanziger.bsky.socialDave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Now that's an obituary headline. 121076 210
Reposted by @edanziger.bsky.socialOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Musk's incitement and the weaponisation of his platform to further his ends and destabilise the UK and spread fear and violence are reason enough to switch off X. If it was owned by Russia the government would have done so already. X and Musk may not be a state but they ARE a hostile power. 501433501 1.4K
Reposted by @edanziger.bsky.socialEliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 10/06/2026I hope the MPs who use this platform use this moment to tell their colleagues they should quit the race riot and non-consensual pornography platform once and for all, and call them out when they refuse. Musk clearly has no intention of cleaning up his platform, quite the opposite in fact. 251177309 1.2K
Reposted by @edanziger.bsky.socialSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 10/06/2026We need leaders who can spell out what's happening clearly and with force. 19343321512 4.3K
Reposted by @edanziger.bsky.socialDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 08/06/2026Progressives should try to make things better, for everyone, but they should not take those feelings as *evidence of anything*. They reveal nothing about the actual world, as evidenced by their persistence through wildly differing circumstances. They only reveal the character of those feeling them. 426026 260
Reposted by @edanziger.bsky.socialDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 07/06/2026In the real world, enduring progress comes through non-zero-sum cooperation over time, and anyone who has worked in a professional context knows that nothing makes such cooperation more difficult than the presence of egotistical men convinced they are bold risk-takers possessed of masculine energy. 956599 565
Reposted by @edanziger.bsky.socialAparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 07/06/2026In the US, the right has been on a multi-decades long attack on academia broadly and the humanities in particular, destroying tenure, using political power to destroy academic freedoms and now devastating federal funding for the humanities, but the Chronicle asks: has the left gone too far? 622473 224
Reposted by @edanziger.bsky.socialarr @arr.bsky.social · 05/06/2026english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs. 434153704205 15.4K
Reposted by @edanziger.bsky.socialDan Hon @danhon.com · 04/06/2026You wanted a thing that answers questions, but you didn't necessarily say you wanted them answered correctly? 2359 35
