Reposted by Laurenmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 21hReally perfect economic combo where interest rates are increasing fast enough that homeowners are facing declining home values *and* homebuyers are facing increasing monthly payments. Just pure pain for everyone involved in buying or selling a home right now. 20645108
Reposted by LaurenBlack Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 22hI hate every single person who voted for this man. 229866
Reposted by LaurenGarrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 08/10/2026And 175 years later, remains one of the most powerful forces in modern American politics. 171104294
Reposted by Laurenelias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 09/10/2026it's worth appreciating, briefly and then never again, how half-assed and lazy his arguments against the pope and obama are. they're shitposts, not arguments. this guy doesn't have arguments. he has money. 520029
Reposted by LaurenGarrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 09/10/2026An amazingly stark example of how the US economy has broken: Zaslav clears nearly a *billion* dollars amid a CEO tenure where he made basically anything he touched worse, harmed multiple prestigious brands, led huge layoffs—but delivered a corrupt merger for shareholders. variety.com/2026/tv/news...variety.comDavid Zaslav Gets $606 Million Payout From Paramount-Warner Bros. MergerDavid Zaslav will receive $606 million as he leaves Warner Bros. Discovery, after the company's merger with David Ellison's Paramount was completed. 782459878
Reposted by LaurenProfessa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 09/10/2026And I say this: my grandfather Donald Gaines Murray, Sr., served in the US Army and walked off the plane and went to Princess Anne County to help support the NAACP in the representation of the family of a lynching victim. This dishonors the Army. 2529
Reposted by LaurenI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026This is why I want to emphasize that this type of behavior is seen or called for throughout US history. 120636
Reposted by LaurenAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Whoa. @haleaziz.bsky.social has the scoop on a truly insane plan to use some military training ships for deportations, with people presumably shackled or locked in cells for days at a time as they transit to Central and South America. Each journey would be staggeringly expensive — and dangerous.nytimes.comTrump Administration Considers Using Ships to Deport Immigrants (Gift Article)Journeys to destinations including El Salvador and Venezuela could take days and cost millions. Officials cautioned that discussions are still preliminary. 1991560851
Reposted by LaurenQuinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The administration’s resort to increasingly horrific forms of state violence as Trump loses his grip on power doesn’t make me feel super great, I have to say 251411240
Reposted by LaurenJudah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Insightful and historically informed three-post thread. 0182
Reposted by LaurenProfessa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Remember when we said that it would get really bad as the President realizes that accountability is nigh? 121871
Reposted by LaurenAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren... 8650971851
Reposted by Lauren🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 08/10/2026fwiw if you want to make a strategic case for congressional democrats trying to impeach trump if they take majorities, i think the first step is impeaching hegseth, the bar is lower and the likelihood of success is probably much higher 682369387
Reposted by LaurenChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I've been immersed in research on Reconstruction in Lousiana and it's a very difficult truth to absorb that the white terrorist movement in the South was among the most successful terrorist movements in global history. Took 10 years but it won a total & complete victory through murder and atrocity. 17161031490
Reposted by LaurenJames @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I guess this is just sort of the logical endpoint of this administration’s commitment to fulfilling their supporters’s desire to vicariously consume violence done to other people. 501456233
Reposted by LaurenJess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 08/10/2026It's telling that men would rather try to invent tech to replace humans' role in caregiving than step up as equal partners in parenting. Telling, that is, in that it shows how financial capitalism and patriarchy work together to dissuade men from doing "unprofitable" labor, like the work of care. 35649911237
Reposted by LaurenJoel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Zohran Mamdani is living proof it is possible to be anti-Zionist without being antisemitic, and some antisemitic anti-Zionists AND some right-wing Zionists will never forgive him for that. 13829160
Reposted by LaurenElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026So... "cable"... we're just doing cable again. 1142363328
Reposted by Laurenelias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 05/10/2026if republicans get wiped-out in the midterms the far-right (twitter) will engage in a race to the bottom in terms of who can get closest to going full nazi—sort of a zeno's dichotomy situation at this point, to be fair—because far-right politics cannot fail but only be failed. 728344
Reposted by LaurenPeople's Government of the Pelargir Commune 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴 @dov.bsky.social · 06/10/2026There is a kind of person who is now pushing forty but their anticapitalism is still as trivially vulgar as it was when they were ten 1956
Reposted by LaurenRev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Notice the absence of the traditional olive branch? The olive branch symbolized America prioritizing peace with war as a last resort. It has been part of the Great Seal of the United States since 1782 and was part of the original seal of the Department of Defense. 19779245
Reposted by Lauren🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 05/10/2026i know some of you live in these states, go check your registration right now 48837
Reposted by LaurenSam @samd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026hard to think of a cartoon that better sums up the mind of a Trump voter than this 151238196
Reposted by LaurenJoel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Brad Lander’s politics, in terms of how he votes and what he supports, are functionally non-Zionist, but he has made the choice that identifying with that term allows him entrance to certain spaces where he can work to change views from within. This ultimately may make him more effective. 1717
Reposted by LaurenJoel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Even putting aside what this demands of Jews, it is the opposite of doing good politics. I have personally pushed Jewish members of my family away from pro-Israel and Zionist stances by persuasion, learning, and example. If I had just cut them off, they would have worse politics today. 412016
Reposted by LaurenJoel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026We would all have better conversations about Zionism if we viewed it as a nationalism like all others, akin to diaspora Serbian nationalism from Canadian Serbs. Not a civil rights or social justice cause, but also not a way Jewish people are abnormal or ontologically evil. 22767110
Reposted by Laurenjon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 04/10/2026I think basically the tl;dr on Quince is that it's Shein, if Shein had a good marketing department, aimed at a segment of the market with more disposable income. 2122
Reposted by LaurenSecretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Every single one of these stories is like this and it pisses me off to no end 892064368
Reposted by LaurenAlan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 02/10/2026For my latest, I wrote about some of the modern addictions shaping American life, from social media to celebrity to sports betting. Read at @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/portraits-of...liberalcurrents.comPortraits of an American Dopamine EaterOur attention economy incentivizes the profane degradations of fame-seeking and celebrity culture. 12322101
Reposted by Laurenjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/10/2026"they really believe it"/"they will try to do it"/"the promises are real" are things that most americans refuse to believe about politicians but if you take them seriously will help you predict political behavior more often than not 592613419
Reposted by LaurenReconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 01/10/2026THERE IS NO NONPARTISAN SOLUTION TO A PARTISAN ATTACK ON DEMOCRACY 049978
Reposted by Laurenelias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 01/10/2026just ban frats. everyone knows that’s the answer and no one seriously denies what frats are actually for, just as no one seriously denies that playing football can lead to CTE. 1048679
Reposted by LaurenReconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 01/10/2026the thing about stuff like this is that five biggest changes in american politics have all been partisan projects The Constitution, the Jacksonian Revolution, Reconstruction, the New Deal, and Civil Rights were all explicitly partisan projects. 1351687
Reposted by LaurenSeth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026When the US State Department is doing such great work to project a friendly American face to the world, it’s a total mystery why fewer people are choosing to visit. 3560094
Reposted by LaurenProf Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The tech bros out there saying that AI-generated music will replace music created by musicians and the tech bros out there telling us to use AI to curate your music collection are pushing such a dystopian, soulless, empty, vacuous view of what music is & how important it is to people’s lives 26113
Reposted by LaurenSharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026it's genuinely mildly entertaining watching Biden holdouts use *BRETT MCGURK* of all people as their defense of Biden's MENA strategy 3583
Reposted by LaurenIsaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Just an FYI, if the US does the ban, it fucks itself. If the US does a selective ban, everyone shuffles around. If the US doesnt do a ban its fine. So the correct course of action for europe is: Okay. 11239
Reposted by LaurenSharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Biden Israel/Palestine discourse driven by McGurk is so annoying to me because (1) guys, it's fucking McGurk, the guy who was accused of porking someone on the embassy roof (2) do people genuinely think the Biden admin was using every natsec lever at hand w/r/t Israel? 2750243
Reposted by Laurenutopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 30/09/2026papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....papers.ssrn.comSororities as Confederate MonumentsIn this Essay, I argue that sorority houses are a type of Confederate memorial. I make two claims. First, sororities have clearly announced their allegiance to 616728
Reposted by LaurenSecretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The thing that’s always annoying about these stories is Trump said, on the record, that he was going to deport 20 million people. The highest estimate of “unauthorized” immigrants is 14 million, the vast majority of whom are visa overstays, have TPS, or DACA… 723637
Reposted by LaurenJoeyJoJoShabadoo @joeyjojo-shabadoo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Of course Trump is worse. That in no way excuses Biden's failures. It's going to be worth reckoning with those failures more as the primary heats up because if the next dem admin brings in Biden's hacks like McGurk, Sullivan and Blinken they will fail again in the same ways. 41296
Reposted by LaurenJoeyJoJoShabadoo @joeyjojo-shabadoo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026In Gaza, the humanitarian access barriers were almost entirely due to the IDF acting with our support, and Biden tried to navigate around this reality with absurd ideas like the floating pier rather than confronting the reality of the harms being caused by our full support of the IDF. 31708
Reposted by LaurenJoeyJoJoShabadoo @joeyjojo-shabadoo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026People who actually worked for USAID, like myself, care about humanitarian outcomes, believe it or not. I didn't work on Gaza but I did on Syria and while the US was far from perfect there we generally did good work on advocating for increased humanitarian access being denied by Assad and Putin.thenewhumanitarian.orgUS Gaza pier to close after costing $230m for a day’s worth of aidThe ill-fated project was beset from the start by unrealistic expectations and logistical problems. 21007
Reposted by LaurenAnne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...thecut.comWhat It Feels Like at Cornell Right NowAs a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big. 5030971089
Reposted by LaurenIsaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I think its possible most people in geo-politics who self-describe as realists have been the wrongest of all the time 97813