Reposted by @hfp325.bsky.socialIvan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 5hThere's a really moving passage towards the end of @adellewaldman.bsky.social's *Help Wanted* about why the novel's big-box-store workers never get together outside of work. No one has space or $, no one's schedules match, etc. Powerfully sums up the materialist substrate of social life 0458
hfp325.bsky.social @hfp325.bsky.social · 09/10/2026My favorite is when they did they pre-taped natural disaster relief fundraiser. “Help the people, the thing that happened, happened to…..” 020
Reposted by @hfp325.bsky.socialNashville Banner @nashvillebanner.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Frances Edwards, a 96-year-old Nashvillian, plans to vote right when early voting begins. “I might die” before Election Day, she reasons. ✍️ @stelliott.bsky.socialnashvillebanner.comFrances Edwards, 96, doesn't take voting for granted - Nashville BannerA 96-year-old resident at a Green Hills senior living facility makes voting a priority, pushes for increased registration and participation from others. 094
Reposted by @hfp325.bsky.socialfloating in lotus position @gallantdimwit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Incredibly funny to find this text—sent while Caitlin Clark was going giga viral during Women’s NCAA March Madness—and do your due diligence, but check only the NBA and Men’s NCAA game schedule. It’s one of the most Republican ways to crater your public profile ever devised 5338
Reposted by @hfp325.bsky.socialSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 27/09/2026So much of what we are confronting today is best understood by the actions undertaken by white communities in response to integration orders. White supremacy is a form of democratic nihilism. Every institution, norm, and value of democracy will be sacrificed for it. calendar.eji.org/racial-injus...calendar.eji.orgSep. 27, 1958 | White Little Rock Voters Choose to Close Public Schools Rather Than IntegrateLearn more about our history of racial injustice 251143441
Reposted by @hfp325.bsky.socialDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on. 3249742754
hfp325.bsky.social @hfp325.bsky.social · 24/09/2026It’s not even interesting at this point, it’s so obvious. 030
hfp325.bsky.social @hfp325.bsky.social · 23/09/2026This is such a wild - WILD - misreading of the piece, you have to assume she didn't read it. 000
Reposted by @hfp325.bsky.socialDave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Empty seats on both sides of me as I hear the president insist that the American Airlines Center is full and there are thousands of people outside. Nothing new to say, just... wow, 11 years of this, huh 311470221
Reposted by @hfp325.bsky.socialCatherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Since becoming president again, Trump has promised: -$5000 stimulus checks via "DOGE dividend" -$2000 stimulus checks via "tariff dividend" -$1000+ checks via "savings" from expiring ACA subsidies -$5000 "dividend" if Rs win midterms No checks have been issued www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-magi... 46679463376
Reposted by @hfp325.bsky.socialBarred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 07/09/2026I've been Black long enough to have at least some built-in 'yup, people be racist, and yet we move' defense systems But ngl shit can still sometimes be...jarring! Like seeing this, openly and shamelessly, and knowing Gorsuch had him in his chambers, and that he helps pick federal judges. Sickening! 933044676
hfp325.bsky.social @hfp325.bsky.social · 06/09/2026No no, of course. But she had to know this was a very possible outcome, and she accepted that as worth it. 110
hfp325.bsky.social @hfp325.bsky.social · 06/09/2026And there’s no way this wasn’t part of her calculation - given how difficult it would have been to win. She decided an impactful loss was worth it. 110
Reposted by @hfp325.bsky.sociallaura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026If you haven’t read the dedication of Gloria Steinem’s autobiography My Life on the Road, it is really worth taking a second today. 272159476
Reposted by @hfp325.bsky.socialPerry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 03/09/2026"The warehouse worker and the software engineer are in the working class because the reason there’s no air conditioning in the warehouse is the same reason the engineer has to move across the country to return to the office," writes @joewrote.bsky.social. www.joewrote.com/p/why-libera...joewrote.comWhy Liberals Can’t Define “Working Class”The distinction between capital and labor doesn’t fit their worldview. No wonder a coherent definition escapes them. 26513
Reposted by @hfp325.bsky.socialTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 27/08/2026From their perspective, if A.I. isn't going to get them a good job (and the A.I. narrative is boasting about eliminating good jobs) then college should at least match their idea of what it used to be -- personal, inspiring, chats on the quad, experiences. Then their class is all about tech. 3883110
Reposted by @hfp325.bsky.socialLinda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 26/08/2026People far, far richer than she was spend their entire lives fighting not to pay more taxes on their luxury planes, and she was like, “You need band uniforms? Medical care? Books? A vaccine? Help after a natural disaster? I GOT MONEY.” 241951
Reposted by @hfp325.bsky.socialDave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Wait… so Mark Walter and the Guggenheim group unload the Lakers to a Trump family member - Josh Kushner last seen two weeks ago failing to stripmine FIFA. - and Walter & Guggenheim are under a mammoth DOJ and SEC investigation? Watch that “investigation” disappear. This country is being looted. 8728221033
Reposted by @hfp325.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 242892604
Reposted by @hfp325.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. 92069330
Reposted by @hfp325.bsky.socialMina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Hello I reinvented Cliff’s Notes so adults can revert to being lazy 8th graders who didn’t do their homework. Give me a billion dollars now. 1233697562
Reposted by @hfp325.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11/08/2026The standard rule of administrative burdens: if you increase the time tax for doing something, you make it less likely that people will do it. That is what the Trump administration is trying to do with vaccines. 28530147
Reposted by @hfp325.bsky.socialDavid Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 11/08/2026I’ll have the chicken. Youre in luck, there’s one left. 829084
Reposted by @hfp325.bsky.socialSteve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 10/08/2026“The idea wasn’t just to retroactively protect ‘the babies of slaves’; it was to prospectively forestall future efforts to deny citizenship based on whatever other non-sovereignty-based criteria might be politically popular in any given moment.” Me on why Trump’s new EO is *still* unconstitutional:stevevladeck.com243. Birthright Citizenship, ReduxPresident Trump's new attempt to cabin birthright citizenship is a lot narrower than the one the Supreme Court struck down in June. Its key provisions are still unconstitutional. 322118555
Reposted by @hfp325.bsky.socialTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 08/08/2026I think they’re just deliberately trying to undermine the WNBA because it was making money and it was so popular and it was a counter to the NBA: this wholesome back-to-basics family-friendly game. And maybe some of this: current.fas.harvard.edu/stories/nobe...current.fas.harvard.eduA Nobel laureate’s assist to women’s basketball prosIn March 2026, the union representing professional women's basketball players reached a historic collective bargaining agreement with the WNBA, securing salary increases of nearly 400 percent for its ... 12824164
Reposted by @hfp325.bsky.socialRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Rudy Giuliani is why a lot of people died during and after 9/11. Has anyone said he shouldn't show up? How about George W. who cut anti-terrorism measures that might've prevented it? Why does racist fantasy harm matter more than real harm; the answer is racism, including in amplifying these voices. 301929468
Reposted by @hfp325.bsky.socialLeah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 08/08/2026FWIW: much of the time when a group announces "plans to spend $15m" on a buzzy topic, what they actually mean is that they're going to tap into the buzzy topic to try to raise $15m that they do not currently have. this is not a plan, it's a fundraising pitch to panicking donors 15930184
hfp325.bsky.social @hfp325.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Jonathan, why do you hate veterans? Oh wait, does this also have nothing to do with that?? 000
Reposted by @hfp325.bsky.socialDon Zeko @donzeko.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Can't get numb to this stuff. Pursuing a case that you know lacks PC, getting an indictment via grand jury misconduct, and doing so for corrupt purposes coming directly from the president. There's not much a prosecutor can do that's worse than this. 1249
hfp325.bsky.social @hfp325.bsky.social · 02/08/2026My first queenys, my first zinnias. Absolutely incredible!! 110
Reposted by @hfp325.bsky.socialAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Not only did they absolutely beg for this, they made it so that “merit” was synonymous with being white so now you’re stuck with precisely the kind of moron who believes that. www.politico.com/news/magazin... 295114802682
Reposted by @hfp325.bsky.socialAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 01/08/2026The immigrant union troops who defended their adopted country from slaver traitors are in fact, proof of concept of American higher ideals having nothing to do with “blood” or “heritage” or whatever cowardly euphemism is in vogue among these pathetic losers 231622256
Reposted by @hfp325.bsky.socialCatherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 31/07/2026A republic, if you can shake it down www.wsj.com/politics/pol...wsj.comExclusive | ‘The Boss Wants This Money’: Inside Trump’s Unprecedented Fundraising OperationMeredith O’Rourke, nicknamed ‘princess of darkness,’ carries out the president’s desire to wring hundreds of millions from companies for his projects. 12493135
Reposted by @hfp325.bsky.socialJay Willis @jaywillis.net · 30/07/2026"The anti-trans sports thing has two major factions, good-faith people who care a lot about women's sports," ah, no, let me stop you right there. "Good-faith people who care about women's sports" are not anti-trans because they understand that anti-trans activists do *not* care about women's sports. 517325
Reposted by @hfp325.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. 5553921355
Reposted by @hfp325.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/07/2026Reminder that on his last day of his first term, Trump awarded a commendation to Dr Fauci "in recognition of his exceptional effort on Operation Warp Speed" 12358652150
Reposted by @hfp325.bsky.socialAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Wrote about the Masculinity Scam, or how selling reactionary ideas about what makes a man helps a small number of bad people profit and makes everyone else (including men) miserable www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... 582537624
hfp325.bsky.social @hfp325.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Bernie will never learn because he can’t hear criticism. 000