Reposted by ivysorta 🏳️⚧️Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 10hLeft-NIMBYs love to pit welfare state expansion against land use reform, but the latter can 1) can achieve significant poverty reductions 2) without means testing or administrative burdens, and 3) at a net gain for the public budget, which can then be used to expand the welfare state. 116431
Reposted by ivysorta 🏳️⚧️Max Dubler 🏳️🌈 @maxdubler.com · 12hPeople mistakenly believe that unfunded inclusionary zoning is a way to tax developers and rich people to fund subsidized housing for the poor. It is not. In reality, it’s a tax on working and middle class renters. Actual rich people, who overwhelmingly own single family homes, pay nothing at all. 418830
Reposted by ivysorta 🏳️⚧️David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 17hThere's a shit-ton of actual anti-Semitism in the world today, but Netanyahu's fraudulent misuse of the term devalues it dangerously. Hamas is anti-Semitic and murderous. Netanyahu is a cynical, murderous shitheel. Mamdani is an American politician with a perverse impulse to tell blunt truths. 281194200
Reposted by ivysorta 🏳️⚧️Sam @samd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026it is quite confusing that “inclusionary zoning” is not the opposite of “exclusionary zoning”, but actually functions as a tool of exclusionary zoning 938439
Reposted by ivysorta 🏳️⚧️Asher Elbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I say this as someone pretty friendly to kink and play spaces: the idea of throwing a consensual non-consent *event* leaves me genuinely agog. I simply do not believe Aella and company are interested in constructing the kind of safeguards and acculturation you'd need to make that remotely safe 640170
Reposted by ivysorta 🏳️⚧️b. bolt @b-bolt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026i think more people should respond to blatant engagement bait with an honest accounting of their troubles. it would benefit humanity 061
Reposted by ivysorta 🏳️⚧️J. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 27/09/2026as someone who has been really critical of a lot of the initial breathless "teehee, weird sex" reportage, i really appreciate this thread for nailing the actual fucked up immoral thing that is happening; you CANNOT consent if your employment or job success are on the line 8856199
Reposted by ivysorta 🏳️⚧️"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Honestly, I think a lot of this comes out of spaces and situations where intentionally reading 'the enemy' - be that a high school rival, a political outsider, another academic, whatever - in bad faith is rewarded as a display of group solidarity, a demonstration of belonging through hate. 238730
Reposted by ivysorta 🏳️⚧️Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I think a legal ban on top surgery for minors would be bad and dumb but “if we don’t get express affirmative rhetorical support for gender transition surgery for minors from candidates in red states just before an election we might as well let the fascists win” is an insane position to hold 214713
Reposted by ivysorta 🏳️⚧️Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 25/09/2026this was done *in the house* *by the minority* *on a bill that had to become law*, which is basically playing legislator on legendary mode and house judiciary was far from the only committee doing this, in both chambers 433976
Reposted by ivysorta 🏳️⚧️Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026It's worth saying that the actual definition of women being insisted upon by these people in relation to, for example, Caster Semenya or Imane Khelif is one that would have been completely unintelligible to the vast majority of people throughout history. 341501182
Reposted by ivysorta 🏳️⚧️Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The case for “sitting out this election is support of genocide” is objectively much stronger than “voting for Kamala Harris is support of genocide,” so I’ll assume if you took the second position you also believe the first thing 57811
Reposted by ivysorta 🏳️⚧️The Almighty Tallest @spooknine.bsky.social · 25/09/2026For everyone who came up to me in the last few weeks with "oh you think there are gettable transphobe votes in Texas": NO. WE ARE GETTING THE HARDCORE TRANSPHOBES TO STAY HOME. FOR FUCKS SAKE. 17515
Reposted by ivysorta 🏳️⚧️Astreia @redoubters.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The single biggest blow to "running on transphobia wins elections" would be an election cycle where Elon spends hundreds of millions of $ for Rs to run on gutter transphobia and it leads to a generational wipeout and costs them seats in Kansas and Texas and Alaska how do people not get this 315030
Reposted by ivysorta 🏳️⚧️Joe Fish @sadbusdriver.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Here's another version: Because of the glory of the home mortgage disclosure act, we can see the income of homebuyers with mortgages. Within the same county/neighborhood/neighborhood and adjusting for unit characteristics, condo buyers are poorer than single family home buyers. it's a starter home! 210420
Reposted by ivysorta 🏳️⚧️Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Again, this is what Tucker says to normal audiences. To his own audience, literally today, he went on a deranged rant about, among other things, how Oswald Mosley wasn’t a Nazi. 51757246
Reposted by ivysorta 🏳️⚧️Dead Carl @deadcarl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026We don’t need Democratic centralism or Dem Juche, only a baseline understanding that “how do we win?” is a hard question about which reasonable minds can disagree. It’s bad for a host of reasons to interpret disagreements on tactics as evidence of incompetence or betrayal. 0322
Reposted by ivysorta 🏳️⚧️Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Democrats would be a right-wing party in Europe and are also in the midst of a right-wing turn that will transform them into a European center-left party, what isn’t clear about that 515018
Reposted by ivysorta 🏳️⚧️Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Like it is true that fewer than 100% of elected Democrats are committed to advancing trans rights but it is true in the sense that it’s actually 95% of elected Democrats, which is extremely good in relative, absolute, historical, and contemporary terms 636053
Reposted by ivysorta 🏳️⚧️Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 22/09/2026YIMBYism is simply an attempt to do to predatory landlords what the Pokémon Company is apparently doing to scalpers 131755
Reposted by ivysorta 🏳️⚧️Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Okay, so I have a plan to get everyone on our side. First, we be absolutely as viscerally unpleasant as possible. Next, we downplay any time we get what we want, say it's the bare minimum and so forth. Finally, if anyone gives up and says we win or apologizes, we belittle them. 471830300
Reposted by ivysorta 🏳️⚧️Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 21/09/2026some idiot pundit: wow, libs hate him this much but they don't want him to die, this must be a sign they're interested in healing *Evelyn Normielib leaning into the mic* I want him to suffer 381031161
Reposted by ivysorta 🏳️⚧️Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 20/09/2026The median voter is a bizarre combination of mutually exclusive ideas who pays absolutely no attention to politics. So.. neither? 915221
Reposted by ivysorta 🏳️⚧️Leon English @leonenglish.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Saw someone compare Talarico's comment on trans participation in sports to doing datacenter glonzo politics and I think that concedes that Talarico is trying to campaign on the former when in reality he is trying to shut down a particular narrative and media focus vs actively campaigning on it. 1386
Reposted by ivysorta 🏳️⚧️Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 20/09/2026The creation of dense, mixed-income, multiracial neighborhoods should be a significant policy priority for the Left because that is the breeding ground of our social base. 181072146
Reposted by ivysorta 🏳️⚧️Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Legislatively, the Biden years were extremely productive and its not exactly a great sign that ppl on here are simultaneously memory holing that while demanding that a future Dem trifecta tackle even bigger things 314926
Reposted by ivysorta 🏳️⚧️Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 19/09/2026ok gonna get Sincere(TM) here for a second There's a lot of doomerism about how "We're all cooked" because "The GOP is trying to steal our votes." So here's the true story of how the GOP tried to steal our votes here in NC and FAILED. TWICE. Ballot fraud isn't final. It gets stopped all the time.youtube.comCheck if you're registered to vote at http://voterresource.org/sarahtYouTube video by Farm to Taber 3297107
Reposted by ivysorta 🏳️⚧️Sara Straw @oneoneder.bsky.social · 19/09/2026The rent-seekers of gender 1839
Reposted by ivysorta 🏳️⚧️mallow @bajablastenjoyer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026anyway i think kaptur (terrible), newsom (bad), talarico (fine) and james (outright good, explicitly supportive message) all fall on separate areas of the spectrum and and combining them all as "the democrats" shows a distinct lack of brain capacity 47410
Reposted by ivysorta 🏳️⚧️ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 19/09/2026i personally think it was better when our community didn't do this (and we indeed did not use to do this) 31015
Reposted by ivysorta 🏳️⚧️Pride Ott 🦦 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Tbh a lot of leftists and liberals have broadly good positions on complicated issues but don’t really understand them, and think that better understanding them is itself problematic. You see this particularly around financial regulations 2343
Reposted by ivysorta 🏳️⚧️Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 19/09/2026It’s very simple and it’s been said over and over but I guess it needs saying continuously: if you ignore that Dems voted 206-2 & 47-0 against the trans athlete bill & attribute a post by some rando as the position of the Democratic Party you are a fucking dishonest hack 1018046
Reposted by ivysorta 🏳️⚧️rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 18/09/2026i think the closest analogy to 'what is going on at AI companies' is 'what was going on at JPL in the 1950s,' where communists, Satanists, swingers and adherents of a bizarre Russian Orthodox-adjacent techno-optimist microsect ended up doing a tremendous amount of important rocket science 23805147
Reposted by ivysorta 🏳️⚧️ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 18/09/2026I know that at least some of them are gonna see this and be like "hah,she'll really regret saying this when the Dems actually do bus throw us" and like, I don't know what to say, except "you only believe what you believe because you are in a room full of deeply traumatized ppl hyping one another up" 1652
Reposted by ivysorta 🏳️⚧️Torberg M. Tonnessen @tmtonnessen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Looks like "growpramming" has arrived. Hat tip to @howardtayler.bsky.social www.schlockmercenary.com/2009-04-19 schlockmercenary.fandom.com/wiki/Glossaryschlockmercenary.comSunday 19 April 2009Daily strip for Sunday 19 April 2009 021
Reposted by ivysorta 🏳️⚧️J. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 17/09/2026"Marcy Kaptur blows enormous amounts of ass" yes, correct "this is proof that I'm right about Democrats going the way of Labour" go fuck a cactus, everyone's hated Marcy Kaptur since the fucking 90s 1014623
Reposted by ivysorta 🏳️⚧️Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026This is bad and should be called out. I push back against accusing everyone that breathes for wanting to throw us under the bus, so it is credible when we call it out when it unambiguously occurs. This is an unambiguous occurrence. 221132283
ivysorta 🏳️⚧️ @ivysorta.bsky.social · 17/09/2026*Looks at world* *Looks at diagrams* *Looks at world* The world is obviously flat, those nerds don't know what they're talking about. 020
Reposted by ivysorta 🏳️⚧️Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 16/09/2026i'm not against abstention campaigns to pressure dems because i'm ok with centrist apeasers i'm against them because they empower those apeasers at a time when they're actually *losing* the intra-party debate 721533
Reposted by ivysorta 🏳️⚧️Solenoid: better than Excel @jortscity.bsky.social · 16/09/2026"If you don't brush your teeth, you'll get cavities." "wtf you're literally blackmailing me into buying a toothpaste and toothbrush? they don't even prevent 100% of cavities" 311918
Reposted by ivysorta 🏳️⚧️Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 16/09/2026More people have pulled out of Ed Sheeran's opening act than pulled out of Aella 2543470
Reposted by ivysorta 🏳️⚧️Alt Bureau of Labor Statistics @domesticshoggoth.bsky.social · 15/09/2026the old world came in a fluffer. the new world struggles to pass the autofilter. now is the time of monsters. 940253
Reposted by ivysorta 🏳️⚧️Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 15/09/2026There are four classes in the United States: the oligarchy and its handmaidens, the professional administrative class, the lumpenbourgeoisie, and the post-proletariat. 1640170
Reposted by ivysorta 🏳️⚧️ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 15/09/2026I really want you to ask yourself, “how do I know that it’s leftists who support trans rights and liberals who want to compromise”. Like, how did you learn that? Who told you, and what have those people actually done for trans rights? 17312
Reposted by ivysorta 🏳️⚧️Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Yeah, as I suspected, simply providing a link that showed her anti-Dem claims were lies got me blocked by Alejandra Caraballo. She is a bad, dishonest person, & she’s causing harm in the world. People should stop treating her like she’s a trustworthy or principled person. She’s a grifting wrecker. 1822262
Reposted by ivysorta 🏳️⚧️Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I get that this is a challenging concept for many but as an adult you are responsible for the decisions that lead to and the consequences of both your actions and your omissions 17613