Reposted by ktrainceej @ceej.online · 04/10/2026“how do we win back trump voters in 2026” we don’t. we create an environment where admitting to voting for trump is so socially embarrassing as to render them completely inert. you don’t “win back” trump voters. you demoralize them into staying home. you make it a dunce cap 152108342343
Reposted by ktrainpixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Sad news everyone. Our beloved friend the computer has now become a hated enemy 168124082647
Reposted by ktrainBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026you have to do good policy because it's the right thing to do, and then you have to find a way to sell it* to the public because democracy and accountability are important, but you can't go chasing the public. *or, frankly, to do it without them noticing. 857160
Reposted by ktrainActing the Fulemin @actingthefulemin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026there are 70 million people for whom this is the biggest song in the world. they watch comedies called like "Wives of Jim" that have run for nine seasons. they're usually pretty affable in person. in 2024 they severed the fate of humanity because of egg prices 814244719
Reposted by ktrainKill Tim Faust 💀 @tbone.malware-virus.biz · 21/09/2026You're not going to build a durable progressive coalition from guys like this, but they're the exact types of voters who Democrats claim they want to win in '26 and '28 — but when you bring AI $ into it, it turns out that effort only extends to doing things like discarding trans kids and immigrants. 118417
Reposted by ktrainScreamer Jim @screamerjim.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Our form of government must be completely reformed. With an imperial presidency, a deeply anti-democratic legislative body largely captured by corporate interests, and a roguish Supreme Court almost entirely insulated from democratic influence, there is no serious way forward. 838466
Reposted by ktrainCasval ☄️🏳️⚧️ @redcomets.net · 12/09/2026they were right to call it that I'm just gonna play wow for the rest of my life man I'm SO FUCKING HYPED 5223
ktrain @ktrain.bsky.social · 10/09/2026its the most gripping black library book ive read in years 010
Reposted by ktrainLOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 30/08/2026The major allies in WW2 were a decaying global empire led by a professional racist, a Leninist autocracy led by a guy who could barely string a sentence together and an apartheid state led by the most libbed up man alive. They were still clearly the good guys 318517
Reposted by ktrainjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/08/2026it is in fact just the media, which has devoted more attention to this than it has to the fact that multiple republican lawmakers are dealing with “we hired nazis” scandals and that the “we hired nazis” problem extends to the white house 17357561333
Reposted by ktrainmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 28/08/2026I don't especially like Hasan Piker but if the people who hate him and think he is a danger to American Jews and are obsessed with him even to the point of tanking Abdul El-Sayed's election to do so can't come up with something better than THAT? About a guy who talks on video 16 hours a day? 148539
Reposted by ktrainBoo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 20/08/2026One of the reasons AI discourse is particularly fraught is that it is pretty useful business SaaS that is also being sold as a consumer good, and forced upon consumers who do not want it, by people who are desperate to be remembered as the next Steve Jobs and have no better ideas 1127033
Reposted by ktrainmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 18/08/2026many US journos conceptualize this about how "tough" the interview is when they should be thinking about how "fair" the interview is. Being tough on someone telling the truth by confronting them with hostile framing isn't fair and neither is letting someone tell lies without confronting them 321325
Reposted by ktrainflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 18/08/2026I’d reiterate that the key incident that drove the Cancel Culture panic - a wholly elite project, imposed from the top down - was the sight of Harvey Weinstein being dragged sobbing from court to jail, unprotected by his wealth, and the internet-based movement for justice that went with it.theguardian.comHere is the news from the US: Woke 1.0 is over. But what did progressives do wrong? | Nesrine MalikA movement with safety, dignity and equality at its heart has been blamed for the rightwing backlash. But within it were principles worth carrying forwards, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik 121043240
ktrain @ktrain.bsky.social · 15/08/2026If you're into black library at all, the sequel to the infinite and the divine came out today 020
Reposted by ktrainPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 13/08/2026if i can identify one lingering downside of Woke 1 it's that everyone on the left now talks like an overbearing sociology major 54140666
Reposted by ktrainGwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 27/06/2026The Wachowski sisters didn't use 120 cameras to film one shot just so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable." 204196905
Reposted by ktrainLaurasaurus @laurasaurus.bsky.social · 07/08/2026I supported that stuff and am super disappointed that it didn’t have the political impact I was hoping for. We’ve gotta reckon with why instead of just pretending it’s never been tried. 1029024
Reposted by ktrainZoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 06/08/2026The US shouldn't have any troops permanently stationed East of the Mediterranean Sea and West of the Indus. 363
Reposted by ktrainPatrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Inside of you there are two wolves trying to understand America. One wolf has spent its entire life studying constitutional law. It's currently being devoured by the other wolf, who is a carnival barker 314417
Reposted by ktrainyaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 02/07/2024BORN TO BYZANTIUM FALL OF ROME IS A FUCK 鬼神 Renovatio Imperii 'Em All 1989 i am justinian 410,757,864,530 DEAD GOTHS 411525
Reposted by ktrainGOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 17/07/2026counterpoint: the longer mcconnell still holds the seat but is physically unable to vote, the better 451042125
Reposted by ktrainWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Increasingly think we need a ‘modernity is actually good’ political tendency. the right is putatively pro-industry and economic growth but thinks science is gay and wants to throw out vaccines for essential oils, the left putatively believes science but also embraces crank degrowth NIMBYism 621192164
Reposted by ktrainSharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 16/07/2026imo it's underrated how COVID basically broke the entire idea of any sort of communal sacrifice or social contract for the right 19968148
Reposted by ktraingeoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 16/07/2026zug-zug delilah, what's it like in undercity, 5566
Reposted by ktrainmiss andry @defnotadino.bsky.social · 11/07/2026I do think a big part of the “working class man” narrative IS that the working class doesn’t actually look like blue collar white men. It looks like immigrant nurse aids in nursing homes and bookkeepers like my grandma and every other area dominated by women, often women of color. 346698
Reposted by ktrainrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 05/07/2026the provinces decline to offer tribute, the armies return in defeat, the temple of the arts has closed its doors, and the name of the Emperor is scoured from the palaces by his own magistrates. now the sun and storms turn against him. the Mandate is lost. 6973223
Reposted by ktrainWill Hayward @willhayward91.bsky.social · 04/07/2026For the 250th, here is my favorite bit of Americana, the poem The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus. 03020
Reposted by ktrainProf. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 03/07/2026This is the best of who we are and what we represent. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...nytimes.comIn the United States, Every World Cup Team Is a Home Team (Gift Article)At block parties, backyards and beer halls, an expanded tournament gave immigrant diasporas large and small the chance to revel in support of their home countries. 282025546
Reposted by ktrainBoo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 03/07/2026I will also say that “you can’t root for the USMNT because of the US Government” reeks of consumer mindset, where consuming something means you approve of all the things possibly related to it and I would hope people who insist there’s no ethical consumption under capitalism would know better. 017327
Reposted by ktrainGOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 03/07/2026it's unfortunate that trump is back in power during the nation's 250th *and* while we're hosting the world cup, both would've been vastly improved by a better president, but it is what it is, and i don't think wearing a hairshirt to satisfy people online whom i'll never meet is really necessary 1473359
Reposted by ktrainjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/07/2026the case for filibuster reform amounts to "this isn't in the constitution and we shouldn't pretend like it is." 24125996
Reposted by ktrainjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/06/2026here is what i think: we're not consumers or spectators, we are participants with agency. you should not hope that democrats will do anything. you must work to force them to do the right thing. the odds are long, but we are far from the first americans to face long odds. we will win. 11563241501
Reposted by ktrainGhostship Chronos says TRANS RIGHTS @airshipchronos.bsky.social · 28/06/2026A major part of why I'm never forgiving every Trump voter is that we could have done 250 with a woman president, daughter of immigrants, married to a Jewish man. The prefect summary of the American Dream. But the fucking burger, you see. God fucking damn it. fuck them. 746396
Reposted by ktrainBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Out: Better things are possible In (laser eyes etc): Better things are inevitable 292983567
Reposted by ktrainMichael J. Taylor @drmichaeljtaylor.bsky.social · 18/06/2026I'm not a constitutional scholar, but I suspect we need a war powers constitutional amendment, which makes it so that military officers who engage in Congressionally unauthorized wars can be prosecuted without statute of limitations (and ineligible for Presidential pardons). 428920
ktrain @ktrain.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Got my Seiko on too, it was my college graduation present from my folks 060
ktrain @ktrain.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Also the cawl trilogy gives you a good look at the tech priests and some of their internal politics 231
ktrain @ktrain.bsky.social · 10/06/2026For necrons, the infinite and the divine if you want a fun romp, the twice dead king set of novels if you want something more serious 110
Reposted by ktrainYogscast Games | Wishlist Dupery! @yogscast.games · 04/06/2026The Gate Must Stand comes out in 2 weeks! This game blends tower defence with survivors-like to create ultimate chaos. We're giving away 3 Steam copies of the game on launch, to be in with a chance to win make sure to follow us and like and repost this post! #gaming #indiegame #giveaway 14626
Reposted by ktrainthe abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 03/06/2026the republic survived a civil war, it will survive a dying pedophile. anything else is loser shit. we're going to win. 845583