Reposted by Skeetin Dedalusae @aelkus.bsky.social · 04/09/2026i think there is justifiable concern over limited time and resources, but i think the post really lets companies off too lightly 550250 0
Reposted by Skeetin DedalusWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 17/08/2026I'm not a categorical pacifist but people have no idea how bad sustained political violence is to live under. one of the common ways that dictators get their initial legitimacy is being perceived as the guy who made that shit stop. 1262878 0
Reposted by Skeetin DedalusAlan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 16/08/2026This is all just the John Wick-ification of American political life. People are walking around with insane revenge fantasies in their heads and narcissistically deluded images of themselves as morally righteous badasses who will bring ruin down on their enemies if pushed to do so. 1245745 0
Reposted by Skeetin DedalusMike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 08/07/2026This one is a live issue, because you have three competing ideas among FP on the US left - the pre-16 consensus is dead, we need a new atlanticism that recognizes the far right as the transnational threat they are - let's pretend trump didn't happen - intervention sucks/protectionism is good 1038053 0
Reposted by Skeetin DedalusfranciscOOoOo👻 varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 05/05/2026i think the reason that people are so vicious about calling merrick garland a coward is that the only alternative is to concede the abject failure of dem leadership as a whole, which stings because we have no choice but to depend on those same leaders who have already failed us once 911613 0
Reposted by Skeetin Dedalusstate song thread guy @statesongxprt.bsky.social · 02/05/2026the nice folks from Project Gutenberg have made his work - the full title of which is "The Discovery of a World in the Moone, or, a discoverse tending to prove that ’tis probable there may be another habitable world in that planet" - available online www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1...gutenberg.orgThe discovery of a world in the moone 2602 0
Reposted by Skeetin Dedalusae @aelkus.bsky.social · 29/03/2026yes, most of what you know about the civil war came from people who weren’t there and had an agenda (shelby foote-esque southern sympathizers). people who were there described it as a jihad against the satanic plantation aristocrats 222085220 0
Skeetin Dedalus @laesus.bsky.social · 18/03/2026I am uncomfortable with the shallow, uncritical lionizing of the IRA. I am, still, more disturbed by the quietism of the British press surrounding the legacy bill, and generally, the British state’s collusion with loyalist paramilitaries during the troubles 011 0
Reposted by Skeetin DedalusNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 18/03/2026I think it's straightforward: any situation involving spending insanely long hours working and living alongside others and operating at the direction of a single leader is vulnerable to abuse. Organizing isn't special in that regard, and in fact the sense of mission can act as a shield for abusers. 1553 0
Reposted by Skeetin DedalusMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 17/03/2026Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York. 1008389389560 0
Reposted by Skeetin DedalusMichael J. Steudeman @msteudeman.bsky.social · 08/02/2026After the Civil War, many in Congress invoked education to transform white Southern prejudices & secure republicanism. They abandoned that vision to pursue superficial feelings of reconciliation. We still live with the consequences. Learn more in my book: www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/A/Abse...upress.state.ms.usAbsence of National FeelingBefore the start of the Civil War, the US Congress seldom took up the question of education, deferring regularly to a tradition of local control. In the period after the war, however, education became... 33712 0
Reposted by Skeetin DedalusCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 13/02/2026This boy been waiting to haul off on somebody for 14 years and today he got to live the dream and stand on the right side of history. Friday the 13th is the greatest day of his life. 684634629 0
Skeetin Dedalus @laesus.bsky.social · 13/02/2026I don’t know how you can engage with Douglass’ writings and coming away with this conclusion. He was one of the most gifted orators in the American tradition. I think he could parse this out 130 0
Reposted by Skeetin DedalusChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 13/02/2026Yeah, we definitely need more info here. CourtListener docket: www.courtlistener.com/docket/72164... 22578152 0
Skeetin Dedalus @laesus.bsky.social · 12/02/2026Having little moments and space like that to share in, to live and function together. Feeling that, “this, here, is better than bearable; I don’t want to rush it.” In my case we moved to other sides of the world, but Id like to think the person in that post was talking about something like this 000 0
Skeetin Dedalus @laesus.bsky.social · 12/02/2026I used to enjoy going to Trader Joe’s with my ex. we’d think of what to eat, what we were excited to cook, sometimes people watch or make color commentary. Sometimes we’d would just walk through the isles quietly 110 0
Reposted by Skeetin Dedalusclever display name lacker @pfish.zone · 23/01/2026The CIA, about to fund a bunch of literary magazines: 1817 0
Skeetin Dedalus @laesus.bsky.social · 21/01/2026Big night for Havel fans. It feels really apt for the moment (and also rhetorically sound in a room full of transatlanticists). He is of the generation, and background, that tends toward Havel. I would like to think, anyways, that that invocation was real and sincere; I hope it was 050 0
Reposted by Skeetin DedalusFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 19/01/2026i think that you're being an absolute wiener if your key complaint as an American right now is "the Europeans on this niche social media site are being mildly rude to me over the prospect of our mad king going to war with them." 271219153 0
Reposted by Skeetin DedalusReconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 19/01/2026honestly tragic that the DNC doesn't actually have that much influence because Martin did basically try to do a shadow cabinet thing, it just immediately got muddled and ignored lol 824632 0
Reposted by Skeetin DedalusLucy Kemnitzer @lucykemnitzer.bsky.social · 14/01/2026I think that this is partly in conversation with Bertolt Brecht's "To Posterity," which contains the lines "Ah, what an age it is/When to speak of trees is almost a crime/For it is a kind of silence about injustice!" I've always thought if he lived now he'd have written a different line. 075 0
Reposted by Skeetin DedalusJesse Lansner @jesse.lansner.com · 02/01/2026It’s generally assumed that “Moby-Dick” has a canonical start date in December 1841, so there’s a good chance that Ishmael has entered the AME Zion church (then on South Second St, three blocks from the water) and the preacher he sees is Frederick Douglass. 🐋 537267 0
Reposted by Skeetin Dedalusthe abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 07/11/2025perhaps the quietest atrocity in our national history, and yet certainly among the worst 1587 0
Reposted by Skeetin DedalusBill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 05/11/2025American left-wing patriotism is Jewish guys signing Christian anti-slavery hymns about the first Muslim mayor of New York and I think that’s beautiful 51045208 0
Reposted by Skeetin DedalusNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 22/08/2025Democratic Party-affiliated organizations that are actually meeting this moment are the ones that are helping organize mass mobilizations against the coup, not the ones bickering over precisely which combination of magic words Democratic candidates should use. 023547 0
Reposted by Skeetin DedalusJewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social · 12/08/2025"Even the sky in Gaza has changed. The sun rises, but brings no warmth. The night arrives, but offers no rest." Gazan writer Abdullah Hany Daher reflects on light, shadow, and utter devastation. jewishcurrents.org/the-betrayal...jewishcurrents.orgThe Betrayal of LightAt the precipice of each instant, two voices speak to me. One says, “You survived.” The other, “It will begin again.” 01511 0
Reposted by Skeetin DedalusYaqiu Wang 王亚秋 @yaqiu.bsky.social · 31/07/2025Blaming the victim is not only cowardly, but also short-sighted. Caving to Beijing’s transnational repression will only encourage more of it. Where does it end? Every Brit should just shut up about CCP's abuses? 1197 0
Reposted by Skeetin DedalusNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 31/07/2025One of the left critiques of YIMBYism is that it uses growth to try and sidestep labor-capital conflict, but the thing is that stagflation broke a fragile labor/capital accord and then capital won the ensuing conflict. There's a lesson there for contemporary efforts to build working class power. 28013 0
Reposted by Skeetin Dedalusjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/07/2025a recurring thread in our history. whites for one reason or another enter into close proximity with black people and come away with the distinct view that racism is bullshit 739642 0
Reposted by Skeetin DedalusBill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 06/07/2025The more I think about the USAID cuts the more I understand John Brown. What can you do when your country carries out a monstrous crime on a Biblical scale and so many don't care because of who the victims are and so many of those who do care treat it as just another issue instead of the only issue? 271258240 0
Reposted by Skeetin DedalusDan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 04/07/2025SCOOP: Mamdani did something even we are forced to concede wasn't what it we are also making it sound like, to no tangible gain, for a college he didn't go to, 15 years ago. Our anonymous source is political activist Adolf Hitler 111700284 0
Skeetin Dedalus @laesus.bsky.social · 03/07/2025Current state of the US is like this, but if it were urban-rural instead of North-South 010 0
Reposted by Skeetin Dedalusjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/06/2025me, personally? i'd call it Reconstruction. 1415072459 0
Reposted by Skeetin Dedaluseileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 26/06/2025Rather beautifully, Professor Mahmood Mamdani's dedication in "Neither Settler Nor Native" is to his trail-blazing son, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social. He quotes the revolutionary Chinese writer Lu Xun's famous concluding lines in "Hometown": 「其實地上本沒有路，走的人多了，也便成了路。」 -魯迅，故鄉 #everynightapoem 7604180 0
Reposted by Skeetin DedalusSam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 25/06/2025She fought an incredibly competent rearguard action and her reward is being mocked by the people whose careers she saved in the process 865786 0
Skeetin Dedalus @laesus.bsky.social · 24/06/2025Cigarettes after sex got done incredibly dirty. apocalypse didn’t really blow up until COVID and then it got slopped 000 0
Reposted by Skeetin DedalusDavid Noll @david.noll.org · 22/06/2025incredible, they cop-tensed the possible beginning of the next world war 282447528 0
Reposted by Skeetin Dedalusjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19/06/2025the destruction of chattel slavery is one of the great accomplishments in our nation's history and the reason conservatives hate celebrating it is because doing so legitimizes the black counter-narrative of the united states 167219255260 0
Reposted by Skeetin Dedalusrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 14/06/2025to be fair borges' politics were the kind of gentle romantic melancholy he felt about, as far as i can tell, literally everything. 3854 0
Reposted by Skeetin DedalusBrian Orce @jimnobu.tv · 14/07/2023This is how you give fascists a platform 4587146 0
Reposted by Skeetin DedalusMike Royce @mikeroyce.bsky.social · 13/06/2025this is like slowing down the zapruder film of racism so you can see exactly the point of impact 29917178 0
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It turns out you can just kill bad people and everything is fine.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:af5254xlsos56rspgoxddyva/bafkreiczmz5hr3rmmiydgpfurhjtfmzcxjtiwxtuprw6xtqmey3gf4igra)
