Reposted by @lilburps.bsky.socialAhhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 24/06/2025They will call you a communist anyway! We must work on educating people on what that means and removing their ability to use it as a slur 391812277
Reposted by @lilburps.bsky.socialKen Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 24/06/2025The cool thing about a leftist getting close to winning an election is that you finally get to hear from people like Obama and Clinton when they invariably show up to denounce them 572883352
Reposted by @lilburps.bsky.socialShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 20/06/2025the list of Cuomo endorsers is actually a great way to identify people who need to be driven out of the Democratic Party as soon as possible 18790891822
Reposted by @lilburps.bsky.socialAsher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 18/06/2025The repression of trans people is not, by and large, a grassroots outpouring of hatred from the American people. It's something that's been carefully planted and tended over years by a handful of media people and their pet reporters. 559041888
Reposted by @lilburps.bsky.socialThe Hard Times @thehardtimesnews.bsky.social · 13/06/2025Recession Avoided? Everyone in This Bar Is Paying Extra To Bury My Song Choices on Touchtunes thehardtimes.net/blog/recessi...thehardtimes.netRecession Avoided? Everyone in This Bar Is Paying Extra To Bury My Song Choices on TouchtunesThere’s a lot of anxiety over the economy these past few months. It feels like this country is just one tariff away from sending the job market into the shitter indefinitely. It sure has been keeping ... 0708
Reposted by @lilburps.bsky.socialZohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 12/06/2025All gas, no breaks. Only you can make this poll a reality: zohranfornyc.com/events 17696811521
Reposted by @lilburps.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10/06/2025"nullification of the election results" = "winning imbued trump with sovereign authority and so all opposition to him is illegitimate and illegal" 1623724757
Reposted by @lilburps.bsky.socialBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 11/06/2025You have no obligation to defend or explain the behavior of random street protesters. We have a lawless government that is flagrantly violating its legal, moral, even philosophical obligations to us. Everything else is secondary 48140653344
Reposted by @lilburps.bsky.socialMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 08/06/2025Don’t play into this dude’s game. You will never, ever oppose fascism in the perfectly appropriate way to please him. This is the same guy who made fun of pro-choice protesters because he thought they were overreacting since Roe would obviously never be overturned. 2414631708
Reposted by @lilburps.bsky.socialJulia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 07/06/2025kind of just endlessly sad and grieving that there are so few voices in the public sphere making the basic principled argument that immigration is an affirmative good in every way and the best way for this country to serve humanity is to welcome people who want or need to leave their homes 97171254656
Reposted by @lilburps.bsky.socialMelanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 07/06/2025Undocumented immigrants pay almost $100 billion in taxes each year. The top 1% evade $163 billion in taxes each year. Stop pretending that immigrants are the ones taking advantage of taxpayers. 337247978291
Reposted by @lilburps.bsky.socialBill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 06/06/2025If one day you find yourself belonging to something called “the Catturd Army” you need to IMMEDIATELY change every single thing in your life, 100%. Do and say and be the exact opposite of everything you’ve done and said and been. Right now!! 421136118
Reposted by @lilburps.bsky.socialRev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 05/06/2025One of the greatest deceptions of our time is the false narrative that we should be more concerned about a poor person misusing the welfare system or an immigrant being here illegally than we are about the ultra wealthy abusing the system and cruel people having unchecked power over all of us. 16971502532
Reposted by @lilburps.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/06/2025That any of us have to care about the messy breakup of these two massive narcissists — and that they both individually wield such massive power — is an indictment of our political system and further proves the poisonous influence of Big Money on our democracy. 605231524928
Reposted by @lilburps.bsky.socialGood Boy @goodboy.bsky.social · 05/06/2025Now that he has the loser stink on him again he's newly attractive to Democrats 1169391
Reposted by @lilburps.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/06/2025Remember: If unions didn’t matter, powerful corporations wouldn’t spend millions of dollars every year to stop workers from organizing. Keep up the fight. 234205685129
Reposted by @lilburps.bsky.socialEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 05/06/2025They are so unbelievably and terribly desperate. You don’t do things like this unless you are scraping the bottom of the barrel for revenue and adoption. This is the ultimate form of the tech industry: a despicable, wretched, entitled, destructive, abusive digital despot that wants to con your kids. 5639131031
Reposted by @lilburps.bsky.socialAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 05/06/2025i know no one cares about hypocrisy or shamelessness or anything anymore but these people really used to tell us they were scared of an armed govt being turned against americans, they made an entire career out of it 364111462425
Reposted by @lilburps.bsky.socialDave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 30/05/2025After the WSJ correctly reported that Musk was about to spend a ton of money on Trump, he denied it. You can get a lot of helpful stories written if you just lie! 633854
Reposted by @lilburps.bsky.socialKen Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 28/05/2025Never in my lifetime has the Democratic Party been as much as a ghost ship as it is today. Incredible there aren't more insurgent primary campaigns. Power is just sitting there and the only thing guarding it is fossils like Chuck Schumer 731718237
Reposted by @lilburps.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/05/2025vocal opposition to democratic gerontocracy is nifty because it serves a constructive purpose — passing the torch — and a political one: signaling independence from The Democrats. 1606280967
Reposted by @lilburps.bsky.socialonion person @junlper.beer · 29/05/2025the more i learn about ai development and the data centers these tech corporations are building and the amount of money and power the people in these companies have and the jobs they want to destroy, the more i understand that we cannot let them build this future they want for us 593530640
Reposted by @lilburps.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/05/2025the plan to make america great again is to make us an impoverished garrison state dominated by trump and his oligarch buddies 13350361209
Reposted by @lilburps.bsky.sociallauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 27/05/2025it's so cool they invented a body cam that can lie to you 3184041
Reposted by @lilburps.bsky.socialLinda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 25/05/2025I don’t know whether I’m more blown away by the cynicism of “just adopt whatever position is popular, dummies” or the naïveté of “public opinion is an easily discernible monolith that polling is good at capturing and translating into political positions.” 852307312
Reposted by @lilburps.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/05/2025if your grand approach to politics is bloodless poll-testing so that you're always aligned with wherever public opinion happens to be, you've already lost 249191512453
Reposted by @lilburps.bsky.socialAhhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 24/05/2025Same argument used with native Americans and colonized people around the world “You aren’t using the land to be as productive as possible so that makes it mine or it’s bad you have it” Terra nullius shit 25970154
Reposted by @lilburps.bsky.socialAhhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 23/05/2025Imagine if *all* the work we do was reinvested in infrastructure research social programs education reducing work hours retirement environmental resilience mass transportation leisure Not some. ALL. That is what socialism is. We are entitled to all we create. Capitalists are unnecessary hoarders. 321564329
Reposted by @lilburps.bsky.socialdell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 23/05/2025Democratic voters issued a massive rebuke of their own party last year by just refusing to show up on election day & instead of a major shakeup its leaders are spending big on consultants to find a Youtube salesman that can help a small group of septuagenarians no one likes cling to power. 16157971065
Reposted by @lilburps.bsky.socialJames @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 21/05/2025This is—it bears repeating—ethnic cleansing and a war crime. It feels utterly pointless to say, and roughly equivalent to screaming into the void, but the United States should not be supporting or providing any aid to a state that has ethnic cleansing as a policy position. 10244511611
Reposted by @lilburps.bsky.socialThe Intercept @theintercept.com · 22/05/2025When workers send emails including words related to Israel’s war on Gaza, messages are delayed as much as 45 minutes or never arrive at all. interc.pt/3H5WAtI 13522
Reposted by @lilburps.bsky.sociallauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 22/05/2025well well well, if it isn't the thing everyone said would happen 1551611300
Reposted by @lilburps.bsky.socialonion person @junlper.beer · 21/05/2025the white nationalists in the white house are doing their best to convince the world the only racism is against white people and to call it a “white genocide” to muddy the water on what genocide is, and where it’s happening 783943497
Reposted by @lilburps.bsky.socialOpinion Editor @ Bluesky @dly.bsky.social · 21/05/2025we need a Democratic party for the left 1063811053
Reposted by @lilburps.bsky.socialEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 21/05/2025every single person who talks like this thinks they're some sort of firebrand, it's the "why I left the left" of business and tech - a meaningless and performative statement that reveals little about the person's use of LLMs other than that people criticising them makes them feel self-conscious. 722129232
Reposted by @lilburps.bsky.socialonion person @junlper.beer · 21/05/2025i haven’t seen technology this forced on all of us in my life time. they’re trying to make it so we have no choice to use this shit 22984181693
Reposted by @lilburps.bsky.socialKristi Yamaguccimane @wapplehouse.bsky.social · 20/05/2025These people are too stupid to realize liberal Joe Rogan can’t exist because liberalism doesn’t inspire anyone anymore and the person who could breakthrough to young men would be far too left leaning and vulgar to ever gain a democratic mega-donor’s approval 41859121
Reposted by @lilburps.bsky.socialJess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 20/05/2025Do you ever think about the great things America could do if we focused our energy on common good rather than corporate greed? 761134012276
Reposted by @lilburps.bsky.socialBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 19/05/2025I don't know if there's ever been a culture more in love with charlatans than ours. "Success" defined entirely by how good you are at tricking people into giving you money. An entire country of aspiring slop merchants 207173343305
Reposted by @lilburps.bsky.socialDavid J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 19/05/2025Cato has published my comprehensive review of the ~240 Venezuelans the US government renditioned 2 months ago to Salvador’s notorious prison. We identified FIFTY who came legally, never violated any immigration law, but are imprisoned at the US government’s request and at US taxpayer expense. 250111055373
Reposted by @lilburps.bsky.socialSheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 15/05/2025If you bomb a hospital filled with patients it's unambiguously a war crime, but if you say there was a known enemy combatant inside at the time, that's still unambiguously a war crime, like seriously, what are we even doing here 8048291123
Reposted by @lilburps.bsky.socialKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 13/05/2025The idea that Dems just need to say the magic words in the right order to win is an attempt to put a bandaid on a broken civic system where many voters do not even know how the government or the things they rely on to live work 651980372
Reposted by @lilburps.bsky.socialmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 12/05/2025there's literally nothing that the people running California won't try to solve the homeless problem except for the one thing that would actually work 3077699
Reposted by @lilburps.bsky.socialLeger-Felicite Snorlax🇵🇸 @segatape.bsky.social · 12/05/2025the ideal business has no product, no assets, and no customers 416046
