Reposted by open borders nowJustin Wallace @justingwallace.bsky.social · 15hCertainly among them. The fact that I can get in my car and be at a Walgreens or CVS inside of 20 minutes and that every single shelf in there is full of things that would have made kings and queens throw whole armies at to obtain is not lost upon me. 1272
Reposted by open borders nowAlice Jane Grimm (she/her) @alice-j-grimm.bsky.social · 21hBless every loud, angry, and rude trans person who ever resisted an act of transphobia so that even Third Way - the centrist’s centrist - is going “don’t poke that bear unless you want to get mauled” Damn right 062
open borders now @radtranslib.bsky.social · 14h"left" nimbys i can't overstate how much contempt i have for "leftist" NIMBYs, and no, don't true scotsman me, there's a point where you're just a different thing than the label, and "actively advocating for the material interests of landowners/rentiers" is very much that 091
Reposted by open borders nowWell, That Was Spooky @thediscoveryofzero.com · 29/09/2026One thing we could do a better job with is distinguishing between capitalism, markets, trade, and private property. 1112
open borders now @radtranslib.bsky.social · 29/09/2026megalothymia vs isothymia in one screenshot 182
Reposted by open borders nowEgghead @abstractivism.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Economics is all about incentivizing behavior, but we can incentivize all kinds of work without purposely constructing an uncomfortable underclass to exploit We have the resources to restructure work to be comfortable and equatably rewarded so that jobs are voluntary and still worthwhile 0101
open borders now @radtranslib.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I've done the numbers it is absolutely true, AND doing so would likely make America richer 1121
Reposted by open borders nowSpicy Big Dad @spicybigdad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The post says “we possess the wealth necessary” to do that and that’s very clearly true and supported by every piece of economic data we have - more than enough material wealth currently exists in America to feed, house, clothe, and provide healthcare to everyone with plenty left over 2911
open borders now @radtranslib.bsky.social · 29/09/2026So as someone who is considerably to the left of the writer, I am actually im agreement that wealth taxes aren't a good vehicle for revenue (with the exception of land/property taxes), and I think a lot of leftier types are coming around to this. 2112
Reposted by open borders nowLiberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 29/09/2026"The idea that liberalism is the ideology of forbearance—the ideology of technocratic tinkering—would have been news to our liberal forebears, who sought to reshape the world and remake their societies according to a vision of human freedom and human equality."liberalcurrents.comRemember Who You Are, LiberalChapter 20 (pp. 162–168) from The Reconstruction Papers. 1298
Reposted by open borders nowStephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 28/09/2026And the assault on federal research grants and contracts/contractors) came just as the contracts/contractors starting taking racial and gender equality seriously both in research and in hiring and organizational culture. 0407
Reposted by open borders nowDuncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026If attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *inclusion*, it would be all over the Times, Telegraph, Mail etc. This last weekend, attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *exclusion*. Crickets. 132493819
Reposted by open borders nowJune White 🫀 @cuntmoney.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Conservative values have always been a ruse for financial and social control, and now that the mask has come off, I don't know that it can be put back on again. 1111
Reposted by open borders nowThe Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Like Bill Kristol and Jennifer Rubin are the main ones who have fully grappled with what their previous alignment wrought and when they looked it straight in the face they arrived at “we must tear down everything I spent up until this point working for.” 726116
Reposted by open borders nowReconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 28/09/2026It's exactly the same kind of defensive cognitive degeneration the planter class did 643622
Reposted by open borders nowMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/09/2026NEW: Food banks across America are being overwhelmed by surging demand. Scott MacFarlane went inside to see the crisis firsthand. Here’s what he found:meidasnews.com“They don’t understand the scale of the hunger!”- An unfolding crisis at the nation’s food banksWeeks before the midterm elections, the cost crisis is hammering food pantries in red and blue states 44194644488
Reposted by open borders nowToby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 28/09/2026www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-g...liberalcurrents.comWe Need to Get Off the Defensive About ImmigrationFree movement is a fantastic thing, and we should say it. 05910
open borders now @radtranslib.bsky.social · 28/09/2026i can't believe we are in the big old 2026 and still doing this "DOING IT THE RIGHT WAY" shit. i cannot believe people are this blinkered about the shit that got us here. I mean, I *can* but it's still jaw-dropping people, most of the shit the deportation regime is doing IS LEGAL 1100
open borders now @radtranslib.bsky.social · 28/09/2026wow i missed this wtf. yeah look at my immigration advocates dawg indeed. imagine in 2026 STILL buying into the "legal vs illegal" distinction, let alone thinking there should be an illegal class of migrant at all. 1112
open borders now @radtranslib.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Waiting for how the anti-social dipshittery has made the world a better place, ended capitalism, saved democracy, did literally anything but expose you as the kind of person who is a demographic line away from being a fascist Yes I said what I motherfucking said.static.klipy.comDancing SkeletonALT: Dancing Skeleton 2242
Reposted by open borders nowGeraldine Mongold @gamongold.bsky.social · 27/09/2026This is 100% why companies disallow remote working - the bosses have always gotten their side pieces from the company payroll. 041
Reposted by open borders nowDr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 27/09/2026in conclusion: it's not the phones. it's the institutions. 3556
Reposted by open borders nowDr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 26/09/2026if you want to fix injustices then you actually need to stare them in the fucking face, and that means all too often staring REAL MATERIAL IMPACTS AND DIFFERENCES in the face instead of sticking your head in the sand and pretending everything's therefore fine 318919
Reposted by open borders nowLiberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 26/09/2026"This is not a time for forgiveness, for looking solely towards the future. That path was tried before, by the Obama and Biden administrations, and following it has contributed to the present environment of lawless government and populist discontent." www.liberalcurrents.com/on-the-pract...liberalcurrents.comOn the Practical Case for a Book of GrudgesIf we're going to set this right, a comprehensive list is needed. 39724
Reposted by open borders noweva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 24/09/2026a lot of AI pushback would disappear fast if product managers stopped completely disrespecting user agency 720628
Reposted by open borders nowChop Blockington @chopblockington.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Once you hear it, you can’t unhear how many pre-2010ish pop songs there are about how she was only sixteen. 0301
open borders now @radtranslib.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The past is a shithole country is a phrase that should he burned into the psyche of everyone left of a typical Roman despot but alas 081
open borders now @radtranslib.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Gonna have to respectfully disagree. Fundamentally, building up infrastructure and implementation is also a political process, and framing everything through the lens of multi decade timelines is with the assumption that a new political order leaves the old socipolitical bottlenecks in place. 051
Reposted by open borders nowCloud's Strife @jmgreene28.bsky.social · 24/09/2026*precisely* why good organizing is built on a foundation of good volunteer on-boarding, training and development. 1521
Reposted by open borders nowHyde T. Voltyge @hydevoltyge.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Flanagan, AES, Jackson, Stratton, and then Nixon if she can win have been very vocal allies! Markey made it through too of course, directly crushing the transphobe Moulton. With even Kaine and Spanberger defending trans kids in Virginia, I think Labour should be averted, just need to cut the rot out 0482
Reposted by open borders nowJjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Reading this and getting struck by how much current AI Safety/alignment stuff is built on fixation on technical problems at the expense of meaningfully grappling with social alignment (politics) 56115
Reposted by open borders nowSara Straw @oneoneder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Jokes on the right-wingers, Adam Smith is one of our guys 1424030
Reposted by open borders nowNika @nikavia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Transphobes have been very open about the fact that they view sports as a wedge issue; if they can get people to agree that trans women aren't *really* women in the context of sports, it's much easier for them to extend that to toilets and other public services. 0527
Reposted by open borders nowRemain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 24/09/2026Scumbags who appeal to "the principles of Adam Smith" to contradict Smith's actual analysis are the perfect twins of the scumbags who appeal to a nebulous "Marxism" to contradict Marx's actual analysis. Karl Marx is Adam Smith's intellectual heir and everyone on all sides has to suck that up. 0397
open borders now @radtranslib.bsky.social · 24/09/2026also, to present a more person- the kind of shit described in That Article has materially and provably damaged the life of one of my friends, who is still recovering from it today, and the person who did it is still a Prominent Community Member because that's how this shit works i guess 170
open borders now @radtranslib.bsky.social · 24/09/2026the fundamental problem with "Woke 1.0 was crazy" as a talking point is that it was true of maybe 5-10% of it at most, and even then the vast majority of it was "overzealousness" as well as the effects of ongoing trauma 160
Reposted by open borders nowryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 23/09/2026they were wishcasting. they thought "well, it's not exactly great that Trump won, but at least he is going to take the wokes down a peg or three. we are frankly eager for him to curb stomp MeToo, BLM, Gaza protestors, every union organizer, etc" 261345176
open borders now @radtranslib.bsky.social · 23/09/2026among other things, a central organizing principle of Woke 2.0 will be "structures matter, but so do boundaries" 151
Reposted by open borders nowToby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 23/09/2026centrist's sell this as an easy win—get a lot more votes with small concessions, rhetorical moderation, maybe a shift on women's sports my argument is you'll keep making concessions, until you end up in a very ugly place, & never see that political pay off newrepublic.com/article/2155...newrepublic.comCentrists Won’t Tell You Where “Moderating” on Trans Rights Ends UpThe recent example of the U.K. Labour Party shows that “compromising” rarely stops at some acceptable midpoint. 423032
Reposted by open borders nowToby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 23/09/2026the uk has shown were backing off trans rights takes you & it's horrific my latest for new republic newrepublic.com/article/2155...newrepublic.comCentrists Won’t Tell You Where “Moderating” on Trans Rights Ends UpThe recent example of the U.K. Labour Party shows that “compromising” rarely stops at some acceptable midpoint. 17503160
Reposted by open borders nowDr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 23/09/2026the authoritarian internationale is real and can hurt you 837372
Reposted by open borders nowGlonzo the Bureaucrat 🇬🇱 🌹 @snarkranger.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Ah yes, the subversive and radical idea that no person living in the wealthiest nation on Earth should be hungry, jobless, homeless, or uneducated. 1233
Reposted by open borders nowmallow @bajablastenjoyer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026i know the pundit class will never let the 2024 they/them thing rest, but it'd be nice if the amount of literal one-issue campaigns about us losing horribly would shift the overton window back 1358
Reposted by open borders nowStan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I am fairly certain that there is a sea change within the Democratic Party where people with influence recognize what the GOP has become and are willing to use the power of the state against it. If I didn't, I would be in the process of leaving the country and if you're not, you believe that too. 417314
Reposted by open borders now☀️ @stel.energy · 21/09/2026i need all of us everywhere to understand the power we have to materialize social infrastructure and i am watching that realization spread and its so good . it doesnt have to be baseball it can be anything 416629
Reposted by open borders nowapril, the fool(s) @manedwolfgirllegs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Is there anyone in WA, or the general PNW area looking for roommates? I'm a disabled, homeless trans woman, and I was only now just told that I have to leave the place I'm currently staying at as soon as I can, so I need to find a new place to stay ASAP. 11638
open borders now @radtranslib.bsky.social · 22/09/2026please, PLEASE PLEASE write this article also score one for "Taiwan is the more socialist China" 1232
open borders now @radtranslib.bsky.social · 21/09/2026medically necessary procedures being framed as bad didn't work to make abortion more popular and it won't work to defend trans rights. stop framing your political messaging around what evangelicals find icky, because what they find icky is women and trans people having bodily autonomy at all. 1218
Reposted by open borders nowCurious Witness @curiouswitness.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Saying you can't criticize Talarico for his statements on trans policies concedes a dead-wrong point to anti-electoral leftists: that voting is the only meaningful way to engage with a political candidate. You can absolutely vote for someone you vehemently disagree with on a bunch of issues and you 2185