Reposted by Self esteem issues Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 27/04/2026This was, in all seriousness, the point of the Harper’s Letter 283023682
Reposted by Self esteem issues derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 31/03/2026i swear this gov is a TV show. the head of intelligence got hacked and used his real name for a porn account. the head of dept of war accidentally texted war plans to a journalist. and now former head of homeland security grappling with husband's secret cross-dressing double life in anti-LGBTQ admin 887208174935
Reposted by Self esteem issues jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/01/2026The only ax to grind that I have is against lazy thinking, of which this post is great example. You are equating the lionization of Mangione by a small number of Americans — in a manner no different from classic veneration of the outlaw — with propaganda in defense of state-sanctioned murder. 1083773402
Reposted by Self esteem issues southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 18/11/2025I’m not going to pretend it’s easy to say something in the moment when you witness the president do this and you’re aboard Air Force One with all the uniformed officers and secret service and fancy wood accents, but this is really an instance where you should. people.com/donald-trump...people.comDonald Trump Snaps at Female Reporter Who Asks About Epstein Files: 'Quiet Piggy'Donald Trump Says 'Quiet Piggy' to Female Reporter Asking About Epstein Files 26658151306
Reposted by Self esteem issues jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/11/2025the republican party is engaged in a cover up to keep the american people from learning whether president trump is president pedo 180110622798
Reposted by Self esteem issues Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 05/11/2025The way all of these people convinced themselves that Mamdani is antisemitic is a subject far more worthy of media examination than any of the ‘groupthink on campuses!’ thinkpieces we’ve been subjected to 331101121619
Reposted by Self esteem issues John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 16/10/2025In which I call for a Brown Scare and a left-wing McCarthyism.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-coming...unpopularfront.newsThe Coming PurgeWe're going to need a left-wing Joe McCarthy 638186
Reposted by Self esteem issues Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 29/09/2025The alleged shooter in Michigan. Weird that Vance and Patel haven’t tweeted out this info. 🤷🏽♂️👇🏽 www.usatoday.com/story/news/n... 249102513041
Reposted by Self esteem issues Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 28/09/2025Klein is also obsessed with solving Democrats’ “condescension problem” but it’s not condescending to talk about how your political opponents are wrong! That’s kind of how it works. 1053359369
Reposted by Self esteem issues Alex Says Stuff @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 28/09/2025It's not just an acknowledgement but a legitimation of a (the?) core asymmetry of US politics: Democratic voters hate Republican politicians, but Republican voters hate Democratic *voters*. So Klein's "solution" is that all Dem voters must act like politicians. 29027
Reposted by Self esteem issues August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 14/09/2025Even ignoring how the Dixie Chicks and “freedom fries” were more than 20 years ago, how do these people look at themselves in the mirror with dignity. Is this really it for punditry now? Is it just “you started it” until the end of time, are you all just nine fucking years old now 711479187
Reposted by Self esteem issues Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 15/09/2025Let me put it this way: Mahmoud Khalil is a Palestinian immigrant with a green card who worked with deeply unpopular groups. My median follower is a white guy with a 401(k) who was born in this country. We all need to be a little braver than we have been; we can afford it. 7874187
Reposted by Self esteem issues Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 14/09/2025korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in 892484810087
Reposted by Self esteem issues Aditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️🌈 @chimeracoder.bsky.social · 21/08/2025RT if you also wish ill upon JK Rowling. 2632270021988
Reposted by Self esteem issues Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 15/08/2025Remember this? 0333
Reposted by Self esteem issues Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 15/08/2025My biggest problem with Jeffries is not that he hasn’t endorsed Mamdani. It’s that he keeps carrying water for people like Cuomo or Adams. 3644969
Reposted by Self esteem issues Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 01/08/2025The DOJ says it will investigate a US citizen for saying “fuck Isr**l” to a guy in an IDF shirt. Absolutely the most anti-free speech admin of my lifetime. Probably since the Red Scare, if not earlier. 1133465888
Reposted by Self esteem issues Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 01/08/2025I spoke with 40+ sources for a look inside the Anti-Defamation League. Here’s some of what I found. ADL’s gentle response to Elon Musk’s infamous salute was partially driven by his support of Israel. To ADL, that indicated he didn’t have “antisemitic tendencies.” (1/x) nymag.com/intelligence... 832730791
Reposted by Self esteem issues Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 30/07/2025I remember awhile back we had to keep saying “there are going to be bad actors sharing Gaza stuff not because they care about Gaza but because they want to increase hatred towards Jewish people so please amplify other people who don’t do that” and I see the ed boards were not listening 452090411
Reposted by Self esteem issues Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 25/07/2025This is the through-line between the "anti-cancel culture" discourse of the last decade and the Trump Administration's overt use of the state as a censoring authority; both are rooted in resentment over what they see as their inferiors subverting the natural hierarchy. 9556150
Reposted by Self esteem issues Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 26/07/2025It remains utterly insane to me how much American discourse on Israel treats the fact that it has maintained 33% of its population under martial law without self-government or self-determination for fifty years as a completely incidental, minor detail that can mostly be ignored. 13903123
Reposted by Self esteem issues Big Joel @bigjoel.bsky.social · 10/07/2025Contrapoints recently made a statement on Palestine, and I find this point the most interesting. That was really the only outcome of the outrage over Palestine over the last few years, nothing plus slightly hurting Kamala’s chances? 3304066304
Reposted by Self esteem issues jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/06/2025you know, if i were in the position of interviewing jeffries here, i would ask the congressman to specify exactly when and where mamdani used that language. 590130751887
Reposted by Self esteem issues Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 27/06/2025Every single Democratic elected who represents NYC should be proudly endorsing Zohran Mamdami, who won the primary fair & square. They should be helping him however he & his team ask. If they mealy-mouth it or, worse, stand with Cuomo, *they* will be why people hate the party. 401736356
Reposted by Self esteem issues Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 27/06/2025I listened to this. She said “jihad” like twelve times. No one is talking about jihad lol. She kept talking about what it takes to govern a diverse city like NYC (as if she had a clue). What about the Muslim population of the city, which is roughly as large as the Jewish population? 22918154
Reposted by Self esteem issues Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 22/05/2025I’m horrified by the murder of two Israeli embassy staffers at an event in DC last night. The fact that the gunman said he did it to “free Palestine” makes me nauseous. Murdering people for their nationality is never acceptable and this violence hurts Jews, Israelis, *and* Palestinians. 51172362131
Reposted by Self esteem issues Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Horrific murder of two Israeli embassy staffers in the middle of DC. This kind of violence is illegal, immoral, inexcusable and of course - if the chant of ‘free Palestine’ by the alleged shooter is true - solves nothing and helps zero Palestinians.theguardian.comTwo Israeli embassy staff shot dead near Washington DC Jewish museumPolice said a suspect was in custody after the shooting near the Capital Jewish Museum 34265651153
Reposted by Self esteem issues Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 14/03/2025These are the same Senate Democrats who lectured the base for years about the importance of preserving the filibuster so it would still be available when Democrats were in the minority 352235054470
Reposted by Self esteem issues Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social · 07/03/2025There is indeed a body of polisci research that indicates Biden won specifically *because* of racial justice protests.penntoday.upenn.eduThe Black Lives Matter movement, but not COVID, encouraged voters toward Biden | Penn TodayAs swing voters registered more awareness about discrimination against Black Americans, they became more likely to vote for the party they felt would best rectify that—Democrats. 432233485
Reposted by Self esteem issues jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/02/2025i will become a total shill for whichever politician decides to become the joe mccarthy of rooting out silicon valley ideology and influence 630376663788
Reposted by Self esteem issues Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 17/02/2025Muhsin Hendricks, world’s ‘first openly gay imam’, shot dead in South Africa | South Africa | The Guardian Horrifictheguardian.comMuhsin Hendricks, world’s ‘first openly gay imam’, shot dead in South AfricaPolice say motive for killing of Hendricks, who ran a mosque for LGBTQ+ Muslims near Cape Town, is unknown 1462474538
Reposted by Self esteem issues Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 11/02/2025The primary downside of having party leaders from New York is that I do not care or want to care about the moronic arcane bullshit politicking in NY state or city 1645741
Reposted by Self esteem issues Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 12/02/2025He’s insane. 65193013048
Reposted by Self esteem issues Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 03/02/2025seeing takes about the aid institutions and their role in imperialism. correct. If someone said "investor-owned hospitals exploit the vulnerable to benefit shareholders" I'd nod. If their followup was "and that's why I'm turning off your mom's dialysis machine" I'd...have some followup questions 2344741068
Reposted by Self esteem issues Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 25/01/2025A big part of why 🇮🇱/🇵🇸 discourse is so insane is that most American Jews are cosmopolitan liberals so they don't want to believe that they're making the same bog-standard arguments every nationalist movement made in every fight over state formation, and the cognitive dissonance is driving them crazy. 434848
Reposted by Self esteem issues Ruwa Romman @ruwaromman.bsky.social · 26/01/2025This isn’t the first time this racist and genocidal idea gets thrown around. Doesn’t matter if it’s Trump or a pro Israel Democrat saying it. It’s racist and genocidal. And for those still not getting it, Palestinians are our own people. Nothing will ever change that. 12813249
Reposted by Self esteem issues Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 26/01/2025Perfect example of why Mattyism is doomed to fail as an strategy, the backlash to "wokeness" is occurring against the existence of cosmopolitan and liberal culture, Democrats can't actually compromise on it because there's no actual policies at stake. 1253382
Reposted by Self esteem issues jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/01/20251) i would challenge you to produce evidence of anyone of influence who believes that simply identifying trump as a fascist will deliver victory on its own 2) some of us just think that our job here is to help people understand the world they live in 582958212
Reposted by Self esteem issues Letterboxd @letterboxd.social · 19/01/2025A little motivation for your Sunday from David Lynch 🤍 1380092363
