Lander and Zohran are modelling what a healthy liberal/left alliance would look like. Whatever happens with election results, this is the model to follow.

Free childcare, baby baskets, limited free buses, etc. are such small-ball and boring policies in most of the world, comparing this to the Soviet Union or communism or something...you have to wonder how American politics ever got this stupid.

I keep rereading this. Campaign finance laws have just let the would-be vassals to pay tribute to the lord. These aren’t donations to fund a campaign, they are protection money and pre-emptive bribes.

God he fucking rocks

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA npr.org/2025/06/29/nx-…

damn, guess we better just do one big national system instead of a bunch of ticky-tacky market-based reforms then, it's just the better political strategy if only there were some sort of famous health reform idea that's about building one national system that's hard to dislodge

Our glorious public servants acting like a protection racket

If you're a family, senior, worker, parent, child, farmer, immigrant, working class, middle class, disabled, unemployed, sick, hungry, Republican, Democrat, Independent, this bill was written to harm you. And if you're a billionaire, this bill is great for you, and you only.

A nightmare

The sheer contempt of our rulers -- in politics, in business, in media, in academia -- for everyone who isn't them.

The debt, deportation, and death bill has passed. Congress further decimates care work to fund violence work. ICE becomes the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency ever known. It hasn’t been sold this way, but it’s a massive public jobs program for fascists.

Heinously evil stuff

"The story of recent decades isn’t just one of increasing hardship for those who depend on wages and public services, but of state-sponsored extravagance for those who own assets." If you don't grasp the second part, Abundance may look like something new, i.e., not neoliberalism

Me at 16: “Hideo Kojima named a character Psycho Mantis? That’s cool as hell!” Me at 25: “These silly names ruin and undermine the game’s serious themes regarding the military industrial complex.” Me at 41: “Hideo Kojima named a character Psycho Mantis? That’s cool as hell!”