Jared Yates Sexton

Probably a good idea for a lot of liberals to take a look at Michael Cohen getting back into bed with Trump for a radio show after years of grifting their money as a “resistance” influencer and start asking themselves exactly what they’ve been and still are supporting.

The middle class is being legitimately liquidated and there’s almost no attention being paid to it and corporate media is too busy chasing the market’s profit to really even discuss what is obviously an epochal moment.

CSPAN is airing John Adams and Thomas Jefferson impersonators as if they’re in an actual debate and is treating the whole thing like it’s real. Thrilling. Absolutely thrilling.

Always get a kick out of people who, after all this time, are still penning articles and posting things like, "This is going to get a lot worse unless the Trump Administration changes course."

My dude. They're not there to make things work. They're there to steal. Open your fucking eyes.

Trump’s $2.2 billion dollar crypto “profit” isn’t from public purchases, they’re bribes. The scandal isn’t that Trump made that much money, it’s that he’s manufactured one scam after another that has made it possible for the wealthy and other nations to bribe him with impunity.

Man, nothing makes the state of politics more apparent than when a warmongering monster who actively made life worse for millions of people dies and the supposed resistance party stalwarts come out of the woodwork to talk about how they’re going to miss their friend they had so much fun with.

I hope people are starting to understand that as leftist ideas grow in popularity, as economic conditions worsen, and as opposition to the tech oligarchs grows that the powerful are going to criminalize all of it in order to maintain control. We have to prepare for it because it’s coming.

Listen, I’m not one to sit around and gloss the Founding Fathers but to take what they did do that was remarkable and then somehow say it could’ve been automated to happen quicker is some of the most braindead shit I think I’ve ever seen.

Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social

Google just released an ad reimagining the Founding Fathers using AI tools to draft the Declaration of Independence.

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There’s something very dystopian about an authoritarian president letting the country know he’s planning on rigging elections and the main takeaway from people is either that he was boring or that they didn’t watch it. Everything feels so out of fucking whack right now.

I swear to god, we’re at the point where fucking senators are posting proof of life photos with newspapers placed strategically in the shot.

Cooked. Cooked. Coooooooked.

Love every time there's some article about the end of literacy or the educational crisis or the epidemic of conspiracy theories and it's always presented as if these are things that *just happened* and never really get into the fact that these are the consequences of a deliberate agenda.

It’s going to make your fucking head spin how many mainstream publications and voices sound the alarm over the threat of leftism as it gains popularity and support. We’re inching up on a major battle and the lines are being drawn every single day.

Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com

From the Editorial Board: Find your voice, centrist Democrats and fast. The socialist brigade is already on the march.

Editorial: Centrist Democrats must not let ‘democratic socialists’ take over their party without a fight

It was thoughtful of the fascists to give us an air show featuring all their weapons of war that they purchased with our money instead of making sure we had food or homes or healthcare or education.

It’s cool that a lot of Democrats would rather put trans kids in danger and throw them under the bus and constantly say “I don’t know, this really doesn’t poll well” rather than just start constantly pushing back with “why are you so fucking obsessed with kids’ genitals? What’s wrong with you?”

I would like just one aspect of our culture and our lives that this motherfucker doesn’t have to get his greasy, corrupt hands on. Just something somewhere that can be enjoyable and unsullied.

Ben Jacobs @jacobsben.bsky.social

🚨 Exclusive: The White House made a direct call to FIFA to ask Gianni Infantino to review Folarin Balogun’s red card. FIFA approached for comment and referred to the findings of its independent committee.

Unless you personally know and have fought alongside a politician or they have a long, long, loooooong track record, you can’t just embrace them and then deflect every attack or scandal. These people don’t deserve your trust, only your suspicion. This has to change and it has to change fast.

It’s cool and not at all telling that a senator can just disappear for weeks at a time and no one knows whether they’re functionally dead or not. Tremendous situation we’ve got here.

It's cool that almost all resources are hoarded by a class of people who have no incentive to make things better and are almost to a person dedicated to destroying democracy and carrying out a historically evil agenda.

Floating Universal Basic Income as the tech oligarchs eye the destruction of what remains of gainful employment is just a weaponized mirage.

The political class isn't going to pass this. Neoliberals are relentlessly destroying even the meager social programs that remain. Stop it with this nonsense.

No better metaphor than an embarrassingly bootleg performance of the Angry American while the dumbest and most grotesque firework display goes off, DC is overwhelmed with smoke, and Trump is bored and scrolling on his phone.

Have to imagine it's a complete coincidence that the same outlets publishing one piece after another talking about how extremely dangerous and unacceptable the Left is are also laundering genocide and normalizing targeting of trans people while featuring puff pieces on Far Right fascists.

American celebrations of independence get it all wrong by focusing on the Founders.

The actual spirit of revolution lies with the people who fight the powerful and it exists everywhere and cannot be destroyed, no matter how hard the wealthy might try.

jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/notes-on-t...

Notes on the Revolution: Reflections on the U.S. at 250

The American mythology is evaporating. What's left is necessary reality.

It helps to keep track of the unhinged anger of the oligarchical class because as their rage builds we can begin to anticipate and prepare for escalations of oppression, surveillance, and violence.

We're in a new chapter of this crisis. It's kinetic and volatile and real.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com

CNBC host Rebecca Quick to a crazed-sounding, incoherent, ranting Palantir CEO Alex Karp: "You sound pretty angry"

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I swear to fucking god there aren’t enough paid tweets in the world to get this campaign across the finish line.

If this isn’t the nadir of centrist Democratic fuckery I have serious, serious worries.

Howard Mortman @howardmortman.bsky.social

"Cool kids on the Internet. They're doing the cool kid chatter. Some of 'em might be the coastal elites, making fun of how I talk. But let's be real. They're making fun of Michigan. They're thinking they're better than us. Their jokes, their criticism, only make me fight harder." -- Haley Stevens

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