Eric

[Vincent Bevins @Vinncent]

https://t.co/enEAlU2lat

[salute @saluteAUT]

the full recording of my 7 hour all day long set in los angeles for @intothewoodsla

enjoy !

https://t.co/V084eNhSCI

[Eric @khale_]

top 3 tame impala track of all time. argue amongst yourselves https://t.co/yevo4JyT6Z

[neonique 👽 @_neonique]

when i go to the club i wanna hear those club classics

[Eric @khale_]

just an irredeemably evil institution lol

[NYTimes Communications @NYTimesPR]

We have appended an Editors' Note to a story about Mohammed Zakaria al-Mutawaq, a child in Gaza who was diagnosed with severe malnutrition. After publication, The Times learned that he also had pre-existing health problems. Read more below.

[GoliathFan1952 @ByYourLogic]

The cop in this clip very deliberately lines her up and shoots her. I’m sure more money for training and equipment will fix whatever is wrong with him, though

[ROCHELLE @Rochelle_Jordan]

WE CRAVE THE FEELING💋

[Brandy Jensen @BrandyLJensen]

just unrelentingly bleak https://t.co/VGokzqh6qG

[Eric @khale_]

“matcha” taking one entire hour

[alex @chicvouge]

time block your days! will help you feel so much more organized and actually help you achieve your goals!

[Ben @as_someone_who]

We need to implement:

✅ Non Heirarchical Community Based TSA
✅ Priority Boarding for BIPOC (Military given stowaway)
✅ Sliding Scale Tickets
✅ Consent Guidelines Annouced by Pilot
✅ “People Of Stewarding Experience”
✅ Airplane Marshalls replaced w Intimacy Coordinators

[Eric @khale_]

looking back, some real generational albums dropped in 2015. emotion, ds2, tpab, in colour, depression cherry, barter 6, art angels, like whoa. adding SOPHIE - PRODUCT to this list too

[Pitchfork @pitchfork]

Big year for albums turning 10. Which one makes you feel the oldest?

[dylan saba @shaabiranks]

https://t.co/2ra6Neqnvq

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

"For three years, the Broward County Sheriff’s Office produced its own crack cocaine, so it could sell it to people that deputies would then arrest for buying crack cocaine." https://t.co/l3lLaMDuaG

[Eric @khale_]

whoa let’s not get too woke now…

[Alex Moskowitz @alexrmoskowitz]

leaving aside all the guns for a moment, there is nothing more depressing than the suburban basement. a bar, pool table, arcade games--all the markers of a vibrant sociality, hidden away underground in the single family home. a space of profound social isolation

[GNCordova @GNCordova]

If this country didn’t treat incarcerated people like they’re subhuman, this story would be all over every news platform. But because these are Black men and the US prison system is the evolution of American chattel slavery, people don’t care.

[the middle of nowhere @calebcat23]

bro was really talkin about some "unfinished" https://t.co/jXsBCbXfwh

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

All the takes are correct and yet they also miss the point.

Yes, it was insane for the Democrats to think they could win by running a soulless candidate, without a shred of progressive policy vision, pursuing endorsements from neocon war-hawks everybody hates, while arming and funding a genocide, and belittling and crushing those who have enough morality to protest it.  It is enraging that the Democrats are so smug and blind to this.

But these are all just symptoms.  The deeper reality is that liberalism has failed, liberalism is dead, and people urgently need to wake up to this fact and respond accordingly. It is a defunct ideology that cannot offer any meaningful solutions to our social and ecological crises and it must be abandoned.

Democrats have proven over and over again that they cannot accept even *basic* steps like public healthcare, affordable housing, and a public job guarantee - things that would dramatically improve the material, social and political conditions of the working classes. And they cannot accept a public finance strategy that would steer production away from fossil fuels and toward green transition to give us a shot at a liveable future.

Why? Because these things run against the objectives of capital accumulation. And for liberals capital is sacrosanct. They will do whatever it takes to ensure elite accumulation, it is their only consistent commitment.  At home, they suppress and demonize progressive and socialist tendencies. Abroad, they engage in endless wars and violence to suppress input prices in the global South and prevent any possibility of sovereign economic development.

The Democrats have done all this purposefully and knowingly, for my whole life, not as some kind of "mistake" but in full consciousness that it is in the interests of capital.

And because liberalism cannot address our crises, and because it crushes socialist alternatives, it inevitably paves the way for right-wing populism.  They know this pattern, and yet they risk it every time - this election being only the most recent example. They did it in 2016, when they actively crushed the Sanders campaign and sent Trump to the White House. They do it because ultimately they (and I mean the liberal ruling class here) don't really mind if fascists take power, so long as the latter too ensure the conditions for capital accumulation. They 100% prefer this to the possibility of a socialist alternative.

So, progressives have to face reality. The dream of "converting" the Democratic party is dead. This is now a fact and it must be accepted. The only option is to build a mass-based movement that can reclaim the working classes and mobilize a political vehicle that can integrate disparate progressive struggles into a unified and formidable political force and achieve substantive transformation. This will take real work, actual organizing, but it must be done and that process must begin now.

[Kate Willett @katewillett]

The “Moderate Republican” is just a stand in for “donors.” They have to pretend it’s an actual demo of voters they are chasing- it isn’t