MickV

songs in The Captain The Ship --
words in @unstamaticmag --
#Citizenship4Adoptees

[MickV @manoftheforest7]

@Viral_vortex1 @barstoolsports going on a decade without a playoff game, wings fans gotta find a way to keep the kids smiling

[Tom Morello @tmorello]

Some Irish friends & comrades are headed to the middle east, trying to reach Rafah, they are the Irish delegation of The Global March to Gaza, a peaceful march across the Sinai Desert. Below is their gofundme, just to cover expenses. Any money left over will go to Palestine Aid Ireland. Aid if you can.
https://t.co/q64100Tljm

[MickV @manoftheforest7]

i'm back for two seconds to say it one more time

fuck the derby

[MickV @manoftheforest7]

as a red wings fan, i'm wanting dylan larkin to make some noise, he absolutely deserves it

...but as an american citizen, with canadian friends and fond memories in canada, and a heavy disdain for everything this government does?

👀

#FourNations #usacanada

[MickV @manoftheforest7]

meanwhile, they move on as a collective while we've been fractured. a pattern is established and we just...don't see it. to respond becomes an overwhelming concept that seems too impossible. we cave. they move on.

it was a nazi salute. how do we get the fucker out of power?

[MickV @manoftheforest7]

it's already just like last time. they do some clearly problematic, shock-value gesture, and we fight over what it was instead of get constructive about responding to keep each other safe. it's normalizing the behavior while distracting us from the work to be done.

[night jar @nocturnalbottle]

literally parable of the sower, written by altadena legend octavia butler in 1993 about altadena in 2025 unreal

[Terrance A. Sullivan @TASullivan]

Umm if the department of education doesn’t exist then neither do my student loans

[Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones]

We must not delude ourselves in this moment. Multiracial democracy in the United States is less than 60 years old. It has always been contested, often violently so. It has always been fragile. Since this nation's inception large swaths of white Americans -- including white women -- have claimed a belief in democracy while actually enforcing a white ethnocracy. In the face of shifting demographics where white Americans will lose their numeric majority, we see a growing embrace of autocracy to keep the "legitimate" rulers of this country in power. History teaches us that we are in a perilous moment.

[jay 🍉 @wasteofurfaith]

wanted a femininomenon got a feloninomenon instead

[KNICKS IN 5💙🧡💙🧡💙🧡 @alsostephenking]

sleepy joe you’ve got two months. go crazy. eliminate all student debt. legalize marijuana. make tampons and condoms free. ban cybertrucks. shit in the oval office’s air vent. kidnap barron. the world is your oyster buddy

[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.

[gwen howerton @kissphoria]

if kamala wins jimmy carter is going to die like yoda in return of the jedi immediately after

[MickV @manoftheforest7]

@TobiSincoff please for the love of god

[MickV @manoftheforest7]

@drewnotsogooden do you know how badly i need this right now

[MickV @manoftheforest7]

i'm back for the night solely for the humor. where is the humor, someone show it to me

[madison @madison_tayt]

i feel like i’m losing my fucking mind.
appalachia is under water and cops are stopping people from getting food and diapers. lebanon and palestine are being massacred with US weapons and i’m supposed to just not give a fuck about any of that and cheer on kamala fucking harris?

[Abier @abierkhatib]

This girl always says the unexpected but the most beautiful thing…

“ Israel’s mythology of the necessity of making Jews feel alone”

[Hannah Riley Fernandez @hannahcrileyy]

our money is going to blow up people in Palestine and Lebanon while Appalachia is literally drowning.