The purpose of “Abundance” is to find pro-housing/transit liberals who will never respond to overt conservative propaganda or manufactured NYT doomerism and trap them in political funhouse mirrors that convert every genuine desire for a better world into anti-labor politics in service of oligarchy.
today I discovered this incredible story of a minor league pitcher who is 6'4 wears glasses and a ginger beard who hurt his elbow and went to the doc for Tommy John surgery and was mistaken for a pitcher from a diff team who was also there for TJ surgery on same day anyway heres their pics and names
prospect.org/2026/06/12/n...
The Prospect has obtained a fundraising pitch and historical manifesto from inside the movement.
Bluesky doesn't drive MUCH traffic, but damn, the way Twitter drives NO traffic.
MAN.
"Maybe the real boosters are the communist films we made along the way" on I Love Boosters: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/i-love-boost...
Aaron Bady
Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist
www.wired.com/story/spacex...
wow, yeah, sure sounds like these people are apolitical conspiracists! imagine thinking a data center might give you cancer
This week, ORB went to the movies!
Colin Dickey wrote about why the Bay Area emerging as the preeminent setting for underground labyrinth horror (Backrooms/Us): www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/bay-area-hor...
Aaron wrote about I Love Boosters: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/i-love-boost...
prospect.org/2026/06/12/n...
I agree with everything @zunguzungu.bsky.social says about I Love Boosters, especially that you should go see it in a theater, yes, if you think you'll agree with it's politics, but also because whether you do or do not you will almost certainly have fun. www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/i-love-boost...
That you can make a movie like this is the message.
