so interesting what goes viral here on Bluesky vs what goes viral on X/Twitter when it comes to an event that everyone is watching. Because on X, that post-game clip of England fans singing Wonderwall to the team has gone gangbusters super viral whereas nearly no one here has posted it

Yes sorry this is a good question: honey syrup! Not just honey straight from the jar. That wouldn't be good! I'm used to just saying "honey" at work for honey syrup

Shift drink: Reflecting Pool 1oz rum 1oz mezcal .75oz lime .75oz honey barspoon matcha muddled mint

reflecting pool is the funniest low stakes train wreck it is my favorite stupid news thing rn

Sometimes the stuff Trump he's been fed or hallucinated, but that's roughly on par with what I've seen knowledgeable people speculate for a few weeks now, mid-July to late August as the "you've used up your margins & now you're in triage mode" interval

This Reflecting Pool saga really has it all.

You too can change the US flag to slime green if you so choose: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The war on metaphor is over and we lost. defector.com/promises-mad...

Looks like June 9th, 11th, and 12th were the closest the reflecting pool has ever been to blue (albeit not the target blue). Those are on the bluer side of teal

Both totally unnecessary and extremely funny that the Guardian has an interactive graphic for you to change the color of the US flag's blue to the color of the Reflecting Pool from 8 to 19 June and counting

"Trump won't do X" does not equal 'Trump can't do X"

And weirdly half this website has convinced themselves Trump can do nothing about this, but Trump's tried nothing actually?

Until this bulldozer is no longer sent to Israel (along with 1,000lbs bombs, 2,000lbs bombs, 500lbs bombs, JDAMs, jet parts, artillery shells, etc) why should anyone think the US is being rational?

How many people on here can name the most prominent bulldozer used by IDF (and by Israeli civilians contracted by the IDF) to demolish literally 90+ villages in south Lebanon? Want to guess who makes them and who sells them to the Israelis at a discounted rate?

Number one question every so-called foreign policy realist should be asking themselves is why Washington DC consider Israel's right to bomb Lebanon more important than the global economy?

“You can’t touch the algae water”

In 1986 you could conceivably buy a Hot Topper from Burger King, take it home, and butter it up with your Hot Topper. What a year for Hot Toppers.

Did DoD just admit in a court filing that it used xAI's Grok Gov Model to hit the girls' school on the first day of the Iran war? Based on some passages flagged by @rgoodlaw.bsky.social in DoD's recent filing in NAACP's case against X, it looks like it did 1/

Holy shit. This guy had a Pennsylvania drivers license. They’re coming from out of state to sabotage the reflecting pool. Check this shit out. His reason for travel? Antifa. It just says Antifa. This is what Kash Patel was talking about. This is why we’re here.

this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to show up in full combat gear on a hot summer day to the pool he filled with algae because he gave a paint job to one of his cigar puffing cronies. you are ordered to stop tourists from touching the green water. good luck soldier

if Espaillat, Hickenlooper, and DeGette all lose, move the reckoning forward a cycle.

Two versions of the same problem: whatever the issue, Trump favors the cheapest & sleaziest solution, & if that doesn't work he doesn't *really* care except to the extent people keep talking about it

I appreciate this sentiment but as a guy whose house came with a koi pond let me assure you that algae is more powerful than any country on this earth

Parity is making the league better

It really isn't tenable long-term for the US and British center-lefts to keep acting like a 18 year old edgy college student can speak for all of the Palestinian liberation movement but that the natsec, finance, defense, and prime ministers of Israel are small beans who don't mean anything.

The media is abnormalizing Mamdani as pathologically as they normalize Trump

Everyone has lost their minds. Mamdani's record in office is that of an ambitious center-left pragmatist yet the entire media is still casting him as a dangerous ideologue.

what kind of algae are you

Did you touch the Reflecting Pool

real tolls have never been tried

Pennsylvania National Guard defending the reflecting pool from the 1312th Guards Antifa Airlanding Regiment

HEGSETH! BURGUM! WHERE IS MY LO-CHLOR? YOU PROMISED US SWIMTRINE AND ALL WE HAVE BOTTLES OF PEROXIDE FROM FUCKING RITE AID! AND IT'S ONLY 70 FUCKING PERCENT!

I NEED QRF TO BE REDCON RIGHT FUCKING NOW THEY’RE SWARMING THE REFLECTING POOL

this is the thing, the exact same people take the opposite (correct!) viewpoint about stuff like ukraine. yeah, politics are disingenuous and immoral even when you're not talking about an authoritarian theocracy, but at the same time there is one side here whose demands are more morally defensible

No one thinks that if the Houthis started launching waves of missiles at Yanbu that it would have no relevance to whether Iran was holding up their end of the bargain, so I dunno why the losing side expects to get more leniency than the winning one.

Here is where things stand: one country is demanding that Lebanon stop being molested by indiscriminate bombardment and bulldozing and another is saying it should be molested permanently. Which is more reasonable? Sorry but it's not America.

Everyone is willing to act like a realist about American power politics vis a vis negotiations until it's inverted. Curious.

It is funny to see people hyperventilate and say Iran doesn't care about Lebanon for Lebanon's sake and therefore their extortion of the US over it is bad. OK? Has DC ever cared about Damascus, Beirut, Palestinians in any part of Palestine when they demand Israel have freedom to bomb as they like?

btw the fact that Trump just blurted this out...like you could estimate the same conclusions doing some oil industry research and napkin math but to just outright confirm it by saying it in the midst of negotiations....

to be brutally honest with myself, the fact that things appear to be more or less boppin’ along after 3mos of this has taught me that i’m not nearly as smart and savvy as i thought i was

Economics really is all fake, Trump is right, more oil really will just appear if you have a positive attitude, gas mileage is improved by screaming at the right people, tariffs create free money out of thin air, it can only good happen, The Man just doesn't want you to know this.

tbh markets are confident that the stockpiles can stabilize prices for the duration of the war on the basis that Trump will try to surrender as quickly as possible, I just don't know how that's supposed to work because the GCC countries + Israel get a vote too.

Folks are overthinking this. Hormuz normally saw 20 million barrels per day of oil transit before the war. The UAE and Saudi Arabia have pipelines which they have used to reroute like a third of that. Wealthy nations have been releasing about 6 milliol bpd from stockpiles, China probs similar.

The way I see it is, the sole concession in the MOU from Israel, a co-belligerent in the war, was to stop attacking Lebanon. If you can't get them to do that how can you expect the rest of the deal to come through. The clown US admin wrote a bad check and now everyone loses

Our nation's pigs have answered the call to protect the president's slime

trump trying to declare war on a NATO ally to reinstate Red Lobster's endless shrimp promotion and deputizing every shitheel cop from Cousinfucker, AR to pursue his delusion that antifa is tainting hisreflecting pool are things which you would laugh at as obvious slander if Procopius wrote them

"Can you explain this gap in your resume?" No, I don't remember. I'm on a long-term, narrative arc, trying to figure out where I was and what I was doing during that time. I'm going to find out why I don't remember, find who is responsible. And most importantly, I'm going to make them pay.

this is one of the weirdest things conservative elites tell themselves and it's become load bearing to their entire anti anti Trump ideology

many such cases

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni fired back after Trump doubled down on his attacks, telling him that his “constant, unprovoked attacks are senseless” Meloni: “My popularity is none of your concern. I suggest you focus on yours.”