Basquiat (1996) “Fairy Tale of New York” in the opening sequence. “Kind of Blue” as a recurring theme. Tom Waits doing “Waltzing Matilda” in the emotional clench. Pure perfection 🤌🏻

Let’s go Heels!

In a functioning democracy today would be a national holiday

Maybe it’s small and selfish but I just don’t think my fragile psyche could have taken it if Obama picked dook to win… apple.news/AKEsJdV_GSUa...

Big iced tea matchup on Friday

The President of the United States said I insulted Jesus. You want to know what insults Jesus? Kicking the sick off their healthcare. Bombing schoolchildren in Iran. Deporting moms and babies. Covering up the Epstein files.

@jbf1755.bsky.social I know it’s not your main time period but America needs you to write the most brutally honest biography of Susan Collins you can stomach. Give full vent to the collective New England feminist rage.

The 1st Amendment victory we desperately needed in these totalitarian times…

That way it’s not just no worries now, but no worries ever. For the rest of your days.

I’m a chronic “no worries“ responder in work emails because being a Professor is already pretty laid back, but I want to communicate that I’m the most laid back of the laid backs, do you think it would be a bridge too far if I started replying with “hakuna matata” instead?

“Any society… which opens its doors to money sooner or later loses its acquired equilibria and liberates forces that can never afterwards be adequately controlled. The new form of interchange disturbs the old order, benefits a few privileged individuals and hurts everyone else.” - Fernand Braudel

🚨 The Pentagon is now sending a Marine expeditionary unit — meaning thousands of marines — to the Middle East. If you work at the Pentagon or in the armed forces, please text me on Signal: premthakker.35 Your anonymity will be protected.

Frequency of "separation of church and state," newspapers dot com, 1890-1970.

The dirt they have on him to make him stooge like this must be truly appalling

But he can barely do 5

Say what you like about Trump, but he never lets his allies down.

Shouldn't be rare to see this said by a US senator

Imagine you are a surviving parent of one of the schoolgirls killed in Iran. Then imagine how you would feel about our country and our president if you were them. WE are the villains in this story. This horrific tragedy must end.

This has got to be one of the weirdest things to come out of this admin, and it seems a clear sign of cognitive decline.

Even if Trump gave us universal healthcare, taxed billionaires, lowered costs, raised federal minimum wage, focused on renewable energy, education, infrastructure, wrote me a $10K check and ended every war on the planet-I’d still want that POS in prison because he raped little kids.

I’d bet money Israel has whatever Russia has been holding over orange julius for decades and used that to force us into war. There’s a rush to use it of course bc the whole thing will be out soon and the leverage will be over.

I'm begging my fellow politicians, Illinoisans, and Americans to realize that right now, we aren't fighting over policy or political party. We're fighting over whether we're going to be a country rooted in empathy and kindness — or one rooted in cruelty and rage.

“Having lied so often on his way to power and in his consolidation of power, Hitler could not refrain at this serious moment in history from thundering a few more lies to the gullible German people in justification of his wanton act.” -Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, p. 974

*record scratch* “Maybe you’re wondering how I got here…”

The state of our union is unaffordable.

If Trump can get through his speech without falling asleep or shitting his pants, he will win the expectations game.

My review of the @bittersouth.bsky.social's "Jimmy Carter: Rivers and Dreams" published in American Journalism www.tandfonline.com/eprint/NNU8K...

Can someone who really follows college football help me understand the hype around Arch Manning? Is he actually good and just sucks today or is this a nepo-baby situation? The announcers have been non-stop hyping him all day and he hasn’t done anything ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Brazilian president: "I'd like to say something to the American people; If Trump was Brazilian and did what he did at the Capitol, he'd be on trial in Brazil for violating the Constitution. He would be arrested if he had done that." (ht: @ronxyz.bsky.social)

Short essay out for TIME Magazine's "Made By History" column today: "The History of Music Copyright–Before (Taylor's Version)" time.com/7290761/musi...

Dear Hollywood, we need a Sister Act 4 where instead of a convent Sister Mary Clarence goes undercover in an SBC megachurch and rallies all the women to overthrow the patriarchy…

1000% on American 4. I’d add

If Jesus had focused more on kitchen table issues and less on unpopular outcasts like lepers and prostitutes, he might have won more support from white working-class Judeans.

My President

This was on TikTok

I hear people all around me saying, “They are going to crash the economy. Surely they don’t mean to crash the economy.” I beg to differ. This is curated failure. open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...

1930

@bethallisonbarr.bsky.social has been trying to tell us…

That is exactly true.

Personally, I would rate Jan 6, 2021 as quite a bit lower on the “decorum scale” myself, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Are we ready for the 2nd American Revolution yet? If we start now, we could have a whole new system in place by July 4, 2026 for the 250th anniversary…

NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent. “It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. “A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.” @kyivindependent.com

My romance? Chemical.

I’ll see your pontius pilate and raise you an Andy Warhol in Basquiat

Currently appearing at UK bus-stops. More of this pointed ridicule, please.

(1/X) I've done some posts about the narcissistic sociopath I work with and how dealing with him has influenced how I see Trump. Now I'd like to do something about how it has influenced how i see the people who enable Trump. It's what I call the "shitty people problem"....

Elon Musk is a terrible president.