Describe the economy in a single sentence

'Vase of Sunflowers' by contemporary UK printmaker Louise Stebbing #WomensArt

If avoiding a power outage in a heat wave is socialism, then I guess I'm a socialist.

When your bed becomes the Strait of Hormuz.

Americans want a revolution and the only one on offer comes with fascists.

When men of good faith refuse to stir things up men of bad faith will.

Americans love a hustler and the hustlers know it.

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Institutionalize court reform.

Roughly a third of Americans can read at a high school level, but a third of our Supreme Court can't.

Actually, we were one vote away from none of us being citizens.

This country was one person's vote away this morning from putting any birthright citizen in danger of being deported tomorrow. We are so much closer to the abyss than we think. Man oh man.

How long before the paint chips and the colors run down the columns?

We elected the fascists into power, so it's only fair we punish our children.

Trump's fair may be perfect for you, if you don't like crowds.

One of the bleakest things about American politics is that we're reflexively anti expert on issues that truly have right and wrong answers, but are slavishly obsequious to experts in "the law and the constitution" despite that field being completely made up and fake.

Reconstruction

The thinking must be that the unitary executive is a necessity and that Trump must be tolerated until he can be replaced with a saner megalomaniac.

Counterfeit algae is going to be a thing now, isn't it?

47 trees, broken only by a gold plated path, circling an artificial spring where the afflicted and weary may find at least relief, if not complete healing.

When singing in the shower is considered training your voice.

As a contrast/antidote to the Great American State Fair, I recommend the American Aspirations exhibit at the Smithsonian Castle, just steps away. It's a thoughtful, professionally curated exhibit that explores strivings towards American ideals: freedom, hope, democracy, fairness, and liberty.

Gräf & Stift motorcar in which Archduke Franz Ferdinand & Sophie Duchess of Hohenberg were assassinated in Sarajevo #OTD 28 June 1914 (Heeresgeschichtliche Museum, Vienna).

sometimes a ceasefire is just a suggestion

Bread and circuses, MAGA style.

The great American state fair being stupid Trump bullshit does legit make me sad, if I’m being honest. A lot of the 250 stuff does. This could have been a really cool and special thing and literally any normal president would have pulled it off.

All that morning birdsong, all for free.

It's really weird how so many Americans get so worked up over socialism.

It took close to 60 years to come to terms with the ending for Von Ryan's Express.

It is currently illegal to reflect at the Reflecting Pool

It is a crazy idea that the Watergate burglary brought down the Nixon presidency, because it didn't.

Oddly, this is an improvement on the old slimy nuanced racism of the past. They've decided lipstick on a pig is a waste of makeup.

You know who else has never assimilated? Everyone who keeps flying that fucking Confederate flag.

In short, he's saying Somalis need to change their skin color.

"Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a Colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglifying them, and will never adopt our Language or Customs, any more than they can acquire our Complexion." - Ben Franklin on Emmers' German ancestors

The whacky part is that the very idea of America is about as progressive as it gets.

If you see a Mini Mamdani, do not engage with it, do not let it hold your baby. If it insists on engaging with you, assume it is hungry and throw him your pet cat, which it considers a delicacy, and run for shelter, where you should immediately call your favorite podcaster.

'I'd apologize for kicking your ass and upsetting your checkerboard, but that would be, you know, dishonest.'

This has to be a great time to be a tarp manufacturer.

24 JUNE 1776, PHILADELPHIA: The Second Continental Congress passes America’s first treason law: “All persons abiding within any of the United Colonies, and deriving protection from the laws of the same, owe allegiance to the said laws, and are members of such colony.”

The Democratic Party freaking out that Democratic Party candidates are winning is the most Democratic Party thing ever.

Men who are led by money have no business thinking they should lead people.

Huey Long got a lot of electoral mileage out of providing schoolbooks to children.

little demon, france, 15th century

Reminder that the center is always moving, that you can't meet people in the middle when you don't know where it is.

23 JUNE 1776, NEW YORK: Another arrest in the Loyalist conspiracy to assist the British in taking New York: George Washington’s housekeeper, Mary Smith. We do not know her subsequent fate.