The USMNT and Knicks being really good except for the precise moment when Trump involves himself is really funny

There’s never been anyone whose involvement more completely and immediately poisons vibes and destroys joy. No good thing survives contact.

The have reversed the logic of democracy: they are no longer accountable to us; we are accountable to them

there are plenty of people taking potshots at this and i don’t really blame them, but we would be in a significantly better place, politically, if our pundits engaged in this kind of public accounting more often

Senator McConnell will die doing what he loves best: destroying democracy.

This from @atrupar.com is a fascinating, disturbing, and completely eye opening MUST READ about something I knew absolutely nothing about….and something we should all know everything about. @juddlegum.bsky.social

FIFA is corrupt; Trump is corrupt; the Balogun call was bullshit; the suspension of the call was bullshit; the appeal of the suspension is bullshit. Wow this is like the perfect storm for a discourse. You have all sorts of possible stances to take. Have fun everyone.

Three true things: 1)There are six partisan Republicans on the Supreme Court; 2)some of them are more overtly MAGA than others; 3)the partisan makeup of the Court is historically disconnected from election results as the Dems won the popular vote 7 out of 8 times while the Reps built a ct majority.

This is what every Democrat alive needs to run on reversing. One of the few tropes that both parties/polarities embrace.

And here we are... happy aphelion, Earthlings!

This is an actual screenshot from the syllabus for this class. Beyond parody

Believe it or not, it was once GOP orthodoxy that the government shouldn't boost specific companies or industries and that Obama in particularly was somehow tangentially corrupt about doing so.

This passage from @davidlat.bsky.social perfectly captures the false dichotomy you see so often from the Supreme Court's defenders: The Court is held out as "independent" because it doesn't *always* rule for Trump. That whitewashes (1) how often it *does*; & (2) its bad behavior in non-Trump cases.

This alone should be a decade-defining political scandal resulting in prison sentences.

Tired: Fox Broadcast Wired: Running Telemundo through Peacock Inspired: Running the VPN on my smart TV to load up RTÉ Ireland to get the most biased Anglophone feed humanly possible.

Donald is just as familiar with the words in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution as is with the words in the Bible: not at all.

It seems some of you have forgotten.

This is NOT what the FIFA World Cup is about. The FIFA World Cup is about *opens history book* uh oh *Frantically starts flipping though pages* uh oh. oh no. no no no. uh oh

I would be interested in hearing how this *isn’t* wire fraud.

First photo is Oval Office under Dwight Eisenhower. Second, under his successor, JFK. One was five-star general and Supreme Commander of allied forces on DDay. Other a wounded USN veteran of WWII. On July 4 weekend, a baseline of non-Versailles, zero-gilt dignity that can someday be restored.

Scenes from a personalist regime: your donations to the patriotic events rerouted to the leader’s organization

Massive surveillance, taking control of companies, state control of the media, massive propaganda campaigns—Trump is indeed a communist.

If this is true -- a very big if -- it is surely how McConnell would have wanted to go: exploiting the timing of the death of major figures (Scalia, RBG) for cynical partisan gain.

A $3 @mta.info subway fare and some good Q train timing can buy you one hell of a view of the July 4th fireworks and the Brooklyn Bridge light show! Huge shoutout to the train operator for slow rolling over the Manhattan Bridge and the conductor for announcing it.

season 5 is a little weak, but the wire closes absolutely strong. easily one of the great works of american fiction and maybe the greatest work of fiction about an american city

i think that routine mass starvation that every generation before my great-grandparents lived throuhg was worse imo

Dear Wall Street Journal, It‘s tiresome when you assign a selfish horse-race motive to everything that happens in politics. Yes, Democrats are “seizing on Trump’s soaring wealth.” But it‘s more than a “campaign opportunity“ — they’re appalled by a crook ruining our country.

This is also literally why businessmen make terrible public service leaders. He's now openly bragging about his #corruption.

MAGA tried to dunk on Mamdani for saying people should set their thermostat to 78° during a heat wave so as not to overload the grid. When it was pointed out that this is just standard advice from the Department of Energy, the Trump administration deleted 6,000 pages of docs from the DoE website🤦🏾‍♂️

"I do not think we are more inspired, have more wisdom, or possess more virtue, than those who will come after us. The power under the Constitution will always be in the People.” - George Washington

Great moments in U.S. History.

The founder we should talk more about is Thomas Paine, who will fuck your shit up every time. Here he is in The Rights of Man just ripping into any ideas of "originalism" and that kind of garbage.

You want a Netflix series that would rock? Follow Paine, from strikes in England to the American and French Revolutions to almost being guillotined to being saved by James Monroe to getting pissed at Adams and Washington and them abandoning him. Hamilton pales by comparison plot-wise.

Nine years ago today when NPR tweeted the entire Declaration of Independence, Trump supporters angrily thought it was criticizing him

not to get political, but America is real pretty and has a lot of nice folks making cool things, and i think if we had a president who wasn’t actively trying to murder us, we could have a pretty good time

Early in Trump's first term, David Frum wrote that every time Trump and MAGA say "the deep state" you should hear "rule of law," then it'll make more sense. That stuck with me. And I thought of it again as an unqualified and unconfirmed director of national intelligence conducts political purges.

Describe the economy in a single sentence

*This isn't true, but the post is a good example of the sort of low-stakes pointless stuff people argue about on Bluesky *Good people should claim the flag rather than abandon it

We also don't need to wait until he's dead to remind each other that the man has always been a total piece of shit

Maybe they should consider impeaching this man over his conduct

I don't know how you break this through to the mainstream without someone with an enormous platform devoting unusual focus on it, but Musk's strategy of just being a Nazi online and not doing any TV effectively makes his actions invisible to anyone who might care to try to stop him.

Immortal life advice

I mean, it's not like there's a great paper showing that The Apprentice significantly increased Trump's political popularity because he was portrayed as really good at "moneymaking" ungated: static1.squarespace.com/static/59485...

Absolutely, I am originally from Bosnia and Herzegovina and the way Miller and the rest of MAGA talks about (non-white) immigrants is very much how those who waged war in my country talked about the other ethnic groups.

He could strangle a teenager on camera and they would say he “defied a long-held tradition of presidents not doing that”

More athletes have gotten a career out of finishing fifth to three cis swimmers and one trans than have lost a scholarship because of a trans athlete.

It’s really important to install an entire federal discrimination system so somebody’s cis daughter can finish 14th at her swim meet.