Ha ha I hate it here

“Salute to America Immediate Evacuation” is an instant classic.

We should make it a thing to burn Confederate flags on July 4

100 years ago.

"How can you (x)!? Don't you know (y)!?" I'm Black, sweetheart. if I hit pause every time a disgusting injustice that twisted my guts into knots was in motion, I'd never make it out of the starting blocks.

That first sign tells you all you need to know about the class of people showing up to Trump’s hate fest.

Trump can’t defeat Iran but he can go after Pete Seeger’s boat.

To mark America’s 250th anniversary, @alletson.bsky.social traveled to Montgomery, Alabama, to speak with Bryan Stevenson, whose museum and memorials commemorating slavery and lynching compel us to look squarely at the nation’s past. Listen to the full episode here: bit.ly/44dFUJ9

the president’s biggest supporters in town for the celebration it looks like

new metaphor just dropped

When the Trump administration promised the most explosive July 4th weekend in US History, I don’t think his voters expected it to take this form.

When someone nearly hits me in a crosswalk

Absolutely insane that Cape Verde — a country of 500,000 — played Spain, Uruguay and Argentina…and lost to none of them in regulation. Easily one of the greatest performances in World Cup history.

I was trying to make this case to folks the other night. What a gift to see every team with a diasporic rooting section.

I assume that the Fox hosts who said that Mamdani’s speech was “too negative” for Independence Day will feel the same when Trump rants about Democrats being communists who hate America and God.

Nothing quite captures the spirit of America 250 like promising a century of single party rule if only one party can change election laws.

We wanted to know how regular Americans feel about the country’s 250th birthday. So we talked to three South African neo-Nazi billionaires at a ketamine bar on Market Street

It is seriously alarming how many of the world’s wealthiest and most powerful people are just screamingly mentally unwell in deeply toxic, dangerous ways.

The obvious points here: *there is no problem that the cops are solving. Some staff are negotiating fan access to players. No need for a govt official to jump in *their natural instinct is to escalate rather than defuse the tension, to demand obedience rather than manage the situation

Funny thing is that I *think* (and @anthonymkreis.bsky.social can confirm) that this would probably already fall within the even more obscure exception to birthright citizenship for babies born on foreign-government-run ships operating within US territorial waters.

Children born in the United States to non-citizens should not be allowed to become citizens or to serve in Congress. by Marco Rubio

I assumed everyone knew this was predicted to occur when they sacked 50% of the NOAA staff and started canceling weather balloons that collect data last year; but if not. 👇

if you haven't seen any photos of what the US used to look like before the clean air/water acts, you should take 30 seconds for a quick image search

This heat wave brought to you by ExxonMobil and Chevron.

Stupidest times. We live in the stupidest of times.

Grateful to the Telegraph for providing the definitive answer to its own question, albeit in quite small letters.

holy shit a convent got excommunicated for pledging allegiance to a sedevacantist bishop and were fully doing elder abuse behind closed doors this is very very dark but has really interesting implications for how the SSPX real estate battles may play out. the nuns were evicted after seceding

Some journalists seem to accept Trump's claim that his Venezuela operation was a "big success." Facts: He kidnapped Venezuela's leader and left the No. 2 in power, with no path to elections. He killed about 100 people. He shut Congress out of the decision-making. He's stealing Venezuela's oil.

DC is, flatly, owed statehood after what they have been through under this man to make sure this shit never happens again

just shockingly hostile to the people who live in DC

I don't think any American--regardless of party, despite fondness for aviation (which I share)--would enjoy being under the nonstop low-altitude, high-speed, incredible-volume of the Caligula overflights of our nation's capital right now. It feels and sounds like being under aerial attack.

OK, who was it? Come clean.

America’s Independence Day Parade in downtown DC (July 4, 10:30AM) has been CANCELED by organizers due to Extreme Heat Warning. Heat index 110-115F. #Climate

Trump's birthday parade, Trump's Reflection Pool renovations, Trump's concert series, Trump's July Fourth state fair, Trump's July Fourth parade... all failures. It's as though the National Mall is a Bermuda Triangle for the narcissistic projects of a dictator. Uncanny pattern.

Mitch McConnell being in the hospital has me convinced that the heat in DC is due to a portal to hell opening so he can go home

Don't want to speak ill of the dead, so getting this Mitch McConnell take out now. He saw Trump with complete clarity, as a danger to America, but protected him anyway. Perhaps more than anyone, he had the power to end Trumpism, but chose party over country. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/jan-6-and-...

Earlier this year, Monica De La Cruz also got some positive press when she advocated for teen mariachi musicians who were detained after going to their routine check-ins. Once again, SHE FUNDED THEIR ABDUCTIONS: www.texastribune.org/2026/03/09/t...

Describe the economy in a single sentence

My posts most days. I'm sorry.

OH MY GOD GUYS okay so priests who want back in have to find a bishop willing to vouch for them, swear fealty to Vatican II and then HAND-WRITE THE POPE AN APOLOGY LETTER (I gues so he knows they didn’t use AI? 😂) and are on probation for 1-3 years this is ten times spicier than I even thought

doesn't feel like a crisis to me 🔨

It would be very good if there was a law that would put law enforcement officials in prison for 10+ years when they lie under oath. Nothing is more corrosive to a society than police corruption.

So ICE waited more than a week to disclose a 85-year-old German man died in ICE custody.

The DOJ charged a woman with felony obstruction for emailing herself Volume II, then accidentally emailed three copies of Volume II to her defense lawyers, which is the kind of irony that doesn't need a punchline.

The $400m flying bribe has shelves of fake books, some titled “Library”.

every one of these you're going to have to check what happened at the grand jury level since grand jury misconduct is endemic in the trump doj

Some people just want a boot on their neck, I don't know what to tell you

The stage is falling apart at the rehearsal for Freedom 250's July 4th celebration.