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Ppl on this app will genuinely doompost "WE'RE SO FUCKED" like a mantra 10 times a week, call it activism, and then wonder why it didn't fix anything

Great moments in U.S. History.

For everyone who gets upset about "ACAB" you should watch how protective the cops are over Patriot Front and how abusive they are to ICE protestors

On the 250th Anniversary of the accepted official beginning of the US, let's doff our hats to our best Founder, Thomas Paine. 1/

If Taylor Swift really wanted a private wedding venue she should’ve considered the National Mall.

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

45 years ago today. Buried on page 20 on a holiday Friday just like this one, news that changed the world. www.nytimes.com/1981/07/03/u...

Ah, I see the work day is over.

Did a single ford exec lose their job for costing the company billions?

You know it smelled crazy in there

After all the "I don't read anything but dialogue," "adjectives are a scam," "prologues aren't part of the book" takes, it's refreshing once in a while to see some completely vanilla take like "this fantasy character's name is too modern for me."

My mother always talks about how when I was adopted, my foster parents wrapped me in multiple layers despite it being "an incredibly hot day." I was miserable and I'm sure they wondered what they'd signed up for. Turns out it was the hottest day in New England history. turnto10.com/weather/weat...

I feel like @briancgrubb.bsky.social will appreciate this.

None. A good translator will find a local equivalent (and have done in the past). A good translation is NOT transcription. It gets the vibe right. Which is why I insist a human translates my novels, not "AI."

I'm not saying it's *true*, but I am saying that "the president thinks the rest of the world is a game of The Sims and he's just fucking around" accounts for more of the last couple years than any other theory. edition.cnn.com/2026/07/01/p...

The people who love to tell us they're not watching the Super Bowl or the Oscars and they don't know who Harry Potter is or whatever ... let's just take a moment and acknowledge their loss, because they would've LOVED not celebrating the 250th, but it's no fun when no one else is celebrating either.

The monthly ritual of bumping to the top of the Criterion Channel queue the movies leaving at the end of the month. Do I have The Apartment on DVD? I do. Did I watch it at New Year's? Sure did. Will I watch it this month just because it's leaving the Channel? Obviously.

Sorry to tell you this, but today is the 47th anniversary of the Sony Walkman.

One thing that I’ve learned in my study of backlash politics from Reconstruction through the Civil Rights Movement is that backlashers are a persistent bunch. The undoing of Reconstruction took several decades, and post-WWII backlashers looked back on that patient counterrevolution as a model.

People, for the love of God, please stop treating birthright as some kind of sweeping victory. It was 5-4 on the constitutional issue. The dissent laid out a fucking ROADMAP for what Trump should do next. The court always gives Trump multiple bites at the apple WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU HAPPY ABOUT?

one thing i find funny is that the founding generation would likely have been very enthusiastic about, say, muslim immigrants and intensely skeptical of all the catholics

people got mad at me yesterday when i said the dems were not ready to take court reform seriously. 5-4 for non-racial citizenship is not a win, it's a reprieve bsky.app/profile/schu...

The parallel to “who is Hugh O’Brian? / get me a Hugh O’Brian type” is: Haha this cartoon dog sounds like Jimmy Durante Hey, people keep doing impressions of Doggy Daddy Hey this Jimmy Durante guy in this old movie sounds like Doggy Daddy Who is Jimmy Durante? Who is Doggy Daddy?

As the mom of two girls who play sports let me just say: I could give a fuck about the sex at birth of any child they play with or against. Condoning the policing of youth sports in this manner is bigoted.

Court can't go on like this. The Constitution as plainly as possible says people who were born here have an unequivocal right to citizenship. Four people whose ONLY job is to read the Constitution for the rest of their lives just tried to overturn it because they're tired of brown people. Pack it.

@sethmoulton.bsky.social, the very best thing you can do is to acknowledge & apologize for the harm your comments had caused and THEN talk about why your views have evolved. Pretending you did not make these comments is insulting to your constituents, especially those in the LGBTQIA+ community.

Particularly to every trans kid growing up in a world seemingly intent on attacking you. Know this: You are loved. These adults who get off on trying to bully you are the problem, not you.

expand the court. no more half measures. this is intolerable.

With this ruling, the birthright issue is not going away. The right hasn't really begun *organizing* around getting rid of the citizenship clause. Like Roe, this will be their fight for a generation. And if the Democrats just say "we won" and ignore it, like Roe, the Republicans will eventually win.

5-4 for what it explicitly says in the constitution is incredible. They were this close to undoing the civil war entirely. bsky.app/profile/mjsd...

god I hate these people there's a $100,000 fellowship to PROPOSE WHATEVER YOU WANT FOR A YEAR to shrink government at Cato right now!

One of these days a captcha will ask me to select the Paul Thomases Anderson from a sea of Joshuas Jackson, and you’ll just never hear from me again.

Credit to @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social, the author of this poem

happy pride, any excuse to post my favorite poem

This may be the coolest summer Europe has left www.nationalobserver.com/2026/06/29/o...

I grew up with my mother proofreading Houghton Mifflin math textbooks (in the form of big stacks of paper) at the dining room table, and I've never gotten used to how many technical mishaps are part of editing life, or how often I have to interact with IT.

The brawl at the end of Blazing Saddles spreading out to other sets; "werewolf?" "there wolf!"; the Inquisition song; "yeah, but I shoot with this one"; and of course Puttin on the Ritz.

Remove the slop from your day!

Say say less less.

Stealing this slogan for everything.

this looks like a place at the edge of the map in an open-world game

It is hard to overstate just how much everyone was Bicentennial crazy in 1976. The 200th birthday party was, coast to coast, a big fucking deal. And that was in a very contentious election year. This entire 250th has been a dud, and for good reason. Who feels good about flag-waving right now?

For the next 24h, drop any infectious disease and/or vaccine-related questions in response to this post, and I will do my best to answer them. Answers are for information only, NOT medical advice. #AskAnIDDoc June 2026 edition.

Twin Peaks: Sarah Palmer running down the stairs at the Palmer house.

SIR

Man, these were $2.99 six years ago.

You've Exploded your last Teardrop and Coped your last Julian.