Flying into the US for the first time since all this really got underway has really reinforced my desire to leave. "Non-mandatory" photos, Green Card holders shunted off to the side, just a generally more hostile feeling than even six months ago. Fun!

okay, engagement farming time: 1 like = 1 hot take about the Weimar Republic

The Dogwood Revolution on Encyclopædia Publica

Editorial responses to oct 7th: The NYT: [centrist wall of text] The JJJ Daily bugle:

Representative Fiorella LaGuardia criticizes the American Ambassador to Russia for not supporting Kornilov's coup against Kerensky.

the plot thickens: Ma Guangyue is the *second* deputy director of the Shugang-Slender West Lake Scenic Area to be investigated by the Yangzhou Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision in *four months*. A noted hive of scum and villainy. m.163.com/dy/article/K...

this is why i affirmatively believe it is dangerous to indulge it even one iota. someone who has moved to a city five seconds ago now enjoys the same total right of access everyone in it always did

Trump I era leftist post: y'all really gonna defend the DNC's decision to ratfuck Bernie huh? Bush era leftist post: I wish we had a President like Hugo Chavez, not a Haliburton puppet (who's as crazy as Osama but with a different book) who destroyed Iraq to save the petrodollar. Vote Kucinich!

With all of the AI cheating stuff going around now that the year's ended, I really have to respect my modern American history professor for refusing any technology in the room. Texts and responses printed beforehand, 3 hours of just discussion. Both my best grade and most engaging course of the year

This is a more personal piece than usual, and I'm really grateful to @liberalcurrents.com for giving me the space for it.

well there goes the last of my world cup teams I guess I gotta root for Belgium now

person who has played a frankly disgusting amount of red autumn going to their first dsa meeting: "personally I think our first move should be to organize women"

the DSA, famously fans of Chuck Schumer,

Hearing reports that top Democratic officials have stated that the US was not defeated militarily, but was betrayed by certain key politicians. Chuck Schumer has met with returning servicemen and declared that "no enemy [had] vanquished [them]" and that they were "undefeated on the battlefield"

18 And people *doubt* Virginia is Southern Didn't like most of them though

1790s belgian guy bemoaning the attempts to insert the omnicause (French Revolution) into his revolt against the Emperor reducing the powers of the local nobility and ending ultramontanism

>censoring prostitution >"how does the European government"

how andor would have ended if tony gilroy wasn't a hack

this quote by John Bingham quote still goes so fucking hard and genuinely remains radical to this day

it is so funny that the Netherlands has a visa specifically for Americans and Japanese people who are self-employed and can keep 4500 euros in the bank. feels like something out of the 50s when all other visas have 20 trillion hoops

This country in the Americas is riven by deep political and racial conflict. But you wouldn't be able to tell that from their diaspora restaurant in the heart of the Netherlands...

very funny possibility that it *was* faked and they will just keep doing these until the polling improves in increasingly ludicrous ways

election holonet going nuts after random bumfuck midrim world no. 39843 elects a reformist senator instead of a loyalist (they will abstain on the PORD cloture vote)

Subdivisions that I have voted from as a US Citizen: -Virginia (🇺🇸) -Berlin (🇩🇪) -Rheinland-Pfalz (🇩🇪) -Zuid-Holland (🇳🇱) -Greater London (🇬🇧)

the SDAPÖ was the Austrian branch going "wow I'm so glad we're all friends :) I'm so excited to usher in the universal socialist republic with you guys :)" while every other branch nervously adjusts their collar and hides the "independence speech draft FINAL" folder under a desk

Met a Dutch guy in my classes who was extremely interested in Virginia specifically (history, culture, everything) and went out of his way to congratulate me on the referendum They really do make all sorts of people in this world, huh

2025 electeds in 2026 plot: zohran mamdani: hopemaxxing superman billions must friend :) mikie sherrill: they don't want you to know this but you can fleece european sports fans for as much money as possible and they can't do shit. I am god and fifa is my bitch abigail spanberger:

happy anniversary to those who celebrate

thinking fondly about a conversation I had with two friends where, while the bulk of the conversation was in english (the main language we all speak fluently), we would occasionally insert words or phrases from a combination of german, dutch, spanish, and polish without missing a beat

In Europe, your employer decides your name. There was already a Victoria at my work so they legally changed my name to Anouk. I tried to protest this was a violation of my rights, but they laughed and tore up my passport. This is because they don't really value US-style autonomy the same way we do.

seeing ~today's headline~ appear on my feed like 300 different times

[BV] A collection of stamps, from various nations around the world.

just filed my ballot at the embassy, being an ocean away is no excuse for not participating in an off-year off-month special redistricting referendum!

did I just wake up to us going to war with iran

Extra! Extra! Petar Smitić Calls for the "People's Will" in Sigrune, President Freyburg Resigns! Sigrune Annexation by Amphitrite Inevitable! Niobean Times headlines created by the talented @hanasakuyuri.bsky.social

Can You Dig It? Results of the CC41 General Election, in the aftermath of the formation of the Galatian Economic Community. With the exception of Labour, the Morning Coalition suffered heavy losses to insurgent parties... Credit to @hanasakuyuri.bsky.social for being so graphically talented!

16th century reformer publishing "PAPISTS OWNED COMPILATION 17" with the cover displaying a smug-looking jan hus going "Romanisme: Ideas So Goode They Mvst Be Mandatory"

when you're listening to a left-of-center folk singer and you get to their 1939-1941 anti-draft phase

possibly underrated divergence in american culture is that blue states/cities/communities are trending towards naming their kids Traditional, Religious Names at the same time as their red counterparts are trending towards Unique, Unconventional Names

You do not hate them enough.

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.

very funny how after the armistice the italian army and air force were thrust into a chaotic state of defections and counterdefections while the regia marina entirely as one, without hesitation, went

me when my warship crewed entirely by military personnel is sunk by enemy forces in the middle of active hostilities after sinking an enemy warship in a prior action

My ancestors did not tend to Washington's soldiers at Valley Forge so that Papist bishops could tell me I can't trans my damn gender

finally, as america voted for, we have invented the Torment Games from the popular book and film series Do Not Invent The Torment Games

I think I finally kind of get EU5

Army of the North arc: "Damn Limeys... well, at least we got a few good licks in, eh? York, Washington, Bladensburg, Plattsburgh... peace with honor, then?" Army of the South/Northwest arc: "I FUCKING LOVE COMMITTING WARCRIMES!" United States Navy arc: