Puerto Ricans have shed more blood in the service of a nation that denies them full rights of citizens than three generations of the Trump Family. www.nationalguard.mil/Resources/Im...

La Boricua Elegía

Remember that under the first Trump administration, Puerto Rico had to suffer through the longest power blackout in U.S. history bsky.app/profile/cost...

power transformers mentioned in halftime show ⚡️

I just turned the game off. Fuck ICE propaganda.

Me standing on top of a shipping container hooch on a hill in Afghanistan, using my Etisalat cell to call a 1-800 number in the states, trying to get escrow keys for the Blue Force Trackers, because we kept having to swap parts when it rained.

Gtfo with your vague moralizing and pick a fucking side, Rocket Mortgage. “America could use a neighbor?” Yeah, because 33% of Americans get some sort of sick fucking pleasure out of brutalizing their neighbors. It ain’t fucking … Rocket science.

In honor of today's halftime show

They got the big game on at the bar

Brought to you by Biff Tannen’s Pleasure Paradise.

welcome to super bowl 60, celebrating 250 years of american prosperity. everything is gambling now except for your job, which is AI. don’t forget to sign your baby up for trump bucks.

SCREAMING HOOTING HOLLERING BAWING WIT DA BAWDINAW DIGGY

Kid Rock’s Standing Orders

Fun fact: all U.S. military units world-wide muster for 100% stand-to and stand there saluting from 30 minutes before to 30 minutes after every Superbowl because that’s when the French and Indians attack.

Okay that flyover formation was sick as hell let’s go bomb some shit. 👊 💥 🦅

What time do you think it is for the brave men and women of the 332 AEW? 00:30?

I hate DC life because I was a rules person raised in a “fend for yourself,” “don’t touch my shit,” prison rules-type of family. I now pay exorbitantly to live in a “polite rules build community” community, yet when people violate the rules, I’m the asshole for having prison rules reactions.

I refuse to believe that was Jon Bon Jovi and not Walt Goggins.

Kind of mixed feelings about Green Day just kinda skipping over an important part of Holiday there…

*Maryland cracks its knuckles, promptly steers across three lanes into a ditch*

who called him Jeff Bezos and not Lex Loser

If there's ever been a time to NOT be incrementalist, this is it. The most political capital you're gonna have is right now. And we got Gestapo death squads in MSP and TB spreading through concentration camps in Texas. If you can't find a win there, get out of politics. The Epstein Class, baby

used AI to get a clearer image of the attacker's face

Breaking: Tragedy at the Winter Olympics

“Ruled by the Epstein Class” feels like a real solid message, to me.

Again, we just cut all of the federal funding for area & foreign language studies at universities across the country to "save" $86 million. What an unbelievably unserious administration. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

“Epstein Class” is catchy as fuck

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

I'm sure the Ukrainians are eager to give up a quarter of their country to Russian thugs so Mike Johnson will have a better chance of holding onto the speaker's gavel.

Here's @rickhasen.bsky.social detailing the scenario in which Trump uses search warrant to seize ballot boxes in a contested 2026 locale. This is more worrisome than ICE at the polls. Hasen also suggests ways to act against this now. It's harrowing stuff: newrepublic.com/article/2062...

The tactislopification of federal LE needs to be studied in a lab

Survival tip for little AGR captains: never take that tone with me.

I love my National Guard/Reserve excursions to the midwest, they keep me connected to the broader populace outside the DC bubble. The broader populace:

I’m currently having dinner at a steakhouse bar and gutting my way through listening to some Bob Newhart-looking 55yo doctor pontificate and try to seduce his coworkers at this fucking midwest foot and ankle surgeons’ happy hour that’s happening around me.

How does two job interviews and one colonoscopy of an online job application feel like I was hunted for sport or hanging drywall all day?

worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead

Sacking The Washington Post probably has Bezos high-fiving his yachted authoritarian friends, all thinking they’re noble Centurions putting a knife into some loudmouth Senator under cover of darkness and saving Rome in the process. They fail to appreciate that they actually wrecked an aqueduct.

We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”

ICE at the polls! Bannon is basically yelling “fire” in a crowded theater here. His objective is to cause chaos (and suppress votes on the left). And it’s already working. This threat works on multiple levels and doesn’t have to be “real” to serve its purpose. Let me explain & offer some advice.

In 2009, this was the mask of a UK SAS character in “Call of Duty.” By 2015 it was de rigeur among Iraqi government commandos and Shiite militiamen. In 2018, in “Sicario 2,” it was what CIA surrogate characters wore to disguise themselves as cartel gunmen. Now US law enforcement wears it.

This cannot be something a civilian law enforcement agent is allowed to wear in the US — and an agency that has a culture that tolerates this cannot be saved.

Put hands on my girls and I will go to fucking jail with a smile.

I've been trying to teach my kids that they should stop wearing and listening to the same things everyone else does at school. It's OK to get wild haircuts, piece their noses, go thrash around at electro-punk shows. After all... Children should be scene and not herd.

Good day to spend tweaking and optimizing my resume for a job I’m perfect for that you absolutely know is hard-wired for some GS-14 who’s been acting in it for like two years.

Palantir needs to be obliterated the same as ICE, and Peter Thiel can face the Truth and Reconciliation committee he’s spent his entire life trying to negate. If we want to fix our country, this is non-negotiable.

Every day Mamdani comes out and is like "hey guys, I turned off the orphan-crushing machine. Literally just had to flip a switch. Took less than 5 minutes." After decades of dem leadership pissing and moaning and fundraising about how complex an issue it is and how difficult the process is etc

In the post-Trump era I hope to see his name and image stripped from every goddamn piece of public property it's on and a law passed banning President's from naming things after themselves and putting their faces on public property and I want it to be named the NO FUCKING KINGS act.

1900~1913, chain migration to Cleveland from County Mayo and Sicily. A booming America needed skylines built and coppers on its streets. Three generations later, great-grandkids started going to college and into non-building trades. Today, these fuckers wage an open war on that American dream.

Hi all, I rarely do this, but I'm posting that I'm back on the academic job market. As a Californian, my partner and I are trying to stay on the West Coast. Any leads for jobs in History, American Studies, Cultural Studies, etc. in the Western U.S. are greatly appreciated! Sincerely, Nathan