Oh, I see @jamellebouie.net wrote about Trump and spectacle (minus the theory) yesterday: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/13/o...

I harp a lot on Trump's use of spectacle in Guy Debord's sense, but the UFC match on White House grounds brings up the subject again, and how central it is to Trump's presidency. Yes (I'm sorry), a thread...

Whenever someone gets dismissive of the Bible as irrelevant or out-of-date superstition, I think about Pharaoh taking advantage of famine to consolidate his financial grip on Egypt.

Great thread by a good dude.

Fun fact: Tom Tiffany, the Republican candidate for governor in Wisconsin, frequently mentions opposing data centers in his campaign ads, and tries to make them sound like the result of big government in Madison.

I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that the ”centrist” pundits telling Democrats to compromise on abortion are the same former progressives (see, besides Jilani, Greenwald and Lee Fang) who regularly criticize antifascists and soft pedal white nationalists.

(*sigh*) … yeah, this is a fair point.

“the president was loudly booed in the countrys most populous city we traveled to this small town in south dakota to find out why”

Wisconsin is not the end of the earth, dammit

Frackville, I am in you

This is a public service institution. With guitars! www.nytimes.com/2026/06/06/s...

Lots of examples in this article of how Trump's mental decline is getting attention from the press, albeit indirectly.

To be fair, J. Edgar would have had them flogged and keelhauled.

In case you care (you don't), we are on the plane just departing the gate. Apoplexy will have me eventually, but not tonight.

I don't know who else to tell so I will tell you: we have been trapped in airport purgatory for 8 hours with no relief in sight which means we will almost certainly miss hotel and car reservations on the other end because @americanair.bsky.social does not have its shit together.

Nicely done

Susan Collins is writing a strongly worded letter expressing her deep concern.

I hate air travel. That's it, that's the post.

brb going to the desert on a horse with no name

The Third Man. (It is.)

This early birthday cake looks almost too good to eat. You may not have any.

Is that the hot new Persian lounge I've been hearing about?

I've long since given up on conservative evangelicals understanding that God is more than the guarantor of their preferred social order, but for the life of me, I cannot see why they don't get that gendering God is actually a limit on God's power.

Absolutely not the point of below post, but: Andy Kim for President

I'd joke about him playing county fairs now, but we've already had Ted Nugent and Vanilla Ice at our fair, and Trump's appeared at the fairgrounds in not one but two neighboring counties, so yeah, it only gets weirder from here.

Too funny not to write about, zeteo.com/p/trump-live...

Well, it's T for Texas T for Talarico T for Texas T for Talarico But P for Paxton That grifting right-wing bozo

Hey, looks like Zippy's visiting Milwaukee

Trump: the Windows XP® of personalities.

This. 👉🏻 If Trump does have a true personality disorder, his ability to observe and understand himself in relation to others is broken. It's not that he doesn't want to see the world the way everybody else does, it's that he can't.*

Okay and hear me out on this let's say your goal was to create a kickass fireball without ai

Dear God Does this amygdala have a warranty it goes SPROING!! far too often

Me: Man, it has been a really long day, I need to relax, unwind, feel good about the world for a little while [logging on to Bluesky] Me: Oh.

*Of course* God is nonbinary! Have you never heard of the Holy Trinity?!

Well, there's your headline of the day

So my understanding of the SpaceX IPO is: 1. The valuation is wildly inflated 2. This will lead to huge windfalls through insider deals and short options 3. The purpose of the company is less space exploration than fleecing investors into picking up the check for AI data centers

apple house 🍎

Disagree, strongly. GOP should center the entire campaign on fealty to Trump. Hire Jehovah's Witnesses to go door to door with the message, blanket tv with ads featuring Stephen Miller reminding voters the president will not be mocked, have cybernetic apes shout it from the Empire State Building.

Slow your roll Proverbs, don't give him ideas

Whither the left

This is me, for the record

'Twas a dark and stormy night, despite being a bright, warm spring day. I was asked for the first time if I qualified for the 65+ senior discount.

Do they make pitchforks for coffee beans

From Mark's fingertips to God's ears.

"Democrats were winning but then the Supreme Court decided to step in and tilt the fight in Republicans' favor because the Court majority are a bunch of hyperpartisan hacks."

I have cause once again to wonder if the people who read Luann remember to close their mouths while it's raining

Vatican to Buddhists: “Goodness is truly disarming; it breaks the cycle of suspicion and opens paths where none seemed possible. At their best, our traditions invite us to purify our hearts of hostility, to transcend boundaries, and to recognize one another as members of a single human family.”