america: noted place for people not shooting each other

Black and queer Christianity are unfortunately both considered fundamentally "fake" in American politics.

A couple of courthouse clerks in Utah are accused of helping immigrants evade ICE officers. After allegedly doing this, they "were spotted on a surveillance camera waving and smiling at it," with one using "her middle finger in an obscene gesture at the camera.” www.sltrib.com/news/2026/06...

Joe Biden was maybe the most outwardly religious President since Carter, we have Rev Warnock as a star in the party, we have multiple clergy running for higher office this year notably Talarico. what the fuck is obvious? does this unnamed strategist even know their party?

Shelby Foote, because Ken Burns was completely taken in by his genteel southern accent and faux-erudite aphorisms, did more to obfuscate the causes of the Civil War and steer popular memory away from race and slavery than perhaps any public figure.

Crowdsourcing naming options: Operation Market Khargen Dumbkirk Faillipoli Operation Overboard Operation Unjust Cause Add your own!

"Orangemen want to be Irish" is some silly daft Fox News bullshit.

"Want to be Irish"... Hahahahahha please *please*go to those areas of northern Ireland and start labelling them as Irish. Please I beg you

This. Is not a joke

This is a Republican Cabinet Secretary endorsing a pogrom. Pure fascist white supremacy.

Madman theory (the President is negotiating with the voices in his head)

Remember when Prigozhin was marching an armored column of mercenaries on the capital of a nuclear power in an attempted coup? I think that might still have been the craziest geopolitical moment of the past decade.

I have never seen such a bunch of reactionaries in my life as the US media establishment. Someone with 0 followers & a sickle in the bio told you to go die so now all leftism is evil. some asshole on an ebike ran into your kid so now bike lanes must be destroyed. Its like watching children do meth

This is awful. Alito would never smile.

One of the right wing's top cultural initiatives was trying to destroy the idea that assholery deserves shame and we'll have to reverse that. "I'm just expressing an opinion I'm entitled to." Ok but you're an asshole. "I'm simply doing a business practice that technically isn't illegal." Ok. Asshole

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven”

Watching Europeans discover our culture is delightful.

From the bad place, but I'm fucking losing it lmao

No one tell the tankies but the East Germans made movies about the Wild West where naturally the Native tribes were the exact same kind of communist as them

THE EUROPEAN MIND CANNOT COMPREHEND AMERICAN FAST FOOD

worth reflecting on how the big pushes for integration in the american military were tied to the press of absolute warfare. homogeneity is not a pillar that sees you through tough times. it is a luxury you buy in peacetime, when you can tolerate exclusion on the basis of race, or sex, or religion.

So, Bari Weiss takes over CBS news, gets a cup of coffee, shreds their brand value, and now the Ellisons are just going to feed her another media segment to then, also, shred

The peace of God, which passeth all understanding

Ms Rachel showing that ‘don’t inflict undue suffering on children’ is in fact a hyper partisan position

Fuck Trump. Fuck Stephen Miller. Fuck FIFA.

Detectives Benson & Stabler

Musk functionally ran the US government for 6 months last year and managed to: increase spending, slash services, kill 100,000s, and help nurture both Ebola & Screwworms. Yet somehow no one mentions this when they talk about the company he is going to take public this week.

the entire republican party is an explicitly antidemocratic operation and it is right that they be seen as presumptively opposed to the republic as constituted

this is pretty good. www.thebulwark.com/p/what-a-rus...

I just received the terribly distressing news that Gordon Wood was hit by a car and killed yesterday. We were together with other Founding era scholars at the 2nd Judicial Circuit conference last week at Lake George, and he was as usual in fine fettle and as always enjoyable to talk to.

I know twitter sucks but there’s a German guy who traveled to Georgia for the World Cup live tweeting his journey and it’s incredible to read

Honestly, just make a WW2 USA simulator & have ascension levels where Germany, Japan, & Italy get successive buffs the higher you go. On the highest levels the USSR is able to join the Axis Powers & you have to crush them, too. Your score comes from winning quickly with the fewest global deaths.

Someone could write an entire dissertation on Mike Lee, posters madness, and the decline of American governance in the 21st century

1984 imo has much less to say about The Cold War and totalitarianism than it does about how, by 1949, Britain had been in a state of total social and economic mobilisation for a decade and it seemed like there was going to be no end to the punishment

It's funny how, for a lot of the right, the way they engage with queerness is basically a superstition. Trans people are a ladder this guy walked under, and posting through it to signify his in-group status is the way he throws salt over his metaphorical shoulder

What an odd thing to say

so when placed in a position where his identity is discriminated against and smeared, he's got no resources. all he can do is assert over and over, in an infinite loop, that he's supposed to be the standard and other people should bow before him.

like, Lee is all in on MAGA which means he basically rejects the idea that marginalized people can or should have any rights; he loathes the idea of a pluralistic society and wants to subjugate or exterminate dissenters.

Mike Lee is not just rage-tweeting about the DoD's new religion codes, he's now in a full meltdown manically replying to people demanding they read the Book of Mormon because he can't shrug off how his far-right brainworms X feed was full of people saying "lol Mormons aren't Christians, suck it."

So annoying — getting William the Conqueror's emails again

I'm sorry, what the fuck?

he looks like he lives on a hot dog roller

Just once I would love to see the male journalists in the White House press corps tell Trump to his face to shut the fuck up with this misogynistic crap. The women shouldn’t be expected to do it on their own.

Chicken McNuggets Shanghai: So popular some sauces may not be available… but we have fortune cookies and chopsticks! (1986)

*Spins the Wheel of Discourse* Alright folks, let's see what we got... *The Wheel ticks down, stops and the pointer splits in two* Huh, a twofer! We've got: "D-Day Was an Anti-Communist Conspiracy" and "Transplants to Major Cities are Settler-Colonialists."

Mao and Jiang would've buried their hatchet and launch unified struggle against American Maoists.