In better news, John Oliver's three-day stint/stunt as a corporate villain on legendary soap opera "General Hospital" appears to be going... fucking brilliantly?? I have watched this clip on a loop for like 20 mins I really, truly need to see the full episodes NOW

After Gordon S. Wood’s recent death, I spent Independence Day reading his 1993 Pulitzer-winning history, “The Radicalism of the American Revolution,” which made me think about my own family’s history in America and what birthright citizenship means to me. mattdpearce.substack.com/p/no-more-am...

Before the whitewash comes in, a reminder that because of Mitch Mconnell American women are dying and bleeding out because they were denied abortion care. Because of McConnell the Russians were free to interfere in our elections. Because of Mitch billionaires are coddled while kids get screwed over.

Look it’s not like there are any people available to run for office who aren’t credibly accused of sexual violence, so,

We are a deeply unserious nation

the posters on here who only got into sports for the World Cup and posting insane shit about the red card…y’all wouldn’t last a day in the college football trenches, I can tell you that.

The military is shooting people in the American cities they’re occupying.

It’s outrageous that a government whose Constitution forbids the “establishment of religion” has been hijacked by Christofascists.

Fantastic game, way past my bedtime. Absolute chimneys.

i remember we found some british porno back in the day it was just a website of jpgs of a nude person getting beans poured on them in a bathtub, it was haunting. theyve been through a lot on that island, they needed this tonight

I have been tallying RICO predicates all week at work and this is straight up wire fraud and possibly bank fraud, depending on the specific mechanics

The U.S. military shot and killed an American on U.S. soil this morning

i have been screaming this for idk how long. replace "USMNT" with anything. donald trump is not the main character of the universe and the sooner everyone starts acting like that the sooner his entire political project falls apart.

nobody in the press wants to address the fact that almost everybody at the upper echelons of tech is a full on eugenist nazi

On this special 4th of July I want to remind everyone that the ambrosial 90's era beverage Fruitopia was around for nine years, thats five years longer than the Confederate States of America.

By the Burning River Brigade in NE Ohio

gooooooooooooollllllllllllllllll

Man, this is phenomenal. From @theguardian.com — 48 photographs that capture America at 250. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

A $3 @mta.info subway fare and some good Q train timing can buy you one hell of a view of the July 4th fireworks and the Brooklyn Bridge light show! Huge shoutout to the train operator for slow rolling over the Manhattan Bridge and the conductor for announcing it.

The great power of America is the belief of individuals. Individuals making choices to make our ideals reality. We have the duty, power, and responsibility to act not only for themselves, but for others. www.greatpower.us/p/happy-birt...

No shit? They got their shit took?

There's only one thing that could make me feel patriotic today, and there's no way I'm typing that for the NSA or FBI to one day use against me in a court of law.

Happy 4th of July

100 years ago.

A grim reminder this 4th of July: The US has the highest incarceration rate of any independent democracy on Earth, making it a leader in mass incarceration. Far too many people are locked up in the “land of the free.”

I was trying to make this case to folks the other night. What a gift to see every team with a diasporic rooting section.

if you haven't seen any photos of what the US used to look like before the clean air/water acts, you should take 30 seconds for a quick image search

I couldn't see the whole game, but everything I did see said Cape Verde got some serious stones. Good sports.

Some people are putting it all on the line.

saw a truck for a company called Absolute Chimneys and I can’t stop saying that to myself as if I’m an English soccer announcer calling a free kick that sailed over the crossbar

Whelp there is today’s healthy cry sorted

The Right understands it is war.

Jesus. Democrats are such pussies. Can I please run messaging for them? At least they'll sound like they're sick of the GOP's shit, even though I know they wouldn't act like it.

Sweating my ass off at the zoo but still had to let em know @edsbs.bsky.social @celebrityhottub.bsky.social

HAPPY PRIDE FUCK ICE

we missed peak culture

This may be terrible advice, but buy yourself the damn shrimp. Buy it twice in one day if you can afford it. Not buying the shrimp isn't going to save you enough to buy a house and they're going to find another way to denigrate you regardless. And then you'll be slandered and shrimpless.

This guy's not supposed to be talking about this. youtube.com/shorts/R6-c6...

Conlan, Zordich, Johnson, and Dozier were some of my earliest football heroes.

This isn't controversial. This should be what everyone thinks. And we should find that guy and beat the actual shit out of him, too.

"The report recommends eliminating the “ Johnson Amendment ” that forbids political activities by tax-exempt religious groups — a longstanding goal of Trump." Just eviscerating basic protections of pluralistic society apnews.com/article/reli...

I fucking yelped AND snorted.

HEY CHICAGO! The city wants to sell your parking meter company to the same private-equity firm that owns Omni Air International, the worst of the worst of ICE's charter airlines. The city council's finance committee is meeting about it TOMORROW. 1/

Imagine being a person who uses a moment of national pride on the world stage to say “nah those aren’t the Americans we want tho” and you understand that no concessions given to any of them will appease their desire to completely unravel the American nation

This post prompted me to ask my wife if she created a Bluesky account.

Just filed my piece. This case is even worse than I thought. They're not just coming for Black people's hair. They're coming for ALL CIVIL RIGHTS LAWS passed pursuant to the Spending Clause. These fucking people must be stopped.

Using our own money to hurt us.