Stephen Sears
@evenflow26.bsky.social
“The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction needs to be credible.”
Things were going just great for the USMNT until Mamdani made that 4th of July speech.
That one guy sitting down in the middle of the field is about to get profiled by NYT, WaPo and The Atlantic as the True Voice of Real America
huck mason@tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · last mo.my god
Archaeologists: D.C. Capitol May Have Once Been Used For Legislating
Archaeologists: D.C. Capitol May Have Once Been Used For Legislating
WASHINGTON—Calling the discovery the “clearest proof yet” of how the U.S. government was originally designed to function, archaeologists published new evidence Thursday that suggests the Capitol build...
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JD Vance’s Communion is a bog standard Politician’s Book, what you write before a presidential run. But that it’s written for a reader that doesn’t exist, about a country that doesn’t exist, by a man that doesn’t exist, and thus is alternately baffling & offensive. My review for @newrepublic.com:
What’s the Matter With JD Vance?
His new book “Communion” sketches out a redemption narrative that is jarringly at odds with his actions.
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Normal people have absolutely had enough and they are starting to cook lmao
I’ve seen plenty of bad Red Sox teams over the past 31 years rooting for them. I can’t remember any as lifeless and boring as this group.
incredible that the lifelong Catholic in this specific situation is The Pope
Shoe@shoe.bsky.social · 4mo ago"The Pope is incorrect on matters of theology" is excommunication time. H/t @jumulojimbus.bsky.social
I misread the headline as one movie and got very excited for a moment…
Trump was elected to wipe the trauma of the first black president from American history, a task which included scrapping the nuclear deal that had the US in a much better strategic position than before this needless, unconstitutional war of choice against Iran
Pete Hegseth to ban Army’s Metallica fans from listening to the Black Album.
This is what is was like in the HQ studio when UConn beat Duke
it's incredible that as long as you do the right amount of bigotry you can just rob the country blind and enough people will not care, even though those same people will be filled with incandescent rage if someone uses food stamps to buy a 12 pack of diet coke
Epidemiologists Confirm First Airborne Transmission Of Mar-A-Lago Face
a 2028 campaign ad where the average american voter is represented as the guy from memento but all the tattoos are like “every republican president destroys the economy and starts a war in the middle east“ or “trump was president during covid”
In a just world, every bad faith git with a platform who called Trump an anti-war president would be driving DoorDash for the next ten years. It was always such transparently false bullshit.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 5mo agoThe U.S. and Israel launched a major assault on Iran on Saturday, with President Trump calling for a change of government in Tehran. Iran retaliated with strikes on Israel and U.S. interests in the Middle East. Here’s what to know. trib.al/yccJAc3
I remember when trying to forgive student loans was massive overreach of Presidential power.
People who didn’t grow up in New England don’t understand the place the Blizzard of ‘78 has in our historical understanding. It’s up there with like, 1776 and the Magna Carta for world foundational events.
Melissa Gira Grant@melissagiragrant.com · 5mo agopouring out some Iced Dunkies for the blizzard of ‘78 (now no longer the worst Boston blizzard, the one I was born in, my people of origin are not ok lol)
A lot great writing here surrounding a lot of terrible writing excerpts. “The bullet theoretical” killed me.
Brian Phillips@brianphillips.lol · 8mo agoPeople are calling my lede here "appalling," "nightmare fuel," "actively evil," and "a desecration of the human spirit"
the entire twitter and group chat poisoned elite of American society who decided Trump winning an election by 1.5% heralded a thousand year reich may have miscalculated a bit
“if you so much as touch one of our federal officers you will go to prison” not really borne out by the DC or LA prosecution records there, slugger
Olga Nesterova@onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 10mo agoBondi: "Under President Trump's leadership, there is ZERO TOLERANCE for political violence and domestic terrorism. I am deploying federal agents to ICE facilities around the country. If you so much as touch one of our federal officers, you will go to prison."
the permission structure created for a bloodthirsty maga rampage the last two days by mainstream media, all before any facts were known at all, deserves some real introspection by the entire industry
Jeff Bezos: "We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets." Today's Washington Post opinion page:
If you wanted no leaks you should have gone into Settings -> Security -> Configure privacy & security -> Privacy options -> Other -> Configure -> Media interface and clicked “Disallow.” The Leak setting is on by default but we understand your privacy is important so we’ve made it easy to opt out
Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 2y ago"Everything I say leaks," Zuckerberg says in leaked meeting audio. "It sucks" www.404media.co/zuckerberg-s...
Small government and individual freedom is when the state forces everyone to pray for the Great Leader. bsky.app/profile/jess...
Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · 2y agoThe head of Oklahoma's public schools seems to be testing the waters for a broad-scale attack on the separation of church and state. He's requiring students to watch him pray for our next president, in violation of Department of Education rules. 1/ www.latintimes.com/head-oklahom...
My plea to Dem leaders, liberal elites, social scientists, and every critical thinker who wants to keep fighting is to think beyond the perennial assumption that working-class drift can only be arrested by tweaking economic policy or talking points. Free to all. www.offmessage.net/p/democrats-...
no doubt in mind that the mass deportations are happening. the only question is how far they are going to go. and here’s the thing, i think a LOT of people — and especially the savvy journalists — will be shocked when he goes through with it, and when the round ups and deaths start.