This apparently happened underneath (and maybe because of of) a sign she had hung on her house that said: "National Guard Stop Being So Embarrassing."
Kathleen Bachynski@bachynski.bsky.social · 2d ago"Get away from me right now," King, a retired U.S. Army captain who served in Iraq and earned both a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star, can be heard telling the three male guard members in the video as they approach her on the bench. "You have absolutely no authority to detain me."
None of these people are tricksters, they are only liars. "We have been living in an age of tricksters. Musk, President Trump, Tucker Carlson, Andrew Tate, Nick Fuentes — the grammar of the modern right is tricksy."
Opinion | Christopher Nolan’s Trojan Horse (Gift Article)
The finest trick of his “Odyssey” is smuggling the core of Judeo-Christian ethics into an ancient Greek epic.
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This is like JD Vance mansplaining Catholicism to the literal pope. Oh wait he does that frequently!
Liz - High and Inside@lizzierie.bsky.social · 4d agoI remember a couple years ago someone tried to mansplain The Handmaid's Tale to Margaret Atwood, oh to have the confidence of a mediocre man
Here's Miller taping himself telling his wife he never tapes her in an argument about whether he uses drugs. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/43rdi...
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Not only did they absolutely beg for this, they made it so that “merit” was synonymous with being white so now you’re stuck with precisely the kind of moron who believes that. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
When I worked at Monticello, we learned a lot about Jefferson’s love of pasta moulds. But it was his enslaved chefs, James Hemings or Edith Hern Fossett, who brought the rather new macaroni & cheese recipe back to America and eventually made it at the White House. The recipe is via Monticello.org.
Macaroni
Jefferson did not invent macaroni and cheese, nor did his enslaved chef James Hemings. But its appearance on the menu at the White House was seen as a…
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I’m old enough to remember a trans professional tennis player named Renee Richards in the 1970s, and there was some controversy, but it was a tennis controversy, not a national political issue that decided the economic and geopolitical future of the country.
You can dismiss any news that appears in the format "Elon Musk says [blank] will [blank] by the end of [blank]"
Watcher Guru@watcher.guru · 2w agoJUST IN: Elon Musk says Grok will make a "full-length movie" of The Odyssey that is "historically accurate" by the end of this year.
A quick word on Taco Bell: That's where we found the suspected lettuce, and it's not bc Taco Bell is gross. It's bc Taco Bell is REALLY GOOD at tracing product! Keeping track of exactly where they got their ingredients, & exactly what restaurants each shipment of ingredients went to!
My latest for MS Now on JD Vance, conspiracy communicator. The Constitution doesn't give the VP a full-time job, so each has to carve out their own niche. Vance chose to push conspiracy theories on podcasts:
Opinion | JD Vance is taking the vice presidency in a strange new direction
The vice president is walking a delicate line between validating a paranoid worldview and praising his boss.
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Bad news. Big money typically loses. Eg, McGrath, that guy who ran against graham, etc.
VoteHub@votehub.com · 3w agoUpdated Texas U.S. Senate Fundraising 🔵 James Talarico $68.6M ($21.5M Cash on Hand) 🔴 Ken Paxton $9.2M ($1.8M Cash on Hand)
It honestly helps Paxton that he doesn’t have the money to remind everyone that he exists.
VoteHub@votehub.com · 3w agoUpdated Texas U.S. Senate Fundraising 🔵 James Talarico $68.6M ($21.5M Cash on Hand) 🔴 Ken Paxton $9.2M ($1.8M Cash on Hand)
Some thoughts on this 163rd anniversary of their famous assault on Battery Wagner. #CivilWarMemory 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
Robert Gould Shaw, the 54th Massachusetts, and the Story We Wanted
From Burchard's biography to Glory, we remade Battery Wagner into a redemption tale. The history is more interesting.
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Trump has the tariffs thing wrong. we have huge tariffs on canadian lumber. if we reduced them maybe canada would chop down all their trees and sell the wood to us. voila, no more forest fires
I mean, yeah, no kidding, because this is a policy designed to benefit a very narrow group at the expense of almost everyone else.
SEC Flooded With Complaints Over Plan to Scrap Required Quarterly Earnings
The agency received more than 200,000 comments, a record number.
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Want to know how bad this was? Even Fox News isn't having it.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w ago"Fox News has not seen the evidence yet and is not in a position to evaluate the accuracy of the president's statement and claims"
I will not be listening to opinions on gender and biology from those who think women originated from a rib cage…
Is device addiction real? Yes. Are people who may have once read no longer reading? Yes. Is it "The Kids These Days" who we should blame and browbeat? No. Go look in the mirror.
Think how badly this is expected to go if the Pentagon is leaking this.
George Pearkes@peark.es · 3w agoThe Pentagon is evaluating combat dropping the 101st Airborne into Cuba.
Clearly Trump needs to teach Mark Carney how to properly rake the country’s forests.
This is what happens when you’re completely unprincipled: the implications of your previous positions come back to bite you in unanticipated ways. Ha. Ha. Ha.
Biden might be the best to ever do it for statements that are "Say Nice And Expected Things With Appropriate Tone & Comity"-shaped while never actually saying anything nice anywhere in the statement (mind you of course, bsky is functionally illiterate half the time so this goes unnoticed)
what they don't like to talk about in the South Carolina educational system is that the actual thing that prompted the caning incident was Sumner correctly accusing slavers of being a bunch of rapists
Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢@regimecpa.bsky.social · 4w agoRemembering the long history of calm debate in the Senate.
Lindsey Graham called up the governor of Georgia to browbeat him to steal the 2020 election for Trump. He was not a good man, he was a traitor.
Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis@jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 4w agoI did not need to wake up to Claire McCaskill on MSNow scolding us all to be "charitable" to Lindsey Graham because he was a "good man." No, he wasn't. He was the fascists' handmaiden.
Now that Trump made it clear--by subpoenaing four NYT journalists--that his Flying Bribery Palace is unprotected, will he have to give up his new toy? emptywheel.net/2026/07/11/t...
Trump Confirms: Accepting a Flying Bribery Palace Made Him Less Safe - emptywheel
Trump has confirmed his Flying Bribery Palace is inadequate to the task of keeping him safe in at least three ways, the most important being the subpoenas DOJ sent to four NYT reporters.
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