Whether someone realizes it or not, accepting the "liberal bubble" framing at all is a way of granting the utterly absurd notion that the globally reviled and increasingly unpopular views of the reactionary right are the norm

Ian Boudreau@ianboudreau.com · 2d ago

"Liberal bubble" has only ever meant anywhere where right wing perspectives aren't artificially elevated and forced into everyone's feeds.

Edward Hopper Summer evening 1947

When Nixon told the country “I am not a crook,” he welded the word crook to his own name. Debunk-first coverage does the disinformer’s work for free: it installs the very claim it means to correct.

🗽LOLGOP🗽@thefarce.org · 5d ago

A simple rule for any journalist who cares about this country: "The lie never gets the headline or the lead sentence—the truth does, every time."

It turns out I'm of an age where a song can spend 19 weeks at Number One without me hearing it.

Stoppe callinge them Data Centers and starte callinge them slop hellmouths

This is how they behave when they know they’re on the record. And this is just what we have access to—the government is violating court orders in order to hide even more. This cannot be reformed. www.latimes.com/california/s...

A fact that sounds like bullshit but is actually true: There is more square footage of parking *per car* in the US than there is square footage of housing *per person.*

The math: Parking spaces in the US: 1-2B (estimates vary) Area per parking space: 250-350 square feet (includes drive aisles) Cars in the US: 300M Area per car: 833-2,333 square feet Average housing square footage per American: 741 (from the U.S. Energy Information Administration, 2020 data)

Just to put in perspective *how much of America* is taken up with parking, at the *low end*, this is ~9,000 square miles. That is the combined area of: Rhode Island Connecticut Delaware *OR* Grand Canyon NP Yellowstone NP Yosemite NP Everglades NP The high estimate is more than double that.

Heads up: Taylor Farms lettuce is sold under these brand names: Marketside (sold at Walmart) Earthbound Farm (owned by Taylor Farms) Cross Valley Farms (owned by US Foods) Private labels for Target, Whole Foods (365), and Amazon Fresh. AVOID ALL OF THEM

once again thinking about the best Lord of the Rings meme

He is PERFECT ... #Jimothy

1. Fire all employees on week 1 of a Democratic administration. Everyone. No exceptions. 2. Start now to pull together state-based ICE People's Assemblies. Collect testimonies about impacts on your communities. Release reports by December 2028. 3. REPARATIONS for all ICE victims - $$ & citizenship

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 3w ago

I’m interested in any political imagination for accountability. It has to be proactive & retroactive. It has to be spectacular. And, ideally, it would leave so many of them broke that it actually becomes a deterrent. Being poor is truly all they care about not because they don’t care about prison.

4. Televised hearings where all administrators must publicly testify. Any people who have professional licenses like lawyers etc... are stripped of their licenses. 5. Public memorials in every state that tell the story of what happened. Funding would come from the Federal government.

6. Monetary fines levied against all administrators via CIVIL litigation. If laws won't allow for this, pass laws at all levels of government that would allow for this.

My response to centrist dems who want a strong conservative party is "cool. That's you, now."

We are given only a limited number of truly perfect summer days in our time on Earth. One of the more insidious cruelties of fossil fuel greed is how it slowly strips those days from us, more and more throughout our lifetimes, perhaps without us even realizing what we have lost.

Another stolen summer day

What are we still waiting to learn?

heated.world

*nodding solemnly with full comprehension* yes, I see. there’s a special kind of kid who can’t play sports or go to the bathroom

There should be a sport called Largeball. 100,000 people on a field, pushing and swarming about an enormous sphere towering over everything in the manner of ants. Certain people are crushed into paste beneath the sphere but that's largeball for you baby

“Loitering is not permitted in this area. Please proceed to a designated location. Thank you for your cooperation,” a surveillance machine tells a small cluster of National Guard members as they patrol the fenced off Reflecting Pool in the rain.

I have (glancing nervously over my shoulder) absolutely no regrets

turkey bacon looks like if you asked a child to draw bacon

Well. This is both fascinating *and* disturbing.

So, current events are basically:

a man in a knight 's armor stands on a stone wall

ALT: a man in a knight 's armor stands on a stone wall

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There's a hauntingly beautiful irony in these morons thinking that carefully crafted American hegemony was actually weak and woke, and they would be the ones who would do Power and Dominance properly, and immediately bringing everything crashing down

Women around the world recognize the lose-lose proposition here: emotionally immature men depend on women to keep them from making the worst possible choices and then demonize them for being killjoy nags. ThOSE who could stop this—Congress GOP—instinctively know this and won't take the hit.

Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)@hcrichardson.bsky.social · 5mo ago

His whole life, Trump has always had someone else around to bail him out of the messes he creates: his father, Allen Weisselberg, the "adults in the room" in his first term. Now all those protectors are gone and he is openly begging for someone to save him from his own folly.

It’s crystal clear now that Trump has lost control of this war. He badly misjudged Iran’s ability to retaliate. The region is on fire. 1/ I’m going to explain to you in this🧵what I’ve learned - in part from closed door briefings - about the four biggest current crises.

There are no red states, no blue states, only purple, from Idaho fuchsia to Vermont violet. And in every state there are children, non-citizens, and prisoners who can't vote. In every state where one candidate won, a bunch of people voted for the other candidate. And so forth.

This is the thread Americans needed to see this weekend to feel better about our country.

Boneless Wings…Lover@coachd21.bsky.social · last yr.

Here’s a thread of cheese fries you can get at soccer stadiums in the U.K.