Nick Anderson
@radiofreenova.bsky.social
20-year beer/wine industry vet; wine buyer at Norm's Beer & Wine, Vienna, VA; recovering guitar player who writes stuff sometimes. radiofreenova.substack.com for free newsletter
I’m so tired of us being the assholes. I mean, seriously, fuck these negotiators. Fuck Trump. Fuck my country.
Tarnjit Parmar@tarnjitparmar.bsky.social · 4h agoPM Carney outlines last minute demands by the US last night. 1) Changes to the scope of tariffs on Canadian auto content 2) Restricting Canada’s ability to have trade deals with other countries 3) Restrict Canada's protections of language, culture 'and in effect, our sovereignty’
Today is Chuck Brown Day, but the Godfather of Go-Go’s family has disassociated itself from D.C.’s annual celebration. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
Family of go-go legend Chuck Brown yanks support for annual D.C. celebration
The “Godfather of Go-Go” is memorialized by the District with a yearly birthday party and concert, but his relatives say they were sidelined in this year’s planning.
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i will not feel badly for any of these people, because politics is not a dumb little game among Serious People for debate perverts. they are both nightmarishly awful people who deserve far worse than any level of questioning and mockery could ever produce
TofuNYG 🏈🏳️🌈🗽🇺🇦 🚫👑🖕🧊@groguspeak.bsky.social · yesterdayNah, keep mocking the shit out of her
Break bad premises, don't accept them. Receive obstacles as problems to solve toward the goal, not reasons to never pursue the goal. Realize there are enough of us to pursue everything, so there are no distractions, and there is no trolley problem. www.the-reframe.com/there-is-no-...
There Is No Trolley Problem
We actually aren't constrained into atrocious premises by thought exercises. Obstacles are a reason to fight, not an excuse to quit. Our friends and neighbors aren't distractions..
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There are going to be Democrats who say we shouldn’t rip it all out — it’s already built, we have other priorities — but removing the visible signs of Trumpism is absolutely necessary.
Andy Craig@andycraig.bsky.social · yesterdayThe vandalism and desecration of the White House isn't just vanity and it's not trivial. It's caesarism, as in literally what Julius Caesar did to the symbolic architecture of civic republicanism. Our national iconography matters and allowing the disfiguring of it to persist is a substantive harm.
President [insert Democrat here] in 2029: "John Roberts already made his decision in Trump v. United States, and I'm here to enforce it."
Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · yesterdayAs soon as there‘s a Democrat in the White House again, John Roberts will discover all kinds of new limitations on their presidential powers, but for now, President Make-a-Wish gets whatever his little heart desires
At any point in the last decade a journalist could have followed up with a "what the fuck do you mean by that" And they don't, not a single "what the fuck are you talking about" followup in over a goddamn decade of this.
Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · yesterdayReporter on Bond Market: The yields have come back up since then. Have you talked to Bessent about another type of intervention.? Trump: The ultimate intervention is our military. And if we have to use that, we will.
“This war has involved one cover-up, after cover-up, after cover-up by Team Trump. Within the first 72 hours of the conflict, the administration was…trying to cover-up the true nature of U.S. troop casualties – a suppression of information…that persists to this day. And… zeteo.com/p/scoop-trum...
Chase Madar@madar.bsky.social · yesterdayRemarkable how little political noise it's made here in the US that a major American naval base in Bahrain was basically destroyed, and that this was kept quiet for five months www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/u...
Massive bigot ticks down the volume of her hatemongering from 100 to 99.9. No money for Rowling, ever. No eyes for Potter.
Transgender World@transgenderreport.com · yesterdayJK Rowling issues surprising message of support for trans adults www.lgbtqnation.com/... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
Tommy Tuberville’s campaign manager said he would clean up Alabama government, a government fully controlled by his party since 2012
Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23h agoEven if voters believe this obvious bullshit, how is it a motivation to vote for Republicans? They run the entire federal government and can’t improve things? So … re-elect them?
is the great healthcare plan in the room with us right now
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 23h agoTrump: "We will pass the Great Healthcare Plan"
Look at this. You have to get the real clue of the depth of fascism Black Americans have always experienced. These men were arrested for going to the library. Because crackers didn't want them reading. In Alexandria, which has preserved slave markets but loves to pretend it's not the south.
Zinn Education Project@zinnedproject.bsky.social · yesterday#tdih 1939 Five Black men arrested for trying to use library in Alexandria, Va. that their tax $ paid for. In pre-internet days, few other options for key information. Who did the police protect? Once again, it is time to defend library access. #TeachTruth www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/al...
We’ve brought some experts together, and what we think is, the smart play here is probably to dig her up and let her loose again for some reason
CNN@cnn.com · yesterdayA 400-year-old grave held the body of a young woman, the rusted blade of a sickle over her throat and a padlock fastened to her foot — the macabre signs of a community terrified the deceased would rise again. https://cnn.it/4ztR7np
Ossoff "understands that Democrats need more than “affordability” policy messages to win... They need to depict Trump as feeble, selfish, and tone-deaf. By inserting Harp into the national political discourse, Ossoff inverted the national narrative about which side is politically soft and entitled.
David Nir@davidnir.com · yesterdayVery good piece by @schaller67.bsky.social over at @atrupar.com’s Public Notice, deftly explaining the subtle genius behind Ossoff’s “travel with Natalie”—and why it’s such a devastating model for undermining Trump
Why the right-wing outrage over Jon Ossoff’s “travel with Natalie” comment is a lot like flopping. www.readtpa.com/p/flop-era
Flop Era
Get up.
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This sounds like Lennie’s opening zinger at the close of every Law and Order intro.
Ponsonby Britt@hockeenight.bsky.social · yesterdayAt this point the only vegetable that hasn't been recalled is Mitch McConnell.
Remember how they would drag their feet for months when it had the effect of keeping Trump from prosecution. But this? Emergency ballroom.
Chief Justice Roberts backs Trump’s urgent bid to allow ballroom construction for now
A federal appellate panel ruled against Trump over dissent from a judge he appointed to the bench. His administration asked the justices to intervene.
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So, Park Police did this. They were hi-speed chasing someone who was ON FOOT and they rammed into a civilian vehicle absolutely destroying it, crashing through a stop sign, another parked car, over the sidewalk, through a home's fence and retaining wall and into their front yard. At 13th & MD NE.
This is the funniest shit. Florida allows religious exemptions for vaccines. Catholic schools in Florida: we require vaccines. Florida's attorney general, who is Catholic, is threatening to pull vouchers if they don't allow for religious exemptions The Bishops: separation of church & state
Catholic bishops remind attorney general about separation of church and state
“The government may not decide that Church teaching is insufficiently religious,” wrote the Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops.
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Turns out you really can’t run a country on white supremacy, online gambling, & porn.
Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 2d agoThis is pretty big: Cook Political Report just shifted the Texas *and* Iowa Senate races from Lean Republican to Toss Up:
History has vindicated a lot of my opinions but none more than young me reading the Harry Potter books and saying they sucked. My college girl loved them and failed to make me budge from that position. And now look! The world has caught up.
They will infantilize her because blonde and baby fundie voice. they will appeal to the position’s gendered title (“secretary”) to make her seem weak & vulnerable. She is the most powerful person in any room that Trump occupies. She is the emperor’s clothes.
local paramilitaries struck by ground in gravity-related incident
THE Pablo Escobear@pabloescobear.bsky.social · 4d agoHumpty dumpty asses
