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On Twitter as @trueblueliberal since 2010 And there's a blog at http://trueblueliberal.blogspot.com since 2004 "If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers." Thomas Pynchon
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Why does Trump hate the American flag? "A gallery of past portraits ... shows that a flag has appeared in every official presidential photograph since Gerald Ford’s, which was released by the White House in 1974." A New, Darker Presidential Portrait www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/u...

Gonna say something obvious to most: real masculinity defends the defenseless, punches up not down, has compassion, and fights only on behalf of others to battle injustice or evil. It doesn’t just lift weights and tweet in all caps and listen to Rogan and grow a beard to feel accepted by other men

Bigfoot is Bears. what a perfect construction of language.

The experiment in doing away with meritocracy & just putting random white men in all the important roles is going swimmingly

MURRAY: Will you allocate the $220m for literacy programs that Congress appropriated? McMAHON: We're looking at the unallocated dollars to determine which of those programs we can best spend on MURRAY: Those funds were appropriated. It looks to me like the dept is illegally impounding funding

Amazing that when they get in courtrooms, all the big claims they make outside the courthouse to the media suddenly go away.

It's not enough that he hangs photos of himself on every available wall in the White House, but he looks at himself every time he picks up his phone, too? The Narcissist-in-Chief takes Narcissistic Personality Disorder to levels not even seen among his fellow reality-TV "stars."

🌮 Can we get a parade of the nation's Taco Trucks to D.C. by June 14th? 🌮 Happy Taco Tuesday, America!

McMAHON: Here's the other thing -- where are our guidance counselors in high schoolers? DURBIN: Good question. You're cutting the number of counselors in these schools at the same time!

Get the kool-aid out

This kind of clear, direct explanation of what’s happening is basic journalism and yet it’s surprising to hear it stated so forthrightly in this mealy-mouthed era.

Russ gets it.

Why, oh why, would the Trump Administration go after the Harvard Law Review? Could it possibly have anything to do with Trump's longstanding inferiority complex vis-à-vis Barack Obama? "First Black Elected to Head Harvard's Law Review" [Article from 1990] www.nytimes.com/1990/02/06/u...

Newark’s Mayor, Ras Baraka, is suing Trump lawyer Alina Habba for malicious prosecution. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/n...

There's definitely a gender dimension to this story. A lot of high-powered in-house lawyers—the General Counsels who are the key clients of most big law firms—are women. And a lot of them seem to have little patience for the capitulations by a mostly male group of law firm managing partners...

I got it, but I don't believe today's Wordle solution is actually a word. Wordle 1,445 3/6 🟩🟩🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Why, oh why, would the Trump Administration go after the Harvard Law Review? Could it possibly have anything to do with Trump's longstanding inferiority complex vis-à-vis Barack Obama? "First Black Elected to Head Harvard's Law Review" [Article from 1990] www.nytimes.com/1990/02/06/u...

"anti DEi" means Mediocre unqualified white men get the jobs

Curtis Yarvin’s Plot Against America www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

TACOCHARDIA! That’s a new one.

Currently time traveling to August 1958 with Thelonious Monk, Johnny Griffin, Ahmed Abdul Malik, and Roy Haynes...

Poor Oscar. Like many of us, he would benefit from watching a little less news these days.

However, a good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing; the more’s the pity.

Did someone drop a bowling ball on the head of a certain failed casino operator from Queens? (Via @heuteshow.bsky.social on Facebook) www.facebook.com/share/r/1JR3...

Trump won't let a Mexican band into the country to perform because he said their content is violent. 🙄

Swiss Watches and Japanese Pianos: The Imports the U.S. Relies On Most From Each Country www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

It's Monday. You might hate your job but at least you're not a Russian general about to explain to me how 1/3 of my strategic aviation got blown up in a morning by some cheap Alibaba drones.

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Seems to me that allowing law enforcement officers to wear masks covering their faces….encourages an environment where law enforcement officers aren’t as concerned about being caught on camera doing something illegal. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Of course Ukraine didn't tell the Putin allies in the White House about its drone mission. No nation in its right mind would share a single military secret with the US while Trump is President, Tulsi is DNI, Ratcliffe is running the CIA, Hegseth is Secretary of Defense, and Ka$h is heading the FBI.

People so often overlook the importance of good penmanship.

There is no way Ukraine could trust the current US government with info that they had operatives behind enemy lines in Russia to execute this operation. Telling that to the Trump admin would put their lives in even greater danger than they already were.

Will a team of skilled workers be required to scrape all the tasteless gold leaf off the walls when Trump leaves? Or will he scrape it off himself and box it up for Mar-a-Lago with every other valuable artwork and every other classified document he can find?

Either Joe Biden was replaced by clones, proving President Trump right, or he wasn’t—which would indicate unacceptable failures in cloning and robotics during the Biden administration. by Vivek Ramaswamy

"The Eighth Wonder of the World" 😂 youtu.be/qOpACPVCLH0?...

BOROWITZ: Mexico Renames the Liberty Bell the TACO Bell @borowitzreport.bsky.social

Also, that time Justice Thomas sat on the Trump v. U.S. case where the Court gave Trump broad criminal immunity in a 6-3 decision, even though Thomas' wife had been *very* pro-Jan 6 protests. How quickly a president's crazy makes a country forget joycevance.substack.com/p/trump-must...