Profile avatar
ehaglund.bsky.social
Trying to keep the energy bills low, the lights on, and the monopoly quarantined. Denverite, Coloradan.
163 posts 449 followers 940 following
Regular Contributor
Active Commenter

One silver lining if they cancel the World Cup because of Trump’s immigration policies is that it will be exquisitely painful for Alexi Lalas

Abundance!

Foggy in Denver this morning

We all need a timeline cleanse! Terracotta figurine of a #dog feeding her puppies. 500 BC-450 BC, Boeotia/Greece. Terracotta figurines from this region during this period typically depict everyday scenes Life without #dogs is possible but pointless 🐶🐕 On display at Antikensammlung München 📷 me 🏺

It turns out you can generate a hell of a lot of turnovers if you can just foul on every possession, why has no team ever considered this?

Again…

Spotted on 4th Ave. in Brooklyn

Atmosphere inside Ball looks lit. Can’t understand why so many teams do that matching t-shirt bullshit. Makes it look like a corporate team building retreat

Aaron MFing Gordon!

I can't get enough of the Great Moose Migration livestream from northern Sweden www.svtplay.se/video/KqP1zJ...

Hickenlooper encouraged largely powerless people to mount "stronger opposition" to Trump policies while he himself, a US Senator, repeatedly votes to confirm Trump's nominees

There’s something about the name Bruenig that elicits the most unhinged, batshit reactions

Obviously Bluesky is its own kind of bubble, but I have yet to see a single positive reaction to this bit of news on here

@davidsirota.com I enjoyed and appreciated the RS article, and mostly share your perspective. Which is why it's hard for me to understand why one of CO's most pro-corporate, pro-monopoly bills I've seen has the name Sirota as a co-sponsor

The Sopranos is probably the Rosetta Stone of modern American reaction: it consists of people who bemoan the loss of an imagined past they mainly got from movies, claim victimization based on identity but hate when others do it, and view the people who build the society they prey on as suckers.

Something is fundamentally wrong with America when millions of dollars can’t buy you a Wisconsin Supreme Court seat, the respect of your children, the silence of your baby mammas, or a functional penis implant.

There's an unwritten sequel to Chris's book, Twilight of the Elites, about how "meritocracy" resulted in all of our elite institutions being led and staffed by highly credentialed people with no integrity

A Harper's Letter for people who oppose masked goons snatching people off the street for writing an op-ed

Were there any other speakers at the AOC/Bernie rally in Denver? I haven’t seen this in the reporting I’ve read

Tonight an unbelievable **34,000 people** gathered for our Denver rally to take on billionaires and win our country back. This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008. Also bigger than the 2024 DNC. And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too).

We expected 2,000 people out in GOP-held Greeley, Colorado. 11,000 people showed up. Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.

Adam’s right but I’d put this differently. American elite institutions select for a certain kind of person, especially at the leadership level. And that selection is mostly based on certain academic and professional credentials and not character, integrity, principles, etc.

Amazing how many intelligent people read the story of the emperor's new clothes and think that the moral is that you shouldn't point out that the emperor is naked before anyone else does

Friday Cat Blogging in memory of Kevin Drum. I don’t have cats of my own but these are my sister’s lil guys, Henry and Ned, back in 2021