"This phenomenon is...characteristic of the new-media landscape, which now includes smashmouth streamers and podcasters of all political persuasions who talk about everything but are experts in nothing, and whose incentives run toward incendiary virality rather than accuracy."
I mean, isn't that the whole reason there's Trump administration? To escape prison and grift billions?
Saw it.
Wonderful.
Changed what I thought theatre could be.
I'm not sure Donald Trump has done anything legitimately in his entire life
Maybe it's Buns Askew, the band, and Buns Akimbo, the restautant
Can Buns Askew be the name of a band, please?
YES.
Here's to the makers and lovers of beauty in art and music and storytelling.
brokenhand.substack.com/p/the-good-s...
#booksky
Disgusting and very sad
A beautiful scene in a movie more people should know
Translation: I'm fine, so fuck you.
Yes, it's all just a troll and a joke and a laugh, and it's all for liberal tears. But it's also a test--every time--a test for the tribe. Will you defend THIS now? What if violates what you most deeply believe? What if you have to reject your very faith? What price will be too much to pay?
Land of the free, home of the brave
Because we encouraged people to be small and petty rather than large and generous, and those people found their king
We have always been at war with Eastasia
What's good about him is not real, and what's real about him is not good.
Nothing good about him is real, and nothing real about him is good.
Same with democracy. And marriage. And any other institution he comes across
We suffer from a severe shortage of Lady Bracknells.
He's like a dog that has to piss on everything to mark his territory.
So similar to the way the Czechs and Slovaks responded to Havel in 1989.
Planet Earth is blue, and there's nothing I can do...
I had exactly the same reaction to exactly the same commercial
If Congress wants us to hold Trump accountable--not them, not the cabinet, and not the Supreme Court--then what are they actually suggesting? That we storm the White House and physically remove him from office?
"Conversation is not a reward to be bestowed on those with whom we agree; it’s a necessary habit in a democracy. The point is not to find agreement so much as to deepen understanding. To talk with others is to believe in the possibility of change..."
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/o...
We're living through the first because of the worst-ness of the second and third.
I'm sure many of them would have been happy to be Number 3 or 4 in line. But never first.
We can do great things.
We are still the people and still the country who did great things in the past.
When we decide not to do them--or decide we can't pay to do them--those are choices.
The uses of poetry
brokenhand.substack.com/p/2026-re-po...
#blueskywritingpeeps
He and his tribe spend their whole lives asking "why shouldn't I?" and hearing no inner voice respond, every