True Blue Liberal
@trueblueliberal.bsky.social
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
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
Let's have AI decide how much sunlight the remaining humans should receive. What could go wrong?
November 3, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Let's have AI decide how much sunlight the remaining humans should receive. What could go wrong?
Et tu, Grok?
October 22, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Et tu, Grok?
Elon Musk doesn't let many people see my tweets on his personalized version of Twitter, but 100% of the people who saw and responded to my poll over there favored Antifa over Fa.
October 21, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Elon Musk doesn't let many people see my tweets on his personalized version of Twitter, but 100% of the people who saw and responded to my poll over there favored Antifa over Fa.
I know that the fascist takeover of the USA should be our main focus on this #NoKings Day, but I ran across this photo again and I'm obsessed with the question of why people spend money, time, and pain to get a bizarre #MarALagoFace.
Is it to please the King?
Is it to please the King?
October 18, 2025 at 4:27 PM
I know that the fascist takeover of the USA should be our main focus on this #NoKings Day, but I ran across this photo again and I'm obsessed with the question of why people spend money, time, and pain to get a bizarre #MarALagoFace.
Is it to please the King?
Is it to please the King?
In Thomas Pynchon's Vineland (1990), an extended family in Reagan's 1984 America argues about "...whether the United States still lingered in a prefascist twilight, or whether that darkness had fallen long stupefied years ago..." (p.371)
There's no longer a debate, is there?
There's no longer a debate, is there?
October 8, 2025 at 3:11 AM
In Thomas Pynchon's Vineland (1990), an extended family in Reagan's 1984 America argues about "...whether the United States still lingered in a prefascist twilight, or whether that darkness had fallen long stupefied years ago..." (p.371)
There's no longer a debate, is there?
There's no longer a debate, is there?
It's a red letter day, but I promised myself I'd finish re-reading the last 30 pages of Vineland before I crack open Shadow Ticket, which arrived in your local bookstore today! #ThomasPynchon
October 7, 2025 at 5:55 PM
It's a red letter day, but I promised myself I'd finish re-reading the last 30 pages of Vineland before I crack open Shadow Ticket, which arrived in your local bookstore today! #ThomasPynchon
The cover of the current issue of @spiegel.de.
"Holy Warriors: How Fanatical Christians are taking over the USA"
(Who's the gray beard with Tr*mp, Vance, Bondi & Hegseth?)
"Holy Warriors: How Fanatical Christians are taking over the USA"
(Who's the gray beard with Tr*mp, Vance, Bondi & Hegseth?)
September 25, 2025 at 6:36 PM
The cover of the current issue of @spiegel.de.
"Holy Warriors: How Fanatical Christians are taking over the USA"
(Who's the gray beard with Tr*mp, Vance, Bondi & Hegseth?)
"Holy Warriors: How Fanatical Christians are taking over the USA"
(Who's the gray beard with Tr*mp, Vance, Bondi & Hegseth?)
There was a time before video screens invaded cars when it was possible to design a perfect dashboard.
September 10, 2025 at 2:21 AM
There was a time before video screens invaded cars when it was possible to design a perfect dashboard.
A New Year starts tonight as they raise last year's Super Bowl banner in Philly!
#GoBirds #FlyEaglesFly
#GoBirds #FlyEaglesFly
September 4, 2025 at 7:51 PM
A New Year starts tonight as they raise last year's Super Bowl banner in Philly!
#GoBirds #FlyEaglesFly
#GoBirds #FlyEaglesFly
Hey @nytimes.com, Maybe it's because it has *nothing* to do with crime. Maybe it has to do with intimidating voters in blue cities while rural and suburban voters feel completely free to exercise their rights?
September 1, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Hey @nytimes.com, Maybe it's because it has *nothing* to do with crime. Maybe it has to do with intimidating voters in blue cities while rural and suburban voters feel completely free to exercise their rights?
How Trumpy of Narendra...
September 1, 2025 at 12:37 PM
How Trumpy of Narendra...
The U.S.A. already had one of the highest incarceration rates among third-world tinpot dictatorships *before* Trump 2.0. What happens to that rate with the federalization of D.C. and all his immigrant concentration camps?
"List of countries by incarceration rate" share.google/9ocwtBSjp6hN...
"List of countries by incarceration rate" share.google/9ocwtBSjp6hN...
August 10, 2025 at 11:14 PM
The U.S.A. already had one of the highest incarceration rates among third-world tinpot dictatorships *before* Trump 2.0. What happens to that rate with the federalization of D.C. and all his immigrant concentration camps?
"List of countries by incarceration rate" share.google/9ocwtBSjp6hN...
"List of countries by incarceration rate" share.google/9ocwtBSjp6hN...
Goodnight Bluesky.
I leave you a poem by Kwame Dawes from the current issue of The New Yorker that I can't get out of my head: "Bob Marley, Live, 1980"
I leave you a poem by Kwame Dawes from the current issue of The New Yorker that I can't get out of my head: "Bob Marley, Live, 1980"
August 1, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Goodnight Bluesky.
I leave you a poem by Kwame Dawes from the current issue of The New Yorker that I can't get out of my head: "Bob Marley, Live, 1980"
I leave you a poem by Kwame Dawes from the current issue of The New Yorker that I can't get out of my head: "Bob Marley, Live, 1980"
All this kitschy art from Secretary Puppykiller's department reminds me of the style of painting embraced by the Third Reich.
August 1, 2025 at 2:24 AM
All this kitschy art from Secretary Puppykiller's department reminds me of the style of painting embraced by the Third Reich.
The mail just arrived. I have to time travel, leaving 2025 America behind to spend a few hours in Paris and London in 1990.
#GratefulDead #DavesPicks55
#GratefulDead #DavesPicks55
July 26, 2025 at 6:19 PM
The mail just arrived. I have to time travel, leaving 2025 America behind to spend a few hours in Paris and London in 1990.
#GratefulDead #DavesPicks55
#GratefulDead #DavesPicks55
Last night's must-see episode of South Park is even braver and more vicious in its attacks on its cowardly Paramount overlords than it is on Donald Trump (and it pulls zero punches in mocking Trump).
July 24, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Last night's must-see episode of South Park is even braver and more vicious in its attacks on its cowardly Paramount overlords than it is on Donald Trump (and it pulls zero punches in mocking Trump).
Vichy is the *perfect* analogue.
I re-read Robert O. Paxton's "Vichy France" (1972) earlier this year [for some reason] and the slow surrender of major institutions is a large part of that sad history.
Paxton taught history at Columbia for decades.
I re-read Robert O. Paxton's "Vichy France" (1972) earlier this year [for some reason] and the slow surrender of major institutions is a large part of that sad history.
Paxton taught history at Columbia for decades.
July 24, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Vichy is the *perfect* analogue.
I re-read Robert O. Paxton's "Vichy France" (1972) earlier this year [for some reason] and the slow surrender of major institutions is a large part of that sad history.
Paxton taught history at Columbia for decades.
I re-read Robert O. Paxton's "Vichy France" (1972) earlier this year [for some reason] and the slow surrender of major institutions is a large part of that sad history.
Paxton taught history at Columbia for decades.
When did the NY Times headline writers start doing a better job of providing context?
July 22, 2025 at 4:43 PM
When did the NY Times headline writers start doing a better job of providing context?
My son discovered the Dead and Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen in my CDs and LPs, and now he just returned the favor by sending me a CD of one of his favorites.
Jason Isbell's 'Foxes in the Snow' is the 'Blood on the Tracks' of 2025.
Jason Isbell's 'Foxes in the Snow' is the 'Blood on the Tracks' of 2025.
July 21, 2025 at 9:15 PM
My son discovered the Dead and Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen in my CDs and LPs, and now he just returned the favor by sending me a CD of one of his favorites.
Jason Isbell's 'Foxes in the Snow' is the 'Blood on the Tracks' of 2025.
Jason Isbell's 'Foxes in the Snow' is the 'Blood on the Tracks' of 2025.
She shot her own puppy.
Why wasn't that the last we heard of her?
Why wasn't that the last we heard of her?
July 21, 2025 at 8:31 PM
She shot her own puppy.
Why wasn't that the last we heard of her?
Why wasn't that the last we heard of her?
But Governor Newsom told us the made-up Coke thing would make us totally forget the Trump-Epstein bromance...
July 17, 2025 at 1:50 AM
But Governor Newsom told us the made-up Coke thing would make us totally forget the Trump-Epstein bromance...
The Governor of California is good at this...
July 17, 2025 at 1:43 AM
The Governor of California is good at this...
