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
The GOP isn't just the pro-pedophile party anymore; they're also the pro-warcrimes party...
December 4, 2025 at 10:45 PM
The GOP isn't just the pro-pedophile party anymore; they're also the pro-warcrimes party...
There's been a lot of appreciation of 'Horses' lately because of its 50th anniversary, but I've been rediscovering and loving late 1990s Patti Smith over the last few days.
I seem to go back to 'Gone Again' more often than any of her other albums.
I seem to go back to 'Gone Again' more often than any of her other albums.
December 3, 2025 at 6:27 PM
There's been a lot of appreciation of 'Horses' lately because of its 50th anniversary, but I've been rediscovering and loving late 1990s Patti Smith over the last few days.
I seem to go back to 'Gone Again' more often than any of her other albums.
I seem to go back to 'Gone Again' more often than any of her other albums.
Is Google's AI search competing with Musk's AI search to see which can be more pro-MAGA? This is what it had to say when I asked about Pete Hegseth writing a book that defended war criminals...
November 30, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Is Google's AI search competing with Musk's AI search to see which can be more pro-MAGA? This is what it had to say when I asked about Pete Hegseth writing a book that defended war criminals...
...and, as predicted last night, here comes the inevitable high-pitched #FineWhiteWhine from the remains of the White House...
November 26, 2025 at 6:22 PM
...and, as predicted last night, here comes the inevitable high-pitched #FineWhiteWhine from the remains of the White House...
...time for the tired elderly narcissist in the [remains of the] White House to sue the NY Times for 15 billion dollars again...
November 26, 2025 at 3:11 AM
...time for the tired elderly narcissist in the [remains of the] White House to sue the NY Times for 15 billion dollars again...
I didn't realize bulk whistles were so cheap.
Kristi Puppykiller is going to have to get used to the sound.
Kristi Puppykiller is going to have to get used to the sound.
November 18, 2025 at 3:12 AM
I didn't realize bulk whistles were so cheap.
Kristi Puppykiller is going to have to get used to the sound.
Kristi Puppykiller is going to have to get used to the sound.
How is it possible that trumprx.gov is "An official website of the United States government" when all it is is a non-functioning splash screen with you-know-who's face splashed across it?
I'm sure he's going to have to add more gold to those Oval Office walls before he adds functionality, though.
I'm sure he's going to have to add more gold to those Oval Office walls before he adds functionality, though.
November 17, 2025 at 10:01 PM
How is it possible that trumprx.gov is "An official website of the United States government" when all it is is a non-functioning splash screen with you-know-who's face splashed across it?
I'm sure he's going to have to add more gold to those Oval Office walls before he adds functionality, though.
I'm sure he's going to have to add more gold to those Oval Office walls before he adds functionality, though.
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).