Reposted by salad bowl liberalwhet moser @whetmoser.com · 27/07/2026the cape fear tv show is the perfect argument against prestige tv: a flawless movie that was already remade, stretched several times longer than you already know it needs to be. bardem is amazing though 0191
salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 27/07/2026I have been moving & driving all day, but what in the name of Sam Hill has been happening here. 330
salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 26/07/2026 now that I’m thinking about it, this is what the American people wanted done to someone (it barely mattered whom) after the pandemic. 1132
salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 26/07/2026that’s bait (the bait is also the worm in RFK, Jr.’s brain). 041
Reposted by salad bowl liberalJoe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Yeah, this is what Hitler believed. Like this is very literally what Nazis believed. 41993167
salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Very smart. Democrats must reject labels & unite around issues that matter to working American families. 150
salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 26/07/2026I am a total sicko for midcentury gospel music about God judging the land & visiting chastisements upon it. It goes so hard. 330
salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 25/07/2026 The brightest minds of progressive media & policy have come together to demand that Governor Andy Beshear shoot the monster chewing the power lines. 142
salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Someone inclined to be mischievous might observe a certain symmetry between the view that removing American intervention would solve the ills of the international system and the idea of the self-regulating market economy. 100
salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 25/07/2026It’s kind of funny their vision was/is “abolish governmental agencies that cynically disguise capitalist control as aid & journalism” & not “use governmental agencies to expose & combat capitalist control through journalism & aid.” 292
salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 25/07/2026I am not really interested in the specifics of Will Stancil’s arguments or feuds at this point, but metadiscursively, they are significant. 020
salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 25/07/2026It’s so embarrassing when people take these labels seriously. 0112
Reposted by salad bowl liberalolivier poplin enjoyer @verynormalguy.bsky.social · 25/07/2026so many dreams come true at once 051
salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Ah, a Dorothea Lange for inessential workers. 000
salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 25/07/2026I don’t know if there is any event—or series of events—that could change the attitude in that room. 000
salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 25/07/2026If there’s a chance that my choice (or lack thereof) helps me gain influence with the winner, this becomes much easier. 150
Reposted by salad bowl liberalsalad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 04/12/2025I do think that culture significantly affects the feasibility of establishing & sustaining a Nordic-style welfare state. 251
salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Two captured Luftwaffe officers discuss whether Hitler has failed or been failed: 150
Reposted by salad bowl liberal"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 24/07/2026The second strategic failure is that the American people (re)elected a worthless fucking moron like Donald Trump, who is boundlessly confident despite knowing nothing about anything and so asked the US military to do the impossible for no reason at all because he got lucky in Venezuela. 121261151
salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 24/07/2026What is in the screenshot at left has been the argument of dozens of books at this point & hundreds of articles. 130
salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Wisconsin is also a state where I think you might see what has become a hobby-horse of mine, the spectre of each side of a divided electorate radicalizing & feeding off the other’s radicalism. 010
Reposted by salad bowl liberalsalad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 15/06/2026somehow too many people still think that Wisconsin is a solidly blue state that merely is temporarily embarrassed. 152
salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 24/07/2026all military history has been building up to this post: 010
salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 24/07/2026 Stanley Baldwin really underwent a political conversion, hmm. 031
Reposted by salad bowl liberalMatthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 24/07/2026I would not be surprised if Pete Hegseth still had a Strava account 3676
Reposted by salad bowl liberalBen McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 24/07/2026When people tell you you just don’t understand what 2008 was like when Obama was running, this is what they mean. A Young black man running for President told America openly in his youth he habitually did cocaine and then he won Indiana 67210
salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 24/07/2026One wonders what these people, who claimed that Democrats would lead America into disastrous wars, thought was bad about war in the first place. 010
salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 24/07/2026I think it’s 346 days until we have a reason to celebrate the Fourth of July (or 347, since this was posted yesterday). 010
salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 24/07/2026I am not learning about the $50,000 argument unless I am paid at least that amount. 020
salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 24/07/2026As a head of marketing for Taco Bell, I witnessed firsthand my colleagues’ submission to groupthink about the dangers of cyclospora.—for The Free Press. 011
Reposted by salad bowl liberalJoey Politano🏳️🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Elon’s “I’m not far right I’m a normal guy from 15 years ago” shtick is extra ridiculous in the UK context because he’s not, like, advocating for a return of the Cameron Tories but telling people to vote for the nationalist right wing offshoot of the nationalist right wing offshoot of the Tories 527226
Reposted by salad bowl liberalJoey Politano🏳️🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Not a great interview overall, but this clip is just devastating Elon says Britain is headed towards civil war, the interviewer asks Elon when he was last in the UK, he says years ago, and then Elon accuses the interviewer, **who lives in London**, of living a cloistered life youtu.be/QTGCSYn0piwyoutu.beElon Musk on Europe, the far right and civil war in Britain | The EconomistYouTube video by The Economist 1838274
salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 24/07/2026I seriously doubt that Elon Musk now is capable of regret or reevaluation of his actions—on a neurological level, even. 151
salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 24/07/2026I think slight caution should be exercised about people going from conservatism to left-liberalism/democratic socialism in under, say, a decade—& not because they may lack zeal, but in part because they may possess it in spades. 151
salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 24/07/2026The “Popular Front” of the 1930s receives undue nostalgia & esteem. 000
salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 24/07/2026I think decent politicians can emerge from the DSA, but the organization should not have a larger role in US politics nationally. 110
salad bowl liberal @mjraskob.bsky.social · 24/07/2026There are some wild stories of how enterprising Britons did industrial espionage on the continent in the eighteenth & early nineteenth centuries. 010
Reposted by salad bowl liberalSE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 23/07/2026a huge chunk of the top talent IN AMERICA is first- or second-generation and from china. the only reason china doesn't completely dominate us here is that american immigration policy is very good at stealing their best research staff. it's a good thing nobody's changing that! 624030
Reposted by salad bowl liberalJules Sherred (he/him) @geekyjules.julessherred.com · 23/07/2026Camels, the animals that evolved to withstand heat, are dying en masse from heat share.google/E0HjQJd7yHyz...share.googleAfrica's camels are dying from extreme heat as temperatures soarHerders and experts tell the BBC how Africa's camels are suffering because of extreme heat. 25025