Smol bean Americans in response.

The typical Progressive Era response: identify a problem and invent a solution that either doesn’t solve the problem or creates whole new problems.

Trump’s new design for the ballroom

They really are just the villains in Bioshock Infinite.

Whenever American political elites complain about Chinese birth tourism

Man, those Founders don’t seem nearly so smart as they are made out to be.

And proud of it.

Call me, Mr Mayor

RETVRN

There really does seem to be an utter lack of shame nowadays.

From Facebook but I thought Bluesky would appreciate

Magical things

Love the Wikipedia page list of demonyms for Massachusetts.

Constituency can mean both a geographic constituency (akin to an electoral district; more common in British English) and a natural constituency corresponding to demographics (Black Americans, WWC, LGBT, PMC).

The Economist when fascists are murdering and unlawfully detaining people but leftists want a city-run grocery store and tax of pieds-à-terre.

I see that Tom has never come to grips with the fact that—from wars of aggression in the Middle East to widespread corruption to inflaming culture wars to favoritism of some parts of the US over others—George W Bush was a precursor to Trump.

There’s Kzinti.

The Parliament Act of 1911 limiting the powers of the Lords in its preamble explicitly stated the intent to eventually replace the House of Lords with a popularly elected Second Chamber.

As far as I could tell, this is how I think I would fair in a fight against an American president on their inauguration day (organized by age at inauguration; more red means the more I think I’d lose, more blue means more I think I’d win)