Blue America

07/09/2026

Or asymmetric norm enforcement

Or asymmetric norm enforcement This is a public service post about behavior we see every day. There's a name to go with it that doesn't appear in our Hullabaloo archive: asymmetric norm enforcement. It's out there. Lucas Bean (Lucas Bean Daily) put up a short video about it over the weekend that's w...

06/09/2026

Trump is still pushing hard to turn mail-in voting into a mid-term sh*t-show:

Trump is still pushing hard to turn mail-in voting into a mid-term sh*t-show: The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court yet again on Sunday to allow its plans to restrict mail-in voting before the midterms, setting up what will likely be the final legal showdown for the president’s push to ...

06/09/2026

Is just 58 days away...

Is just 58 days away A student journalist came by on Wednesday to interview Sign Guy. I explained the concept and the data underlying the voter turnout experiment. She was an older student, 30, who'd returned to college. She'd chosen journalism as a way of fighting back against the creeping whatever...

05/09/2026

Not just mean-spirited but sadistic

Not just mean-spirited but sadistic Sepia photograph of the "Atlas" statue in New York City. Photo by Kurt Christensen (CC BY-SA 2.0). Stay with me for a moment. Friends and fans often suggest that I start a Substack. You could make money, they say. My mother finally stopped asking me if I'm getting...

05/09/2026

Oh boo, fu***ng, hoo:

Oh boo, fu***ng, hoo: As Trump begins to unveil his midterm campaign plans, many Republicans facing tough elections — even in areas the president carried by double digits in 2024 — are wary of tying themselves too closely to Trump as his approval rating continues to drag. Many privately admi...

04/09/2026

Alex Gibney‘s documentary, Musk, portrays the man behind DOGE, Tesla, SpaceX, and FKA Twitter as “a dangerous huckster [who] is stealthily aggregating power to exploit us, primarily by centralizing and controlling massive amounts of data.”
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This election, Them is not poor, brown people Alex Gibney's documentary, Musk, portrays the man behind DOGE, Tesla, SpaceX, and FKA Twitter as "a dangerous huckster [who] is stealthily aggregating power to exploit us, primarily by centralizing and controlling massive amounts of data." The Academy-aw...

03/09/2026

That’s the point

That's the point Still image from Live Free or Die Hard (2007). Anyone with a lick of sense knows what game Donald Trump is playing with his vanity D.C. makeover projects. It's his version of "it's better to ask for forgiveness than permission." Except without either the permission or the forgivenes...

02/09/2026

Only the “right” people should vote ?

Only the "right" people should vote Gabriel C. Pérez / K*T News Republicans are in panic mode. That's simply their normal vote suppression mode on steroids. Especially in Texas where Democrat James Tarlico leads in the polling for the U.S. Senate race: Republican officials in a major battleground T...

02/09/2026

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read more at Hullabaloo: https://digbysblog.net/2026/09/01/how-is-it-possible-to-be-this-dim/

01/09/2026

A “sh*t show”

A “sh*t show” Absentee ballot drop box 49505 (Grand Rapids, MI). Photo 2020 by G Witteveen (CC BY-NC 2.0). Nearly one-third of Americans vote by mail. Are you planning to vote by mail this fall? Use caution and mail very, very early. Or maybe not (CNN): The US Postal Service effort to develop a ...