Recent posts by Creative Dissenters on Bluesky

embarrassing. talent aside, way too few US players showed heart. 4-1 was the right scoreline.

What a disaster of a game...

the guy with the nazi tattoo and the string of sexual assault allegations is concerned about other people's values

How is it still July?

So pretty much the worse thing that can befall any team is Trump taking a rooting interest.

I BEG YOUR MINISCULE PARDON

it’s just so hard to be a fan of the United States

As a big believer in curses, this all makes sense.

ah yes noted walk-awayer Kevin McCarthy

U.S. is playing its worst game of the tournament, but also, Belgium are just better.

The defender moved too close to the center of the field, so the opponent took advantage and scored an easy goal. There's a metaphor for American politics in there somewhere...

Jesus, what the hell was that by the goalie?!?!

Imagine playing so unfocused and lackadaisical that the coach thinks Gio Reyna would do better

lots of rumors swirling ie mitch mcconnell and botched rib removal surgery. no need to be first, if its true we’ll find out in due course

Bad people making good politicians and good politicians making bad office holders is really something we need to work on fixing.

And we never gaslight.

Some days you open social media after being offline all day and think, “That worked out.”

I think this is the best answer so far. Accumulation.

The US looks fundamentally lost. And yes, this applies to the team and, well, everything.

Planned Parenthood said that nearly 30 clinics shuttered as a result of the federal “defund.” Iowa is about to lose one of its two remaining PP clinics. It closed four in 2025 and four in 2017—dropping from 10 to one in less than a decade

If his aides are talking about his terms for dropping out he's done

The red card reversal was eight years in the making.

All right, I invite your theories. Why did this story sink Platner while others did not?

Racicot with Tapper.

Bars.

Ok y’all new strategy: attrition

Are we sure Michael Tracey knows how to read?

This is the worst the US has looked since…. the last time we played Belgium

OH so now HE'S dictating terms. Truly an anti-party candidate.

It's amazing how this rape apologist manages to be wrong on every level right down to "front door locks, how do they work."* That takes effort and commitment, and I think that should be recognized.

Warren backs away from Platner.

I'm at Astronomy on Tap in Charlottesville (a public gathering for astro enthusiasts at a local pib) and one of the prizes for the trivia contest is a Fermi gamma-ray space telescope sticker... and I wrote the text on the back of it! Funny coincidence. 😁

Here's how Cenk Uygur is justifying his continued support for Graham Platner after today's bombshell Politico story -- even as other progressives are jumping ship and calling for Platner to drop out: "So, no, I don't believe any mainstream media story."

people talk about what will happen When It Happens as though "It" is a singular Happening but actually there are a whole bunch of Its that will Happen at various times. Enjoy every sandwich, y'know?

“A thorough background check of a Senate candidate, which has become standard practice in key races, can take several weeks and cost roughly $20,000 or a monthly retainer. Moraff asked for an expedited, cheaper review to be done within days, according to people familiar with the matter.”

Akira Kurosawa’s First Blood

anyone talk to Daniel Moraff, Leanne Fan and Morris Katz today?

every single time maybe even 5

If "I told you so" was a drug, I would be high as fuck all the time.

I've been offline most of the day, and based on the first few posts on my feed it seems like I should log off until the next World Cup match begins 🫡 ✌🏽 💨

Final chapter of each? It’s the husband

The entirety of Bluesky every time this happens.

Evidence fits both sides of this www.tampabay.com/news/crime/2...

Chuck Schumer and DSCC chair Kirsten Gillibrand now calling on Graham Platner to drop out: “Graham Platner needs to immediately withdraw.... The DSCC will not invest in the Maine Senate race if Platner remains on the ballot.”

i think a lot of issues could be resolved in this country if people stopped equating stuff like treating women like garbage and using slurs with “masculinity”

Better late than never, I guess

Court records show his wife had filed a divorce petition earlier that month due to his violent behavior. She also filed an injunction against him for stalking; however, it was denied by a judge just days before she was murdered. cbs12.com/news/local/f...

Anything can happen, but are we hoping that Democratic voters in Maine, who loved Platner so much they overlooked a Nazi tattoo, are going to shrewd enough to pick any Democrat in order to beat Collins? I hope we're right.

It is possible to equally despise both Platner and the Maine Democratic Party leadership.

A dead Mitch McConnell can still block more legislation and appointments than a room full of live Democrats.

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Before the whitewash comes in, a reminder that because of Mitch Mconnell American women are dying and bleeding out because they were denied abortion care. Because of McConnell the Russians were free to interfere in our elections. Because of Mitch billionaires are coddled while kids get screwed over.

A dead Mitch McConnell can still block more legislation and appointments than a room full of Democrats.

Bizarre is right. Kevin -- and I, also included in this strange piece -- are hardly claiming that the current regime is an aberration from a golden American norm. Our history has led us here. We learn from it or fall. I hardly see that as a mythological narrative of American exceptionalism.

Coming up tomorrow evening in Brooklyn, folks.

the track record of people with democratic campaign introduction videos that get people excited is kind of bad, be they "im just a regular maine lobsterman" to "im a former combat pilot"

we cant afford health care because of the money involved, continued

A Nazi tattoo, sexual assault allegations... I don't know y'all.

A Nazi tattoo, sexual assault allegations... I don't know y'all.

imagine if a democrat did this. y'all would never shut up about it.

Blaming PTSD for Reddit posts blaming victims of rape for the crimes against them sounds different now.

Reddit posts blaming victims of rape for the crimes against them sound different now.

Let's make it a rule: do not fuck with anyone involved in any Nazi shit in any way whatsoever, no matter if they try to play it off as trivial or "not a big deal."

Update: no one was honest about it. www.editorialboard.com/if-progressi...

Looks like I will have to go back to attaching this image whenever I post anything less than a completely sincere and factual post so that I do not have to block a bunch of people.

they basically have jamaica over a barrel on things like this because the country is so reliant on the us. but this is shitty anyway.

i didnt realize the hr lady comment was from stoller. but it fits. guy is a cancer.

oh that guy turned out to be bad? if only there had been signs.

He can’t help telling the truth about how much he lies

I enjoyed my reply to this reply

Can't endorse this hard enough.

Most paths to redemption do not involve gaining massive power and influence. Usually the opposite is true. A lesson it’s better to learn sooner than later, I have found.

In the end, however, Donald Trump's corruption is a reflection of America. He is our president. This is our national team. If he and they accept cheating as a means to an end, that makes us a nation of cheaters, which makes us a nation of losers – no matter how much we may be "winning."

"We are taking the time to reflect on the best path forward for the state that I love, the people that I love, the movement I belong to, and the goal of defeating Susan Collins. Those were the goals when we launched this campaign, and they remain my goals today." Platner hints he will drop out.

The US team faces a choice. It can field its star player against Belgium, and thereby accept being made complicit in the president's corruption. Or it can bench Balogun, thereby rejecting Trump. One way risks defeat with honor. The other way risks victory in disgrace. Neither would satisfy anyone.

True sports fans want to see their team disappoint them in a devastating and heartbreaking manner year after year, while still believing "this year will be different."

www.editorialboard.com/with-fifa-sc...

As someone who has been closely following Spanish soccer for several minutes now I can confidently tell you that Lamine Yamal is just not that good

Literally nobody, right?

So it's apparent that Jenny Racicot came forward with the details of the alleged sexual assault because she feels the NY Times papered over what she told them about her encounters with Platner -- and the narrative over the Times story quickly centered on Lyndsey Fifield and her right-wing activism.

Twenty-nine New Jerseyans are estimated to have died as a result of a multi-day heat wave during which temperatures soared into the triple digits.

Janet Mills is right there.

Who could have known

Platner: "We’re taking the time to reflect on the best path forward." He's cooked and knows it. apnews.com/article/grah...

anyways we should tax rich people more

ill never understand the kind of hubris it takes to run for office when you know there are massive skeletons in your closet. not only do you look sick, your family has to deal with all of it.

Oh Jesus. www.politico.com/news/2026/07...

Unless you personally know and have fought alongside a politician or they have a long, long, loooooong track record, you can’t just embrace them and then deflect every attack or scandal. These people don’t deserve your trust, only your suspicion. This has to change and it has to change fast.

oh great now peace talks are up to ME?

So I'm working on tomorrow's newsletter and a hawk landed two meters away just outside my office window.

the funniest form of whataboutism going rn is USA fans justifying the balogun thing by pointing out belgium's brutal history of colonialism like they're not wrong but... if the idea is that the world cup should go to the country that has done the fewest crimes against humanity then i have bad news

I mean, if you can't trust a guy with Nazi tattoos…

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on one hand you have the ryan grims of the world on the other hand are the people who rubber stamped the iraq war. nobody comes out smelling like roses.

if fdr or lbj proposed their domestic agendas today theyd essentially be in the same camp as the dem socialists vs the center-center right in the party. im not sure what point you think youre making here.

So this appears to be the story that prompted Graham Planter to postpone or cancel his recent campaign events, which has been whispered about the last few days. A woman Platner omce dated says he drunkenly sexually assaulted her a few years ago. www.politico.com/news/2026/07...

the job of the president is to literally do what we tell him to, including when i tell him or her to support a cause

Hawaii: the Aloha State.* *offer excludes C&C drivers license services offices.

Another one calling on Balogun to stand down. www.nydailynews.com/2026/07/06/b...

Getting this for all of you next holiday season