Recent posts by Creative Dissenters on Bluesky

“Republicans cut healthcare, made gas prices go up and now they want to spend your money to build their corrupt racist king a golden ballroom to lord over us all” is probably the easiest election messaging in history

The Republicans going to the mat for a golden ballroom represents an easy own goal for democrats bigger than anything I’ve seen since McCain talked down the recession and Dukakis drove the tank

lol if you think I am backing Harris OR Newsom for 28

There’s a hardcore of people insisting impeachment helps Trump and here’s who was president after he was impeached last time.

The Republican Party is a deranged cult and the mainstream media won’t admit it

They just don’t get it

Why do I envision a scenario where Trump forces the White House press association to have their dinner at his house, charges them more than the Hilton for less capacity, and then at the last minute gets mad at some news story and cancels the whole thing.

Also Mike Johnson: my son keeps tabs on my porn consumption. For reasons.

Love legal filings that read like an extra special episode of wee hour Truths.

For a while legacy media sold us a principled version of Lindsey Graham but as soon as John McCain died we learned that Graham is that dweeb who grovels to the bully in the prison yard in exchange for protection

The Department of Justice just represented to a federal court that his ear was hit by a bullet, not nicked by flying glass.

Trump joking about the attack on Paul Pelosi is all you need to know about White House accusations that Democrats encourage violence.

Hypothesis/informed guess: The President told them to file this overwrought tweet in court today, and it took them until after 11 p.m. to find attorneys so lacking in self-respect as to be willing to sign it.

What an absolute POS

Not surprising at all who is falling in line with the ludicrous blame democrats strategy.

Holy fuck this is deranged deranged. Like "someone needs to check on them" deranged.

Wait issue a whatnow?

You are being robbed, America.

Either their entire support staff left, or their entire support staff despises them.

Where he only has one set of excuse me?

Counting tomorrow, Trump will have hosted a grand total of 4 state dinners over his two terms, the fewest of any modern president. Obama had 13. Reagan had 59! But, you know, without a ballroom we won’t even have a country.

I have uncovered a mysterious obelisk containing OVER 100 messages from the future

Everyone focuses on Trump’s fury when Obama mocked him at the WHCD, but he was also furious that the administration ignored his offer to build a ballroom a few years earlier. The obsession really dates back and as with much of his psychosis, Obama figures prominently.

When your assassination conspiracy theory is just the plot of Nine Inch Nails' 2007 album "Year Zero"

Can you imagine how Republicans would have mocked Obama if he tried to so shamelessly milk any of the foiled plots against him for political gain? Fox News would have definitely worn out a cry baby graphic.

Can you imaging how Republicans would have mocked Obama if he tried to so shamelessly milk any of the foiled plots against him for political gain? Fox News would have definitely worn out a cry baby graphic.

I hate to break it to you guys, but Rob Schneider is wrong. Jimmy Kimmel's contract runs through May of next year. He signed a one-year extension in December.

why’s the dude in the kilt here carrying an issue of LOOK magazine, which ceased publication in 1971? www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/u...

If you go with the (admittedly iffy) assumption that the law (and his health) holds and Trump leaves office on schedule, what’s the most use he’d get out of that ballroom. Best case scenario has to be an 18-24 month construction project, right? The WWII memorial took almost 4 years.

Read @michaelschulman.bsky.social brilliant profile of Laurie Metcalf, which is sharp, tender and revelatory on a buncha levels: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Jalen Duren after that Jamal Cain dunk: #NBA

Do we know if the Secret Service agent who took a bullet to the vest was from the suspect or another agent?

Maybe the ballroom will be built just in time to hold the televised trials in.

That dunk was vicious

You’d really think the WHCD security incident was the red wedding based on how Republicans are fear mongering and using it to divert attention from their plethora of governing failures.

Is he going to pack up the ballroom and take it with him when he goes off campus?

I love the way they act like it’s Trump’s event now, when he’s skipped them all before this one.

Scrap the WHCA dinner altogether. Ballroom problem solved.

Trump trying to immediately exploit guy with a gun and a manifesto to promote his pet project so obviously feeds false flag conspiracies it almost seems intentional. I think he likes his opponents preoccupied exploring rabbit holes.

mr president the nation yearns for your opinion on late night talk show hosts

Personally I think even hardcore MAGA has to be getting a little pissed off at Republicans treating Trump’s royal whims as the only crisis they’re willing to snap to action on. Does a guy who needs a second job to fill up his truck think the lack of ballroom requires urgent action?

good ol’ free trade: en.people.cn/n3/2026/0427...

As one of these I remember when the internet was a marvel of freedom and learning and connecting. And then capitalism ruined it

I’m sure we could open the Strait of Hormuz if only Trump had a ballroom and Jimmy Kimmel was fired.

This was just shared with me. Reporters With Borders is currently running this billboard on the highway between Mar-a-Lago and West Palm Beach airport ahead of World Press Freedom Day. It says, "Home of the not-so-free press anymore," and to check out RSF's website to find out why.

Of all the Bernie Bros I ever called a misogynist, this is the one I was most correct about.

To describe Trump accurately will always sound to some like incitement www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/o...

Being so wildly unpopular that you and your friends need 7-inch thick glass to hide behind isn’t the flex Mike thinks it is.

Maybe the most Democrat thing ever is to refuse to represent the vast majority of voters who don’t want AI at all by promising to help them keep their energy costs low while never once addressing the fact that AI promises to destroy those voters’ jobs. www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

Excellent point here. The admin itself is not taking this seriously. Instead, it's using the issue to sell something, just like Trump has done his whole life.

Elevating this classic. Have you read Bonfire of the Vanities? No. Which Tom Wolfe book is your favorite? His latest. Bonfire of the Vanities? Yes.

Keep coming back to Trump saying how when he was hustled offstage he wanted to stay and see - he stressed that desire to watch what was happening on 60 minutes — it excited him, the violent chaos, he didn’t want to miss a second, like it turned him on, gave him a rush.

One reason conspiracy theories are reaching bipartisan status may be because this man lies like he breathes, the press corps magnifies his lies, and no one knows what's true anymore. I'll leave it to @beyerstein.bsky.social to provide a ruling. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Rebranding a problem so that it doesn't like a problem, rather than doing the hard work of solving the problem, is the Republican way.

Lovely waxing gibbous moon tonight.

Cole Allen is not anti-Christian. Trump lied about his faith and the press corps accepted it. A THREAD.

The only way we're gonna get these gas prices down is if we...**lowers sunglasses**...build that damn ballroom.

what exactly is the challenge, he’s at 30% approval and 7 months away from being completely neutered, tell him to fuck off and reap good will

1. More thoughts on the failed attack on the White House Correspondents Dinner. • The president told 60 Minutes that the Secret Service told him to get down. However, video evidence shows that Donald Trump fell.

is this not just weird behavior objectively ??

🚮 "Among those involved with Westside Progress is Scott Stringer, the former city comptroller and mayoral candidate, who has been raising money for efforts to support more moderate Democratic candidates."

Josh's smoke machines are gender-affirming care

Dunno. Seems like gothic horror to me.

This morning at Hancock High, seniors headed to the floor of the gym to receive their caps and gowns, each from a teacher they had chosen. Stacy Campbell waited there, holding her student Israel Makoka's cap and gown. But he wouldn't come. He and his brother, Max, 15, had been taken by ICE.

further separating law enforcement from the citizens they are supposed to serve seems bad! as does creating a tax system in which government-favored people are exempted from income taxes simply for who they are.

When you've wholly and completely lost the narrative...

They'd rather talk about a ballroom than Trump's war.

And yet…missed something else.

Cannot stress enough the degree to which this guy was lightly brushed against by a septuagenarian congressperson and he behaved as if she had beaten him into a coma with a pipe.

Same.

As a ballroom owner, I'm going to have to insist we dial down the anti-ballroom rhetoric before a chandelier gets jostled.

Gotta keep the grown up in charge who scared everyone into thinking a man armed with buckshot and a nine-round pistol was gonna kill 'em all.

Gotta keep the grown up in charge who scared everything into thinking a man armed with buckshot and a nine-round pistol was gonna kill 'em all.

name calling, who normalized this again

omg I went there last year to give a panel talk and did not meet isambard ?? I am such a failure. 😭

me, when I travel to places that are too cold or too hot or too rainy or too icy

This is a reasonable interpretation of the charging document against Cole Allen.

i like to bookmark things like this on bluesky and then forget to ever check my bookmarks. one day i will be on a train or sick in bed or waiting for someone at a restaurant and i will remember to check my bookmarks and be greeted with a compendium of randomness

I don't know if this means anything, but I find this strange.

Trump's people knew this wasn't gonna happen. apnews.com/article/whit...

I think it's underappreciated how much rhetoric such as this goes into stoking political violence. You want regular people to believe they have no choice but to act out violently? Make them feel insane with endless gaslighting.

"but republicans will never vote for impeachment" is a sign you just don't understand this shit. democrats need to fucking fight for what is right. what is right is removing a criminal corrupt president and his cronies. if the gop wants to go on the record backing this, LET THEM. over and over.

the fact they prepared 2,600 dinners for this orgy of corruption is another scandal

Don't be a condiment cop. Let people use however much ketchup, mustard, etc., that they want to use.

In fairness, I haven’t left my ballroom since COVID.

This isn't a hard question to answer -- but they are making it so.

Allen's "manifesto" – which is not Allen's word but the word chosen by the NY Post to describe the letter that Allen sent to his family moments before rushing through security at the Washington Hilton – is a deeply religious text that struggles to uphold Christian principles in the face of tyranny.

Christianity Today reported that Allen’s dad "was listed as an elder at Grace United Reformed Church, an evangelical congregation that describes itself as preaching 'a gospel that is Christ-centered, covenantal and confessional.'"

The press corps keeps playing along, accepting Trump's claims uncritically – he was told to get down when he actually fell; Allen is ant-Christian when he is actually deeply Christian – as if the constant mainlining of deceit into the body politic won't bring tensions to an even higher boil.

The Republicans love to gaslight the public into believing that the Democrats are inciting violence when they tell the truth about Trump. In fact, it's the president who is the greatest source of incitement. That his life has been threatened three times should be proof enough.

Cole Allen's letter to his family reads less like a manifesto than a suicide note. He seems to have expected to die for his beliefs.

www.editorialboard.com/cole-allen-i...

We interrupt the overlapping Trump failure news cycles to complain that the problem is reporting on how bad he is.

Finally saw the photos of the suspect. I cannot believe Nick Kroll did that at the WH correspondents dinner.

Stories like this are precisely why Veep wouldn't work these days -- the real-life shit happening now is too ridiculous to satirize.

Folks, impeachment shouldn't be a day 1 priority, because it's purely symbolic/rhetorical; Trump isn't getting convicted in a 51-49 senate and unless the Dems do take the Senate he isn't even getting tried. Accomplish things! Legislate! Investigate! Sue!

The purest expression of white privilege. www.economist.com/united-state...

The government routinely uses the Section 702 foreign surveillance law to spy on Americans without a warrant, @lizagoitein.bsky.social says. Lawmakers in both parties are demanding reform.