Stop the false equivalence. No other President sued his own government to secure immunity for himself and his family, created a fund to reward cop beaters, and demanded prosecution of his political enemies. Trump’s weaponization of DOJ is unprecedented and you just endorsed it.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Tillis admits Trump is weaponizing the DOJ during his speech announcing he'll vote for Todd Blanche: "Maybe it's a little bit more intense in this administration than the last one ... I'm going to support Mr Blanche's nomination"

“Mullin let slip a very dirty secret indeed: By reforming governing processes, we can broaden legal pathways for immigrants to work in the US in ways that would benefit our economy and our country.” MAGA was furious. Yet more evidence that the purpose of “mass deportations” is ethnic cleansing.

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · yesterday

Don't miss this vile story: MAGA is raging at DHS chief Markwayne Mullin for admitting migrant farmworkers can beneft our economy. This means his devotion to ethnic cleansing is in doubt. He must be excommunicated! I wrote about the collapse of MAGA mythology here: newrepublic.com/article/2138...

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

Scott Pilgrim Scott Pilgrim Vs The World

Alt: Scott Pilgrim Scott Pilgrim Vs The World

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Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com · 7d ago

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

If you’re watching Fauci’s testimony remember that science isn’t an ideology. It doesn’t lie. It evolves. COVID-19 was a once-in-a-century pandemic caused by a brand-new virus, recommendations changed because the evidence changed. That’s not deception. That’s how it works.

@jamellebouie.net calls Musk what he is. Gift link. Elon Musk Is a Menace to Society www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/o...

Opinion | Elon Musk Is a Menace to Society (Gift Article)

Why does the owner of X get a pass for what he says and does there?

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Manosphere grifters have figured out that some men are easily manipulated by making them feel insecure about their masculinity. The GOP has turned this sales pitch into both an ideology and a campaign strategy. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

newrepublic.com/article/2135... Great stuff from @moiradonegan.bsky.social. I especially love her characterization of Trump's masculinity (and Tate's): it's "a kind of masculinity that reveals its own inadequacy by victimizing others." Very well said.

Trumpworld Shivs Hypermasculine Guru Andrew Tate as MAGA Cracks Up

As MAGA splits over the legal travails of influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate, the writer of a piece on the Tates explains why MAGA’s vision of masculinity is imploding—and what it means for our polit...

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...What's changed is that they occasionally see a girls' troop doing similar work in the next campsite, or take a class alongside a girl, or learn from a girl or woman instructor. What people really want to protect is the presumption of male superiority, and—as a Boy Mom!—they can fuck right off.

People love to wring their hands about how "boys are struggling," "boys need their own spaces," and those people are telling you they don't know enough about Scouting to have an opinion. My 3 older sons are in a boys' troop. They camp, hike, work with other boys, and male leaders. Very masculine!...

Despite the whining about “ historical accuracy,” the racist backlash to the casting in Nolan’s Odyssey is about the right wanting to justify racial hierarchy by projecting it into a past where it did not actually exist. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

#FollowFriday @jamellebouie.net @amandamarcotte.bsky.social @kevinmkruse.bsky.social @volts.wtf @sethcotlar.bsky.social @atrupar.bsky.social @jvl.bsky.social @michaelhobbes.bsky.social

One more time: While many people insist they need to stay on Twitter to keep informed about the real world, staying on Twitter is more likely to misinform you about the real world. Stop marinating your brain in the right-wing fever swamp. It's actively making you dumber.

Jonathan V. Last@jvl.bsky.social · 2w ago

Worst part of the new @status.news report is that the Bari Weiss team appears to get its view of what is actually happening in the world from Twitter. They were asking Vega to include things that *weren't real* b/c they didn't know any better. www.status.news/p/cecilia-ve...

#FollowFriday @gregsargent.bsky.social @nberlat.bsky.social @rbreich.bsky.social @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social @hcrichardson.bsky.social @jacobware.bsky.social @avitek.bsky.social @5gw.bsky.social @espiers.bsky.social

Alan Elrod@aselrod.bsky.social · 2w ago

A proposal: let’s bring back some of the traditions that made early Twitter so good and see if we can’t both grow this place and grow accounts worth following. I suggest #FollowFriday be brought back with enthusiasm

This Administration reminds me of Hostess Execs paying themselves huge bonuses while firing thousands of workers while descending into bankruptcy due to their own mismanagement.

Ruth Ben-Ghiat@ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 2w ago

Here, I talk about why we should pay attention to what I describe as an age of “plunder.” That is, the erosion and destruction of the rights and freedoms of the many.

"And with that puerile quarrel between stubborn warlords over the right to own and to rape a girl, Western literature begins." ... "Classical culture is a lot of things including, literally, rape culture." A must-read essay by Solnit

Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 2w ago

Beard's essay opens, "I want to start very near the beginning of the tradition of Western literature, and its first recorded example of a man telling a woman to ‘shut up’; telling her that her voice was not to be heard in public." My essay on the Odyssey, Andrew & Tristan Tate, misogyny then & now:

Look at what’s happening with The Odyssey: Elon bought Twitter and destroyed it. X is a white nationalist propaganda network. They convinced themselves The Odyssey would bomb—but people went to it in droves. They own the networks and the government, but they don’t have popular ideas or beliefs.

The fascists have used hard power to try to flip the culture—and have largely been unsuccessful. They have mostly lost the culture wars. But, their monopolization of media and tech, and their control of our corrupt political system, has given them a lot of power to suppress dissent.

The way I understand the politics of the part 15 years: social movements arose out of the detritus of neoliberalism to contest oligarchy, patriarchy and white supremacy. But, the contest was largely discursive. The fascist backlash has used hard power to try to shut it all down.

more serious Odyssey opinion: leaning into the religious significance of the Trojan horse strategy (and the hospitality as central to civilization theme) was a good choice by Nolan and friends artistically and politically. strongest condemnation of our present era I'd expect from a mass market film

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Apparently not part of Western Civilization (incomplete list): Homer, Socrates, Plato, democracy, Aquinas, Shakespeare, liberty, Locke, Montesquieu, Superman, NATO, vaccines Western Civilization that Must Be Defended: Carl Schmitt, the Confederacy, Green M&Ms in heels, the movie 300, domestic abuse

the odyssey discourse is a beautiful perfect window into right wing culture war psychosis. they went from hysterial racist mania over a character that’s on screen for 5 minutes to claiming there’s a massive conspiracy to fake ticket sales. this is just what they do for everything now. they’re insane

"Cognitive surrender" is a fascinating concept to think about the impact of AI as it exists under reactionary tech Preventing people from thinking for themselves and imagining different worlds is a godsend for authoritarians thenextweb.com/news/wharton...

The only "identity" they want to acknowledge is the white one.

Noah Berlatsky@nberlat.bsky.social · 2w ago

this is literally the white supremacist default for the bulk of US history. it was the entire political strategy of basically every president pre civil war. it's the plot of Birth of a Nation. it was Bill Clinton's career. 1

Google co-founder Sergey Brin is leading a coalition of billionaires who plan to spend $87M+ on ads attacking California's proposed wealth tax. He's accidentally making the case for the billionaire tax better than anyone else could!

Nolan's #Odyssey hammers home the point that character and integrity matters. It warns that the immortality and dishonesty revered in our leaders by so many today is the cataclysm that leads to the fall of great civilizations. I highly recommend it!

Like, thematically, Nolan is using the Odyssey to almost speak *as* 'western civilization' and then what he says is, "you men (very much *men*), with your violent inhospitality, your greed and appetites are what has destroyed civilization by breaking the bonds between people."

Grandpa is elated because he's found another pretext for invading and occupying Canada. Any of his predecessors would have been in contact with Carney to offer US assistance in combatting rampant fires. Not Trump. He knows a pretext for military action when it sees he. And he's our war president.

When we have fires in the US, Canada sent help. When Canada has fires, Trump threatens them with tariffs. What an asshole.

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 3w ago

Trump says he is going to increase tariffs on Canada due to the wildfires

I just can't imagine living a life based on hating so many things when there are so many things in life to love.

Kat Tenbarge@kattenbarge.bsky.social · 3w ago

Elon Musk trying to sink a Christopher Nolan movie was honestly the funniest and dumbest course of action he could have taken. He’s one of the most popular filmmakers alive and now it proves Elon and his fanboys have no real cultural impact outside of X