El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"

The fact that these people have the nerve to open their mouths to talk about “protecting women and girls” while doing shit like this… whew!

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 4h ago

Mike Johnson tells Politico that he's standing behind Republican Max Miller — despite the "serious" domestic abuse allegations against him.

The most shareable part of this clip is certainly the part that's quoted in the post, but the broader message - of unity and why people are hurting so much being due to the system - is so good.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 1h ago

El-Sayed: "They think they want to use my whole name against me. Mike, listen man, If you can't say the name -- it's Abdulrahman -- keep the name out your damn mouth."

They could always sign up to give comment at a public meeting.

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 14h ago

New York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.

Huge.

Extremely grateful to @lukeoneil47.bsky.social for publishing this one, which I'm glad is out there. Please read and share and it widely, folks.

Luke O'Neil@lukeoneil47.bsky.social · yesterday

"It is an interesting and somewhat macabre parlor game to play at a large gathering of one’s acquaintances: to speculate who in a showdown would go transphobe," @sandyernestallen.bsky.social writes. "By now, I think I know." www.welcometohellworld.com/who-goes-tra...

I am not a math /probability person …Been thinking about this question that came across my feed this morning so much I missed my stop on the train

August is the Sunday of Summer, for sure, but the stupidest?

Microplastics Sommelier@leastactionhero.bsky.social · yesterday

i think that we can all agree that august is the stupidest month. not the worst, just the stupidest. like an ernest movie. or a coke freestyle machine.

I mean this about sums it up, no?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

Bernie Sanders: "People look at the Republicans. They say, 'No they're out of touch.' They look at the Democratic leadership and say, 'No, they're out of touch.'"

🎶Despite all my rage, I'll still fight for a minimum wage. 🎶

post malone ergo propter malone@proptermalone.bsky.social · 3d ago

and GOD IS EMPTY JUST LIKE ME

A lot of the replies to this are on crime cases, and I know I am in the minority on this but I have never been fascinated by true crime mysteries … honestly the majority of the time I just think “that’s not my business.”

G. Willow Wilson@gwillow.me · 5d ago

What's your personal great white whale of an unsolved mystery? The thing you desperately hope is solved before you die because you need to know the answer? Mine is the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum heist. Where the hell are the Rembrandts. I need the full story

I can understand on some level why people say that we Jews are weirdos

Tal Lavin@swordsjew.bsky.social · 6d ago

someone team up with me and lets make an etsy store selling a nut-in-copper-vessel banisher of toilet demons

Being mortal creatures with limited time and energy, it is totally natural that human outrage is selective. If you tried to do work on every injustice and horror on this earth, you would collapse into an exhausted ball of trauma it is absolutely fine for you to select a cause that is yours

My mom unearthed a toy I played with as a child to give my kid—and he loves it. It’s a “pallino the mosaic machine.” Basically you hit a button to send a ball to a column & you can make patterns. I had completely forgotten about it, and I have to admit I’m obsessed again. Did anybody else play this?

PROTECT Act is out of Conference Committee, curbing ICE activities — been waiting for this for MONTHS!!! malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H5... #mapoli #AbolishICE

@gravelinfluencer.bsky.social looks like PROTECT Act is out!!! malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H5...

I think it’s just fine for a woman who is the foremost expert in a topic to be mean to a man who came into her sandbox and made a mess and had fun doing so. Let her cook.

Why did this not come up in Hebrew school for me

Tal Lavin@swordsjew.bsky.social · last wk.

theres like multiple rabbi-werewolf tales scattered through jewish literary history apparently ingeveb.org/articles/the...

This piece resonates with me. I am sometimes asked by my Jewish Zionist friends and family whether, as a Jew from the US, I support Israel. I think it's fair to ask in reply: does Israel support me? forward.com/opinion/8409... cc: @joelhs.bsky.social

Israel's government doesn't want to protect American Jews. It wants to use us.

Leaders’ silence when the Tree of Life massacre followed Trump’s anti-immigration tirades speaks volumes about the current campaign to tie Mamdani to a violent attack.

forward.com

lol holy shit this author has no fucks left to give and is spot on www.science.org/content/blog...

This … feels true but is it?

Gareth Watkins@garethwatkins.bsky.social · 2w ago

Why is Stephen Miller *like that*? Well his father didn't hug him enough and he's a catspaw for the bourgeoise and civil society has broken down and he is terrified of women and he hates anyone who isn't white, plus about twelve other sub-disciplines of Hitlerology, all of which are 100% correct.

I double majored in History & Philosophy back in college. Looking back, I think I should have also invested more time in taking Anthropology & #Sociology classes, and wish I had done that. I know this is a ragebait headline (I won’t link to it), but I wish more people would take Soc not fewer.

Papa Bear: My porridge is too hot. Mama Bear: My porridge is too cold. PB: Let's go for a walk until the porridge cools. MB: ...But mine is cold. It'll only get colder after a walk. YOU NEVER FUCKING LISTEN TO ANYTHING I SAY. I knew I should have married Yogi. HE'S A *REAL* BEAR! Baby Bear:

Get To The Funny Part Already

ALT: Get To The Funny Part Already

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Uh, wouldn’t any smallpox virus contained in the envelope have long ago died? Why would it still be a threat?

Ada Palmer@adapalmer.bsky.social · 2w ago

Historian friend was reading a civil war era letter in an archive, the letter said “In this envelope I include my smallpox scabs” and sure enough there they were. Had to call CDC for a hazmat team.

Many thanks to the Toronto Star for inadvertently showing us why we should all use the Oxford Comma. Apparently Sylvia had some, let's say, complicated hobbies:

Enjoy your fleeting moment in the spotlight of popular attention, dear Homerists. Once Nolan reads my pitch for a film version of the greatest story ever told, Cicero’s exile and return (obv.), it’ll be Ciceronians clogging your socials wall-to-wall.

the assumption this article makes that Altman knew about and understood the premise of The Circle before inviting Eggers to speak is… not one I would make

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3w ago

“If students are using it to compose, which is the biggest tragedy of all, they’ll never learn to write. And their voice is stolen from them.”

Is this like an AI created post or something?

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3w ago

My man looks like he has to wear SPF 5000 at the beach

How is this thread still going ? But also this is a good one among many good ones

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3w ago

My man looks like a golem created entirely out of olive loaf