I was so pissed last night, watching viral videos claim that Blanche promised to pass a national abortion ban. That's not true, and it's not helpful. Because what he actually said is super dangerous, but getting buried
No, Todd Blanche Didn't Promise a National Abortion Ban—But He Did Vow Something Else
Here's the real threat getting buried under panicked headlines
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It's not like she's profiting from an ai writers app or anything oh wait
Vivaldi is a browser (think google chrome or firefox) without A.I. baked in. I found it shortly after google got rid of the option to turn A.I. off. I'll get off the internet before I'm forced to use A.I.
If AI disappeared, would Google revert to giving real results, instead of just Reddit and facebook slop?
Alexander Glass@alexanderglass.bsky.social · 11h agoI have one answer.
National Guard’s Deployment To D.C. Until 2029 Will Cost $1.4 Billion, DOD Says #HuffingtonPost
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Keeping National Guard In D.C. Until 2029 Will Cost A Fortune
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Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.
Exhibit A: They fixed Brussels sprouts. I mean it. They actually *fixed* a vegetable. www.npr.org/sections/the...
From Culinary Dud To Stud: How Dutch Plant Breeders Built Our Brussels Sprouts Boom
Brussels sprouts used to be scorned. Now they're trendy. And one reason for their renaissance sits tucked away in a basement storage room in the Netherlands.
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Sorry for the tangent here, but Thai food being great and prevalent was apparently a diplomatic move by the Thai government! www.foodrepublic.com/1318428/how-...
How Gastrodiplomacy Brought Thai Food To The World Stage - Food Republic
In 2002, the Thai government launched the Global Thai initiative to increase interest in Thai cuisine, cast a positive light on Thailand, and generate tourism.
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This is another way we live in rape culture; we live in a culture where we have to hear about monstrosity all the time. Sometimes I look at those top stories lists and wonder if I'm the only one who notices that two or three or four of the ten are about violence against women.
It is for these same reasons that MAGA people also obsess over fetuses. Fetuses are a blank slate and I can make them anything I want them to be, and they will never contradict me.
Read it here if you haven't yet. Today is the very best day of all days to read it for the first time. short-stories.co/@raybradbury...
There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury
The voice-clock sang, breakfast was ejected, but no doors slammed. The garage chimed and lifted its door to reveal the waiting car. The house sat alone in a city of rubble and…
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Adam Rawnsley@arawnsley.bsky.social · yesterdayToday, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.
I don’t think of him as the fat guy from Superbad, I think of him as this asshole
Dan of the Year@downwithdan.bsky.social · 2d agoHe will never understand that being "the fat guy from Superbad" is infinitely better than being "the martial arts chud nobody likes"
Yep. The Heritage foundation wants to abolish Title IX. They literally say women’s sports makes girls and women “less deferential” www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/07/righ...
Rightwing think tank blames Simone de Beauvoir for girls playing competitive sports. They're wrong. - LGBTQ Nation
They say the feminist icon forced girls into more "aggressive" sports like wrestling instead of yoga. But there is no "natural" version of femininity.
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"Liberal bubble" has only ever meant anywhere where right wing perspectives aren't artificially elevated and forced into everyone's feeds.
Study: *less* protein helps older adults’ metabolic health. “…high-protein diets will activate the molecule mTORC1 in the body, forcing cells into a continuous growth mode and preventing them from doing the cleanup processes that improve metabolic health.”
FOX 7 Austin@fox7austin.bsky.social · 2d agoA new study pushes back on the idea that people generally should be consuming more and more protein.
Jonathan Paz’s job was to convince cities to buy Flock cameras. After initially being enthusiastic about the company, he started to get disillusioned. He talks to @josephcox.bsky.social about the "propaganda" inside the company, and why he decided to leave. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKYY...
Tom Vilsack is the former Secretary of Agriculture, former governor of Iowa, and CEO of the World Food Prize Foundation. Vilsack profiles Norman Borlaug, the Iowa-born scientist whose Green Revolution transformed global agriculture and saved more than a billion lives from famine. #WeAreAmerica250
New grant application terms put forth by the Office of Population Affairs are placing more focus on teaching teens to plan for pregnancy rather than prevent it.
The Trump Administration Is Rewriting Sex Education to Promote Parenthood
The Trump administration’s hormonal obsession rages on. Now, we are on to federal funding recommendations for teen pregnancy prevention and sex education programs—which will now be required to…
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New: We found 50 cops who misused Flock cameras and other license-plate readers for personal purposes, often to spy on their girlfriends or ex-wives. He "watched every single move I made. ... Who do you turn the chief of police in to?" wapo.st/3S6rTuo
She left her ex. He secretly tracked her through a network of policing cameras.
Flock’s array of license-plate cameras was built to fight crime. But at least 50 law enforcement officers were charged with or accused of misusing it and other systems.
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When less than 2% of domestic abusers go to jail (rapists even less), it is clearly a systemic reluctance to hold violent men accountable. And men know this & point to the results of this system working in their favor to discredit their victims to protect their violence.
And let's not forget how long Miller's abused wife's own father suffered laryngitis over the violent man with a history of DV he endorsed. This is the family that woman was raised in. Likely why Miller chose her. She was raised to be a victim by her father for her abuser.
So when we say men benefit from worse men because it allows them to be judged innocent & good by comparison, this includes patriarchy in general. Bad guys go to jail & if less than 2% of men who beat their wives & children go to jail, they're innocent.
Victims of domestic violence being reluctant to report the fathers of their children or separate them from their children, which these fathers will declare "parental alienation" if they do, are also part of patriarchy working as intended. That men then use to defend itself.
Imagine if we stopped treating men's violence as individual acts & started recognizing the pattern of behavior that supports accusations women make against them. Imagine if we hated men who lie about their victims half as much we hate women who tell the truth about violent men.
He has such a busy history of violence & criminal activity, & lying about it, yet this isn't being attacked as a person deserving ostracism & prosecution for false accusations. Seems like he torched his credibility long ago yet doesn't receive the treatment women who report do.
Notice how Miller has sued not one but two women accusing them of defamation but this isn't being seized as a pattern of false accusations that should result in life in prison, as rape apologists champion for victims they accuse of lying? www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
I waited in line with strangers and I remember we were all excited for what this day meant and what it gave back to us. I felt immense gratitude to the nurses administering the shots and the regular citizens organizing everything around us. Why was this memory holed!
The WNBA has never had a trans woman play in the league’s 30-year history and now the right and other anti-trans activists are hammering the league over something that has never been an issue, proving once again it isn’t about protection but exhibiting cruelty toward trans people.
