Reminder that JD Vance's charity to help Opiod abuse victims in Appalachia was a scam.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7h ago

JD Vance: "If you are committing fraud against the American people, all of us in public leadership should be trying to stop it and throw you in prison for enriching yourself off the American taxpayer"

as if millions of statisticians suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 9h ago

Trump: "An outlier is a person that doesn't have a chance" (That's not what 'outlier' means)

Whether someone realizes it or not, accepting the "liberal bubble" framing at all is a way of granting the utterly absurd notion that the globally reviled and increasingly unpopular views of the reactionary right are the norm

Ian Boudreau@ianboudreau.com · 2d ago

"Liberal bubble" has only ever meant anywhere where right wing perspectives aren't artificially elevated and forced into everyone's feeds.

The “Riley Gaines” microphone case is priceless. It’s as if she’s some sort of actual reporter and not a cro-magnon dipshit who sits at home complaining about nonsense. Humiliating work. It’s hilarious watching all these sub-mediocre losers be raging narcissists. You are nothing, Riley.

Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · 2d ago

Absolutely nobody knew who Riley Gaines was when she was swimming for Kentucky -- there wasn't a whole arena booing her at that time.

Very excited they've started production on Season 2... But I'm having flashbacks to the Setlock Chaos of Sherlock Series 3 & 4.

Heated Rivalry News@hrnews.bsky.social · 2d ago

The official Heated Rivalry account shared a letter now that the filming of Season 2 is approaching. If you happen to stumble upon filming please respect the cast and crew! 🩵 via heatedrivalrytv

I like it. New Cleveland sports teams have been knocking the branding out of the park - Forest City Cleveland, Cleveland Astra and now Cleveland Sirens.

Thomas Costello@thomascostello.bsky.social · 2d ago

Yeah, its on the website now. Here is your WNBA Cleveland logo for the Cleveland Sirens.

🔥 Here's Whitehouse's entire remarkable speech opposing Blanche: "What's left of this committee when we don't demand straight answers? How many times has DOJ been asked what became of the $50k that the FBI reported it handed to Homan? ... our R colleagues see no evil, hear no evil, & speak no evil."

Whitehouse on Blanche: "Today is a sad and embarrassing day"

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Yes to this, and also why I struggle to understand transphobic professional female athletes. You think this little of yourself? You think ANY guy can just show up and beat you? This is just garden variety sexism, against yourself?

Rodger Sherman@rodger.bsky.social · 2d ago

You can see the very obvious throughline from “men could transition and easily dominate women’s sports” to “women’s sports are lesser and shouldn’t be taken seriously” to “women shouldn’t play sports” to “here are the acceptable life choices for women”

Content warning: suicide After May Pollard died on a late-January morning, a detective asked her parents a question: Had anyone wanted to hurt her? “A lot of America,” her mother answered. 1/ www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Idaho pushed anti-trans laws for years. Then a teen died.

The life and death of May Pollard, 16, provides a window into the tragic effect that legislation and political rhetoric have had on trans people in America.

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Maddow asked #JamesTalarico about attacks on #trans people and those who think that to win, Dems must "moderate" on trans rights. Talarico answered, "I don't believe we win by selling people out." #Texas

Rod Liddle has died. Odious columnist for The Times & Spectator who hated on minorities including the disable, immigrants, and trans people. Here are Rosie Duffield, Kathleen Stock & Julie Bindel mourning his death, coupled with screenshots from two articles Rod wrote defending paedophilia.

Love my hydrangea bushes.

If you're a cis person insisting that the prospect of trans children playing youth sports is not only "a problem" but in fact one of the biggest problems we currently face as a nation, I'd be happy to introduce you to literally a million other things that should be worrying you more.

And, of course, after they leave the Senate next year, the cable shows will all have them on pretending that Cornyn and Tillis meaningful opposed Trump's agenda, when they were absolutely key to making it happen.

Sahil Kapur@sahilkapur.bsky.social · 3d ago

John Cornyn & Thom Tillis issue a joint statement announcing they will support Todd Blanche for AG. He's now in good position to clear the Judiciary Committee tomorrow and head to the full Senate.

Insane that democrats keep trying to cave on this issue rather than amplifying the fact that it’s being spearheaded by bigots and freaks

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 3d ago

An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play

next dem president absolutely must rescind this by executive order on day one

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 3d ago

FLAG: Trump gets to keep tax immunity for himself, his sons, and the Trump Organization under the new 'deal' struck by Todd Blanche. The new order also reaffirms that Trump won't have to pay any taxes he might have owed the IRS.

An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play

Super useful. I figure a lot of us here in the Sky know this stuff already, but it might be handy to hand to parents, grandparents and pals who are less technically minded. www.librarian.net/NoToAI/

The Trump family said they were “debanked” for political reasons after Jan. 6—and used that to justify going hard into crypto. Turns out Capital One flagged them for money laundering. And then Blanche wrote the memo shielding the Trump family from IRS audits? Hm.

Eliot Higgins@eliothiggins.bsky.social · 4d ago

Capital One says it closed Trump Organization’s accounts after anti-money-laundering review www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Cheryl Reeve’s shirt today:

Reminder: Bernie Moreno dismissed women as "single-issue voters" on abortion during his 2024 run and said it was "crazy" that women over 50 think about it at all. It's sweet that he has opportunistically discovered empathy for his daughter and granddaughter. He should ask them what gender they are.

Mark Harris@markharris.bsky.social · 4d ago

A better moment to say this would have been any time during the last two years of "pure hell."

He's talking about the President of the United States like he would a toddler.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4d ago

Sen. John Kennedy on Trump's blatant reflecting pool lies: "The president says it was caused by vandals. I don't know if he really believes that or it's part of his political messaging or he's just thinking out loud ... he grows anxious when he has an unexpressed thought."

Am told at the blue ash Ohio ICE office today that a bunch of springfield Haitians were told to just “check in” at are now having ankle monitors put on them, which, uh….. they’re not supposed to be fucking doing that

These guys won’t stand up for the daughter of a Republican US Senator and they’ll never stand up for your daughter. But they will send some goon to inspect her crotch.

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4d ago

Max Miller is denying all the allegations against him and you can tell he's sincere because of the popped collar.

No because the Harper's letter was targeting trans people

Joshua Foust 🪖🎮@joshuafoust.com · 5d ago

Rowling signed the Harper’s Letter, which lamented, “it is now all too common to hear calls for swift and severe retribution in response to perceived transgressions of speech and thought.” Are ANY of her co-signatories — some follow me — going to speak up about her crusade against trans people?

The same UK journalists who led the "just asking questions" about trans people are now trying to retcon the UK's appalling COVID record. Going to try to bring back Boris Johnson next, Lewis?

The News Agents@thenewsagents.co.uk · 6d ago

“I’m glad we live in a country that is deferential to expertise - but at times in the pandemic, that did go too far.” “I’m not sure school closures were a price worth paying.” Lewis on how ‘legitimate questions’ have emerged - and should be asked - about how we handled Covid.

MAGA masculinity means declining to publicly criticize the man your daughter has accused of physical abuse, because doing so might prompt a senile 80-year-old man to write mean things about you.

Wajahat Ali@wajali.bsky.social · 5d ago

The man beat his daughter and injured his granddaughter but he's fine with it apparently. www.notus.org/ohio/bernie-...

My mom has said this to me since I was a kid. She always emphasized to trust my gut and that if I called her to come get me, she would no questions asked. If things feel off or you don't feel comfortable, leave. Other people's feelings be damned, just go.

Richard Kadrey@richardkadrey.bsky.social · 5d ago

This is good advice for anyone. If a person or situation seems off leave. I once had a doctor's appointment and when he came in I could tell he was upset and agitated. Did I leave? No. Did I have to repeat a painful medical procedure because the first doctor fucked up? Yes. Be smarter than me.

If you haven't been to DC lately, the new gilded statues look really, really, really fucking tacky

Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01)@repstansbury.bsky.social · 6d ago

While you were over here trying to figure out how you were going to cover the rent and food—this guy was over there using $5.1 million in taxpayer money YOU paid into the system to cover these statues in 23 karat gold. Yeah, he did that.

I'll never forgive Haberman for being the person who pushed the "Trump is actually pro-LGBTQ!" argument in 2016. Naturally, she ignored criticism of her "reporting" on that.

Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News@froomkin.bsky.social · 6d ago

This is a completely insane interview in that the things they are discussing are so alarming that their heads should be exploding and yet they are calm. History will be unkind to those, like the NYT, who underreacted to Trump’s violation of the country. 1/2 www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/o...