The legacy media sat there while Trump lied about the past elections and "joked" about running again in 2028. They did not boo. They did not walk out. They just sat there and ate their dinner. The journalists in that room will be remembered as the journalists in that room.

Nothing speeds up Trump’s eviction from the White House like Rule IX. He can and MUST be removed from office. Not after the midterms. NOW. Pressure Congress to invoke #RuleIX DAILY. Visit removetheregime.com. This #CupOfJoe is full of patriotic urgency.

As I said the other day - this story is very much revealing how little folks understand the massive reach and influence of agribusiness and how the food chain works. Framing the story around taco bell is a good ex of news coverage failing to give us the info we need about our corporate food system.

val@trickycrayon.com · 3w ago

This framing is so disgusting and irresponsible. Yes, Taylor Farms supplies Taco Bell. THEY ALSO SUPPLY TONS OF OTHER RESTAURANTS AND GROCERY STORES. People will take "avoid Taco Bell" as the lesson which is NOT HELPFUL. www.wcvb.com/article/cycl...

I try not to overdo this bit but ... my man is begging for it. Let's go.

PEIPolitical 🇨🇦@peipolitical.bsky.social · 3w ago

Miller: "It's not a coincidence that when you look at these violent Antifa demonstrations not one of the people that is demonstrating looks like a normal person. Not one looks normal. They're all deformed in some way in their appearance, in their dress, in their mannerism." #cdnpoli

Okay, nvm - I'm deleting my original post (about China), because this swerved into a different direction, which honestly, I should have expected. Things to do right now: 1. Check your voter registration at iwillvote.com. 2. Text five friends/family to do the same tonight.

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i cannot implore you enough to use respiratory protection that *really works* for what you’re facing. yes, the best mask is the mask you’ll wear, but when conditions are this bad, know that not all tools are created equal. if you can access something better and are able to wear it, it’s worth it.

PM2.5 Kills ~9 Million People Each Year Worldwide@tkovach.bsky.social · 3w ago

I feel like there should maybe be more coverage of the fact that NOAA is forecasting the AQI in Cleveland will be 296 tomorrow and 365 on Friday. That's worse than June 2023.

The men who were with Lorenzo Salgado Araujo say the govt is lying: Araujo never tried to run over agents. Agents weren't even in front of or behind the van. After shooting Araujo, officers threw him to the ground and one said, “You wanted to escape, right?” www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Migrants who saw man killed by ICE in Houston say he did not ram officers

Three men who were in the vehicle alongside Lorenzo Salgado Araujo are contesting the Department of Homeland Security’s account of the fatal shooting.

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Eric Umansky@ericumansky.bsky.social · 4w ago

So the Trump admin’s story is… they stopped the wrong van and the driver, who has been law-abiding resident in the U.S. for 35-years and was on his way to work,, just decided to ram federal agents. *That’s* *their* story. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/u...

Guaranteed: 1) Black girls will be harassed and demanded to be tested over and over again regardless of how competitive they are. 2) Winners from public schools will be relentlessly hounded by the parents and coaches of losers at private schools, with the goal of making them quit the sport.

Nancy Armour@nrarmour.bsky.social · last mo.

The ban is heinous for what it does to transgender athletes. But if you think cisgender girls and young women won’t be caught up in the fallout, too, you are woefully ignorant

Thankful that birthright citizenship has survived this assault. But it's repugnant that four bigots ruled against birthright citizenship on the constitutional question. Spitting in the face of Wong Kim Ark and millions of US citizens. Eternal shame.

Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · last mo.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court holds that the Fourteenth Amendment protects birthright citizenship, blocking Donald Trump's executive order to end it. Roberts has the opinion for the court, which is 5-4 on the constitutional question and 6-3 on whether federal law protects birthright citizenship.

A cartoonist named Daniel "Des" Rolando Sanchez Estrada was tried as a terrorist and sentenced to 30 years in prison for having anti-Trump comics in his car. Prosecutors connected him to a 2025 anti-ICE protest he didn't even attend because he was in the same book club as others who were.

Lynda Barry did not squeeze your heart and simultaneously explain the point of all art with the barest of line drawings so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

Olivia Hill@machineiv.bsky.social · last mo.

Sam Raimi didn't strap a Super 8 camera to a 2x4 so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

Federal prosecutors in Minnesota unsealed a 94-page indictment against 15 individuals they alleged to be affiliated with Antifa, but the evidence shared at the podium — including standard anti-establishment social media memes — is being widely slammed as a total embarrassment.

Trump prosecutor's 'embarrassing' antifa evidence ignites instant backlash

Federal prosecutors revealed details Tuesday of a 94-page indictment against 15 individuals they alleged to be affiliated with Antifa – the loosely organized anti-fascist movement that the Trump administration has designated as a terrorist organization – though mockery soon ensued after prosecutors ...

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All this, plus the chances are high he'll fall asleep during the game.

David Sheridan@davidsheridan.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Update; now no pedestrian or vehicular traffic between 30th and 35th between 5th and 8th Avenues starting at 4pm, 4.5 hours before tipoff and includes the busiest train station in the country and 100’s of businesses. Heart of Midtown. He ruins everything for everyone every time.

Did another political thing where 80 percent of the volunteers were femme presenting. Dudes, gotta step up. If you're not volunteering for anything, pick one (1) thing and start this week.

"Writers can’t sell their second book. Writers can’t sell their first book. Writers quit jobs to concentrate on writing. Writers quit social media. Writers reactivate, announce new novel. Writers get mad at sexism, tell men to stop writing. Male writers ignore."

Writers

“Writers don’t like to write. Writers are decent writers. Writers read interviews with themselves. Writers turn off Wi-Fi. Writers are under thirty-five. Wri...

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ICE says it needs Delaney Hall to lock up "murderers, rapists, and pedophiles." I looked at the data. That's not who's inside.

To put this another way: Trump will have done about as much damage to the White House as the 9/11 hijackers did to the Pentagon.

mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social · 2mo ago

They will need to appropriate minimum several hundred million dollars just to get the white house back to some kind of normality and sweep it for hidden cameras and listening devices and the media will cover the expense as their first scandal

Every word of this.

Leah McElrath@leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Invigorating:

In a historic moment, I was interviewed by fellow Black woman particle physicist Dr. Katrina Miller. Few people can understand my journey the way she does. We talked about my new book, why poetry matters, and yes, how the *fact* of non-trinary neutrinos challenges anti-trans rhetoric. #GiftLink

A Physicist Who Thinks in Poetry From the Cosmic Edge

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Hungary’s parliament sings “Ode to Joy” — the anthem of Europe — after Péter Magyar is sworn in as prime minister. Hungary is once again a proud member of the European Union.

1/ Tear gas was created to incapacitate grown men. So when I started seeing reports of kids hurt by tear gas deployed by federal immigration agents, I wondered how often it was happening. My colleagues and I started to count:

The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead and it’s quite possible that we will, like when a similar SCOTUS gutted civil rights at the fall of Reconstruction, see a disappearance of much of the Black congressional representation, especially in the most heavily Black states, which are in the South.

This insightful thread made me reflect on how I, a Gen Xer, was socialized to think about the political agency of ordinary citizens...and how those historical "lessons" that I'd imbibed, drawn from the history of the 1960s and 70s, just don't ring so true to today's young adults.

Elizabeth Spiers@espiers.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The point at which a sane, morally principled award winning teacher who is angry about school shootings picks up a gun and thinks it’s the only way to make a difference is a bad place to be in. Dismissing him as a crazy person and blaming Dems is disingenuous and dishonest

"I wish you would be a better Christian." This is a rhetorical tour de force. Bravo!

Wajahat Ali@wajali.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I had the opportunity to confront Pete Hegseth's bigoted spiritual mentor, Pastor Doug Wilson, and call him out on his history of hate, his misreading of the Bible, his hijacking of Jesus, and his cosplay Crusading. It was worth it.

"How does an investor process [the threat to destroy a civilization]?" Answer: it processes them.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4mo ago

CNBC: “Is Trump destroying a civilization a bigger upside risk or downside risk?” incredible stuff

"Are millions and millions of people wrong?" "I believe so." We need this energy across so many discussions and disciplines. Yeah man, sometimes 1 person can be right and everyone else wrong. People should absorb this into their fkn heads.

Kelly Barnhill@kellybarnhill.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Remember when people were SO MAD at Harold Bloom for calling the HP books worthless? Hits differently now. youtu.be/Y1tSAOlSbhI?...

Two brilliant civil rights lawyers - one Asian American; one Black American. Both women. @aclu.org’s Cecellia Wang & @legaldefensefund.bsky.social’s @janainelson.bsky.social. They argued two of the most consequential cases in SCOTUS this year. This embrace is one of my favorite moments of the day.

I cannot overstate how much of our current situation is directly attributable to this evil woman’s work demonizing trans people with the money she gets from the people who buy her products or keep them in the public eye by continuing to interact with the franchise even if not buying.

s. e. smith@sesmith.lol · 4mo ago

Hey so 7/15 of the books on the New York Times children’s audio list are the full cast Harry Potter books. Fuck every single actor who participated in these from the bottom of my heart. And fuck the people who continue to keep the franchise relevant. There is no ethical consumption of JKR.

Grateful I make art with “no commercial potential”: who’s gonna want to use AI to ape it?

Matthew Sheffield@matthew.flux.community · 4mo ago

🧵 AI-generated soul music by "Eddie Dalton" is taking over iTunes, YouTube, and Spotify--raising the question of where humans think beauty and art lives. Software-made music has gotten so good now that 97 percent of people cannot differentiate it from human-made music.

RFK Jr. carries knowledge of the troop strength of every Middle East country in his head, to check the president's work in the moment? Or was he just blindly accepting that bullshit claim by Trump, just as this audience is accepting this bullshit claim by RFK Jr.?

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 4mo ago

RFK JR: One time, Trump grabbed a placemat, turned it over, took a Sharpie, and drew a perfect map of the Middle East. Then he marked the troop strength of every country along each border on that map. It challenged a lot of the assumptions I had been told about him.