if someone had said a year ago "next year a leftist muslim will beat a sitting congressperson backed by her state's sitting governor and 30 million dollars of AIPAC spending—but the race will be close" people would have thought that sounded pretty gd good. gotta keep perspective!

Spencer Ackerman@attackerman.bsky.social · 3h ago

@abdulelsayed.bsky.social triumphing over something like $60 million, $32-ish million of it AIPAC money, is not a "narrow" victory, it's a people's earthquake. This kind of spending is oligarchy in action, to smother democracy through its formal channels, and is getting normalized. Still he won.

As I was saying

Ed Burmila@edburmila.bsky.social · 4w ago

At some point we are going to have to reckon with what percentage of the Thought Leadership we get from this class of people is just drug addiction. Either a lot of credulous reporters have never listened to someone tooted out of their mind go on a monologue or they're afraid to call it out.

if establishment candidates want to start winning primaries again all you have to do is say that rich people have too much money and that youll prosecute trump admin staffers and republicans that have broken the law

Star Wars fan checking in to say: totally fair.

Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash!@standplaatskrk.pl · 9h ago

I don’t think there’s a progressive / left-wing mandate in the Democratic Party at this point but I do think it’s fair to ask what conditions would lead “neutral” commentators to say Ds need to tack left, given all electoral outcomes are typically taken as evidence of a need to move to the center.

Sean Connery is here now and I have never been more dropkicked in the head by a combination of character name, accent, and costume

Now watching (for the first time!):

if a future dem president doesn't put "irs investigation in everything related to trump" on their priority list they don't even need to show up for the job

*intrigued* *downloads sample* Oh, great. Another hyperfixation. THANKS, Bluesky!

Trevor Henderson 🍉 (commissions closed)@slimyswampghost.bsky.social · 2d ago

MEAN book. Highly recommended.

So I was already basically only shopping at target for toy exclusives after all their foolery over the last few years. Guess I’m revising that to “not shopping at target.” If I’d made the same preorder at the same time at Hasbro pulse, I’d be set. Thus ends the lesson.

This just hit me. Guh.

TFW2005@tfw2005.bsky.social · yesterday

Target Pre-Orders for MTMTE Starscream, Prowl Being Cancelled #tfw2005 #transformers

Wow Um Like I get it? I do? But w/the credentials this person has in profile, I wish they weren’t saying stuff like this. The idea that every nation-state is just looking for an excuse to invade any other is harmful, and the idea that the USA is subject to invasion by a foreign rival is deluded.

Small drones are killing more civilians than ever before - and we need to act. Here’s my thoughts on what we need to do, like establishing a center dedicated to evaluating and investigating drone attacks, training investigators, and explaining how IHL applies to self-defense against drones:

What Can We Do About Drone Attacks on Civilians? Some Thoughts

Lately, I've been spending a lot of time analyzing, reporting on, and researching the horrifying global uptick in the use of small, cheap, short-range drones to intentionally target and kill civilians...

little-flying-robots.ghost.io

Well, it appears that, sometime in the last 17 hours, Gwen Pepperoni was suspended for the crime of pointing out Ken Jennings' transphobia.

Again, US politics KIND OF makes sense if you can conceive of Biden as a failure—he propped up his likely opponent, minimized the threat of MAGA fascism, yanked away the support that helped families survive Covid, didn’t rein in SCOTUS, pathetically tried to run again, spiked Harris on his way out.

G Elliott Morris@gelliottmorris.com · yesterday

The reason Trump’s approval keeps hitting a new all-time low every day, and why Republicans might lose the Senate, is because GOP voters are losing their enthusiasm for his agenda, while independents move in droves toward an energized Democratic base. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-08-04...

Genuinely incredible that a movie helped do this. It’s like the most noble thing I can imagine a piece of art doing.

I do think this is Important and Something I Noticed. it's also...very Interesting in light of all the spoiler stuff in the final act. there may not have been room to tie it all in with how stuffed the movie already is with History and Themes but there's a path forward.

huck mason@tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 2d ago

grimly funny that in The Dark Knight, Batman’s city-wide surveillance is the moral crucible, the point at which he has clearly gone too far, while in Brand New Day it’s just something that Spider-Man does.

Ten horror movies to get to know me: -The Thing (1982) -Hellraiser (1987) -Prince of Darkness -Halloween (2018) -Lifeforce -IT Chapter 2 -Cube -Alien -Evil Dead 2 -Saw

Tess,,@brandysaurian.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Ten horror movies to get to know me - Alien - From Beyond - NightBreed - Misery - Sleepwalkers - In the Mouth of Madness - Scream - Slither - Pan's Labyrinth - The Void

High-octane fuel was first a niche product with few buyers. A decade later, it was deciding the Battle of Britain, all because one American pilot-engineer spent years advocating for it. warontherocks.com/cogs-of-war/...

The Octane Revolution: How Jimmy Doolittle Catalyzed a Wartime Industry

Editor’s note: This is the sixth article in a limited series celebrating American defense technologies born from wartime and their effects on broader

warontherocks.com

Can someone please inform the “Rainbow Dreams” brand, which seems to make conceptual knock-offs of G1(?) My Little Ponies, that THIS is not an acceptable “cutie mark”??

Also, and as a parent who remembers much of what I tormented my parents with as a child, you have SO much more curation of your kid’s exposure to advertising these days and that’s a really good thing!! Like, I don’t credit the 2020s with that much, but this is a vast improvement over the 1990s.

Brendel@brendelbored.bsky.social · 3d ago

It’s hard to explain but tv was better when you couldn’t watch the show you wanted whenever you wanted to watch it and most of the shows were worse and the TVs were worse and the entire experience was worse, that’s when it was better

Not a good game, but the intro is hilarious Terminator 2: Judgment Day (SNES, Bits Studios, 1993)

it's a low key thermonuclear bomb of truth that some polls show that a majority of Dem voters would support war reparations to Iran

Shibley Telhami@stelhami.bsky.social · 3d ago

A growing number of Americans, including 58% of Democrats, say the US should be responsible for some reparations to Iran for war damage - a measurable increase from the previous week.

Donald Trump denies disaster aid to states with Democratic governors but offers ample media access. Joe Biden gave disaster aid irrespective of politics but rarely held solo press conferences. Why is it so hard to find a president who can do all parts of the job?

I love Talarico and hope he wins. But he’s already raised $70M On the flipside, control of critical state legislatures will come down to seats where candidates raise 0.1% of that. I’ve researched the highest leverage swing district candidates you should donate to secure.actblue.com/donate/donat...

Donate to the candidates on the front lines of the fight against MAGA gerrymandering

These are anti-MAGA state candidates in *extremely* close races

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Which is why they seek to end youth gender dysphoria treatment in the US and UK.

Xtra @xtramagazine.com · 3d ago

Canadian researchers found that 97 percent of youth who seek treatment for gender dysphoria still identify as trans years later.

I agree strongly with this -- in that difficult moment, the possibility of collective effort was conceivable. Not everybody felt it, but many did. I think the political class did not like this one bit.

Dave Andress@davidandress.bsky.social · 3d ago

Covid lockdowns demonstrated, in a deeply imperfect way, the possibility of large-scale social solidarity for a higher cause. That is a prime reason why so many powerful people want us to run screaming away from them into the comforting arms of selfish individualist competition.

Growing up poor in the '90s means having a justifiably incandescent hatred for the Clintons.

Olivia Hill@machineiv.bsky.social · 4d ago

Fun fact: During the Clinton administration, welfare recipients had to file paperwork proving they applied for a certain amount of new jobs every month. Know what happened if you lived in a village with few job openings and no way to travel? Your kids suffered malnutrition. Ask me how I know.

Median UK voter in 2026, as predicted by Hugh Laurie some decades ago: