DURBIN: You wrote an article in which you claimed 'Black inmates are most like to become sexual aggressors.' Why should people of color believe you've changed? CRONAN: I co-authored the article. I haven't re-read it in a long time. DURBIN: Do you believe it? CRONAN: I'm not in a position to opine
There are approximately 400,00 births per day — and over 150,000 deaths. Draw your own conclusions.
An estimated crowd of 15,000 White people attended the lynching. It was this incident where the term "spectacle lynching" was coined. Smith had been accused of raping and murdering a 4 year old girl. What they did to Smith is beyond words.😔 #KeepItWoke #DedicatedToTam✡️🕊 eji.org/news/history...
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It’s Giles, he’s a Bulwark Republican, it’s Arizona, and her opponent is Andy Biggs. It’s fine. bsky.app/profile/dmnd...
Jeremy Diamond ☕️@dmnd.me · 17h agoWas about to get mad at this but then realized this Arizona-specific stuff and Giles is basically a Bulwark Republican, so it’s fine. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/u...
Giles is a Never-Trumper, while Hobbs is a weak candidate running against a lunatic election denier in a crucial swing state. So this is not at all a foolish move.
David Roberts@volts.wtf · 16h agowhat the actual fuck
Yes — a squeaker is the worst possible outcome in either direction…
Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 17h agoIf things stay this close, regardless of who wins, we're kind of in the zone of maximum intra-party recriminations. So that's... interesting, let's say. That's interesting
Mitch McConnell’s Communications Director Stephanie Penn was asked by a media source about an update on McConnell and she only grinned awkwardly and when asked if she and the rest of the staff should still be getting paid when Kentuckians have no representation she laughed. /Suzierizzo1
In the final analysis, Fetterman is just not very bright… at least at this point….
Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19h agoThis went a little different than his nightly interviews with Sean Hannity.
This is not the blowout that El-Sayed's toxic bro supporters were saying it was going to be. Shy Stevens voters?
If El-Sayed ran as a center-left candidate, and Stevens as an pro-Palestine DSA candidate, who do you think would have won tonight? See my point?
GOP is very subtle. There is antisemitism on the Left — and I keep pointing to it. But Trump- supporting Jews must understand that the ‘Socialism of Fools’ is *nothing* like the ‘national’ socialism  of the contemporary Right.
Kyle Clark@kylec.bsky.social · yesterdayDepicting Jewish people with horns is a centuries-old, dehumanizing, antisemitic trope. Democratic Gov nominee Phil Weiser is outspoken about his mother’s birth in a Nazi concentration camp, his family members killed in the Holocaust, and the threat posed by antisemitism today.
The thing about Modernism is that…, well… that it’s still modern.
This is New Jersey. The ridiculousness of these cosplaying ICE Nazis is off the charts.
He gazed blandly out of the window at the passing scene. London with her blind grey eyes gazed back…
I’ve spent the afternoon reading Christianna Brand’s *Death of Jezebel* — wonderful writer if you like this sort of stuff.
Trump and Stephen Miller should be commended. Compared to the Japanese occupation of Malaya (the *Sook Ching* “cleansing”), the DHS mass deportations have been, not just mild, but absolutely humane…
Haitians with TPS status forced to wear ankle monitors or else be detained immediately. Blue Ash, Ohio is near Cincinnati.
OLIYA SCOOTERCASTER@scootercaster.com · 2d ago"They tell me - if I want to take 2600 dollars and go to Haiti, or if I would stay here and be arrested and put that ankle monitor on my leg" Haitian asylum seeker with TPS status speaks after check in at Blue Ash Ohio ICE office.
11th anniversary of this genius take from Bari's new 60 MINUTES hire.
And the feeling that this cannot last forever. It is like watching $VIX and wondering... when to go long.
One of the things that has astonished me about my life — given how much history I’ve read — is how slow history has been since 1968 - until just recently. Little has happened. 60 years. Consider Europe, from 1939 to 1945. Or from 1914 to 1945. England from 1653-1658; France from 1789 to…, China…
It’s a symptom of much more than that…, it’s a symptom of some very deep neurosis. What Freud would have called “hysteria”. Fortunately, hysteria was one of the few neuroses that Freud found curable…
Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 2d agothe obsession with trans women in sports is, apart from the abject bigotry, a symptom of how we take amateur sports participation way too seriously in this country.
In case folks have missed it, the running commentary on the right is that Jews are sending Arab migrants to invade Europe. Because Islamaphobia and antisemitism are always nearby to one another. AND because so many of this hateful conspiracies rely on the antisemitic mythology of Jews as puppeteers.
The New Arab@thenewarab.bsky.social · 2d agoSpanish far-right activist María Isabel Peralta has sparked outrage after footage circulated showing her performing a Nazi salute outside the Moroccan Embassy in Madrid.
And speaking of irrational… sheer madness…! these sexual obsessions of the GOP…. What underlies it, if not a secret lust & horror of the very people they claim to be so afraid of… (“Not afraid on my *own* behalf, naturally… <cough, cough>, but for the *children*!”
Cwnidog@cwnidog.eurosky.social · 2d ago“The measure doesn't specify who would perform the exams, who would pay for them, or how schools would carry them out…” And I trust it will crash & burn.
It’s hard to understand why so many Americans — even on the Left — who really don’t usually give a damn about cause, fundamentals, or foreign policy — should have made Gaza & AIPAC the central issue of American domestic primary politics Not ICE, climate, health care… It just seems irrational to me
