media when maga wins an election: we must travel the country and speak to these voters and extend empathy to them and give credence to their bigotry and false beliefs media when the left wins an election: is this the end of the american experiment

If AIPAC's commitment to arming a rogue state isn't enough for you, I cannot emphasize enough that this organization is just a slush fund for GOP donors to influence Dem races. Their donor base is mostly conservatives who want Republicans to win.

Andrew Solender@andrewsolender.bsky.social · 6h ago

AIPAC: "Our members remain determined to ensure that voters reject Dr. El-Sayed and his radical anti-Israel agenda in November."

There is no ethical consumption of Harry Potter. And not in the usual "no ethical consumption under capitalism" way. In the "your fandom is now comprised of hate symbols" way.

s. e. smith@sesmith.lol · 5h ago

JKR explicitly said she considers anything Potter-related, even fan-made, endorsement of her politics. And every time you engage with this franchise, you signal to the industry that there's still money in it and they should keep pumping out content from full-cast audiobooks to book box partnerships.

Yep. Earlier this year I was interviewed by Sharyn Alfonsi of 60 Minutes about my Epstein investigation. Subsequently, CBS pulled the segment and fired the reporter. The MAGA buyout of media is aiding the Trump administration’s Epstein cover up.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · yesterday

Banks permitted millions in suspicious transactions tied to Epstein—and former 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi had the story months ago. But the report would never air. trib.al/ZShZlIS

For uneducated Americans only (because almost everyone else in the world knows this already): "Inshallah" is not a Muslim phrase. Inshallah is an Arabic phrase. Christians that speak Arabic, say inshallah. "Allah" is how you say God in Arabic. "Inshallah" is how you say "God willing" in Arabic.

We have to reckon with the fact that Uncommitted really was what it said it was - a group of loyal partisan democrats trying to save the party from itself. This was obviously not the case with "Abandon Harris," but anyone conflating the two is doing so out of either ignorance or malice.

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 5h ago

The co-founder of the 2024 National Uncommitted Movement, Abbas Alawieh, decisively won his primary to become a State Senator in Michigan. Abbas was endorsed by both Bernie Sanders and Gretchen Whitmer. Abbas Alawieh also privately met with former VP Kamala Harris last month upon her request.

Republican political theory: everyone to the left of hunting the poor for sport is a communist.

To clarify: Flash Gordon does not take place in the future, just on another planet. Buck Rogers DOES take place in the future. John Carter of Mars takes place during Reconstruction, of all things

Somehow things that would have been a background gag in a Verhoeven movie are now just real

An actually underrated potential positive for Dems in light of Abdul’s victory is that it gives traditionally centrist or otherwise poor Dems on Palestine on an easy out for polarizing against AIPAC and pro-Israel politics— they’re trying to cost Dems the Senate.

All I wanted was a cute rom-com, not fascism.

Ewwwwwwwwwwwwww.

Mathew Buck@filmbrainbmb.bsky.social · 4h ago

Wait, hold up, One Night Only, the rom-com set in a dystopian society where pre-martial sex is outlawed 364 days a year, ends with a character saying “Maybe the fascists were right about this”? Christ on a bike. Well, that killed any interest stone dead.

"The hypothetical trans girl [...] is the perfect tool for the conservative movement. She can't fight back, can't disprove anyone's assumptions, and can't garner sympathy when she's the target of hate. The perfect trans girl is the one who only exists in the imagination of the loudest cis people."

Defector@defector.com · 21h ago

If your winning issue is trans women in sports, and you're struggling to uncover trans women in any league that anybody has ever heard of, then how do you keep trans athletes at the top of people's minds? Answer: You invent them. defector.com/the-right-ha...

And AIPAC's specific move—of stating that criticism of their political spending is actually an attack on all American Jews—is extremely dangerous, because it explicitly aims to make American Jews as a whole responsible for whatever AIPAC does.

If you support a two-state solution, but none of the extremely coercive measures necessary to force Israel to enact a two-state solution and in fact call advocacy for those measure antisemitic, no you don't.

Monsters

Fogarty: if you're attractive I guess you can use the ladies toilet.

Siobhan "Shiv" Craig - DarkEden21@darkeden21.bsky.social · 6h ago

"These men need to learn that no means no" Sheila finishes with a text: "If a man has fully transitioned and looks like a woman, fair enough, but if a man wearing makeup and a dress walks into a woman only space, they should be asked to leave, they should use the accessible toilet"

A lower profile MI primary but a great result. McKinney ousted an incumbent! A real shitty one.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 7h ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donavan McKinney wins Democratic nomination for U.S. House in Michigan's 13th Congressional District.

Oh wow. So she's like, a DIPSHIT dipshit.

CONTEXT RELAPSE@letmesearch.bsky.social · 8h ago

Rape is the central pillar of the right-wing agenda, the right to terrorize other people in the most intimate way possible.

Task & Purpose@taskandpurpose.com · yesterday

Army ends anonymous reporting for harassment complaints trib.al/oQU93m2

The UK's tendency to sacrifice powerless minorities at the whims of an ancient entity (the print media) makes so much sense when you remember that Folk Horror was invented in England.

We won't have to ban it. It's too expensive to run and it's been subsidized so heavily that when the financing runs out Claude and ChatGPT simply won't exist anymore.

Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · 23h ago

Guys like this don’t realize that they are the freak

People who follow me know I am not prone to baseless accusations of antisemitism (unlike the ADL or AIPAC), so when I say I'm getting big antisemtism vibes off of this...

Current Affairs@currentaffairs.bsky.social · 2d ago

this is a great mindset but also a hilarious drag on hong kong phooey, a multiaxial gimbal of racism

Raven Lyn Clemens@ravenlynclemens.bsky.social · 17h ago

i think about this all the time

"We have accepted your new password." "Good. Now let me log in with it." "Fuck you."

The youth claim to hate capitalism yet they purchase goods and services in order to survive ahaha and I am very Fortune Magazine

In other Michigan news, the state looks set to elect it's first transgender lawmaker. Joanna Whaley won her Democratic primary and will compete in November for a state house seat, beating a primary opponent who tried and failed to disqualify her for not running under her deadname

Well he's not in a super-litigious and harmful cult so I'm gonna say "no."

Pajiba@pajiba.com · yesterday

Is Ryan Gosling the Next Tom Cruise?

Yes, the one who couldn't win a primary in her own party despite a $55 MILLION dollar advantage—much of it from a PAC that would prefer to see the Republican win anyway—is the more "electable" one, the one who can really reach voters. That is a thing people believe.

i just can't w these people www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/u...

Arizona’s Democratic Governor Set to Pick a Republican Running Mate

Gov. Katie Hobbs, locked in a competitive re-election battle, plans to tap a moderate former mayor of Mesa, Ariz., John Giles, to serve as her lieutenant governor if she wins in November.

nytimes.com