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

I'm calling it: "Start smoking" is going to be mainstream MAHA / Republican health advice by 2028. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Important history--obviously.

Canadian History Ehx@cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 18h ago

When you wear denim jeans with a denim jacket and denim shirt, you create a very unique look. This look is known as The Canadian Tuxedo....but why? It all began in the 1950s in Vancouver. This is the story. 📸 Wikicommons (Erky-Nagy Tibor) 🧵 1/7

Not shocked.

ProPublica@propublica.org · yesterday

An obscure Texas firm secretly connected to Donald Trump Jr. said it received at least $100 million from Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries. At the same time, the Ambani family secured major policy wins from the Trump administration. (Published June)

Look at these two cuddle monsters.

derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social · yesterday

Bay Area friends: would you consider opening your home to these two cuddly cats? A friend found them behind a gas station. Their sibling, a black cat, got adopted, but it appears no one likes orange cats. They are being kept in a bathroom for the time being and need a home.

Subject yourself to tons of me ranting, photos etc, archived from the old Blondie website Stuff starts around 2000 archive.blondie.net/blondie_chri...

Democrat voters bent their backs electing Biden. Establishment dems didn’t protect abortion or hold Trump accountable for the Jan 6 riots. They didn’t push back on McConnell stealing a Supreme Court seat. They brought the CHIPS act to a gunfight. So yeah, folks are getting excited about DSA.

Trump decided America needed 11 Arctic icebreakers after golfing with Finland’s president. Two months later, he announced a $7 billion, no-bid deal—twice the number the Coast Guard requested. Experts question the need, taxpayers face billions more in infrastructure and staffing costs,

Trump’s Fixation on Arctic Ships Led to Billions in No-Bid Contracts

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It’s true. The Spokesman-Review has been doing incredible work and it's transitioning right now to nonprofit ownership. There’s never been a better time to subscribe: spokesman.com/subscribe

Leah Sottile@leahsottile.bsky.social · 3d ago

I've been asking reporters in Spokane how we can help and everyone says subscribe, subscribe, subscribe. The Spokesman-Review has been doing unreal coverage of the fires: www.spokesman.com

Meet the three woman skaters drawing attention from Tony Hawk and Thrasher while raising the stakes for the skateboarding community in L.A. and O.C. 🛹 🎥: Julianne Le and Erwin Recinos

Ibrahim and his family have been internally displaced in Lebanon three times. When they were finally able to return to their village, they found destruction. Today, Ibrahim is working at one of WCK's local kitchens, where we serve thousands of meals for families like his every day. #ChefsForMidEast

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.

WCK is responding in Spokane, WA, where wildfires have forced 60,000+ people out of their homes and impacted access to food. WCK teams and local partners will be serving families and first responders as recovery begins. Read more: wck.org/news/spokane... #ChefsForWashington

i think the party of sick freaks who want to inspect kid's private parts should be branded as such

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

Immediate nationwide switch to solar and wind power

Dean Obeidallah@deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 3d ago

NEW/UNREAL!! US Military Asks Troops to Pitch ‘Creative and Unconventional’ Ideas on How to Punish Iran: “We are looking for new creative and unconventional ways to pressure and punish Iran.” So under Trump/Hegseth our military tactics are based on a suggestion box www.mediaite.com/media/news/c...

The problems with generative AI are layered and numerous and we all know my personal feelings on this slop, but one major problem is that it reproduces harmful tropes and biases around race, gender, (dis)ability, and more.

I like it.

Manisha Sinha@profmsinha.bsky.social · 4d ago

Historian of abolition here 💯Garrison always called it the slaveholders rebellion, that’s the correct term. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/o...

Of course.

Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 3d ago

Uefa says they have reason to believe that Trump, Joshua Kushner and Infantino hatched a corrupt scheme involving the privatization of Fifa, and they are suing for damages and the ouster of Infantino. They have issued an anti-spoliation letter today demanding preservation of documents..

Abby was the one that broke open the Max Miller story (and shame on NYT for not acknowledging that). Here is her original story: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Assault, misogyny, verbal threats: Records detail new allegations against Rep. Max Miller

Police reports and filings in a bitter custody dispute raise new questions about the conduct of an Ohio Republican as he campaigns for a third term.

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Abby Vesoulis@abbyvesoulis.bsky.social · 4d ago

I first got 1000+ pages of court documents from Miller & Moreno's custody case. Anybody can request these from Cuyahoga County. I reviewed those by myself, one by one—no AI involved!—and the filings pointed to police reports. I then sought those out separately and spent days combing through them.

He's a lying monster. We will never forget.

Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 3d ago

I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.

Join the 6th annual Spune’luxtth’ March for the Children. Together we can bring awareness to the history of residential schools, and honour both their survivors and those lost. Monday, August 3 | 8:30am Meet at the Salish Sea Market / Chemainus ferry terminal #Cowichan #Chemainus #Penelakut

the magic way

From earlier this week, I wrote about how the manosphere scam works and how the GOP has adopted those same tactics for itself www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Failson nepo babies who falsely assert knowledge of LLM shibboleths in defense of child rapists should jump down a well, IMO. @kattenbarge.bsky.social is very professional but I am not, so I’m happy to say it.

Elizabeth Spiers@espiers.bsky.social · 4d ago

I love em dashes and I'm not going to give them up because robots that write badly also use them.

In case anyone is wondering why a woman might offer to cook dinner for her abuser… it might be to keep herself and her child alive.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 4d ago

Rep. Max Miller: "These are incredibly serious criminal accusations. If these accusations were true, I would be in jail — I would be. My former wife would not have been offering to cook me dinner and inviting me to playgrounds. Think about that."

This is a great organization. Please help if you can.

Dr Jules | they@jules-de-bouverie.bsky.social · 4d ago

There are several fires burning in Spokane right now. If you can support SpokAnimal please do. They're on standby taking found animals and helping reunite them with their families. Fires are burning through northern and northwestern neighborhoods linktr.ee/spokanimal?u...

Capital One Financial hits back against a lawsuit over its decision to close ‌the Trump Organization's bank accounts years ago with a disclosure that marks the first time a bank has formally tied money laundering concerns to the US president's family business. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Capital One says it closed Trump Organization's accounts after anti-money laundering probe

The disclosure marks the first time a bank has formally tied money laundering concerns to Trump's family business.

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jesus fucking christ what? this is fucking awful. among the myriad reasons to loathe ai, chief among them is the way accusations of its use is deployed by bad actors to sew misinformation. when nothing can be proven to be true, everything is up for debate.

Kat Tenbarge@kattenbarge.bsky.social · 5d ago

So I woke up this morning to find out that Ozzy Osbourne’s son made a video falsely accusing me of using AI to write a Rolling Stone article about the Tate brothers.

New York, we’re building tenant power across the city. Visit organize.nyc.gov to join a canvass.

Seattle police chief Shon Barnes is getting $700,000 in a settlement for leaving the department, PubliCola has confirmed.