my somewhat unconventional bond opinion is that you don’t want any of your favorite big name actors in this role, because the bond contracts are notoriously restrictive about what films they can do for like a decade

Micah@rincewind.run · 3h ago

my extremely boring James Bond opinion is that casting a handsome young dude who can credibly punch bad guys and smolder sexily at ladies is all we need to do here it's James Bond, there's a formula, people like the formula, people will watch the formula

Missouri elections be like: Hitler (R) 79% - Christ (D) 21% And then the ballot initiative: Amend the Missouri constitution to require the state to own the means of production and work towards full communism? Yes 92% - No 8%

All we should ever be talking about is Leonard Leo, tbh. Talking about Leonard Leo will convince more people we need court reform. That man bought the fucking Supreme Court.

Tom Carter@thcarter123.bsky.social · 10h ago

Astonishing. The only mention of “Loser Leonard Leo” in Kansas vote so far is Talking Points Memo. Do legacy media reporters not know or are they in on the con & think Leo involvement is irrelevant? WE are reporters. WE decide what readers need to know. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/kansas-...

You mean he *merely* made women’s employment contingent upon their tolerance of his sexual overtures and imposition of gendered indignity? Remembering that this used to be the kind of thing women could complain and even sue over suddenly sounds like an unheard of luxury. …

So many Republican male lawmakers have been accused of physical and sexual violence against women that the report about this guy, who harassed his employees with unsolicited gifts, inappropriate comments, and demands for dinners, seems almost quaint. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...

House Ethics Panel Finds Rep. Chuck Edwards Likely Violated Sexual Harassment Rules

The Ethics Committee called for the censure of Representative Chuck Edwards, Republican of North Carolina, who showered two female staffers with lavish gifts and affection.

nytimes.com

Something telling: Blanche said the DOJ is working so the "Dobbs decision becomes permanent in every single state"—making clear they never saw Dobbs as giving abortion 'back to the states', but a tool to ban abortion nationwide

This is a big fucking deal, if true. (He could be posturing.) Blanche also promised that the DOJ is dismantling the FACE Act, the law that protects clinics from violence. Subscribe to AED to find out what it all means—I'll have the full story in the newsletter, along with the rest of the audio.

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Listen to Todd Blanche—Trump’s nominee for AG—tell faith leaders that the Justice Dept is working with the White House to stop the shipping of abortion pills into banned states. “We will have victory, victory will be soon, and it will be permanent,” he said.

There are no trans women in the WNBA. There are no trans women NCAA basketball players. Hell, who knows if there are even any trans girls playing HS basketball.

Razzball@razzball.bsky.social · yesterday

Did we ever find out if the A is for Asshole?

SARS-CoV-2 did not come from a lab. There is no evidence pointing to laboratory origins. There’s been a massive disinformation campaign to convince the public otherwise. It’s scary how effective that campaign has been.

Holy shit. www.wired.com/story/a-civi...

DO IT Seriously. DO IT. Trump and Vought are actively and viciously trying to turn US science into what it was in 1950s USSR. DO IT

Stand Up for Science!@standupforscience.net · yesterday

BREAKING NEWS! The Senate has paused the OMB rule that would put Trump appointees in charge of federal spending. Next step - Contact your MoC and tell them to permanently REVOKE THE RULE: zurl.co/1SXEN Article: zurl.co/23mF8

It's bad when my first reaction is "Why didn't I ever think of that."

Pixie Casey@pixiecasey.bsky.social · yesterday

in insane local news, the 26 year old director of a rocky horror production was arrested for sending threatening messages to himself in order to get the play shut down bc he didn’t want to deal with cast drama www.mynbc5.com/article/rock...

They’re calling it the most theater kid story of all time

Pixie Casey@pixiecasey.bsky.social · yesterday

in insane local news, the 26 year old director of a rocky horror production was arrested for sending threatening messages to himself in order to get the play shut down bc he didn’t want to deal with cast drama www.mynbc5.com/article/rock...

this is a weird line to draw since the liberal position (correct) is that it's not reasonable to summarily execute people in international waters even if they're involved in drug trafficking and the conservative position is that you must do that even if you kill a bunch of innocent people too

CNN@cnn.com · 2d ago

The US military’s strikes on alleged drug boats have likely illegally killed “individuals who are not involved in narcotrafficking,” Sen. Tim Kaine told the White House, following “a careful review” of classified information he has seen so far.

Republicans love pushing vocational-only education instead of comprehensive-education because they want a healthy supply of low-cost servants and less competition for the professional and boss jobs they want their own kids to have.

Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social · yesterday

In a college sociology class in the late 1980s I was assigned a Marxist analysis of education that argued that the US education system is designed primarily to produce efficient workers for the labor market. And now Trump’s Department of Education is just tweeting it out.

Blowing a ton of expensive weaponry on an unnecessary war that leaves us in a worse geostrategic position than before we started and the country we attacked in a stronger one. www.reuters.com/world/us-has...

EXCLUSIVE: US has used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war, sources say

The U.S. Army has used up much of its stockpile of highly accurate long-range missiles during its five-month war with Iran, according to three people familiar with the data, raising concerns about the...

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A gentle reminder before I fuck off to eat breakfast: The push to replace artists with AI is a fascist push. The devaluing of arts and humanities in favor of engineering and computers is a fascist push. Students being unable to read a book is, yep, a fascist push.

The most terrifying enshittification I've discovered has been learning that Microsoft Word documents no longer auto-save if you are not saving them to one of their own proprietary cloud services. I'm slapping control-S like it's 1999.

I would like to propose the Taco Bell Principle When a person/institution Did A Problem, & IMMEDIATELY fesses up & takes proactive steps to solve it That's exactly what we want them to do? So how bout we let them live ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · 3w ago

A quick word on Taco Bell: That's where we found the suspected lettuce, and it's not bc Taco Bell is gross. It's bc Taco Bell is REALLY GOOD at tracing product! Keeping track of exactly where they got their ingredients, & exactly what restaurants each shipment of ingredients went to!

So Kansas votes tomorrow on whether to elect its Supreme Court justices. In 2022, Kris Kobach said doing exactly this would let Kansas “slowly and quietly” put anti-abortion judges on the court. Now it’s on the ballot. If you know somebody in Kansas, they should know this is going on.

gotta wonder how many congresspeople—Dem or Repub.—are actually IN the Epstein files

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d ago

Every vote to confirm Todd Blanche as attorney general is a vote to continue the coverup of the Epstein Files.

my mom just asked me if my NAS is like "data centers" and after i explained how small-form personal servers worked, she said "okay, that's fine. but if the water bill starts going up, we're going to city council." my mother is 60. yall, AI is so cooked

(Bluesky never met a poor person they couldn’t seize as a human shield as cover for their own activities.)

A reminder: If you absolutely cannot boycott Amazon, don’t. But can you make them NOT your default? If every Amazon customer cut their spending by just 10%, Bezos would burst his facelift sutures. This doesn’t have to be an all or nothing.

Morton Salt Girl is a merry fellow; Bright blue her label is and her shoes are yellow

Derek Faraci@whwoolhat.bsky.social · 2d ago

Bet you didn't know that the Little Morton Salt Girl is an immortal being who existed before there was life on Earth.

Do you know how many STEM grads are working retail right now because there are no jobs in their field?

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d ago

President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v

Bring by your whistles and a How to Report ICE zine: drive.google.com/file/d/10TLV...

Sarah Goodyear@sgoodyear.bsky.social · yesterday

Heads up, NYC, there has been an increase in ICE activity. Keep your eyes open. Let's protect each other. hellgatenyc.com/nyc-sees-an-...

HOTD is about gender and dragons, the two most interesting topics on earth, so if you’re not enjoying it that’s on you

“Subsidizing things you may never even use” is called living in a fucking society, thank you for playing

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 3d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.