chapzer.bsky.social

@chapzer.bsky.social

It would be rad if we didn’t have minute-to-minute coverage of elections and just reported results when they were finished. This exasperated, hyperventilating theater is good for ratings but also just bullshit.

It's demoralizing living in a nonstop Abuse-a-thon: we've had to learn the sordid details of so many men's abhorrent behavior; I mean this summer has been Graham Platner, Andrew Tate, Jared Leto, Max Miller, plus the horrific L.A. rape-murder of the child by the rapper, to name a few lowlights.

So many sneering elitist journalists with snarky posts over the past months that the Reflecting Pool story was trivial. It was so trivial that the DC US Attny presented false evidence to a grand jury to indict an innocent man to please the President while they both lied about it.

“The surge in deaths and injuries raise the official U.S. casualty count to at least 446. U.S. casualties have increased by more than 15 percent since the first ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran was struck on April 8.“

Nick Turse@nickturse.bsky.social · 2w ago

I applaud @nytimes.com for publishing this article -- and getting the Pentagon to respond. But there is so much more to the story. See my latest @theintercept.com article and thread 🧵below. U.S. Official: Iran Attacks Injured “Far More” Troops Than Pentagon Admits theintercept.com/2026/07/20/u...

The fact that VP JD Vance and Richard Grenell went to Romania—on behalf of the Trump Administration— to advocate for Andrew and Tristan Tate, who by all accounts, were rapists running a coercive sex ring, then permitted them to come to Florida, should be a crazy, crazy scandal.

The Discourse isn’t just painful, it’s tedious. Wouldn’t it be nice if we didn’t have to do this anymore? Wouldn’t it be nice if predators didn’t suck all the oxygen from the room? Wouldn’t it be nice if just put our resources towards non-predators only? It doesn’t have to be this hard

Erin Biba@erinbiba.bsky.social · 4w ago

Wouldn’t it be nice if a woman talking about her assault didn’t always, every fucking time, turn in to Discourse. Wouldn’t it be nice if we all just said fuck that guy and went on about our lives without him in it. Wouldn’t it be nice if we didn’t have to spend all day arguing about that.

My latest: I don’t respect America at 250. The only thing I can think of is how America is still a young, spoiled brat of a nation that no one is able to discipline. Foreign writers have been commenting on the US's developmental problems for centuries. karenattiah.substack.com/p/america-ne...

America Needs to Grow the Fuck Up

Once you understand the moral psychology of America's immaturity, everything about America's 250th birthday makes sense.

karenattiah.substack.com

Mamdani: "As we mark 250 years ... we see the wealthiest country -- one where children go to sleep hungry while the world's first trillionaire hungers for more ... we see masked agents terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by undocumented neighbors before spiriting them away in unmarked vans"