You know what would actually make Americans actually lose their minds? This E-Mart idea from South Korea of "eat a banana a day pack" so you don't buy a bunch that goes bad if you don't eat it all in time.

LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍@lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 30m ago

Dying at this

Because bananas are always forever green...

LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍@lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 30m ago

Dying at this

I can't even. I already have a hard enough time explaining to students how there were no formal parties in the early republic and then later the parties change names, stances on subject matter issues, and voters w/ electoral realignments over time. AI: Artificial, but certainly not intelligent.

Ciara Torres-Spelliscy@profciara.bsky.social · 3h ago

OMG Google AI just spit out this crap: "A Federalist Congress refers to the early United States legislative bodies (roughly from 1789 to 2001) dominated by the Federalist Party ..." You all remember the Federalist Party which was really big in the 1990s like Nirvana. 🤷🏾‍♀️

Republican power grabs in Kansas and Missouri are going down in flames with 18-25% of votes reported so far. Missouri's Amendment 4 aimed to make citizen-initiated constitutional amendments practically impossible. Kansas' Amendment 1 was designed to flip the state Supreme Court to ban abortion

There are zones in American life where you will eat badly. Airports, some worse than others. The knowledge that there is good food at my destination sustains me.

"History involves sorting and organizing hundreds of thousands of facts" I remain astounded by how loud and wrong people are about what history actually is.

He serves in the branch that the Constitution specifically charges with the duty of removing the President for criming.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Cornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"

Today Utathya Chattopadhyaya joins us to discuss cannabis in British India over on @askhistorians.bsky.social! Come check it out! www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

I am Dr. Utathya Chattopadhyaya, author of Ganja Matters: Empire & the Pursuits of Cannabis in British India! AMA!

Explore this post and more from the AskHistorians community

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Lynn Fitch, the anti-abortion attorney general who spearheaded the Dobbs case and the overturning of Roe v. Wade, just announced that she is running for governor of Mississippi. Heather Harrison reports: www.mississippifreepress.org/lynn-fitch-w...

Lynn Fitch, Who Led the Overturn of Abortion Rights, Announces Run for Mississippi Governor

Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch, who spearheaded the push to overturn abortion rights, is running for governor in the 2027 election.

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“A court that systematically dismantles democratic safeguards, steamrolls constitutional liberties, and tramples human dignity does not chart the course for the Hawaii Constitution”

State Court Report@statecourtreport.org · yesterday

The Hawaii Supreme Court opened the door for criminal defendants to challenge convictions based on discredited evidence, diverging from the U.S. Supreme Court.

Love to see the 1619 Project there, but please nominate/self nominate other America 250 books!

can't shake the feeling that slop menus are going to be a deciding factor in the AI backlash

🔪🔪🔪bryan 🔪 🔪 🔪@murderxbryan.bsky.social · yesterday

Hey man, maybe just make the sandwiches and take a pic of them.

Hey man, maybe just make the sandwiches and take a pic of them.

Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.

Genuinely a choice to give the son of a billionaire column space to argue for him to further consolidate the media, especially given the pretty abysmal track record of on journalism he has already implemented at CBS

BREAKING: We’re suing Texas A&M University’s Board of Regents to challenge their censorship policy that restricts instruction on race, sexual orientation, and gender. Public universities can't ban ideas they don't like.

well well well, we meet again

Dee Brown’s Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

Our Declaration, by Danielle Allen. One of the few books in my life that has actually transformed how I view things

Anna O. Law@unlawfulentries.bsky.social · yesterday

Love to see the 1619 Project there, but please nominate/self nominate other America 250 books!

Love to see the 1619 Project there, but please nominate/self nominate other America 250 books!

Happy International Owl Awareness Day! Please enjoy this photograph of ornithologist Herbert Brown (r) with an elf owl, the world’s smallest owl

Harvest to plate. 🧺 This morning’s haul filled the trug with potatoes, chard, tomatoes, peppers, chillies, cucumbers, raspberries and basil. Not bad for a few hours of digging, picking and trying not to eat the raspberries on the way home. #GreenHeart 💚

"the evidence is quite clear that voters don’t think Democrats are too extreme. They think Democrats are weak." There's your answer peeps. Look like you're willing to fight MAGAism, and support candidates - left or center - who will fight.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

New in PN: Moderate Democrats have a choice to make "They can spend the next three months reinforcing Republican messaging about their party & making it less likely Dems take power. Or they can put the 'battle for the soul of the party' off for a while and do what they can to help their party win."

Bombshell report from the Wall Street Journal: DHS has been tracking down Americans at work and on the road who are critical of immigration policies, spending millions on contractors to surveil First Amendment protected speech and create political dossiers. Outrageous. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

How ICE Is Weaponizing Social Media Against Its Critics

The agency says its surveillance program searches for threats to agents, but critics see free-speech infringements.

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There’s been a bipartisan commitment to the idea of immigrant labor without immigrant people or immigrant rights, which in its way is as corrosive to meaningful democracy as ethnonationalism imo

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · yesterday

Don't miss this vile story: MAGA is raging at DHS chief Markwayne Mullin for admitting migrant farmworkers can beneft our economy. This means his devotion to ethnic cleansing is in doubt. He must be excommunicated! I wrote about the collapse of MAGA mythology here: newrepublic.com/article/2138...

First international book talk invitation! Waaahooo! <Excitedly looks for passport> It’s online. <Puts passport away> Still 😎

Even if involved in narcotrafficking, this would be illegal. Due process.

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.

Edwin Lopez-Cornejo died at Delaney Hall in Newark, six weeks into ICE custody. He is the 23rd person to die in ICE detention this year and the second at Delaney Hall since it reopened under Trump. austinkocher.substack.com/p/edwin-lope...

Edwin Lopez-Cornejo Is the 23rd Person to Die in ICE Custody in 2026

Edwin Lopez-Cornejo died at Delaney Hall in Newark, six weeks into ICE custody. He is the 23rd person to die in ICE detention this year and the second at Delaney Hall since it reopened under Trump.

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I’m morbidly curious to FOIA myself sometime.

Tom Joscelyn@tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 2d ago

“In recent months, ICE has deployed a round-the-clock digital dragnet to scour the public internet—from Facebook to Instagram to X—for speech that could endanger the agency’s mission.” Speech. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...