Driving across rural Georgia and Florida this past weekend, he is describing deeply “red” towns whose hospitals have closed and their poverty made worse by consolidation of property by the wealthy in those spaces.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

Trump: "Look at the blue cities. What do they have in common? They're all dirty. They're filthy dirty. Their streets are dirty. Their streets smell. Their storefronts are broken. Their trees are all gross. Everything about the place is dirty. It's really all of them."

New in PN: @sethcotlar.bsky.social on historical roots of the new Red Scare "They’ve been saying civilization is on the verge of being destroyed since the 1950s. Somehow no one ever stops and thinks, 'Gosh, it’s been 70 years. I wonder if we’re wrong.' It’s memory-holed like religious cults do."

Seth Cotlar on historical roots of the new Red Scare

"If you look at the 1956 GOP platform, it reads like a center-left policy platform in a contemporary context."

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Nothing recenters a person like a chicken that may be sick with a bound egg. Warm baths, massages . . . for chicken not me. No matter what you thought was important in the world, it isn’t for the duration of making sure your best laying hen survives.

No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...

Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation

PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...

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When The Clock Broke, the excellent book by @lioneltrolling.bsky.social, unpacks this really well.

Anthrodiva Bot 2026@anthrodiva.bsky.social · 6d ago

Wow, I had no idea www.thenation.com/article/arch...

Mike Collins abruptly wrapped up a press conference instead of answering questions about his close ties with a prominent neo-Nazi propagandist

While there are problems with the Powell doctrine, it would have been worth following here (though this administration would not do so). Clear objective, build broad coalition, and once objective achieved, return to status quo. Every 21st war leadership said the lesson of Vietnam was bomb harder

Shoe@shoe.bsky.social · 6d ago

President Toddler

they are using the fauci hearing to distract from shit like this 👇🏻

public health guy@publichealthguy1.bsky.social · last wk.

re cyclospora and every other outbreak: no one’s talking about the most critical part of CDC that RFK Jr destroyed — the purge of senior leadership and all their years of experience. outbreak responses are fundamentally broken without the head attached and he intentionally decapitated the agency

Sometimes, the timeline is a lot.

A Minnesota religious studies professor is facing six years in prison, with the DOJ saying he is part of an "antifa" conspiracy against ICE Erik Davis speaks out about his prosecution, largely based on a handful of his comments in Signal chats. He's not accused of any violence “It’s petty revenge"

The professor facing prison in ‘antifa’ case: ‘They want to scare all who oppose ICE’

Erik Davis is accused by the government of a ‘conspiracy’ to obstruct ICE – experts say it’s part of a pattern to criminalize lawful organizing and ruin activists’ lives

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Fauci accuses Rand Paul of having an "unhinged obsession with calling for my prosecution" and of making "repeated slanderous comments," then says "although it pains me to do so... under advice of my attorneys, I will invoke my right under the 5th Amendment to refrain from answering your questions."

To be fair, there is a general sense among all Americans that inflicting pain is ok politically but no one holds a candle to mainline conservatives voters' wish to drink libetal tears. Shocking when you think about it.

Imagine devoting your life to public health, responding to two major pandemics, and then having to talk with these dipshits

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Moreno to Fauci: "Who the fuck did you think you were?"

I know it was 4000 news cycles ago, but earlier this month the administration released a 162-page attack on the Smithsonian, featuring an argument that the Chinese Exclusion Act wasn’t based on racism. That pissed me off. My new column on the white supremacist hate & violence that built to the Act.🗃️

Considering History: Does Remembering Injustice Erase America’s True Story…or Help Us Better Understand It? | The Saturday Evening Post

The Chinese Exclusion Act was the culmination of decades of racist narratives, white supremacist hate, and exclusionary laws. Should we include this narrative when telling the story of America?

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By the way, this isn't just a threat against Fauci. The audience for this is the entire career civil service. If you think this sorry ass episode and shit like Schedule F are unconnected, then you are sorely mistaken.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Tuberville: "I'll be the governor of Alabama and I promise you we will find out if there's a possibility that we can bring him to Alabama to put him in front of a court and a jury to see if we can put this guy in prison. He killed millions of people, folks."

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Adam Keiper@adamkeiper.com · last wk.

Mark this well. A public servant who performed admirably in a crisis is being publicly persecuted, maybe prosecuted. Govt websites are being given over to propaganda. Fake medicines are being praised while lifesaving vaccines are lied about. Slanderous grifters cackle their triumph. Despicable.

NYT reports that President Trump’s new plane is a flying target. Trump demands the reporters be subpoenaed. Times gets subpoenas withdrawn. Then:

Eric Lipton NYT@ericlipton.nytimes.com · 2w ago

JUST POSTED: A deep investigation by The NYT of shortcuts taken to get President Trump his Qatari-donated plane in time for POTUS to show it off during 250th anniversary events-compromises that leave the plane more vulnerable to potential threats (Free link) www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/u...

What I would add to @jamellebouie.net's column is that the right has characterized nearly every advance of the compensatory state--whether proposed or enacted--since the New Deal as "socialism." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/o...

Opinion | Trump’s New Insult Won’t Save Republicans

The president’s attempt to drum up a third red scare is certain to fail.

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Hat’s off to the curator of the John James Audubon Museum who installed this panel to the people Audubon enslaved while living in KY. It is the first post acknowledging this history, and the curator says it will not be the last.

just got an email from my (former) chair that the university has acted & the state has approved the formal closure of my department. this was done without any faculty input on the decision or the process, & has ended a vibrant, growing (!), humanities department that won teaching and research awards

Matt Gabriele@profgabriele.com · 12mo ago

Anyway, happy Monday! The Dean is shutting down my department - Religion & Culture, the only 1 of is kind in the country & home to the innovative Major in Humanities for Public Service. There is no immediate budgetary or political pressure for this decision

Lots said already about the problems with this presentation, but please remember that when we're looking at terrorist attacks and plots by the white power movement, they go down when the attackers find sympathy, or jobs, in the halls of power.

flight • reflex@flightreflex.bsky.social · 3w ago

@briantylercohen.bsky.social too late now, but you were presented with a chart on CNN tonight about right and left terrorism. The narrative was that historically things were “just about even”, “both sides” etc. this is absolutely not what that graph shows. Those are *stacked* bars.

Repost @onebywillie.bsky.social In a special episode taped at last year’s Luck Reunion on Willie Nelson’s ranch, blues and roots icon Taj Mahal talks about falling for Willie’s 1974 classic, “Bloody Mary Morning,” ignoring record labels and the trends they push,

Because sex testing in athletics has been so uncomplicated and lacking in racial bias in the past....

Tested | CBC Podcasts | CBC Listen

Who gets to compete? Since the beginning of women’s sports, there has been a struggle over who qualifies for the women’s category. Tested follows the unfolding story of elite female runners who have b...

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Ben Rothenberg@benrothenberg.bsky.social · 2w ago

Breaking news story at Bounces: Following cultural momentum around anti-trans pushes in sports, the WTA has enacted a new policy that will require *all* players to undergo genetic sex testing in order to continue playing on WTA Tour. Read at Bounces: www.benrothenberg.com/p/wta-requir...

Here's something I post from time to time. My answer to a reader who asked me: what could journalists do NOW to break with some of their more corrosive habits.

Found the voter fraud they keep talking about. Their projection is constant.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w ago

"Before he can vote for himself in the primary, Mike Lindell needs to register to vote in the state he wants to lead as gov The Secretary of State’s office said Lindell, Trump’s preferred candidate, 'does not have an active record' A review shows Lindell has an active voter registration in TX"

Fascism didn’t invent the conflation of opinion, speculation, prediction and actual knowledge, but it accelerates it, depends on it, and wants everyone, including its enemies, to perceive the world according to such a slop paradigm. Fascism didn’t invent slop, either, but slop is its aesthetic.

Argentina finds ways to win and move on, but it is their form of play off the ball that makes me dislike them. Fernández should be disqualified for final but won’t. No attempt on the ball and forearm punch to the back the head. Not in pic, he pushed Anderson again on the ground. Play hard not dirty

And no, this isn't "ha ha, he's gay." This is our top defense official spending all of his time on surface-level shit to the detriment of military preparation, training and effectiveness. That's the issue. We're all going to suffer eventually because he thinks he's playing with GI Joe's

I stand by my comment two weeks ago. Cape Verde won the World Cup this year. Not even close. You can like them and they are good.

Rodger Sherman@rodger.bsky.social · 3w ago

the World Cup final will be between two teams that Cape Verde played even through 90 minutes

the World Cup final will be between two teams that Cape Verde played even through 90 minutes