For non-WNBA watchers: The Minnesota Lynx are coached by Cheryl, and they are playing the Indiana Fever. The Fever have a transphobe on their team that has attracted a traveling circus of bigots, first to Portland, and now to Minnesota. Cheryl is doing what the WNBA as a corporation refuses to do.

Cassidy Hettesheimer@cassidyhett.bsky.social · 3d ago

Cheryl Reeve’s shirt today:

Our deep dive (73pp) into the FCC forcing ABC to apply to renew its broadcast licenses, the most egregious abuse of power in the 92-year history of the FCC. This is Carr at his most shameless, ruthless, and dangerous. techfreedom.org/fcc-cant-use...

I’m hearing from multiple sources that they believe there is indeed a surge happening in NYC. This incident, in Inwood, happened amid multiple days of ICE in the area, as activity was also reported in Corona (Queens), Bensonhurst, Bushwick (Brooklyn), & Port Richmond (Staten Island) this past week.

Erin Biba@erinbiba.bsky.social · 6d ago

Masked ICE thug just casually shooting pepper spray at a few old ladies standing peacefully on the sidewalk filming them in uptown Manhattan today. Just because these monsters are quieter now doesn’t mean they’re not still out there violating people.

Blogged it. Happy Hater Week. aftermath.site/war-crime-n6...

Do Not Buy The War Crime N64

There's so many ways to play the N64. You do not need to support Palmer Luckey's little project.

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This InfoWars caper is going a little too well. We need to staff up a bit. We're hiring a Social Media Lead, who will help make InfoWars the network of the future. We need someone who is extraordinarily online, has big ideas for how things break through in 2026, and can pull those ideas off quick.

Last year the VA abruptly ended the only low-interest rate, loan modification option for thousands of vets who are behind on their mortgages. If you're a veteran who's been struggling because of this, we want to hear your story.

Are you a veteran pushed into a higher-cost VA loan, or at risk of foreclosure?

Last year the VA abruptly ended the only low-interest, affordable loan modification option for thousands of vets who are behind on their mortgages. If you're a veteran who's been struggling because of this, we want to hear your story.

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This is actually terrible. share.inquirer.com/61wsnb [gift link]

ICE wants to deport a Philly man who has lived legally in the U.S. for 20 years. He fled Guinea after being jailed by the government.

Mamadou Fadel Cherif had been jailed in his native Guinea for protesting the 1998 presidential election, then fled to the U.S.

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The chintzy-looking M64 clone console of the N64 by a company named ModRetro has been released, I think, I don't pay attention that closely to shit. But as the great @frankcifaldi.bsky.social posted before, it is our civic duty to push back against this company and shun ANYONE who doesn't.

And if you're an NYC resident, please take two minutes to submit a note to @mayor.nyc.gov asking him to establish a moratorium on "A.i." in NYC schools! We gotta get this locked down before the school year starts - send him a note TODAY! www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...

apparently a white nationalist volunteered as a spotter at the International Powerlifting Federation world champs and deliberately sabotaged Sonita Muluh's world record attempt, and then outed himself as such online. what an era www.instagram.com/reel/DbRNrD_...

Nathaniel Massiah on Instagram: "Racism has no place in powerlifting, especially not when it’s putting lifters in danger 🙏🏽 @sonita_ml we’re all with you 🖤"

104K likes, 2,173 comments - nathanielmassiah on July 26, 2026: "Racism has no place in powerlifting, especially not when it’s putting lifters in danger 🙏🏽 @sonita_ml we’re all with you 🖤".

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Repurposed a Letterboxd essay I wrote last year about David Lynch’s THE STRAIGHT STORY, the passing of my father, and seeing American through its highways. Enjoy.

"I just hope I'm not too late."

On David Lynch's "The Straight Story"

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When they say *we* can't afford that re: public goods, the appropriate response is to ask the person to clearly explain to you what that means? In granular specificity.

My Columbo ttrpg is up on both my itchio and kofi. Pay what you want for a while. hulkhoquinn.itch.io/columbo-murd...

New Mexico Indigenous and federal officials urge outcry on proposed rollback of Chaco protections. ictnews.org/uncategorize...

New Mexico Indigenous and federal officials urge outcry on proposed rollback of Chaco protections - ICT

State leaders and Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham also oppose the plan.

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If for some reason you feel you have to share the video (though I personally cannot think of a reasonable excuse) for the love of god PUT IT BEHIND A GRAPHIC MEDIA CONTENT WARNING LABEL

If this horrific police execution video crosses your timeline consider: - we don’t have to physically witness a murder to know it’s horrific - people who are subject to this type of violence do not have to be repeatedly traumatized by it - you do not have to push violence into people’s timelines

Erin Biba@erinbiba.bsky.social · 2w ago

*turn off autoplay on your videos right now*

The effects of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act were pretty clear as it was been written. The law balanced tax cuts with safety net cuts, which came via new administrative burdens like error rates and work requirements donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-re...

This is the first main part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act kicking in. The second part, restricting Medicaid, is timed to happen after the midterms.

Andrew Russeth@russeth.bsky.social · 2w ago

"Four months into an appeal, Ms. McDonald, a cancer survivor who weighs 69 pounds, bustles to food banks, stretches ground turkey with oatmeal, and skips meals to feed three teenage boys." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/u...

A full on war on the poor and the sick while the public is told by people in both political parties and by punditry not to "demonize" billionaires. Incredible.

This particular criminalization of parental poverty, used to disproportionately pathologize Black women and steal their children, is called Jane Crow. And it's proliferating because of deliberately cruel, punitive administrative policies like what's happening to SNAP and Medicaid.

Anxious Rage@anxiousrage.blacksky.app · 2w ago

When families can’t eat, on top of everything else, the risk increases of the state stepping in to remove their children because of “neglect”

There's no serious discussion of climate politics that doesn't begin here and the outcome of the elections in Colombia are a big setback for the world and the possibility of coordinated fossil fuel phaseout

Emily Atkin@emorwee.bsky.social · 2w ago

This. This is the correct, science-backed, responsible framing. Wish more news outlets did it like the CBC.

This is a *fantastic* video that explains exactly WTF is going on with Taylor Farms and how tracing works TLDR: - they are responsible - the false positive was only on one of several samples - it’s difficult to test parasites - there may still be other sources - Taylor Farms is being shady AF

"A decade ago, the state of Florida stripped a teacher of her license for sexual abuse of a 16-year-old boy. Last year, she opened a private school there with ease."

ProPublica@propublica.org · 2w ago

A superintendent misspent public funds in Ohio for years. Indicted on multiple felony counts of theft, she permanently lost her educator license in the state. Then she moved to Florida, changed her name and opened a private school.

New from 404 Media: police clearly want armed drones. New Orleans cops published a policy document outlining how weaponized drones would work, before quickly walking it back. We got a copy of the original. www.404media.co/new-orleans-...

New Orleans Cops Published Policy Document Allowing Weaponized Drones

Cops and drone companies seem increasingly eager to put weapons on their drones.

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It. Was. Never. About. Protecting. Women’s. Sports.

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · 3w ago

After targeting trans sports under Title IX for the past 4 years, the Heritage Foundation is now turning to destroying it for all women. It wants to replace women's varsity sports with yoga and "protect women's fertility" by ending many athletic opportunities. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Official case counts likely capture only a fraction of US cyclosporiasis infections, and the outbreak is likely to get worse before it gets better.

The Explosive Diarrhea Outbreak Is About to Get Much Bigger

Official case counts likely capture only a fraction of US cyclosporiasis infections, and the outbreak is likely to get worse before it gets better.

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appears the US war apparatus is pivoting from general war crimes to a more openly genocidal strategy

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

The US is adopting a strategy of attacking water storage and desalination plants designed to render the region uninhabitable. If continued, this strategy will make the Gulf littoral uninhabitable in the coming decades. Yet there is no discussion of these tactics and their repercussion in the US.

Forcing kids to use "A.i." to make comics is child abuse. A miserable undertaking that robs kids of the human experience of writing and thinking and drawing and seeing. A pox on this company and all those like it.

Bradford William Davis@bwd.bsky.social · 3w ago

NEW: I obtained hundreds of emails between Colin Kaepernick's AI comic book startup and an Atlanta-area school district. The school superintendent gave the QB-turned-founder permission to write his answers on implementing tech in the classroom. issa new [eyeblack]

I’m on the Sam Sanders show yapping about The Odyssey. Much more to come on the writing front about the film and Nolan in general. Stay tuned 🤓✌🏽 open.spotify.com/episode/19WH...

Does ‘The Odyssey’ Have A Woman Problem?

The Sam Sanders Show · Episode

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For my newsletter, I wrote about that Heritage Foundation report calling for a reworking or even the end of Title IX in women's sports. It's a Trojan Horse and we must not welcome it. www.burnsnotice.com/the-heritage...

The Heritage Foundation is Coming For Women's Sports

Fresh off a SCOTUS ruling against trans women in women's sports, the ultra conservative lobbying and policy group is ready to take on Title IX protections for cis women It was never about fairness in...

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