Also, speaking with a (slight) imitation of the accent of the person you're speaking to is often indicative of a multilingual speaker. It's actually good practice.

Kat Tenbarge@kattenbarge.bsky.social · 2w ago

People are making fun of AOC for having a slight southern accent while speaking in Memphis but they clearly don’t know the pain of habitually and unconsciously imitating the speaking style of the people around you

Miller is a piece of shit. But be cautious about calling family photos of nude toddlers "CSAM." I've written about lives ruined over allegations that turned out to be harmless photos of kids taking a bath or running naked through the house. Moreno is already calling for prosecutions, here.

Max Miller’s lawyer admits to accidentally releasing ‘private images’ of daughter

Lawyers for ex-wife Emily Moreno said possible “Child Sexual Abuse Material” was included in a trove of documents the Ohio lawmaker publicly posted.

politico.com

@abdulelsayed.bsky.social triumphing over something like $60 million, $32-ish million of it AIPAC money, is not a "narrow" victory, it's a people's earthquake. This kind of spending is oligarchy in action, to smother democracy through its formal channels, and is getting normalized. Still he won.

It’s true, in the past I would have had multiple editors in my inbox asking me to write about the Cunningham stuff. I haven’t gotten a single assignment request. Trans writers used to be tokenized to write about these things but now that the topic is “mainstream,” those bylines go elsewhere.

Sydney Bauer@sydney-bauer.com · 23h ago

I need people to understand that for the last half decade that there’s been an ecosystem of trans folks in sports media who have worked unpaid to serve as experts for context, sources and educators on what it’s like for trans athletes, in hopes of potential bylines and contacts. That’s dried up.

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When public process produces same results no matter what the public says, it has become ceremony-only. Anger at oil and gas commission meetings is built on 10,000 ignored comments, rubberstamp commission. Mark Gavin, Sr., Opinion. AOL: aol.it/4yW1cci @kentksmith.bsky.social @twrader.bsky.social

Ohio has nation's best park system. We're angry fracking will change that | Opinion - AOL

Ignored Ohioans are grieving the destruction of our public parks by the oil and gas industries. We won't stay silent.

aol.it

I always feel the need to spread props for @alexisgoldstein.bsky.social when I see student debt forgiveness wins.

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 8h ago

Congratulations to everyone who worked their asses off for something that any semi-decent and ultimately self-interested government should have done in penance www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/b...

"Dr. Kibret has a valid Work Authorization, so it is our hope that any issues surrounding his status will be quickly resolved and that he will be permitted to continue his work at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy," the UMD statement said.

A statement by UMD said that on July 21, Dr. Berhanu Kibret was arrested at the airport after attending a job-related conference in the city. "He was returning from a meeting of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, where he received a Teacher of the Year award."

several studies that go into how fast/severe your brain atrophies even with short term use makes me think a lot of people will be severely fucked in the coming decades

Mike Bithell@mikebithell.bsky.social · 13h ago

The specific focus in this video on the way these tools get under your skin and train you to depend on them is an aspect I personally find existentially terrifying. youtu.be/TtvICev9sBE?...

ABC News reported that it obtained documents showing Ameaka had a work authorization permit until 2029 and had a pending asylum case. Earlier this week, Ameaka’s colleagues said they were “extremely distressed” by the esteemed researcher’s ICE arrest. www.themirror.com/news/us-news...

ICE detains John Hopkins researcher at airport in 'extremely distressing' case

A Johns Hopkins University researcher was released from ICE detention after she was detained at Baltimore-Washington International Airport on Tuesday

themirror.com

No one safe in Trump's police state: "senior analyst at the Center for Outbreak Response Innovation in the Bloomberg School of Public Health" "locked up in an ICE detention center in LAouisiana after her arrest...while boarding a domestic flight in Baltimore" www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Johns Hopkins researcher arrested by ICE at Baltimore airport

A recent surge in airport arrests follows growing coordination between TSA and ICE to target immigrants in American airports

independent.co.uk

This article is poorly thought out trash. He presents the false choice of either taking the right-wing hateful position, or being silent. He doesn't look at all of the athletes and sports personalities that speak with clarity on political issues from the position of kindness shared by 80%+ of people

The Athletic@theathletic.com · 9h ago

Aaron Rodgers spoke out about Dr. Anthony Fauci. Sophie Cunningham spoke out about transgender athletes. Caitlin Clark chose not to weigh in. Three different approaches, one common result: criticism. Steve Buckley on how athletes can't win on social media: nyti.ms/3Sa9A7D

go head on up to floor 7 if you’re gonna be a little bitch about it

little house on the prairie 2: laura’s revenge

Honestly, at this point, Democrats should be thrilled with this -- Miller has set himself on fire and if the GOP wants to hold him close, so be it.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 8h ago

Mike Johnson tells Politico that he's standing behind Republican Max Miller — despite the "serious" domestic abuse allegations against him.

considering how well things are going in new york, the lesson here is clear: fuck these people

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 19h ago

New York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

ICYMI last night, DHS is currently being fined every day for contempt of court until it coughs up the cell phone records of officers involved in immigration stops in L.A. last year that looked like racial profiling rather than reasonable cause. short thread -->

Gabriel Malor@gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 20h ago

Fed. judge holds DHS in civil contempt of court for refusing "intentionally and not in good faith" to provide plaintiffs with phone images they intend to use to prove DHS was racially profiling people arrested in Los Angeles without reasonable suspicion. Order from July 28, unsealed today.

People using common disorders as an excuse for AI are so annoying. You know how many people have ADHD? A LOT of people. A LOOOOOT. Do you know what makes ADHD worse? AI.

Jean Cabot@prairiehamster.bsky.social · 6h ago

In a videogame roleplay server I'm in they just banned AI and this person flipped out, saying that because of her ADHD she needed it to manage her whole life and it turned out she had even been making her *tiny* game posts with it too! Then she called it her friend. Terrifying shit. She ragequit

There is going to be a change on Palestine in the Democratic Party over the next decade and we need to remember names

Air quality. I grew up in the Los Angeles basin in the 70s and 80s and remember having to stay inside because the smog was so bad - Stage 2 smog alerts, they were called. Apparently they haven't had one of those since 1988. Haven't had a stage one smog alert since 2003.

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 19h ago

Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.

Can We Call It Fascism Yet? By me and @mikelawred.bsky.social Read more cartoons! --> #PoliCartoon Support our cartoons! --> patreon.com/barry

Oh look! The latest:

Republican Chuck Edwards drops bid for re-election after report finding sexual harassment of staffers

Congressional ethics panel had recommended Edwards face censure over its findings on ‘hostile work environment’

theguardian.com

And of course to hear about Todd Blanche is to hear about Jeffrey Epstein and all the ways the Trump Administration is dancing around Trump's long association with the serial rapist/trafficker.

This is another way we live in rape culture; we live in a culture where we have to hear about monstrosity all the time. Sometimes I look at those top stories lists and wonder if I'm the only one who notices that two or three or four of the ten are about violence against women.

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.

We’re supporting a legal challenge against the government’s transphobic statutory guidance – here’s why ⚖️👇 https://goodlaw.social/2hix

How the code of practice gets the law wrong | Good Law Project

We’re supporting a legal challenge against the government’s transphobic statutory guidance – here’s why

goodlaw.social