LMAOOOOOOOOOO somebody finally asked the transphobes if they know any WNBA players besides and NOPE
Remember when the New York Times made Claudine Gay resign over a plagarism smear campaign by Chris Rufo that found no real examples of plagarism? I do.
If you’re a “content creator” with meta glasses you forfeit your human rights
Andrew Pope@andrewpope.bsky.social · 3w agoI hate, hate these pervert glasses. Listen to this guy interrupting the filming of Cunk on Cinema. What an entitled dick.
Basic contention is academia used to be about inquiry, and not just a finishing school for elites as it is nowadays. But my impression is academia has always been to a large extent a finishing school for elites and by historical standards there's an unusually high emphasis on intellectual merit now?
Peter Whitewood@pwhitewood.bsky.social · 3w ago
I talked to this person years ago about a job writing about the ultra wealthy and he told me I was a bad fit because I was obviously going to make jokes about them. I remember this, to be honest, because the hat was present then too www.nytimes.com/2026/08/12/b...
Forbes Fired Top Editor After Discovering He Received Secret $6 Million Payment (Gift Article)
Randall Lane, the magazine’s chief content officer, received the money from the founder of Shook Research, which has worked with Forbes on content about wealth advisers.
nytimes.com
Obligatory reminder that Dana Nessel has still not yet apologized for completely making up a quote from Rashida Tlaib in coordination with Jake Tapper and Dana Bash in order to smear her for weeks. Jake Tapper and Dana Bash were eventually forced to concede it was not real, but Nessel has not.
Rashida Tlaib was unfairly smeared by CNN’s Jake Tapper and Dana Bash | Arwa Mahdawi
Unfortunately, what’s happening to Tlaib is far from unique. Advocating for basic Palestinian human rights has always been billed as ‘controversial’
theguardian.com
Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · 3w agoCan anyone actually quote one thing that Abdul El-Sayed has said that could be deemed antisemitic? www.mediaite.com/media/news/d...
Again it is insane that we have accepted masked secret police.
Aaron Fritschner@fritschner.bsky.social · 3w agoVideo of an ICE agent pulling a gun on a wife and mother, who is a US citizen born and raised in the area, near Bailey's Crossroads in Northern Virginia yesterday. Chillingly, they claimed she “almost ran them over” until she told them she had video proving that was a lie.
If Trump got the entire WH Press killed in an Iranian attack I would have no choice but to support him for a third term.
Matthew Gertz@mattgertz.bsky.social · 3w agoJuly 8: Facing Iranian threat, Trump uses the old Air Force One as a decoy -- with White House correspondents on board as potential collateral damage. July 24: White House Correspondents Association celebrates the First Amendment -- with Trump -- at their annual dinner.
Now's as good of a time as any to reiterate that I have never seen anyone in a mainstream newspaper or magazine write about how Mamdani, El Sayed and Hamawy are representing positive masculinity.
Abdul El-Sayed@abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 3w agoDon't get me wrong, I lift every morning. But being a man is not really about how you show up in the gym. It's how you show up for your family. It's about how you show up for your community.
I’m here to break the hearts of ICE supporters
Listen. I recall the dentist who told me he didn’t like to do extractions on Black people because — and I remember this well — Black people’s bones are too strong because we are closer to apes.
COYG@jamespmahaffey.bsky.social · 3w agoI will forever be haunted by the findings of this study pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Elon is talking about using robots to build a mass accelerator on the moon in support of an economy 1000x to 1 million times the current earth economy. It's a bad sci fi novel not an earnings call.
Bombshell new report out from my investigators this morning spanning our four year investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s financial records. This report shows exactly how Wall Street protected Epstein and enabled his sex trafficking for decades. Mega thread following with some key points:
Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan, BofA Enabled Epstein, Wyden Report Says
Democrat Ron Wyden cited nonpublic documents held by the US Treasury in a report that says banks delayed reporting suspicious financial transactions and calls for tougher anti-money-laundering rules, ...
bloomberg.com
The design and convenience of pirated sites is so much better than when I last pirated something in college. If AI efficiencies are somewhere, they're here
they are also skipping over the part where the aid was cut off to kill people. increasing the mortality of black and brown people in the developing world was the point.
Guy who just learned about the An Lushan Rebellion: I feel like this will end with Iran’s An Lushan moment
Voter files are public information that anyone can purchase!
Jay Willis@jaywillis.net · 2mo agoDang, 220 million voter files stolen by China starting in 2020? Who was president back then, it sounds like he must have sucked ass
Cuba continues to be strangled by its neighbour and no one seems to care.
AFP News Agency@en.afp.com · 2mo agoCuba suffered its third nationwide power outage since the start of the year, causing mounting despair in the face of an energy collapse precipitated by a US fuel blockade. u.afp.com/SKse
