the median midwestern voter loves two things: electing republicans and thwarting republican policy goals via ballot referendum

Susan Collins announcing she'll vote against a controversial nominee is basically the moment it becomes clear that nominee will be confirmed. It means Thune has enough votes to confirm, and thus, Collins gets a pass to look independent.

It's absolutely insane we've somehow let the Covid recriminations debate become like "why didn't we reopen in person schools before there was a vaccine" and not "why did none of the trump guys go to jail for stealing PPE from New York hospitals in March 2020"

The story of how the LDS accepted Black people is incredible. IRS: "So you refuse to ordain Black people as bishops?" LDS: "Yes, it's god's will." IRS: "As a racially discriminatory organization, you are no longer tax exempt." LDS: "Hang on... you are NOT gonna believe who I just talked to."

Tapping the sign.

John Fetterman always has this facial expression like he’s dissatisfied with the flavor of a live bird he just ate

A family friend died from not being able to get a hold of the lupus medication that ghouls like this hoarded.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Peter Navarro: "I had a million doses of hydroxychloroquine in warehouses as the defense policy coordinator that I was trying to distribute to hospitals. And Fauci got the FDA stop me from doing that."

Oh I see, well then I'm glad their shit is getting stolen by AI. Take it all, let's get some 4k Woody/Buzz porn going.

Paula Wirth@paulawirth.bsky.social · last wk.

Pixar receives a $26.2 Million Tax credit to keep film jobs in CA, and immediately lays off 10% of its work force, after making over a billion from Toy Story 5, the highest-grossing film of 2026.

Oh, you'd like a thorough, scientific debunking of this terrible WSJ piece about alleged rises in allegedly destructive estrangement from parents? HOLD MY FREAKIN' BEER.

The Number the Journal Doesn't Substantiate: A Response to the Wall Street Journal on Therapy and Estrangement — Chad M. Topaz

The Journal says a survey of some 7,000 estranged parents found a third who believed their child's therapist had influenced the cutoff. The nearest public survey can't be reconciled with that number, ...

chadtopaz.com

Meggie Z@nutmeggles.bsky.social · last wk.

Another classic case of “sucks to suck”.

So many people fall for this, and I have to remind folks that abusers groom their character witnesses just as much as they groom their victims

Ned Resnikoff@resnikoff.bsky.social · last wk.

Seeing how many respectable liberals, and even leftists, in New York media continued to speak warmly of Reihan Salam is what made me first realize that some journalists have no criteria for moral judgment other than whether someone is personally nice to them. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/n...

Just wanna say that I don't care if you consider yourself "left." If you're a tankle supporting genocides around the world that don't violate your narrow conception of harm, gaslighting victims, and coming here to demind my time & paternalistically engage with your colonial self, I'm blocking you.

This is a well-produced segment. I encourage you to watch so you can hear the noise for yourself. The professor of environmental health science that they interviewed called it an “unprecedented new noise source.”

Neighbors say noise from Michigan data center is 24/7 and upending their lives

One Michigan community has been experiencing the reality of a data center next door for a couple of years now, and they say the sound has changed their lives.

wxyz.com

drunk girl trying to tell her friends that she thinks they are “weekend at Bernie’s” with McConnell, but she has got completely the wrong movie and keeps calling it “doing a Fish Called Wanda” with him and I’m dying

[eleanor rigby voice] connecticut bigfoot hids in the woods outside Lyme but is spotted by rubes doesn't have boobs

Miles Klee 🦉@milesklee.bsky.social · last wk.

FAKE NEWS, BIGFOOT HAS PROPORTIONALLY BIG NATURALS

dear Wellness™ people: Unless it's chemically identical to MDMA or cocaine except legal and untainted, I don't care.

Miles Klee 🦉@milesklee.bsky.social · last wk.

Across social media, through paid influencer partnerships, wellness brands are pushing nootropic supplements for ADHD by claiming that stimulant medications like Adderall and Vyvanse cause a host of negative side effects. Specialists say it’s an exploitative, potentially dangerous pitch:

im very tired of this move by the global reactionary movement. "my politics are purely oppositional but also opposing me is violence." incredibly resilient brains to withstand what would otherwise be lethal levels of cognitive dissonance

The Guardian@theguardian.com · last wk.

Javier Milei accuses US Democrats of financing ‘anti-Argentina campaign’ at World Cup

This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b

Great point Matthew

karinchu@karinchu.bsky.social · last wk.

Anyhow. This is a nearly decade old piece that says it all. www.truthdig.com/articles/the...

DOJ: this conduct was appropriate because it fell under an exception that's triggered when the Attorney General makes a specific finding Also DOJ: we can't tell you if that finding was actually made

Anna Bower@annabower.bsky.social · last wk.

Earlier this month, a New York Times journalist was watching “The Sheep Detectives” when FBI agents showed up at his door with a subpoena. Last week, a judge had some questions. It didn’t go well for the Justice Department. My dispatch from the NYT hearing: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

seems extremely on point that the city charter says "Pittsburg" and this city just been misspelling its own name for 200+ years

Alex Jones, who has not paid a single cent to the Sandy Hook families despite owing them $1.4 billion, has been in a $3,000 per night suite in Hawaii for the last few weeks illegally using the InfoWars accounts to boost his traffic. Today he said there's going to be a national draft in three weeks.

“Without the nuances of Morton’s performance, the Circe scene as written by Nolan is rooted in men’s questionable fear of being accused of violence against women rather than the tragedy of how women navigate that very real threat to our lives.” My latest. www.vulture.com/article/circ...

The Odyssey’s Circe Is the Best Female Character Nolan Has Ever Written

Nolan’s never been great at writing women, but what doesn’t exist on the page Samantha Morton conjures through a tricksy, powerhouse performance.

vulture.com

“boy george admits he used AI to create his new pro-israel song” is now a sentence we can say

stephen miller killed this couple, as surely as if he'd pulled the trigger himself

Matt Ortega@mattortega.com · last wk.

Stephen Miller said just the other day that all asylum claims are "fake." A couple deported from the U.S. to Guatemala were gagged, bound, and shot dead. Their 14-month old found crying next to their mother's body. People like Miller don't care though because this is the point: ethnic cleansing.

While we are in this Greek Mythology moment, may I remind you that Emma Thompson is adapting Pat Barker’s take on The Iliad, and she’s struggled to get it made bc the focus on what acts of war against women and survival thereafter actually look like (the core of Barker’s narrative) is too intense.

Emma Thompson adapting feminist retelling of Iliad for big screen

The actress told the Hay Festival she is writing a film version of Pat Barker’s The Silence of the Girls to draw attention to sexual abuse in war zones

thetimes.com

Exclusive from me — Daniel Moraff, one of the political operatives behind Graham Platner's rise and fall, has been accused of sexual assault. Full story here:

Exclusive: Political operative behind Graham Platner's rise accused of sexual assault

A spokesperson for Daniel Moraff said: “Any suggestion that he committed a criminal offence is false and without foundation."

thehandbasket.co

Trying to ban Mamdani from the 9/11 ceremony for being too close to supporters of terrorism when Trump is trying to do a nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia...perhaps a bit of Islamophobia here?

This has been an issue in tech for so long that the failure to correct it is really telling about the industry’s inherent lack of capacity for introspection. It selects for and rewards antisociality and then wonders why people don’t like and trust it.

dorian@doriantaylor.com · last wk.

there is a doctrine of product development out of silicon valley that goes something like "i think this thing would be cool to have for myself, i'm sure other people *must* also want it too, so i'll make it and they will fund its development and also it will obviously be a blockbuster"