Is this what Sophie Cunningham and Riley Gaines mean when they say they want to protect girls in sports or nah? Somebody please PLEASE ask Sophie about this next time she triples down.

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d ago

An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play

finally, the Democratic party has a plan.

There is a broad spectrum of things you can or should do when a man beats your daughter and granddaughter, and for republicans one of them is supporting his campaign www.notus.org/ohio/bernie-...

Sen. Bernie Moreno Doesn't 'Know' if Embattled Rep. Max Miller Should Stay on Ballot

The senator’s daughter accused Miller of domestic violence. Miller denies the allegations, but they’re making his reelection race tighter.

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Doing some landscaping yesterday and unintentionally looksmaxxed my thumb when I whacked the shit out of it with a shovel, is the dumb thought I immediately had

I'd love to see all the petulant self-righteous "what is a woman" dipshits equally relentlessly pressed to answer "what is a nazi"

Lupita Nihongo@otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · last wk.

I think it harms Journalism that the message that the media has sent to us over the last several years is that no matter what a person does it’s impossible to credibly be sure that they are a Nazi.

i really, truly want to understand how some of my fellow jews believe mayor mamdani calling the prime minister of israel a war criminal—which he is—was fuel for a mentally ill man to stab two people in NYC, one of whom wasn’t jewish. what in the ever-loving fuck.

As this escalates & we head into all⭐️ weekend I'm braced for Black/queer players being put on the spot in a terrible zero-sum choice - either denounce your teammate & ruin team chemistry, or equivocate for the sake of congeniality & torch your soul & conscience & credibility

Defector@defector.com · 2w ago

Sophie Cunningham is about as edgy as a beach ball: defector.com/sophie-cunni...

Imagine if Kamala Harris had campaigned like this. Imagine if NYT and WaPO would publish like this, and CNN and MSNBC and ABC and NPR would broadcast like this.

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 2w ago

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

Ooh I know this one. It's by BANNING THE PERVERT GLASSES

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2w ago

Meta’s smartglasses mean any child can be covertly filmed. In the age of AI, how do we tackle that risk?

I'm floored by this piece by @moiradonegan.bsky.social on my late friend Celeste. Took me back to countless hours spent at her apt or studio in far-reaching conversations about personal histories, politics, gender, her troubled relationship w/the art world, & cats www.bookforum.com/print/3301/p...

Portrait of an Eye

The life and work of Celeste Dupuy-Spencer – Moira Donegan

bookforum.com

For the summer issue of Bookforum, I wrote about the life and work of the painter Celeste Dupuy-Spencer, who died in April. www.bookforum.com/print/3301/p...

The only world cup commentary I understand

Emily Heller@mremilyheller.bsky.social · 2w ago

Happy for my mejor amiga this noche

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.

Ok I just did this too and I'm still unclear as to what we were supposed to base our votes on, since most potential delegates didn't say which senate candidate they planned to support at the convention??

Rebecca Traister@rtraister.bsky.social · 3w ago

Wow who knew the raw exhilaration of voting for 179 delegates out of 800 in under an hour?

ICE and CBP have lied about EVERY shooting they've perpetrated. 100% of them.

This is the only language I wanna hear from any public servant, now action please

Ed Markey@edmarkey.bsky.social · 3w ago

ICE murdered a 26 year old father in Biddeford, Maine. It's the second ICE murder in less than a week—and just the latest in a series of attacks from Trump’s thugs. Horrific. Abolish ICE now.

It’s like when your food is taking a long time to come out so your server brings some free bread to apologize for the wait.

God this rules

Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 4w ago

Every so often I get to think of something that is not awful. I interviewed Henry freaking Rollins about his quest with Ian MacKaye and a few other schemers to revive Vengeance Records, The Cramps’ record label: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

“I guess you hate due process.” No, I fucking love it. When is Graham Platner going to file a civil suit for defamation? Because that’s the process that is due to him when someone makes a false, harmful allegation.

"They just want to turn it off." A fascinating story of the librarians who have started teaching classes showing people how to remove AI "features" from their phones and apps. www.bangordailynews.com/2026/07/02/m...

These Maine librarians are helping patrons resist AI and Big Tech

Despite breathless reporting on how AI is going to change the world, Hannah Cyrus, a Bangor librarian, said that, in her experience, most library patrons aren’t finding it helpful.

bangordailynews.com

Whelp

Caroline@hairoline.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It's hard to convey how desperate anti-Collins Mainers are for someone who can finally beat her, and this guy comes along who's like if Bernie was in the WWE so he uniquely appeals to progressives & libertarians...if we're at risk of anything it's not him being a Fetterman it's him being a Swalwell.

this dynamic described by jenny racicot is, as i understand it, very common among progressive women in maine. they’ve been put in an impossible position and feel like they’re tanking platner’s campaign when in reality he did that on his own by being a violent and reckless person.

this is incredible lmao jfc www.instagram.com/reel/DaQCjQ5...

Democrats fighting leftists/ Democrats fighting Republicans

Read the damn room, Mr. Met.

turns out being deliberately antagonistic towards the people who elected you in order to court people who would under no circumstances ever vote for you is not smart

Remember this scene the next time a corporate reporter tries to insist that a rural diner full of white men in their 60s is somehow a more authentically "American" place, somehow more representative of who we are as a nation.

Greg Pak@gregpak.net · 2mo ago

KNICKS IN FIVE KNICKS PRIDE BROOKLYN

New from me: The cops who AI-enhance blurry photos to try to catch suspects are actually just tampering with evidence, lying to the public and raising the risk of wrongful arrests

This is the mood in Maine today