It’s amazing how quickly this asshole will sell out allies, principles, and any sort of morality in a desperate attempt to maintain power. He’d burn down the country if he could keep all the ashes.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.

Wow — listen to these new comments from Trump. Thanking Putin, trashing Zelenskyy, characterizing Russia as eager for peace and Ukraine as intransigent. The mask is totally off.

When you look up “aggressively stupid“ in the dictionary:

Well, this is going to piss off haters in both camps. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/s... Angel Reese and Caitlin Clark celebrate their ‘chemistry’ as USA advance to Fiba World Cup semis

Angel Reese and Caitlin Clark celebrate their ‘chemistry’ as USA advance to Fiba World Cup semis

A United States team full of WNBA stars breezed into the semi-finals of the Women’s Basketball World Cup with a 108-56 win against Hungary on Thursday

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Odd way to write "War Crimes." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s... ‘Guilt by association’: why seven international aid workers were killed in Israeli airstrike

‘Guilt by association’: why seven international aid workers were killed in Israeli airstrike

Exclusive: Guardian investigation reveals targeting of World Central Kitchen convoy was result of widely used military tactic

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Perhaps the least surprising headline ever. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... RFK Jr lied in Senate confirmation hearings, newly revealed documents indicate

RFK Jr lied in Senate confirmation hearings, newly revealed documents indicate

Letters obtained by Guardian and AP contradict testimony that 2019 visit to Samoa had ‘nothing to do with vaccines’

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Absolute ghouls. Stealing money from programs designed to help poor children to fund your party’s hateful agendas.

Jon Cooper@joncooper-us.bsky.social · 3mo ago

A Florida grand jury found the DeSantis administration “misappropriated” $10 million meant to provide health insurance for poor children. Part of a “sophisticated scheme to fund political activities,” the money was funneled through multiple organizations before reaching two PACs and the Florida GOP.

It’s almost as if electing a child rapist wasn’t the best choice.

What this jackass has done to the people’s house is criminal.

Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com · 3mo ago

“His” helipad? Forget Iran, we need regime change right here at home.

Great thread going through many of the problems with this hit piece in the Atlantic by Tyler Austin Harper (who has made something of a career writing pieces that as an academic he would most likely not give passing grades to).

Kath Barbadoro@kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 3mo ago

since everyone is yelling at or about him, and since my brother went to bates, and since i also work in higher ed, i decided to read tyler austin harper's goodbye to all that to academia

Spelling bee is not happy with me.

“I loved Lindsey beyond words and if I do decide to run it will not be for self ambition it will be to carry on Lindsey’s legacy and to help the people of SC.” She can’t do both, so which is it? How a Grieving Trump Decided to Back Lindsey Graham’s Sister for Senate www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/u...

How a Grieving Trump Decided to Back Lindsey Graham’s Sister for Senate (Gift Article)

The president initially backed a little-known congressman. Then he talked to Gov. Henry McMaster and Ms. Graham herself.

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It’s somewhat amazing that the @washingtonpost.com would publish anything by clueless idiot Megan McArdle accusing someone else of cluelessness.

We live in the dumbest timeline.

So we have this important game in the World Cup and @foxsports.com.web.brid.gy decides to use two idiotic US announcers who are essentially ruining the experience.

@politico.com not really trying to be taken seriously, are you? apple.news/AsOIgCa9ASN6...

Trump's job market is proving resilient. Consumer confidence is still sagging. — POLITICO

The latest labor report showed hiring slowed in June, but other markers signal the market is staying strong despite consumer sentiment.

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@washingtonpost.com do you want to know yet another reason you are shedding subscribers?

90 years ago Langston Hughes’s poem “Let America Be America Again” was published in the July 1936 issue of Esquire. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/147907...

Nasty hateful shit I'd expect more from the US than from the UK. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Single-sex toilets must exclude transgender people, says EHRC

Updated code of practice covering England, Wales and Scotland also relates to changing rooms and follows supreme court ruling

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Found one of my old ticket stubs in a book I haven’t looked at in many years…

West Ham got jobbed today.

I would appreciate it if anyone could tell me if Bluesky has a way to filter batshit crazy conspiracy theorists because I don’t tolerate illogical assertions very well from either the left or the right.

www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-04-21... You have to wonder who these 35% of people are and what they could possibly be approving of.

Trump approval falls to 35% as rating on handling prices hits a record -46

Our new Strength In Numbers/Verasight poll finds the president's overall job approval at a new low, Democrats leading by 7 on the generic ballot, and a majority says the Iran war is not worth the cost

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At the College Language Association’s 84th annual conference in Jackson, MS, the Langston Hughes Society held a panel to celebrate Randal Jelks’s new book, My America: Langston Hughes on Democracy. Pictured: LHS founding member and past president Donna Akiba Sullivan Harper and Randal Jelks.

Never owned an album by Counting Crows, but when I hear “Mr Jones” I’m transported to my first year of grad school.

Arteta complaining about time wasting is pretty amusing.

People losing jobs, Dow rises…all you really need to know about the ethics of finance capital.

How many times can the actual Speaker of the House, the third in the line of succession, claim he has no idea what’s happening in this country?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 12mo ago

RAJU: If defenseless survivors were killed, would that constitute a violation of the laws of war? MIKE JOHNSON: I'm not going to prejudge any of that. I was pretty busy yesterday. I didn't follow a lot of the news.

I’m no fan of Chelsea, but it’s interesting to see what Garnacho can do when he’s on a team that knows what it’s doing.

Admittedly, I didn’t pay much attention when past presidents were having the weekly televised adulation meetings, but were they always this sycophantic?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.

Stephen Miller: "Let me just say Mr President that this country was going to die without you. This country was going to actually die without you ... you alone saved it."

Michael Oliver finally pulled out a yellow card. I thought he’d left them at home.