NBC wants to go to bed. No one else has called it. But assuming this is true: Winners: Abdul El Sayed Progressives Losers: Pollsters (for shame!) MI Dem party & Schumer (McMorrow might've been him) Big $ Super PACs A battered left/liberal electorate (D civil war, sexism, racism)

Walker Bragman@walkerbragman.bsky.social · 12h ago

NBC projects El-Sayed the winner of the Michigan Senate primary! www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

On nights like this I'm so glad I'm in the West Coast 😂 I still am too amped to wind down to sleep but I've got it better than the East Coast folks

Thanks. Yes, that's what I was trying to say, but took too long to get there. Our politics community is strong, and I'd love for us to expand into new communities. Science and sports have already taken off. Birding, gardening, K-pop, we're open to all (except nazis and jerks).

Whoever wins today in the Michigan Senate primary race I'm going to be glad it's over. For today. But the intra party hate/Dem civil war that's been brewing since 2016 is really nasty and portends bad things for 2028. Also, for the love of democracy, I hope we can kill Citizens United some day soon

My editor asked me to write about what happened to summer:

We launched a war on nature. Now we are in a climate warzone | Rebecca Solnit

Summer is not what it once was. We have been robbed of one of life’s great joys

theguardian.com

Using Water as reflection in Photography

The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.

The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor

The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.

futurism.com

Just caught some #GH scenes on YT. CM looks roided up. Bulging veins & all. I don't even care that that and the tan don't sync up with the locked in story. I care that he portrays an awful character & makes me wish we didn't have male shirtless scenes.

Grammar: He was "casted" in a new show (I see this mf'g mistake EVERYWHERE & it makes me want to murder) Amy and I's boat The dog came along with Amy and I Irregardless I could care less OPEN THE SCHOOLS!

Sanjay Srivastava@sanjaysrivastava.com · 6d ago

What is an extremely nerdy/obscure/specific thing you hate with a white-hot wrath?

Dr. Iyad Krunz, a mental health practitioner living in Gaza, has coined a term for the unique set of psychological conditions the Israeli state is inflicting there. www.haaretz.com/opinion/2026...

If in the year of our Lord 2026 you're still blaming/hating Arabs & Muslims for Harris's loss it's an insta block. You're selfish, uncaring and ignorant. If you're extending that hate to any candidate just because they're Arab or Muslim, also an insta block. Look in the mirror & check your bigotry

Haley has support from a lot of respected Dems in Michigan. And she has raised doubts about El-Sayed's electability in the general election. But the outside money is not so much for her as against El-Sayed. It will disappear if she wins, and switch to the Republican side if she loses the primary.

Listening to The Odyssey score on YT over and over again. Σας ευχαριστώ Ludwig.

[Homer sits backwards on a chair] let me tell you about ANOTHER giant brute who was being beaten by Nobody

UEFA Nations have agreed to boycott the World Cup if FIFA/Infantino goes ahead with their plan to sell a chunk of it www.independent.co.uk/sport/footba...

Uefa agree World Cup boycott at emergency meeting after Infantino bombshell - latest

Uefa have agreed to boycott the World Cup if Infantino’s proposals to privatise the tournament are voted through

independent.co.uk

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 2mo ago

There's a slight chance that this World Cup could end FIFA. So that's something, at least.

I’ve rarely seen someone run through social capital the way Shannon Watts is in her opposition to Abdul El-Sayed with her Islamophobia thinly-veiled as noxious Second Wave feminism. Sad to see.

This man is so good looking and his wife is so pretty. Screenshot instead of QRT bc their looks are so not the point of the campaign and it's just me being thirsty but damn. 🥵

Classisists & authors duking it out over a blockbuster film adaptation of an ancient epic poem? I am in nerd heaven. And Bluesky (me) is the exact right demographic for this discourse.

Sam Adams@samadams.bsky.social · 7d ago

now we can just let the classicists argue amongst themselves

I agree with Oates!!

Mark Harris@markharris.bsky.social · 7d ago

Honestly laughing out loud that 88-year-old shit-stirring Olympian Joyce Carol Oates looked up in the sky, saw the Batsignal, and headed to her laptop. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

😂😂😂 top tier

regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸@ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 7d ago

apropos of nothing i thought this was funny

Gotta shut down the factory that makes this kinda guy

Is everyone still friends on here in the aftermath of the great Odyssey debates of 2026? If so we have done two amazing things. Had an elevated debate about the ongoing role of both critique and classical texts AND decided to agree to disagree about a movie on the internet. An angel gets its wings.

I'm a child of the 80s & despite liking a couple of his songs I never liked *him*. Read his quotes in the article. You just can't fix stupid. I should do a thread of all the public ppl who've turned out to be shitty that I never liked or trusted. My gut has been pretty accurate.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · last wk.

‘You say genocide, I say war’: Boy George releases pro-Israel song, We Will Dance Again

So with this black box business, the mother daughter psycho team have Drew over a barrel and no one pays for their crimes. Again. #GH I really need to see Willow publicly outed for shooting Drew. We cannot have Chase & Michael in the dark like that.

NEW: I wrote for MSNBC about how Madison Square Garden turning off their facial recognition cameras for Taylor Swift is a perfect encapsulation of our dystopian present: where the wealthy can use surveillance to consolidate power, and the rest of us live in a privately owned panopticon.

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce got to buy MSG's privacy. Her fans aren't so lucky.

Reports that Madison Square Garden temporarily shut off its facial recognition system for Swift’s wedding expose a glaring problem with how the elite wield and control mass surveillance.

ms.now

The Michigan Senate primary race has it all baby: sexism, anti Arab/Muslim bigotry, racism, dirty outside $, left vs center-right, progressivism vs Dem establishment. A preview to the 2028 POTUS primary. Can't wait.

Michael Scott (Steve Carell) Unamused

Alt: Michael Scott (Steve Carell) Unamused

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I have this tendency to watch really dumb/bad "soothing" shows. I recently finished the last season of The Way Home and season 2 of Ransom Canyon. RC is like Yellowstone meets Virgin River, neither of which I could watch all the way through. If RC gets renewed let's see if I dive in.

I'll go one step further than Omar. Has anyone in Democratic Party leadership ever, even once, publicly reprimanded someone in their own caucus for not "listening to Arab/Muslim constituents"? Has Gottheimer ever been reprimanded? Fetterman? Did anyone ever say Cuomo needed to address Arab concerns?