the headline is heinous but sheesh the sheer chaos of that opening
Richard Bowes 🇵🇸@richardbowes.bsky.social · 2d ago
go head on up to floor 7 if you’re gonna be a little bitch about it
“We should return to an older and more accurate name for the Civil War: the Slaveholders’ Rebellion. If a country unquestioningly adopts language that obscures its bloodiest crimes to absolve their worst perpetrators, how can we expect successive generations to remember the new assaults on democracy
Opinion | The ‘Civil War’ Is a Lie. Let’s Call It the ‘Slaveholders’ Rebellion’ Again. (Gift Article)
To face our own history, we must be honest about it.
nytimes.com
Trump is losing support from one of his core constituencies (lone gunmen)
Los Angeles Times@latimes.com · 18h agoArmed suspect arrested at Trump's Rancho Palos Verdes golf course in advance of president's visit
Disabled vehicle fire on I-5 SB at MP 105.23 near Henderson Blvd SE beginning at 3:19 pm on Aug. 4, 2026 until further notice. View on map
“What the hell is going on in Tacoma that would necessitate this?” Detective involved in WA's 2009 alleged Army spying scandal attended Israeli police training. In Part 1 of “The ASTI Files,” @glentalk.bsky.social uncovers new details of US law enforcement & emergency personnel training in Israel.
Documents reveal new details of law enforcement and emergency personnel training in Israel
The detective involved in 2009 alleged Army spying scandal in Washington state attended an Israeli police training, documents show
prismreports.org
"Platner’s first deployment, in early 2005, began at the Abu Ghraib prison complex, part of which the military had rechristened Camp Redemption." missed that detail the first time around!
Rick Perlstein@rickperlstein.bsky.social · 5d agoA watershed piece. America will have have a very hard time becoming less imperialist as long as combat service is sentimentalized and fetishized, when it actually tends to turn men into broken, hateful people, and helps make things like like Trumpism happen. www.newyorker.com/news/the-pol...
The messaging here needs to be that only depraved weirdos would vote for this - because whatever reason you personally have to vote for this, you're supporting men who want to inspect little girls' genitals.
Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d agoAn 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
He's losing words. Anyone with a parent or loved one suffering from dementia will recognize this pattern. Wen he says "moving cameras," it's because he can't recall the word "videos" and so he's stating the component parts as best he can. E.g., a "camera" is involved and the images are "moving"
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoTrump: "We have photographs or tapes -- like moving cameras, right? -- where people are on the side cutting it with a box knife."
To the extent that the media is treating this as a horse story: Max Miller is not a some random candidate from Ohio. This is a picture of President Trump speaking at the wedding of Max Miller and Emily Moreno.
There's an interesting proof that time travel doesn't exist in our universe and it is that if it did exist, you would right now be getting ambushed by a cybernetic chimpanzee. If you are not currently being ambushed by a cyborg chimpanzee, you simply don't have to think about it.
or 30m settlements for murdering a teenager on the trolley
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I had my car broken into and laptop stolen in front of a police station in San Francisco and when I walked in to report the crime the officer on duty asked what I wanted him to do about it
Em, midly@lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 4d agoIt’s so funny when people are like “sure you’re an abolitionist now but wait until you’re the victim of a property crime.” Buddy, the most useful thing the police have ever done for property crime is put the form you need to submit to your insurance online.
My neighbor across the street got burglarized and he said the cops literally said "we're on to these guys" after saying "they've hit 20 houses in the area" and then he asked why they were able to hit 20 houses if the cops were "on to these guys" and that was the end of the investigation lol
Em, midly@lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 4d agoIt’s so funny when people are like “sure you’re an abolitionist now but wait until you’re the victim of a property crime.” Buddy, the most useful thing the police have ever done for property crime is put the form you need to submit to your insurance online.
wow, did you know every server in a data center has a catalytic converter in it?
Dominic@domoffinland.bsky.social · 4d agothis guy gets it
Ok, this one might be my favorite, haven't stopped laughing
The only difference between this and the Calvin-pissing-on-things bumper stickers is these dipshits think they're saying something profound.
Jesus Zoidberg: 40s is the new 20s.@jesuszoidberg.bsky.social · 5d agoOk, this one might be my favorite, haven't stopped laughing
after he got big mad about canadian wildfire smoke he decided to just domesticate it
Trump administration denies emergency funding for 2 Oregon wildfires
U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley have sent a letter to the federal agency expressing frustration with the decision.
oregonlive.com
If you pay for a subscription, you can get get the AI Elvis pic before everyone else and use it to trade stocks and commodities. It pays for itself if you think about it.
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d agoSame day. $DJT
the people working for GEOGroup are also just concentration camp guards and fascist gestapo filth. There's no distinction between them.
DrH@drhaup.bsky.social · 5d agoAdams County, CO health officials are investigating active cases of tuberculosis at the Aurora detention center but GEO facility hasn’t complied with a public health order requiring access. It is illegal under CO law to “willfully violate” a public health order. www.denverpost.com/2026/07/31/t...
#OtD 2 Aug 1980 a bomb exploded at Bologna train station, killing 85 people and injuring over 200. Carried out by neo-fascists, it was part of the Strategy of Tension, a state programme to carry out attacks and blame them on the left stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9171...
AIPAC can't spend $60M on a race then say you can't criticize them. That's a guy putting on glasses and saying "you wouldn't hit a man wearing glasses."
I'm ok with the Skubal trade because the most important thing in baseball is that Aaron Judge never wins a World Series