Wow. Proponents of the ICE taser gloves are openly saying that one reason they love the gloves is that they doesn’t leave any marks or proof that they were used, making it harder for people to sue when they’re shocked excessively.

Sophie Hurwitz@hurwitz.bsky.social · 5d ago

This story’s got everything: Spiderman-villain weaponry, Black Hawk Down, vaccine conspiracy theories, weird YouTube videos www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

A key part of Lindsey Graham's legacy: when he called Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/12/u...

i will say lindsey graham being asked by a reporter how mitch mcconnell is doing, answering “i don’t know, i’m going to check right now” and then dying is hilarious

Michael Fanone's take on Lindsey Graham is one of the most powerful I've read:

Holy shit, Lindsay Graham.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has announced that Mexico is taking legal action against the United States in regards to the cold blooded murder of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo by an ICE killer in Texas. They’ll pursue justice for the mistreatment of Mexican nationals. Good. 💙👊

It has been criminally underreported but Kelsey Pfendler has just rowed solo across the Pacific Ocean from the US coast to Hawaii in record time. A 2,400-mile unsupported journey in 43 days, 17 hours, and 55 minutes. Notably beating the Men’s record by 9 whole days.

Trying to pick apart a woman's text messages to prove she's lying about being raped is gutter behavior. Consent can be revoked at any time and reading insinuations into text messages that the sender denies were there is ACTUAL journalistic malpractice. I would not trust a man who does this!

(1/2) Resembling the tiny parts of an impossibly intricate and eye-catching timepiece, strewn from a watchmakers toolkit, these are in fact fossil Crinoids, Corals, Bryozoans and Brachiopods.

This is absolutely shameful - from both Tice and the Telegraph

25. More important than whether Platner is a “secret Nazi” is the question of whether he means what he says – and whether, in the event of victory, promises made are going to be promises kept. www.editorialboard.com/the-marine-c...

The Marine Corps probably told Platner what the Totenkopf is

The hate symbol likely prevented him from returning to active duty in 2009.

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10. There’s another thing Platner knew before his Senate campaign began: he has a long paper trail. Somewhere in the Marine Corps archives is a thick file with his name on it containing photos, signatures and other documents that establish every interaction he had with the Marines about his tattoos.

I think the Platner thing hit me so hard bc it was one of the most protracted, widespread acts of misogynist gaslighting from my own side that I've seen. We were presented with an obvious violent scumbag who was constantly lying (badly, might I add) and told we were crazy for not loving him

🧵 Amid all the speculation about Nigel Farage's 2pm statement, it's worth noting paragraph 40 of the Procedural Protocol to the MPs' Code of Conduct. If he announces he's resigning and seeking a by-election, that would not automatically end the investigation into whether he breached the Code in...

challenging to phrase this exactly right because it'd be in bad taste to use this as a gotcha against all his supporters, but the journalists who very explicitly framed Platner as a rejection of stuff like "HR Lady Politics" or (ugh) "smoothgroins" should take a long, hard, look in the mirror today

this guy is the co-founder of Airbnb

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Also American Diplomats trying to get the Indian Military to coup the democratically elected government every 10 minutes to the point where Manekshaw lost his shit at the US Ambassador when asked about it (jokingly per Keating) at a party "As soon as General Westmoreland takes over your country!"

Some journalists seem to accept Trump's claim that his Venezuela operation was a "big success." Facts: He kidnapped Venezuela's leader and left the No. 2 in power, with no path to elections. He killed about 100 people. He shut Congress out of the decision-making. He's stealing Venezuela's oil.

"The Pope is the puppet of the Chinese authoritatian government" is a take you would make if you made billions by drinking paint.

Peter Thiel: The pope is ‘working for the Chinese Communists’ by criticizing AI | CNN

Speaking at the Aspen Ideas Festival, the billionaire tech investor said the Vatican’s concerns could discourage America in the AI arms race, warned of a democratic-socialist takeover and explained wh...

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It is seriously alarming how many of the world’s wealthiest and most powerful people are just screamingly mentally unwell in deeply toxic, dangerous ways.

Michael E. Carter@deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"The Pope is the puppet of the Chinese authoritatian government" is a take you would make if you made billions by drinking paint.

UK Bluesky is normally really easy to follow, except the one week a month it descends into incomprehensible screaming because someone from North Flobershire dared refer to themselves as a Galbrilander despite their nan having actually been born south of Brookingsmarch-on-the-Tarrowack.

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

Here's a thing. The Oval was packed tonight for the women's T20 World Cup semifinal. Pretty much nobody is covering it - the football world cup, the Stokes debacle, Wimbledon, they're all taking up the space. But still. The ground was totally full. That tells you everything about the state of it.

First, the East Wing, the Kennedy Center, and now this. Our communities are not Trump’s playground.

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The Trump administration is planning to cut down DC's oldest cherry tree to make way for a new Trump golf course. https://t.co/QjV2eUTpgL

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Listen. I spent more than a decade as a theatrical technician, rigging stages, hanging lights, flying scenery, etc. The number of times I have dropped anything on a stage with performers on it is zero. The number of times I’ve dropped something that might’ve killed someone is zero. This is major.

Aaron Parnas@aaronparnas.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The stage is falling apart at the rehearsal for Freedom 250's July 4th celebration.

This is the right decision and suspect others will now follow, but very interesting timing on this

🤣 #ETTD "On Wednesday, the plywood model — installed at the center of the National Mall — seemed to ooze thick globs of yellow spray foam or some other building material." 📺 youtube.com/shorts/z0O_h... 🧾 ‘Must be the vandals again,’ wrote one X user www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

LOL: Caulk seen OOZING out of Trump’s fake arch at state fair

YouTube video by Brian Tyler Cohen

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Glad everyone’s ok — it’s also hard to imagine a better metaphor for the current state of 🇺🇸 than this

HOLY SHIT. FIFA President Gianni Infantino is at the USA game, sitting with Howard Lutnick, Secretary of Commerce AND CLOSE PERSONAL FRIEND OF JEFFREY EPSTEIN. Disgusting.