It’s pretty clear that’s not what happened at all and this is like the 3rd different outlet I’ve seen saying as much

Rev. Poppy Haze 𓅋@poppyhaze.bsky.social · yesterday

So the US military killed everyone on a medevac plane by testing a GPS weapon. futurism.com/science-ener...

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

mandatory yelling about perpetually-underrated Lauren Underwood who gets less camera time but has been putting in legislative work like crazy

GOLIKEHELLMACHINE@golikehellmachine.com · last wk.

jayapal, balint, frost, AOC, neguse, garcia, a whole bunch more, we have a very good bench building

I strongly encourage Mitch McConnell—and indeed all Republican senators—to take as much time away from the Senate as he needs

Sahil Kapur@sahilkapur.bsky.social · last wk.

Mitch McConnell’s office releases a new photo plus a statement saying he is undergoing “intense physical therapy” and not ready to get back to work in person. No timeline for his return to the Senate. He has not been seen in the Capitol since his June 14 hospitalization.

Even on his deathbed, McConnell is stalling legislation. That's true commitment. www.yahoo.com/news/politic...

How Mitch McConnell’s absence is helping block Trump’s biggest priorities

Mitch McConnell has been hospitalized for weeks with his absence impacting the Senate’s work with no return date only months before his term ends.

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Finished watching The Other Bennett Sister, & absolutely loved it. The Love Interest (not naming the character because Spoilers! groveled very nicely, as he should! as he was an absolute numpty.

When Republicans win it means they get to do what they want. When Democrats win it means they get to do what Republicans want.

interesting to me that as the administration treats democratic-voting states like conquered or occupied territories, you don’t have pundits demanding the president respect “half the country”

tony romm@tonyromm.bsky.social · 2w ago

NEW: In a stunning admission, the Trump administration admitted in court documents that it canceled billions in energy grants to states "based solely" on politics -- and whether that state was represented by Democrats and backed Harris in 2024. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...

Thank you 🙏🏽 ❤️ (No paywall)

Denise Oliver-Velez, a Powerful Voice of the Left, Dies at 78 (Gift Article)

She became the highest-ranking female member of the Young Lords in New York, where she pressed for women’s rights, and later joined the Black Panthers.

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In a cosmic sort of way, it's darkly funny that the Middle East is on fire because the U.S. government didn't think going to war with Iran would involve going to war with Iran.

Sluggo: not the hero we deserve, but the hero we need.

NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER@nancycomics.bsky.social · 2w ago

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller September 20,1955

Two great civil rights heroes spoke these prophetic words in 2022 They are now resting in power with the ancestors but their words live on May we continue to carry on their legacies and the fight ahead!! We must find the strength to carry on and continue their precious work!!

you stupid mother fucker (markwayne not eugene) we tricked the entire world into sending their smartest hardest working people here and then tricked those same people into staying permanently instead of going back to their home country you are BLOWING UP OUR SPOT

Eugene Vinitsky 🍒@eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 3w ago

I did not see this unhinged statement previously. These people really do not understand this country

Again with the too-on-the-nose metaphors? What kind of hack writers are in charge of this reality?

Elizabeth V@geolizzy.bsky.social · 3w ago

The fact this “gold” coin won’t have any actual gold is quite the metaphor www.mining.com/trumps-us-go...

Can confirm these work, WisCon has employed them for any in-person conventions. Ypou can go even cheaper depending on filters; buying them in bulk helps.

Avery (they/them) 🔞 KINKY ACES JAM 🖤🩶🤍💜 | 🇵🇸 🇸🇩 🇨🇩@averystorm.bsky.social · 3w ago

🔥 ⚠️ 🔥 ⚠️ 🔥 for folks dealing with wildfire (or other) air quality issues!

Kavanaugh: "the questioning in those circumstances is typically brief, and those individuals may promptly go free after making clear to the immigration officers that they are U.S. citizens."

███ACTED@vicjager.bsky.social · 3w ago

ICE agents violently detained a man in Passaic, New Jersey, as he repeatedly claimed he was a U.S. citizen and asked them to check his ID. "He works here every day, and he's a U.S. citizen," one witness said. "They just scooped him up without letting him identify himself."

Trump is by far the tackiest President we've ever had. I know this is less important than his evilness & his incompetence, but damn! he is a tacky tacky man. I'd say that his taste is only in his mouth, but apparently his taste in food is also lousy.

Also important to note that if those Soldiers & Marines operated the way ICE, let alone law enforcement at any level in the US routinely operates they'd be charged under UCMJ. Or would've been before Hegseth who ordered his Soldiers to violate ROE.

Force Ghost™@fieldmontgomery.bsky.social · 3w ago

Salutary to remember that 18 and 19 year old soldiers and Marines patrolled Kabul and Fallujah with more restraint and good judgment than ICE has shown in any American city.

every now and then I have to remind myself of how visually looney tunes everything has gotten

Calling the RFK Jr diarrhea strain “MAHA Blast” since it has now evidently infiltrated Taco Bell

Amnesty International put out a report called "The Growing Threat of Anti-Rights Organizations in the UK". It included a number of "gender critical" organizations threatening trans people. JKR threatened to bankrupt them, so they retracted it. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/mafq8...

I just picked this open! If only I knew what I was doing. 😏

enemies to lovers is getting out of hand

Tiger Beat on the Potomac, man. 🤦🏻‍♀️

@escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 3w ago

"We just declare 'War Over!' every 59 days and then restart it right after to restart the clock" is the kind of thing that would have any Congress with an ounce of self-respect throughout history studying up on the Rump Parliament under Charles I and yet Politico just reports it as fait accompli:

Thing is, signaling virtue is a good thing! We should encourage more of it. Even if those who do it are hypocrites, the flaw is failing to match the aspiration, not the aspiration itself.

Mel Brooks favorite sandwich looks extremely tasty. I'd be tempted to plus it up with some thinly sliced onion, maybe some black pepper. Yum. (It's a 1:45 video if you want to give it a watch) www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtXk...

Mel Brooks’ Favorite Sandwich (our history) on Sandwiches of History⁣

YouTube video by Sandwiches of History

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It's not a historical accident that almost every country in the New World has birthright citizenship. It's just the only fucking way to manage a country this diverse, restless, and inherently a bit rootless.

Anthony Michael Kreis@anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 3w ago

This is not going away, sorry to say. One of my friends has already questioned if he’s an originalist post-Barbara because “letting historical accident determine the answer to this deeply profoundly moral normatively significant question” is “a weird way to do law.” I do not jest.

The Free Peoples Of Middle Earth Might Need To Be Exterminated Guest Essay by Sauron Exclusively in the New York Times

Death is a tragedy, but it's not a call to burnish the terrible legacy of a bad person that ultimately had no moral core. Upon his death, it's worth reflecting on the far worse tragedy of who he became, and who he could have been instead, but didn't.