Holy hell. What the absolute fuck. I literally dealt with this situation my senior year of high school because a teacher was lusting after my girlfriend who was a junior. In high school. And then his wife found out.

m@keptsimple.bsky.social · yesterday

Max Miller story is providing incredible cover for the 65 year old NC Republican congressman who was just found to have been texting his female staff shit like "I had to leave the party because you brought your bf with you 🥺"

This is a smart essay. It helps me understand why the suckup-ery of AI chatbots feels so icky.

Kate Manne@katemanne.bsky.social · yesterday

Generative AI is catnip to the men who miss female sycophants katemanne.substack.com/p/a-culture-...

They think they're being clever eugenicists by saying that people with "underlying health issues" don't matter, but >75% of U.S. adults have a chronic condition (including 60% of age 18–34). So what they're really saying is "nobody matters, it's okay if everybody dies from inadequate regulation."

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2d ago

Breaking News: Two deaths in Michigan have been linked to cyclospora. Both people who had the parasite also had underlying health issues.

We spent early July watching Graham Platner's campaign implode because of abuse; now it's a Republican's turn. Let all this be a reminder of how pervasive violence against women and children is across the political spectrum.

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3d ago

After Max Miller’s statement, Bernie Moreno finally issues a statement denouncing Miller, saying he needs psychological help and should not be in Congress.

If you believe this, and I hope you do, there is nothing stopping you from continuing to protect your vulnerable neighbors by wearing masks in crowded and indoor spaces, especially necessary spaces like healthcare facilities, grocery stores, and public transportation. Absolutely nothing.

Dave Andress@davidandress.bsky.social · 4d ago

Covid lockdowns demonstrated, in a deeply imperfect way, the possibility of large-scale social solidarity for a higher cause. That is a prime reason why so many powerful people want us to run screaming away from them into the comforting arms of selfish individualist competition.

My response to Elon Musk.

It is funny that this person thinks “immigrants defended the union while native born whites sought to destroy it in the name of slavery” is an argument against immigrants being Americans. This is precisely the point, nothing about being born here makes you better bsky.app/profile/aphc...

Alexander Clarkson@aphclarkson.bsky.social · 4d ago

Another datapoint for the fascist radicalisation of institutional pillars of much of the American Right

As a PSA: In the last week, two people I know got tricked by scam websites that used AI to replicate the websites of real businesses they had bought things from in the past.

O’Neal helped purge me & all the other Black full-time staff columnists at the Post Opinion Section. I challenged his move to fire me in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk killing. And he testified against me in June. We are expecting an arbitration ruling soon. Convenient time for him to quit.

Natalie Korach@nataliekorach.bsky.social · 5d ago

New: Washington Post Opinion editor Adam O’Neal is leaving, he announced in an internal memo Friday

Just want to remind folks that this keeps happening. Burials of assumed-important ancients discovered to be women via genetic testing, after decades of them simply being assumed to be male. The patriarchy is incompatible with reality.

Jens Notroff@jensnotroff.com · 6d ago

The #BronzeAge #UptonLovellShaman​'s burial in Wiltshire has long been considered an important religious figure & metalworker. It's been barely questioned someone of such status must be male. But now #aDNA analysis revealed that the body is in fact: a woman. 🏺 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Fuck this guy. Chain him to the Republican brand. He's another anchor with popularity rankings as bad as Trump's.

Quinn Slobodian@quinnslobodian.com · 7d ago

Quite the day of news! Probably unrelated. www.axios.com/2026/07/29/m...

Oh my God!

Sahil Kapur@sahilkapur.bsky.social · 7d ago

! Senate Judiciary Committee just officially delayed the BLANCHE AG vote, which was scheduled for tomorrow morning. He doesn’t have the votes. Tillis and Cornyn have made clear for weeks and weeks that the DOJ needs to rewrite the Trump/IRS settlement, which still hasn’t happened.

a functional political party would make hay with this

Let's keep our eyes on Nolan Wells. This young man deserves our remembrance & his family deserves our support. It seems only Black people nationally, Mississippi, & Ms Rachel care. But you all should know hearts hurt over this. If you want to know what's on the minds of Black America, it's this.

Ashton Pittman@ashtonpittman.bsky.social · last wk.

I wish everyone approached the Nolan Wells story with the care Duvalier Malone does. Care for truth. Care for the grieving family. Care for the grieving friends. Care for the history of mistreatment that informs Black Mississippians distrust of the system. It's all the above.

I am always trying to explain to folks that most Americans have never met a Jew and people do not believe me and I just need you to understand that the perception that we are a powerful group in this country is intentionally created by antisemites and you’re unknowingly buying in.

Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social · last wk.

This actually explains something about how people talk about the Jewish community.

Stop uploading things to LLMs. ANY THINGS. ANY LLMs.

Maggie Harrison Dupré@mharrisondupre.bsky.social · last wk.

NEW: A large trove of Claude-generated documents have been exposed to the web and indexed by Google. We reviewed what appear to be real medical records, the full names and phone numbers of school-aged children, and company documents marked for internal use only. futurism.com/artificial-i...

People who are suddenly deported to countries they haven’t been to for years — or, in some cases, have NEVER been to — are incredibly vulnerable. We are going to be reading stories like this for years. God have mercy on their three little girls.

Adam Sawyer@adamjst.bsky.social · last wk.

“If immigration hadn't picked up my brother, my sister-in-law would still be alive, and the children wouldn't be going through this sorrow,” he said. “Unfortunately, immigration — the [U.S.] government — doesn't see that. It makes no difference to them.” www.stlpr.org/law-order/20...

so I just want to emphasize something here that non-media people might not pick up on: Marisa is an independent journalist and is taking on the risk of being sued by Moraff here without any institutional backing. That's admirable bravery - and also means being very, very certain of the facts.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · last wk.

Exclusive from me — Daniel Moraff, one of the political operatives behind Graham Platner's rise and fall, has been accused of sexual assault. Full story here:

While we are in this Greek Mythology moment, may I remind you that Emma Thompson is adapting Pat Barker’s take on The Iliad, and she’s struggled to get it made bc the focus on what acts of war against women and survival thereafter actually look like (the core of Barker’s narrative) is too intense.

Emma Thompson adapting feminist retelling of Iliad for big screen

The actress told the Hay Festival she is writing a film version of Pat Barker’s The Silence of the Girls to draw attention to sexual abuse in war zones

thetimes.com

A rare perfect match of product and spokesperson

unraveled@unraveledpress.com · 11mo ago

From yesterday and today: it certainly appears ICE in Chicago are wearing the Meta AI Ray-Ban glasses.

Billionaires being unafraid to say things like this publicly is a major indicator of how bad things have gotten

Rachel Gilmore@rachelgilmore.bsky.social · last wk.

Very cool that Shopify’s CEO thinks the poor should have far less of a vote than the rich. Still worth that ad read money, folks?

this is officially one of my favorite P&P adaptations and if you haven't read it yet I am honestly jealous that you still can discover it for the first time

Benjamin 🜬 (they/she)@enbyemu.bsky.social · 2w ago

For anyone who ever wants to read (or re-read) @trungles.com's Pride & Prejudice readthrough commentary w/o having to slog through needing to constantly expand the original thread, I put it all together on a google doc! 135 glorious pages! 💙📚 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

FWIW, this is pretty much how the white evangelical right took over the GOP in many states beginning in the late 1970s…by recruiting friends from church to run for precinct captain.

Jon Green@jongreen.bsky.social · 2w ago

I get why it feels like this, but also, you and 3-5 neighbors could join your local (city/county) Democratic Party tomorrow and chances are they'd ASK you to run your precinct

There’s so much to unpack here that’s beautifully and powerfully articulated. Looking forward to having the time to read it again and check out all the linked articles.

Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg@theradr.bsky.social · 3w ago

So. I did it. Lotta people gonna be mad about this one. Show it some love?

Fox News poll: Which political party -- the Democrats or the Republicans -- do you think would do a better job on immigration? 50% say Democrats 49% say Republicans *Quite* a turnaround after Dems got destroyed on immigration politics in 2024; it is (was?) Trump’s best issue.

And they know this, too. Here's a quote from Pete Buttigieg on July 30, 2019 during one of the Dem primary debates. He's right!

onion person@junlper.beer · 2w ago

i love how centrists continue to do this thing where they say “if DSA becomes more front and center in the party, republicans will run on that!” as if the right doesn’t just say absolutely anything on and run on shit like peanut the squirrel or litterboxes in school bathrooms

I wrote a report on the correlation between this type of sex "education" and the rates of teen pregnancy in the state of Idaho when I was 17 years old and presented it to legislators (spoilers: much higher rates of pregnancy, infections, violence). Just love to see that we are right back here wheeee

Melissa Gira Grant@melissagiragrant.com · 2w ago

Suppressing birth control information (for girls), scaremongering about masturbation (for boys), it’s the kind of sex ed that Anthony Comstock stood for until his dying day (in 1915)

The good thing about our incredibly rancid culture war is that you can and should fight back (in part) by celebrating culture that you love. Especially culture that centers and uplifts marginalized people and rejects the miserable, joyless attitude that's at the heart of so much of our politics.

gosh it's almost like we don't need pieces of shit

Polling USA@usapolling.bsky.social · 2w ago

Maine - Senate Polling: 🔵 Jackson: 49% 🔴 Collins: 46%* UNH / July 20, 2026

it's almost like ICE's actual function has nothing to do with "immigration" and is just purely about ethnic cleansing by any means necessary

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2w ago

NEW INFO HAS REVEALED that the 28-year-old Mexican man killed while running from ICE last week was just visiting on short tourist visa—and already had a plane ticket to go home. newrepublic.com/post/213277/...