“Racism is good and policy should be designed to reflect that principle,” couched in euphemism, is an acceptable opinion in the anglosphere leadership class but “racism is bad and policy should be designed to reflect that principle” is wokeness gone amok and unacceptable bsky.app/profile/okwo...

Musa Okwonga@okwonga.bsky.social · 2w ago

The editor in chief of The Economist referring here to the AfD’s leader as a “perfectly thoughtful person“ instead of what she truly is - a driver and enabler of German fascism - is a huge part of the problem.

scream and scream and scream www.nytimes.com/2026/07/26/u...

An Admiral’s Rise Reveals the Politics Driving Hegseth’s Pentagon (Gift Article)

Before he was picked to lead the Navy, Adm. Daryl Caudle found ways to signal his support for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s anti-diversity goals.

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It’s this entire tiered out “gotcha” approach to talking about racism that really lets you know their main exposure to this has been secondhand memes and characterizations through like group chats

Use Alt Text not A.I.@carebear2717.blacksky.app · 2w ago

They're feral over "a Black woman said it" Like this is their racist Highlander or something one Black Candice Owens clone and "Black people are also conservative racists"🫩😒

A gentle reminder. We are all birthright citizens for the law recognizes that our parents are irrelevant to the question of our status.

Mrs. Betty Bowers@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 2w ago

Marco Rubio is against birthright citizenship. But Marco Rubio *is* a birthright citizen. Ted Cruz is against birthright citizenship. But Ted Cruz was born in Canada. He only got US citizenship by a birthright citizenship law because of his US mother. They are both shameless hypocrites.

It is political malpractice for Democratic senators to be helping Trump fill judicial vacancies four months before the midterms. Completely unserious people.

I Am Begging Senate Democrats to Do Anything Other Than Help Confirm Trump Judges

Four months before the 2026 midterms, three Democratic lawmakers have decided to give a historically unpopular president a little boost.

ballsandstrikes.substack.com

hachi machi

Ignacio Gallup-Diaz@igallupd.bsky.social · 2w ago

“A Penn professor thought she’d sell 1000 copies of her ‘Odyssey’ translation. She sold a million this year alone, thanks to Christopher Nolan.” “West Philly's Emily Wilson, who penned a highly acclaimed translation of the epic poem in 2017, is having a big summer.”

Despite the whining about “ historical accuracy,” the racist backlash to the casting in Nolan’s Odyssey is about the right wanting to justify racial hierarchy by projecting it into a past where it did not actually exist. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

not really surprised to learn that terminal stupidity and racism is the reason i can’t walk into a CVS and just buy a toothbrush without flagging down the one person who might be in the store dannykatch.substack.com/p/we-used-to...

We used to be able to buy things in this country

Locking up toothpaste was a warning sign that our executive class was crazy

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My revulsion at the mainstream media for participating in the WHCD tonight can’t be overstated. They’re laughing at his jokes and shaking his hand? Fuck off. The corporate press is an enemy addicted to access. And this was true before the Ellison’s started their takeover.

Conservatives in 2016: TRIGGERED LIB???? Conservatives in 2026: We are installing trigger warnings in the Smithsonian

This is what happens when you spend your whole life thinking about responsibility in terms of civil or criminal liability rather than ethics or morality. Not only is it incorrect to accept responsibility when you haven't been obliged to, it's incorrect to even validate the idea of doing so

Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 2w ago

Fuck you, Ian Bremmer, you abject ghoul.

To me cutting USAID is like, you put a quarter into a slot every day to keep millions of people alive. You don’t have to do it but it causes you no hardship. Then one day the job falls to people who are overtly white supremacist and they decide to stop doing it. It is most obviously murder

Aaron Huertas@aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 2w ago

Gross to see a senator skip over the part where the aid was cut off illegally and without warning. Cooking their brains on a right wing owned social media site.

“It’s not murder”: right, when done at scale the correct term is genocide. Still, I can see how people who banter on a site owned and operated by the genocidaire might come to view the matter as merely “very bad.”

Aaron Huertas@aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 2w ago

Gross to see a senator skip over the part where the aid was cut off illegally and without warning. Cooking their brains on a right wing owned social media site.

More outcry over Clinton's "deplorables" and Biden's "garbage" than actual dereliction.

an ideologically driven effort to destroy an independent institution and replace its serious and broad-minded approach to american history with MAGA slop

Trump Orders Warnings Placed at ‘Inaccurate’ Smithsonian History Museum

President Trump said the signage at the National Museum of American History would correct what a disputed White House report described as “extreme political activism.”

nytimes.com

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...

fascinating to try to imagine a philosophical view such that this would be obvious

What I would add to @jamellebouie.net's column is that the right has characterized nearly every advance of the compensatory state--whether proposed or enacted--since the New Deal as "socialism." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/o...

Opinion | Trump’s New Insult Won’t Save Republicans

The president’s attempt to drum up a third red scare is certain to fail.

nytimes.com

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...

Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him

Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.

nytimes.com

doing a livestream over at my youtube page youtube.com/live/5TThxlJ...

Let's Yap — July 24, 2026

YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie

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early virginia primary you say

Burnham Down The House@corncobanalysis.bsky.social · 2w ago

Ken Martin, I was not familiar with your game

you have to read the elite panic over DSA as a function of the fact that basically any quasi-functional chapter of DSA can out-organize the establishment primarily because basically so much of American civil society has gone from mass-moblization to management (DSA is a return to mass mobilization)

Sharon 🪳🌹@sharonk.bsky.social · 2w ago

step 1: actually stop being an elite club and organize outside

this, for rfk jr, is a job well done

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 2w ago

ATLANTA (AP) — US surpasses 2025’s record-breaking tally for measles cases, with 2,318 cases and 5 more months left in the year.

came home to discover that this mongrel ate three of the six waffles i had made for the kids this morning

jamelle@jamellebouie.net · 2w ago

dog doesn't make an appearance in the video but here she is at home.

sasho gets it (whether you're pro/anti-DSA, this is just common sense)

Sasho Todorov@sashotodorov.bsky.social · 2w ago

It's much less that and much more that the Bernie crew (for now) function much more like a true European party in the primary system - lockstep voting block, relentless pushing of a ticket - and that is extremely hard to fight unless you do the same.

loath to spread this but it has so many likes so: "black power" is a response to centuries of systemic oppression and inequity, a call to empower from disempowerment. "white power" is an expression of racial supremacy. thinking them the same because they share a word is how babies think

Freethinkers United For Change@freethinkersunite.bsky.social · 2w ago

correct. the conservative movement is opposed, wholesale, to the concept of learning and science

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 2w ago

1. The new Trump / Kratsios plan for US science appears explicitly designed to destroy US universities. Diverting money to tech donors is probably just a bonus. Gift link.

Didn’t know that Ben Affleck’s mom was one of the original Freedom Riders. RIP.

Chris Affleck, Mother of Oscar Winners Ben and Casey Affleck, Dies at 83

A schoolteacher, she was recently diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and died June 2, her family announced.

hollywoodreporter.com

i'll take the colonel, charles entertainment cheese, mr. peanut and chester cheetah, who i assumed has mauled someone at some point

Discontinued Foods!@discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 2w ago

Things aren't great, let's have some fun

The voice actors for Pinkie and The Brain reading lines from pulp fiction

An Afternoon with Pinky and The Brain: Pinky and The Brain vs Pulp Fiction (SF Sketchfest)

YouTube video by SF Sketchfest

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