What a lot of Americans do not know is that the Southern border is dotted with mass murder sites where white supremacist militias (such as the Rangers) performed lynchings and mass executions of Mexicans and Indians. To this day, bleached skulls with bullet holes in the head can be found out there.

Ben Johnson@benjaminhjohns1.bsky.social · 15h ago

more on the outrage of possibly destroying the Porvenir massacre site. See link for a correction to the idea that the US cavalry rather than the Rangers were responsible. bigbendsentinel.com/2026/08/11/w...

Being a sports fan does mean having to negotiate incidental contact with rank douchebaggery on the regular, and yet No excuses here: barstool has been transparently repugnant from the jump

Natalie Weiner@natalieweiner.bsky.social · 18h ago

1) the post having a wnba slug 2) very few people have profited as much off sexism and specifically off maligning women's sports as this fucking guy. and here he continues to do so bc it intersects with his overarching interest in bigotry

i feel like i'm taking crazy pills: THIS IS NOT WHAT HAPPENED there wasn't like, more transgender militancy or increasingly strident hiring quotas. Chris Rufo went online and said we're going to make this a political issue by throwing everything into it and the press just fell for it we lived it!

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 15h ago

Yet another op-ed in prestige media pretending racism, sexism and transphobia among Republicans is a response to Democratic overreach www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/o...

the Field of Dreams game has reminded me to once again watch John Mulaney presenting the Academy Award for sound

Hey everyone. I'm sorry to say that our lovely dog Chaucer has died. We had to put him to sleep tonight. He didn't suffer, a brief 24 hours of fatigue and then the big, number one, all time intense sleep. Some thoughts below because I process through writing. Here's my favorite picture of him.

Hell yeah

David Weiner@davidweiner.bsky.social · 2d ago

I picked this up off the shelf at my local library when I was about 13 or 14 because I had heard of it. I read half in one sitting right there at the library. One of my all-time favorite books. #booksky 📚

Thank you for your attention to this matter!!

Hey guys If you're someone who thinks I mean you when I say hey guys (and I absolutely do mean you) say hey back, just checking a baseline so we can pump those numbers up eventually

I'll go another step further: the research shows that BLM protests causally shifted Americans' racial attitudes leftward and helped Democrats in the 2020 election link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 2d ago

I don't understand why this keeps getting overlooked: Joe Biden won in 2020 in the middle of Peak Woke. I'd go one step further than @brianbeutler.bsky.social does here: Biden *defended the BLM protesters!* www.offmessage.net/p/woke-one-a...

I can say I accidentally click over to threads about 1x/month when I'm trying to check in with family on Instagram

Rodger Sherman@rodger.bsky.social · 3d ago

Two possibilities: —Threads is becoming the dominant text-based social media app even though nobody you’ve ever met has ever used Threads —Meta is doing some funky math and just counting people who use their Instagram accounts as active Threads users

Heading to Truist in an hour and a half to watch this Thornton kid pitch #lfgm

People are just really bad at epistemology is the evergreen takeaway from how people read polling data, BLS data, sports statistics, etc etc etc

My man looks like Mel Gibson headbutted a wasps' nest

This guy needs to stop snorting coke

Nikolaj Bill@nikolajbill.bsky.social · 4d ago

Your Excellency, you’re a bishop of a midsize diocese in Minnesota.

when I tell you I felt this

noam@noamchompers.bsky.social · 3d ago

sorry, you want me to *revise* and then *resubmit* this shit? dog, i sent it to you because i never wanted to see it again

This is absolutely WILD. Here's the dashboard video posted by @fritschner.bsky.social. Fast forward to about 1 minute. An ICE officer jumps out of a van and pulls a gun on this woman immediately before lying and claiming she "almost ran us over." *profanity warning if watching in public.

Aaron Fritschner@fritschner.bsky.social · 3d ago

Video of an ICE agent pulling a gun on a wife and mother, who is a US citizen born and raised in the area, near Bailey's Crossroads in Northern Virginia yesterday. Chillingly, they claimed she “almost ran them over” until she told them she had video proving that was a lie.

Abolish the agency 1/20/2029. Fire every single person, publish all their names and list of all assignments, ban them from federal employment for life.

Aaron Fritschner@fritschner.bsky.social · 3d ago

Video of an ICE agent pulling a gun on a wife and mother, who is a US citizen born and raised in the area, near Bailey's Crossroads in Northern Virginia yesterday. Chillingly, they claimed she “almost ran them over” until she told them she had video proving that was a lie.

these guys need to go to jail for this, theres no coming back from this without it

Aaron Fritschner@fritschner.bsky.social · 3d ago

Video of an ICE agent pulling a gun on a wife and mother, who is a US citizen born and raised in the area, near Bailey's Crossroads in Northern Virginia yesterday. Chillingly, they claimed she “almost ran them over” until she told them she had video proving that was a lie.

I finally got around to reading Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell a few weeks ago, and that was a wonderful, bizarre novel that should be viewed as the ultimate modern literary expression of Very British Magic, instead of the comparatively bleak mediocrity of Harry Potter

Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 4d ago

my own relationship with Harry Potter is, I think, bog-standard for a median-age millennial: I enjoyed the books just fine when I was an actual child, and I retained fairly pleasant memories about them until it was revealed that JK Rowling is a repulsive person

Most people don't like to read literature--it's fine to not do it, and I guess fine to have AI or cliffs notes or whatever do it for you, but it's not the same thing. You're not going to experience the same thing, and I don't know why people want to insist that they will

Matt Pearce@mattdpearce.com · 4d ago

I’m learning that the people who gamified paragraphs are having trouble reading books. www.axios.com/2026/08/11/r...

It must rule to be as dumb as some of these replies, just a freight train of your own thoughts in your head, impervious to anything that ends up trying to steer you off the track All day long just "choo choo morherfucker" to any alternative thoughts at all

Cool Bike Art@coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 4d ago

If you live in a city you shouldn't have to own a car.

Now's as good of a time as any to reiterate that I have never seen anyone in a mainstream newspaper or magazine write about how Mamdani, El Sayed and Hamawy are representing positive masculinity.

Abdul El-Sayed@abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 4d ago

Don't get me wrong, I lift every morning. But being a man is not really about how you show up in the gym. It's how you show up for your family. It's about how you show up for your community.

I think the world would be much better off if we all invested some more skill points in negative capability

This *also* features in Neal Stephenson's near future spec fic Termination Shock

Sharon 🪳🌹@sharonk.bsky.social · 10mo ago

i love paying attention to the slow motion hog-apocalypse because what do YOU MEAN www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Why does sny audio randomly get louder and then softer

Marlow Moss, Composition in Black and White Number 4, 1949 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135948

Should I go on? (Brad has been doing this for 25 years.) My old post: familyinequality.wordpress.com/2014/06/17/d... Brads new "report": ifstudies.org/report-brief... /11

Deciphering a well-told data story, cars are good for kids edition

Some tips for critical reading in light of the marriage-reduces-rape controversy.

familyinequality.wordpress.com

me who can't spell trying to start a fight at the sci fi fantasy convention: resistance wasn't invented until at least pre modern times

If the world seems bad right now I cannot encourage you strongly enough to build a better one right where you are, this moment, this week, this month Imagine if the borders of our little walled gardens of goodness and love eventually run into each other and the empire of goodness expands. Hell yeah

Personally, as a trans person who is a long-time WNBA fan, y'all gotta stop worrying about this. There's nothing you can do about shitty people being shitty. Stand on business, defend trans people, don't let the bigots think they are normal or right or accepted. The rest is out of your control.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 6d ago

something i’ve been thinking about is whether or not there’s a way to rightfully condemn anti-trans comments by people with a public profile without elevating their celebrity/importance + serving them on a platter to the right wing media ecosystem. the cycle is painfully disturbing and predictable.