Loretta Young and Irene Dunne at the Cocoanut Grove by John Verzi, 1963

“Commas are important”

Tfw you got left on the plane in Turkey

MS NOW@ms.now · 7h ago

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt will step down from her role at the end of the month to spend more time with her family, President Trump announced in a post on Truth Social.

I'd say that Third Way is deranged for calling their DSA oppo work "anti-extremism," but the reality is that they're just nihilists. They do not care one way or another. This is what rich people pay them to do so they do it. They believe in nothing but paying the mortgage.

Jared Holt@jaredlholt.bsky.social · 7h ago

The "centrist" think tank Third Way is looking to pay someone between $140,000 and $150,000 to spend their days trying to dig up dirt on DSA members. They're trying to sell this gig as "anti-extremism" work, which I find completely disgusting.

Madame Satan - directed by Cecil B. DeMille #BOTD (1930)

Part of the influence for the ankle monitor was some guy noticing how cattle were tagged, so cattle prod gloves are an extension of this extremely fucked up logic.

BREAKING: Karoline Leavitt, known for pushing lies and gaslighting the public from the briefing room podium, will be LEAVING her job at the end of the month.

Karoline Leavitt Out as Trump’s White House Press Secretary

The combative Trump spokesperson, known for pushing lies and gaslighting the public from the briefing room podium, will leave at the end of August.

meidasnews.com

Happy William Wellman Wednesday (with portrait artist Azadia Newman on the set of Nothing Sacred, 1937)

Under this theory the Jewish Labor Committee would have been targeted and leadership imprisoned over payments to keep people alive in Nazi Occupied Europe (let alone money that bought arms for the Jewish- and non-Jewish- underground)

Mike Walker@newnarrative.bsky.social · 9h ago

A former Southern Poverty Law Center CFO has been arrested on charges she oversaw secret payments to informants inside White supremacist groups www.cnn.com/2026/08/12/p...

Autumn is in the air🍂

William Wellman’s WINGS premiered in New York City #OnThisDay in 1927. Starring Clara Bow, Charles "Buddy" Rogers, and Richard Arlen with a Gary Cooper chaser, WINGS won the very first Academy Award for Best Picture (then called Best Production) at the 1929 ceremony.

Gestapo Outfitters

Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof@evanbernick.bsky.social · 10h ago

I think the buried lede here is that there's a company called Compliant Technologies LLC that manufactures electric gloves which have been used to shock suspects for years. apnews.com/article/ice-...

just looked up where this Le Guin quote came from, and got a truly fantastic reveal

If you missed the solar eclipse, this is what it looked like:

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social @mayor.nyc.gov please pay attention. You HAVE to keep this dangerous tech out of our schools. Please declare a full "A.i." moratorium on 2K-12 for students and teachers NOW.

@clserdaigle.bsky.social · 9h ago

It was just reported that the kid in Acton who killed his mother and brother was talking to ChatGPT about fantasies of killing his family and using it to generate stories of killing his family. nbcboston.app.link/zJDe0h36x5b

Proof once again that the phrase "working class" is meant to signify ONLY white people who do manual labor. Everyone else is excluded from the definition.

This is EXTREMELY fucked up

Zack Beauchamp@zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 9h ago

The DOJ just arrested a prominent enemy of white nationalist group on grounds that, by trying to infiltrate these groups, she was actually supporting them. Roughly equivalent to arresting an undercover CIA agent for being part of ISIS. www.cnn.com/2026/08/12/p...

Matt Stoller is such a dumb asshole.

It was just reported that the kid in Acton who killed his mother and brother was talking to ChatGPT about fantasies of killing his family and using it to generate stories of killing his family. nbcboston.app.link/zJDe0h36x5b

Teen charged with murder of family members in Acton, DA says

A teen sought by authorities after two of his relatives were found dead Tuesday in Acton, Massachusetts, has been charged with murder, and investigators say he was using ChatGPT to make searches about the killing of his family, the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office announced Wednesday morning.

nbcboston.app.link

You've probably been exposed to Ai slop featuring flamingo babies that makes them look like adult flamingos just tiny. Turns out they look like you would expect baby birds. I'm not big on posting other folks content but do want people to know the difference www.instagram.com/reel/Db6Srg1...

I know many people have already seen this photo. But I want the world to see it again. This is the Kyiv metro, people are hiding from Russіan аttacks. Please, look at these children 💔 This is not how they should be sleeping. Not on the floor of a metro station, waiting for the next аttack.

Next Senator from Minnesota btw

There may be ways these devices could be useful, fun, and socially acceptable, but Meta was never going to be the company to figure them out.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 13h ago

It doesn’t matter what Meta says. This product is designed to erode and erase consent.

A few months later....

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 10mo ago

CNBC: Is importing beef from Argentina a possibility? BROOKE ROLLINS: Yes, the president has said he's in discussions with Argentina. It will not be very much. Argentina is also facing a foot and mouth disease issue.

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David Dayen@ddayen.bsky.social · yesterday

Yesterday Mayor Mamdani endorsed a bill to force Amazon to employ its own delivery drivers, rather than outsource the work to subcontractors. The Prospect can report that Amazon's lead lobbyist on that bill is Chuck Schumer's daughter Jessica. prospect.org/2026/08/11/m...

Happening now in South Minneapolis: -creepy federal “observers” watching polling places -state observers watching the feds -community observers watching the whole thing -press watching the observers watching the observers watching the observers Remember when we could just have normal elections

Should we be following in the footsteps of Vienna, Austria's social housing projects? 🌳🏘 This socialism blasphemy 😉 has made them the world's most livable city, with renters paying a third of what people pay to live in London, Paris, or Dublin!

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 · yesterday

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.

if woke 3.0 or whatever sweeps in one advantage it would have over the reactionaries is, the list of people needing to be hauled out of their homes and put on trial is like, comparatively tiny. few billionaires, trumps family and cabinet, etc. -- dont have to declare war on whole states like they do