While dummies like the folks talking to Schleifer (presumably AIPAC or other big money PAC people) presumably think this, it seems more likely that the AIPAC deluge a) pushed Stevens closer than she otherwise would've been, and b) had probably already reached its plateau of positive influence.

acabylon bee@acabylonbee.bsky.social · 6h ago

LMAO CALLED IT JAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJA

Ah, yes, come and visit Salem's "Witch City Mall," which one TripAdvisor reviewer called "one of the most baffling, disjointed, and frankly depressing indoor shopping experiences I've encountered."

ashley fairbanks@ziibiing.com · 20h ago

tell me about your town’s weird mall

Commentators (especially in the centrist wing of the party) are going to try to call this a referendum on ideology. But the real story, as it was 2 years ago, is that Cori Bush's office was *famously* bad at constituent services. "Can I get someone on the phone?" matters, and voters remember.

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 22h ago

Rep. Wesley Bell ends former lawmaker Cori Bush’s comeback bid, beating her in Missouri’s Democratic House primary for the second time in two years. Follow our coverage from the ground:

Notably, Donald Trump has less than zero understanding or appreciation for the idea of policy as legacy. He only understands "build/deface physical objects and put your name on them." Honestly, it's probably for the best.

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · yesterday

This stuff is going into overdrive the day after the midterms. He’s going to put his name and face on everything.

whale sounds: aaaooouuaaauuooouaaa Wales sounds:

This is especially true if the reason we know about the Problem That Was Done is that the Doer announced the problem and the steps they're taking to fix it. As was the case with Taco Bell and the diarrhea lettuce.

Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · yesterday

I would like to propose the Taco Bell Principle When a person/institution Did A Problem, & IMMEDIATELY fesses up & takes proactive steps to solve it That's exactly what we want them to do? So how bout we let them live ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

For all the flaws in HP, its political stance is pretty clearly "Baby's First Antifascism," and the ways it falls down are mostly Rowling not thinking especially seriously about any of the issues she tries to address beyond "racial purity obsessives = evil." Her TERF shit is later Twitter Poisoning.

Widow's Bay DSA@gonebabygone.bsky.social · yesterday

I think pointing to problematic stuff in Harry Potter as proof she was "always" like this is misguided because it ignores the very well-documented phenomenon of transphobes driving themselves totally nuts On Phone. She is worse than she's ever been, it's something we all saw happen.

The Children of Light, the graphic novel I translated, is coming out on August 18th, and is available for pre-order! So far it's been getting some very nice reviews, which I'm gonna put in this here thread

The Children of Light

An advanced alien race attempts to escape oblivion with the help of a world-sized spaceship, an omniscient supercomputer, and a mysterious group of godlike creatures in this astonishingly illustrated ...

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Not to get too conspiracy-brained, but it does kinda feel like "release and promote shitty, outrage-bait article; put the apology and clarification on a podcast where ad space is more profitable" might've been the plan here, which is a whole new angle from which this sucks ass.

ace@aceanbender.com · 4d ago

more outlets need to be willing to go "it was a mistake to publish this, we've spiked it because it's damaging." while seerat is asking people to listen to her podcast about what she got wrong, her awful column is still one of the top stories on the ringer.

It's fine to think the backlash against Hank Green's use of AI is irrational and overblown, but everyone I've seen on here "defending" him has completely ignored the part of his apology where he admits both his wife and brother think he's been using llms in an unhealthy way. That feels telling.

this is extremely good, not because I think Harris is likely to be the nominee again but because this is how expanding the Court becomes table stakes for everyone who wants to run for President

Taegan Goddard@politicalwire.com · 5d ago

Harris Says Supreme Court Should Expand to 13 Justices https://politicalwire.com/2026/07/31/harris-says-supreme-court-should-expand-to-13-justices/

Broke: this movie with a wicker Alexander Skarsgård looks weird and offputting Woke: actually, weird and offputting movies are good and we should want more of them Bespoke: part of what makes weird and offputting movies good is that we can have fun talking about the ways they're weird and offputting

rob@ok-but-still.bsky.social · 6d ago

i'm done looking at shit for a while

It's almost starting to feel like Stevens and her allies are *trying* to get Arab- and Muslim-Americans in Michigan to stay home in the general (if she ekes-out a win in the primary). Stupid, racist, and self-defeating. Which I guess kinda makes Dan Goldman the perfect messenger.

Rav@rvbdrm.com · 5d ago

Rep. Dan Goldman, who lost his primary nearly 2:1, is giving advice to democrats at 4 AM: “If you were a supporter of the Uncommitted movement — which was significantly responsible for Trump 2.0 — then you are in no position to demand anything from Democrats.”

NFL: Jets, Colts, Ravens, Chiefs, Giants NBA: Lakers, 76ers, Raptors, Heat, Magic NHL: Habs, Panthers, Canucks, Leafs, Flyers MLB: Yankees, Yankees, Yankees, Yankees, Yankees

tony homo@gaychel.bsky.social · 7d ago

Gimme your top 5 hated teams for your favorite sports. I am just going with NFL and MLB because its hard to write em all down. NFL 1. Rams 2. 9ers 3. Steelers 4. Packers 5. Broncos MLB 1. Astros 2. Yankees 3. Blue Jays 4. Rangers 5. Red Sox

I'm going to be honest, seeing this my first reaction was the extremely uncharitable and probably unproductive: "This is what we get for hoping a Mormon guy might not be a chud." Hopefully Jennings realizes what a dickhead he's being and apologizes. bsky.app/profile/gwen...

I can't be the only one who sees how racist the Stevens campaign's (and her supporters') strategy of selling her as a "real Michigander" is, right? El-Sayed was born and raised in suburban Detroit. Unlike Stevens who was... born and raised in suburban Detroit. They're literally from the same suburb.

Rav@rvbdrm.com · 7d ago

What the fuck?? “While Mr. El-Sayed is fringy and radical, he’s also a Muslim man. Ms. Stevens is a white woman. This puts her at a disadvantage in the identity Olympics that internal Democratic Party politics have become.” www.wsj.com/opinion/free...

Oh no, what are you doing Giant Baby? You can't get away with that. What were you thinking Giant Baby?

Nathan Kalman-Lamb@nkalamb.bsky.social · 6d ago

UEFA has just unanimously decided to boycott both men's and women's World Cups over FIFA's attempt to sell the global game to private equity. Damn.

Good-faith concern on this issue would be going, "hmm, professional sports leagues should probably have some standards in place to ensure trans competitors aren't getting an unfair advantage," googling for 5 minutes, realizing every sports league already has those standards and dropping it.

Rodger Sherman@rodger.bsky.social · 6d ago

i don't believe anyone has "good-faith" concerns about trans women in sports in 2026. there's been too much time to hear the actual evidence, the actual people affected, and the role the debate plays in attempts to purge trans people from American life. anybody picking that side has made a choice

Look, his appearance and presentation are not in the top 50 objectionable things about Ross Douthat, but also when people say "a face made for radio and a voice made for print," he's who they're thinking of.

Cops hate cities, hate the people living inside of them and are much more empathetic to someone trying to race through the city to enter and leave as quickly as possible than they are to like, a cyclist or pedestrian, who represent a class of people (city residents) the cop wished stopped existing

@calizaybak.bsky.social · last wk.

I have seen this in so many places, I have no idea why police no longer care about enforcing traffic laws, it's bizarre! They're driving more than anyone! They have kids! Yet they don't care. Like do they get paid more dealing with crashes, the bloody the better?

Lars von Trier's Catullus 16

Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · last wk.

Studio execs are going to want to adapt more poems for the big screen now

While this is sad (and hopefully changes soon), "DM has written the next session, but can't get the party together to actually make it happen" is an incredible meta-bit for a D&D movie.

IGN@ign.com · 2w ago

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves co-director Jonathan Goldstein says the script for a sequel already exists, but he's not expecting it to see the light of day any time soon. https://bit.ly/4bIsrNA #SDCC

BREAKING: The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power has been cancelled due to unanimous audience rejection of the Balrog’s signature catchphrase, ‘What’s crappening, dog dicks?’

IGN@ign.com · 2w ago

For the first time ever, the Balrog will speak in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Season 3! Star Trek and Mission Impossible actor Simon Pegg will be voicing the fiery creature, as revealed at #SDCC 2026.

Things like this are largely a problem of DSA's consensus-driven decision making process not being well understood or communicated. Platforms like this look thin and unserious because they're consensus positions of an ideologically diverse org, not a detailed policy platform for candidates.

Sky Marchini@sky.skymarchini.net · 2w ago

i'm sorry, my copy must be missing some pages, is this really the entirety of the DSA's foreign policy platform? program.dsausa.org cause "unilateral US withdrawal worldwide", israel/palestine, no sanctions [lol], and abolish ice (Which is not FP) is, uh, remarkably short...

This is an interesting point, that Riley Gaines made her grifter pivot as she was ending her NCAA eligibility (knowing she wasn't good enough to make a living swimming), while Cunningham seems to be angling for a Fox News contract while she still has a decade+ potential career ahead of her.

Widow's Bay DSA@gonebabygone.bsky.social · 2w ago

Sophie Cunningham somehow seems more pathetic and needy than Riley Gaines as an active athlete

I like some of the Bulwark's content more than most lefties. It's a look into the mind of conservatives who aren't complete degenerate cultists. But why would Dems take advice on beating MAGA from NeverTrump Republicans, of all people? The one group who definitively does *not* know how to beat MAGA?

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 2w ago

The vibes may be exciting, but if Democrats are going to win this year and in 2028, they must reject the DSA. If you’re tempted by a democratic socialist this year, think of what use Republicans will make of these victories, and ask whether you want to do favors for fascists.

Literally he wasn't "Ebenezer before he was Scrooge." In-story because that's not how names work (family name was Scrooge before his parents settled on the name Ebenezer), and in-reality because Dickens chose the name Scrooge from a grave of a guy named "Scroggie" & built the character off of that.

DiscussingFilm@discussingfilm.net · 2w ago

First poster for ‘EBENEZER’, a new film based on ‘A Christmas Carol’ starring Johnny Depp. “Before he was Scrooge, he was Ebenezer”

The Cunningham thing seems extremely obvious and easy to parse, to me. She: a) knows she's not good enough to crack a WNBA starting 5 b) doesn't want to spend the next 10 years riding pine c) is preparing to make her Riley Gaines rightwing media grift-pivot.

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 2w ago

Sophie Cunningham doubles down and calls trans people a threat to children. But don't worry, she's there to "love."

If you're unsure what to think about this: Kirchick is a lifelong neoconservative whose ideal Democratic Party is "Mitt Romney but with a D next to his name." There's no reason to take him seriously on this, because he doesn't actually want Democrats to win, he wants Trump to lose to Republicans.

The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 2w ago

“Democrats appear slow to recognize that ideologues on the left are attempting a hostile takeover of the party,” James Kirchick writes. In looking for a way to reclaim control, he argues, they could find inspiration in British history: