honestly it's really sad to see a mainstream source like this turn antisemitic www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Haaretz Today • The American Jewish establishment is defending an Israel that no longer exists

The endless rationalizations by American Jewish organizations for why an Israeli lawmaker's latest indefensible remarks should not change anyone's understanding of the country increasingly look like a...

haaretz.com

Warning: This is graphic, but it's the reality of what Trump is sending hardworking Ohio Haitian families back to after ripping away their legal status and refusing them protection in America. I do not understand the heartlessness of those cheering this on. It's ugly and sick.

it's an MF Doom lyric

Craig@highcube.org · yesterday

native english speaker here having trouble with the phrase "an intestate estate escheating to the state,"

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_...

Joseph Ellis - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Aryeh Zax@azax.bsky.social · 3d ago

Off the top of your head, are you familiar with any white male academics who lied about being world-class endurance athletes, being sent a pig corpse in the mail, being threatened by a man with knife at their office, turning around the lives of their muggers through mercy, brain cancer...(1/43)

the john roberts court is the worst legislature this country has ever had

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 3d ago

federal law *used to* ban sports betting throughout much of the country but in 2018, the Supreme Court struck that law down, freeing states to partner with the gambling industry to profit off their vulnerable residents Americans are now paying the price ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

may need to print this and hang it on the wall in my office at this rate

Oman is the Denmark of the Middle East, if you will

Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret)@portlandken.bsky.social · 3d ago

Oman is America's oldest and most consistent ally in the Persian Gulf. From the 18th century to the 21st, Oman has always be there to help American sailors and support American initiatives. Now Trump says he plans to "bomb the s**t out of Oman." Trump does not understand friendship or loyalty.

Somewhere in a sweltering desert, cockroaches scurry around the cell of Carlitos Ricardo Parias. He holds up a plastic bottle, gazing at the worm-like creatures swimming in his water. His other arm is turning purple from a gunshot wound for which he says he hasn’t received proper medical care.

Benedict Arnold was many bad things but at least he wasn't an idiot

Immediately after Jan 6, Trump’s approval ratings tanked to the lowest point of his first term (to roughly where they are right now, in fact). It was only as time went on, and elite institutions signaled that maybe it hadn’t been such a big deal, that people stopped caring as immediately

Scott Lemieux@lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 5d ago

As silly as the whole "the right has no cultural influence" argument is, the whole edifice is indeed a depressing look into the mind of a typical American swing voter

Rethinking most political engagement as a form of prompt injection is grim and a little dystopian but also better than what 70% of people doing political engagement today come up with

This is an absolute travesty. Northwestern has, probably, the 2nd best library collection for African History/Studies in the USA (behind Yale and ahead of MSU, UCLA, etc). A self-inflicted wound that is absolutely, 100% unnecessary given the massive wealth of Northwestern--north of $15 billion.

SCOOP: Northwestern moves to close Program of African Studies

thepurplewire.beehiiv.com

It's amazing how many places the colorblind constitution can see color.

The White House Correspondents Association should have announced that they are disbanding until the next administration to focus on purely adversarial coverage. Instead they offered to work with Trump on a plan to get them killed next time.

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · last wk.

Trump leaving journos on decoy plane after viciously attacking them at a press dinner that feted his power neatly captures how media submits to his authoritarian abuses. And nothing will be learned from it, as @sulliview.bsky.social says on our pod. She's great here: newrepublic.com/article/2142...

curious choice of mascot for this ai slop

Transphobes Can't Read@lordaslan.bsky.social · last wk.

Ah yes, the two genders: Bugs and Women

boy, 1965 is a carefully chosen date re: "which bathroom to use"

Transphobes Can't Read@lordaslan.bsky.social · last wk.

Ah yes, the two genders: Bugs and Women

gods how I wish that were true of me

Gregk Foley@gregk.co.uk · last wk.

It's like they've never even heard of Shen Yun

And which is more serious: 1) A silly campus protest 2) Someone said a mean thing Leftishly 3) Armed agents of the state murdering people 4) A political party using the state to silence dissent. (3) and (4) are very obviously a much bigger deal than (1) or (2), not that you can tell from the NYT.

My favorite eclipse experience was 2017, on the campus of Tennessee State University, an HBCU my family was closely tied to a couple generations back. Hearing the marching band leader shout "it's the eclipse y'all!" as the totality struck was icing on a very big cake

Look I dragged my sprained ankle to the west side of Tangier for this shot so let's not minimize the effort lol

The perfect MAGA "self-made man." Mom helped him lie to investors about a drug, giving patients false hope. He cashed out for $260m, and then the stock dropped like a rock. One teacher's union retirement fund lost $1 million. Dude made his fortune on the backs of Alzheimer patients and teachers.

How Vivek Ramaswamy’s mom manipulated Alzheimer’s data and made her son rich

Vivek Ramaswamy, a billionaire and the Republican nominee in Ohio’s gubernatorial race, served as the frontman for a dubious pharmaceutical company and then cashed out weeks before its dramatic crash.

oligarchwatch.substack.com

Was just literally complaining that the primary issues with ultra wealth is not the abstraction of some big number it's the palpable change in rational decision making by people who don't have ultra wealth

👨🏻‍💻☕️@hunterwalk.com · last wk.

K SHAPED ECONOMY www.nytimes.com/2026/08/09/s...

@starshine.bsky.social

surely we can start calling trump "embattled" in headlines now

Even my phone knows how to dim its LEDs what is the problem

Forbes@forbes.com · last wk.

The company doesn’t currently have a fix for the problem.

Not only did Seth Moulton get special access to private defense tech company investments while serving on the House Armed Services Committee, he also made investments in a Chinese-owned defense firm before it was purchased by a leading donor. Bob Kuttner reports. prospect.org/2026/08/11/m...

More About Seth Moulton’s Conflicts - The American Prospect

He is well positioned to profit from the defense buildup.

prospect.org

John Fetterman's appearance on WaPo's Make It Make Sense podcast—in which he spends a good portion of it trashing Abdul El-Sayed—has generated only 3,600 views in two days, despite getting a lot of play on Fox. Also, he'll apparently wear a suit for a podcast nobody watches -- but not for his job.

I'm also someone who occasionally defends a still-on-Twitter friend from "lame shit." I don't care how lame the hot take is: telling someone to post it on X is categorically lamer

Kang@kang.bsky.social · last wk.

Still young enough to defend my friends from lame shit

Lol when did Partiful start trying to be a dating app. It's screaming early Facebook @partifulapp.bsky.social

To a first approximation the problem with the old guard "center-left" is that they've spent so much time watching the slow death of organized labor that they never bothered to imagine, well, organizing labor