Feminist theory remains undefeated in explaining the weirdest parts of the Trump administration. I'm just going to keep posting this skeleton-key-to-MAGA passage, written over 40 years ago, until everyone gets it.
Rex Huppke@rexhuppke.bsky.social · 13h agoWhat in the name of all that is holy is going on here?
Holy shit. It's hard to explain what a point of pride CHOP is for Pennsylvania and Philly in particular. This is wild. Like this is the equivalent of saying I hope someone runs over Gritty and sets fire to his carcass
Ironbound@ironbound.bsky.social · 13h agoMan this guy sucks
I sure wish the press would stop blowing this obnoxious loser
Rolling Stone@rollingstone.com · 2d agoRahm Emanuel: ‘You Don’t Like My Ideas? Show Me Yours’ The always pugnacious Democrat is ready to fight Republicans, the DSA, and Bibi Netanyahu. And maybe run for president.
When I was volunteering at the COVID19 vaccine POD in 2021, people would say over and over again that they were getting vaccinated for the people they love. Last year, only 17.5% of American adults got the COVID19 vaccine. Please get one for the people you love. 💕
Just in time for the 2026-2027 vaccines, a new review shows that COVID19 vaccination significantly reduces the risk of severe illness and hospitalization across all age groups, including kids. Pregnant women were also protected, as were their babies. Don’t forget to schedule your vaccination!
COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness and Safety for the 2026-2027 Respiratory Season
This Special Communication aims to identify and summarize the most recently published evidence evaluating the effectiveness and safety of US-licensed COVID-19 vaccines and report on the epidemiology o...
jamanetwork.com
Not only are foundations and donors pulling back from supporting trans rights, but major foundations are dropping organizations BECAUSE of their commitment to trans issues. This happened to @fightforthefuture.org and we have not recovered financially www.them.us/news/trans-r...
Trans Leader Sounds Alarm About “Near Complete Exodus” of Philanthropy From Movement
Shelby Chestnut, the executive director of the Transgender Law Center, says that the “dollars barely trickle in.”
them.us
RELEASE THE BEAVERS
Ada Palmer@adapalmer.bsky.social · yesterdayBritain is having its hottest summer on record, but one place has remained green. Brits in Holnicote have put rivers back onto their floodplains, restored wetlands, and released beavers that now build ponds and maintain the wetlands themselves. Countryfile buff.ly/CchGxpW #ShareGoodNewsToo
Stories like this and people like this mean so much to me: “I wanted to help fix some of that,” Revkin said. “I comfort myself with the fact that I am doing something, making these children’s lives a little easier in these horrible circumstances.” archive.ph/Qztcr
Each of us can do something meaningful to lessen suffering. This is borne out daily.
oh no ChatGPT is down I can't wait for my life to be completely unaffected by this
new job announcement: I am Housing & Resettlement Coordinator for @tractionpnw.bsky.social’s Open Arms Project, helping trans refugees from red states 1) make it to somewhere safer (often Seattle, but not always!) and 2) find employment, housing, and community once they do
Republicans' largest donor (by far) is hosting a robust debate on his platform about whether Jews are white. Corporate Media will ask precisely 0 Republicans about their largest donor's all-consuming misogyny, xenophobia, antisemitism, he will instead by referred to as a visionary industrialist.
ok I had to force down a tear with this one reskeeting with alt text
Ellie Mae O'Hagan@elliemaeohagan.bsky.social · yesterdayI love the dedication in My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinhem
""What did he study? “Philosophy and theology. A teacher in high school said, there’s no money in that, and I said: ‘Sir, that’s disrespectful. That’s insulting, because not everybody’s about money.’" he's one of us!
‘I don’t chase the dollar. I never did’: the astonishing hidden life of Mr T
He grew up in the ghetto, became a global superstar – then gave it all up. Why did he step away from the spotlight?
theguardian.com
when you claim to be working on yourself but actually you've been back on some bullshit
i don't think it was chiefly or just the inconvenience, but that they couldn't buy their way out of the safety measures and restrictions everyone else faced (they actually could, but not everyone and not every restriction)
ceej@ceej.online · yesterdayI do think “every rich person went insane during covid because it was the first time they’ve been inconvenienced in decades” felt a little reductive at first but damn if isn’t more and more compelling as the years drag on
Back in 1987, Steinem wrote about Dolly. Seems appropriate to share today.
Dolly Parton’s Unique Feminist Power, as Told by Gloria Steinem (January 1987)
Woman of the Year Dolly Parton’s Unique Feminist Power, as Told by Gloria Steinem (From the January 1987 issue of Ms. Magazine)
msmagazine.com
I want to ride the everyone mocks Seth Moulton train until the end of the line
I keep thinking about how Republicans campaigned and fundraised forever off of the Clinton administration repatriating Elian Gonzalez to Cuba, how they told Cuban-Americans for generations that only Republicans could be trusted to protect their families and friends... and here we are
Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · 3d agoCubans living in Florida are being deported to Africa www.tampabay.com/news/2026/08...
Girls just wanna have none (of your unsolicited advice)
Today's jam is dedicated to Milo and those gullible farmers who regret voting for Mango Mussolini :
Who would like to guess why UK, US and European media outlets are not publishing 3,000 articles per minute about this www.dukechronicle.com/article/duke...
‘Insane data’: Duke professor Dan Ariely accused of additional research fraud
New evidence released Monday shows that Dan Ariely, professor of business administration in the Fuqua School of Business, likely tampered with or fabricated data in an influential research paper from ...
dukechronicle.com
checked my calendar and I’m way overdue for someone falling madly in love with me
Yes, the undead are scary, but they’re also notoriously gulliable and easily identified via simple trick questions.
it's not an exaggeration to say that jk rowling is the world's most powerful and prominent transphobe outside of elon musk it's easy to not buy a tesla and it's easy to not watch the harry potter tv show
The Verge@theverge.com · 2d agoAs a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.
until the boomers leave this earth, this shit will continue to come back in embarrassing drips. Some anonymous (car dealer) donor funds this to celebrate a person they hold up on a pedestal as the Moral Arbiter of college football & life. Yet his morals failed at catastrophic levels when needed most
Penn State to open ‘Paterno Family Football Experience Room’ in Beaver Stadium museum
PSU will open the “permanent museum experience” Thursday, and it will include Joe Paterno’s original office desk and workspace.
newsobserver.com
