i think a lot of well-meaning people fall into a rhetorical trap where they take the bait and argue about male vs. female performance in sports rather than arguing for the value and dignity of women’s athletics generally. don’t let yourself be dragged into a bad faith framing.

Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social · 2d ago

the best HS teams in the country have multiple guys who will be in the NBA in a couple of years. they aren't normal high schools, they're basketball factories. but this literally doesn't matter. the value of women's sports isn't contingent on their performance vis a vis men.

Always: a short stay in hell

Tim Carmody@tcarmody.bsky.social · 2d ago

I want to read something (fiction or nonfiction, narrative or non-narrative) that is easy but not stupid, and this turns out to be easier to formulate as a requirement than it is to make it appear The most recent book that satisified this requirement was Seamus Heaney’s translation of Beowulf

christ if that’s not a metaphor for our times

every news headline needs this dramatic reveal tbh

Parker Molloy@parkermolloy.com · last wk.

Just amazing how this headline gets worse with every line

Rip Carol Lynn Pearson. Her work has gotten me through some pretty rough patches.

My psychologist recommended a break from church for me in navigating autistic burnout. For the first time in my life I haven’t been for six weeks. Bishopric member just asked me to speak next month. I haven’t been asked in ten years. Hmmmm

being a billionaire and on the internet all day is crazy to me. if i had even five million dollars, you would not find me online whatsoever.

Paddington 2 goes so hard as an abolitionist text and I will not be hearing counter arguments.

Hey online Mormonism folks: @spencergreenhalgh.com is collecting submissions for an issue of JMSS Association.

Spencer Greenhalgh (he/him)@spencergreenhalgh.com · 3w ago

Hey, Mormon-adjacent Bluesky! @sdstewart.bsky.social, Rosemary Avance, and I are editing an issue of the Journal of the Mormon Social Science Association on "Platformed Mormonism." We're looking for submissions—maybe from you—that go beyond the traditional "research study." jmssa.org/cfp-platform...

This executive order is illegal, invalid, and void. The president has no authority to revoke monument status from federal lands once designated as monuments. Only Congress has that constitutional power. Trump and Utah’s leadership are attempting to usurp the lawful role of Congress.

Reuters Legal@legal.reuters.com · 3w ago

U.S. President Donald Trump signed orders on Monday that slashed the size of two national monuments in southern Utah by more than 90% to allow for grazing, motorized recreation, logging and other resource development in the region.

V good visual data analysis at the source link

Prison Policy Initiative@prisonpolicy.org · 4w ago

Don't let copaganda fool you — police violence is not tied to their safety. In 2025, the vast majority of killings began with police responding to suspected non-violent offenses or cases where no crime was reported.

Go Fund Me for the sister who was surrounded by white supremacists on the Metro in that viral photo. If you shared the photo, consider actually making a material donation.

Brian Goldstone@brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 3w ago

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Whenever I think about this book I get a disturbing feeling in the pit of my stomach (complimentary)

The Salt Lake Tribune@sltrib.com · 3w ago

BYU professor Steven Peck's 2009 thriller, "A Short Stay in Hell," is exploding in popularity, "disturbing" whole new waves of readers.

hE wAS NeVEr dIsAGrEeAbLe HE LITTERALLY DISAGREED WITH THE NOTION THAT YOUR PARTY IS A LEGITIMATE PARTICIPANT IN OUR POLITICAL SYSTEM

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I'm not even rooting against Argentina at this point I am rooting against FIFA

There’s been such an absence of actual leftist politics that for years it’s been represented by a bunch of contrarian edge lords whose main concern was seeming cool to their audiences by critiquing liberals, goofing on people worried by growing fascism, and never offering anything to help anyone.

Sean T. Collins@seantcollins.com · 4w ago

I don't know what to call the specific political tendency represented by Ryan Grim, Ken Klippenstein, Matt Stoller, Michael Tracey, Glenn Greenwald, Matt Taibbi, and Zaid Jilani, mostly because words sort of fail, but it isn't "the Left."

My best vote for an idaho gop politician has been for Phil McGrane

Kyle Pfannenstiel@pfannyyy.bsky.social · 4w ago

The Trump administration warned Idaho’s top election official that local and state election officials could be criminally prosecuted if they don’t stop noncitizens from voting in the federal 2026 midterm elections. #idpol

If this were the norm under capitalism, fewer people would have a problem with it. But instead it’s rabid venture capital,shareholders uber alles,scam gamble nation,& data center nihilism. There are & have always been better choices. We could just favor labor over capital& invest in public things 🤷🏾‍♀️

Pam Herd@pamherd.bsky.social · 4w ago

His work matters and Costco rewards it as such. He earns $33 an hour, has a 401k with $1 million, and has incredible health insurance. His wife had brain cancer. They have no medical debt. He had paid leave, and came back part time w/o a pay cut. [gift link] www.wsj.com/business/ret...

This is what happens when you cede candidate selection to non-party groups that are in it to make money, not win seats

Solomon@solomonrmissouri.com · 4w ago

Me Too did not go far enough.

Back in the day this religion prof at Byui posted Qanon and white nationalist ish on twitter and when starting to get blowback for it told her Boss I was trying to get her fired for saying “Jesus Christ is the light of the world”

I don't think Platner is a plant. he's just your run-of-the-mill misogynistic, racist leftish dudebro.

I know it’s really hard to conceptualize the lifestyle that different amounts of income or wealth will buy you— But I want you to stop and think about who benefits from the notion that middle class means “barely scraping by and struggling to make ends meet.”

futurism.com/future-socie... lol

An idaho government employee posting neonazi content during working hours? Yeah that tracks

Eric Levai@ericlevai.bsky.social · last mo.

Anonymous neo-Nazi propagandist "Big Serge" has been identified. Good work. www.investigatewest.org/idaho-labor-...

As an American history professor, I regularly read new books, articles, and dissertations, and also evaluate unpublished manuscripts for journals and book publishers. I would not categorize the recent and emerging historiography in the binary way that Ezra Klein does.

Monticello spent decades working to tell a more full and honest story about Jefferson and slavery. Then the right wing trolls came for them, and the institutional response was…not great. prospect.org/2026/07/02/w...

What Broke Monticello - The American Prospect

How a right-wing smear campaign tried to silence the reality of Thomas Jefferson’s life, and in some ways succeeded.

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The best thing you can say about the founders: they didn’t limit the scope of their political imagination based on the ideas of people who died centuries before them—and neither should we.

I had a falling out with a friend right before my 50th birthday, and he didn't come to my party. I told him I understood but cursed the timing: "If this had happened 6 months ago, we'd be past it now and you'd come." Anyway, that's what America's 250th reminds me of. Too bad about the timing.

Author Myron J. Clifton@deardean22.bsky.social · last mo.

This America 250 carnival fair thing looks deserted