are the keffiyehs in the room with us right now olivia

Hunter Walker@hunterw.bsky.social · 10h ago

In Bari Weiss' Free Press, Olivia Reingold reported from El-Sayed's watch party that "there were keffiyehs as far as the eye could see ... keffiyehs on heads, keffiyehs as belts, keffiyeh-printed phone cases." Not a single one made it into images from Reuters, a local ABC station, or Detroit News.

Just to make the point abundantly clear, Chris Wallace is now a paid advisor to an investment firm that has a large stake in Paramount and a vested interest in getting the Warner Bros. merger over the line. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

Chris Wallace: States Are Playing Politics With the Law to Block Paramount’s Warner Bros. Deal

"I don’t believe government should use its powers to determine who owns a news platform or to control how that outlet reports the news," writes the former Fox and CNN anchor, who is now a paid advisor...

hollywoodreporter.com

Dying at the right-wing activists that (1) held a call with Todd Blanche in which Blanche made a lot of anti-abortion promises, (2) said "uh this is off the record" like doing so would magically ward off journalists, and then (3) UPLOADED IT TO THEIR YOUTUBE CHANNEL www.politico.com/news/2026/08...

this is hateful rhetoric top to bottom, but god help the next motherfucker who says “mon-DOMMI”

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17h ago

💯 😵‍💫

In other Michigan news, the state looks set to elect it's first transgender lawmaker. Joanna Whaley won her Democratic primary and will compete in November for a state house seat, beating a primary opponent who tried and failed to disqualify her for not running under her deadname

I initially read that alt-text as “Alien conference” and legit said oh shit out loud

Sarah Szalavitz💡@dearsarah.bsky.social · yesterday

Lean In To Fascism

If Democrats can’t understand that the move is to assume that once in power they’ll never be overthrown, they’ve ignored both the last 10+ years of Republican politics and the last 50+ years of rap music youtu.be/qrRofN54w_E?...

We Can't Be Stopped

YouTube video by Geto Boys - Topic

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Black Aziz Anansi@blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · yesterday

The GOP doesn't get punished if this country doesn't elect more leftists.

why is it so weird for dyed-in-the-wool lifetime Democrats to hear somebody saying that the fight against anti-Semitism and the fight against Islamophobia ARE THE EXACT FUCKING SAME FUCKING FIGHT

Oh shit I have whole 144 disc folder of mp3 discs I made for a used car with an aftermarket stereo I had for several years (it also had a USB port)

@hbrackets.bsky.social · yesterday

My buddy's new old car has a CD player that plays mp3 CDs, so I'm burning a bunch of mp3 CDs for him. His GF says "My car is a 2024, it doesn't have a CD player." "Well,start saving your money and maybe someday you can get a better car!"

I’m going to just burn ~78 minutes of “Killing In the Name” on a CD-R right now just out of spite

LFCNev@thenorthsace.bsky.social · yesterday

One day you burned some music onto a cd for the last time .. and you didn’t even know it

good lord, was just thinking about this band that I genuinely had forgotten for 20 some years

Stephen Thomas Erlewine@sterlewine.bsky.social · yesterday

Over at @pitchfork.com, I review Ever the Optimist, the lovely new album by the Trashcan Sinatras that now seems achingly poignant after the unexpected death of their rhythm guitarist John Douglas this week.

alternatively, we now have a million more entertainment options than trying to figure out which combination of vines to pull on to reveal a key or whatever the hell I remember Myst was

WIRED@wired.com · 19h ago

“Myst” sold over 6 million copies in the ’90s. Its latest sequel couldn’t shore up any funding, pointing to an existential crisis among double-A games. www.wired.com/story/no-one...

as a devoted viewer of 60 Days In, I can speak with authority that conditions in a typical county jail are better than what’s being reported from the USS Lincoln www.ms.now/news/conditi...

Moldy showers and no soap: Military families are outraged by conditions on USS Lincoln

The aircraft carrier's long deployment in the Iran war is raising concerns that the sailors and Marines on board are facing poor conditions, low supplies and fatigue.

ms.now

as I’ve mentioned before, I like to dip in on Morning Joe when I’m awake because my (very left, awesome as shit) mom watches, and I feel like I’m watching a weeks-old rerun. After the break: Strait of Hormuz agreement imminent Living conditions on USS Lincoln questionable Didn’t we just do this?

the best part of this story is the argument “all we want is an hour a week to be left alone and these motherfuckers think skinning squirrels in 2026 is totally OK”

The Advocate@advocate.com · 19h ago

The lawsuit says King George County officials allowed students to skin squirrels in another group and told LGBTQ+ students to disguise their gay-straight alliance as a “Kindness Club,” before blocking it altogether.

telling about centrist-Dem delusion that even MSNOW is still refusing to call the MI senate race until the votes from… Detroit (?) roll in

while I don’t love the centrist anti-DSA framing of Ager’s campaign, unfortunately (as with Cooper) that’s what it takes to win this seat. More importantly, I think R voters in this district are simply exhausted by the party putting up clown after clown spectrumlocalnews.com/nc/charlotte...

Democrats target 11th district in western NC in November

A House race to watch is in western North Carolina in the 11th Congressional District.

spectrumlocalnews.com

so you’re saying he’s gonna make sure he’s a known fucking asshole across every conceivable discipline

PatriotTakes 🇺🇸@patriottakes.bsky.social · yesterday

Trump announces he is rolling back protections for endangered species

Just gonna leave this here www.wdbj7.com/2026/08/04/s...

Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tours Danville hydroponics lab and Southside rehab facility

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. traveled to Southside Virginia on Monday, touring a cutting-edge agricultural research facility and highlighting efforts to address rural heal...

wdbj7.com

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 21h ago

I fear we might see a new alignment between a radical right death cult and a rural revivalist "simplicity" drive, which views collapse and a return to "organic" communities as a solution to decadent urbanism. A century ago this convergence led to a very bad place. www.monbiot.com/2023/10/04/t...

Politico is absolute trash in case you didn’t know by now

Wajahat Ali@wajali.bsky.social · 22h ago

LOL. Abdul El-Sayed WON the Democratic Primary in Michigan despite being outspent 10-1! Amazing gaslighting here.

No matter the margin the story is that Haley Stevens got $70M of support, more than $30M of it from a single organization, and still lost.

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · yesterday

30,000,000 dollars

I really don’t want to laugh at this, because it indicates something so fundamentally broken about people in general, but damn if it isn’t funny as hell

The Downballot@the-downballot.com · yesterday

Seems like an upset might be brewing in the GOP primary in #MI08 to take on Dem Rep. Kristen McDonald Rivet. Trump endorsed Amir Hassan, but he currently trails an absolute nobody who suspended his campaign a month ago by a wide margin.

For the past five months the only refugees the USA has accepted are white South Africans fleeing equality & safety meanwhile they are disappearing or strapping ankle monitors on any Haitian they can get ahold of. It needs to be understood how thoroughly connected these two things are.

On this day in 1944, the Gestapo found Anne Frank and her family in their Secret Annex. Her diary stands as a warning against hatred and persecution. Eighty years later, we should recognize the warning signs before it’s too late.🙂‍↕️

ok how many GOP members of congress are secretly dying/dead? this is getting out of hand

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

😳 Rep. Pete Stauber indicates there's something gravely wrong with Tom Emmer's health: "You have no idea what Congressman Emmer is dealing with right now. If you did, you would've never made that comment. He's fighting for his damn life today!"

Don’t you “y’all” me you fucking monster

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Rollins: "For those who love work and celebrate work and want people to work and not be on food stamps, it's a pretty big win when we've moved 5 million people off food stamps, y'all."

Just post this next time someone talks shit from Europe

It's official. Kansas Republicans have lost their State Supreme Court referendum attempt, and it won't even be close. Fantastic news.

TrumpsTaxes@trumpstaxes.com · yesterday

Really encouraging results thus far in Kansas. With about 1/5 of the vote in, Kansas voters are rejecting the Republicans' attempt to change the way State Supreme Court Justices are selected by a 40+ point margin.

I think it’s important to recognize that Haley Stevens’ obviously cynical philosemitism (in tonight’s race and in her 2022 race against Andy Levin) is itself a form of antisemitism. It’s very, very Bad For The Jews, and it’s really, really good to see it totally eat shit tonight.

Every detail of these findings is wild. Genuinely creepy behavior, but also, what. www.axios.com/2026/08/03/c...

Ethics panel urges censure of Rep. Chuck Edwards over sexual harassment violation

The findings follow Axios' reporting that Edwards singled out two young female staffers for special attention.

axios.com