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@mkverson.bsky.social

Humanist, mom, earth lover.

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Dan Savage @dansavage.bsky.social · yesterday

Help me out, Hive Mind! I vaguely recall a song from the 70s or 80s about a woman who married for money, not love. The song is addressed to the woman, who might be cheating (or is cheating) and a pool features in it maybe? Sung by a man. Am I hallucinating this? Ring any bells?

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · yesterday

Domestically our government tries to prosecute people all the time who are clearly innocent. Even if you are not bothered by the lack of due process (and we all should be) huge amount of trust is going into intelligence behind who the US boat kills. And Senators are saying that trust is unwarranted.

CNN@cnn.com · 2d ago

The US military’s strikes on alleged drug boats have likely illegally killed “individuals who are not involved in narcotrafficking,” Sen. Tim Kaine told the White House, following “a careful review” of classified information he has seen so far.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Booker: "Ghislaine Maxwell is sitting in the lowest possible confinement after giving no information that helped us get one more investigation started and has been silent, and the man responsible for that we're about to make the attorney general of the US ... this is farcical."

Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · yesterday

And yes, the inflation <was> transitory. The inflation now is Trump’s fault & Joe Biden had nothing to do with it, again despite The Narrative™️

Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · 2mo ago

When Joe Biden left office, PCE was 2.6% & this was closer to the Fed’s target than 85% of months since the formal target started in 2012. High inflation was over under Biden. It’s important to keep noting this bc people keep pretending inflation now is still his fault: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · yesterday

Like the inflation, the realignment was transitory, but The Narrative™️ could not fail (it could only be failed)

David Roberts@volts.wtf · yesterday

Pundits *thrilled* over the supposed "realignment" that had black and brown voters swinging to Trump in meaningful numbers. It was so counterintuitive! And a chance to lecture the left! Turns out the whole thing was as substantial as a fart in a breeze. Pundits were projecting their fantasies.

Katelyn Burns@katelynburns.com · yesterday

All of these idiots assume that HRT does nothing to a body and these elite golfers would just waltz into women's pro sports unchanged. It's moronic. And there used to be clear rules before the morons started getting mad about this issue.

Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 2d ago

Celebrate AOC's beautiful path to the 2028 presidency, as proclaimed by Andrew and Tristan Tate's lawyer. 'McBride saw it as a given that MAGA couldn’t afford to lose his clients, writing on Instagram, “AOC will be the next President without the Manosphere and Andrew Tate.” '

“Andrew Tate was a material participant in ensuring President Trump’s victory,” McBride says. “And if Trump doesn’t support him, and if the next people who are going to be running for office potentially are just like, yeah, down the river he goes, that young cohort of people will break with the Republican Party in the next election.” McBride saw it as a given that MAGA couldn’t afford to lose his clients, writing on Instagram, “AOC will be the next President without the Manosphere and Andrew Tate.” “If your superhero is betrayed by somebody,” he tells me, “the person who’s betrayed them, how can you support them ever again?” https://www.vanityfair.com/story/andrew-tate-extradition-trump-manosphere?
Chad Loder@chadloder.dev · 2d ago

For months before Sophie Cunningham's latest blow-up, Instagram and TikTok have been shoving tribute videos of her fighting Black players on the court into everyone's feed. I wonder why that is, and I wonder about the timing of the buildup.

Kate Riga@kateriga.bsky.social · 2d ago

Something about that seat man – Edwards' predecessor was the scandal-ridden Madison Cawthorn. Texts that will make you physically uncomfortable, personalized Adam Sandler puzzles, "approximately 30" types of ice cream ahead (if you dare): talkingpointsmemo.com/news/house-e...

Bizarre Texts, Gifted Guns, 30 Types of Ice Cream: Rep. Faces Censure Following Sexual Harassment Allegations

The bipartisan House Ethics Committee on Monday recommended that Rep. Chuck Edwards...

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John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 2d ago

Well, actually, kinda, yeah, close to what happened. It's not for nothing that Jack Dorsey, who started the place and was on its board, basically ran away when the trans folks and furries scared off all the crypto bros he assumed would be the natural demographic here (they went to Nostr instead).

jack@jackalltogether.bsky.social · 2d ago

Bluesky often seems like a project run by tech people who place great value on its architectural differences from Twitter, which nobody cares about, while not understanding how they walked ass-backwards into having a userbase (whomst they fear and despise)

Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com · 2d ago

BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: Five months ago, we learned that ICE seized drawings and letters from children in the Dilley ICE concentration camp. I sued under the Freedom of Information Act. Today, I got responsive documents. www.muellershewrote.com/p/breaking-e...

BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: ICE Seized Drawings from Children in Detention. I Sued, and Today I Got Them.

Five months ago, I filed a Freedom of Information Act Request for papers seized from children at the Dilley ICE Detention Center. Today, I got a heartbreaking response.

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Lisa Rabey@pookiebear.net · 2d ago

OK. Since I'm a librarian and I must ORGANIZE ALL THE THINGS, I took all the titles mentioned by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social, @ali-alkhatib.com, and the Library Freedom Project and put them in a single list on bookshop.org: bookshop.org/wishlists/53.... (I did not coin "data politics," Tressie did.)

Bookshop.org: Buy books online. Support local bookstores.

A better way to buy books online. Every purchase financially supports local independent bookstores.

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Matthew Gertz@mattgertz.bsky.social · 2d ago

This doesn't seem like a person with the sort of respect for the law that you'd want appointing the attorney general. edition.cnn.com/2026/08/03/p...

Furious Trump is considering removing Pirro over Reflecting Pool filing, sources say | CNN Politics

President Donald Trump is considering removing Jeanine Pirro, the US attorney for the District of Columbia, over a Justice Department filing on the Reflecting Pool, two people familiar with his thinki...

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