Republicans have made their election strategy very clear: 1) Islamophobia 2) transphobia 3) blatant lying 4) cheating / suppressing votes 5) throwing endless dark + corporate $$ at all the above When I see Democrats HELPING them on 1 & 2 - or barely mentioning the rest - I want to break bones.

conservative john wick, enraged that someone killed his dog before he could

The Springfield Ohio bullshit is like, the most pronounced and clear cut example of American moral rot I’ve seen in forever. Literally asking Haitians to come to revitalize your hollowed-out community, and then subjecting them to this racial terror and humiliation after they do? Fucking hell

jewish antizionists have been making the same argument for more than 100 years

Benjamin Balthaser@blbalthaser.bsky.social · last wk.

The full text of Hasan Piker's statements, denounced by ppl from Hakeem Jeffries to Ben Shapiro. I am not sure the best way to respond to a moral panic, launched to stop progressive candidates & derail nec conversations re Israel's crimes, other than to call BS: there is nothing anti-Jewish here.

Ppl don’t like Bernie, but his making Medicare For All a well known “kitchen table” issue is sincerely one of the greatest political achievements of my lifetime

Jen Taub@jentaub.bsky.social · 3w ago

“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...

It would benefit our society alot if we mocked conservatives as literally scared all the time, in their own words. These people are cowards. “Go live a full life, and socialism is the way” is the message. Mamdani is among the first to swim in that lane

josh boerman@bosh.worstpossible.world · 4w ago

the media in this country treats bigotry coming from a place of fear as a valid public position. eventually this leads you to the ludicrous place where “the muslim mayor of new york city shouldn’t attend the 25th anniversary commemoration of 9/11” is treated as newsworthy opinion

It took 20yrs, but my journey through the Jim Morrison dialectic is now complete - he is an authentic poet who rocks - he is an embarrassing alcoholic who sucks - he is an authentically embarrassing alcoholic who rocks

Dave Moore@otherdavemoore.com · last mo.

Hot takes are annoying, tell me a strong opinion you had about music at some point in your life that changed

This is exactly the right point. The Tigers owner also has $7 BILLION dollars, and many other MLB teams could’ve made this trade. To owners, it’s less important that they win than it is that they squeeze every $ out of their investments. Somehow many fans agree. It’s an embarrassment to baseball

James Smyth@jamessmyth621.bsky.social · last mo.

Tigers are about to be 2.5 games out of a playoff spot and have the 3rd-best run differential in the American League at +50 (Yankees +86, Red Sox +56, and considering Detroit’s up 8-2 in the 8th in Sacramento they could be 2nd by the end of the night) They still gave up

The Tigers are about to be 2 1/2 games out of a playoff spot. What the hell are we letting 12 teams into the playoffs for if a team is going to trade one of the best pitchers in baseball when it's 2 1/2 games out of a playoff spot? We already have the NBA for this garbage.

i wrote about my favorite odyssey adaptation, o brother where art thou (2000)

Flaming Hydra@flaminghydra.com · last mo.

TODAY: @raxkingisdead.bsky.social on Oh Brother Where Art Thou?'s thrillingly loose, modern and musical adaptation of The Odyssey. "It can develop or dismiss any parts of the source material as it sees fit in order to kick the maximum possible amount of ass." flaminghydra.com/issue-618/#f...

sleigh bells in the glp-1 commerical

A streak to crystallize the changed state of MLB: Jacob Wilson has the second longest errorless streak by a SS in MLB history at 107 games, trailing Mike Bordick (110 games in 2002). BUT: Wilson has 315 chances vs the 544 for Bordick. So: a shortstop has gone from 5 chances a game to 3 this century.

as a capitalism hater, it’s kinda satisfying the richest guy in the world is just another wretched, annoying nerd. And extra points for him being a racist paranoiac who’s never known friendship or love and must publicly, pathetically, and futilely scavenge the most vile parts of the internet for it.

but they already made a historically accurate version of the odyssey?

Whichever country would allow him to be their President, they’d be better off for it

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · last mo.

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

I found this quote from Riley Gaines to be really striking. Straight-up conceding that the purpose of trans sports bans is to normalize transphobia, and to give "ordinary" people "more cover" expressing it in public. ballsandstrikes.substack.com/p/anti-trans...

Happy Bastille Day

once again saying: Nuremburg trials is the moderate position

Reuters@reuters.com · 2mo ago

Security camera footage obtained from local businesses showed individuals who are believed to be U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers surrounding a car and pulling the driver onto the street, in events connected to the fatal shooting of a man in a coastal town in Maine on July 13.

When Lindsey Graham appears in a history book, it'll be his prediction in 2016 that the Republican Party would be destroyed for supporting Donald Trump and then a few lines about how he proved it by becoming Trump's toady. That's pretty much it. That's his legacy. Pathetic lickspittle.

We’re all mortal and we’re all gonna be remembered for how we treated people and the kind of world we participated in making. It’s a pretty basic but essential lesson that many won’t learn this side of the sod.

This deep dive and analysis is well worth a read from @moundcitymessenger.bsky.social If our goal is actual safety progress, we need to sit with the devastating state of things, support victims and families, and address what everyday people are crying out for, including driver accountability. 1/X

City Data Shows Limited Pedestrian and Cyclist Safety Progress

City leaders have long listened to Trailnet’s recommendations for improved road safety, focusing efforts on traffic-calming changes to the streets. A review of crash statistics found in Trail…

moundcitymessenger.com

Love to remember Austin Kearns, part of the coolest young OF in Cin with Adam Dunn and Wily Mo Pena

Remember Some Guys@remembersomeguys.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Austin Kearns RF-LF Debut: 2002 - Retired: 2013 FLA - WSN - CLE - CIN - NYY

ICE agents must be tried for the murder of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.

Jennie Coughlin@jenniecoughlin.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Federal immigration agents who killed a man during a traffic stop in Houston on Tuesday had been searching for a different person, according to a Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman.

In case anyone is wondering how I "clocked" Platner, it was the fact that he is a literal mercenary with a Nazi tattoo. Maybe keep that in your back pocket

new metaphor just dropped

The legal arguments for Trump's birthright citizenship executive order are vapid and embarrassing. Multiple lower court judges legit laughed DOJ lawyers out of the room. The fact that four Supreme Court justices twisted themselves into logical pretzels to buy it is a constitutional emergency.

The Constitution Is On Life Support

Four justices are prepared to stuff the Fourteenth Amendment’s promises in the garbage because Mister Trump demands it.

ballsandstrikes.org

Now is a great time to reflect on how Kobe Bryant isn’t even a top 5 Laker of all time

The Athletic@theathletic.com · 2mo ago

LeBron James' Los Angeles Lakers tenure: ◽️️ 8 seasons 🏆️ 2020 NBA champion 🏆️ 2020 Finals MVP ◽️️ 8x All-Star ◽️️ 7x All-NBA nods

What that says to me is we’re one vote from basically no rights being secure. A court that could flip on this easy a question could flip on anything.

how successful have the moderates been in reining in the excesses of the trump administration

this is so insane

TK_Wharton@tkw.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I did not know about the A-pillar blind spot problem (gift article) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...