I feel like the headline here is “are you 18? No? Then I feel nothing.” Not his accidentally sliding into the dms of a minor.

The excesses of the Woke 1 era mostly amount to cringe public statements, harmless vocabulary updates and loss of prestige for public figures. The backlash to Woke 1, on the other hand, is imprisoning dissidents, dismantling public education and eroding democracy. That's what needs reckoning

Welp, that explains the sky going black here a few minutes ago

Michael McLean@michaelmclean.me · 3h ago

130mph winds in the south suburbs of Chicago Oh my god

Today in @thenation.com: a harrowing piece written from inside the Dilley ICE detention center by Maryam Tahmasebi, a green card holder who's been locked up along with her husband and son for months despite none of them committing any crime. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention

My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.

thenation.com

A lot of people who are against Medicare for All and/or other schemes to nationalise healthcare seem to think that it necessarily involves outlawing private healthcare and insurance, and that’s simply not the case. Even in the UK, with the NHS, they still have private healthcare. It’s just smaller.

Recently, critical comments about LGBT people every day make me very sad. LGBT people just want to love whom they love and live proudly as themselves—why treat that as a demand? Living as a human is a right and shouldn’t be restricted by male and female genders🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

On Monday, President Trump signed an executive order that calls for reducing the number of recommended childhood vaccines. History has shown how plagues from the past can roar back when trust in shots — or access to them — falters. Revisit our March investigation:

How Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Vaccine Agenda Risks a Resurgence of Deadly Childhood Plagues

The health secretary is spreading doubts about vaccine safety and considering changes that could prompt manufacturers to flee the U.S. market. History has shown how plagues from the past can roar back...

propublica.org

With global attention locked on Ukraine and the US-Iran, Sudan's civil war has been allowed to fester and become a theatre for competing regional ambitions. The result has been one of the world's worst humanitarian catastrophes. @dankaszeta.bsky.social reports. warsight.com/2026/08/11/s...

Sudan: An overview of a brutal war - Warsight

With global attention locked on Ukraine and the US-Iran confrontation, Sudan's civil war has been allowed to fester. The conflict has now become a theatre for competing regional ambitions, with the tw...

warsight.com

Man what is wrong with these people? They literally think the US is responsible for the war in Ukraine and don’t understand that it’s Russia at all do they?

Republicans Against Trumpism@rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · yesterday

Remnick: So we shouldn't send weapons to Ukraine? DSA co-chair Megan Romer: No! Remnick: So, just allow Russia to overrun Ukraine entirely? Romer: We should be sending huge teams of diplomats. We should figure out how to negotiate.w

The way I flash back to Final Destination every time I see one of these…

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 24h ago

the specific millennial PTSD this triggers

i personally think polymarket and all companies like it should be regulated out of existence and their assets seized by the state

Why do Americans call tortoises “turtles”? I’ve never been able to work it out. Is it just ignorance or what?

I hope all you fuckers who sat out 2024 are happy.

Dara Lind@daralind.bsky.social · yesterday

NEW FROM ME: The Great Delegalization. There are now (almost certainly far more than) 1M immigrants who were protected from deportation on Jan 20, 2025, and no longer are. It’s the result of a problem that’s been building for 30 years—& now only Congress can fix. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

30-year-old youth minister Elijah Gantt has spent two years behind bars awaiting trial for attending a protest to mark the 10 year anniversary of Michael Brown’s killing. The state’s case included 12 charges and a sentencing request of 66 years until he accepted a plea deal. Now they are seeking 19.

Protesters Marking 10 Years After Michael Brown’s Killing Face Arrest and Prison

“To say, why were we out there, why were we even protesting … is to gaslight an entire community,” said one supporter.

truthout.org

The media are absolutely desperate to make the midterms into anything other than a referendum on Trump.

The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 2d ago

Abdul El-Sayed’s win in Michigan is a blow to center-left Democrats—“and more will come unless they quickly absorb bracing lessons from this debacle,” @jonathanbchait.bsky.social argues:

We've yet to decode the language of the ancient spike civilisation, but we've just found a whole load of huge spikes so we're guessing something highly esteemed is buried there

You must learn to hate the aristocracy as much as it hates you.

We need to prosecute white collar crime in the US with utter ruthlessness and zeal. One of the reasons we’re here (pick the “here” hellscape you prefer) is because we not only socially but legally accepted elite impunity.

Justin Schuh@justinschuh.com · yesterday

Just gonna bang the drum again about Trump's money laundering history. There's a pretty clear pattern here going back 30+ years involving repeated fines, closed accounts, etc. It may actually be their longest running grift.

Bring back the homosexuals please I want to live

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 2d ago

America’s air safety is apparently now in the hands of gamers

College kids defacing a McDonalds during a climate change rally lead to calls to call in the tanks, whereas coke-head wife beaters trying to burn refugees alive get sorrowful expressions of sympathy for their "legitimate underlying concerns" and "lads with strong feelings, what can you do?" shrug.

NEW: We’ve spent a year tracking ICE’s massive expansion of detention for people with years-long ties to the U.S. It has strained courts, wrecked lives and been widely deemed illegal. Our report, based on interviews with judges, detainees and attorneys: www.politico.com/news/2026/08...

She turned off quote posts for this but “why do people not notice us being antiracist when we support deporting hundreds of thousands of people who made their lives here?” is a stupid fucking question and being unable to understand the answer is why Labour are going to lose at the next election.

Everyone should go donate to Jey’s gofundme. This cannot be allowed to stand.

Dr. Jey McCreight 🏳️‍⚧️🧬@jeymccreight.bsky.social · 2d ago

Feel like I just had the rug pulled out from under me. Illinois's crime victim reimbursement fund just told me it's not covering the vast majority of my expenses, with little justification for why I only sought temporary lodging because I was told this safety net would cover it I feel so screwed

Someone donated 2k to my GoFundMe right after I posted this Thank you from the bottom of my heart, kind stranger 😭💖 www.gofundme.com/f/help-trans...

Donate to Help trans activist Jey McCreight recover from hate crime, organized by Jey McCreight

I am a transgender activist and science communicator who was v… Jey McCreight needs your support for Help trans activist Jey McCreight recover from hate crime

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The dead people in my mouth are leaking out

An awful lot of people on here keep insisting I have to listen to this guy’s podcast before judging him harshly and no, no I don’t think I do.

Alan Elrod@aselrod.bsky.social · 2d ago

This guy sucks

This cruelty has no need but cruelty. Haiti remains deeply dangerous; a country in the throes of anarchy. Hundreds of thousands of people are SAFE. They are safe. They are safe here and the nation has decided to make them unsafe. We are embarking on a tragedy and we cannot look away. We cannot.

Yael Schacher@yaelschacher.bsky.social · 2d ago

So many immigrants I've interviewed break down about this. "Monsanto Maler was one of several Haitian immigrants who traveled from Springfield for a check in...after an ankle monitor was attached to him, Maler was seen collapsing to the ground and crying." www.springfieldnewssun.com/local/hundre...

i've read the arguments for and against and, regretfully, i think the only option is to bulldoze the site and dump dobby's corpse in the sea like bin laden to prevent his grave becoming a shrine to transphobes and inspiring further anti-trans terrorism

Unofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot@bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social · 2d ago

Harry Potter fans force power link diversion to avoid Dobby's grave