so happy to finally see a crowd intervene in this bullshit

Jennifer C@thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 9h ago

Cops DRAGGED a 14-year-old girl out of a public meeting for daring to care about HER future. She just graduated middle school. Imagine being so damn terrified of a kid asking questions that you call security. If Big Tech needs cops to silence children, we have a much bigger problem.

Can’t count how many times the dystopian stuff that make people want to abolish ICE is also something that’s already being used by police or subjected upon people in the criminal legal system.

The perfect MAGA "self-made man." Mom helped him lie to investors about a drug, giving patients false hope. He cashed out for $260m, and then the stock dropped like a rock. One teacher's union retirement fund lost $1 million. Dude made his fortune on the backs of Alzheimer patients and teachers.

How Vivek Ramaswamy’s mom manipulated Alzheimer’s data and made her son rich

Vivek Ramaswamy, a billionaire and the Republican nominee in Ohio’s gubernatorial race, served as the frontman for a dubious pharmaceutical company and then cashed out weeks before its dramatic crash.

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What the fuck do you mean “speaking out”?! He stalked her when she was a girl and is using NBC to continue to insert himself into her life four decades later. This is not news, this is aiding and abetting. @nbcnews.com should take this down and apologize.

NBC News@nbcnews.com · 10h ago

John Hinckley Jr., who shot President Ronald Reagan in 1981 in an attempt to impress Jodie Foster, is speaking out about the Academy Award-winning actor more than four decades after the assassination attempt.

Me laughing about all the cheesy puns... *i should check how bad the heatwave in Italy is* "Drought scorches Italy's rice belt as water supplies hit record lows​" The Po, Italy's largest river: www.reuters.com/business/env...

they’re putting wheels of cheese on the blockchain, in defiance of god’s law

Albert Pinto@70sbachchan.bsky.social · 2d ago

You can't predict the turns this sentence takes. Extreme heat is threatening Italy’s “cheese banks,” where hundreds of thousands of Parmigiano-Reggiano wheels are stored as loan collateral. fortune.com/2026/08/10/i...

“One transgender woman described the choice as one between “callous dismissal and active hatred.” “ In a nutshell Honestly heartbreaking

Christopher Wiggins@cwnewser.bsky.social · 10h ago

SCOOP: He was one of a handful of Democrats who joined Republicans in May to pass an anti-trans bill through the House. Last night, instead of listening to trans constituents at a meeting that I attended, Eugene Vindman got angry. It went downhill from there. www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

I went through the users manual for the GLOVE, the electric-shock weapon that ICE is reportedly about to get to use on whoever they feel like. All the promotional material shows a person immediately complying upon contact. But wait till you see what the recommended duration of the shock is.

The Coward's Handshake

ICE agents are about to get electric-shock gloves—ideal for 'smaller officers or weaker officers or older officers,' says an ex-cop

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Author and civil rights attorney Flint Taylor sat down with former Representative Bobby Rush and former Black Panther Ann Campbell-Kendrick to discuss the assassination and its aftermath. Author ✍️: Max Blasidell and Hyde Park Herald Read more here:

New Haymarket Book Rewrites the Narrative of Fred Hampton’s Murder

Author and civil rights attorney Flint Taylor sat down with former Representative Bobby Rush and former Black Panther Ann Campbell-Kendrick to discuss the assasination and its aftermath.

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Extensive @financialtimes.com investigation documents ethnic cleansing by Israel in Lebanon. Shia villages and towns were completely wiped off the map by bulldozers and demolition teams after being emptied of their inhabitants. @rayajalabi.ft.com & Aditi Bhandari: www.ft.com/content/25bc...

Israel’s campaign to make southern Lebanon ‘unliveable’

Israeli forces have systematically destroyed homes, roads, farmland and forests despite ceasefire with Hizbollah

ft.com

Wait… so Mark Walter and the Guggenheim group unload the Lakers to a Trump family member - Josh Kushner last seen two weeks ago failing to stripmine FIFA. - and Walter & Guggenheim are under a mammoth DOJ and SEC investigation? Watch that “investigation” disappear. This country is being looted.

"Missing data prevented the GAO from identifying roughly one in every five grants DOGE said were canceled, which 'accounted for more than 50% of the reported grant savings.'”

John Shirley@johnshirley2024.bsky.social · yesterday

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social Really excellent op-ed on trans sports. www.advocate.com/opinion/tran...

The fight for trans athletes isn't about fairness. It's about who gets to belong

Opinion: Transgender athletes are the latest target in a broader political effort to decide who gets to be part of American public life.

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I couldn’t make this up if I tried.🤬 “An anti-sex-trafficking nonprofit in Utah whose founder resigned after multiple women accused him of trafficking and sexual abuse has won a federal contract to provide legal services to unaccompanied immigrant children in government custody.“

Disgraced Anti-Sex-Trafficking NGO Gets $244 Million to Rep Migrant Kids - The American Prospect

The founder and CEO of Our Rescue resigned in 2023 amid allegations that he had sexually abused and trafficked women himself.

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“we spent two weeks fearmongering about democratic socialists and then one lost by a hair so we’re declaring the movement a flop”

Elizabeth Picciuto@epicciuto.bsky.social · 15h ago

breaking: sometimes the left wins and sometimes the centrists wins: stunning new evidence that voters use more than one criterion to judge candidates

“Universities denounced themselves as complicit in systemic racism.” Well yes, my university for example held the charred bones of Black children killed by Philadelphia police and at least one faculty member was using them to teach forensics so yes, gosh, there was some necessary self-denouncing

Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social · yesterday

finally reading the Atlantic piece on “Woke 1” and it’s interesting how even in their attempt to list the movement’s sins they struggle to identify anything significant

really the lesson from Wisconsin last night is that you should never explain your tweets

This is an opportunity for me to post on bluesky, for the first time, the audio I cleaned up from 1971 where Nixon and Kissinger use the occasion of the Pakistani genocide in Bangladesh to talk about Indian women.

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · yesterday

David Frum seems to be under the impression that Zohran Mamdani— an INDIAN-Ugandan-American— is pro Pakistan? Also the Indian army in question was backed by the USSR and the Pakistani one was backed by Nixon lol.

Right. Paying billions of US tax dollars to kill wind projects doesn't just waste our tax money and increase our power bills it also puts thousands of hardworking Americans out of work. Where are all the pundits who screeched about job loss when oil pipelines were cancelled on this?

Commercial Solar Guy@commercialsolarguy.com · 2d ago

Really breaks a heart when you hear about people being able to buy a home and have kids because of their new career, and then bam - some piece of shit human just kills it because he had a golf course.

I hate airplane food. It's always cold pedophile and some peanuts

Noah Shachtman@noahshachtman.bsky.social · 2d ago

the manliest

hey i'm no economist but this seems suboptimal

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d ago

RBADVISERS: “.. Yet another inflation impulse. The US basically has NO STRATEGIC PETROLEUM RESERVE (SPR) anymore.”

One Omaha mother believes lead in her yard is partially responsible for the lead in her daughter’s blood. The EPA remediated her property in 2012, but we found that contamination levels are even higher now than they were before. with @flatwaterfreep.bsky.social

The EPA Spent Millions Cleaning Up a Massive Superfund Site. Our Tests Found Toxic Levels of Lead in Many Yards.

The agency spent hundreds of millions on lead remediation in Omaha, Nebraska, home of the nation’s largest residential Superfund site. New soil tests by the Flatwater Free Press and ProPublica show th...

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John Crowley was a great essayist as well---the close of "On Not Being Well Read," 2015

This has been the pattern - create an ideal victim, build a narrative around them, use them as a vehicle to advance an agenda. “She would be the best in the world if the game were just less physical”. Gaslight people who know better into questioning themselves and ceding intellectual ground.

Casual reminder that the only reason we have gender-segregated sports in the first place is because men hated losing to women. I say let his old ass join and get dunked on

Nanjala@nanjala.bsky.social · 5d ago

These grifters are paid by organisations to advance an agenda. They have been laying the ground work to use the WNBA as a test case for this agenda first by silencing people who know better including using money and by building a narrative that builds up to this conclusion over time.

Robinson Gonzales fled Venezuela, crossed the Darién Gap, received asylum and became a professional skateboarder in the United States. For our magazine, Monse Guajardo captured his story in photos:

Photo Essay: American Skater

A Venezuelan immigrant tries to make a home in San Antonio in exclusionary times.

texasobserver.org

Reminder: progressive is mainstream

bringing a loaded mag of 9mm AND coke and fent into the capitol and then claiming the drugs were prescribed by a medical professional? bruh but also: this is the median republican hill staffer/lobbyist under 50, do not think this is an outlier www.notus.org/congress/her...

A Heritage Employee Was Caught With Drugs Trying to Get Into the Senate, Police Say

Matthew Christopher Wingate was stopped and searched for having a pistol magazine in his briefcase, according to a court affidavit.

notus.org

“Make a zine if you can’t make a book... Make a flyer if you can’t make a zine. Make a postcard if you can’t make a flyer. Leave a record.” - @marc-fischer.bsky.social “There’s nothing like print,” Foroohar said. “Even if all the data in the world was deleted, I would still have this book.”

Chicago Reader@chicagoreader.com · last wk.

Zines appeal to artists and organizers because they sidestep digital surveillance and reach people in real life. https://bit.ly/4fUv6Fk