winning every statewide race in texas is such a huge deal for a million reasons that i havent even thought about

Mark Joseph Stern@mjsdc.bsky.social · last wk.

Under Abbott and Paxton, Texas has been suing abortion providers in blue states who mail pills to patients in Texas, testing the limits of blue-state shield laws. I expect the new governor and attorney general to drop those cases immediately.

1 The nyt has cast DOE’s abandonment of sexual assault investigations under Title IX as a clash between “ideologies.” 2 The nyt campaigned against trans kids, stoking hate and publishing falsehoods. 3 The nyt has largely ignored new rape accusations against Trump. There’s a connection here.

Assigned Media@assignedmedia.org · 3w ago

The Trump administration has worked to portray itself as protecting women and girls through their anti-trans policies. Meanwhile, they've worked tirelessly to undermine protections against sexual assault. Wither Title IX, in this exceptional new reported story by @billiejsweeney.bsky.social.

"Making arts prizes tax free would represent a tiny cost in the Federal Budget, but would make an enormous difference in the lives of Australia’s artists" writes @alicektg.bsky.social Read the full piece on The Point: https://sbrew.link/AYKyZNve

In the mid-’90s, we started to see federal governments reconstituting the border control regime around new forms of surveillance and control across the social terrain, normalising new forms and degrees of brutality and new forms of exclusion and the public justification thereof.

Big crypto loss: In Wisconsin District 1, Democrat Mitchell Berman beats incumbent Bryan Steil, who chairs the House Financial Services subcommittee on digital assets. Fairshake spent $1M on Steil, Crypto​.com spent $880K on attack ads against Berman via a PAC created solely to oppose him.

at this point it feels like anything could happen. like we could find out who is the administrator of DOGE

Republicans spent hundreds of millions on anti trans ads this cycle and they just got the worst loss in a generation. Anti trans politics do not win elections. After tonight, we can finally put this hatred and vitriol behind us.

Gabby Williams played the greatest second half in the history of basketball.

I’ve been going to the same polling place since 2008. It ain’t been this busy since 2008. A change is gonna come.

Not only did he defeat an unprecedented political machine (MAGA. Musk, AIPAC, Big Oil, Big Tech, Big Pharma, & Corporate Dem saboteurs, etc.), but he has also become the first Muslim Senator on the night the most Islamophobic President is dealt his most humiliating defeat 🎉

Reminder: Macklemore released a 2nd Hind's Hall, which featured the LA Palestinian Kids Choir, Palestinian-American singer Anees, MC Abdul from Gaza, and Palestinian-American comedian Amer Zahr. All proceeds went to UNRWA. The man stands on business. I can never not cry watching this though.

MACKLEMORE - HIND'S HALL 2 (feat. Anees, MC Abdul, Amer Zahr)

YouTube video by Macklemore

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Ed Sheeran losing openers like a 1990s England cricket team

“Hayley Williams’ pre-show playlist now features all former Ed Sheeran tour support: Macklemore, FINNEAS, Lukas Graham, Beoga, and Aaron Rowe.”

Reading June Jordan's poetry, after stumbling across these amazing opening lines: "I SAID I LOVED YOU AND I WANTED GENOCIDE TO STOP" Her writing is brilliant, beautiful + so much else. Including the devastation that her poems (1982, 1998 etc) still speak to current genocides.

With all the hand-wringing over Hanson and her "mystery" rise, it's worth remembering Nine secretly flew her to clamber all over Uluru (with disgraced chief-of-staff Ashby). Nine then labeled it a "social division" - a "culture war" that had "divided the nation"... theklaxon.com.au/ulurustitch-...

SCOOP: Hanson’s Uluru “climb” a monolithic stitch-up - The Klaxon

Channel Nine’s A Current Affair orchestrated and funded Pauline Hanson’s Uluru climb.

theklaxon.com.au

BREAKING: Alligator Alcatraz has officially closed. A lot of outlets won’t report on this, but the Miccosukee Tribe played a key role in the fight.

Both these headlines are from Texas this month. Texas sentenced anti-ICE protestors to 100 years in prison, but a serial pedophile to only 30 days. This is MAGA exemplified.

Uuuuhhhhh, this is VERY, VERY BAD. I haven’t been on socials much today, so I can’t say “no one is talking about it,” but I am surprised I haven’t seen more www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Texas anti-ICE protesters convicted of terrorism charges sentenced to at least 50 years in prison

Activists accused of being part of antifa get long prison terms in case seen as test of Trump’s crackdown on dissent

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To read senior Macq Uni management are anti-union, anti-staff, pro-genocide and that security don’t turn up when staff & students are being threatened in a lecture environment shows my alma mater has moved in a dire direction. Managerialism plus colonialism = failure of a university 😔

When I began my undergraduate studies at Macquarie University (1980), senior ‘management’ were the cream of the crop of academia. They’d built the University, set its academic direction & stepped into management only to help others flourish, with the belief of working at scale was meaningful 🤷🏻‍♀️😩

Relatedly👇 Two academics at Macquarie Uni "made forcibly redundant" despite (non-binding) Redundancy Review Committee finding in their favour "Under the enterprise agreement, the university is legally entitled to proceed with the redundancies." Solidarity with Dr Jo Faulkner & Dr Jumana Bayeh✊

'Punched in the guts': Sacked academics take uni to Fair Work Commission

Two senior academics from Macquarie University allege they were targeted for redundancy because of their union activity.

abc.net.au

Deepcut News@deepcutnews.bsky.social · 5mo ago

A Macquarie University lecturer in Middle East politics who has been the target of a pro-Israel media campaign claims to have been filmed, followed and threatened on campus. www.deepcutnews.com/p/macquarie-...

Delighted to be part of this anthology alongside so many talented friends and peers! 🤩 My story, RIVER RUN RIOT RUN DRY, is about two girls dealing with an unpopular gift of prophecy in a future of drought and theocracy.

Titan Books@titanbooks.bsky.social · 5mo ago

REVOLUTION IN THE HEART: STORIES INSPIRED BY URSULA K. LE GUIN is coming September 2026! 🌎 ✨ This anthology, edited by Jonathan Strahan, features 15 brand new stories by a group of celebrated authors, all inspired by the legendary and award-winning Ursula K. Le Guin. Available to pre-order now!

Our report "Automating Suspicion" has been featured on @aljazeera.com's centre for public liberties and human rights liberties.aljazeera.com/en/guilty-by...

Guilty by Algorithm

Amnesty’s recommendation is unambiguous: risk profiling in law enforcement, migration and social security must be banned outright, whether the systems are driven by artificial intelligence or rule-bas...

liberties.aljazeera.com

WATCH LIVE: launch of the mini documentary No Room to Breathe with Cheyanne, an artist and welfare recipient who contributed to the Commonwealth Ombudsman's investigation into unlawful welfare compliance for people on Centrelink payments. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kL-z...

Profit from punishment: Inside the welfare compliance scandal

YouTube video by Antipoverty Centre

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"Fossil-fuel interests are [terrified] of extreme event attribution science. They are acutely aware this research could land them in court. And losing those cases would leave them legally liable for billions of dollars in climate damages" #climatecrisis

Andrew Dessler@andrewdessler.com · 5mo ago

New on The Climate Brink: How fossil-fuel interests are attacking Extreme Event Attribution science www.theclimatebrink.com/p/the-mercha...

Reading this from Germany hits hard

Hunter Walker@hunterw.bsky.social · 5mo ago

After his fight at the White House, Sean O'Malley threw up what the announcers described as a "salute" to "the troops" and Trump

“I don’t do this embroidery stuff with the intention of being in the fashion world, I do it with the intention of being an artist. I try to bridge the gap and let people know that embroidery is art, and fashion is a way for people to get into my stuff.“

Frankie de la Cretaz@thefrankiedlc.news · 5mo ago

For Vogue, I talked to Ramell-Correen Frederick, aka Cheeks, who embroidered Knicks gear in the streets of Brooklyn after Game 5. He uses a 104-year-old hand-crank, chainstitch embroidery machine that he named Jessica.

“The reality of sports is that we accept unfairness all the time.”

Texas Observer@texasobserver.org · 5mo ago

From @jessicawluther.com, in our magazine: Once the majority has decided a marginalized group is the demon in one part of a story, it’s easier to paint them as demons in another. To counter this, we need to look at gender-expansive athletes in a detailed and holistic way.

Cruelty is the point At an event last week, I was struck but not surprised hearing some talk about the plight of "hard working people" as central to their left wing project This emphasis internalises neoliberal and reactionary logics and legitimises them www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Disabled people with lifelong conditions facing ‘unnecessary’ Pip reassessments

‘Pointless’ reviews are wasting public money and ‘significantly harming’ the mental health of claimants, charity says

theguardian.com

📢 The mammoth bet deepens Rinehart’s ties to Musk - now the world’s first trillionaire - and US president Donald Trump.

Gina Rinehart bets $1.4 billion on Musk with record SpaceX stake

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