On the same day that David Ellison claims he's not putting his finger on the scale, there's this: "CBS’s 60 Minutes had the scoop on Jeffrey Epstein’s sketchy financials—before the Bari Weiss–run network fired the reporter fronting the investigation."

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · yesterday

Banks permitted millions in suspicious transactions tied to Epstein—and former 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi had the story months ago. But the report would never air. trib.al/ZShZlIS

NEW: Israel has imprisoned an American teen. Soldiers raided Adam's West Bank home right before his sister’s grad party. They ignored his US passport. As they took him, they blew kisses at his mom. Adam is now the second American in Israeli prison. Trump just hosted Netanyahu for the eighth time.

Israel Has Imprisoned a 16-Year-Old Palestinian-American Boy for Two Weeks

Adam Karakrah is one of at least two Americans in Israeli prison – both held while Trump hosted Netanyahu for the eighth time.

zeteo.com

Every now and then someone takes a run at me along the lines of "I don't understand why you, a scifi writer, don't appreciate 'AI'," and I'm all, motherfucker, it's *because* I'm a science fiction writer I have the positions I have, how many times do we have to fucking yell "torment nexus," my dude

spoiler: it's because they're Americans and most American voters fucking hate the Republican Party

Opinion | Why American Jews will once again favor Democrats this fall

The vast majority of Democratic candidates in this year's midterm elections share the values and concerns of American Jews, much more than extremist Republicans aligned with Trump

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No somos conscientes de la cantidad de bulos y la enorme campaña de propaganda que está lanzando a nivel global la extrema derecha con el asunto de Ceuta. Aquí, el basura de Alex Jones diciendo que vienen en tren desde Ceuta a conquistar Europa (es una estación de Marruecos).

Classic serial abuser defense talking point

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3d ago

Rep. Max Miller: "My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her…If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?"

One drum I keep beating is that the Trumpification of the Republican Party is irreversible. Even after he's gone it will be exclusively cranks, charlatans, and malevolent antisocial goons. "It was always like that"-it wasn't! It's gotten steadily, measurably worse, and he was the nail in the coffin

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 6d ago

New, from me: It is fine to disagree with aspects of the pandemic response. But what we saw at Fauci's hearing was something different: a show trial where cranks tried to threaten and shift blame to an public servant. Here is why this is bad for all of us.🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/watching-t...

"WE THE FUCKING JUDGE SON" New York, I love you. I love you so fucking much. Via wali_talks on IG

we should charge the C-suite with fraud and theft if they take a tax credit meant to keep people employed and then cut staff anyway.

Paula Wirth@paulawirth.bsky.social · last wk.

Pixar receives a $26.2 Million Tax credit to keep film jobs in CA, and immediately lays off 10% of its work force, after making over a billion from Toy Story 5, the highest-grossing film of 2026.

"Raise your hopeful voice. You have a choice." RIP Glen Hansard www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8mt...

Glen Hansard, Marketa Irglova - Falling Slowly (Official Video)

YouTube video by GlenHansardVEVO

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From pages 38-45 of this remarkable book is a section on journalism that is so urgent, so compelling, so precise in identifying some of the major flaws and failures of mainstream journalism as an industry at this moment in time, that I wish I could make all American journalists read it.

You know what really went wrong with the V television series? They stopped resonating the voices. We all hated it when we were ten & I hate it now. Such a little thing. Also, V is extraordinarily direct in its disdain for the Reagan administration: a thinly veiled broadside against neoconservatism.

Just watched this wondeful essay on Bioshock and the world of 2026. Highly recommended. youtu.be/CbJerGx0Zuc

Bioshock predicted our politics 20 years ago

YouTube video by Sim's Books

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It's impressive how many ethical quandaries can be solved by asking yourself, "Would Weird Al be cool with this?"

Steven Santos@stevensantos.bsky.social · 2w ago

Guess who had the integrity not to accept $1 million to perform at the Riyadh Comedy Festival last year?

You actually can fight it. That is absolutely something you can do.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Trump on data centers: "You have to convince your communities how great these things are. You can't fight it. You have to go with it."

Are Americans honestly having a DSA debate? A pedophile mad king is bombing multiple countries and building concentration camps to throw mostly non white people inside while no healthcare, endless money for wars and Israel's genocide and a handful of men have all the money. Capitalism fucking sucks

📹 Así han vivido los espectadores el gol de Ferran en la prórroga social.elpais.com/9sm…

No better place to celebrate than here at the Gran Via. VIVA ESPAÑA and FUCK TRUMP.

I'm not posting Odyssey memes because one must be wary of GIFs bearing Greeks.

QTP with a female superhero you love

Adora Transforms into She-Ra

ALT: Adora Transforms into She-Ra

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Trekkie Bill 🖖🏻@trekkiebill.bsky.social · 2w ago

QTP with a female superhero you love

i wish for everyone a mayor who truly loves their city

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 3w ago

This summer, we kept the lights on all night, every night, at five soccer fields across New York City.

This was the scene at Calvert Vaux Park in Gravesend, Brooklyn Tuesday night.

Don’t send help.

ICE has killed another person, this time by depriving him of life-sustaining medication for a known medical condition. Jesus Manuel Arenas-Silva was detained on Thursday. He was dead by Monday. Per @detentionwatchnetwork.org:

I was always gonna boycott the Harry Potter TV series but I would urge anyone on the fence to stop engaging with the franchise as long as JKR is using her proceeds to fund her continued attacks on trans people and allies. Reheated nostalgia slop just isn’t worth it.

Winning at all levels, growth rate, foreign policy, immigration policy, energy policy, list is long

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 3w ago

a truly masterful performance by Spain. actually what peak performance looks like

he needs to be ousted as leader immediately

Politico@politico.com · 3w ago

Hakeem Jeffries says he will oppose bid to cut off Israel aid

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

The fact that J.K. Rowling successfully bullied Amnesty International into taking down a report that accurately called out her attack on trans people, especially trans women, is so repulsive and such a display of the power of her money, and her choice to put her vast fortune behind persecution.

Amnesty removes report that called JK Rowling's centre 'anti-rights'

Amnesty International UK has removed a report which labelled JK Rowling's sexual abuse crisis centre Beira's Place as "anti-rights".

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