"If I was actually abusive, would I be using text book DARVO tactics in response to allegations??!"

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?"

the speed with which I dropped this in my family group chat in the hopes that my dad’s Florida GOP wife sees it after she was reposting “leftist vandals” conspiracies on Facebook for weeks www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

Justice Department drops criminal case against Olympian over damaged Reflecting Pool

Government lawyers said in a 20-page court filing that information provided since the indictment of David Hearn shows that the damage was the result of a “flawed installation by the contractor” as wel...

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It is in fact racist to call an Arab with views you disagree with an antisemite. I know this will be a surprise to many but unless that person is actually saying something antisemitic, the Arab is not genetically predisposed to antisemitism

"just ignore it" is not a solution. you cannot ignore something when you are constantly getting told you are mentally ill and told to kill yourself to your face. what an irresponsible "article" to write.

"the WNBA might have successfully defused it" while Sophie is being platformed by WNBA on USA and players are receiving transphobic harassment from her fans and I can't even turn on my comments on instagram or do sports content without getting told i should go kill myself but okay sure

Seerat Sohi@seeratsohi.bsky.social · last wk.

If a tripod is set up on a sidewalk and nobody stops to yell at it, does it even make a sound? On Sophie Cunningham and a league that's finally learning to turning down the temperature: www.theringer.com/2026/07/29/w...

Facing federal science budget cuts, biologist Daniel Blumstein resorted to uploading marmot videos to OnlyFans to raise funds for his marmot research. However, when he uploaded his driver’s license for verification, OnlyFans informed him that his appearance didn’t match the marmots in the videos.

‘OnlyMarms’: Marmots Are on OnlyFans to Raise Money for Research (Gift Article)

A team of scientists uploaded videos of the squirrel-like rodents in the wild on the adult-content site OnlyFans to raise money amid government budget cuts.

nytimes.com

Lemme tell you about the angel of history being blown backwards into the future: The shackles these people have been put in are Hiatt brand, same company founded in 1780 to mass produce shackles for slaver ships.

Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social · 2w ago

The use of extremely online memetic aesthetics to support far-right political goals is like something out of Walter Benjamin’s nightmares.

Uma pessoa foi morta e 17 feridas, algumas gravemente, depois que um veículo atingiu várias pessoas depois de entrar no parque Tiergarten, próximo ao Portão de Brandemburgo, na saída da parada LGBTQIA+, desencadeando uma caçada pelo motorista. www.reuters.com/world/berlin...

Vehicle mows down crowd at Berlin Pride festival, killing one, injuring 17

Many people were hurt, with some in life-threatening condition, after a vehicle apparently drove into a crowd near Berlin's ​Pride celebrations.

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HAPPENING NOW Thousands of protesters are occupying Madison’s State Street and vowing to shut down businesses as a way to demand justice for Corey Ruiz.

Private equity ruins everything

Louisa@louisathelast.bsky.social · 2w ago

Well, this article is incredibly depressing for cooking enthusiasts. The short version: private equity has, over the last couple of decades, quietly bought up most of the classic brands you’ve heard of and then traded on their names while drastically cutting quality and closing American factories

Polymarket lets people bet on wildfires. Wildfires that those samepeople could easily set in order to win money on this illegal gambling site. Big Tech is organized crime.

shauna@goldengateblond.bsky.social · 3w ago

yeah we’re gonna have to ban prediction markets

My god. The Heritage Foundation, which mercilessly attacked transgender kids in order to protect the "integrity of women's sports," is now attacking the legal basis for women's sports. The transgender student decision is barely 2 weeks old.

shooting into a moving vehicle because you claim to be concerned about public safety is the most counterproductive nonsense and these cops shouldn’t be allowed to use that crap as a defense. they quite literally are the ones endangering public safety AND THE CHILD WHO WAS ALLEGEDLY IN THE VEHICLE

Obviously holding anybody at gunpoint is a crime, and the settlers do this shit to Palestinians on the regular and never experience a consequence, because they (the settlers I mean) are evil. But doing it to a US representative is not just evil but also deeply stupid

Ro Khanna: “I saw the arrogance in the eyes of the Settlers. 21 & 22 year olds with guns, laughing that they’d detained us. The arrogance of those IDF soldiers... It is the arrogance of power. Of a power that has had no accountability. Total impunity. And it’s created a toxic culture of oppression.”

Eddie Burfi @eddieburfi.bsky.social · 4w ago

Armed Israeli settlers detained US congressperson Ro Khanna. “I felt powerless in that situation, which is not an easy thing, as I have a lot of privilege in life.” “Imagine how people feel every day, Palestinians under the occupation, if they could make an American congressperson feel powerless…”

I wanna know why I’m looking at him in jeans in a hospital bed

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 3w ago

Mitch McConnell has released a photo and the first statement on his condition: "I was briefly unconscious and was taken to the hospital. While receiving excellent care over the past several weeks, I’ve also had to deal with a mild case of pneumonia."

Goodness knows the Wicked die alone No one mourns the Wicked No one mourns the Wicked No one mourns the Wicked

let us be glad! let us be grateful! let us rejoicify that goodness could subdue the wicked workings of YOUUU KNOW WHOOOO

what news to wake up to

Politico@politico.com · 3w ago

Lindsey Graham's death will kick off a breakneck campaign for his Senate seat

I wrote about Kerri Greenidge because the vague-accusation-to-career-ending-punishment math isn’t mathing. Show us the work. substack.com/home/post/p-...

The Scandal and the Scale

I was bleary-eyed on a delayed flight when I spotted a New York Times article about Kerri Greenidge, a historian of Black political life and memory.

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as a Duke alumna, this is so upsetting and shameful to me. total cost of attendance when I started in 2005 was like $45K. I know for the few very low income students like I was, the funding situation likely wont change much…but it feels really fucked to charge this w/ what’s been done to fed loans

Nathan Kalman-Lamb@nkalamb.bsky.social · 4w ago

Duke University, which has recently increased class sizes, has raised cost of attendance to an incredible $96,597 per year. Congratulations to the investors in this exceptionally profitable hedge fund. www.dukechronicle.com/article/duke...

Conservatives hate DEI unless it's forcing students to pay for the diverse and equitable inclusion of a PowerPoint presentation from a multimillionaire who would gladly turn their bodies into biofuel for a 0.04% profit margin increase

authoritarianism/fascism is an economic model?????

Robert Komaniecki@komaniecki.bsky.social · last mo.

This is an actual screenshot from the syllabus for this class. Beyond parody

Plenty has been said about the indoctrination bit of this but I would really like to focus on the part where lots of people who have never taught college students believe you should talk to college students like they're 5 years old.

Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · last mo.

Do they really believe any college student will attend a mandatory lecture by a CEO called "Why Capitalism Rocks!" and come away from it with their political and economic views changed? Or that students have their current views because a countervailing lecture by someone else installed it into them?

@sgbuggs.bsky.social Dear friend, Suad and her son Omar are going through extremely difficult circumstances; they can barely manage. Suad needs $150 to buy food. She has lost everything. We are their only hope. I can send you their number so you can check for yourself. Thank you.

liztism™ 🍉 ليز@lizardry.bsky.social · last mo.

😭🚨I lost my home and my job, and all I have left is my son, Omar Today, we need $150 to meet our most basic needs To every compassionate heart, consider my child Omar as your own child. Would you let him suffer and be in pain? Please don't let us down Verified by Molly Shah tinyurl.com/4rdnwyzx

I am learning from LAST WEEK TONIGHT that pigs/swine are not native fauna to the Americas. we literally only have them because of colonizers. the feral hogs problem is also, you guessed it, because colonizers wanted wild game to hunt for sport.

from woke to third worldism

Sharon 🪳🌹@sharonk.bsky.social · last mo.

one irony about the contemporary New Right analysis of the left is that they genuinely seem to think that Third Worldism is widespread as an ideology among left-of-centre politics

that Great American State Fair is giving Fyre Festival

Every piece of straight news reporting on the fucking fair sounds like a slam, I can't get enough

"It really do just suck shit" lol lmao