Quick poll. Guy who wants to be known as "Coach": Asshole or not an asshole? 💯 asshole IME but maybe I just need to meet a better class of coaches.

Will Bunch@willbunch.bsky.social · 17m ago

Not the point, but has he legally changed his name to "Coach"??

One of the most horrifying and underreported tragedies of this time is the torture and murder of innocent men, women, and children under the guise of immigration control. Thank you to folks like Reich and @gillianbrockell.com, who work hard to keep this horror in focus when many would rather forget.

Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · yesterday

A second man, Edwin Lopez-Cornejo, has died at Delaney Hall, the inhumane ICE detention center run by private prison contractor GEO Group. GEO Group’s profits have soared by over 700% since Trump has been back in office. Imagine profiting from death and suffering. Deplorable.

Flabbergasting. 10 yrs after a freakshow of a personal trainwreck won the presidency by the narrowest of margins in their own damn state, Michigan voters are still casting ballots in large numbers for somebody they know can't win. I do hope the 'message' they're sending...somebody...gets recorded.

as disturbing as these terrorposts are, remember that this cosplay james bond airhead started out as a dimestore ragebait troll and is only a somebody because fascism elevates nobodies he is maga in miniature: a loser who rose through party ranks to become a mover; a mediocrity playing make believe

Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social · 2d ago

Co-host of Charlie Kirk’s podcast whose book was blurbed by DJT, Jr and JD Vance. Don’t call them fascists though.

Bombshell new report out from my investigators this morning spanning our four year investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s financial records. This report shows exactly how Wall Street protected Epstein and enabled his sex trafficking for decades. Mega thread following with some key points:

Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan, BofA Enabled Epstein, Wyden Report Says

Democrat Ron Wyden cited nonpublic documents held by the US Treasury in a report that says banks delayed reporting suspicious financial transactions and calls for tougher anti-money-laundering rules, ...

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Different point, but modern medicine has steadily driven maternal mortality rate down. Here, global since ‘85; 2020 was a notable outlier.

mrsomerton@mrsomerton.bsky.social · yesterday

in the 1970's, the life expectancy for kids with cystic fibrosis was 15-20 years. today it's 65. in the 1970's, kids with acute myeloid leukemia had a 14% chance of making it 5 years. today it's 64% in 1960 the average life expectancy for kids born with Down Syndrome was 10 years. today it's 60.

"They've got shabby old accordian players on street corners. And everybody tolerates it. It's just amazing."

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

Trump: "Look at the blue cities. What do they have in common? They're all dirty. They're filthy dirty. Their streets are dirty. Their streets smell. Their storefronts are broken. Their trees are all gross. Everything about the place is dirty. It's really all of them."

Anyone can post here if they follow simple rules. What they can't do is force other ppl to pay attention to them. That's why the Nazis loathe it.

Tyler King@tyleraking.com · 2d ago

Start courting “both sides” this becomes just another social media wasteland. Which is why the first rule of bsky is block early and often. Blocking keeps the peace. Blocking purifies and landscape. Blocking is ownership. I don’t care who the CEO of BlueSky is, they literally can’t own the protocol.

Great reporting here from @alexhannaford.com on a complex, tragic, & dangerous story. heated.world/p/the-influe...

The influencer teaching millions to fear solar

Alexandra Fasulo says she’s protecting farms and wildlife. How much of her rhetoric is actually true?

heated.world

All the more ironic that the international markets plummeted when news broke in 1988 that Iran would accept a ceasefire to bring an end to the long, monstrous Iran-Iraq war.

Spencer Ackerman@attackerman.bsky.social · 2d ago

The end result of decades of hollowing out mechanisms for popular control of warmaking is on display in Trump’s market manipulations over Iran.

It’s so odd that Sec of Education is being sued for enabling child sex abuse (and husband for sex trafficking).

Linda McMahon, Trump’s Education pick, was sued for allegedly enabling sexual abuse of children | CNN Business

A recent lawsuit alleges Linda McMahon, who President-elect Donald Trump tapped to lead the Department of Education, knowingly enabled the sexual exploitation of children by a World Wrestling Entertai...

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Nate Schenkkan@nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 2d ago

Absolutely not www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

How it started : How it's going

The name of this playlist is hilarious 😂😂😂 the songs are 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Rubes. For all their education and Greenwich CT homes and fancy suits, just utter rubes. “He changed the deal!” Like, no shit.

For the past year I've been trying to rein in a company (First Street) whose leadership pretends they're scientists and that's why their critics (including actual scientists) supposedly don't understand the bullshit they peddle. They're utterly unscrupulous people.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

RFK Jr: Dana, you probably don't understand this because you're not a scientist BASH: Well you're not either! RFK Jr: I know you're flustered now

Really striking body language here that I read as distancing. Head cocked to the left & angled like that is something I v rarely do, basically when listening to somebody relating something incredible or extremely weird. If I'm *talking* in this posture? It's a big FU and the horse you rode in on.

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3d ago

Max Miller is denying all the allegations against him and you can tell he's sincere because of the popped collar.

One of the great mysteries of the universe is why anyone finds this walking snakeskin husk with a voice like a hand vacuum‘s death rattle at all appealing.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

RFK Jr yelling at Dana Bash sounds like a rabid dog barking

je téléphone a la police my landlord is using chatgpt to fix our kitchen sink

Politico cartoon

Be kind to your bees in extreme heat, leave out some shallow wide dishes with a few mm of fresh water. Put a few twigs or a clump of grass for them to land on to get their drink in serenity.

Seirian Sumner@waspwoman.bsky.social · last wk.

Are wasps feeling the heat this summer? Be kind to wasps at your picnic this summer: share your meal & tell us what they're after. Is it Ham (protein-rich)? or Jam (sugary) @uclnews.bsky.social @theconversation.com @femi-benny.bsky.social @cintiaoi.bsky.social theconversation.com/where-have-a...

"No rigorous application was needed. An email...would suffice. ...executives across major industries began flooding an inbox [asking] that their facilities be excused from expensive Clean Air Act requirements [to] save their companies money but pollute the air breathed by millions of Americans."

ProPublica@propublica.org · 5d ago

The Trump administration has granted more than 180 polluting facilities nationwide a two-year pause on compliance with Clean Air Act rules. All they had to do was send an email. (Published May)

Did you mention Musk’s very public endorsement of ethnic cleansing? Did you ask Collins if she share his views? Why not? presswatchers.org/2026/07/the-...

The world’s most vocal racist will be the Republican Party’s biggest donor again. But don’t mention it. | Press Watch

Our top news organizations are covering up Elon Musk’s white supremacist propaganda

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Portland Press Herald@pressherald.com · 5d ago

Elon Musk planning to throw financial support behind Susan Collins’ U.S. Senate bid

"culture" is roaring back into vogue as the justification for neo-confederates, just as in the lead up to the Civil War. The slaver aristocracy in the 19th c portrayed themselves as a vertitable embodiment of Biblical culture (never mind which era) and paradoxically *also of classical Greece & Rome.

Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · 4d ago

The immigrant union troops who defended their adopted country from slaver traitors are in fact, proof of concept of American higher ideals having nothing to do with “blood” or “heritage” or whatever cowardly euphemism is in vogue among these pathetic losers

I must share an old friend’s clever reply to someone actually asking, “If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich?”, which was: “When you’re smart, you’ll know.” 😏

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 4d ago

Neoclassical econ assumes rationality. The corollary of, "If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?" is "you're rich, so you must be very smart!" Thus, people assume that if powerful, well-compensated CEOs insist that "AI is changing everything," well then, *AI must be changing everything*. 1/

This is so much better than asking your kid some super-intrusive question like “How are things?” or “What’s going on today?”

Yep, your whole body's movement is founded on your feet and your stance. You can unlock whole new ranges of movement if you work on stance. Also, it makes you recognize the human body is designed to keep moving.

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 4d ago

I’m not a doctor. I know nothing. Also? Most of the other problems are because of your feet. Your neck hurt? Your feet. Your hip hikes? It’s your feet. Your shoulder pulls? Your feet. Your jaw pops. Yep, it’s your feet. Maybe. Allegedly.

Some Republicans protect their colleagues who sexually abuse women and children, while others turn a blind eye to their colleagues who physically abuse them. It's a big tent.

Jen Bendery@jbendery.bsky.social · 6d ago

Sen. Jon Husted (R-Ohio) stared off into space today when I asked if he thinks fellow Ohio Republican Rep. Max Miller should end his reelection bid amid allegations by his ex-wife that he abused her and their 2-year-old daughter. www.huffpost.com/entry/live-u...

No not always. Not back when it first came out; the publisher decided to hype it as revolutionary by having the public imagine she was the first woman ever to translate Homer. I recall at least one interview where EW fed that narrative w/ some unconvincing examples of how her version was gendered.

Asher Elbein@asherelbein.bsky.social · 2w ago

Something that never ceases to amuse me is when people talk about Emily Wilson's "feminist translation" of the Odyssey, a description that always seems to come as news to Emily Wilson, who simply translated it while female

The Seven Against Thebes is super irritating bc it focuses on the 7 rather than the dozens of ppl they met along the way to Thebes who hated the shit out of them.

Asawin Suebsaeng@swin24.bsky.social · 7d ago

I guess my response to someone saying the nolan odyssey doesn’t center the victims is that it’s the odyssey

I'd love it if a reporter in Rep. Emmer's or Rep. Rulli's district showed them how their own rhetoric about Somali and Haitian immigrants today is almost verbatim the rhetoric that an earlier generation of racist nativists spewed against their own German and Italian ancestors.

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · last wk.

In recent weeks, congressmen like Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN) and Rep. Michael Rulli (R-OH) have leveled racist attacks against immigrant communities in their districts. As I note in CAMPAIGN TRAILS, a century ago those same racist attacks were being made against people named Emmer and Rulli.