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the goggles are currently clean on OPSEC@thegogglesdonowt.bsky.social · 1h ago

It was also a gift to obviously toxic personality types who appropriated the language and got to cosplay as Pharisees for a few years. Much of the backlash is down to failure to root those mfs out and fire them into the heart of the sun.

Stephen Nuñez@socio-steve.bsky.social · 16h ago

My thought on "woke 1" is that to the extent it became about white guilt rather than about addressing the legitimate grievances of black and brown people it failed. All the stuff people mention...the grifters, the HR departments covering their asses, the censorious online shit stems from it.

Brendan Nyhan@brendannyhan.bsky.social · 16h ago

"White House officials have asked the Justice Department to consider a new prosecution..." This sentence was unimaginable since Watergate. Now it's just a normal Tuesday.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 20h ago

BREAKING WSJ: Trump White House officials have asked the Trump Justice Department to consider a new prosecution of David Hearn, the man accused of vandalizing the Reflecting Pool — as Trump fumes over U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro's decision to drop the case.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15h ago

This is absolutely WILD. Here's the dashboard video posted by @fritschner.bsky.social. Fast forward to about 1 minute. An ICE officer jumps out of a van and pulls a gun on this woman immediately before lying and claiming she "almost ran us over." *profanity warning if watching in public.

Aaron Fritschner@fritschner.bsky.social · 16h ago

Video of an ICE agent pulling a gun on a wife and mother, who is a US citizen born and raised in the area, near Bailey's Crossroads in Northern Virginia yesterday. Chillingly, they claimed she “almost ran them over” until she told them she had video proving that was a lie.

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 24h ago

America: Lets build the most successful magnet for drawing in the most brilliant minds from around the world to America. Trump administration: Huh, how do we fix that?

MagnoliaBouton@magnoliabouton.bsky.social · 24h ago

NIH plans to block international researchers on visas from accessing key funding avenue: the K99/R00. Devastating news for the international research training community, who strongly contribute to US biomedical research. All will feel this great loss! www.statnews.com/2026/08/07/n...

the goggles are currently clean on OPSEC@thegogglesdonowt.bsky.social · yesterday

This child torture porn is brought to you by the very fine people who will happily go to war over the rights of an embryo

Gabe Ortíz@tusk81.bsky.social · 2d ago

“At immigration court for detained children in New York City on Wednesday, a boy named Diego represented himself in front of the judge, Lisa Ling.” "I don’t know how to do it,” he said about an asylum form he was asked to fill out in English. “I don’t know if you can help me fill it out.”

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 2d ago

This from Ipsos captures the Farage/Reform challenge. A v successful insurgent/outsider leader of a 4th/3rd party. Promoted to be judged as an alternative PM, he struggles to compete as much as any of the least successful modern leaders of the opposition.

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Phillips OBrien@phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 2d ago

A quick lesson on winning and losing a war. If you start a war of choice, blow through masses of your weapons stocks so that you cannot escalate effectively, and find the country you attacked dictating negotiating terms while in a stronger strategic position. You lost.

the goggles are currently clean on OPSEC@thegogglesdonowt.bsky.social · 3d ago

A great film from each year of the 60s: 1960 Sink the Bismarck! 1961 Whistle Down the Wind 1962 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1963 The Leopard 1964 The Train 1965 The Flight of the Phoenix 1966 Andrei Rublev 1967 Cool Hand Luke 1968 The Lion in Winter 1969 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie #FilmSky

Robin Baker@robinalexbaker.bsky.social · 3d ago

A great film from each year of the 60s: 1960 Letter Never Sent 1961 The Innocents 1962 Kanchenjungha 1963 Charade 1964 The Gospel According to St Matthew 1965 Red Beard 1966 Fahrenheit 451 1967 Les Demoiselles de Rochefort 1968 2001: A Space Odyssey 1969 They Shoot Horses, Don't They? #FilmSky

Stephen Schwartz@atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 7d ago

At this instant in 1945 (8:15 AM August 6, local time), Little Boy—a 15-kiloton, uranium-fueled atomic bomb—destroyed Hiroshima, killing (per official US military estimates) ~70,000 men, women, and children, incl. 12 American POWs. Independent estimates later maintained ~140,000 people were killed.

A color photograph of a damaged Iras wristwatch with a leather band on display in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, its hands frozen at 8:15 AM.A photograph of a shadow of a person living in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, who was killed as they climbed the steps of the Sumitomo Bank building while using a cane, leaving behind only their shadow imprinted on the steps (because their body and cane momentarily blocked the light from the intense thermal flash, burning away everything on the steps that was not in shadow).A color photograph of a damaged and partially melted child’s tricycle on display in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. On the morning of August 6, 1945, Shinichi Tetsutani, who was one month shy of turning four years old, was riding this tricycle, playing with his best friend, a girl named Kimi, 1,500 meters away from where the Little Boy atomic bomb exploded overhead. When found in the wreckage of his house, he was still grasping the red handlebar grip from his tricycle. Severely injured and burned all over his body, calling out, “Water, I want water,” he died that night. Shinichi’s father buried him in the backyard with his favorite toy, and his best friend Kimi, so he could ride it and play even after death. Forty years later, in 1985, Shinichi’s father, Nobuo, decided to rebury his son in the family’s gravesite. Unearthing the backyard grave with Kimi’s mother, Nobuo rediscovered the tricycle and donated it to the museum.
Radley Balko@radleybalko.bsky.social · last wk.

A lot going on here. First, Miller looks shaken. Or drunk. Second, he comes off every bit the creep that he seems to be. Saying he isn't dropping out because Trump didn't drop out after being accused of sexual assault is a hell of a choice. And third, he doesn't appear to know what hearsay means.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · last wk.

Tapper: "There are now three women who have accused you of violent behavior…Are all three of these women who don't know each other lying?" Rep. Max Miller: "Yes…It's all hearsay." Tapper: "It's not hearsay if it is firsthand testimony from women."

Grudgie the Whale@grudgie.bsky.social · last wk.

One of my great frustrations with the media is they know Trump is full of shit on things like this. But because they don’t know if he’s lying or delusional they type up neither possibility. But they should be loudly writing that those are the only two possibilities and both are disqualifying!

Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News@froomkin.bsky.social · last wk.

NEW: The Reflecting Pool story is about Trump’s grip on reality, but the press corps won’t go there: presswatchers.org/2026/08/the-...

Roger Parloff@rparloff.bsky.social · last wk.

Judge Mehta's J6 Requiem "That book is now closed. Today’s epilogue diminishes the gravity of that day, denigrates the work of the prosecutors and ... officers who secured these convictions, and excuses criminal acts that caused a centuries-long pillar of our democracy ... to buckle."

This is the last of the prosecutions seeking to hold accountable those responsible for the events of January 6. That book is now closed. Today’s epilogue diminishes the gravity of that day, denigrates the work of the prosecutors and law enforcement officers who secured these convictions, and excuses criminal acts that caused a centuries-long pillar of our democracy—the peaceful transfer of presidential power—to buckle. The court cannot write a different ending.
George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸@gtconway.bsky.social · last wk.

We disgrace ourselves as a nation each and every day Donald Trump remains in office. The drafters of the United States Constitution provided a remedy for a criminally insane president like the one we have—impeachment and removal ...