"Pronouns used to be a funny joke, Hank. Until the government tried to tell me I couldn't use them anymore. So now I'm adamant about making sure trans people are gendered right. Not for their sake. But because I'll be damned if the US government is going to tell me what words I can and can't use."

“Imagine you’ve been a functioning adult since before 2024. It’s simply not possible”

Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · yesterday

Guys like this don’t realize that they are the freak

In a college sociology class in the late 1980s I was assigned a Marxist analysis of education that argued that the US education system is designed primarily to produce efficient workers for the labor market. And now Trump’s Department of Education is just tweeting it out.

ICC CHIEF PROSECUTOR: “Oppose Israel and we will go after your family — You have been warned. Rubio, McConnell sent me a letter… what’s liberating is accepting mortality.”

people could respond to this framing around reporting deaths—"had significant underlying health conditions"—with more confidence if we weren't also living through a pandemic in which we have been told only people who have "underlying health issues" are "vulnerable" or "at risk"

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2d ago

Breaking News: Two deaths in Michigan have been linked to cyclospora. Both people who had the parasite also had underlying health issues.

my neighborhood 7-11 closed a couple years ago and tried to reopen but couldn’t get the permit approved because there’s a preschool next door and 7-11s sell alcohol (the previous permit was grandfathered in). i saw a fence going up around the lot recently and looked up what was moving in: a gun shop

I follow craig around social media websites letting people know that revenge porn laws exist because of him and it makes him really mad

Roger (6’5”)@iamtherog.com · 2w ago

Does everyone here know that @craigbrittain.com, who is currently masquerading as an anti-MAGA warrior, was fined in 2016 for operating a revenge porn website? A *lot* of y’all follow him. ⚠️ Marked as unsafe. ⚠️ www.ftc.gov/news-events/...

Does everyone here know that @craigbrittain.com, who is currently masquerading as an anti-MAGA warrior, was fined in 2016 for operating a revenge porn website? A *lot* of y’all follow him. ⚠️ Marked as unsafe. ⚠️ www.ftc.gov/news-events/...

Feast World Kitchen works to support local immigrants and refugees year-round. They employ these people to cook and share the foods from their culture. They are accepting monetary donations as they work to prep meals and buy groceries to help. www.feastworldkitchen.org/donate

I'll be linking to groups and organizations to support Spokane as well as other communities in the state being impacted by the fires. H.O.M.E Starts Here - my.spokanecity.org/endinghomele... Every dollar donated will provide direct support.

H.O.M.E. Starts Here Donations

Donations to the H.O.M.E. Starts Here Fund go directly to supporting services for those experiencing or at risk of homelessness.

my.spokanecity.org

SpokAnimal is accepting donations to feed cats and dogs. They're also working to find shelter for displaced animals. spokanimal.org

I know people are offering their prayers for Spokane. But please include an action with it. I understand you might not have money or material support to contribute and I don't expect you to. I would be happy if you sent emails and screamed at politicians. And don't take your foot off their necks.

Yes!! Is the world finally over greasy white men???

Nathan Daniel Hernandez@natedhernandez.bsky.social · last wk.

Gotta shut down the factory that makes this kinda guy

So many awesome artists have signed our pledge to boycott venues that use AI surveillance in the last week! Don't see your fave band? Send this to them! Recent signers: AJJ Apes of the State Dame Fai Laci Judy Chicago Jolie Holland Juan Alderete Pedro the Lion SOJI Veronica Swift Xiu Xiu +++

Ban Facial Recognition at Live Events

Artists and venues take the pledge: no facial recognition at shows.

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The right got a big win when the U.S. Supreme Court upheld states banning trans girls from women's sports. What's next? Over at @defector.com, I dig into their plan for essentially winding down competitive women's sports and Title IX — think of it as make women's sports girly again. Gift link:

Is The Right's Next Project Make Women's Sports Girly Again? | Defector

Within a few weeks of the country’s highest court giving states permission to ban trans girls from nearly all school sports, the influential right wing think tank The Heritage Foundation made clear it...

defector.com

Bookmark this! Happening tomorrow!

404 Media@404media.co · 2w ago

By filing Freedom of Information requests, 404 Media has obtained bodycam footage and documents that uncover stories about tech that powers ICE and how cops abuse Flock. You can FOIA too! On July 30th at 1 pm ET, we will teach you how to file a FOIA request live: www.404media.co/our-new-foia...

And these are going to be used immediately to "discipline" Black and Brown students just like having cops in schools do. I guess the only difference is the drones cant SA the kids or teachers like the cops do.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · last wk.

Schools are adding pepper-spraying drones to help combat active shooters The plastic, non-lethal aircraft, which can smash windows and ram attackers will be at the ready at certain schools in Colorado, Florida and Georgia www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

If you buy these, I hope they give you explosive diarrhea. Fuck JK Rowling and fuck Tim Hortons for supporting her transphobic agenda.

Wands Ready: Tim Hortons is dropping a magical Harry Potter menu and you won't believe these items

From Hogwarts house-inspired donuts to a temperature-activated, colour-changing cup.

thestar.com

Are we comfortably numb with police violence? The brutal cop killing of Corey Ruiz in Madison, Wisc. sparked local protest but only muted outrage on the national level. Despite falling crime, cops gun down more Americans than ever Where's the outrage? My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/core...

Corey Ruiz police killing reveals an America numb to violence | Will Bunch

Police killings like the death of Madison’s Corey Ruiz, caught on gruesome video, are rising, but public outrage is not.

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Y'all would certainly know about lying and fraud. Most of y'all trade notes with your republican colleagues at your weekly aipac meetings.

House Democrats@housedemocrats.bsky.social · last wk.

Donald Trump is a liar and a fraud.

And the corruption will continue, along with the war mongering but because it won't be trump doing it everyone is gonna be out to brunch. Blue wing, right wing, same shit bird.

Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny!@malena.bsky.social · last wk.

The bad news is that there's soooo much corruption going on in government right now that it's head spinning. The good news is that there will be an enormous #BlueWaveIn100Days when the American people show these criminals, just how much we despise lawlessness. Let's fight for accountability!

This was about Obama by the way. If you think hes a good person, you're a propagandized smug asshole, a liberal American. That hardly makes you better than the racist POS that call themselves conservatives btw.

Wilthro Thohanzson@thesadnessrabbit.bsky.social · 2w ago

He made american imperialism so palatable. Just the most charismatic war criminal ever. Made otherwise decent people just proud to be represented by him, while he ordered drone strikes on weddings of brown people in the SWANA region. Did fuck all for us Black folk but still cherished like MLK 🙄

He made american imperialism so palatable. Just the most charismatic war criminal ever. Made otherwise decent people just proud to be represented by him, while he ordered drone strikes on weddings of brown people in the SWANA region. Did fuck all for us Black folk but still cherished like MLK 🙄

Someone smarter than me should talk about how referring to Manchester, which is definitely in the middle of the UK, as 'The North' says a lot about how the English view Scotland.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2w ago

Andy Burnham to spend first working day at new No 10 North in Manchester – UK politics live

Its almost as if americans should stop enlisted in these imperial armies where your leaders dont give a fuck about you dying in the illegal and criminal wars they start for their own interests. Maybe americans can stop being selfish willing war criminals and this shit wouldnt fucking happen.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2w ago

On Wednesday, the Pentagon reported on its casualties website that a total of 18 American service members had been killed during the war in Iran. By Thursday, the Defense Department had lowered that number, reporting that 14 American troops had been killed in the war.

I’ve reported at length about abuses of foreign farmworkers who come to the U.S. on H-2A visas: stolen wages, guns pointed in their faces. One woman I met was kidnapped, raped and nearly killed. I wanted to know: How do I tell if the produce I buy is part of the problem? 👇

Sarah O’Connell@sarahoconnellshow.com · 2w ago

It’s hilarious that the richest person in the world is losing his actual mind that a film starring an excellent, diverse cast, is also critically acclaimed, AND doing very well at the box office. metro.co.uk/2026/07/22/e...

US politics are so corrupt and people are begging for any resemblance of decent governance that they see this and pat Ossoff on the back. When its just basic budgeting questioning. Hes gonna use this to boost his profile to be aipac's democratic choice for president in 2028.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

OSSOFF: On day 9, you assured us of Iranian surrender. Does that remain your prediction? HEGSETH: Iran will never have a nuclear weapon O: So to review, you will not answer whether your statement that Iran's military was 'destroyed' was truthful as you sit here and ask for tens of billions more?

When Joseph Williams refused to leave the public park where he has lived for years, he was charged with a felony for camping and spent nine days in jail. He's from East Nashville, a historically Black community that has rapidly gentrified over the last 2 decades and lost many of its Black residents

A homeless man was charged with a felony for camping. He's one of the first

When Joseph Lamont Williams refused to leave the public park where he has lived for years, he was charged with a felony. Camping bans are on the rise as states seek to crack down on homelessness.

npr.org

Andy Burnham, day one minute one: try to get a few more girls schools if you can mr trump SIR

LiveSquawk@livesquawknews.bsky.social · 2w ago

Burnham Approves Use Of UK Bases For Some US Strikes On Iran - BBG www.bloomberg.com/news/article...