Whether someone realizes it or not, accepting the "liberal bubble" framing at all is a way of granting the utterly absurd notion that the globally reviled and increasingly unpopular views of the reactionary right are the norm

Ian Boudreau@ianboudreau.com · 2d ago

"Liberal bubble" has only ever meant anywhere where right wing perspectives aren't artificially elevated and forced into everyone's feeds.

Generative AI is catnip to the men who miss female sycophants katemanne.substack.com/p/a-culture-...

A Culture Hooked on Generative AI is a Culture that Misses Female Sycophants

And we have missed a central reason why AI is a feminist issue

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If you show up to Bluesky without following anyone, you'll be treated to a series of posts about art, music, and dogs. If you show up to X without following anyone, you'll be bombarded with right-wing conspiracies and white supremacist slop. It's weird which one is seen as a "political bubble"

Good framing.

Kindergarten girls targeted for invasive exams by new GOP-led ballot measure

Washington State voters will decide the fate of a ballot initiative that would require girls from kindergarten through high school to undergo sex-verification testing before playing school sports — a ...

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First question you should ask when right-wing pundits, politicians, or groups propose a "pronatalist" policy: "Would they argue for this policy even if it didn't result in higher birth rates?" If the answer is yes, it's not about babies. It's about a social order & power. Babies are today's pitch.

the obsession with trans women in sports is, apart from the abject bigotry, a symptom of how we take amateur sports participation way too seriously in this country.

Love this framing @tressiemcphd.bsky.social data politics doesn’t happen without data economics. Central to this must also be acknowledging the immorality of personal data as a market/good. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/o...

Opinion | A Reading List for Our Age of A.I. (Gift Article)

A.I. is a political theory. And it is gobbling up our democracy.

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The Republican Party is now the Child Genital Inspection Police. They want to institutionalize the inspection of children's bodies. Republicans want to make the entire idea of participating in girl's and women's sports into a spectacle of humiliation

The Push to Force Genital Exams on Student Athletes

In just a few months, Washington could become the first state to require sex-verification tests for girls playing sports in K–12 schools.

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Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d ago

An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play

From earlier this week, I wrote about how the manosphere scam works and how the GOP has adopted those same tactics for itself www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

This is the entirety of the intellectual dark web, MAHA people, and reactionary centrists. The right is very good at absorbing the people that get called out on their bullshit in respectable circles, and has an entire infrastructure for letting them air their grievances and pivot to grifting.

Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social · 4d ago

a lot of what the right does nowadays is create an emotional support system for bigots. bigotry will offend and alienate people in your life, so the right looks provides a counterweight that lavishes you with praise.

Nothing Freudian, for sure

Katelyn Burns@katelynburns.com · 5d ago

Have you ever noticed that most of the major AI company logos look like buttholes? For my Sick Burns Friday post, I judged and ranked each of them based on how much they resemble hole: www.burnsnotice.com/ai-company-l...

I'm a high school teacher and am looking for help getting breakfast bars for my students. It's tough to learn when you're hungry and my students absolutely love these bars to get them through the day. These are made available to all students. Any help is appreciated! www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

Check out my list on Amazon

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Concerns over fake phenomena cannot be held in good faith. There's no such thing as "good faith" concern over razorblades in Halloween apples or vaccines causing autism. If you still have 'concerns' about these issues you are uninformed, a bigot or being manipulated. No other option.

Manosphere grifters have figured out that some men are easily manipulated by making them feel insecure about their masculinity. The GOP has turned this sales pitch into both an ideology and a campaign strategy. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

one of the most frustrating things about what Rowling has turned into is how hard it is to explain to offline people that she’s not just another author who has turned out to have shitty views - her entire life and fortune is dedicated to destroying trans people

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · last wk.

Projection so powerful, you could screen the Odyssey in 70MM IMAX from it.

Golden

hammancheez@hammancheez.bsky.social · last wk.

'Parent' here comes with quite a few asterisks, one of which is the disregarding of families that the administration disfavors (non-white, LGBTQ, etc) "Parent's rights" is just cover for resource hoarding, undermining equity efforts, and funneling public dollars into unregulated private schools.

Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · last wk.

So, what happens if I'm a parent and I know that my kid needs highly paid teachers, a library full of books with diverse characters, trans-inclusive bathrooms and extracurriculars, and a curriculum unpacking topics like systemic racism, colonial oppression, economic inequality, and climate change?

Cheryl Reeve, winningest coach in WNBA history, defends transgender athletes against sports bans. “Exclusion is never the answer. Separate isn’t equal. Trans lives matter.” 💗🏳️‍⚧️💗🏀💗

For many years, people didn’t randomly film others in public—not because we didn’t have the technology, but because the social contract said you didn’t do that. That’s why Meta is going full court press on their PR and celebrity endorsements. They remember how people ran google glass outta town.

Given they are (violently) defending the historically dominant position, their views often remain unmarked. Attacking knowledge centers is their way to undermine the language and analysis needed to name and challenge their now state-sanctioned patriarchal gender order. Looking forward to this!

Liberal Currents@liberalcurrents.com · last wk.

Is everything gender, or are HR ladies the revolutionary cadres of woke? Join @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com and @quinnae.com as they discuss gender politics from Platner to Hegseth and more www.liberalcurrents.com/gender-and-g...

Republicans like McMahon cut regulations/policies that protect kids from abuse. Republican policies are specifically tailored to harm kids from groups disfavored by this administration.

Widow's Bay DSA@gonebabygone.bsky.social · last wk.

Transphobia essentially functions as an indulgence for people implicated in horrific abuses they pretend to be safeguarding against, be it the guy who couldn't stop taking pictures with Epstein or the woman implicated in pimping teenage boys to Mel Phillips

If kids don't feel safe or seen at home, the safe and supportive adults at school fill that role. This is just an anti-trans iteration of attacking teachers for valuing and caring deeply about their student's safety and well-being. Truly a pathetic pair

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Education Secretary Linda McMahon and Maria Bartiromo push complete BS about public schools secretly making kids trans without the knowledge of their parents. McMahon says she's doing a number of investigations about it.

Despite the whining about “ historical accuracy,” the racist backlash to the casting in Nolan’s Odyssey is about the right wanting to justify racial hierarchy by projecting it into a past where it did not actually exist. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Amen. If you go into the archives looking to confirm a hunch, you'll likely find some random bit of evidence that fits. This is why "originalism" is considered a joke by actual historians. Finding one quote from one member of the founding generation who agrees with your hot take is pretty easy!

Anthony Michael Kreis@anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 2w ago

In my historical methods training, I was always taught “we start with a historical question.” I would never use “I’m testing a hypothesis” in my work. I might have a working theory or a working hypothesis, but I’m certainly never *testing* it. That’s ripe for cherry-picked, law office history.

History isn’t just a set of facts. It’s a story we tell about who we are. My contribution to Odyssey discourse is about how the American right wants a history where only white men feature because they want a future where only white men rule. www.liberalcurrents.com/the-new-vand...

The New Vandals

Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey" offends right-wingers' notion that only white men make history.

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interesting to me that as the administration treats democratic-voting states like conquered or occupied territories, you don’t have pundits demanding the president respect “half the country”

tony romm@tonyromm.bsky.social · 2w ago

NEW: In a stunning admission, the Trump administration admitted in court documents that it canceled billions in energy grants to states "based solely" on politics -- and whether that state was represented by Democrats and backed Harris in 2024. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...

Regardless of their anti-Trump accolades, the Bulwark is still a bunch of ideological conservatives. And because of that, I won't be lectured by them about where the left needs to go.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 2w ago

The vibes may be exciting, but if Democrats are going to win this year and in 2028, they must reject the DSA. If you’re tempted by a democratic socialist this year, think of what use Republicans will make of these victories, and ask whether you want to do favors for fascists.

This should be a lightbulb moment for Democrats: You are free to run on this platform because Republicans are going to accuse you of it whether you do or not!

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Trump: "The Democrats are gonna terminate the filibuster as soon as they have a chance and then they're gonna approve DC and Puerto Rico as states. They get 4 more senators, 12 more congressmen, like 40 electoral votes ... you don't want to see me cry."

There are two possibilities here. Taylor Farms paid a shit ton of money to get the FDA to say this. Or DOGE decimated the FDA so significantly that they managed to fuck up a basic sample test. Neither one is great!

Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 2w ago

The FDA now says that Taylor Farms finding is a false positive. What a mess.