A trans couple has been brutalized by a mob, and then the trans woman ended up being arrested afterwards, at a public bathroom in Louisiana. EITM writer S Baum investigates this horrible act of violence in our latest piece. www.erininthemorning.com/p/trans-coup...

Trans Couple Brutalized At Louisiana Park Bathroom, Then Charged By Police

An angry mob allegedly beat them. The police charged them. The municipality voted for one of the most severe anti-trans bathroom ordinances in the country.

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i'm sorry but i refuse to concede that the concept of fun is "spiritually israeli" or whatever tf this nonsense is

Current Affairs@currentaffairs.bsky.social · 2d ago

If SCREEN were to pass, you'd be required to scan your face and upload an ID to access this site because it allows "harmful" material. This affects you even if you don't care about sex work or porn.

404 Media@404media.co · yesterday

Mike Lee's SCREEN Act, which heads to Senate Commerce Committee for markup on Wednesday, would expand age verification requirements to a nearly limitless scope of websites, and is supported by the architects of Project 2025.

Hemingway's baby shoes has nothing on the economy or affective power of these two words. I'm in pieces.

this is the best comment i've ever seen on any footage of my game. pack it up. there's no topping this.

Only a matter of time before Texas forces @kevinmkruse.bsky.social to drink hemlock. www.aclutx.org/press-releas...

The US military tested a GPS jammer and murdered a bunch of civilians on a civilian plane. futurism.com/science-ener...

It Appears That the US Military Accidentally Killed Everybody on Board a Civilian Medevac Flight in New Mexico

A days-long electronic warfare drill was one of the causes behind the loss of a four-passenger medevac flight.

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Denying your kids this is abuse and nothing else

aegisiondure 🫍@equalnotequals.com · 17h ago

this isn't very popular to say, but for me personally, it was good that i had unrestricted internet access when i was a minor. i was aware of what i was doing and enjoyed it. i don't look back on it and go "well that was a mistake", i look back on it and wish i could do it for the first time again

The Free Speech Brigade going after Americans "for speech that could endanger the agency’s mission". (It was never about free speech and I sincerely hope that every single media outlet is aware of this now...) www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

“Eldest, that's what I am. Mark my words, my friends: Salt Girl was here before the river and the trees; Salt Girl remembers the first raindrop and the first acorn. She knew the dark under the stars when it was fearless - before the Dark Lord came from Outside.”

Derek Faraci@whwoolhat.bsky.social · 2d ago

Bet you didn't know that the Little Morton Salt Girl is an immortal being who existed before there was life on Earth.

The true victims of trans genocide are the feelings of cis people.

Karrid 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@karrid.myatproto.social · yesterday

Well, it appears that, sometime in the last 17 hours, Gwen Pepperoni was suspended for the crime of pointing out Ken Jennings' transphobia.

Wake up, honey, new Misopogon just dropped—but this time it’s not a satire. Yet we are still on a Persian campaign.

David Burbach 🇺🇸@dburbach.bsky.social · yesterday

"Commanders [must] maintain a log of personnel requiring facial hair treatment plans... Must forward a Facial Hair Accommodation Accountability Report in Excel monthly...   Those approved for accommodation must carry the signed paperwork on their persons..." www.militarytimes.com/news/your-na...

they're never going to accept regular cat food again

And then he said, "I mean... there are difficult issues. Trying to figure out trans athletes in sports. That's an issue where we could actually come to a policy solution." Yet again, we're nothing but "difficult issues". Yet again, the Democrats' not-so-final solution is kinder gentler segregation.

Bruce Mirken@brucemirken.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 2d ago

Maddow asked #JamesTalarico about attacks on #trans people and those who think that to win, Dems must "moderate" on trans rights. Talarico answered, "I don't believe we win by selling people out." #Texas

The utter embarrassment of being a web developer whose pages run like this and then don't turn out to be mining Monero in a background thread

Julia@foxgrrl.bsky.social · 2d ago

Every fucking website that's just a few paragraphs of text and maybe a few images is now constantly burning up CPU time, network bandwidth, and leaking memory... DOING NOTHING! If I have a bunch of browser tabs open and then go to bed, when I wake up in the morning GIGABYTEs of RAM are now used up?

But if you lived next to a data center wouldn't it be 150 degrees out all the time and you'd roast? Have internet lunatics lied to me?

WIRED@wired.com · yesterday

Once upon a time, you could've lived next to a data center and never known it. For decades, they quietly powered Netflix, cloud storage, and the internet itself, tucked away near cheap power and fiber connections. www.wired.com/story/how-da...

You can run the entire Windows 7 (32bit) Operating System in less memory than what the single web page "bsky.app" uses when running in a single Chrome browser tab. If you rendered BlueSky threads into PDF documents, those PDF documents would require less memory to display than what "bsky.app" uses.

Julia@foxgrrl.bsky.social · 2d ago

The combined Intel IA-32&64 Software Developer's Manual [ 325462-092-sdm-vol-1-2abcd-3abcd-4.pdf ] is 5363 pages long & Chrome only needs 426MB of RAM to display it in a tab Leo Tolstoy's "War and Peace" www.gutenberg.org/files/2600/2... only requires 387MB to display in a tab "bsky.app" needs 1GB

Der stürmer had an amazing jumble

cait (and adonis)@cait.bsky.social · 2d ago

here's a fun lil exercise for cis people: how many articles would a publication have to print calling for your extermination before you would expect people who care about you to stop giving them money? and how would you feel if their excuse for still supporting them is some fuckass crossword puzzle?

All the worst dumbfuckery is going to become bipartisan consensus

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez@ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 2d ago

There is pervasive corruption across our healthcare and agricultural systems that defy party lines. I meet with MAHA activists because a lot of their concerns are bipartisan issues that major corporations paint as partisan. The fight isn't left and right, it's top and bottom.

🚨Senate Commerce will hear Mike Lee's invasive SCREEN ACT — age-verification scans for all adults, for ANY site with "harmful content" AND required VPN monitoring. They're attempting to push through before recess and it's absolutely essential you call your Senators now. Call early and often.

Defend Online Privacy: Stop the SCREEN Act!

The Senate Commerce Committee will vote on the SCREEN Act on August 5. ACT NOW to stop it!

defendonlineprivacy.com

Free Speech Coalition@fsc.bsky.social · 6d ago

The Senate Commerce Committee will vote on the SCREEN Act on August 5, 2026. Take action now to oppose nationwide age verification in the US This bill would force every adult in the country to hand over identifying information just to use the internet. www.defendonlineprivacy.com/screen/

LOfuckinL I can tell you my T level is below threshold of detection and I get the paperwork that proves it on the regular

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

New Investigation Out! Kathleen defied neo-Nazi violence across borders, and now her U.S. passport is revoked. Kathleen, a trans woman of color from the U.S. has been forced to seek asylum in another country. theneedlenews.com/2026/08/she-...

She Defied Neo-Nazi Violence; Now Her U.S. Passport Has Been Revoked

The Needle has concluded that the State Department is likely asserting the power to deem U.S. citizens who they determine to be ideologically "far-left", and who seem to be especially active in transg...

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It will be worse than this! Most websites will be forced to ask you to send your ID to a third party surveillance service, adding a credit card won't be enough for most. Bluesky asks for your *social security number* if you live in Texas now, due to this shit. Call in, and kill it.

Eromancer@eromancer.bsky.social · 3d ago

This will be the US if the SCREEN Act passes. Call your Senators before August 5 and tell them that you oppose the SCREEN Act, KOSA, and the KIDS Act. Use the official lookup tool at www.senate.gov/senators/sen... to find yours by state.

Why did you unblock me, exactly?

I have met my daily quota of cat ass

No soft fingernail touches allowed, meanwhile Crowder is having the time of his life joking about people being thrown from helicopters

Sam Cole@samleecole.bsky.social · 5d ago

a bunch of popular ASMR artists lost their channels forever this week, after YouTube cited them for violating terms against "sexually gratifying" content: www.404media.co/youtube-asmr...

If you've just tuned in, the reason Glinner's always accusing me of being a stalker is that I found and documented the ten(!) different ban-evading sock accounts he used to continue being abusive on Twitter when suspended from 2022-2022. Screenshots at glinnerstwitters.wordpress.com.

Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕@mimmymum.bsky.social · 4d ago

While JK Rowling is threatening human rights organisations with legal action to silence them… … We need to make sure the historical records accurately reflect everything the ‘gender critical’ transphobic bigoted billionaire did in her obsessive campaign against trans people! Wiki editors assemble!

Listening comprehension and object permanence would be a good fucking start. "Look, I'm *not* on a bridge right now, but..." "Are you on a bridge?!" "No, I quite clearly said I'm not..." "What bridge are you on?!" <click> (True Story.)

Unit K80, Machine Goddess of Praxis@endmylifedotexe.bsky.social · 3d ago

TBH one of the worst parts of its life is that Depression hotlines have a 100% chance to make it feel significantly worse in every way So when isolated, it can only seek help reliably from sources that make it feel worse to be alive Truly an innovative means of existential torment

the attitudes and worldviews exhibited by a growing number of leftists is deeply deeply conservative in nature, and we need to grapple with this before it gets worse

tbabb@tbabb.bsky.social · 4d ago

the belief that change can make things better is the "progress" part of "progressive", while "conserving the past" and resisting change is where "conservative" comes from. a lot of so called leftists these days are actually conservative

The fact that we haven't seen a revival of political lesbianism is proof that heterosexuality is, unfortunately, real

Sky Marchini@sky.skymarchini.net · 4d ago

i know this point has been beaten to death but if you're a moderately attractive and well-adjusted dude, you are in another league dating-wise compared to the chuds