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Never take this administration seriously when they say they care about "fighting antisemitism." They only care about using antisemitism as a cudgel to attack Muslims and college students. jewishinsider.com/2026/07/fema...

FEMA approves only 27% of 2025 Nonprofit Security Grant applications

The agency said state administrative agencies and the extended DHS shutdown caused the lengthy delay in issuing the grants

jewishinsider.com

If i have any followers in Spokane, the city has set up a relief fund: my.spokanecity.org/endinghomele...

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The H.O.M.E Starts Here Fund, which is typically used to support services for people experiencing homelessness, is being activated to accept donations

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Exact same behavior on my laptop which never had ANY gog installs ever

Luis@loosf.bsky.social · 6h ago

I keep talking shit about gog.com but goddamn their software quality AND support are just fucking dire. Ever since the last update, gog galaxy refuses to launch. Correct username, correct password, goes and seems like it is connecting and then just spits me out into the same login prompt again

This is heartbreaking. @kenjennings.bsky.social did so much damage and his actions caused a cascade that chased an innocent trans woman off the internet The fact that she has suffered all the consequences from his actions should make everyone stop and think about how privilege played out here

Rav@rvbdrm.com · 8h ago

Gwen deactivated 😔

Listen fuck this eugenicist monster forever at the same time it looks like this org has been investigated for many years, starting during the Biden admin, and, uh, yeah they should prob be shut down.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4h ago

RFK Jr: "I'm announcing that HHS has begun the decertification of Network for Hope, the organ procurement organization."

El-Sayed, Lawrence and McKinney all won progressive campaigns in Michigan last night by talking about climate and clean energy like it was a kitchen-table issue — because skyrocketing energy bills and endless wildfire smoke matter to people.

Whenever one of these freaks goes off on a tangent about their trans conspiracy of the day, the proper response -- from an interviewer or anyone else -- is "well, it seems like you're having some sort of mental breakdown here, so we'll wrap it up"

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5h ago

Royce White is now ranting about "transgender sex dolls" during a forum that is supposed to be about agricultural issues. This guy is a serious Republican in Minnesota who had the party's nomination for a Senate seat two years ago. Insanity.

this name shit would be the perfect time for obama and/or mamdani to do a hit for el-sayed. "we've heard a lot of people attacking dr el-sayed over his name. well, for eight years they called me PRESIDENT hussein obama. and i'm MAYOR mamdani. so maybe its time for SENATOR el-sayed."

"Grocery access should be treated like any other essential public service," writes Erion Malasi.

Time for Chicago to buy into public-owned grocery store concept

chicago.suntimes.com

I pitched both of my usual outlets about the Cunningham stuff, one said yes, one said not right now. In 2019 I would have had a dozen editors competing for my words on this.

Frankie de la Cretaz@thefrankiedlc.news · 9h ago

It’s true, in the past I would have had multiple editors in my inbox asking me to write about the Cunningham stuff. I haven’t gotten a single assignment request. Trans writers used to be tokenized to write about these things but now that the topic is “mainstream,” those bylines go elsewhere.

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When I first went to get my driving licence changed a worker at the DVLA rejected it and forged my handwriting to claim I had a disability that prevents me from driving. Whenever I tell cis people about this they invariably tell me 'well you should have disclosed it'. Even though I don't have it

Toby Buckle@polphilpod.bsky.social · 11h ago

& when you say "no, it means in the pub trans people can't use either men or women's toilets" there's this kinda blank stare you get the same thing describing republican policy in the simplest terms: people just don't believe you because it sounds nuts

Your little oopsie "mistakes" had me worrying for a year of my life about my partner going to jail for up to a decade based on lies likely fed to you by the top of the federal government. Show everyone what you're covering up in these emails and texts. There's a reason you don't want them released.

Boutros acknowledges 'mistakes' in 'Broadview 6' case but says sanctions, special counsel aren't needed

Chicago's top federal prosecutor noted in a court filing that his office has already dropped charges in the case, implemented “robust root-cause changes” and started the process of reviewing over 1,00...

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if you're posting telling other users to off themself, you're part of the problem. i don't care which group of people you're targeting with it, sui-baiting like that is downright dangerous & doesn't just affect the one account you're replying to. blockity-block.

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HEY! Did you love our old button-up shirts & skater skirt with pockets? Me too! I've got a handful of skirts left that I really need to get out of our shop so that we can start stocking more shirt styles, so I've dropped the price on both to $35 from $60. Please get these the fuck out of my house!

We need more energy like this from cis people, all the time forever, thank you. youtu.be/GecyqKkcFsI?...

Is this trans thought experiment just wrong?

YouTube video by Dan McClellan

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After Fetterman said that Israel is a “red line” for his backing of the Democratic Party, Stewart fired back, saying: “I mean no disrespect on this, but that is not our country.”

Jon Stewart Grills Fetterman, Reminding Him That Israel Is “Not Our Country”

Stewart also reminded Fetterman that Jewish people and Israel are “not the same thing.”…

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sure, this seems bad, but have you considered that there was a furry depicted with a pacifier in its mouth in a Furaffinity banner, which is 10000x worse

Matt Burgess (WIRED)@mattburgess1.bsky.social · 7h ago

NEW: Over the last few months, Meta has run dozens of paid ads that included AI-generated CSAM. The ads, some of which were linking out to “nudify” apps, targeted men in the US, UK, and a dozen European countries. Some were running in the last few days

you can hate babyfurs, think we're gross or whatever, i don't care, but I beg you to turn a fraction of that energy towards the multi-billion-dollar corps who are generating literal CSAM and sexually exploiting real children in real harmful ways instead of attacking us, the ones who don't do that

I see far more vitriol directed against P____ T____ or 4____, or other (usually) trans fems, who DID NOTHING WRONG TO ANYONE, while the Actual Predators just merrily coast along without being in the least bit troubled. spare me your blurry discord screenshot filled google docs. i don't fuckin care

Shri Thanedar's politics - broadly left of center on domestic US politics but with a huge carve-out for Hindutva - actually makes him the closest non-Jewish analogue to a certain kind of American Jewish politics.

Joohn Choe@joohnchoe.bsky.social · 5h ago

This is the context for Thanedar and Modi. It's not just "is Thanedar pro-India," this is a simplistic phrasing of the foreign influence question for a country numbering 1.477 billion souls. The question is perhaps more properly "which India."

I'm really, really, really tired of public health officials going out of their way to tell us that the dead had "underlying conditions" — a phrase so vague as to be useless in actually informing risk assessment. It's just ableism...

Matthew Cortland (they)@matthewcort.land · 20h ago

Why? "Underlying conditions" offers relief to a reader the coverage presumes is healthy. It works especially well because it is so vague. Without knowing the conditions these two lost souls had, readers can supply whatever medical history would make their deaths feel safely remote. 🧵

The decision can be appealed within two months in writing but must be sent by post.

Gaza students “terrified” over spike in Irish student visa rejections

Even with fully funded scholarships, Ireland is turning away a growing number of students desperate to continue their education and escape genocide.

electronicintifada.net

Ayep.

Chuck Wendig@chuckwendig.bsky.social · 8h ago

Professional writer organizations should not send out pro-AI propaganda in the form of tantrum-having "essays" to their members, and I don't think that's controversial.

This is a cute picture of Thomas, but what I want you to look at is the orange comforter. See? It's very orange. We THINK it's from JCPenney's originally, but we don't know for sure. Most importantly, it's old and well-loved, and dying. I need to find a new one, same comforter, to replace. Help?

Oh boy do I feel this, men's restrooms are both fraught and often also disgusting (cis dudes do you realize we don't have to live this way??) and I know this struggle. I have a multitude of coping mechanisms including counting by prime numbers.

Sandy Ernest Allen@sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 10h ago

Here's my Cosmo piece about how segregated bathrooms have impacted my own health www.cosmopolitan.com/lifestyle/a6...

love the hypocrisy when someone says they're anti-MAGA but also is a transphobe and biological essentialist scum. come on folks, you might as well be batting for the other team at that point; you're certainly making their lives easier.