I'm seeing a local Christian Nationalist church going ahead with the kids' camps in this very unhealthy air AND having a campfire at the camp during a strict burn ban. "Toughen up kids, a little smoke and a campfire while the State has major fires burning all over isn't gonna kill you."

The point of policing trans folks out of bathrooms is to police us out of public life is to police us out of existence. That's it. That's the entire story.

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 think it was Cory Doctrow who pointed out that SF is a luddite genre in the original sense of the word: Not fearful of tech as such, but cautious and critical of how it's likely to be used. How many SF novels are there (going back to Frankenstein) where the beautiful creation just goes amok?

Furries are an indicator species. If they start disappearing, your online ecosystem is not healthy.

This is WILD she took sis content bar for bar and in response to being exposed she locked her comments and is pretending nothing is happening. She’s got 100k more followers than the Black content creator she stole from, mind you. Any brands she’s endorsing better think fast smh

Hey @erinbiba.bsky.social please enjoy the work of this innovative textile artist

I’m just saying, Angela Lansbury would have found out Walter White in the first season. Walter White wouldn’t have lasted an entire Colombo episode.

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.

Sydney Bauer@sydney-bauer.com · 22h ago

I need people to understand that for the last half decade that there’s been an ecosystem of trans folks in sports media who have worked unpaid to serve as experts for context, sources and educators on what it’s like for trans athletes, in hopes of potential bylines and contacts. That’s dried up.

This is what happened 5-10 years ago in the UK. Journalistic seriousness was stripped from trans journalists and columnists despite trans topics dominating headlines.

Katelyn Burns@katelynburns.com · 3h ago

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.

Man this is a huge bummer, I was excited to join HWA as a full member after making my first sale but I guess I’ll look at other professional organizations now.

So apparently that HWA pro-AI newsletter also uses Indigenous water rights issues as a prop, trivializing the activism by Indigenous peoples to protect our water including specific anti-data centre actions. I guess they figured why not alienate Indigenous horror writers while they’re at it?

I'd love to hear why my book White Flight -- which won prizes from the Southern Historical Association and the American Political Science Association -- was deemed not good enough for students at Texas A&M.

King Algamemnon@adamrothman.bsky.social · 18h ago

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

Every judge that is receiving a lifetime appointment here is signaling that they are pretty flexible when it comes to defending American democracy donmoynihan.substack.com/p/scenes-fro...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3h ago

BLUMENTHAL: Judge Cronan, you're already on the district court. Who won the 2020 election? CRONAN: Joseph Biden received the majority of electoral votes B: You have nothing to lose. You have a lifetime appointment, and yet you're unwilling to state the simple fact that Biden won the 2020 election

A solid flow of ocean air should kick in by early evening across Seattle and Vancouver, putting an end to the smoke event. Portland won't see an end until Thursday afternoon. rapidrefresh.noaa.gov/RRFS-SD-CONU...

AI Bad. Humanity Good.

Two-spotted scoliid wasp on mountain mint. Very skittish species, but the mint has tamed them! Such beautiful animals #bugsky

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 · 16h 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 govt has fired *all* the immigration attorneys representing detained children and given a $150 million contract to a 26-employee law firm in Texas with ONE immigration attorney. @theyoungcenter.bsky.social's Child Advocates are now the last line of defense for kids in deportation hearings.

Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins@ajcousins.bsky.social · 5h ago

Wanna help? Become a Waymaker! We're running, walking, cycling 20,000 miles in September to raise money to get immigrant kids out of detention and back with family. Someone who kayaks to work is dedicating his miles to Waymakers! A salsa dance class is counting steps! It all counts! #BeAWaymaker

> Police in Wisconsin used Flock to determine that a man “travels to Michigan frequently,” where marijuana is legal, then back to Wisconsin, where it is illegal. They then used his travel as part of the probable cause justification to search his car for weed; he was arrested on possession charges.

404 Media@404media.co · 5h ago

"The vehicle travels to Michigan frequently which is a known source state for marijuana as it is legal there," a probable cause justification reads.

There's something diminishing about living in a world where men's abuse is so ubiquitous and unimpeded, and still women are chided for not thinking enough of men's woes, men's harms, men's feelings. We're constantly asked why we don't tolerate our endless violation with more dignity.

Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 17h ago

It's demoralizing living in a nonstop Abuse-a-thon: we've had to learn the sordid details of so many men's abhorrent behavior; I mean this summer has been Graham Platner, Andrew Tate, Jared Leto, Max Miller, plus the horrific L.A. rape-murder of the child by the rapper, to name a few lowlights.

In Tucker’s recent interview with his favorite Holocaust-denying “historian,” TC is shocked to learn that the Bolsheviks erected a statue to Judas in Moscow. The only problem is, there is no evidence that this ever happened. But who cares about evidence when you have a fascist narrative to push?

This is a legitimately fascinating piece. The nature of this strife is why the founders took steps to prevent the US devolving into internal conflict over whose interpretation of Christianity was “correct.” But as a non-Christian, the whole situation is off-putting as fuck.

Jack Jenkins@jackjenkins.me · 6h ago

As of last night, there are now *7* pastors, former pastors and seminarians who've become Democratic nominees running for Congress. Some have already won safe Dem seats, and several are in hotly contested races. In multiple cases, the GOP has attacked their faith. religionnews.com/2026/08/04/p...

i need someone to explain like I'm five how this isn't wildly unconstitutional violations of the 4th amendment

Bruno J. Navarro@brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 4h ago

Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines to Create Pretext to Search His Car for Weed

"Sir, our human volunteers have helped us to acquire a reputation as one of the last places on the internet that doesn't totally suck ass" CEO: "Ok but [tents fingers and raises eyebrows] what if we DID"

The Verge@theverge.com · 4h ago

It’s also planning big changes for developers and old Reddit. www.theverge.com/tech/975398/...

“I can’t see the point in learning to solve useless problems, or subtracting turnips from turnips, or knowing where Ethiopia is or how to spell February.” And, since no one bothered to explain otherwise, he regarded the process of seeking knowledge as the greatest waste of time of all.

My favorite niche objection to AI is that it's DISincentivizing people to take software updates, which leaves them without important security patches. Previously, we had actually been making progress! Apple liked to bundle new emojis with updates so people were like, ooh, I want to type a burrito!

This is just rank Islamophobia and anti-Arab racism, based on the bigoted idea that there is something inherently scary about a president with the last name "El-Sayed." It is incumbent on all of us to call it out.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6h ago

JD Vance: "We don't want the next administration, whoever -- god forbid you're gonna have President El-Sayed in three years ... "

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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Bull Elk, Grand Teton National Park. October, 2019. 📷 Fujifilm X-T3 + XF100-400mmF4.5-5.6 R LM OIS WR 🎞 400 mm – 1/500″ – f/8 – ISO 5000 🏷️ #Photography #Wildlife #Elk #NationalParks