this guy losing in November is nowhere near good enough

Mother Jones@motherjones.com · 7h ago

NEW: @abbyvesoulis.bsky.social obtained body cam footage from the investigation into Rep. Max Miller's alleged abuse. In it, Emily Moreno alleges Miller held her at gunpoint while she changed their daughter's diaper. It also reveals him downplaying their daughter's broken collarbone to detectives.

JK Rowling trying to destroy a Human Rights Org sounds shocking until you learn that her first job after uni was working as an researcher at Amnesty international which she found "boring" You have to be so far up your own ass to consider a job monitoring war crimes and injustices fucking boring!

Holl🌞@willows-song.bsky.social · 5d ago

This is why you dont try to compromise or concede anything to these horrors

Republicans orthodoxy is that Donald Trump is uniquely incapable of overseeing free and fair elections

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 11h ago

holy shit -- Schiff ties Trump's judicial nominees in knots by asking them who won the 2016 before *before* asking them who won in 2020, which results in them sounding like election deniers about Trump's victories!

oh *there* it is

will pooley@willpooley.bsky.social · 13h ago

look, I don’t want to get anyone’s hopes up but I think I may have discovered something incredible on worldcat

While I'm staring down the barrel of the Edinburgh Fringe programme, the fact that stand-up comedy doesn't have defined genres is a real problem in finding stuff. Conversely music is divided into thousands of micro genres to enable easy mixing

Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social · yesterday

Typically good take from Pete. Literary devices or tropes (“this murder mystery exists to explore the world I’ve created”/“this fantastical concept is an allegory”) are interesting. Genres are just a marketing tool, and not a very interesting one.

Despicable gutter racism from a guy who couldn’t succeed in politics and who has no moral or political center to speak of. He’s, always, been a rank bigot and, in totality, a failure, but go on…

I appreciate when Elizabeth Warren fans are consistent across races

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · yesterday

McMorrow would have won

Trump: "see, we aren't Islamophobes!" His fans: "no, no, we actually hate Muslims!"

Helen Kennedy@helenkennedy.com · 24h ago

Trump's endorsement post was flooded by shitty Islamophobic replies from his shitty followers. Because of course.

quite literally in the process of collecting and cataloguing and creating four separate collections to be archived and yes, THIS. (And once again, so grateful for archivists and librarians, y'all are the best)

Brendan Davey@brendandavey.bsky.social · 2d ago

Also, not everything is archived! Like... literally almost nothing in the grand scheme of humanities written work is archived. Someone has to dig through that crap and apply context to it! It really cannot be an LLM.

Can't tell what the bigger issue is with centrists: That they have no coherent ideology that aligns with material reality, or that they're just racist af.

Taking Emirati blood money to fund your comfortable jobless DMV lifestyle in between Democratic presidencies: good liberalism, moderate, pragmatic Being an Arab doctor who goes to the gym AND the Masjid: intolerable authoritarianism, anti-American, pie in the sky, unprofessional

Travis@someforeignfield.bsky.social · 4d ago

It's considered bipartisan business as usual to treat the UAE as a good and trusted ally. Courting them and taking their blood money does not count as "authoritarian apologism" but God forbid you post something about Chinese trains

Divorcing a Jordanian princess to marry an American dietician TikToker………quitting your job as a foreign correspondent to become a police officer in South Carolina…….there is something very fascinating going on here psychologically.

Ben@cinemashoebox.bsky.social · last wk.

once-ever-present-twitter-trad-who-somewhat-unexpectedly-married-a-jordanian-princess-and-was-also-roald-dahl's-grandson Ned Donovan has divorced the Jordanian princess and is a cop in South Carolina now? www.tatler.com/article/roal...

DHH is one of those Ruby on Rails guys who made his millions, had like 8 decent ideas, got into a super expensive hobby, and couldn't handle it when the world noticed he's a massive piece of shit who is no longer relevant. You know, like Ruby on Rails.

Anil Dash@anildash.com · last wk.

Just in case you still use any Basecamp products, DHH is crashing out about his AI product gently pointing out that it’s bad for him to have extermination fantasies about the Roma people.

A reminder that the Tesla company virtually worships this violence-inciting Neo-Nazi as their "Technoking". Any purchase of this company's products is inseparable from his ideology

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · last wk.

Elon Musk's politics are indistinguishable from Paul Golding of Britain First [except Britain First is more coded on violence, while Musk has been more openly pro-violence as inevitable, necessary, legitimate since Aug 2025] The main pro-Hitler YouTuber "Zoomer Historian" is encouraged.

“Almost every extremist attempt to socialise violence - fr Hitler to Rwanda, from Northern Ireland to Musk yesterday-sees extremists present as counter-extremists, to posit an existential threat & to propose political violence as necessary for community self-defence. Musk offers a paradigm case” 🧵

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · last wk.

Elon Musk's politics are indistinguishable from Paul Golding of Britain First [except Britain First is more coded on violence, while Musk has been more openly pro-violence as inevitable, necessary, legitimate since Aug 2025] The main pro-Hitler YouTuber "Zoomer Historian" is encouraged.

This is like when Chief Justice Kant, who now famously called the youth of India 'cockroaches', said in court that he wasn't interested in watching videos of police brutality and then later said that he didn't say that and it was fake news (like bollock it was) when people got pissed.

Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · last wk.

I can promise Mr Mohandas that it is not "Malayalam humor and satire" to say that leftists, Dalits and women protesting the regime "like rape" Its just the ugly hate and violence that lies at the root of Hindutva/fascism. As a fellow Malayalee who has long loved our tradition of mocking politicians.

I’m genuinely wondering how many elections—in Michigan especially—the Democrats are going to have to lose until they’re willing to be adults and have an adult conversation about how unbelievably racist against Muslims the party is

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 2w ago

A great example of how absurd US politics is is that Abdul El Sayed feels compelled to tell random people online to not make fun of Stevens' accent, but an actual elected official who is a Stevens supporter can say that Abdul shouldn't speak Arabic in public and Stevens won't condemn it.

Tim Stanley offered them the olive branch that the left was to blame for them collectively losing their minds on climate change, but still the Telegraph’s readers are not ready to be reconciled with science and reason.

Leo Hickman@leohickman.carbonbrief.org · last wk.

Let's just say that the readers are losing their minds in the comments under the article. More than 4,000 comments so far. A tiny sample...

In Australia's mega-fires of 2019-2020, 27 of 34 different rainforest types in South East Queensland potentially burnt "the wettest rainforest types and putative past refugia burnt more than other rainforest types. These results suggest that given drought conditions any rainforest could burn"👇

Daniel Swain@weatherwest.bsky.social · last wk.

In the United Kingdom, local firefighting agencies have been overwhelmed by vegetation fires during repeated heatwaves. Numerous forest and moorland fires, including some in the infamously damp Scottish Highlands, continue to burn.

His legacy. Of sociopathy. Long after his one single moment of truth. bsky.app/profile/tpar...

Trita Parsi@tparsi.bsky.social · last wk.

Tomorrow is Lindsey Graham's funeral. Here is some previously unseen footage of his monstrous reaction to Trump starting the illegal war with Iran. [laughing] - We have done it! [more laughter] - I almost cried! [of happiness] - How long have we pushed this?

An interesting example of this I encountered was in Lebanon, where Lebanese thought Syrian refugees living in tents or on the street had an easier life than Lebanese due to UN food assistance

Andrew Lawrence@ndrew.bsky.social · last wk.

if conservatives in any given country think “foreigners have it easier” then they should just renounce their citizenship, problem solved

really something to see tech YouTuber types calmly discussing the latest Tesla or SpaceX business news without once mentioning Elon’s 50 Day of the Rope posts per day or his murdering 700,000+ people

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · last mo.

X owner Elon Musk indicates he would prioritise political violence (assassination of pro-migration politicians is the common sense meaning) over violence against "invaders" (refugees, asylum seekers, maybe ethnic minorities generally) while endorsing call for violence (killing) against both groups

remember: Iran is bad and irrational because it is run by religious fanatics

Walker Bragman@walkerbragman.bsky.social · 2w ago

I am increasingly worried about the subtle—and maybe not so subtle—Islamophobic undertones of Stevens’ campaign. From this “local candidate” thing she’s trying to do to Clyburn leaning into the Bible at this rally and telling the crowd to pray for Stevens.

I am increasingly worried about the subtle—and maybe not so subtle—Islamophobic undertones of Stevens’ campaign. From this “local candidate” thing she’s trying to do to Clyburn leaning into the Bible at this rally and telling the crowd to pray for Stevens.

Parker Molloy@parkermolloy.com · 2w ago

The Stevens campaign's whole insistence that she's more of a Michigander than AES is clearly just racism, especially since the two of them were literally born in the same city.

Finally went through William Gibson's Wikipedia page just earlier, and one of the key details was rewriting the first 2/3rds of the Neuromancer twelve (!) times! (Another one: some random tourist leaves Neuromancer on a beach -> Hollywood producer picks it up -> Gibson gets a call chain of events!)

William Gibson - Wikipedia

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Anna Vangala Jones@anniejowrites.bsky.social · last wk.

write the book you want to read because you will have to read it over and over and over when revising

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, or Alice in Chains

Scalawag Jack@scalawagjack.bsky.social · last wk.

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, or Alice in Chains

This is how I learned El-Sayed’s bday is Halloween

Parker Molloy@parkermolloy.com · 2w ago

The Stevens campaign's whole insistence that she's more of a Michigander than AES is clearly just racism, especially since the two of them were literally born in the same city.

His brother was killed the day after Kennedy was assassinated. share.google/uWtMFBZl7FcZ...

How Bobby Hebb's personal tragedy connected with a nation

Bobby Hebb's own personal tragedy coincided with the assassination of JFK. His music began to connect with people on a deeper level as both events overlapped.

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Birmingham 81@birmingham81.bsky.social · 2w ago

Remembering Bobby Hebb on his birthday. Here he is performing a beautiful version of Sunny with Ron Carter. The full 7-min recording is at youtu.be/FvFYecvFT-0 (THREAD 1 of 3)

Every single journalist covering extreme weather in Europe right now should be showing this fire risk map and then ask “what are our politicians doing about it? Let’s go and ask”

Andy Scollick@andyscollick.bsky.social · 2w ago

Tuesday 28 July and Wednesday 29 July