I recently reported that Bossier Parish, Louisiana, voted for one of the most severe anti-trans bathroom rules I'd ever seen. It begged the question: Why? Enter Aurora + Shae, who were allegedly attacked by an anti-trans mob near a Parish bathroom in May. 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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Ring Launches Streaming  Service https://theonion.com/ring-launches-streaming-service/

According to @axios.com and @barakravid.bsky.social, the anticipated Hormuz deal will mostly just reset the MoU’s 60-day clock after clarifying that Iran controls the strait while it ticks. Poor results for Trump’s escalation, which explicitly sought an Iran-free route. www.axios.com/2026/08/05/u...

This is another fantastic outcome for Michigan progressives. Nice. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/u...

Shri Thanedar Is Ousted by a Democratic Socialist in a Michigan House Primary (Gift Article)

Representative Shri Thanedar is among a wave of Democratic incumbents in Congress whom primary voters have sent packing in a surge of anti-incumbent fervor this cycle.

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Holy shit did this resonate with me:

Defector@defector.com · yesterday

Concussion protocols are a sham: defector.com/concussion-p...

The U.S. Relies on Family Caregivers - Millions of Them Children. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/m...

The U.S. Relies on Family Caregivers. Millions of Them Are Kids. (Gift Article)

The modern health care system requires the work of caregiving to fall to whoever else lives in a household — even if they’re kids.

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Try flipping that around though and they get very upset

Zito@zeets.bsky.social · 9h ago

A lot of white Americans seem to think that all Muslims are responsible for 9/11, and really, that every non-white group is responsible for anything bad anyone from that group has ever done

obviously this is islamophobia, but it's also the liberal framing of american empire as always being reactive. none of our actions ever have consequences and no one ever has valid historical reasons to be hostile towards america

Mohamad Bazzi@mbazzi.bsky.social · yesterday

25 years after the tired American cliche of “why do they hate us,” helped instigate two forever wars (Afghanistan + Iraq), this is how @nytimes.com chooses to explain Iran’s political system:

you know i'm starting to think she just hates holidays for their own sake, not even as a woke thing

this man should get combat pay bc he was FIGHTING here

It is kinda weird that the American public response to the Iraq war being kinda a disaster was "oh stove is hot! let's not do that again" but the blob's reaction was "oh stove is hot! this makes me very angry at the neighboring, larger, stove providing some of the heat, I will touch that one now"

Treating bigotry as some kind of civil disagreement really says more about you and your value system than you think it says about your kindness

Ben Goldacre@bengoldacre.bsky.social · 2d ago

Sad to see people posting on social media negatively about Rod Liddle, who died yesterday. If I have disagreed with you very strongly in life - and you die - I hope I'll be either silent, or kind.

Man goes to see the Cyclops. Says he's depressed. He wants to get back to his wife and home, but he keeps running into fatal predicaments along the way. Cyclops says, "Prognosis is simple. Nobody can help you." Man starts crying. Says, "But Cyclops, I *am* Nobody"

I wish the Max Miller story was less framed as “look at how Republicans are hypocrites” and more “once again powerful people clearly knew of a horrific level of abuse being performed to somebody and obviously chose not to care about until it became a political liability.”

The UAE is very willing to sacrifice people like 19 year old Isabella Gonzales, from Carrollton TX, so that they have even more money to give to Colombian mercenaries in Sudan or to buy their way onto Epstein's island.

Shipwreck@shipwreck75.bsky.social · 3d ago

The officials have suggested Iran’s powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps won’t compromise until the U.S. escalates, takes control over the strait and perhaps considers ground operations.-WSJ

Nolan thought he could get away with it

ʤan~ʤɑn~ʤɔn@languagedoodad.bsky.social · last wk.

I decided to write the only Odyssey think piece worth reading

SPERMBANK.COM\GALAXY is really something I just saw on an ad board during this game

Unsurprisingly, this is never an argument for what schools should have done to remediate this after the fact, but is only ever an argument for why they shouldn't have done it in the first place.

Lewis Goodall@lewisgoodall.com · 5d ago

There are working class and vulnerable kids who will never have the life they should have had because of school closures. Let’s address that too, shall we?

i wanna know which extremely online lawyer made sure to require the post be pinned. genius.

Susie "Nickname In Quotes" Beeca@susiebeeca.bsky.social · 4d ago

Ah, this warms the cockles of my cold, dead heart. Wait til you see the price a TERF had to pay for lying about a trans woman. "...also be required to publish a court-approved apology that must remain pinned on their social media channels for three months" www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/07/an-a...

lol

EMILY WILSON@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 4d ago

I cannot rest from discourse. I will see that film again tomorrow. I will drink life to the lees. Again I will enjoy greatly, will suffer greatly, both with those that love me, and in Pleasantville NY. I am become a meme. Film showing: burnsfilmcenter.org/booking/the-...

These third country deportations are among the most evil acts of the Trump administration. They're trying to extrajudicially punish people for seeking asylum, up to and including with death.

Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 4d ago

Great reporting from @emilybregel.bsky.social about a gay man who’s been in the US since he was four, imprisoned in a “hotel” in Equatorial Guinea since April. He says he’s being denied soap and toilet paper in retaliation for filing a complaint w African Commission. 1/ tucson.com/news/local/b...

So let's just say when King Elessar decides to pronounce the Shire an autonomous region under his protection rather than, like, trying to invade it, your thought is, "oh thank Eru..."

Vituperative Erb@vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 4d ago

If you’re a Gondorian soldier your experience with hobbits is a tiny guy shows up with a wizard and is immediately taken in the Steward’s counsel. He saves Faramir when the Steward goes mad. A second tiny guy arrives with the Rohirrim and kills the Witch King. The first one then goes on campaign …

"If we reimagine a foundational narrative of our civilization in an age of serious crisis, how can authenticity be anything close to a viable goal?" Benedek Kruchió on "The Odyssey": https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/homer-odyssey-christopher-nolan-career-retrospective-memory-adaptation/

Van Cliburn's take on Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata is beyond sublime. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRy0...

Sonata No. 2 "Moonlight" in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 27: Adagio sostenuto

YouTube video by Van Cliburn - Topic

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I am *still* thinking about The Odyssey

Dreams do come true

Polling USA@usapolling.bsky.social · 5d ago

Stevens is so fucking cooked holy shit

"WE THE FUCKING JUDGE SON" New York, I love you. I love you so fucking much. Via wali_talks on IG

I don't think they have any real idea and they figured "Iran" (being whoever was left in charge when they decided they were done) would capitulate either way, but also a decent argument for not killing the people you might want to negotiate with at some point

Evergreen Intel@vcdgf555.bsky.social · 5d ago

Zachary Cohen, CNN: Officials now believe the IRGC is firmly in control of Iran’s decision making, leaving political figures the US has been talking with as figureheads. Fantastic job. 10/10.

Nobody cares about these sorts of pronouncements, but I've decided that one dumb post is enough to unfollow somebody. You might have another one in you somewhere and anyway I'm just not going to be reading your other posts with that one dumb one still stuck in my craw