The D.C. circuit appeals court denied all of President Trump's arguments that sought to stop the removal of his name from the Washington, D.C. arts institution. n.pr/3SNTbWt

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Once again the BlueSky trending list is off the mark. 'Gatwick crash' it says. Click on it and there is not a single post about anything to do with Gatwick. Weird.

We are each a tiny boat on a turbulent ocean. We can decide what supplies to pack, what companions to bring, we can decide what course to plot, what harbors to visit, to sail through the storms or around, but in the end, we are just a tiny boat, and the ocean is large. Don't be too hard on yourself.

If every victim came forward all at once, the world would never be the same, and they don’t want that. They don’t want to know how pervasive and how near-universal sexual violence is. They don’t want to know how many perpetrators there are and who they are. For them, it’s better to let it continue.

In a strongly worded ruling, a Trump-appointed judge quashed a subpoena from the DOJ which sought personal information from the nearly 3,000 Georgia election workers and volunteers from the 2020 election. minnesotareformer.com/2026/07/08/r...

Oh well… 🍿 nypost.com/2026/07/07/b...

It’s not just that due process doesn’t apply to political candidates—it’s literally the opposite of the evidentiary standard for political candidates. The burden is entirely on *them* to prove to *us* that they possess the integrity and good sense to hold office.

The next Democratic Congress MUST investigate this well documented corruption.

The Department of Justice just sent ProPublica this response: "The Department sent these letters to all 50 states and the District of Columbia, asking for voluntary compliance in a timely manner with their obligations under federal law to ensure only citizens vote in federal elections.”

What the settings to flip look like for me, for reference.

URGENT:

Every day this post becomes ever more correct

One for the block box, Y'all.

I believe people in these instances should be banned from ANY career in the public eye where they can be mistaken for any kind of role model.

Paths to atonement and change don’t have to include power over the people you’ve exploited

“Stealthing” is explicitly illegal in the state of Maine (as well as Cali and Washington) FYI (Other states prosecute this under different SA laws)

GOOD. If we had done this earlier, then Clarence Fucking Thomas wouldn't be on the Supreme Court.

I think it's technically Stalin and Roosevelt giving in to Churchhill's whining and promising not to execute the entire Nazi officer corps that got us here. Yalta kinda sucked. Churchill also sucked. And I guess Roosevelt and Stalin sucked for agreeing to not permanban Churchill's drikning buddies.

If you care about freedom of speech, you also need to care about sex workers rights and lgtbq rights. abortion rights are directly tied to healthcare rights *and* the police surveillance state If you care about wealth inequality, you also need to care about racism Everything is intertwined

The Patriot Front's usage of masks to shield their identities in DC on July 4 served dual purposes, per former DC police offer Michael Fanone 1) It adds to the impact of menacing 2) It shields the Front members from being identified and fired from their jobs

The definition of a true fan: You’d rather see your team lose fairly than win unfairly.

Having a totenkopf tattoo would get you kicked out (at a minimum) of a mosh pit at any punk or hardcore show and I don't think we should have lower standards than that for the Senate

In Season 2 I want Ilya to start yelling in Russian during a (minor fight, more like bickering) fight, and Shane to yell back in French just to wind him up more. It'll feel like home. (Dutch/English/Me bitching under my breath in French) #HeatedRivalry

2D platformer where everything is canonically just the two dimensions and you play a slithering snake, called Snakes on a Plane

I have friends here in Canada who have embargoed American politics. It enrages them too much. I can’t do that. I track a LOT, just don’t comment on everything (recommended!), but the rage is real. A lot of people who should have known better backed Platner — and attacked those raising questions.

Also I want to reiterate this - if you have a Nazi or other offensive, problematic tattoo and it wasn’t your choice to get it (this does happen in abusive situations) or you’ve learned better and are making amends:

GREAT. Just made myself cry while writing a scene in my own Queer Dark Romance. Once again I'm reminded that one of the varied reasons Queer trauma is a major trope in fiction is that it affords Queer writers the opportunity to tell our characters what we needed to hear when we were baby Queers.

Folks need to do some soul searching. Dude covered a Nazi tattoo with an image popular in white supremacist circles, got accused of sexual assault but folks didn’t listen because the accuser is a Republican. People talked about drunk erratic behavior, but it took bad polling and a well-cast victim

Fiction and fantasy aren't "fake" any more than light seen through a prism is fake. It's just seen from a different perspective. Light through a prism is still light. Truth through a story is still the truth.

Come work with me, Janna, Jonas, and Bart at Leiden University :). #MentalHealth #Psychology #PsychSciSky #academicsky

Summer's Eve is a douche, but so was Lord Byron.

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The Church of the Goddess is based on the world of Elden Ring, specifically Limgrave. I have been spending a lot of time in the game lately while working on another project and have been getting the itch to make some ER inspired battlemaps.

Our ebooks are now available through Bookshop.org. Go ye forth and support your local, independent bookshop! uk.bookshop.org/p/bo...

WOULD SOME NEWS ORGANIZATION TREAT THIS AS IT SHOULD BE TREATED? -->President Donald Trump posted a doctored photo defaming his predecessor, President Barack Obama, and his wife. Trump regularly posts doctored and AI-produced graphics with racist and Nazi content. He is unfit for office.

Since apparently this isn't making it beyond UK news yet, Rockstar petitioned a British court to section an 18 year old autistic kid under the mental health act for hacking their server and leaking a short GTA 6 clip a couple of years ago. No trial, no term of sentence, just locked up in hospital.

During Disability Pride Month.

@coachstuds.bsky.social I assume you misspelled couchstuds.

GREAT. Just made myself cry while writing a scene in my own Queer Dark Romance. Once again I'm reminded that one of the varied reasons Queer trauma is a major trope in fiction is that it affords Queer writers the opportunity to tell our characters what we needed to hear when we were baby Queers.

Philippines: Quezon City has logged a 265% increase in COVID-19 cases in 3 weeks. 🔹23 confirmed cases from May 21 to June 10, rising to 84 cases from June 11 to July 1 🔹District 4 had the highest rate at 32.71% of cases 🔹30% of all cases occurred in children aged 14 and under

Gmail will shut the entire fuck up or it will get the hose again.

It's the promise of good jobs, apparently..? [This story is extremely upsetting]

I love Burn Gorman so much.

Fell out of the wheelchair hard enough to cause the new cat to come protectively investigate. ...And this is why I wear a f%$ing seatbelt.

Don't get me started about "Ancient Astronauts", that bullshit pisses me off. Fatuous lies, all of it. Here's one of their favorite objects, which they like to pretend is a Mayan or ET in a spaceship as portrayed by ancients. Nah, it's a Mayan king having a vision.

An evergreen post.

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