Antisemitism is a real and growing issue in American politics and culture, but the fact that American Jewish organizations like the ADL and AJC went harder on Mamdani than on Platner is part of why we are making no headway in fighting it.

Florida folks: If you have O- blood and are of African or African American descent, OneBlood is searching for donors who have a rare antigen that matches with a teenager with sickle cell disease who needs 50 units of blood so she can have a bone marrow transplant.

“Pope Leo made a plea on Wednesday for countries to offer their ​citizens universal healthcare, calling it a ‘moral imperative’ that ‌people have access to the health services they need.” www.reuters.com/business/hea...

But also, this was predictable. This was the common trait among Trump supporters a decade ago. www.politico.com/magazine/sto...

ICE "said that the man had tried to run down the officer who opened fire, though no evidence was immediately provided to support that account." They say this anytime they shoot people. And again and again its been proven wrong! From Nov of last year: donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whos-threa...

soapbox: there is no such thing as “tough love” - love isn’t tough, and if you insist on using the term then you’re just trying to sugarcoat mistreatment or neglect or abuse and convince yourself that’s ok.

Palestinian pediatrician, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, has spent 18 months in Israeli prisons without trial or charge. His lawyer reports his life is in immediate danger, following torture and poor treatment in prison.   He must be released immediately.

Look, there’s a reason we keep saying it. The misogyny is real. Most American men are completely oblivious to what we actually even mean by this. It’s all around you in the news you read everyday. If you aren’t aware of it, maybe think what that means.

‘Polarization’ has become the master concept for diagnosing our current democratic crisis. But this is not polarization. It is the radicalization of the political right. By misdiagnosing it, we risk becoming complicit in the crisis. 🧵 Just out in Perspectives on Politics doi.org/10.1017/S153...

Here's your regular reminder to GET OFF ALL META PRODUCTS.

breaking my attempt at concentration to share a tidbit about Klippenstein, which is that he was a key vector of harassment 6 years ago when the internet decided to come after me for a bad Washington Post article. I haven't forgotten, or forgiven anyone

Once again, referring to the Watergate level scandal coming out of this administration daily - and our leadership in Congress seemingly unwilling to do anything about it. Well, one of those leaders might actually be dead but still.

Guns to Gardens has been turning unwanted firearms into garden tools and art for over a decade. Since 2013, this faith-based safe disposal movement has destroyed and repurposed an estimated 13,000-plus guns across the country.

His obstructionism broke the senate. The use of the filibuster for major legislation and nominations permanently put the senate in a state of gridlock. The senate used to pass *thousands* of bills per Congress, which is now down to a few hundred, with the big stuff just rolled into one big ugly bill

It’s hard to understate how consequential, destructive and malign his legacy is. He all but single handedly brought our system of government to its knees and has wildly refashioned the judiciary

In this era of hyper polarized politics that seems…normal? But it was McConnell who made it normal! Before that there used to be negotiations and horse trading and stuff that the minority wanted to see in the final bill. Not under McConnell!

Trying that gift link again (I'm not sure why I have trouble gifting WSJ articles from mobile specifically, but hopefully this one works)

My "don't support people with Nazi tattoos running for office" hard line life rule once again proves prescient

As @lenasun.bsky.social reports, this article used well-accepted methods and stood up to peer review. Acting CDC Director Bhattacharya said he had concerns about the methodology but never explained them. He is an economist, not trained in epidemiology. wapo.st/4aMg6rc

a coda i’ll add here is that my feelings about platner are no different than they were a month ago. the NYT story painted a picture of a predatory and unsafe man, but a woman had to share the graphic details of her rape for it to be enough.

important note, before you start talking about it: it’s HIPAA. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. That’s why we don’t have medical details that aren’t released directly with the consent of the patient or kin / power of attorney.

Literally anyone with any common sense or understanding of reality should have seen this coming. Not one of us who refused to support the guy with the Nazi tattoo thought he was the future of the party.

Mbappe fires back at the racist Paraguayan senator who said he grew up with chimpanzees

Tapping the sign open.substack.com/pub/smotus/p...

people need to go to jail over this, its the only thing the democratic party should be saying right now. all of them, in unison, no matter the question or topic, needs to be saying “insider trading is against the law”

“In Jim Comey’s misguided attempt to preserve the independence of the FBI, he set in motion a series of events that has basically undone the 50 years of reform and traditions and independence that had been carefully carved out and guarded since Watergate." — @vermontgmg.bsky.social

This needs to be a bigger story about the entire anti-vaxx movement.

Steve Bannon: power of “rootless white males” who spend all their time online and could be radicalized in a populist, nationalist way "I realized [these] could connect with these kids right away. You can activate that army. They come in through Gamergate and then get turned onto politics and Trump"

I always think it is more comprehensible if you think of Supreme Court justices as senators from their party. Then the radicalization of Roberts after 2020, the general greater embrace of Trump by Repubs over time since 2016, the move to fight in the gerrymandering wars, are all in character.

1/ I looked at 20 years of Supreme Court decisions and found that for the first time, all nine justices decided more cases by secret ballot — aka the “shadow docket” — than it did for cases argued in open court last term. 🧵:

Josh is right and should say it. Thinking it is doing Trump's bidding specifically is not only mistaken, it's a positive hindrance to any meaningful reckoning with the Court's power and why it is bad for democracy. When Trump is gone, it will still be bad for democracy.

Sometimes, there is no satisfying why. Nara Smith makes her family toothpaste from scratch on TikTok. Her 2 year-old daughter was diagnosed with cancer. Bryan Johnson spends millions a year measuring and optimizing every marker in his body. He was recently diagnosed with autoimmune gastritis.

I’ve said this before, but there is a Watergate level scandal every day in this administration and no one in power appears willing to do a single thing about it.

I’ve also been thinking that the World Cup is where people are finding collective joy rather than in America 250, and the creation of international and cross cultural community has been incredible to behold.

I know I am a broken record about this, but people need to start taking assaults on truth and the fracturing of shared reality seriously. This is not just propaganda, this is information warfare and part of a totalitarian playbook. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR_6...

Bro just cannot stop winning.

New review of mRNA vaccines—most evidence is on COVID vaccines Pooled analysis of 68 studies: -87% effective against infection -93% effective against hospitalization -94% effective against mortality Very safe; myocarditis: 12-35 cases per million after 2nd dose, which is < rate from Covid itself

The right-wing attack on birthright citizenship is not just about birthright citizenship itself. As MAGA’s reaction to the Supreme Court ruling proves, it is part of their opposition to a broader ideal, that “All men are created equal.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

On one hand, it seems astounding that RFK Jr.’s anti-vax organization didn’t vet her before including her in a lawsuit against AAP, in which she claimed that vaccines killed her twins. On the other, it shows the endless capacity of anti-vaxxers to take the word of a random person over facts.

It would be very good if there was a law that would put law enforcement officials in prison for 10+ years when they lie under oath. Nothing is more corrosive to a society than police corruption.

And we’re all looking for the guys who did this. Guy-in-a-hotdog-suit.gif

Fascinating look into one of the pillars of the rationalist/Effective Altruist community. Also, pro-tip: if you’re in an organization that seems cult-like, and they assert they aren’t a cult based on “a classic YouTube video”…you are absolutely in a cult.

my “there’s no way this is a cult” t-shirt is raising a lot of questions already answered by the shirt

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito took a luxury fishing trip to Alaska with billionaire Paul Singer, whose hedge fund then had repeated business before SCOTUS over the years that followed. Alito never disclosed the trip or recused himself from Singer's cases. (Published June 2023)

Evil, fascist, arguably insane, but lets not leave out: really fucking dumb www.cnn.com/2026/07/02/u...

"Sport is art performed with the body" is my new favorite line

i kinda love this answer, it’s very illuminating. it’s not about female athletes at all, it’s about the fragile egos of delusional psychopathic parents who want returns on their perceived investments

“While our healthcare system's failures are the reason a safety net is necessary in the first place, we will stay open 24/7/365 and we will always be there to make sure everyone has somewhere to go when they're hit with an emergency. That's why the emergency department exists.” Nailed it.

It is exactly two years since the Biden debate debacle sparked a shameful National Conversation™️, led by our most prominent journalists, that he was a vegetable. He's very old, but it wasn't true then & still isn't, & those people should apologize as they normalize Trump's clear unfitness every day.

CIDRAP Op-Ed: The wrong cure—how the new federal Lyme plan validates a diagnosis that often isn't there. Patients being misled by a “chronic Lyme” diagnosis is the first wrong. Now the government has compounded it. Read full Op-Ed by @jakescottmd.bsky.social: ow.ly/bWJh50ZjgW8