In February, USA Rugby banned trans women from all levels of one of the world’s most inclusive sports. What happened next was telling. Across the country, teams refused to comply. The story of the Baltimore Ferals, who are pushing back: www.thebanner.com/sports/rugby...

Felon47 & Hegseth cancelled an event honoring women veterans so they held their own! Women veterans earned their place through service & sacrifice! Women who served deserve respect & recognition, not political optics! #WomenVeterans #HonorOurVeterans #Veterans #ViVaHerAlliance #SheShed

Once again for cis people intent on doing or saying dumb shit, here is the literal discoverer of the SRY gene:

Twice a year, Hawai'i experiences a strange moment where the sun appears to be exactly overhead & anything that is completely vertical casts no shadow. Let's learn about Lāhainā Noon, subsolar points & 'Kau ka lā i ka lolo', meaning "the sun rests on the brains."

Tom Lee was an African-American small-boat driver who in 1925, despite not knowing how to swim, saved 32 people from a sinking riverboat on the Mississippi River. It got him a hero’s audience with President Coolidge, and a park and statue in his honor in Memphis. Now a historical marker is going up.

run them out of every part of polite society. years ago sarah huckabee sanders was asked to leave a restaurant and there was much clutching of pearls, but this is exactly what SHOULD happen when you enable a fascist regime.

I can’t tell you how happy that World Cup halftime show made me. I’m gonna have to find a recording somewhere and watch it again.

i also can't help but feel a little like the smithsonian is quietly rolling out some of what we would have gotten if they had done the 4th of july

COMMENTARY: Arkansans who banded together to save PBS deserve better than this arkansasadvocate.com/2026/07/19/a...

Excellent essay, even if you don't knit. (But knitting is awesome, and knitters have attitude, so you really should knit.)

Seeing the news of the two dead service members brings up a lot of anxiety from about 2006 for me. I will never forget the early morning phone call to a friend from a friend received during a girls’ night sleepover in Hawai’i.

NEWS: Two American troops are dead in Jordan. One is missing. And the Commander in Chief spent this morning on "Executive Time" at his golf course. Full recap on everything happening right now. Iran, Kuwait, Ukraine's strikes on Moscow, all of it. Your midday recap is here.

Today may be the 90th anniversary of the Wienermobile. According to some unreliable sources (and the semi-reliable HuffPo), the first one rolled off the production line at the General Body Assembly plant in Chicago on 18 July 1936 🧵 www.huffpost.com/entry/my-rid...

Governor Sanders should be embarrassed. This index isn’t measuring religious liberty. It’s measuring how willing states are to let religious beliefs be used as an excuse to ignore generally applicable laws and discriminate against others. www.4029tv.com/article/arka...

THREAD: The boy is called a liar. He’s told not to defend himself. Then the private school owner encourages all of his peers to attack him, one by one. She hits him, repeatedly, with a plastic pipe-like object. How does this school still exist — and receive state funds? 🧵

Allison Gill hosts and executive produces GLAAD-nominated and Webby-award-winning podcasts and is the founder of the MSW Media podcast network. Gill recounts the Palmer Raids of 1919–1920, when thousands of Americans were arrested without warrants during the first Red Scare. #WeAreAmerica250

M17, the Omega Nebula, aka the Swan Nebula, imaged in narrowband (HOO) - From Ryan Kinnett (rkinnett.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2m9maWV

As the contract nears a renewal date, lawmakers are looking to re-examine Express Scripts, the Tricare prescription program that many independently owned pharmacies say they cannot afford to continue in because of lower reimbursement rates. From Stars and Stripes' Linda F. Hersey:

The Arkansas Democrat Gazette published a nice article about the $150,000 NAGPRA grant that the Survey was awarded this year. IT has a lot of good information, but we do wish that they had reached out to our Tribal Partners for their views on the grant as well. www.arkansasonline.com/news/2026/ju...

YEZTUGO (lenacapavir) is a new injectable form of long-acting PrEP that only requires 2 doses per year to prevent HIV infection, and 3 million people are expected to get access to the drug by 2028 via The Global Fund. Sounds great, right? (1/5)

What is this trend in asking for an essay in a cover letter? Why can’t you just have your AI read my resume and we call it a day?

Democrat Hallie Shoffner outraises Sen. Tom Cotton in second quarter campaign fundraising.

Congrats we just made it impossible to come here for a PhD www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/16/m...

As I listen to the president invoke the vulnerability of American elections, I think of the Republican head of the Colorado County Clerks Assoc. who says a standardized national system would be far more vulnerable to hacks than the decentralized system today that is locally and state-driven.

I think it might be time for another @hallieshoffner.bsky.social donation from our family and I think @jonesforar.bsky.social needs a donation too.

It's important to step back for a moment to realize that the duly elected President of the United States is doing a prime time White House address claiming that his country has the most corrupt election system in the world

It’s not about “election security.” More: www.mediamatters.org/voter-fraud-...

me every time I answer an email

Nothing will ever top the All New Mickey Mouse Club/MMC of the 1990’s.

LOL. There is absolutely no way that number is right. That's 1 in 7 Americans. That's 149,000 visitors per day, every day. Unless you're just counting every car that stops for gas as they drive through on I-30 or I-40, this is absurd.

Brennan Lee Mulligan’s Dungeons and Dragons push is part of a wider trend using tabletop games for political action

good time to point out that flocks ceo is pro facial recognition and the only reason the firm doesn't use it is to avoid bad press

School vouchers -- funded with billions in taxpayer money -- have become such a financial boon to private religious schools that one Michigan company encouraged churches to tap into what it dubbed “God’s new gold mine.”

That “#1” ranking comes from First Liberty Institute, a Christian legal group that rewards states for expanding religious exemptions and privileges for Christianity. That’s not religious liberty. It’s religious favoritism.

The use of confidentiality agreements in privatized military family housing has increased by more than 300% over the past six years, which advocates say is a response to civil litigation that makes it harder to track chronic issues. From Stars and Stripes' Rose L. Thayer:

Thank god there are no gender studies classes anymore otherwise we might be able to figure out what's going on here.

NEW: Despite multiple complaints — and videos — of physical abuse and mistreatment of students, Arkansas' Delta Institute continues to receive public funds. It is just one of hundreds of private schools taking state money with little oversight. w/ @arktimes.bsky.social

People are gonna fucking hate this if it actually happens. Enjoy all these post 8am sunrises

been trying to figure out what it is people want youth to Do with every activity and space being taken from them, internet starting to be walled off, but adults not liking them at home either and i think the unstated desire is "some kind of constantly running summer camp, but one we don't pay for"

Always and without fail.

In this 250 minute from @hcrichardson.bsky.social & team, Connie Ryan, Executive Director of Interfaith Alliance of Iowa since 2002, tells how 12-year-old Susan Clark integrated an Iowa school in 1868, winning a desegregation case decades before Brown v. Board of Education. youtu.be/62Y0NJy9NP8?...

I'm just so sick of this shit day in and day out I genuinely do not believe we can take another 2.5 years of it

Nonprofits known as 527s can raise unlimited sums for political spending. As a reminder, we've got a database that allows journalists, researchers and others to more easily search these organizations’ finances:

Again, the field of extremism studies will never advance unless we start openly talking and writing about violence inflicted by the state. Specifically how state violence is the direct result of the government’s official foreign and domestic policy being based on a racist conspiracy theory.

Historian Tom Holland had actor Tom Holland on his podcast to discuss The Odyssey, and yes, they did the Spider-Man pointing meme.

Our local newspaper, The Portland Press Herald, has lifted their paywall on coverage of the ICE shooting of a man in Biddeford, Maine this morning. They have excellent reporters and will have much more accurate information than natl news as we learn more: www.pressherald.com/2026/07/13/s...

This is a really useful post about what you need to know about Cyclospora. I learned things. You will too