Texas is not a "red state". It is a gerrymandered and voter suppressed state. The right-wing carpetbaggers showing up here get culture-shocked every time they figure out just how many non-white people there are living here and how even most of the white folks don't like their poser asses.

Coordinating with a nation threatening to annex you to go after your own citizens for being too left wing is a new level of evil

Taylor Farms is saying the FDA apologized and was wrong. The FDA is saying Taylor Farms is lying.

I really hate the “I don’t owe anyone anything” mentality because we actually owe each other and this planet a lot. You don’t have to be selfless all the time or burn yourself out but you should be kind and helpful and compassionate to the best of your ability. We need to care about each other more

It's really been clarifying to watch how the "centrist"/"moderate"/mainstream "liberal" Democratic establishment has reacted to a handful of people to their left having some electoral success.

Such a tragic loss, not only of a brilliant writer, but a terrific human being. Rest in Peace, Bill. www.cbr.com/william-wish...

Harry Potter fan who fell into a coma shortly after reading The Deathly Hallows wakes up in 2026

CDs don’t make you listen to 10 minutes of gambling ads before playing 3 songs.

All lettuce is presently the devil's lettuce

We are given only a limited number of truly perfect summer days in our time on Earth. One of the more insidious cruelties of fossil fuel greed is how it slowly strips those days from us, more and more throughout our lifetimes, perhaps without us even realizing what we have lost.

I think Dems win around +35 or so in the House, and end up with 51 in the Senate (at which point Fetterman switches parties) bsky.app/profile/appa...

The Democratic presidential debates need to have spring loaded traps underneath each candidate and any time one of them says "we need to move on" or "I'm focused on the future, not the past" they should be immediately launched through the roof of the auditorium.

There were 11 people working at the CDC lab that responds to outbreaks of the parasite cyclospora. Now there are 3 thanks to DOGE

If only we could be as beautiful as this fucking haunted gremlin egg child over here.

a few good Jessica’s

i'm sorry but if my opponent put out a press release telling everyone to be nicer to be i would be mortified lmao

Snow Dogs

The people demanding my exclusion from society with a calm smile and the veneer of civility are the most dangerous. They are the people who know they have the power to unleash massive social harm without ever having to look their victims in the eye.

Someone called the cyclospora outbreak MAHA Blast and I'm cackling like I'm 13 again.

So far this year we've had: the warmest winter on record in the mountain west, a record-shattering heat wave in Europe, once in a thousand year rainfall and flooding texas and forest fire smoke blanketing the mid west and the north east. Feels like something's going on with the climate!

Oh, here we go. The talking points have gone out to the Clown Squad.

hey, remember: don't eat anything and don't breathe

Like most people, I always thought it would be neat if we had a more exciting food supply

dear democrats: anything short of a concerted policy of scorched earth retribution against every one of these criminals, from the president down to the interns betting on Kalshi, means the end of 'the American experiment'

The air pollution in Detroit exceeds the air quality index itself, which may need to “go beyond hazardous,” meteorologist says. Read the full story: https://planetdetroit.org/2026/07/detroit-air-quality-worst-in-city-history-wildfires/

Wow. The ICE shooter in Maine asked his ex-wife to "to lie for him and to cover for his character." She said he was abusive and had previously reported concerns about him to his military superiors. He was also a volunteer firefighter, but was removed after several spats with department leadership.

“manufactured consensus” of people liking a Chris Nolan movie, alright man

If the US is giving Iran details of asylum cases, it's almost certainly doing this for countries we aren't at war with as well. Sharing these incredibly sensitive details with a country that an asylum seeker fled from, in order to facilitate refouling them to that country, puts them at huge risk.

The CDC is so underfunded now that it's like: "Just remove the three outer layers of lettuce, so you don't consume any feces, then wash each interior leaf individually, so you remove any hidden feces. Good luck!"

"Vote Blue No Matter Who!" Actually, it does matter; it definitely does matter. Just because they're not a Republican doesn't mean they're not a bigot either. Bigotry isn't exclusive to right-wingers.

Michigan Senate candidate Haley Stevens just voted against the amendment to cut military aid to Israel — going against half of her colleagues and a majority of Democratic voters

This is wood ash (not snow) from the Canadian & Minnesota forest fires on my windshield in southern Marquette county. #upperpeninsula #906life

An incredible euphemism here for “the government is doing illegal discrimination”

Has there been a more pathetic and ineffective leader of the House Democrats in our lifetimes? I can't think of one.

This keeps happening, the conflation of people disapproving of Dems being too weak and unprincipled with disapproving of Dems for being too leftwing. This is part of how a lot of Gen Z distrust for Dems gets recast into Gen Z being rightwing

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US inflation is the highest in the G7.

Ossoff: "We understand the president may be threatening to declare sitting senators illegitimate. If that's the course of action he pursues, he's calling GA voters illegitimate...he was humiliated as a committed lifelong racist that it was Black voters in Georgia who were instrumental in his defeat"

George Lucas Goes To The Dark Side, Says AI Is 'The Future' https://kotaku.com/george-lucas-artificial-intelligence-ai-museum-art-2000715801

excellent @maragay.bsky.social on why the Dem establishment needs to wake the fuck up and face the fact that the electorate is to the left of them on pretty much everything: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/o...

* MEXICO HAS FILED CRIMINAL COMPLAINTS WITH STATE PROSECUTORS IN U.S. OVER DEATHS OF CITIZENS IN IMMIGRATION CUSTODY -- STATEMENT * MEXICAN GOVERNMENT HAS ALSO SENT CEASE-AND-DESIST LETTERS TO U.S. DETENTION CENTERS WHERE NATIONALS HAVE DIED -- STATEMENT @reuters.com

over the course of my life i've heard many many people say "it's too bad hitler didn't find success as an artist, maybe this could have all been avoided" and rowling really gives the lie to that

this is where your money goes when you buy harry potter stuff. rowling isn’t shy about it. amnesty wrote an even-handed report that laid out what anti-rights groups do; rowling uses her billions & clout to suppress it. when you give rowling money; she spends it on stealing people’s human rights.

it blows my mind that there are still people that believe this ICE is an institution that can be reformed

Oh he's scared of the future lol

The great thing about Britain is you're free to think whatever you want to think and say whatever J. K. Rowling's lawyers permit you to say.

Sam Neill has sadly passed away at the age of 78.

The big literary discourse on twitter right now is whether The Hobbit—a children’s book that won children’s lit awards and was literally written for the author’s children—is appropriate reading for children or in fact such a difficult book most adults can’t “get their head around” it.