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Y'all, I've been cheating on you! 😬 Threads has me in a chokehold for #Nicolandria discourse, edits, jokes, and more. Are y'all having fun with #LoveIslandUSA"s star couple of Season 7 too, or should I check back in later?! #TeamOlandria #TeamNicVans #TeamNicolandria #BlackSky

“A dark-skinned Black woman thriving with a supportive white male partner disrupts the expected narrative, making her success a target for shade rather than celebration. The focus reveals bias more than authenticity” (Ace is insufferable, always!) feminegra.com/ace-shades-n... #Nicolandria

A sick populace is a weak populace.

Costco made a massive decision to not carry a thing it has never carried this is awful

BREAKING: City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams eviscerates Mayor Adams — and cites Streetsblog's @sophlebo.bsky.social — in her promise to override his veto of a delivery worker minimum wage bill:

I've seen people either saying, Oh corny. Or, oh he's just running for President. And my thought is, AWESOME. Let the 2028 Dem Prez primary be about who can fight against Trump and for our democracy and our rights the most effectively and aggressively and let it begin today.

This is much bigger than Costco. Anti-abortion activists are coming after all reproductive health tools, including condoms. The GOP cult is backing all of their nonsense to make it law. Your reproductive health is no longer your choice. This is not a safe country to live in as a woman anymore.

“Approximately 850 officers and agents were surged across the city. They made a total of 23 arrests," Press Sec. Leavitt told reporters. For reference, the D.C. police average is 58.7 each day. Almost no one has been arrested because D.C. isn’t actually a crime-ridden hellhole. trib.al/laZVgog

FOR PUBLIC SCHOOL “They’re trying to price these kids out of an education”

"The public fight between medicine and government is now accelerating the nation onto a path where advice diverges over not just COVID shots but vaccines generally." www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

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RFK's Covid vax misinfo/disinfo fueled the distrust that has made public health folks' jobs harder & more dangerous. Now, he's using the lack of trust to justify dismantling our public health protections. My latest @opinion.bloomberg.com (🎁 link):

This sounds going viral here’s the original Sinéad O’Connor performance

Oh look the thing I've been talking about for fifteen years, yelling about for ten years, and screaming about for four years, all while being called an alarmist and reactionary, is here. Thank you in advance for your "nobody could have foreseen this" comments. Can't wait to repeat the whole cycle.

FBI, DEA and other law enforcement recorded in Georgetown walking around “There’s not much going on around here… maybe they’re practicing”

A professor had a $2.4 million grant to study Black maternal health. Then Trump was elected

Reporting on the way conservatives planned to promote Prager U while they were defunding PBS would have been useful context for readers and the general public.

The Voting Rights Act, the watershed Civil Rights era law that has prevented attempts to dilute minority votes through racially gerrymandered electoral maps hundreds of times, turns 60 Wednesday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

The AHA saying historians can use AI to generate fake historical images is pretty crazy.

We could have had cancer vaccines, and instead the United States will contribute nothing whatsoever to mRNA research, condemning millions of people worldwide to unnecessary illness and death

Today I learned that when sugarcane farmers burn their fields, a “black snow” falls for months on communities downwind. Under FL law, burns are prohibited when the wind is blowing into wealthy, white neighborhoods. They’re only allowed when it’s blowing into poor, majority black areas.

Over 90 pages of "Alligator Alcatraz" files disappeared as I was looking at them and reporting on the situation. Our public records requests are getting stonewalled. A slew of experts told me this all seems to be illegal. talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/th...

Here's how NYT explained that TRUMP'S FUCKING DEFENSE ATTORNEY went to meet the sex trafficker who "stole" his spa girls, turning one into a sex slave. No mention of his name, no mention of his role as defense attorney, no mention that sex traffickers don't go to prison camps.

In Eswatini, hospitals go dark. Mothers are sent home to die. The US walked out. Not quietly. Just efficiently. What happens when the dream of care becomes an abandoned promise? The numbers are real. So are the bodies. No one is coming. Not unless we say something.

If you think prohibiting people on SNAP from purchasing “junk food” is good, you’re clearly more interested in punishing poor & disabled people than you are in healthy living. The rich can eat as much junk as they want, but the poor must cook for themselves or go hungry?

Why Your Gut Hasn’t Been the Same Since COVID "A major international study has revealed a troubling surge in gut-brain disorders like IBS and functional dyspepsia since the COVID-19 pandemic." scitechdaily.com/why-your-gut...

From a report today on @npr.org: People held at Alligator Auschwitz have no legal path out. ICE says they're held on state charges, so Federal immigration judges can't hear cases for bond or anything else. The state hasn't charged them, so state judges can't hear the case because there's no case. 1/

Woo hoo, solidarity my friends

A thread of photographs from today's "Families Stand Up for Gaza" protest organized by @socialists.nyc, @jvp.bsky.social, and many other groups. A Palestinian mother weeps while speaking to the crowd. The big "SHAME" heads on the displays behind her featured Schumer, Jeffries, and Gillibrand.

After putting it off for months, I'm finally watching the final season of #HandmaidsOnHULU. Rewatching S5, Ep10 to get back into the story, but I may have to rewatch all of Season 5, because I feel so behind. Whew!

WATCH at Bryan Steil ton hall, his constituents told him it's time to for him to step down.... There are options: Randy Bryce and Gage Stills are running against him.... Steil only won with 54% of the vote.

63 percent agreed that the Trump administration “is hiding important information” about the Jeffrey Epstein case. Of those who said the administration is hiding information, a staggering 81 percent blamed Trump for it. EXCLUSIVE: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Standing up for the smallest of minorities is important because when you accept the premise that one group are expendable because small or ‘insignificant’, you have accepted the idea of the expendability of human life in general, and the enemy will use your acquiescence to pick off yet more.

Since the start of Trump’s second term, colleges in both blue & red states have signed contracts with ICE & CBP, ‪@julialuz.bsky.social‬ reports. Universities have become yet another set of tools in the government’s mass deportation arsenal. prismreports.org/2025/07/31/h...

Doge wasted $22 billion. Thanks, @mollyjongfast.bsky.social . www.inc.com/chris-morris...

what right wingers mean when they say immigrant

"At the 13th International AIDS Society (IAS) Conference on #HIV Science held in #Kigali, #Rwanda, from 13-17 July 2025, @who.int presented the first-ever guidance for countries to develop comprehensive & integrated programmes for triple elimination." #IAS2025

In an alarming move, the Department of Justice has demanded voter and election information from at least 19 states

I don't see how there can be any realistic doubt that Trump and the GOP are already engaged in a major effort to manipulate the 2026 elections. If they succeed, the Republic is over. A lot will come down to what portion of traditional Republican voters stay loyal to their country, and to democracy.

people who aren’t in the upper midwest can’t understand just how bad the air is i was outside with my dog for three minutes and my eyes are already watering and my lungs burn this is just every summer now. in this “climate haven”

A DOJ investigation had determined that South Carolina officials illegally denied community-based services — required by federal law — to over 1,000 people diagnosed as seriously mentally ill. The lawsuit over these allegations is now on hold. By @coreygjohnson.bsky.social

The man who just fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics because their numbers supposedly weren’t accurate just claimed that he lowered drug prices in America by 1500%.

I have come to learn that it's quite radical to believe that Black and Brown folks deserve dignity, especially in a hierarchy that upholds rich white people at all costs. What's taking place right now is these ol' boys networks trying to reel it in back to when they had power exclusively.

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