Dizzy and nauseous for three days in a row here..

It smells like burning Canadian forest here, third year running. Air is at 103 ppm.

She's five.

This agent who killed Joan Sebastian Guerrero Has been identified as David Brouillette by two people who know him personally, who came forward independently.** The identification was confirmed by Project Relief Maine, an immigrant-rights group, on their Instagram.

I will essentially never trust anyone who voted for Trump ever again, this includes my parents, in-laws, and grandparent. But I will also never trust American men under the age of 30 to be on the sane side of any meaningful debate. They are, and I am as well, not to be trusted.

OK, there's the hetero pessimism, which I get, I'm bi and refuse to date men because... waves arms at everything .. and there's the man or bear decision.. which again. I get. There are male and masc assault survivors too. Basically.. there is flat out no "I'm one of the good ones".

The despair comes from being hated by zealots, and is intensified by knowing these zealots have already poisoned multiple generations of the democratic polity. Our neighbors are our murderers through malice and neglect, and their children will watch us die without remorse.

Despair is a weapon in the hands of these clumsy fascists. These vile traitorous mobsters.

Andrea Dworkin wrote a lot about gynocide, particularly mass death through neglect for women who are post-menopausal. She'd probably be angry at me for extending that to the entire class of disabled people and sexual minorities. It's intentional though, death through neglect and despair as policy

www.sltrib.com/news/educati... I do have good memories of reading King novels in my school's library. Someone was murdered in that library so it's sort of a charged feeling for me now. I wouldn't ban Rage or Apt Pupil.

Casar: "At a time when millions are struggling to make ends meet, we are sending billions of dollars to a military that has killed tens of thousands of civilians in Gaza, the West Bank, and Lebanon, destabilized the region, and helped lead us into war with Iran…We cannot continue to subsidize this."

Pro Palestinian artists and activists have continued protest actions against Boiler Room, an online music platform that was aquired by the billion dollar Israeli linked firm, KKR in 2025. unicornriot.ninja/2026/nyc-act...

A group of protesters gathered at Sen. Susan Collins' (R-ME) office Monday after an ICE shooting left a 26-year-old Joan Sebastian Guerrero dead, according to reports.

The sudden death of Sen. Lindsey Graham has thrown South Carolina Republicans into a political scramble with just 114 days until Election Day. Here’s what happens next—and why the stakes are so high. Just filed by @macfarlanenews.bsky.social.

USDA cuts U.S. wheat crop guess further - Brownfield Ag News share.google/buEbvS4eft9O... Lowest projected harvest since 1970.

www.windowslatest.com/2026/07/10/y... Windows is spyware, just a reminder. Mac OS is also spyware but it's a different kind of intrusive. I use Ubuntu but don't trust it.

There's no sugarcoating this. We are living under an increasingly evil regime in the United States. ➡️Shifting deadlines are confusing businesses as the end of TPS for Haitians and others looms, making them ineligible to live and work in the United States. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/u...

The Trump DOJ indicted 15 Minnesotans for joining Signal chats and attending meetings about ICE. A special ed teacher faces federal conspiracy charges for handing out radios at a protest. The administration that pardoned Jan. 6 rioters is calling this organized terrorism.

Intersectionality means that I can have all the benefits of being a straight white man, without being straight or a man or particularly closeted. It's the uniform, the mask, that gets the deference. You toss in the autism and yeah, I'm a minority. Schrodinger's asshole.

I am thinking about melancholy as a sort of rational sadness, obviously it was an early term for depression but now that depression is a treatable disease.. Where does that leave persistent rational sadness? Melancholy.

If taxpayers bail out the AI industry when its bubble bursts, as seems increasingly likely, we shouldn’t repeat the mistakes of the 2008 crisis. A public bailout should mean nationalizing AI.

The ongoing conflict in the Middle East has been an accelerator for the energy transition I told @npr.org. In an uncertain world, many countries found that investing in renewables and EVs give them energy security – and makes economic sense. And that's not going away. www.npr.org/2026/07/09/n...

dallasexpress.com/business-mar... I keep waiting and fearing competent MAGA and so far it's basically just Miller and Vought on their best days..

The hubris of trying to implement fascism without any positive populism, purely just hate, greed, and paranoia.. It's something.

The circus has been cancelled and bread is moving to a subscription plan.

If your coping mechanisms are videogames and weed, and you live in a state without legalized cannabis.. It's going to be a rough winter

Huge turnout tonight for a protest over ICE killing Lorenzo Salgado Araujo on Tuesday Magnolia Park, Houston. Video is from my colleague Macy Meinhardt, who is not on Bluesky but is on the scene.

Mexico's President, Claudia Sheinbaum, implies during a press conference her government will take action after an ICE agent killed Mexican national Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.

This was half a joke and half a completely literal statement that spousal rape wasn't even punished in America before 1990. I'm not a TERF and I haven't seen evidence that she was either. There's nuance in there that doesn't necessarily mean a reader is SWERF/TERF/radfem.

Monday, July 13th is the LAST DAY that you can leave a public comment on Russell Vought's science-destroying OMB Grant Proposal. Join us from 2 - 3PM ET to learn what comes next, hear from experts, and learn how the proposal will affect you. Register at the link in our bio or go here:zurl.co/tH8hn

In this episode you'll learn ・How Ryoji Ikeda transforms data into sound ・Why mathematics plays a central role in his art ・The relationship between audiovisual installation and music ・How scientific research influences contemporary sound art #RyojiIkeda #DataArt #MediaArt youtu.be/Zz_cQR28nlU

this coming out the same day a bunch of men are bellyaching about how everyone needs a pristine dating history to be in congress now should tell you something thehill.com/homenews/hou...

How about Andrea Dworkin had some actual cogent analysis.

There's probably a discussion to be had at what place hetero white men should have in a leftist coalition but I am not the person to start that conversation or moderate it. Bernie Bros are a thing, I am trying not to be the toxic version of that thing.

"If you’re worried about population collapse, then I have two solutions for you: attract many more immigrants, and figure out how to loosen the patriarchal bargain’s grip on the masculine imagination." publiccomment.blog/p/if-you-wan...

This update from @livartz.bsky.social and other special deals now added to the July sales round-up update! Julymas. Something. cdm.link/july-deals/

The Left(s) should get onboard with a massive expansion of public libraries across the country over the next 25 years. This is an affirmative project.

NEW: Charged in Anti-ICE Conspiracy, Two Minnesota Defendants Speak Out [Videos] Activists say they’re being targeted for their political beliefs by a retaliatory government seeking to quash dissent.

🚨BREAKING: In the latest blow to President Donald Trump’s anti-voting agenda, a federal court on Wednesday granted the NAACP’s request to halt the U.S. Postal Service’s (USPS) implementation of his executive order against mail voting. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Huh. So as owner Songtradr slashes the Bandcamp engineering team, they're also shutting down Songtradr. These two platforms do different things. Most of the actual Songtradr functionality is going to MassiveMusic. Apart from Bandcamp, anyone using those other tools?

I've gotten some really aggressive reactions from mainstream Democratic voters, here and on Reddit. I'm DSA, but not particularly active in a chapter, I voted for Hillary Clinton after voting for Bernie in the 2016 primary. I am not a conspiracy theorist, I believe in functional sewer socialism.

BREAKING: Melat Kiros has won the Democratic primary in Colorado’s 1st district. The democratic socialist has unseated the district’s 29-year incumbent by running on Medicare for All, abolishing ICE, ending forever wars and more.