Magdalene Visaggio was once in seminary, training to become a Catholic priest. Now she's a snarky online trans girl like the rest of us. In a challenging new essay for Assigned, she writes about the toll being hated for who she is has taken on her psyche. assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

open.substack.com/pub/erininth... Fuck Rowling. Fuck Harry Potter.

I'm definitely not going to miss Lindsey Graham and Mitch McConnell's walking corpse.

The lead attorney for the FCC calls for prosecution of Google — and much of the rest of the internet — for distribution of obscenity.

ICE is detaining so many people that it has started using military bases. Reports from some bases say the food and water aren’t safe, and that people were moved there before it was ready. We FOIAed for inspection reports and complaints about conditions.

No shit nymag.com/intelligence...

I should also point out- He doesn't actually believe this. He doesn't believe in God. He doesn't believe in Jesus. He doesn't believe in scripture He believes in white supremacy. White nationalism. White dominiomism. And that's why you'll never convince him that he's wrong.

I'm glad Platner is out of the race but the harm this man and his backers have done deserve notice. They are not progressives. They are opportunistic populists — this is for all his backers, even Bernie. Sanders is a devolving monstrosity who needs to retire. We need real progressives who can win.

Mexico is preparing legal action after a Mexican national was fatally shot Tues. during what ICE described as a targeted enforcement operation in Houston. President Claudia Sheinbaum called the shooting part of a broader pattern of mistreatment. Read More👉 ebx.sh/Bvlavl

Apparently the Trump administration is just calling anything it doesn’t like “DEI.” trib.al/6kaMoLX

What a piece of shit. “He withdrew from the race in an emotional 11-minute video, blaming Democrats for pulling support for him and the “political establishment” for assassinating his character.“

I love how the NY Times is simping for the tradwife movement. I am pretty sure this is correlated to the popularity of tradwife in porn searches from conservative states, including rural NY, which is very right wing.

Even if it were true, it beats living with another forever war in the Middle East and the perpetuation of a social conservative caste system that places pedophiles at the top.

This woman has been the subject of three NYT pieces in 2025-26

Afghan Who Helped U.S. Died in ICE Custody From Allergic Reaction Mohammed Nazeer Paktiawal, who worked with the U.S. military for more than a decade, died after just 24 hours in ICE custody. newrepublic.com/post/212781/...

Read my latest:

www.casino.org/news/little-... Iconic

I’m seeing that he only posted this on Twitter which lets me know that he knew PRECISELY how Bluesky would’ve knocked the tongue out his boots if he hit post in this here. Can someone direct Ken Klippenstein to the careers section of the Uber app so he can stop doing this?

Just saying, I'm still open to a SCOTUS death pool.

Inside the German pro-Israel lobby's campaign to defund UNRWA share.google/t1wePeG3heav...

"Young Washington" is Christian nationalist propaganda. "He didn’t just survive the Battle of the Monongahela. God delivered him. America becomes a Christian nation. The American people become a chosen people. Washington becomes their leader and their founder." open.substack.com/pub/axismund...

The left wing of the online manosphere is very real. And it's poster boy is Platner.

Here's the definitive numbers take on Graham Platner: He's bad. Specifically, he's running about 10 points behind expectations — and in a race that decides control of the Senate about 10% of the time (the third most likely tipping point). www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-07-07...

what a fucking asshole

Every male indie national security journalist on Substack right now—

I'm so disillusioned, I almost don't even care who gets the FIFA Peace Prize next year

The USMNT and Knicks being really good except for the precise moment when Trump involves himself is really funny

In 40 minutes, Trump will be calling for the criminal investigation of Fifa for not letting the USA win.

The events of today in a nutshell.

1. In defiance of a longstanding court ruling, Missouri has become the latest state to begin medically experimenting on trans people in its prisons. According to the bill’s sponsor, they deserve to be forcibly detransitioned because “they’ve been convicted of a crime.”

For today's story, I looked at the coverage of a single story - the trans sports ban decision at SCOTUS - and asked what the norm was in mainstream US newsrooms. I found NYT departed from that norm significantly, writing more stories with more bylined reporters while not quoting any trans sources.

thehumanist.com/commentary/t... A few days late...

Sepp Blatter looks pretty ethical these days, huh?

President Donald Trump reportedly intervened in the FIFA World Cup on behalf of Team USA in a way that had political analysts and sports fans holding their sides.

My book is about an anti-fascist who goes undercover into this group, fucks up their shit, and identifies abt 80 members. Check it out www.simonandschuster.com/books/To-Cat...

NCOSE, one of the main groups pushing KOSA, has been caught citing fake cases in an attempt to shut down legal sex work. Why are Dems like @blumenthal.senate.gov still treating the faith-based, anti-porn group as respectable, reliable legislative partner?

new plants just dropped: www.404media.co/scammers-sel...

I truly thought Gianni Infantino was a knock off high-end fashion house for infants that some tradwife created to sell as the next multi level marketing cult for the stay at home wives of closeted gay MAGA politicians.

The Atlantic is click bait for psuedo-progressive intellectual light weight types that can't beat anyone in checkers.

NEW: From @billiejsweeney.bsky.social for Important Context and @assignedmedia.org: The Trump administration is breaking ground, targeting nonprofits whose politics it disagrees with—groups focused on climate change, reproductive rights, Palestinian freedom, racial equity, LGBTQ+ rights, etc.

The very fact that the country came within one or two votes of undoing our system of birthright citizenship is a sign of how far the Trump administration has succeeded in throwing into contention the country’s most basic freedoms.

Today's Morning Memo at @talkingpointsmemo.com: In SCOTUS Anti-Trans Decision, Christian Right Sees Path to Ending Obergefell talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

SCOTUS death pool anyone?

A disgraceful court, SCOTUS. We already know this but it's still searing.

Just absolutely insane to me how many milions were spent and the massive political and legal effort exhausted just so a state can ban a single trans girl from playing sports with her friends in school.

I was hoping for a lex luthor thing

love to my trans friends. fuck SCOTUS.

As Route 66 turns 100, what is it that we’re actually celebrating?

NEW: It has been 118 years since the Supreme Court ruled the federal government owes tribes water, but Native American communities in northern Arizona are still fighting for their rights to the Colorado River. With @kjzz.org