Elizabeth Spiers

Brooklyn craft beer packaging goes hard

I love how this makes it seem like they stopped monitoring RFK Jr

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social

CDC stopped monitoring parasite now causing explosive diarrhea across the country

CDC Stopped Monitoring Parasite Now Causing Explosive Diarrhea Across The Country

MAHA.

I can't believe we still have to remind people of these things but: most rape victims don't file police reports. (You're reading one right now.) Shock, denial, need to appease the rapist, nominally friendly behavior toward the rapist, etc. are all common reactions

Also just thinking about different Mitch McConnell’s legacy would be if he’d voted for impeachment and conviction. Had a chance to have a right side of history last roll of the dice and chickened out

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As for the men wondering why women wait so long to come forward: because it's humiliating, you dumb fucks. Not because we did anything wrong but because of the way society views survivors and the fact that we're always put on trial too if we report it--as if we're also the perpetrators

If you’re self identifying as a Democrat but saying with a straight face that DSA members hate America and the job of Dems is to support free marketism, you can just march your ass over to the GOP and be done with it

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social

I’m crying

I have no struggle with this at all. Who is this "most of us"?

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social

No, this seems fine www.wsj.com/opinion/why-...

One minor thing that annoys me personally about this shit is that some people romanticize a blue collar white boy aesthetic but can’t tell an actual working class backwoodser from a rich aspiring dirtbag who went to Hotchkiss

Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com

Fuck you.

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The women who come forward in these cases do it sometimes because they think the man who assaulted them is going to be given the power to harm others. Christine Blasey Ford certainly didn't need the attention, death threats, scrutiny, insults, trolling, expense of accusing Brett Kavanaugh

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If you don't understand why you should pay attention to the stories of anyone who's experienced it. Women experience sexual assault may feel a lot of different things afterwards. They may want to pretend it didn't happen and rationalize it away.

I speak from experience: this will not have the outcome they’re hoping for

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social

Starting in 2030, all public school students in Texas will be required to read passages from the Bible in class

The Bible Is About To Become Required Reading In Texas Public Schools

About 5 million kids in K-12 schools will be reading from Bible passages within a few years.

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They may feel shame because we're conditioned as women to believe that we must have been complicit if it's anything except a stranger in a back alley. They may be afraid of their rapist and feel that they have to appease him or stay friendly with him to stay safe.

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The funny thing is - there’s no mayor in my lifetime who has studied the way NYC works or the prior mayors and the history like Zohran. No one has been more respectful toward NYC’s history

When people pretend that women not wanting to date conservatives is them being emotional and unhinged, it tells y that they’re angry that their values are being rejected. Politics are not and have never been value neutral.

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And if it's someone they care about / cared about, there may be enough sympathy to excuse what they did.

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...

Opinion | The Democratic Establishment Had This Coming (Gift Article)

The Democratic Party needs shaking up.

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But everyone is on the same page about it. Saw a bunch of World Cup people move in tandem - New Yorkers and some European transplants into a better cooler outdoor space like they were just a continuous robot. It was hilarious

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And the Zohran admin has so many summer things that are great if you have kids. Even the public pools which might seem like a minor thing

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But influential Dems falling for it re: Platner is depressing. Personally I think Platner bragging about being violent as a mercenary should have merited a giant oppo file by itself but what do I know.

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But if you grew up in the Deep South as I did you know what that means. The public pools were a big point of segregation. The white segregationists argued that it was an inherent hygiene issue. Eugenics, basically,

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And Zohran is doing something that was an NYC tradition way back -
The mayor would jump into the pool, or the ocean whatever

This this this

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social

Quick post at CAMPAIGN TRAILS on the idiocy of liberals punching left.

Punching Left

Over the last month, there's been a flurry of panic from self-styled moderates and centrists in the Democratic Party about the success of a few socialist candidates in party primaries. Some of this g...

Me, ever since the Nazi tattoo: this guy sucks so bad
Every Pod Save-aligned bro in my feed: every candidate has flaws!
Me, person with tattoos and siblings who are veterans who knows he didn’t just fall onto a tattoo needle for 8 hours and end up with something he didn’t know was a Nazi symbol: 😐

The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social

1. Last night's announcement was whiny. It was bratty, even unmanly.

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Even in red states rich white Republicans deepen their accents and talk about their PawPaws and hard times but people see through it there and just don’t need them to be authentic.