Joel Birch

cuomo isn't actually running for mayor at this point, he's running to be the token 'I was a Democrat but then the LEFT went too far' guy for some of the worst people on earth.

We’re on our way to Crystal Lake! Join our 12-hour roadtrip livestream as we make our way through the whole Ninth District! 8 AM to 8 PM CT!!

YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WH6P...

Twitch: twitch.tv/katabughazaleh

Here’s one for the BlaK women who have busted through the ever present self fulfilling prophecy of low expectations
❤️💛🖤

Today, Brandon Russell was sentenced to 20 years in prison and a lifetime of supervised release for his involvement in a plot to destroy Baltimore area power plants. He encouraged others to do the same through a loose, violent neo-Nazi network, Terrorgram

Read my coverage of his trial from earlier:

Am I the only one who thinks it’s kind of funny that the movement is throwing its weight behind a guy who made porn with his wife and another guy who used to be a libertarian raw vegan intentional community guy in Ecuador? It’s like a bizarro Portlandia episode.

Stop Betting on Dildos Being Thrown at WNBA Games, You Fucking Creeps Several dildos were thrown, a couple of arrests were made, and by Wednesday afternoon, one distasteful sports betting site claimed that betting on dildos had surpassed betting on who’d win the game.

What's happening to the PROFESSIONAL ATHLETES of the @wnba.com is disgusting. Online misogyny, desperate for virality in an increasingly hateful digital space, moves IRL and disrupts the play of a PROFESSIONAL SPORTS LEAGUE.

My latest for @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social.
www.jezebel.com/stop-betting...

Widespread magical thinking is going to get us all killed

The thing about the increasingly common "what percentage of the population are trans?" argument is that while trans people's lives are valuable and must be protected regardless, if they're thrown under the bus the powerful will just choose another scapegoat/distraction.

i launched my child via trebuchet into the side of mt rushmore and now shes the president of aquafresh toothpaste

😂😂😂

"Curt Snurkler, 58, an undecided voter, says both parties have gone too far. 'We need a third party in this country,' says Snurkler, who owns an illegal slave ship operating in the West Indies, and until last year was the Executive Director of the Heinrich Himmler Society in White Fist, Idaho."

“I'm not sure if it is actually albino or just incredibly pale (possibly leucistic). Typically albino are purely white the whole way around and this one seems to have white underneath and just very pale grey colouration.” - this is what a local marine biologist said :)

I only just realised that is one sentence and I want to be sick

Headline from Harvard Crimson: "Harvard President Garber Tells Faculty He Is Not Considering a $500 Million Deal With Trump."

Text of story: Harvard prez Garber says report of a deal "was apparently leaked to the press by White House officials." NYT ran with it as a story.

Important details from this story:

1) Yet another news-break by student journalists (this time @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social) www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

2) Harvard saying "see you in court," not "let's make a deal."

3) Per Garber, WH/MAGA leaked news of a "deal." NYT then ran with it.

Australia should recognise Palestine. To not do so only rewards Israel’s crimes A Palestinian state cannot cure the historical injustices of Israel’s foundation, but it is a vital step towards remedying the past.

My colleague Prof Ben Saul sets out the compelling moral and legal case for recognition.

www.smh.com.au/world/middle...

It is indeed! I actually flew the drone out because there was a dolphin playing near to the shore that looked suspiciously like it was helping this osprey hunt and at the same time saw a large humpback passing by; I found neither the dolphin nor the humpback, but this instead. Crazy evening.

Ghislaine Maxwell who participated in the rape of over 1,000 kids can now enjoy a yoga class at her new prison thanks to Trump and DOJ.

The most despicable coverup in recent history

Any marine biologist followers in my small cadre of followers at all? I just spotted this small whale heading north along the coast line here in Peregian Beach. I assume it’s a humpback, but I’ve never seen one this colour before.

Complete devastation

New aerial view of Gaza.

Founder of whites-only community starred in live porn videos with wife The frontman behind a whites-only community in remote Arkansas who touts its residents' conservative values has a history of performing in sex-for-tips porn videos, Daily Mail can reveal.

whites-only compound in Arkansas is going great! very trad! www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

It seems that Twitter is now the worst people you know + millions of bots trained on the worst people you know.

How a Nazi-obsessed amateur historian went from obscurity to the top of Substack Tucker Carlson has called Darryl Cooper the “most important popular historian working in the United States today.” His background is more extreme than previously reported.

I'm glad someone finally picked up on Tucker Carlson's favorite revisionist "historian's" ties to the white nationalist site Counter-Currents. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

They’re so proud of themselves for checking out the GOP game plan that has been in effect since The New Deal

one side is playing catchup. the other has already been there for a generation, and reaped enormous success from it. this is swerving the car to get it back on the road

The 18,500 children's names listed here aren't Hamas, they aren't Palestinian Authority, they aren't Likud, they aren't HaDemokratim... They are children. If your moral clarity on that is debatable, we have nothing further to discuss.

'Human rights violation': Expert's grim warning on kids behind bars As spit hoods are revived, police are handed stronger use-of-force powers and kids are sent to adult watch houses, critics say new data shows governments have abandoned Closing the Gap.

Increasing numbers of Indigenous children are entering the Australian prison system via "tough on crime" legislation with the NT Finocchiaro government the worst offender. Kids need help from a range of services but detention is all that awaits. #ntpol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...

One of the most dangerous tropes in political media is how the only Jewish voices that matter are the most right-wing ones, hence the ease with which reporters assumed Jews are scared of Mamdani. (This is also how Jewish protestors were erased from the discourse about antisemitism on campuses.)

Whistleblowers: Critical Examination of High-Profile Cases and Systemic Failures Protections of in whistleblower legislation fail to protect both the person making the disclosure and victims of malicious attack via fraud.

Australia’s whistleblower protections are a facade—paper promises shattered by prosecutions. The AFP’s role deepens the crisis, weaponising fraudulent, racially charged PIDs against Indigenous victims. Accountability must prevail.

blakandblack.com/2025/07/31/w...

Me, to my heart and lungs

On Gaza malnutrition ward, a child’s arm is as wide as mother’s thumb Over the last week, Reuters journalists spent five days in Nasser Medical Complex, one of only four centres left in Gaza able to treat the most dangerously hungry children.

"Reuters journalists spent five days in Nasser Medical Complex, one of only four centres left in Gaza able to treat the most dangerously hungry children. While Reuters was there, 53 cases of acutely malnourished children were admitted, [per] the head of the ward." www.reuters.com/business/hea...