Hugh Ryan

someday, probably a few decades from now, someone will try to write about what exactly happened between 2005 and 2030* and that person will want to pull their hair out at how hard it is to pin anything down due to dead links and conflicting sources

help them out: keep a diary

I want to be clear about one thing since the Chicago press isn't getting it: This is NOT about gerrymandering. JB Pritzker is NOT a hypocrite. Texas is already gerrymandered.

This is happening because Texas law dictates that redistricting is to take place every 10 years. 🧵

Oh huh just like trans people have been saying for a decade

Anyone talking about the 90s like it was a feminist haven free of a manosphere has clearly forgotten about what the 90s was actually like or never bothered to study it

Mad Max movies, Fallout, etc, imagined a desert apocalypse as a result of nuclear war, grand hubris. Turns out we'll get to Fury Road by asking AI to write our emails for us and chatting with imaginary girlfriends.

Hedge Funder Who Voted for Trump Pledges $500K to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor Ricky Sandler, the head of Eminence Capital, wants to kickstart a super PAC to take down the Democratic nominee and "improve the image of Eric Adams."

According to an email obtained by Hell Gate, Ricky Sandler, the head of Eminence Capital, wants to kickstart a super PAC to take down the Democratic nominee and "improve the image of Eric Adams."

I agree with this and I would add that there can be no Democratic Stephen Miller because Democrats despise radical proposals. Proposals that call for uprooting what exists. Mamdani is proposing relatively tame policies coloring within the lines and look at how the elite Dems are reacting...

Cornell Close to White House Settlement of Up to $100 Million The White House is eyeing a settlement of as much as $100 million in negotiations with Cornell University about an agreement that would reinstate hundreds of millions of dollars in frozen federal rese...

First they came for Columbia. The dominos of extortion continue to line up… #HigherEd

Trump’s Domestic Use of Military Set to Get Worse, Leaked Memo Shows A Department of Homeland Security memo obtained by TNR signals top-level discussions about a potential escalation of the Pentagon’s domestic anti-immigration role, and lays out new details.

NEWS --> An internal Homeland Security memo suggests Trump's use of military for domestic enforcement is about to get worse. It details top-level talks between Defense Department and DHS on what this should look like. Experts say it's alarming.

We obtained the memo:
newrepublic.com/article/1987...

UPDATE: Trump has officially fired the labor statistics commissioner because the numbers were bad.

1984

Smithsonian removes Trump from impeachment exhibit in American history museum A temporary placard, on display since 2021, described the president's historic impeachments. Officials said the exhibit was restored to an earlier version following a review of legacy content.

Under pressure from the White House, Smithsonian removes Trump from impeachment exhibit at the National Museum of American History

I wish a very happy “fuck you” to everyone who thought throwing trans people under the bus was going to stop these lunatics

Their goal has *always* been the eradication of the entire LGBTQ+ community, and they’re not gonna stop at Obergefell either

This is why we fight for *everyone*

More developments in the brewing Pierogi-gate scandal!

Martha's Vineyard police have now issued a press release, which reveals that officers were called when the farmer's market manager asked for "assistance at the pierogi tent" when Dersh threw a fit.

www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

Usually I end up on these challenge lists for read a nonfiction book or read a queer book - love that it was for read a book with a black cover!

Locked Down Read as part of CBR17 Bingo: black cover Greenwich Village is perhaps the most beautiful neighborhood in the world's greatest city. I love walking through it: the winding streets, the townhomes, the...

Thanks for this great review of THE WOMEN'S HOUSE OF DETENTION @cannonballread.bsky.social / Jake! cannonballread.com/2025/07/the-...

we're gone from "we're not cutting Medicaid" to "if you lose Medicaid you deserve it"

Incredible journalism, heartbreaking & terrifying story

lol

Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one child per hour during Israel's war in Gaza.

“A whole classroom of children killed every day for nearly two years,” UNICEF’s executive director said.

Here are some of their stories: wapo.st/3UCiAjn

Florida attorney general demands record of drag show attendees Florida attorney general James Uthmeier has demanded records of a restaurant after it hosted a drag show event.

I think many of us hope that America isn't going the way it sometimes looks like. And then we see something like this!!

This is the stuff of 1970s Russia!
www.thepinknews.com/2025/07/30/f...

Zohran Mamdani scores 17-point lead with Jewish voters in NYC mayoral race Mamdani's support among Jewish voters comes after accusations from opponents and some community leaders that his criticism of Israel represents antisemitism.

always good to see voters reject corrupt politicians' bids to divide and scapegoat
www.newsweek.com/zohran-mamda...

Washington Post has named the 18,500 Gazan children killed Oct 2023 > July 2025

www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...

Here is the first part of the article that includes 500 names (less than 3%). It's 43 pages long.

Can't wait for thiss, please join us in Coney!!! This event & CFC are informed massively by Hugh's research and writing in When BK was Queer - go read it if u wanna be Ready 👨‍🏫 us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

I wish I could be there!! ❤️❤️❤️

Thanks!

Brown University reaches agreement with Trump administration to restore federal research funding - The Boston Globe The deal settles three open investigations into the university, and does not require the Ivy League institution to admit any wrongdoing or make a payment to the federal government.

Brown also agreed to adopt Trump’s definitions of a male and female, which were laid out in an executive order in January, for women’s sports, programing, facilities, and housing.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/30/m...

Musk’s America Party can’t get off the ground and was just to ‘blow off steam’ about Trump’s bill Despite claiming he would form a new rival party after Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill passed, no official filings have been made

There was a three week news cycle dedicated to this complete vaporware

‘New York Times’ Issues Apology For Reporting Palestinian Deaths NEW YORK—Claiming that the humanizing of occupied peoples is not what the newspaper stands for, The New York Times issued an apology Tuesday for reporting on Palestinian deaths. “Our thoughtful and ac...

From The Archives: ‘New York Times’ Issues Apology For Reporting Palestinian Deaths

Tablet Magazine @tabletmag The Perelman Performing Arts Center was unveiled in September 2023, steps from the footprint of the Twin Towers. Critics called it “glamorous” and “a retort to terrorism.” But no one mentioned something almost too strange to believe: It’s a ringer for the Kaaba, Islam’s holiest shrine. The cube-shaped building is even veiled in marble that recalls the Kaaba’s black kiswa, and one corner points directly toward Mecca. This is not an internet conspiracy theory. It’s a thing anyone could see. But not a single one of the dozens of distinguished art and architecture critics and urban planners who commented on the site for dozens of high-level newspapers and magazines ever so much as noted the similarity to the Kaaba, even in passing. Standing on a site visible to hundreds of thousands of people, the building has somehow rendered itself invisible.

Are the people who fly airplanes into buildings themselves amenable to such solutions? I guess it depends on what those solutions are. If one were an architect, for example, one might seek to discourage certain types of people from flying an airplane into your building by designing it in the shape of the Kaaba. Or perhaps that would make an attack by those certain types of people more likely. Who knows. Would the Islamist fanatic Mohamed Atta, piloting American Airlines Flight 11 and the 92 people onboard into the World Trade Center on 9/11 in the furtherance of Osama bin Laden’s considered plan to spur the United States into invading the Middle East, in order to humiliate it there, and thereby cause it to withdraw its support for local despots, who could then be more easily toppled, have stopped short when he looked out of the cockpit and saw the Kaaba below him? Again, who knows.

This is among the most insane things I've ever read

So tell me what caused you to write this piece for the Free Press saying that there was grave concern about the food situation in Gaza. So, first of all, I don’t think there is hunger in Gaza. I want to put that first and foremost. You do not think there is hunger in Gaza? I don’t think that the hunger campaign that Hamas runs in the international media is anything remotely connected to the truth. However, I do think there is a situation that can actually deteriorate to something like this. For the past twenty-two months, Hamas has been running a hunger campaign in Gaza. Israelis and maybe some Americans are wary of these accusations because they know it’s propaganda. The fact that there is a developing crisis does not emanate from Israeli decisions, but from a cynical game played by Hamas and the United Nations. However, Israel will be blamed for it. That’s why I want Israel to be wise and not only to be just.

Here we have one of Israel's most prominent journalists saying (in an interview published TODAY), and I quote:

"So, first of all, I don’t think there is hunger in Gaza. I want to put that first and foremost."

www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...