Reposted by HortenseCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 23/07/2026I know Musk is high on the list of Most Responsible For How Things Are but the person I loathe most is Jenny McCarthy and whichever editor/producer platformed her. Once someone decided she knew more than a doctor we were fucked forever. She's the reason people believe TikTok and YouTube. 37937124
Reposted by HortensePam Mandel @nerdseyeview.bsky.social · 4hi'm a dog walker and this is my friend Maisie. she was in a real, "NO THE WALK IS NOT OVER YET" kinda mood today. 728014
Reposted by HortenseAnne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 5hThis is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...thecut.comWhat It Feels Like at Cornell Right NowAs a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big. 332044768
Reposted by HortenseAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence: 2400187685155
Reposted by HortenseAna Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 7hThis period will go down as one of the greatest moments for Democrat attack ads in history. We're seeing LBJ "Daisy"-level spots daily. 14488124
Reposted by HortenseDan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 7hHere's a case study in how third-country deportations work. Trump has sent over $400M (!) to some of the most repressive countries in the world to put your former neighbors into the custody of torturers. www.justsecurity.org/157413/us-de... 16324
Reposted by HortenseMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10hrenaissance painting when the renaissance is really fucking stupid 1253436453
Reposted by HortenseThe Onion @theonion.com · 10hCornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows... 12382661557
Reposted by HortensePrasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/20265 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables 713049751
Reposted by HortenseAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 12hOne thing that’s interesting about this is that it shows that despite insisting the wokes overinterpet everything, conservatives are actually aware of and agree with their critics about how coded racist appeals work, they just like them bsky.app/profile/newr... 292670602
Reposted by HortensePaul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 11hThis is gravitational lensing. Where the a bunch of galaxies are so, so massive they distort the fabric of spacetime itself, and bend the light from background galaxies billions of lightyears more distant. 218752
Reposted by HortenseJoe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 11hThe Independent has a photo of the slide we weren't able to see during the Smith hearing. No texts from Smith in it. 67629120
Reposted by HortenseElizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 11hIf any non Fox reporter gets an interview with McMahon they should ask her to explain what it is that she thinks AI does and how it works 1313524
Reposted by HortenseTexas Tribune @texastribune.org · 28/09/2026Breaking: The Texas Tribune has identified the ICE agent who witnesses say fired through an open van window and killed 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston nearly three months ago.texastribune.orgICE agent who shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston identifiedThe federal government has withheld his identification, even as major state and local law enforcement agencies across the country typically identify officers involved in shootings on the job soon afte... 20666153316
Reposted by HortenseGylesNaMopaleen @gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social · 21hsomething extraordinary is happening on Garvaghy Road Northern Ireland. Decent minded protestants & unionists have started to come out to support the Garvaghy residents, against the Orange Order parade madness. This is truly extraordinary. quick 🧵 327990
Reposted by HortenseHelen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 12hThey are shutting this down by the end of the day. 121248271
Reposted by HortenseAndre 🇨🇦 @iamcdn.bsky.social · 11hthree losers who thought they had their moment to shine 1143144
Reposted by HortenseClara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 12hIn light of Eric Schmitt beclowning himself trying to skewer Jack Smith, this piece from @davidcorn.bsky.social provides useful context www.motherjones.com/politics/202...motherjones.comIs this the most dangerous man in the US Senate?Sen. Eric Schmitt of Missouri is pushing a tribalistic ideology suggesting only descendants of white Christian pioneers are true Americans. 627289
Reposted by HortensePhilip Bump @pbump.com · 13hVery funny this happened right after Axios was like "lots of buzz about Schmitt for VP" this morning. 1963358524
Reposted by HortenseAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13hKlobuchar has Schmitt dead to rights: "The game in fact was in Maryland. For a senator to have false information & imply, based on confusion about name of a team, that you were in another city & somehow involved that day in what was happening in Georgia & call you a 'dirtbag' deserves an apology" 19665911401
Reposted by Hortensegamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Google earth has updated its satellite images of Gaza. The destruction is almost incomprehensible. 4420921205
Reposted by Hortensemattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 14hawoke this morning with a Vision 4981501498
Reposted by Hortenseryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 14hNorway has solution to this actually, stay at home parents can get their share of the public daycare subsidy as cash, that way parents are not pushed one way or the other. the problem of course is virtually no one on the center or right actually gives a shit about parents 362300478
Reposted by HortenseKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16hThe lawyer for one of the alleged Cornell rapists is accusing the victim of lying for a "money grab" (what?!) but not even the New York Post is buying this bullshit.nypost.comAccused Cornell frat bro’s lawyer dismisses heinous rape claims as ‘money grab,’ claims client only guilty of ‘immature comment’Horrific allegations that Cornell University fraternity brothers gang-raped a co-ed are nothing more than a “money grab,” a lawyer for one of the accused has claimed — while insisting his Ivy… 3131256
Reposted by HortenseSimon Lester @simonlester.com · 16hInteresting details on how the Iowa steel deal got done. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u... 4224999
Reposted by HortenseChris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 16hThis child is 13 and was testifying without an attorney present. Monsters. 10417153
Reposted by HortenseLindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 17hThis man is a monster. He seeks out women survivors because he hates them. And he hates them because he hates himself. He has harassed me and other women survivors many times over the years. It must end. He should never have a job anywhere. 10269451734
Reposted by Hortensejamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/09/2026this is legitimately very funny 83124301867
Reposted by HortenseDan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Russell Brand, who's awaiting trial in London next month on rape and sexual assault charges, will moderate a panel at DC's MAHA summit tomorrow on reforming a U.S. health agency 22425691042
Reposted by Hortensehammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 28/09/2026GOP Consultants : what do you mean she just fucking tweeted it out 733488738
Reposted by HortenseKashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026January 2025: I’m a trad wife who thinks women who work should be burned at the stake, please ignore the $50,000 I make on insta posting butter I had my servant churn Today: did you know women are people? I promise never to sell you gals out again unless its convenient 81715257
Reposted by Hortenseevacide @evacide.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Meta Muse appears to read your Apple messages and upload them to the cloud even if you explicitly tell it not to: appleinsider.com/articles/26/...appleinsider.com 1001891964
Reposted by HortenseStuart Palmer @spalm.bsky.social · 15/06/2026"Fresh Butternut Pumpkin Whole". 20538175
Reposted by HortenseBarred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026aight i had more to say about this ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/ketan...ballsandstrikes.orgKetanji Brown Jackson Is Getting Tired of the Supreme Court’s Shadow Docket AbusesThe conservative supermajority keeps refusing to take the real-world harms of its work seriously. 518146
Reposted by HortensePhilip Bump @pbump.com · 28/09/2026pretty sure "lands" is the wrong word here for at least two reasons 441078138
Reposted by HortensePaul Voosen @voosen.me · 28/09/2026New Horizons is now *three days away* from shutting off its two heliophysics instruments, simply because NASA has not provided the $2M in funding it had promised to the mission last year or this year. There is no science basis for shutting these off. Our earlier coverage:science.orgNASA’s New Horizons mission may shut down two instruments over lack of fundingDecision risks “incalculable loss” of data from the edge of the Sun’s influence, scientists say 15643389
Reposted by HortenseZack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Nobody seems to bat an eye that Rufo's podcast partner is a longtime anonymous troll who called gays "f*ggots," referred to Asians as "mongoloids," and explicitly sees his partnership with Rufo as a strategy of normalizing what most of us would see as bigotry www.vox.com/politics/368...vox.comAn inside look at how the far right is mainstreaming itselfAn radical troll got unmasked — and then spilled the beans. 14577185
Reposted by HortenseAbdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Mike Rogers is a corporate sellout who moves back to Michigan every few years to run for office to take another swing at the revolving door of corporate politics. 290154214245
Reposted by HortenseDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026New, from me: Once memory-holed, DOGE is now the subject of revisionism. To better understand why DOGE failed, I talked to people in the civic tech movement that DOGE displaced, who continue to offer the alternative model for how to modernize govt. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/doge-vs-ci...donmoynihan.substack.comDOGE vs. Civic TechAs DOGE revisionism picks up, a contrast with the civic tech movement it displaced illuminates its failure 19787255
Reposted by HortenseSteve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026N12 (Israel) - The Israeli prime minister and the Emirati president secretly met Sunday at the Abu Dhabi airport where Benjamin Netanyahu tried to convince Mohamed bin Zayed to issue a denial that MBZ had warned him in advance about the Oct. 7 Hamas-led attacks. www.mako.co.il/news-world/2...mako.co.ilדיווח: נתניהו ביקש מבן זאיד: תכחיש שהעברת אזהרה לפני 7 באוקטוברראש הממשלה המריא אתמול לביקור חשאי באיחוד האמירויות בצל סערת ההתרעה, שם הוא נפגש עם הנשיא - כך חשפנו ב"מהדורה המרכזית" 03020
Reposted by HortenseArienne Childrey @ari4ohio.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Pay attention Dems. Gov Beshear won twice, in a deep red state, and never threw trans people under the bus. He led with compassion rather than the fear and cowardice we've seen from some of our Ohio candidates and party leadership. 193124797
Reposted by HortensePhil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 28/09/2026SpaceX just launched the 14th Starship test flight, and it's now successfully in orbit for the first time. This is an amazing achievement, and I absolutely detest how Musk has ruined this sort of thing both for me and for humanity. 3476698
Reposted by HortenseAndy Kaczynski @kfile.bsky.social · 28/09/2026A new CNN KFile investigation finds two past accounts from Texas GOP candidate Bo French calling for public executions of government officials, Obama, Adam Schiff, and more. Repeatedly asked Texas GOP, Paxton, Abbott campaigns if they stood by him and got no response. www.cnn.com/2026/09/28/p...cnn.comKFile: Texas GOP candidate Bo French has a history of calling for public executions | CNN PoliticsBo French, the Republican nominee for one of Texas’ most powerful statewide offices, is facing bipartisan criticism over a racist post about the crowd at a University of Texas football game. 19344147
Reposted by HortenseMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/09/2026NEW: Food banks across America are being overwhelmed by surging demand. Scott MacFarlane went inside to see the crisis firsthand. Here’s what he found:meidasnews.com“They don’t understand the scale of the hunger!”- An unfolding crisis at the nation’s food banksWeeks before the midterm elections, the cost crisis is hammering food pantries in red and blue states 44194574484
Reposted by HortenseAsawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 28/09/2026between this and Medicaid and more, trump and his party have set up for so much of this country to fall off a very steep cliff starting next year. It is going to be really bad. We are going to stay on top of it at @zeteo.com 19333112
Reposted by HortensePaul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 28/09/2026These are what the clouds on Jupiter look up close. The small patches of white are cloud tops, soaring above the main, colourful cloud layer. Image from NASA's Juno spacecraft during its 38th close approach to Jupiter on 29 November 2021, processed by Kevin Gill (@kevinmgill.bsky.social) 18881172
Reposted by HortenseBarred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026This is amazing, and also, it looks like Van Gogh painted an oyster 525636