Reposted by Tal LavinRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1hTime for this classic again. 112031618
Reposted by Tal LavinKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 2hAnother thing about fraternities is that the hazing rituals where slightly older young men would physically, mentally emotionally and sometimes even sexually abuse slightly younger young men have always disturbed and upset me greatly. And it’s really telling that I’ve seen men defend those too 341522231
Reposted by Tal Lavinemily blight 🐦⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 4hsometimes someone is just condescending enough in my replies that i flex every muscle in my body one at a time trying to figure out which one ignites me like the human torch. if i ever figure it out, some of y’all are fucked. 31513
Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 2hi see this is a Spiralling Due To Rape Trauma Triggered By The News kind of day 325512
Reposted by Tal LavinRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 6hLast week the Portland Police made a huge deal about a K9 killed in the line of duty apprehending a dangerous suspect. Turns out that K9 was shot and killed by...the Portland Police www.kgw.com/article/news...kgw.com 812042409
Reposted by Tal LavinSaeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 8h“Ever since we’ve posted the secondary coverage as well as the editorial, there’s been an absolute outpour of similar stories hitting my inbox and the sexual-misconduct tip line.” 5673215
Reposted by Tal LavinKat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 8hA man replied to this saying in earnest that women need to get organized and fight for our rights and men will follow. We did that. We do that. We mobilized the largest single day protest in global history on every continent and yet I have fewer rights than my mom did at my age. 13669701270
Reposted by Tal Lavinrax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 13hevery day i thank god that neither my one-time rapist nor my longtime abuser ever amounted to shit. also every day it surprises me a little more that *being* rapists and abusers didn’t *automatically* vaunt them into amounting to shit 346423
Reposted by Tal LavinLindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 18hThis 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. 10269521734
Reposted by Tal LavinHannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 23hi worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward 10114523171
Reposted by Tal LavinKat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 14hI literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you. 601216374527
Reposted by Tal LavinShivvy 🎃 @shivvy.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026I know one of you called Serf Core becoming a thing. Get over here so we can give you your flowers 525746
Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 23hme: reading is how i cope with stress :) friend: how are your stress levels? me: 32154
Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 28/09/2026sometimes i drink pickle brine because a) it's delicious and b) helps when im dehydrated, and Bubbie's not only has superior pickles their brine is just .... so ..... rich and amazing 514304
Reposted by Tal LavinTaylor Nichols, MD MS @tnicholsmd.com · 28/09/2026Reiterating, once again, that this built in religious abuse of children is the reason that the US continues to refuse to ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). Also, @swordsjew.bsky.social wrote an exceptional book on this called Wild Faith> www.goodreads.com/en/book/show...goodreads.comWild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over Amer…An investigation into the rise of the Christian right o… 06218
Reposted by Tal LavinSusan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 27/09/2026by the way, this freak's rep who dropped him in April is back handling PR around the rape accusation. The rep is Mitchell Jackson—fka Mitchell Sunderland—who got fired by Vice for siccing Milo Yiannopoulos on his women coworkers at Broadlypeople.comClavicular's Rep Drops Him Days After Suspected Overdose, Says Influencer 'Will Not Take His Health Seriously' (Exclusive Source)Mitchell Jackson, a publicist for Clavicular, has stopped working with the controversial influencer over his drug use, PEOPLE can confirm. 12569147
Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 27/09/2026where the snakes sleep by e. bailleu was a shockingly good book, one of the best books about a trans man falling in love with a venomous snake researcher despite myriad family secrets ive ever read 41003
Reposted by Tal LavinSpencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Ha ha that’s gross and should make everyone uncomfortable, anyway, Rahm presided over a Chicago police black site, lied about what it was and then I sued the Chicago police for its records that proved it:theguardian.comHoman Square revealed: how Chicago police 'disappeared' 7,000 peopleExclusive: Lawsuit exposes scale of detention at off-the-books interrogation warehouse while attorneys describe find-your-client chase ‘from a Bond movie’ 9147331719
Reposted by Tal LavinJust Jackie @doesnotcare.lol · 26/09/2026I’d better sub, lest the police get me! (First time I drove down the cape and saw a Sandwich police car, I was most amused!) 0461
Reposted by Tal Lavinda share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 12/03/2026NO ONE - dashare.zone ADMIN 01431469
Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 26/09/2026you can subscribe to sandwich here: buttondown.com/theswordandthesandwichbuttondown.comThe Sword And the SandwichThis is a newsletter about the dismal state of American politics, the far right, and .... sandwiches. Plus literature, whimsy, culture, and absolutely everything else you could imagine, brought to you... 1549
Reposted by Tal LavinWyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 25/09/2026new favourite Smaug dropped 281598322
Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 26/09/2026i ordered baby corn in my pre storm grocery delivery but i got adult corn instead. i think it underwent puberty on the journey to my home 21617
Reposted by Tal LavinAnna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026NEW: I came across a bookseller who was afraid that a mysterious company trying to buy some of his rarest books was going to use them to train AI models. I went down the rabbithole with him, and was confused and altogether existentially weirded out by what I found www.motherjones.com/politics/202...motherjones.comA bookseller confronts a mysterious company hunting his rarest booksWas a Kentucky retailer targeted by a destructive AI "predator"? 17885382
Reposted by Tal LavinOregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026That's a headline for you cmarmitage.substack.com/p/big-balls-...cmarmitage.substack.comBig Balls Now Exposed to Serious Criminal Charges in at Least Six StatesFired at 17 for leaking secrets. Served a cybercrime ring. Named by the Social Security whistleblower. Now the government's model employee. 1162503566
Reposted by Tal LavinTal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 25/09/2026fuckin PLz subscribe to my god damned newsletter buttondown.com/theswordandthesandwichbuttondown.comThe Sword And the SandwichThis is a newsletter about the dismal state of American politics, the far right, and .... sandwiches. Plus literature, whimsy, culture, and absolutely everything else you could imagine, brought to you... 47230
Reposted by Tal LavinKatelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 25/09/2026🧐 www.axios.com/2024/10/25/m...axios.comScoop: Meta strikes multi-year AI deal with ReutersIt's the first news deal Meta has made in the AI era. 152439745
Reposted by Tal LavinLady Stardust @lizblackdog.bsky.social · 25/09/2026yes do. it's a great read. 0153
Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 25/09/2026fuckin PLz subscribe to my god damned newsletter buttondown.com/theswordandthesandwichbuttondown.comThe Sword And the SandwichThis is a newsletter about the dismal state of American politics, the far right, and .... sandwiches. Plus literature, whimsy, culture, and absolutely everything else you could imagine, brought to you... 47230
Reposted by Tal LavinJordan @malicae.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I'm here for the executive assistant positionstatic.klipy.comEmilia ClarkeAlt: Emilia Clarke as Danerys eating a raw, bloody horse heart 011117
Reposted by Tal LavinTom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Do not carry a cold beverage in their presence. Politely decline any drinks or sweetmeats they may offer. Keep a plain iron nail in your left trouser pocket and a sachet or paper twist of coarse salt in your right shoe. Enter and leave your chair moving clockwise. Follow up with a thank-you note. 543301750
Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 25/09/2026me, strongest: showing up eating a gigantic raw elk steak, my jaws dripping with blood 61348
Reposted by Tal Lavinoctopodiformes.bsky.social @octopodiformes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Oh to look outside the window and see that the weather is GIANT SANDWICH 1242
Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 25/09/2026listen, you're probably reading something depressing or petty so why not dive into a brisk and cheerful account of the 1873 vienna world's fair & its concurrent sandwich buttondown.com/theswordandt...buttondown.comNotable Sandwiches #151: PebeteWelcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where my editor David Swanson and I eat our way through Wikipedia’s List of Notable Sandwiches. This week,... 36219
Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Nineteenth century World's Fairs have always sounded dope as hell to me, so today's newsletter is a @davidswanson.bsky.social deep dive into Grand Expositions, world's fair food, and spectacles that drew shahs and emperors alike: buttondown.com/theswordandt...buttondown.comNotable Sandwiches #151: PebeteWelcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where my editor David Swanson and I eat our way through Wikipedia’s List of Notable Sandwiches. This week,... 1388
Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 25/09/2026today, the sword and the sandwich explores the rise and fall of World's Fairs and the sandwiches they begot along the way, by way of Vienna, 1873, and the pebete sandwich: buttondown.com/theswordandt...buttondown.comNotable Sandwiches #151: PebeteWelcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where my editor David Swanson and I eat our way through Wikipedia’s List of Notable Sandwiches. This week,... 2636
Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 25/09/2026pagodas! a transylvania exhibit! emperor franz joseph visiting 48 times! and ... a bread so good it became a notable sandwich halfway round the world! today @davidswanson.bsky.social reports from the 1873 Vienna World's Fair! buttondown.com/theswordandt...buttondown.comNotable Sandwiches #151: PebeteWelcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where my editor David Swanson and I eat our way through Wikipedia’s List of Notable Sandwiches. This week,... 0294
Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 25/09/2026in today's newsletter, @davidswanson.bsky.social explores how a bread roll from the Vienna World's Fair became a beloved Latin American sandwich.... with much discussion of how World's Fairs came about and sometimes caused cholera epidemics: buttondown.com/theswordandt...buttondown.comNotable Sandwiches #151: PebeteWelcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where my editor David Swanson and I eat our way through Wikipedia’s List of Notable Sandwiches. This week,... 0204
Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 25/09/2026asking for blurbs is possibly the shittiest single part of being an author if im honest 6741
Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 25/09/2026wow the king of spades from decks of cards was based on a real person and it's this guy 737738
Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 25/09/2026im supposed to be bullying some lesbians in boston bc theyre annoying? whatever i have people being way more annoying about shittier things in my neighborhood 71465
Reposted by Tal Lavingeoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 25/09/2026this is ultimately where i land on all of it. it's some annoying bullshit. whatever. but i think if you're mad about it you're probably mad about someone being rude to you online and you need to go outside. perhaps to a bar 31237
Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 25/09/2026coming across this book in my recommendations made me question my life choices 3660
Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 24/09/2026tres golpes is the best breakfast invented by any nation. the dominican republic has conquered breakfast 6462
Reposted by Tal LavinGreg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Stephen Miller’s Office of Remigration was deliberately named to announce to the world that white nationalism is now the basis for US immigration policy. If Dems win power, they should defund it. They should also defund third-country deportations. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2157... 852150699
Reposted by Tal LavinErin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 24/09/2026We are at the break glass moment on the Democratic Party and its treatment of transgender people, and it is my opinion that if we don’t act now and loudly demand to be heard, we will suffer the consequences of their shift. 763739723
Reposted by Tal LavinBen Ehrenreich @benehrenreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026And don’t neglect to check out today’s @flaminghydra.com, in which @swordsjew.bsky.social mines his Arctic obsession for gold. Regarding the noble musk ox: “The longest winters cannot defeat them. They eat saxifrage. They walk through the blizzard unscathed.” flaminghydra.com/issue-654/flaminghydra.comCold comfort / Wave caughtTal Lavin dreams of the frozen North, and Trevor Alixopulos goes for a swim 0168