The grotesque.
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Meanwhile in Texas
Robert DownenNEW: Nate Schatzline is a voting fraud conspiracy theorist who believes he is at war with demonic forces and has close ties to a movement of "prophets" that helped spark Jan 6. So why did Gov. Greg Abbott just give him a $275,000 job as a senior advisor on "election integrity" issues? (Gift link).
One must read the whole piece, but at a minimum, one must read this thread.
Sophie LewisI have a major piece up today at The Key. It's about Israel, parsing the rape baked into Zionism's core grammar. I speak of trained dogs; Screams Without Words; Sde Teiman; the Tomer-Yerushalmi affair; and the Palestinian Feminist Collective on sexual violence's centrality to reproductive genocide.
Meanwhile in exhibitions By @zacharyhsmall.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/a...
After Claiming ‘Bias’ at Smithsonian, Trump Officials Stage Patriotic ExhibitionTrump officials have promised to “make visual arts great,” with a museum exhibition that includes artwork by several people with personal connections to the planners.www.nytimes.comI am completely allergic to whataboutism. I just shut down. Even the occasional accidental/well-intended whataboutism of friends and allies. Even whataboutism on trivial matters. Any whataboutism in any conversation, I completely disengage.
Molly Crabapple99% of the time, when someone accuses you of selective outrage, it’s a way of politically demobilizing you and shutting you up “Why are you angry about data centers instead of fast fashion” isn’t about making you care about fast fashion. It’s about shutting you up about data centers And visa versa
UEFA has its issues and interests of course. But this is an excellent statement.
Nathan Kalman-LambThe full statement from UEFA is remarkable. Members vow not to participate in FIFA competitions unless the entire proposal is scrapped and assurances are made it is gone for good.
"Europe’s football governing body said on Thursday that none of its national teams will participate in any Fifa competition 'for so long as these proposals remain alive, unless this proposal has been abandoned in its entirety'."
Financial TimesEuropean nations to boycott World Cup in protest at Fifa’s plans ft.trib.al/i7nDCBm
"Kayleigh, who is now 18, was devastated. But after the funeral, she started to wonder." … "Looking for a pattern of brain injury among elite rescue crews was a remarkable thing for a grieving daughter to do. Even more remarkably, the Coast Guard had never done it on its own."
Rescue Boat Crews Show Signs of Brain Injuries, but Coast Guard Isn’t LookingUntreated and undiagnosed, the crews that save lives in the roughest seas face the relentless pounding of waves.www.nytimes.comThe your-mama jokes are writing themselves now.
Vince ManciniOh no, not your mom’s pied-a-terre!!!!!!!