Franklin

Whoever could have foreseen that putting a real estate investor into the presidency would cause home prices to spin wildly out of control?

Jack Smith at last night’s Power to the People concert, wearing a Springsteen/No Kings shirt.

We're not changing the name of Lake Ontario. Name it whatever you want at your leisure: https://gulfof.mapquest.com/lakeontario (tag us so we can see your work 🙂)

OUR MAPS ARE BIG AND BEAUTIFUL. PEOPLE COME UP TO US AND SAY WE GET THEM PLACES. AND WE DO!

REMINDER: Mitch McConnell hasn’t been seen or heard from in now 73 days. Yet he still: •Has his job •Gets paid, and •Gets free world-class healthcare The man who voted against a living wage, against universal healthcare, & against guaranteed paid leave—gets all three as he needs it most.😐

Cake, cake trailer, while cutting the Cake, Cake at The Second Annual Cake the Band the Bike Ride in Portland, OR

Cake, Cake at The Second Annual Cake the Band the Bike Ride in Portland, OR

Sauron spent centuries building his Dark Tower on a Mordor floodplain and apparently skipped all the soil tests. 📖 medium.com/illumination... #LordOfTheRings #GeotechnicalEngineering #Tolkien #BaradDur #EngineeringFail #art #lotr #design #artist #middleearth

Private equity is price gouging firefighters now. Yes, you read that right. Firefighters. Is this the most evil thing they've done yet?

Mark your calendars: August 13 at 1 p.m. ET. The public can call in and listen as a federal court holds a hearing over the Justice Department’s compliance with court orders involving the Epstein files.

Synthwave ride vibes in Portland, Oregon last night led by NakedHeartsPDX

BIKE at Colonel Summers Park pre Synthwave ride in Portland, Oregon.

everyone made fun of hipsters riding fixed gear bikes everywhere but it's easy to drink a case of pbr and still fit into skinny jeans when you bike everywhere

Abdul El-Sayed was outspent 9-to-1 by AIPAC and corporate Super PACs in the most expensive Senate Democratic primary of all time. Last night, he proved that organized people can beat organized money.

It is now August 4th, 2026. Is he, is he not?

The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.

FYI: Blanche rescinded the ORDER establishing the slush fund, not the underlying “settlement.” The settlement says any changes must be agreed to by ALL parties, not just Todd. This “rescission” isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on.

spoiler: it's because they're Americans and most American voters fucking hate the Republican Party

I'm sorry but we're gonna have to stop saying shit like that, Dave.

A win! The Department of Justice has withdrawn all criminal charges against three-time U.S. Olympic canoeist David “Davey” Hearn.

The caller on Rand Paul’s virtual town hall is all of us.

11 months ago Sam Altman called chatgpt a PhD in your pocket and then it spent a month telling us that blueberry has three B's in it

Stunner sunset from The Sellwood Bridge in Portland, Oregon tonight (7.19.2026)

Trash Car Demolition Derby and questionably legal punk/hxc show beneath a Portland bridge

Slotkin suggests Trump could use the military to seize ballots from polling places this November without even the fig leaf of a warrant

HAMBURGER

when you’ve just seen mitch mcconnell

I'm old enough to remember that after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook started doing "privacy popups" in 2018 where they told people that they cared about their privacy and user consent. Well, lmao. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/08/t...

Heavy belted circles

Notme laughing my ass off at 2 AM, on finding out that The Aquabats Gigantish Tour tee I got at their Portland, OR, GLOWS IN THE DARK

The Trump admin confirmed the earliest date by which millions of student debtors will have to start switching repayment plans. In a legal filing on Thursday, ED said debtors will not be required to move off the SAVE plan until September 29 "at the earliest." www.businessinsider.com/save-plan-st...

This week, Debt Collective student debt members filed a motion for a preliminary injunction. Functionally, this is a payment pause. The next day, a federal judge ordered the Ed Department to reply by July 1. This has huge implications for anyone with student debt. We explain:

P-waves from yesterday’s double earthquake in Venezuela (2026/06/24). A M7.2 event 22:04:33UTC followed 39 seconds later by a M7.5 22:05:12 recorded on my @raspishake.bsky.social seismometer in Newcastle-under-Lyme, England. ⚒️🧪

⚒️ 🧪 A catastrophic earthquake just struck northern Venezuela. Large buildings have collapsed, and the USGS PAGER is forecasting thousands of fatalities. Our colleague in Caracas, Dr. Frank Audemard, has shared with us what the earthquake felt like and footage from the region. Here’s what we know.

ARMED

i fear we have no choice but to fill the reflecting pool with beans