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“I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I’ve come close to defining it: a lack of empathy.... Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.” — Dr. Gustave Gilbert, U.S. Military Chief Psychologist in the Nuremberg Trials, Nuremberg Diary

To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...

Click through for all 6 drawings by national treasure Ann Telnaes.

The outrage over the Cornell gang rape case is having impact:https://abcnews.com/US/district-attorney-reopens-case-alleged-cornell-university-gang/story?id=136806149

I think it’s fair to say that the student journalists at Cornell are braver than the news networks who just gave up on their WH pool ban even though CNN is still being denied access. www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...

Let’s go cats

She's bragging about starving children

so youre in favor of trans kids playing high school sports? “i find it absolutely disgusting and weird how obsessed you are with children’s genitals. but yes, i believe children should be allowed to play high school sports, a thing that has been happening for decades without issue or controversy”

andrew what do you think about trans kids playing high school sports? “i actually dont think about childrens genitals, what a bizarre question”

I'm going to KEEP talking about how Senator Rick Scott, the RICHEST man in all of Congress, DEFRAUDED Medicare & is trying to CUT Social Security. Will you join me?🤚

I have a piece in the Atlantic about SCOTUS’s ballroom order - and how the Court has a very wrongheaded and destructive account of the separation of powers www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Fellow Texans—this is such an important election. I urge you to confirm your status. It takes 30 seconds.

we simply didn’t have to do this vaccination was working we solved this problem it was over with we did not have to do this

He’s got that box thing making the back of his suit jacket stick out again. Maybe some enterprising journalist could ask what’s going on with that? Is it a tactical diaper or something else?

Solar panels are near 1000 times more efficient than corn at capturing the solar energy that falls on a given land area. Electric cars waste only 15-20% of the chemical energy in the battery; 80-85% of the battery energy goes to moving the vehicle down the road. leahy.substack.com/p/how-solar-...

Normally I just appreciatively read @jamellebouie.net 's columns-sharable video content just isn't my bag. But this is a very, very, very trenchant piece of commentary that captures a lot of how I increasingly understand the disjunction between the commentary environment and on-the-ground politics.

the intentional abdication by Congress of nearly all of its constitutional responsibilities is at the core of most of our problems as a nation

The GOP is desperately trying to rewrite history, but just a reminder that Donald Trump was president during the lockdowns, and he awarded Fauci a presidential commendation for his work on COVID. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Investors are catching on that Musk is a fraud, who has gotten rich by bilking the government for contracts and riding on the coattails of other inventors. His white supremacy and Cybertruck nightmare is killing $TSLA, and $SPCX has no path to profitability.

"It's worth dwelling on the significance of this finding. In studying how to improve other lines, planners wouldn’t even consider replicating what works on the NEC, the nation's one really successful passenger train line. That's a shanda." -- www.planetizen.com/features/138...

This this this this THIS!

More of this, please.

Close to a year ago, I flagged that the White House had classified IUDs, birth control pills & hormonal implants as "abortifacient birth control." The news was buried six paragraphs into a NYT story—and wasn't mentioned in the headline or social promo jessica.substack.com/p/trump-birt...

I wrote something longer analyzing the Heritage report, please read: bsky.app/profile/kate...

New in PN: Mitch McConnell's legacy of destruction "Almost everything about how the modern GOP operates — its aversion to solving problems, its destruction of norms that used to allow the institution to operate, its embrace of chaos and dysfunction — can be at least partly attributed to McConnell."

really think that if democrats hold any chamber of congress next year that a condition of passing a budget is the removal of russ vought, who has a genuinely tyrannical vision of presidential power and is a focal point of the lawlessness of the trump administration

If you’re living in Maine and not sure what the next move is, supporting Andrea LaFlamme is a good one. If you live outside of Maine and know people here, help spread the word!

Yes. This. A thousand times.

Dear Folarin Balogun, If asked about it, say: “I always want to play, always want to do my best for my team. I have no say in any administrative decision, and don’t know how that works. If they say I can play, I play. If they say I can’t, I cheer on my teammates wishing I could play. That’s it.”

my plan as the leader of an american adversary is simple: ship millions of pregnant women to america to give birth. we will then have the child return and spend the next 18 years creating an anti-american super soldier. our plan ends with the child returning to the us to vote for zohran mamdani

games have been huge success. thats why we're firing every one who makes games. also we are going to make it so players can no longer buy games

even worse! actually 5-4. My God.

just fuck these justices

As Congress debates a defense spending bill that will be somewhere between $1 and $1.5 trillion, really looking forward to the elite media demanding "BUT HOW WILL YOU PAY FOR IT???" from Republicans like they do with every Democratic social spending initiative. Ha ha, just kidding

Justice Kagan, in dissent, emphasizes that Alito and the majority are too cowardly to even print Donald Trump's bigoted statements in their opinion, only giving them summaries which drastically downplay their severity. She is right. The majority is endorsing racism.

Conviction beats caution. The middle is not a strategy. It is an empty room. Hunter gets it.

RFK Jr. says that HPV vaccine is “dangerous and defective”. A new study from England shows that HPV vaccines have reduced deaths from cervical cancer to ZERO for women aged 20-24. Significant reductions in older age groups were observed as well, though the latter have lower vaccination coverage.

No, Sony Did Not End ‘Destiny 2’ To Get ‘Revenge’ On Bungie www.forbes.com/sites/paulta...

MSNOW's @profmmurray.bsky.social nails it: Trump's investigation isn't about finding a crime. It's about sending a message. Go after Donald Trump and he'll send the DOJ after you, your family, and anyone else who stands in his way.

Destiny 2 devs bid farewell to the game they spent a decade making aftermath.site/destiny-2-deve...

Did someone check on hell? Ferrari seems to have gotten a strategy call right.

I had no idea men played soccer, too! Good for them! Go boy soccer!! ⚽️

Listened to an NPR story this morning about mass child starvation in Senegal without a single mention of Elon Musk, the guy who gleefully created the conditions for the mass starvation

A FIFA referee has spent more time in federal custody for being Somali than anybody on epstein's list for raping kids.

I wrote for the contrarian how SCOTUS shouldn’t get too much credit when it tells Trump he can’t nullify the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship— SCOTUS told states that states can nullify the 14th &15th amendments. And more. substack.com/@leahlitman/...

TAYLOR: Ukraine is winning this war right now. Ukraine is actually taking back more territory, shooting deep into Russia, shooting at St. Petersburg when Putin is there, sending a clear message that they can go deep, all the way to Ural Mountains. Ukrainians have the initiative.

For a year the gerrymandering wars have begged the question, what would a fair map of all 435 congressional districts look like? Well wonder no longer, I provided a nationwide map at @heartlandsignal.bsky.social heartlandsignal.com/2026/06/09/w...

Scott Pelley: “Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done. Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc….”

btw, what was the "terrible situation" created by the leak? Every other president has made their tax returns public and Trump promised to do so as well. He was lying of course, but what terrible thing happened because the returns were made public?