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This is the saddest exit from a stage since King Lear carried off the dead body of his daughter Cordelia.

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

Here are the details: literally any time, any place, any network.

Holy shit.

Saying he'd be cool with Iran nuking my home city is pretty bad but not quite as bad as when Hillary said some trump supporters were deplorable so I can see why the media turned the latter into a major scandal and not the former

Shaming Talarico for ordering a potato and egg breakfast taco in Texas is a stunningly effective way to prove you don’t know shit about Texas

Hi government employee here, who has visibility into how things worked before 2025 and since: This is correct. Rebuild government, prosecute DOGE and Trump officials, and think about contracting reform later.

M.A.S.H. is so stupid. They say it's about the Korean War but the entire time they're in Atlanta at a Hawks game.

tracing Japanese managers challenging an ump’s call, I’ve watched this 500x

Good iced coffee discourse today.

some middle rat history, w/clarifications: 1) I should have titled my previous "AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult In Berkeley, California" so people would stop arguing with me about people who aren't in Berkeley, California. 2) The sex cult part of this is both predatory and integral to what they do.

Yeah @1password.bsky.social I'm out also - annual sub was set to renew next month. @bitwarden.bsky.social it is, at Ed's recc. FWIW migration was dead simple with easy steps in the app. Took me ~5 minutes.

If you care about trans rights you should stop playing Wordle and cancel your NYT subscription. That has been the case for a few years now, but if you haven’t already, you should do it now.

me writing the first paragraph of an essay: i am so smart this is going to be amazing everyone will love me and in will get a good grade in blog me writing the second paragraph of that same essay: [can’t figure out how to end this post]

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 alternative to Bluesky is nothing, not Threads.

Incredible. When E—n M—k & his crew obliterated USAID in a weekend, they deleted a vast trove of publicly-funded knowledge: the Development Experience Clearinghouse. A Canadian high school student (!) happened to have downloaded the entire thing for a project. AidData has now posted it for all.

i mean, NTSB prelim kinda makes it sound like they knew there was going to be jamming happening during the flight. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dcyu...

Juan Browne (of the blancolirio YouTube channel) covered this over a month ago. Take note of his introduction: “In my opinion, this flight should never have been dispatched.” He then goes into why. It’s a great video and worth watching. youtu.be/Dcyup4xVQuM?...

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Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface

I was promised a big tent! All my buddies on the electoral hard-left & the democratic socialist left have been holding up our end of the bargain. So have the muscular liberals, the median dems, & even Joe Walsh! DSA joined No Kings! Never Trumpers, get your side under control. This is embarrassing.

This is, and I am not even joking, going to fuck up so many hyperlexic kids. I got accused of plagiarism because I used the word “porous” in a sixth grade paper and that shit sticks with you, if not on the permanent record, then in the childhood.

of course this is supposed to be to the tune of Dragula. it’s clearly not supposed to be Margaritaville and i never believed otherwise

lol the EU forced Twitter to show this to users.

remember, be careful what you post on a day like this. If you do it right, you can get illegally fired for being disrespectful to Lindsay Graham and then win a massive lawsuit about 10 months from now and retire with 2 million in your pocket

Hey @chicagotribune.com Editorial Board: Why did you describe me as a “bomb-throwing influencer”? This is wrong, inflammatory, and racist. Change it. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/07/05/e...

NFP Restores All The Content From Climate.gov That Trump Attempted To Disappear It's no secret that Donald Trump has been waging an Orwellian war on knowledge and information for… https://www.techdirt.com/2026/06/29/nfp-restores-all-the-content-from-climate-gov-that-trump-attempted-to-disappear/

The Trump admin doesn’t want us sharing this image so…here you go!

this wouldn’t work legally because a President has no authority to remove a Supreme Court justice. however the President could instead simply drone strike them. it sounds like i’m being snarky but as a result of the immunity decision this is the actual law.

The arm on NBA star Kelsey Plum, who throws a rolled-up jersey to her dad sitting in the upper bleachers. www.reddit.com/r/AbsoluteUn...

Being against bike lanes is the number one red flag there’s deeper, darker views a person holds that we just don’t know about

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Journalists being traumatized would require journalists being there. There was only propagandists. Sucks for the wait staff, though.

My Beltway Stenographer Went To A Nuremberg Rally And All I Got Was This Lousy Skeet

If you’re an American should watch the Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown ep on Iran. A deeply humanizing look at a country full of people just like you and me. I watched it after Anthony died and it moved in ways that are hard to relay. I also immediately ran out to try kabob koobideh and tahdig.

*This includes @sanders.senate.gov @warren.senate.gov and @gallego.senate.gov

NGL, I'm captivated by these new shirts at temu

It’s truly a cursed year to be a person who knows how things work and pays attention to the world.

“THE TRIALS WILL BE PUBLIC” sign in a home’s front window in loring heights, minneapolis