In the first half of July, there was a lot of federal death on our streets; I already posted about that a few days ago. Other than those ICE serial killers, how was the play, Mrs. Lincoln? Let's see.
Right now there's the ongoing explosive diarrhea outbreak that Bobby Kennedy has enabled, and the Boundary Waters and southern Ontario are on fire, sending smoke all through the eastern half of the country, including here in the Twin Cities. Air quality numbers never before seen (literally).
Earlier, Lindsey Graham died and Mitch McConnell didn't. The Graham Platner campaign finally ended, and I did my best to pay as little attention as possible, except for the underlying topics that caused its implosion. As the World Cup was being played for weeks, there was more evidence of Trump's mind-boggling corruption, and analysis of the birthright citizenship case from the Supreme Court. Oh, and of course we started the month with the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence as we live in the midst of fascism.
Everything below the line is quoted from the attributed account and is in reverse chronological order, except some of the images, which I move up or down for better visual balance.
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It occurs to me that Trump is about to give the craziest speech ever given by an American POTUS as the air in much of America is unbreathable, exploding diarrhea is spreading everywhere, and the USMNT credibly says Trump contributed to their World Cup loss. This century is crazy
Seth Abramson
If you think climate change is an issue that matters only to elites, and not to the working class, I challenge you to put yourself in the shoes of anyone who has to work outside right now.
Satish Desai
I wonder, if you polled people, how much extra they would pay each year to have their city *not* be covered in thick, choking wildfire smoke for days at a time. I wonder if that might give you more insight into "willingness to pay" vis a vis climate change than asking in the abstract.
David Roberts @volts.wtf
I learned relatively recently that the historical precedent for US wars without Congress goes back to wars against indigenous nations. It hadn’t occurred to me that all those wars would be that kind.
Jonathan Stegall
Politico says the upcoming Trump Coin "skirts around restrictions on living presidents gracing currency," but I read the article and it just says that:
-the law says you're not allowed to do this
-they're doing it anyway
So by "skirt around" I guess they meant "ignore":
Will Stancil
In a different world we would be debating whether this is a high crime or misdemeanor.
Adam Miller @ajm6792.bsky.social
With the new powers the Court has granted, Trump can seek to politicize other bodies that aren’t typically partisan—say, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the agency that guarantees that even if a bank fails, you don’t lose money
Zeke Radford
For me, getting endorsed by a guy one day AFTER he had to pay a woman he raped $5 million dollars would be bad news. Again, that’s just me!
Erin Maye Quade
I think it bears saying out loud more often: The ancient Romans were BAD PEOPLE and the myriad atrocities and genocides they committed across Western Europe and Northern Africa were a BAD THING.
Pádraig @patmch51.bsky.social
Southern Ontario is covered in smoke today from the devastating wildfires that have already destroyed multiple towns up by Thunder Bay:
Katharine Hayhoe
it amazes me how many people have made it to adulthood and not noticed yet how many if not most vocal critics of Rural America are people who are themselves FROM rural America, and who would rather eat broken glass than go back
Faine Greenwood
todd blanche even getting any sort of confirmation hearing is such a huge failure that I don't even know where to start, calling america a banana republic would be an insult to republics AND bananas
burn it all down @russbengtson.bsky.social
The MAGA plot to subvert the 2026 midterm elections is coming into focus.
1. Declassify docs to claim 2020 was stolen.
2. Declare a "national emergency" to seize control of the election apparatus.
3. Hope the "national security" predicate keeps courts out.
Matthew Gertz
i cannot handle canadian wildfire smoke and the threat of diarrhea lettuce at the same time
Marisa Kabas
Somebody should strike Adam Carolla with a brick. The Toyota corporation should sue him for damaging the brand.
Joe Friday I'm In Love @ultramod2.bsky.social
"Your honor, I plead not guilty on the grounds of being 50 pounds heavier than she"
There Are Bot @diogeneslamp.bsky.social
Once more for the people in the back:
- Most [more than 95%] of archives have not been digitized.
- Most of humanity's knowledge and memory is *not* reachable by LLMs.
- Believing that AI can provid you with comprehensive, definitive, "intelligent" results is folly:
Amalia S. Levi, PhD
ICE murdered multiple people in the last week, and Tom Homan said in June they arrested the most people ever in the history of the agency. Yesterday’s Minneapolis ICE flight had 45 detainees which was the highest single day total since February 4th. ICE never left and your neighbors still need you.
Liam Davis Temple @liam2manynames.bsky.social
Having a functional electoral democracy is one of the most precious achievements of human civilization. We figured out how to—mostly at least—have our fights with slips of paper instead of killing each other. That's what's ultimately at stake, that's the depth of Graham's betrayal of society itself.
Andy Craig
No one wants to hear it but tracking everyone in your life is pretty much the gateway drug to the Armageddon you’re so afraid of.
Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social
I think people understandably but magically believe that surveilling your loved ones will protect them from harm because it promises knowledge and control. But when you get more knowledge but little actual control, your anxiety goes through the roof
Dan Rosen
I tried telling people exactly this. It does not work. We are in lizard brain zone with this stuff and I am afraid it’s too late. People have told me they’d rather have the cia track their kids than give up the “control” of tracking their loved ones. Can’t argue with that.
Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social
An amazing miniature portrait of the Roman empress Agrippina Minor (15-59 AD), made from chalcedony. Agrippina was the mother of Nero, and married to her uncle, emperor Claudius. It was rumoured that she poisoned her husband with a dish of mushrooms. Photo by me:
Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social
the food safety stuff is another reminder that a large, huge, gigantic part of being a republican is going “lmao why are we spending money to prevent horrifying disasters from happening if they never happen”
Andrew Lawrence
The city of 40k people I used to live in thought like this and got rid of their whole fire department. Because everything has been fine and you can just have the cops do it.
Laurel @lapsan.com
Three days of losses have brought SpaceX shares to the brink of falling below their IPO price, a key level that traders and investors watch to assess the health of new issues
Bloomberg News
spacex's stock just dropped below its $135 IPO price
Ryan Mac
Social Security’s long-term financing shortfall is driven primarily by decades of rising income inequality and slower wage growth, not an aging population or overly generous benefits. –Dean Baker
geraldmcgrew
Crazy to think that the American military in 1972 (when Alene Duerk became the first female admiral) is more woke then the military in 2026. Hegseth is returning the military to a time when we lost Vietnam. Which I guess is great news for Iran.
The Alternate Historian
Every so often the Earth produces a signal that is impossible to ignore. It shows sea-surface temperatures in the Niño 3.4 region of the equatorial Pacific, one of the most important parts of the Earth's climate system:
David Tomkins
Who is sponsoring this foolishness? The choice to place a Charlie Kirk monument in *Times Square* is asinine. Unless the point is to watch how soon this statue is defaced, mocked, and memed so the right wing can propagandize NYC as "godless commies."
Pam Spaulding
Two Minnesota solar farms seeded native wildflowers under their panels, and 5 years of counting revealed native bees had multiplied twentyfold, then crossed the fence to pollinate the neighbour's soybeans
jentrification
In America today, the wealthiest 1% is now worth more than the entire American middle class. That never happened before:
Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social
RFK Jr. asked the National Institute of Health to dedicate $5 billion (!) to finding a link between vaccines and autism. "That would have dedicated more than a tenth of the NIH’s annual budget to investigating a hypothesis already refuted by scientists worldwide."
Gillian Branstetter
"Corridor zoning" amounts to jamming low-income residents into big, bland apartment buildings alongside stroads, where they can serve as a buffer, absorbing all the noise and air pollution cars produce, protecting the precious single-family homes that dominate everywhere around them. It's abominable.
David Roberts @volts.wtf
'the explicit purpose of corridor zoning is to concentrate both air pollution and the perceived social pollution of apartment dwellers in quarantine zones that single-family homeowners can avoid.'
Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social
Four years ago, Biden gave a speech warning about the dangers to democracy and the networks refused to air it because it was "political." I wonder if Trump making a partisan case for relitigating the 2020 election and calling for his political opponents to be jailed is going to be "political" too?
Kevin M. Kruse
Trump just shrunk Bears Ears by 91% and Grand Staircase-Escalante by 90%. Bears Ears was the first national monument co-managed by tribes. Five tribes spent years building that partnership. It's been walked back. 100,000+ archeological sites now exposed to mining and drilling.
Rebecca Nagle
The focus on body cameras after ICE murders someone reminds me of the focus on helmets or high-viz after a driver kills someone. The lack of body cameras isn't why ICE is murdering people, just like helmets and high-viz aren't the reason cyclists and pedestrians are killed.
Gravel Influencer
Political violence is bad and the rise of political violence is 100% the fault of the Republican Party. When you govern by fiat with no concern whatsoever for democratic legitimacy, this is the world you breed. Turning down the temperature of American politics is another reason to ban the GOP.
Stan Oklobdzija
i had no idea this would become so literal:
state song thread guy @statesongxprt.bsky.social
The explosive diarrhea-causing cyclosporiasis outbreak has now spread to 31 states, with nearly 7,000 potential cases. Last year, RFK ordered the CDC's Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network to stop tracking cyclosporiasis.
FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social
RFK Jr: I'm not scared of a germ. I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats.
FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social
I'd feel far safer in a community of immigrants than I would in a community of ICE agents
Dom Ervolina
Every story on our war on Iran I have seen on local teevee includes a quick pivot to gas prices, as if that's the only issue we Americans need to be concerned with.
Robert Moffitt @justplainbob.bsky.social
Not to make a shitpost (hehe) serious, but I am thinking again of the idea that the public health system is “invisible” to people, because we don't notice it when it's working well. Food safety is the same. All things we take for granted. All things that have been dismantled and now we're noticing.
Gravel Influencer
tim dewey @tjdfotographist.bsky.social
(our kid calls diarrhea “#3” and I don’t know why that isn’t the conventional name)
ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com
you’re never going to fix american politics without solving the right-wing media problem. until then we are stuck playing republican games on republican terms
bobby @bobbylewis.bsky.social
Megan Rapinoe, writing for Marie Claire: “No girl deserves to be discriminated against. That’s why all girls, including trans girls, should be able to play with their classmates in the sports they love… girls who don’t fit someone else’s expectation of femininity, will face further harassment.”
Sports Media LGBT+
Man, nobody could build a shithouse like the WPA:
Vic Thorstenson
It's true not everyone can walk, or ride a bike, or use public transit. But for most of us, that's not because of anything to do with the act of walking, biking, or using transit itself. Rather, it's because we almost exclusively invest our transportation dollars into infrastructure and programs that actively create barriers to walking, cycling, and using transit, and instead force us into driving for nearly every trip we make.
Tab Combs @drtcombs.bsky.social
Andrew Carnegie did effective altruism much much better than any of his modern successor billionaires huh
Regime Accountant, CPA @regimecpa.bsky.social
My god. The Heritage Foundation, which mercilessly attacked transgender kids in order to protect the "integrity of women's sports," is now attacking the legal basis for women's sports. The transgender student decision is barely 2 weeks old:
James Goodwin
Friendly reminder that the entire reason why the US is still somewhat dominant in the Olympics is because of Title IX starting pouring money into women’s sports more than 20 years before any other country. That’s an entire generation the rest of the world needed to catch up on.
Gay ISIS Brony @rainbowdaesh.bsky.social
The computer may have been the bicycle for the mind, but the iPhone is the car. Everything the car did to the built environment, the smartphone did to the social/relational sphere.
Erika Hall
Huh, Tim Scott? “Ruler” of the free world? Ruler? The free world doesn’t have a “ruler?” Free people aren’t “ruled.” You used to know that back when we were in Congress together. Ah…but that was before Trump. That’s right:
Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social
the media tends to treat Trump's wildly racist and genocidal statements as one embarrassing thing over here, and ICE murders as a more serious thing over there.
Noah Berlatsky
This is why I get infuriated every time media outlets use terms like "immigration crackdown" or "immigration agenda." This is ethnic cleansing. There is evidence to support that. Journalists should be using that term and placing what we're seeing in the context of other ethnic cleansing campaigns.
Gravel Influencer
Amy Coney Barrett just told Congress that it would be inappropriate to explain the reasoning behind the Court’s unreasoned shadow docket orders. As if unreasoned judicial orders are a thing. They are not. The reasoning is the whole point.
Alex Aronson
stuff like this is why one important avenue for court reform is just nixing the shadow docket altogether and forcing these people to explain themselves to the public when they issue orders. also, making their records property of the united states and subject to publication when they leave the bench.
jamelle @jamellebouie.net
Always and without fail:
hellresidentNY
Simple question: If Democrats could somehow cheat Trump out of reelection in 2020 when he was President, why didn't they cheat him out of winning in 2024 when they were in charge of everything? It doesn't make the least bit of sense.
Patrick Chovanec
It’s all a bit much.
Leah McElrath
most murders are committed by someone the victim knows – a partner, neighbor etc. but in cases where there is no relationship between murderer and victim? the killer is a cop about a third of the time. if you are killed by a stranger, there is a 1 in 3 chance that stranger is a cop.
molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social
Tetanus is returning. In the 1930s, Tetanus was widespread in the US. The development & deployment of vaccines reduced annual cases from ~ 600 in the 1940s to 17 in 2020. Mortality dropped 99%. There is no cure for tetanus. We have forgotten how life was before vaccines.
Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist
Ideally I don’t think politicians need to be emphasizing how masculine or feminine they are. This obsession with asserting traditional gender roles is a very clear conservative agenda and it’s a bunch of made up bullshit anyways
Kat Tenbarge
Good morning! Dog planter:
Alp Beck
I just realized that there’s no bicyclesintobuildings BlueSky account because … bicycles don’t crash into buildings.
Bill Winterberg
You can and should point out that police killing people daily is the "norm" in America. But that doesn't mean you *accept* the normalization of this violence and the way some people rush to smugly point these things out contributes to collective fatigue. Your horror has been stolen from you.
unraveled @unraveledpress.com
I am legitimately getting tired of Republican presidents who I’ve been alive for stealing or trying to steal elections. It will be a relief when literally one of those doesn’t do that
Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social
Galbraith’s maxim: “The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.”
Purple Beast
A bowl of strawberries for a fine summer's day. Painted by Sebastian Stosskopf, born on this date in 1597:
Dr. Peter Paul Rubens
I wish more journalists would point out that Sen. McConnell and Rep. Tom Kean (missed 4 months of work) are/were essentially on paid sick and medical leave. The same employment protection they’ve spent their careers blocking other Americans from having.
Christina Henderson
please show respect for the dead body of someone who didn’t respect your alive body
andy™ @andylevy.net
Something to think about today:
Mark T. Sneed
It always strikes me as weird that you're not supposed to speak ill of the dead, but our libel laws are structured in such a way that you can't speak honestly about people until after they have passed. Also, it's good to be reminded to live your life so that people will not celebrate your passing.
Charlie Jane Anders
Amy Klobuchar’s eulogy for Lindsey Graham was 390 words long. This was 390 more words than she has said in support of trans people
Ian Coldwater @lookitup.baby
What we are witnessing is the most rapid take-up of a energy technology in history...I still remember the pizza party that our college environmental club threw in 2004 to celebrate the first GIGAWATT of solar installed. It was an achievement of humanity. Now? We install a gigawatt every few hours!
Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social
Lindsey Graham was in Congress since the 1990s and his Wikipedia page contains approximately zero (0) good things he did while in office. All he ever did was impede progress. Good riddance to one of the worst human beings in this country.
Sean @stholeary.bsky.social
Senator Graham is survived by his godchild, the Iran War
Ned Resnikoff
Personally I refuse to mourn someone who said “we’re killing the right people.”
Jackson O'Brien @sprobeforebros.bsky.social
Lindsey Graham in 2016:
Leah McElrath
what DHS/ICE learned from minneapolis was not “don’t do this again” but “keep it quiet next time”
Micah @rincewind.run
Universal Healthcare isn't far left
Prosecuting rapists isn't far left
Criticizing politicians and policies isn't far left
Demanding laws for equality and civil rights isn't far left
None of it is far enough
If someone considers any of these ideas to be far left then they're definitely far right
Barron W. Tramp
We‘re one executive order away from a chocolate fountain:
@sundaedivine.lol
Trump’s taste level is Hooters by Saddam Hussein
Grudgie the Whale
We wouldn’t have to worry about ICE killing the “wrong person” if ICE would just stop killing people altogether.
The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social
So I asked a normal question like why don't men wear thongs at the beach even though women do and it's so much like the Reagan era these days that people are shocked into silence. We're in the most weirdly conservative environment and also, men are smart enough not to wear thongs.
MaryMM
I’d always rather be rude than dead.
Terri @terriclarke.bsky.social
Sean Duffy is a guy who's too cowardly to ride a subway ridden every day by hundreds of thousands of school kids but has opinions about bike lanes:
That One Other Guy @jeffluck.org
The thing about catcalling is that no man actually catcalls with the intent to get a woman's number. Its 100% about showing off to other men that you can belittle women in public or at best a self psychological confidence booster that you can talk to a woman.
Darrell Owens @idothethinking.bsky.social
There have been 5 US National Climate Assessments, each advancing the science of #climate threats, prepared by the nation's top scientists.The 6th will be prepared by climate deniers & MAGA political hacks and will be a scientific embarrassment, forever to be ignored.
Peter Gleick
If worth saying once, worth saying a billion times: Employment in US coal-mining industry peaked more than 100 years ago, shortly after WW I. Why not new subsidies for ice-delivery-truck companies, from days before home refrigerators? It was also *big* employer around that same time.
James Fallows
The colors of charming downtown Saint Paul:
Chris Steller
I just had a horrifying realization. It seems like the new test to prove you didn't use "AI" to write a story is gonna be sharing all your notes and drafts with editors. Which means all my frantic all-caps "WHAT THE FUCK AM I DOING WHY HAVE I FORGOTTEN HOW TO WRITE" might become evidence. Fuck.
Charlie Jane Anders
Y'know, I've been in several meetings and committees where 'pedestrian safety' is a "priority" for all involved. Quote marks necessary because every time a plan is presented that would actually create safety, it's questioned. It's too much work, it has too much of an impact on drivers.
amityf
Pedestrian: You have to stop for me
Driver: Shut the fuck up you entitled bitch!
(Carbrain and misogyny make a great pairing)
Gravel Influencer
This is bad:
Maria @maria1962.bsky.social
there is a cohort of men who resent the responsibilities and obligations of adulthood — of the fact that you owe things to other people. it is a fundamentally childish impulse that they have reconfigured as the height of masculinity, and i think it informs the parasocial attraction to platner.
jamelle @jamellebouie.net
Hey, you know when Republicans say they want peace, they mean a world of where non-white people have been obliterated or enslaved, right?
LunchCounterPunch @theultrasecret.bsky.social
I don't know, man, I think if Joe Biden had kept confusing Zelenskyy with Putin and Iran with Japan, the media might have made a pretty big deal about it?
Kevin M. Kruse
Rhuta Bhayga
‘Polarization’ has become the master concept for diagnosing our current democratic crisis. But this is not polarization. It is the radicalization of the political right. By misdiagnosing it, we risk becoming complicit in the crisis.
Petter Törnberg
Al's Breakfast is the story of how you used to be able to put a roof on an alley and call it a restaurant. Nobody would hassle you about Where will they park? How will emergency vehicles get through?
Wedge LIVE!™
so you guys know every woman in your life has been sexually harassed or assaulted, right? Your grandma, mom, wife, cousin, aunt, daughter. do men know that?
miss andry @defnotadino.bsky.social
While normal people struggle to afford air conditioning, the uber-rich are building "snow rooms" in their mansions (and on their yachts!) to stay cool. (From a NYT story)
Sammy Roth
the platner situation is a good reminder that when everyone with the worst political instincts in the world all line up behind one candidate that’s actually a bad sign
Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social
Typology of Watering Cans:
Present & Correct
I debated running for office for years because I had an old tax bill (that was paid off in full) but I was worried that my late payment would make me look irresponsible to voters a decade later. Meanwhile, some men will jump at the opportunity to run for office with sexual assault allegations…
Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social
"Women quickly learn that rape is a crime only in theory; in practice the standard for what constitutes rape is set not at the level of women’s experience of violation but just above the level of coercion acceptable to men. That level turns out to be high indeed." — Judith Herman
Ash Chudgar
Directness in headline copywriting, this morning in 1922, Minneapolis Tribune:
Gary Hornseth
White guys need to understand that "do the work" isn't referring to the boss' job. Self-awareness and humility are sadly lacking in men who think changing their mind immediately makes them a redeemed expert on a topic and instantly the only person who should lead it & that anyone who disagrees is bad.
Hughes @markhughesfilms.bsky.social
folks might not agree with abolish the police but the hard truth of the matter is that we have way too many law enforcement jobs in this country and not nearly enough decent people to fill them.
Joel D. Anderson
Sad that these people died in their beach chairs:
David Ho
Investment accounts owned by President Trump engaged in more than 300 previously undisclosed stock purchases on April 8, 2025, one day before his surprise announcement that he would pause a number of his “Liberation Day” tariffs, his financial disclosure report says.
NBC News
people need to go to jail over this, its the only thing the democratic party should be saying right now. all of them, in unison, no matter the question or topic, needs to be saying “insider trading is against the law”
Andrew Lawrence
They sent Martha Stewart to jail for 5 months for having a chat with her broker and selling some stock to avoid about $45,000 in losses.
Evan Urquhart
we joke about “but her emails” and “the caravan” and “theyre eating the pets” but the only reason you immediately know what im talking about is because the republican party, as one and in unison, made these the only things they would talk about. they forced these talking points into the zeitgeist
Andrew Lawrence
in my defence the stick man looks like he’s having the time of his life there:
Lol @loltype.bsky.social
TV subtitles are worsening, right? Multiple errors in many shows/films.
"Fancy a brew, Natalie?" subs: "Fancy a brute, naturally?"
"So, it's live or die, eh?" subs: "So, it's leave or diet?"
"Summon the elves!" subs: "Some of the shelves!"
Is it all auto-generated now?
Richard Littler
There's a part in the book "Careless People" where the author beats Zuck at Settlers of Catan, and he is absolutely wrecked by it. Someone pulls her aside to explain everyone else has been letting him win for years. I think about this a lot re: why tech bros think everyone will love AI chatbots.
Gillian Brockell
Delightful little brown mouse nibbling at a walnut. From a Roman ‘unswept floor’ mosaic by Heraclitus. Superb use of darker tiles for subtle shadow effects! 2nd century AD. Vatican Museums:
Alison Fisk
Remember when Republicans styled themselves as the party of limited government? Anyway. Fresh off their success in securing investigations of teenage girls' genitals for JV volleyball hames, they're now looking to make visiting women submit to pregnancy tests or, you know, maybe sterilization.
Kevin M. Kruse
Creepiest moment of the summer for me is when Customs and Border Patrol, cheerfully welcomed me back to America, without me telling them my name. Called me Professor Murray and everything. Customs and Border Patrol now has a database that combines our airport manifest with our picture.
Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social
Trying to create an ideal society via a process of removal and exclusion is sort of the political version of disordered eating. A country that resists immigration is starving itself of the talent and human capital it needs to survive. Forget "suicidal empathy." It's bigotry that's self-destructive.
John Muller @mrjohnmuller.bsky.social
BEWARE THE GAPERS OF THE NETHERLANDS! Pharmacy figureheads dating back to the 16th century. The gaping mouth represents the intake of medicine, and the often 'exotic' look symbolizes the origin of the ingredients. Around 50 gapers remain scattered across the country, fun to spot..!
Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social
Listen, if you don’t know the difference between Democratic socialism and communism, I’m not engaging with you. Crack a book.
Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social
Your regular reminder that cryptocurrency does in fact have a use case and that use case is crime
Rory Cellan-Jones
they are not afraid of Mamdani being a bad mayor, they are afraid of him being a good mayor
mtsw
The Declaration of Independence specifies 27 grievances with King George III and Britain. Donald Trump and his regime have committed at least 20 of those same offenses highlighted in yellow. Happy 250, America!
Stephen Wolf
I love noticing little moments of symmetry as I travel on the London Underground network. I spotted this perfect alignment at Whitechapel station:
Tube Mapper- Luke Agbaimoni
One year ago, Republicans passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, leading to:
—8 million Americans losing healthcare
—4 million Americans losing food assistance
—$484 billion in cuts to clean energy and manufacturing
—700 rural hospitals at risk of closing
—$1 trillion in tax cuts for the top 1%
FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social
If Trump can take money from private companies, we can take his money after he’s gone. Don’t let anyone tell you it can’t be done.
The Editorial Board
Picture summing up this shitshow that is the US (photo by REUTERS/Cheney Orr):
Shana V. White
approximately 80% to 86% of Americans live in urban or metropolitan areas. Again, would you know this based on the discourse of US politics?
Prisonculture
This remarkable before-and-after look at Utrecht shows that great cities aren't transformed overnight. They evolve through steady, people-first decisions that reclaim space from cars, add greenery, and make everyday cycling safer and more enjoyable:
Dutch Cycling Embassy
Conservatism, whatever it claims to have been, is currently an absolution generator for unrepentant criminals, as long as they share the movement’s white supremacist ideologies.
LunchCounterPunch @theultrasecret.bsky.social
Bike lanes often look empty because they're very efficient at moving people. Full car lanes and traffic jams are a sign of how inefficient cars are.
Rosamundi
Chris Steller
JUST POSTED: An updated tally is in, and the count of Trump followers turned financial losers is even bigger than first thought. Much bigger. 988,905 buyers of $TRUMP memecoin have lost a total of $3.81 billion.
Eric Lipton NYT
A gentle reminder that "Mount Rushmore" was carved by a KKK-associated white supremacist as a deliberate defacement of a sacred Lakota site, much as the same chud defaced Stone Mountain in Georgia to create a tribute to the Confederacy and white supremacy
dogemperor
I cracks me up when people are like "You couldn't make THIS movie or show today because people are so politically correct and sensitive!" Sir. There was an entire board in Hollywood dedicated to sniffing out any onscreen hint of married people having sex. Lucy couldn't say "pregnant." Sit down.
Movies Silently
Yes, when I say "cities should be built for kids" I mean giant Habitrails in the planting strip:
Qagggy!
As many experience lethal, unlivable heat, it's a good time to remember that there is no such thing as a climate refugee under the law. Climate breakdown was not understood when the UN convention was written. In the US, there is one way for extreme weather to be the basis for legal status: TPS. The war on TPS is partly a war on the idea that non-white people should have the right to flee lands they cannot survive. It started during Trump I and accelerates today. This is a key plank in End Times Fascism: Apartheid bunkered states as climate adaptation.
Naomi Klein
Dirty diesel trains using leaky liquified-gas containers to haul CO2 around. All in the name of decarbonization of course!
David Roberts @volts.wtf
Max Hoover
America keeps trying to get me to go to her birthday party and I’m like no girl u need to go to the hospital
Audrey Farnsworth @audipenny.bsky.social
DC is, flatly, owed statehood after what they have been through under this man to make sure this shit never happens again
Micah @rincewind.run
Writing a brief in a habeas case and I had the occasion to note:
- From 2008 to 2024, federal courts saw an average of 934 immigration habeas cases nationwide
- During that time, the District of Minnesota averaged 27
- In the first 7 months of 2026, the District of Minnesota has seen 1,311 cases
Daniel Suitor
1960 Zar Car — the only one known to exist. Built in Windsor, Ontario by a tiny startup called Zar Auto of Canada:
Cory Doctorow
I do think it’s funny that all these independent thinkers [like Joe Rogan] end up regurgitating confederate or segregationist propaganda that is decades or centuries old. But it’s only because they’re not susceptible to manipulation like you sheeple
Adam Serwer
It would be very good if there was a law that would put law enforcement officials in prison for 10+ years when they lie under oath. Nothing is more corrosive to a society than police corruption.
Stan Oklobdzija
Headlines should ditch references to e-bikes and just say "ERs overwhelmed as parents keep purchasing electric motorcycles for their babies"
Wedge LIVE!™
Tonight's mural is from Copenhagen:
Janne K. Flisrand @jannefrommpls.bsky.social
i'm finally going through the dissents in the birthright citizenship case, each of which grafts some extremely broad unspoken exception onto the plain language of the constitution, and every single dissent can be rebutted by asking "if that is what the drafters meant then why didn't they say it?"
Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social
I was losing it reading Kavanaugh's concurrence/dissent. What do you mean the framers of the 14th couldn't conceive of people temporarily in the country? And zero citations to anything for that premise.
Esquirrou
BREAKING: Donald Trump executed 3,642 securities transactions during the first quarter, averaging nearly 58 trades for every U.S. trading day. This translates to roughly nine trades every hour or about one trade every seven minutes during market hours, per YF
Unusual Whales
The $400m flying bribe has shelves of fake books, some titled “Library”:
Hari Kunzru
Something kind of bonkers is that the average American likely has no idea the richest man in the world is a frothing white supremacist openly calling for murder and ethnic cleansing. Like, they probably have an idea that Elon sucks but no idea about just how horrific his views are.
Gravel Influencer
Cars are one of the reasons why cities get so much hotter. An average gasoline car can produce 3.9 MJ of waste heat for *every kilometre* it drives. That’s enough to raise the temperature of a 665 sqft apartment twenty degrees centigrade.
How-Sen Chong
America is the world's foremost experiment in creating a nation through creed instead of ethnic lineage, and MAGA is celebrating its 250th anniversary by claiming you "won't even have a country" without racial homogeneity, even as they wrap themselves in the flag.
Ned Resnikoff
every job i see these days is like:
LEAD CONTENT ANALYST, Puppy Killing Factory (remote). $350,000–$500,000. You will edit our internal newsletter (circulation 500).
Associate Editor, Nonprofits, Global Good Magazine (in office, NYC). $27,000–$28,000. Lead ALL of our fundraising efforts!
bijan
hey is the word “eliminate” good when they’re talking about You. just wondering:
mattie lubchansky
An investigation by OpenDemocracy found that Palantir has paid very little UK tax, despite receiving over £670m in UK public contracts. How? By booking profits overseas, and using tax loopholes for paying staff with stocks to reduce their corporation tax bill.
Tax Justice UK
there's a lot of sociological work to be done on how even pretty left-wing people cling desperately to the idea that the justice system is not fundamentally broken
Aubrey @aubreypiano.bsky.social
Wearing the most patriotic thing I own:
Elle Ess @viamarsala18.bsky.social
1000% and I think one of the truly terrifying things about that is that if you do not think the legal system is fundamentally broken you have to think, on some level, massive racial disparities in outcomes are justified
Rachel Cohen @cohen489.bsky.social
My son asked me what Cuba was like when I studied there in 2003. I told him how shocking it had been to see every billboard, every wall, etc, not plastered w/ads for Coke or McDonald’s but w/the leader’s face. It was deeply unsettling, unlike anything I’d seen before… now it’s my regular DC commute
Sarah Christopherson @sarahcgchris.bsky.social
As crimes pile up, they become invisible. –Bertolt Brecht, 1935, from his poem "When Evil-Doing Comes Like Falling Rain":
Rabih Alameddine
Brian Kilmeade suggests to an agreeing DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin that pregnant foreign women should be barred from traveling to the United States
Aaron Rupar
Trump's father was born in New York to a non-citizen mother who arrived six months pregnant.
Robert Mackey
the thing everybody misses is that trump swore to uphold and protect the constitution *to the best of his ability*
Tom Tomorrow
I welcome a fact check, but Spain, a nation of 50 million people, accomplished the bulk of its clean energy transition in about 6 years I believe. And that’s *without* the great new batteries.
John Rogers
baby dinosaurs, dinosaur park, eureka springs, arkansas, 1994:
old roadside pics @roadside.xor.blue
Let's do a poll on trans folk in sports. Has any org asked it this way?
Are you in favor of genital exams as a requirement for participation in children's sports?
Should participation in children's sports be up to the children?
Leah @leah.myatproto.social
Factory construction is down close to a third from its peak under President Biden... The data just can't seem to find that huge investment boom Trump keeps talking about.
Dean Baker
democratic presidential candidates should talk about expanding scotus the way trump talked about building the wall
Oliver Willis
Gotta stay humble:
Cooper Lund
Anti-trans bills will flat-out hurt participation in girl's and women's sports. If you wanted these sports to grow you'd invest in widespread participation for everyone.
Gravel Influencer
We limit the speed of ebikes "for public safety," yet this study shows we'd need to limit SUVs to 5.7 km/h for them to pose the same risk to other people
Prof. Ian Walker
At the turning of the millennium there were 769 satellites in space, 2026 there are 14,500 satellites. I spent 7 minutes photographing the Milky Way rising above Poatiri Mt Charles Hoopers Inlet, on Muaupoko (Otago Peninsula) this evening. Ōtepoti Dunedin, NZ:
Paul Le Comte @paullecomtephoto.nz
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