I know it's saying a lot, and it may only be a case of recency bias, but July seems like it's been the worst month of the Trump presidency. Or at least the most hopeless-feeling. Six months in, with one day after another of news and decisions that should have ended any presidency, and he just careens along like a greedy, vicious, addled bull, supported by eugenicists, racists, and people who want to line their pockets and .
As one poster put it,
So what I do is, I wake up, and then I spend an hour scrolling social media that makes me depressed and angry, and then I'm set to start my day.
Laurie Voss @seldo.com
I'm writing this on August 1 just as news arrives that the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is shutting down, and that Trump has fired his own appointee who heads the Bureau of Labor Statistics because he thinks she cooked the "bad" (true) jobs report that came out for July. This as he tunnels deeper and deeper into denying his involvement with Jeffrey Epstein, and gets ready to pardon his long-time friend, the pedophile Ghislaine Maxwell.
I can't even list here how many other outrages happened this month — they are referred to below.
This is the second half of July 2025. The first half is here, covering July 1–15. Everything is listed in reverse chronological order, except some of the images, which I move up or down for better visual balance. Each post below the line is from the attributed account.
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Aristotle was right, you know: oligarchs lack civic virtue.
Adanedhel @danielwaweru.bsky.social
This past week, the 79-year-old president announced he’s ended six wars (some that have been going on for centuries), asserted that windmills drive whales insane, called for Beyoncé to be prosecuted, claimed Obama committed treason and complained a convicted pedophile “stole” teenage girls from him.
Kevin M. Kruse
We should ban elected officials from trading individual stocks AND pay them much, much more
Brendan Nyhan
Elected officials and civil servants should be paid extremely well, with the understanding that if they do engage in corruption, they go to jail forever.
Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD
Elephants are born weighing 250 lbs. They are the biggest babies on earth except for motorists when they see a bike lane
Mark Shaw
Evaluation is important and we have good ways of evaluating instructors (observations, audits, mentoring). But the evidence is clear that asking students to Yelp review their instructors the week before exams yields no valuable information on teaching or learning--just customer satisfaction.
Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social
This is going to be a generational destruction of human capital in service to the rich. They are intentionally destroying the markets for white collar skilled labor in order to depreciate wages in a Khmer Rouge-esque fantasy of returning to industrialization. They want to enslave you, in short.
utopia deferred
Republicans: we need tort reform to put a stop to frivolous lawsuits and the rampant abuse of the justice system.
Also Republicans: I'm suing absolutely everybody who mildly offends me because I'm a delicate snowflake.
Tom Behling
Trump announces that he’s having a 90,000 sq ft event space added to the White House
David S. Bernstein
Donald Trump took away your Medicaid to build himself a gilded party room two acres in size.
southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
Let them eat cake:
Brian Tyler Cohen
$200 million is enough to provide a year of Housing Choice Vouchers to
about 13,000 low-income American families, enabling them to pay their
rent and preventing homelessness. President Trump's 2026 budget proposes
slashing housing assistance programs by 44%.
Yonah Freemark
The hall of mirrors at Versailles is about 8,000 sq ft; the largest room in the palace, the Gallery of Great Battles, is like 16,000 sq ft.
southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
ICE smashed car windows in 50 cases in the first month of Trump’s 2nd term – versus 8 cases over the prior decade, per Propublica. Staying in the car is seen as resisting arrest, even for pregnant women or scared kids, people with no criminal records.
Leia @theswprincess.bsky.social
Under pressure from the White House, Smithsonian removes Trump from the impeachment exhibit at the National Museum of American History
Phil Lewis
The motherfucker will always be a twice-impeached loser.
I'm Not Really Mary Poppins @maryfpoppins.bsky.social
struggling with an analogy here but imagine NASA posting a meme about how excited they are to return aviation to the pre-jet age:
Christopher Mims
every time coal comes up I remember that the entire industry employs fewer people than Arby’s and have a good little chuckle
Michael Olson @molson.design
Lee Zeldin said repealing the [CO2] endangerment finding would “end $1 trillion or more in hidden taxes on American businesses and families.” But the government's own research shows climate-fueled extreme weather is *already* causing $150 billion annually in losses for the US
Brian Kahn
President Trump is stealing our money. One thing I'm looking for in a future candidate – how far will they go to try and get it back from him, his company, his "organization," his family. And not just from him, but all the cronies currently pillaging our money for self-enrichment, from Musk on down.
David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social
Trump got 49% of the vote and won tiny legislative minorities and the response of virtually every single elite law firm, elite university, huge company, and major journalistic outlet has been to surrender to him and start caving to his deranged demands to give him money and personal favors
Will Stancil
Here are some nice mushrooms:
lukelukeluke
Every Denali [SUV] looks like a huge polar bear marooned on a melting chunk of ice
Chris Steller
Please no more breaking news can we please have some fixing news instead thank you
Cartilage Pizza
the reason trump is [imposing tariffs on Brazil] is not to raise money or to remedy some perceived trade imbalance. he is doing this to destroy Brazillian democracy, because he and his entire party are ideologically opposed to human freedom.
Hillel @theophite.bsky.social
Trump does shit every day that should get him impeached. But illegally punishing an entire country — and any Americans who use products or do businesses with anyone in Brazil — because it’s prosecuting its former president for attempting a violent coup is among the worst things he has done.
Radley Balko
New @today.yougov.com national poll out. Absolutely wild how distorted the public’s view is. (The murder rate in NYC is down 83% since 1990.)
Mark D. Levine
It's a bizarre and frankly alienating feeling realizing that if you know the basic fact that the murder rate has gone down significantly since 1990 you're in the ~90th+ percentile of fact-knowers:
Hemry, Local Bartender
New study finds that Norway's lavish EV subsidies increased car trips by 10-20% with "sizable shifts away from public transport use, cycling and walking." The lesson of Norway shouldn't be "promote the hell out of EVs." It should be "encourage less driving —period — as you promote EVs."
David Zipper
every time you see "parents' rights" finish it in your mind with 'to abuse their children' because that's ALWAYS what it's about, whether it's sex education, homeschooling, gentle parenting, gay flags in schools, whatever. it's the desire to exert an outsized level of control over their children
Karen Geier
I feel like ICE is going to be so rife with graft and fraud, it’ll make PPP loans look like child’s play.
Norm Charlatan
A key point in Fahrenheit 451 is that books were banned because they made people depressed and uncomfortable. The novel's protagonist, Montag, is taken into custody after he reads a poem that makes a woman cry because she realizes the emptiness of her life:
Boze the Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social
Some people just seem to want to eliminate all potential sources of discomfort, no matter how small or innocuous, from their lives. Fiction allows you to model experiencing big emotions in a safe controlled setting, and I just don't think any good comes of avoiding that to this degree
Shiro Sylvie @shiromisa.bsky.social
LeGuin wrote about the desire for 'unassailable safety' as one of the deep roots of evil, and I think about that a lot.
misandrist fujoshi @likeadeuce.bsky.social
We need to teach people the difference between being uncomfortable and being unsafe. Because the discomfort of the safest people is endangering the most vulnerable, all day every day.
Erika Hall
Trump Still Polling Well With Working-Class American Pedophiles
The Onion
A lot of people say they like to drive but they really like to sing in a soundproof box
Taking a nice walk
Taylor Griggs
How did we get an entire corporate and political world full of scumbags and bastards, all we did was incentivize that behavior at every turn
@internethippo.bsky.social
paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social
Emil Bove has been confirmed to a lifetime federal judgeship on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals
Anna Bower
Bove himself is a literal criminal. A man whose short time in the public eye is defined by his open contempt for the law and those responsible for enforcing it. And the only reason he was nominated is because of his slavish devotion to the president’s most lawless impulses.
jamelle @jamellebouie.net
Emil Bove's confirmation was only possible because Democrats caved to a vile right-wing smear campaign of Adeel Mangi, who would have been the first Muslim appeals court judge, when Biden nominated him for the same seat last year. Absolutely disgraceful. Bove's confirmation is on them, too.
Jay Willis
What used to sink a nomination hardly causes a stir. We will never recover from this past presidential election. Never.
Sam I Am @siageah.bsky.social
Monday’s mass shooting [in Manhattan] may put concerns over gun violence back on voters’ minds, and have already lead some to scrutinize Mr. Mamdani for his views on policing. “He clearly does not understand what public safety is all about,” said Cuomo
Jeffery C. Mays
"The man who is not yet mayor is to blame for a shooting that happened under the watch of an ex-cop mayor who's thrown every available dollar at the NYPD," insists sex pest
Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com
A black bee enjoying the celosia i grew from seed:
quick13
Why do so many Americans hate good public services?! Why always with the horsehair shirts, life on hard mode. Just millions of people getting off on making life harder than it is
eleven-sorovian.bsky.social
As I detailed in White Flight, segregationists in Atlanta absolutely loved public services — buses and trolleys, parks and pools, golf courses and tennis courts, etc. — right until they were forced to desegregate and "stolen" from them. They abandoned them and built up private alternatives.
Kevin M. Kruse
the republican party is a criminal conspiracy against the american republic
jamelle @jamellebouie.net
Energy Secretary Chris Wright says rescinding all greenhouse gas emissions regulations is about ending "the cancel culture Orwellian squelching of science"
Aaron Rupar
We’re basically just paying for these people [like Kristi Noem, pictured riding a new horse] to have vacations and do horrible morally reprehensible things to people who don’t look like them
Molly Jong-Fast
Just to reiterate: What this administration is doing right now is orders of magnitude more dangerous for academic freedom and free speech than anything the right has spent the last 30 years complaining about.
Radley Balko
This is so perfect. "Dead Center" and he's so far to the right that he's half off the cover:
L @banalplay.bsky.social
i know that cognitive dissonance can be a hell of a drug, but i do find it hard to believe that any american president from the past half century could do what they do on foreign policy while believing in the existence of hell.
bródnodig @kweenmedb.bsky.social
Everything we've made will break, buildings and streets will crumble, and cities will be abandoned. But the CO₂ we emit into the atmosphere will persist for centuries, and the climatic impacts will last longer than human civilization has existed. This is our legacy for the future.
David Ho
Things That Sound Like Hyperbole But Aren't: the world's dominant communications systems now principally reward the production and sharing of information that is directly harmful not only to democracy but to life on Earth.
Dave Vetter
Society has been hollowed out over decades, democracy reduced to performance, and solidarity was replaced by self-interest. We were sold the lie of meritocracy and the cult of individualism, and this is the end result.
Eliot Higgins
What happens when your cars-first domestic industrial policy is number one on your agenda? "Since 2000, 845,000 humans have died on U.S. highways. That's equal to 280 attacks on World Trade Center. Total number of American deaths in Vietnam War was ~ 58,000."
Matthew Lewis @mateosfo.bsky.social
Gallons and gallons of ink were spilled about how the Biden admin would reconnect communities that had been divided by the construction of massive highways, disproportionately exposing poor people & people of color to pollution and poor quality of life...and then the GOP just cancelled the funding.
Yonah Freemark
Is anyone in politics ever going to acknowledge or respond to the fact that the absolute most repugnant version of biological racism has been fully embraced by the most influential right-wingers in America? That literal neo-Nazi ideas are just standard claims on the right?
Will Stancil
Virtually every move Trump has made that touches housing policy is going to make homelessness worse, and his solution is to put homeless people in camps.
Ned Resnikoff
It's simply amazing to me that the U.S. spent 70 years (1945–2015) constructing a post-WW2 military, economic, and social world order to its liking, only to turn around and decide it was actually the victim of this order the entire time.
Patrick Chovanec
I often wonder why folks didn't counter Trump's nostalgic "make America great again" with "why would you want to lose the future?" Because Trumpism is about losing the future.
Jen Mercieca
I was talking with a teenager recently who is not a transphobe but said he didn’t think it was fair for trans women to play women’s sports. I said that I didn’t think it was fair that people who are taller than me get to play basketball and he paused for a moment and then said, ok you’re right.
Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social
Stereotypical white-collar office work being recoded as "adult daycare" [by MAGA men] is a good example of how any job that women start succeeding in is going to be immediately devalued by society.
Nathan Goldwag
Anti-ICE art from Seattle, Washington. Source: @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social:
Chris Lilley @frostinthepines.bsky.social
Yeesh, a third of data in the consumer price index is estimated, not actually collected. This is of course entirely Trump's fault. I don't know if that's the Trump admin fiddling with data, the BLS not having adequate resources to collect data thanks to DOGE cuts, or both. But it ain't good.
Max Kennerly
Some of my fellow Jews think a college kid wearing a kaffiyeh is a greater threat to their personal safety than an authoritarian government rounding up people to send to torture camps and the world's richest man who made a Nazi AI, and I'm really not sure what to say to them anymore.
Paul Waldman
Why we're here, at its very simplest:
1. Big top-down push to make overt racism and sexism more acceptable and centre politics on them
2. Media views that movement as without agency, just *reacting* to failures of liberalism/the left
Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social
Hey, remember when the Panama Papers were released and they showed how basically every wealthy person on the planet was avoiding taxes by offshoring their money and nothing was done about it except the reporter who broke the story was murdered with a car bomb?
Jon of The North @krauza.bsky.social
The NIH’s 2024 budget of just under $37B generated $95B in economic activity in 2024 alone. 99.4% of new pharmaceuticals approved from 2010-2019 came from NIH-funded research. I’m hard pressed to think of anything that generates as much direct economic benefit as our NIH did before they destroyed it
Ryan Marino, MD
From IBM, 1979:
Cooper Lund
The president calling for the prosecution of individuals and companies he doesn't like should immediately end a presidency like it would have for anyone before this One Special Boy
Mark Copelovitch
Last week NYT Opinion shifted to suddenly run a bunch of "Gosh, this stuff in Gaza seems really bad, have you seen how bad this is?" content and political elites are absolutely taking cues from their preferred media elites. It was a bat signal: "Time to start salvaging your reputation on this one."
Ed Burmila
IF SHAM BONDI and Blanche—who are now OBVIOUSLY part of a criminal cover-up—are not held accountable by appropriate Bar Associations—then we might as well admit that lawyers in the U.S. have no ethical and legal responsibilities at ALL.
condor1976.bsky.social
The only way to defeat reactionary thought in the long-term is to develop social norms and public institutions that elevate and defend reason and decency, that insist on boundaries and mutual responsibilities. Atavistic individual indulgence (might makes right) can only be countered by public reason.
David Roberts @volts.wtf
Just at a basic level, saying a judge’s orders can be ignored seems like it should disqualify you from being a judge as no one would ever need to follow your own orders
Kevin M. Kruse
Moms Clean Air Force
Still stewing on the incoherent belief that driving is better than transit for families. Children can't drive! The only way driving "works" is by making minors' mobility entirely dependent on other people. Which is also terrible for parents who have to be full time chauffeurs.
Owen @owenpick.bsky.social
It is pretty noticeable that even as mainstream opinion on Israel and Gaza finally shifts, you don’t hear the Responsible Adults apologizing for punishing all the college kids protesting the atrocities. Quite the opposite in fact!
Hamilton Nolan
“DEI research” from these guys could easily mean “research that considers demographics.” You know, like you would expect basically all health research to do?
Julie McGalliard @mcjulie.bsky.social
You’re going to love the new DEI:
Dying
Early from
Influenza
Grover’s Bathtub
It feels like somehow we simultaneously have a problem with over-aggressive response to minor incidents and under-aggressive response to major incidents
poltheorist @political-theorist.bsky.social
Feeling attacked:
David Zipper
Alex Acosta — the man who gave Jeffrey Epstein a “sweetheart” 2007 plea deal — serves on the board of directors at Newsmax.
Leah McElrath
“Wikipedia is this economic anomaly. In many ways, it’s sort of magical that people will just volunteer without explicit economic incentives to create artifacts that are meant to share knowledge with everyone in the world”
Tu Thanh Ha
It's not though. We've just been capitalism pilled to think that the only way to get people to do stuff is with money. The whole point of the universal basic income pilots is that humans will actually do cool shit if they're not terrified of being unable to eat, clothe and house themselves
Kendra Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com
A lot of what guides the populist right as seen in Hungary or the USA is a belief that the cultural trends they don't like are conspiratorially imposed by academics and journalists and entertainers. So they can impose their will on these groups and see the cultural change they want rather easily.
lastpositivist.bsky.social
Pareidolia in Helsinki. With cool art nouveau elevator logo:
Jeanne Lakso
I do not care that you are not “surprised.” Please. You have no idea how tiresome it is when you post that something horrible, fascist, authoritarian is “not surprising.” Nothing is “surprising” anymore. But a lot of it is horrible and frightening. Let’s deal with it together.
Sherrilyn Ifill
As the Trump administration destroys food meant for starving children and birth control meant for people in developing nations, he will spend $1 billion (or more) on the "gift" plane that be his personal plane when he leaves office. Appalling waste of our tax dollars.
AnneCW
Violent or destructive left wing protest is framed as delegitimising the protesters' stated cause. Violent or destructive right wing protest is framed as emphasing the need for urgent action on the protesters' stated cause. As always, right wing men are treated as elemental forces without agency. When the left riots* the question is "what's wrong with the left?" When the right riots* the question is "what's wrong with the country?" What constitutes a "riot" can also be wildly different. We're moral panicking over sings at left wing protests as right wing thugs fight cops.
Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com
Bike investment vs. car investment:
Qagggy!
noai.duckduckgo.com is the link for no AI results via Duck Duck Go. Also, you can select no AI returns through a dropdown in the Images tab, search settings.
Joseph Browning
DOGE is using AI to create a “delete list” of federal regulations, proposing to use the tool to cut 50% of regs by the 1st anniversary of Trump’s 2nd inauguration. You just know they did a keyword search on DEI terms and just started deleting things willy-nilly
I'm Not Really Mary Poppins @maryfpoppins.bsky.social
The John Birch Society is the Bene Gesserit Missionaria Protectiva for weird racist assholes who hate science and joy.
RadiantHostility
IMPORTANT: NASA map shows temperatures of up to 160°F on Phoenix streets and sidewalks. All that unrelenting concrete and asphalt for cars. Not nearly enough trees. They start with ridiculous heat that’s only getting worse with the climate crisis, and then make it much worse with bad design.
Brent Toderian
Cities aren’t loud — CARS ARE LOUD
Michelle @michelle345.bsky.social
Just slowing down cars has a significant impact on urban noise. Lowering vehicle speeds from 30 mph to about 20 mph drops noise levels by about 6 decibels. (And consider how many cars in urban areas are going a lot faster than 30 mph!) A lot of what makes cars loud, even EVs, is rolling noise.
Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social
I want this on the record;
1.) people are too sad and stressed out to fuck
2.) babies are too expensive
3.) it is incredibly, incredibly fucking weird to act like you or society are owed a steadily replenishing supply of babies to maintain the economic status quo wtaf?
4.) bullshit jobs
RadiantHostility
Good morning:
Richard Kadrey
i’m not going to accept any statement on the “steep environmental cost” of air conditioning while countries are backtracking on their climate goals to keep powering AI
Tequila Mockingbird @xanindigo.bsky.social
New Zealand engineers have figured out how to turn Earth’s most abundant mineral into zero-waste battery metals. They dissolve olivine to yield silica (50%), magnesium (40%) and nickel-manganese-cobalt hydroxide (10%) for lithium-ion cathodes, leaving only brine.
Ada Palmer
"An internal US government review found no evidence of widespread theft by Hamas of US-funded humanitarian aid in Gaza."
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
Ryan Walters, the Oklahoma schools chief who wants bibles in the classroom and Christianity taught to kids, just got caught watching adult content. On his work computer. During a Board of Education meeting. Read that again.
Hemant Mehta @friendlyatheist.com
at this point i'm convinced that the mere concept of virtue is considered 'woke' to modern
conservatives
az @azery.bsky.social
There are 90,000 DSA members and like 75,000,000 Democrats so it's just
kinda funny when the Democrats blame us for literally anything at all
because what the fuck dude?
RadiantHostility
The word “Research” is doing way too much work. We need separate words for “creating new verifiable knowledge” and “looking shit up on the internet”
Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social
Such a rich fantasy life. A consistent feature of these images is that the suit fabric is remade with the texture of 19th century work clothes or uniforms. Look closely. No suit looks like this. Also this is when he held a rally with soldiers in the coliseum? Or when he burned the Epstein files:
Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social
Have to admit, I am not enjoying being in my early thirties and already feeling like a washed-up veteran of a war that we lost some year ago to the worst shitheads on the planet
Iris Meredith
One of the more underrated ways you can tell this country might truly be cooked is how little effort goes into actually bothering to cover shit up now.
Nude Gingrich @jarjarfan69.bsky.social
Many many people and discussions across the spectrum evince a temptation to be too lenient to behaviour that ought to be strenuously opposed if they find the person doing it sympathetic, or on the flipside a refusal to extend empathy to people doing bad stuff if you want to condemn the bad stuff. But in its actual content I think it's true and important: retaining the ability to see a behaviour as actually anti-social and worthy of condemnation, without writing off the person engaged in the behaviour as unworthy of any support or incapable of improvement, is morally foundational. Vital.
lastpositivist.bsky.social
Modern dudebro: "Look, all I want is for you to cook and clean for me for free so I can play video games and watch YouTube. Like a mom, except, you don't get to tell me what to do. Also, you shouldn't vote or control your body." Also modern dudebro: "Why don't women want to date anymore?"
Science and Spirituality
There's not a male loneliness crisis – a lot of dudes are just adverse to critically thinking while carrying around huge egos.
Black Aziz Anansi
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) is going to be terrible for anyone in the US planning to ever retire.
David Ho
I've thought about this a ton over the years. It's become clear that the *primary rhetorical strategy* of reactionaries is to manipulate liberals by appealing to liberal values (free speech, good faith) that they do not share. It works, again and again and again and again.
David Roberts @volts.wtf
Submitted to our database from Chicago. Sysco is a repeat bike lane obstructor nationwide - often times blocking and damaging hard fought for curbed protected bike infrastructure like the one shown in the photo:
Bike Lane Uprising
The America First geniuses managed to send hairdressers and soccer players into a gulag and *import* a triple murderer into the US. Nice work.
Chris Hayes
In 2016 this guy went to a law office with the goal of killing his wife’s lawyer. He hacked a woman to death with a machete and bludgeoned two other people to death (including a man he falsely thought was that lawyer), then set fire to the building to cover his tracks. Anyway, Trump just freed him.
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
FEMA is preparing to send $608 million to states to construct immigrant detention centers as part of the Trump administration’s push to expand capacity to hold migrants.
NBC News
This is twice as money much as the Department of Energy spends on solar power R&D. We could have more solar power but instead we’re paying to build detention camps.
Costa Samaras
Hulk Hogan should be remembered as a living expression of our national decay: a hero exposed as a fraud, a fraud exposed as a coward, and finally a coward who cried with joy upon finding an authoritarian monster to tell him that his sins were in fact virtues.
Dave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social
I genuinely don't know how best to remember Hulk Hogan. It's either as a giant union-busting piece of shit or as the public face of a tech billionaire weaponizing the courts against journalism.
Ashley Lynch
Oscar&Felix
RFK Jr. has now officially stated that he will dismantle the United States Preventive ServicesTask Force (USPSTF). This is an independent body of expert scientists who volunteer their time to review data and provide guidance to Americans on important things like cancer screenings.
Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD
when RFK says he wants to “end chronic disease,” what people hear is “he wants to cure us” but what he means is “i want to cull the weak”
jamelle @jamellebouie.net
POLITICO compiled a list of all the Washington Post staffers who have left in the past eight months. It’s at least a hundred names, many of them among the biggest names in journalism. This is the fastest erosion of a major outlet ever.
Charlotte Clymer
The Washington Post is rapidly being enshittified, with seasoned journalists and columnists leaving, no one replacing them, and a bunch of horseshit boardroom talk about AI and newsfluencers replacing journalism. Pathetic, contemptible failure of US elites, everywhere you look.
David Roberts @volts.wtf
Trump should be facing an international trial for abuse and human trafficking.
elda64.bsky.social
The Ed Tech Industry has made citizens believe that the problem with education is reading, thinking, and writing when the problem with education is austerity. Reading, thinking, and writing are not the problems to be solved. Austerity is.
Sonja Drimmer
I saw somebody on TikTok using the word 'slopper' as a slur for people who use ChatGPT, and that's a thing we should start doing.
Gareth Watkins
Oh no I really hope Bill Clinton isn’t in the Epstein files, I’ll have to get rid of my Bill Clinton hat and my Bill Clinton sneakers and my Bill Clinton cologne and my Bill Clinton watch and take down my Bill Clinton flag and I’ll have to delete my Bill Clinton nft trading cards
Lauren Rinaldi
[Deputy Attoney General and former Trump defense attorney Todd Blanche went to interview Ghislaine Maxwell.] Imagine John Mitchell going to interview G. Gordon Liddy in prison to see if he could "provide any leads" on the Watergate break in. Unreal.
Lieutenant Corporal Browski, USMC @jimbrowski12.bsky.social
Draakplaats (2025) photograph by Anne Billson:
Anne Billson
UBI. 32 hour work weeks. Work from home. Always come back as beneficial for everybody. Yet the people at the top refuse to accept it and resist with all their might. Shit doesnt need to be this dire. And that's not even getting into stuff like universal healthcare or just flat out better pay.
certified boogeyman
GuardianPigeon
The mass starvation and killing of Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli gov’t is a chillul hashem, a desecration of God. Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well.
Brad Lander
All famines are man-made, all famines are political. Historians of empire and humanitarianism have known this forever. Gaza is not starving, Gaza is being starved, by Israel, and this starvation is enabled by our government and by every other government that does not step in to force food and aid.
Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social
99% of media commentators think Elon Musk isn't an elite and a barista with they/them pronouns is
Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social
absolutely insane that "payment processors shouldn't control art" is considered a radical take
may @maysuser.name
Trump has actually been remarkably successful in implementing his agenda and at the six month mark he's hit a low point in Gallup approval ratings. That's because the agenda is fundamentally unpopular! Something we tried desperately hard to communicate in 2024.
Chris Hayes
Grumpy Sue
More than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces since May while trying to get food in Gaza, mostly near food sites run by an American contractor, the U.N. human rights office said.
NPR
I remember when they were doing everything possible to muddy the waters around whether Israel had bombed a hospital and now we’re at “murder starving people in the open with bullets.” It was a genocide then too
Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com
Trump: This is somebody nobody else can do. We will get the drug prices down… 1000% 600% 500% 1500%. Numbers that are not even thought to be achievable.
Acyn
It's so frustrating. He's not just a liar, rapist, conman, psychopath, fascist, grifter. He's incredibly stupid.
Peter Gleick
Most Americans really have no clue how far the US is being left behind:
David Roberts @volts.wtf
Columbia should change its name back to King's College, or better yet, Trump University.
David Ho
it is a testament to the low quality of the people of this administration that gabbard does not stand out as especially delusional
jamelle @jamellebouie.net
Heard from a colleague spending a few months in the Netherlands. "Went on a 35-mile bike ride today, entirely on bike paths, through all kinds of landscapes. Turns out I love biking, I'm just scared of biking with cars."
David Roberts @volts.wtf
The closest analogy to GenAI and people who feel like they are better off when using it is the people who are sure they’re better drivers after a couple drinks.
Benjamin Harnett
Roman glass cup signed by master glassmaker ‘Ennion’. AD 30-70. Ennion was the first glassworker to ‘brand’ his work some 2,000 years ago, by incorporating his name into the mould’s design. The Met, photo by me:
Alison Fisk
Every time I look at the news I feel like I'm in a deranged clown car and all the clowns are on quaaludes.
Jen Mercieca
"Ms. Habba, Mr. Trump’s former personal lawyer [and acting US Attorney for NJ], had no experience as a prosecutor or in criminal law..."
Action Together New Jersey @atnj.org
Trump: ‘I’m Not In These Nonexistent Files Concocted To Destroy Me’
The Onion
Wait but this is actually his argument as far as I understand it
Kate Derickson
UN Secretary‑General António Guterres: "Countries that cling to fossil fuels are not protecting their economies – they are sabotaging them. Driving up costs. Undermining competitiveness. Locking-in stranded assets. And missing the greatest economic opportunity of the 21st century."
David Roberts @volts.wtf
I confess, I am simply unable to project myself into the headspace where this presents as attractive, or admirable, or anything but loudly repulsive. I have a better understanding of what it's like to be a bat:
David Roberts @volts.wtf
I am no constitutional scholar, but I can't help but feel that "the President gets to dictate what every university can teach and what every television station should broadcast" is closer to what the founding fathers were worried about when it comes to free speech than trigger warnings on syllabi.
Jason Read
JD Vance is the literal embodiment of the LBJ quote: “If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.”
Laura Chapin
One of the biggest stories in American politics is about how the relative labor power of tech workers gave a lot of tech capitalists mad cow disease
Ned Resnikoff
he is watching....always WATCHING:
Catbus @hayao.lol
“the party being led by jeffrey epsteins best friend wants to repeatedly examine your childs genitals” is a true statement
Andrew Lawrence
imo, if someone believes some races or ethnicities are genetically inferior to others, that person has revealed a weakness of mind and character that casts extreme if not irrefutable doubt on their other ideas. why would i expect them to use more rigor on, eg, housing than they do on human nature?
Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social
Nearly 90% of people in ICE custody are held in facilities run by for-profit companies. Geo Group (NYSE: GEO) and CoreCivic (NYSE: CXW) investors:
Wolf Hill Capital Management: $181 mil stake in GEO
River Road Asset Management: $172 mil stake in CXW
Don't profit from Concentration Camps #DIVEST
Nancy Levine Stearns
The world is very bad, but I found a squirrel that looks like Napoleon
Artologica aka Michele Banks
Steel production emits more CO2 than shipping and aviation combined, but decarbonizing it remains a huge challenge. A Bill Gates and Vinod Khosla-backed #startup says it’s ready to showcase a novel approach and scale up even as rivals face setbacks.
Coco Liu @cocojournalist.bsky.social
The destruction of public infrastructure like transit and radio feels like it’s targeting something beyond immediate suffering of users and workers, a message that none of us should expect to live in a place that functions or sustains us, none of us should even imagine it
Carly Goodman
Opinion | Don't get angry at ICE agents. They are just following orders. by Adolf Eichmann
NY Times Pitchbot
Millions of us first listened to classical, opera, and other music genres via PBS and NPR. The right yells about the destruction of Western civ and culture, but aren't really interested in cultural preservation. If they were, they'd support funding for public broadcasting, the arts and humanities.
Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.bsky.social
Our political media is simply not equipped to handle a situation where the voters were unambiguously wrong in a way which morally implicates the electorate.
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social
A man coughing up blood. Men zip-tied face down on a wet floor. CCTV turned off. Men forced to eat off of a chair like animals while handcuffed. Solitary confinement if you complain. This is just three paragraphs from a new report [on Venezuelans illegally taken to CECOT in El Salvador].
Alvaro M. Bedoya
crest theater, sacramento, california, 1980:
old roadside pics
Another reason to hate the Sackler family is when I started in EMS we still carried Penthrox (methoxyflurane) aka The Green Whistle. From jellyfish stings to compound fractures a patient could self administer and remain awake without pain. Guess what got banned to make room for oxy and other opioids?
Medic Kim
If people could overdose just by being in the vicinity of someone smoking fentanyl, then why would anyone who uses fentanyl go to the lengths of injecting it, or snorting it, or even buying their own?
Ryan Marino, MD
I interviewed neuroscientist Nicholas Wright about his upcoming book WarHead on brains and conflict. He said something that struck me. We didn’t stop Nazis by changing their minds. We oppressed them. We occupied Germany. We tied their hands. It was a generation before Germany agreed Nazis were wrong.
Brandy Schillace
Alan Cumming on bathroom bills: "Why on earth would a rapist go through the bother of pretending to be trans in a country that treats rapists better than trans people."
Cooperstreaming
Trump is hellbent on putting NJ under his thumb. He hates the fact that his summer state holds power over his businesses. He wants to turn NJ into Florida. He has weaponized the DOJ to install his corrupt and unqualified sycophants.
aem711.bsky.social
Something about the way LLMs build in the idea that to find something out, you shouldn't read an already existing text that other people have also read (ew!); you should get fresh text generated just for you. Each time, new disposable text.
Natalia Cecire
now that's a headline for the Trump era if I ever saw one:
Dr. Genevieve Guenther @doctorvive.bsky.social
Everyone understands that rich people corrupt democracy with their campaign spending; why don't they understand that they undermine democracy with their media ownership?
Dean Baker
An Afghan who moved to the United States after working for the U.S. military in his home country was seized by armed, masked immigration agents, put in a van and taken out of state, attorneys and members of Congress said on Tuesday.
Reuters Legal
Lawsuits from men against the doctors who provide abortions to their partners illustrate that men understand abortion bans as legal codifications of their private right to dominate and control women.
Moira Donegan
As much as it pains me, this whole administration is really showing how flimsy our whole system has been all this time. All these values, checks-and-balances, rule-of-law rhetoric sounded really good on paper, too.
Carlos Perez @modmale.bsky.social
It’s the inversion of Gibson’s famous quote “The future is already here, it’s just unevenly distributed.” The past is still here, just unevenly remembered.
Wendy Lindstocking
I would love a polling question like "Trump is too focused on deportations and trans people and not enough on issues that impact me" but pollsters are addicted to only asking that question about Democrats
Gillian Branstetter
daily bunnies
So.. officially, I'm the last Black staff columnist left in the Washington Post's opinion section.
Karen Attiah
For a very long time, the Washington Post was called a white paper in a Black city, and it appears they’re no longer concerned with avoiding that perception.
Jack Tripper @chadstanton.bsky.social
seeing this after seeing this morning that 300,000 Black women have left the workforce (often a euphemism for being forced out) in the last 3 months.
@huma.bsky.social
Remember when scholars of authoritarianism told us he would go after his political opponents, unions, academia, and the media and people were like, “But Tim Walz got the date wrong from when he was in Tiananmen Square?”
Michael Ian Black
"Over 40,000 people die in car crashes in the US every year...neighborhoods are carved up by high-speed traffic. Kids can’t walk to school safely. But someone saw a teenager run a stop sign on an e-bike, so the real crisis must be those darn batteries on two wheels."
Megan Ramey @bikabout.com
one consequence about pedocon theory getting little to no coverage compared to The Trans Question is, eg annually there's more than 3 times the number of children marrying adult who are 4+ years older than children prescribed puberty blocker and 150% the number of children prescribed hormones
Starshine
As for my favourite spoonerized business name, it will never not be this furniture showroom in New Zealand:
Adam Sharp
the internet and social media have allowed people across the globe to connect as never before. unfortunately what they have mostly connected over is right wing brainworms
Micah @rincewind.run
In just 90 days, roughly 15 million people may lose their insurance, and many will see astronomically high cost increases. The clock is ticking for Republicans to extend ACA subsidies, or let vulnerable Americans pay the price.
The American Prospect
really interesting that we don’t have a cultural panic about group think and intellectual homogeneity among the most powerful money men in the country. all the more interesting when a bunch of them have clearly lost their mind.
jamelle @jamellebouie.net
Every preoccupation of the John Birch Society is now national policy.
Lindsay Beyerstein
"It would be characteristic of the digital disruption era if - like rideshare+homestay apps - the longterm impact of LLMs is not to revolutionize a service sector but merely to deskill+precaritize existing workforce+impose technofeudal rents."
Anna Kornbluh
If you think traffic congestion is bad now, wait until cities cut 30-45% of their current bus and rail service. (People who don't ride public transit still benefit enormously from its existence.)
Jenny Schuetz
If cars were just Necco Wafer-colored Busytown buggies, I would be ok with them.
Qagggy!
If Republicans were actively trying to convince the public Trump was involved in Epstein’s crimes I’m not sure what they’d be doing differently.
Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social
"Giving pedestrians a 7-second head start at traffic lights is associated with a 33% reduction in total pedestrian injuries—both fatal and non-fatal—at New York City intersections."
David Zipper
Other than the green energy revolution and mRNA vaccines, the main technological innovation of the past decade plus has been finding increasingly elaborate ways to make sure people never need to be in solitary dialogue with themselves.
Ned Resnikoff
We should have listened when the modems screamed at us.
Karen K. Ho
Catholic literally means “UNIVERSAL”. Not White, not European, not American. UNIVERSAL, we are all equal in front of God.
Jeg Riva
"Over the next four years, some $45 billion will be spent on ICE detention centers, which will hold mainly people who have never been convicted of any crime."
Just Say Jan!
This is me if you even care:
teeb @boneccrone.bsky.social
Star Wars fandom is a whole slew of middle aged men who are angry they grew up and the children's movies about the space wizards aren't for them anymore, and are intent on making it everyone else's problem instead of just watching something else.
D4rkong
And I’m pretty sure what these “fans” are most angry about is that Star Wars will never make them feel the way it did when they were a kid, but they haven’t figured that out. They are probably all fucking miserable cunts at Christmas as well
Schmandle
Good news! Trump sought to eliminate NOAA's Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR), which would have led to the closure of NOAA Research Labs. Among other important climate research, this would have meant eliminating the Keeling Curve. The Senate Appropriations Committee said no!
David Ho
Apart from being unhinged, it is so very wrong for the U.S. President to treat his presidency as a vehicle for personal retribution. We can’t stop saying this. We can’t let this be normalized.
Heidi Kitrosser
An actual post from the official White House account. You can't even make this up:
Michael Feola @feolski.bsky.social
We previously found that the Trump administration knew the vast majority of the 230+ Venezuelan men deported to El Salvador had not been convicted of violent crimes. Our latest analysis reveals another jarring reality: that most of the men were already moving through the U.S. immigration system.
ProPublica
AIPAC is going to be seen by history as one of the most dangerous anti democratic organizations in American history.
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social
At this point, you should be embarrassed if your press outlet has done nothing over these tumultuous six months to get itself barred by the administration. The Wall Street Journal is speaking truth to power, but you're still on good terms with these assholes? Yeah, be proud of that.
Kevin M. Kruse
Climate change is expected to cause a 26.4% increase in US flood damage risk by 2050.
Moms Clean Air Force
Rule 52: Justifying Biking Investment – Bike infrastructure brings health, equity, and economic gains. Bike commuters have a 41% lower risk of early death and 40% are low income. Bike projects also create 2x more jobs than road projects.
Jeff Speck
Right-wing proto-MAGA always hated catholics because catholics were immigrants-poles, Italians, Irish, etc. The RWers temporarily tolerated catholics to get their anti-abortion way. They'll go back to open catholic hate b/c Latino immigrants are catholic.
Karen H @karenmhj.bsky.social
The people who go into hysterics over the supposed negative effects of climate policy on the economy have, of course, not said a word about this:
Dr. Genevieve Guenther @doctorvive.bsky.social
I saw Superman and, based on the right-wing freakout, I was fully expecting something deeply political. I’ve never seen a more straightforward good vs evil movie. It was the kind of good vs evil story that you make for small children, naturally. What a way for the MAGA crowd to tell on themselves.
Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social
The subway risk chart you've been waiting for (Sawyer County, Wisconsin, is where Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy is from). outlet has done nothing over these tumultuous six months to get itself barred by the administration. The Wall Street Journal is speaking truth to power, but you're still on good terms with these assholes? Yeah, be proud of that.
Justin Fox @byjustinfox.bsky.social
i have been stuck on JD Vance's claremont speech for almost two weeks now because it is structurally identical to roger taney's opinion for the court in dred scott
jamelle @jamellebouie.net
"The test involved simple tasks like turning left, stopping at a road closure sign, making a legal U-turn, and not running over the mannequin of a small child... The Tesla failed every test, and the experience was terrifying."
#TeslaTakedown
have i posted my firm belief on here yet that eventually, possibly pretty soon, luxury companies will emerge to sell the old internet and other interfaces unmediated by "ai" back to us at a premium
geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social
Simple fact:
Summer @llfarm.bsky.social
Lest you say "it's not like that in the United States," I am currently representing a person facing criminal charges for - and this is true - saying "protect trans kids" during a school board meeting
Sheryl Weikal says Free Alaa now @leftistlawyer.com
Trump says he may block the deal to move the Commanders back to DC unless they re-adopt a racist team name
Aaron Rupar
Hey corporate America, this is what you want? If he decides he doesn’t like the name “Goldman Sachs” will you change it? What about law firm names? Suppose Trump wants you to drop the names of certain founding partners? When is it enough?
Sherrilyn Ifill
There is an Epstein Conspiracy. It's the conspiracy of our law enforcement and legal systems to protect powerful rich white men at the expense of powerless young women and girls. The conspiracy to demean and dismiss young women like Maria Farmer who tried in 1996 to warn.
Dr Deb K @drdebk.bsky.social
lots of conversation inspired by this, arguments about interest rates and square feet etc, but i think people fail to appreciate how profoundly just *the last five years* of this graph have contributed to a profound sense of hopelessness for many of us. (with interest rates way up, not down!)
Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com
In hindsight it was ridiculous to think a candidate with three months exposure would defeat a prolific man with over a decade of very loud, overbearing exposure in Election 2024. It was surprising that Kamala did as well as she did.
Darrell Owens @idothethinking.bsky.social
Americans still don’t fully comprehend how imminent, dangerous, and far-reaching the threat of climate change is — and journalists are partly to blame.
Covering Climate Now
Texas congressional districts:
Whites 40% population but majority in 60% districts
Hispanics 39% of pop but majority in 18% districts
Blacks 12% of pop but majority in 0% districts
Now Texas re-gerrymandering for 2026 bc Trump says they’re not skewed enough
Ari Berman
It's genuinely weird how E. Jean Carroll is never being mentioned in articles and TV spots right now.
Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social
"Some troops became so disgruntled that there were several reports of soldiers defecating in Humvees and showers at the Southern California base where the troops are stationed, prompting tightened bathroom security."
David Roberts @volts.wtf
Trump is never going to have the military. He knows it. Stephen Miller knows it. Pete Hegseth knows it. That's why they're building a DHS army with $170 billion dollars.
Brandon Friedman
happy caturday:
derek van vliet
The confusion of “skewing” and “skewering” is one of the funniest usage errors.
@pattho.bsky.social
While we often talk about America as a nation that has racially progressed, the truth is that there have always been two concurrent movements, one advancing civil rights and liberties, and the other seeking to diminish them.
Dr. Allison Wiltz @allyfromnola.bsky.social
So under the GENIUS Act, your stablecoin is legally required to be backed 1:1 by U.S. Treasuries. Here’s the catch:
You don’t earn the interest.
The issuer does.
You take the risk.
They take the profit.
Welcome to the future of fintech: Public risk, private gain.
Senator Heidi Campbell @campbell4tn.bsky.social
The EPA has eliminated its research division, which for decades has provided the science behind regulations on clean air, clean water, and toxic chemicals. The US can afford to monitor, research, and regulate the impacts of industries on human and environmental health. We are just choosing not to.
Jacquelyn Gill
There have been 87 car deaths in NYC so far this year, 51 of them pedestrians killed by cars. There have been 2 homicides in the subway*
Kendra Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com
Anyway, I know it's not news that Trump is hypocritical, but here's my story reminding people that MAGA world insisted that the Biden admin sending impolite notes to Facebook was the greatest threat to free speech, but are completely silent on Trump calling up Murdoch and demanding he kill a story
Mike Masnick
Go figure, huh?
Jon Cooper
Early last year, WV Sen. Shelley Moore Capito received an award from America’s Public Television Stations for her support of public broadcasting. But Trump threatened to withdraw endorsement of anyone who voted against bill defunding public broadcasting. So she voted for it.
Catherine Rampell
Fuck a Great Depression, we are living through The Great Enshittification
Soraya Nadia McDonald
Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
Chris Hayes
The wealthy have always used their money to silence people that they don’t like. When a person has more money than is necessary to provide a sense of security, the rest will be used as a weapon.
Lingua Franca @triplozero.bsky.social
Trump is closing all four climate observatory stations in Alaska, Hawaii, American Samoa, and Antartica. Because you can't have high CO2 levels if you don't *measure* CO2 levels.
Waldo Jaquith
Having just watched a report on the increasing number of people turning to AI agents for relationship advice, we can't be far away (if not already there) from a significant slice of voters asking ChatGPT/Grok/Siri/Whatever to tell them for whom they should vote. Take a moment to think about that.
Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social
hey you guys remember when the white house photoshopped gang tats on a pic of an innocent man? anyway, memories
Joshua Erlich
small beauties:
Carol Brisebois
Hegseth removes first female superintendent of U.S. Naval Academy. He has removed all females in military leadership positions.
Diane Ravitch
Honest question: has the sitting president ever sued anyone before? I feel like the answer is no, but can't say for certain.
Chris Hayes
it is crazy how the president gets to be a poor wittle aggwieved pwivate citizen when he wants to complain about news coverage against him, and then a de-facto king who is immune from prosecution for “official acts” (still TBD what that means) when he tries to do a coup
G Elliott Morris
The average household living in downtown Minneapolis contributes 1.13 tons of CO2 per year versus 8.56 tons for the average household at the perimeter of MSP growth.
patrick.kennedy @humanecosystem.bsky.social
Between 1980 and 2024 the basket of 50 basic commodities become cheaper and more abundant. To be precise 70 per cent cheaper and 238 per cent more abundant. If we hadn’t messed up housing costs we’d be collectively very well off.
Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social
A good way to think about the housing crisis is landlords pocketing essentially all the consumer surplus the last 40 years
Urban Land Rent
[bike and heart icons]:
LauraGMitchell
They already know Trump was found guilty of rape. RAPE. How do they process it? They call his victims liars and if you think the words of Epstein victims will change them, you’re wrong. Those testimonies are already available. They like conspiracies. That’s the whole thing. That’s it.
Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social
Why is speeding an important thing to regulate? Because it kills people. Speeding is involved in nearly a third of fatal crashes. Andrew Cuomo thinks it's cool to speed in school zones.
Sarah Goodyear
This "invisible, mundane multilateralism" is something I really try to underscore Intro to IR. We talk a lot about the Universal Postal Union and the sheer amount of work that goes into the minor miracle of buying a postage stamp and being able to have a letter delivered anywhere in the world
Erin Lockwood
UnitedHealth's CEO being assassinated has been a huge boon for the company's legal team as they use the murder to justify "an aggressive and wide-ranging campaign to quiet critics" through threats and lawsuits aimed at journalists, platforms, activists, and investors.
Jathan Sadowski
"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge
Dr. Davey F. Wright
All the conventional wisdom about a constitutional crisis only coming when Trump flat out defies SCOTUS rulings ignores the obvious fact that this Court is a constitutional crisis in itself. We’ve been in full blown CC since it sided in Trump v USA against the USA.
Philip Gourevitch
Tom Flood
I am very sure — very, very sure — that a clear majority of my fellow citizens do not want to live under tyranny and despotism. They’re ignorant and silly and easily misled and boiling their brains in disinformation, but they do not want to be shot for disagreeing with the president.
Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com
Every once in a while you have to sit back and marvel that the country is destroying itself for this guy.
Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social
Imagine kneeling for this disgusting man. The elite institutions are truly pathetic.
Prisonculture
The #1 way to explain America working properly is by saying “comedians can make fun of he President on TV.” A good way to explain fascism is “the President forces companies to fire those comedians as a condition of allowing them to conduct business.”
Ken Tremendous
I've heard that the NHTSA team examining autonomous vehicle safety is basically gone (at a time when it seems robotaxis are rapidly expanding into new cities).
David Zipper
A lot of institutions have failed in recent years. Can't recall one that has repeatedly stabbed itself in the face the way the Washington Post has.
Radley Balko [remember, Balko used to work at the Post]
Ornate Saxon copper brooch intricately decorated with gold and garnets, AD 650-670. Found in a woman’s grave during excavations in Floral Street, Covent Garden, once in the heart of ‘Lundenwic’, the early Saxon town of London. Museum of London photo by me:
Alison Fisk
Some words go together like jelly and peanut butter… wait, that sounds super weird. A pair of words that is used in a fixed order in an idiomatic expression is called an ‘irreversible binomial.’ ‘Peanut butter and jelly’ is an example of an irreversible binomial.
Merriam-Webster
AI data centers add significant demand to the grid: training a single chatbot uses about the same amount of energy as 100 homes over the course of a year. The cost of this strain is often passed on to regular households.
Minnesota Reformer
USDA will no longer use the term “socially disadvantaged [for Black farmers],” saying it has sufficiently addressed historic discrimination.
Capital B News
Savvy operative types in DC truly believed then and believe now that average Americans are too dumb to understand how government works or why it exists. Educating and defending the Corporation for Public Broadcasting — with its profound impact on people for negligible taxpayer cost — was a layup.
Meredith Shiner
i have really come to believe that this — treating the public like its too stupid to understand anything complex — is one of our big problems.
jamelle @jamellebouie.net
They keep demolishing anything that could inform/educate the populace. I wonder why?
Sandy @sanwil.bsky.social
Mockingbird:
rubylith
You cannot be a serial cooperator when you’re stuck in a prisoners dilemma with serial defector. Sometimes you have to defect to try to convince the other side to sometimes cooperate.
David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social
That asshole ordered that a MILLION POUNDS of food be destroyed, rather than disturbed to people in need. A MILLION POUNDS! Do not EVER let his minions claim they are Christians.
Pam Keith
it's fitting that MAGA chuds have embraced AI slop; they seem to recognize that the world they want does not exist and cannot exist and so they make do with these virtual facsimiles.
jamelle @jamellebouie.net
Isn't "burning it all down" an apt description of what the GOP and Trump are doing to the country? i.e., exacerbating global warming, hollowing out the public sphere so that more wealth can be transferred to the very rich, disclaiming the rule of law, lying nonstop. Incrementally more taxes on the wealthy and affordable housing = "BURN IT ALL DOWN!". Dismantling the federal government, endless corruption, infinitely growing debt, permanent low taxes on the wealthy, and actual concentration camps = "A reasonable middle ground!" The Free Press is fascist trash.
Larry Glickman
Trees are essential, but LA streets need cooling now. A new initiative, ShadeLA, is launching today — racing to fill shade gaps ahead of looming megaevents with a neighborhood legacy mindset:
Alissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social
Feel like "the president has the judicial branch's legal blessing and hundreds of billions of dollars from congress to have his secret police army kidnap any person of the street and sell them into slavery" should be kinda the only thing anyone ever talks about. And i say this as a climate guy.
David Weiskopf @dave.bzky.team
low key best use for an electric pressure cooker is just hard boiling eggs at volume: 5 minutes of cooking with 5 minutes natural release = perfectly cooked and easy to peel hard-boiled eggs every time
jamelle @jamellebouie.net
I have lived through an era in which I had almost any information at my fingertips, where with savvy search skills I could find whatever I wanted, a facility with information Diderot would have wept to have. I'm sixty. I remember before Google and easy reliable search. And now I have outlived it.
Jo Walton @bluejo.bsky.social
Good heavens. I've just realized that Google's lifespan as a genuinely useful tool was roughly the same as that of the 8-track cassette.
David Bowman @dlbowman76.com
The degree to which the fossil fuel industries have clocked the populist far right as their last chance to slow the energy transition - and is funding them to undermine it at every step - is one of the biggest stories in global politics, largely and widely ignored.
Gregory Norminton
We were always told that we didn't have to shut down the fossil fuel industry because we could trust in free enterprise and the free market to replace it with better technology. We have the better technology now, but the fossil fuel industry is going to extreme lengths to ensure no free market
Dr Charlie Gardner
Posts about urban biking in Dutch cities are routinely replied to with something like “well, they have the big advantage of being relatively flat.” The Dutch also have the big advantage of not constantly making excuses about why they can’t make clearly smarter decisions:
Brent Toderian
it is possible for a society to distribute quality education in an equitable, fair, and accessible way. it is not possible to distribute hierarchical elite power in a similar fashion, because that's not how elite power works.
sarah jeong
Tedious to point this out, but:
- When a tongue-tied Biden said "President of Mexico" instead of "Prez of Egypt," it was a several day story.
-Hours after Trump says whoever appointed J Powell made a big mistake (it was him), the episode appears not to merit a story on any national-media sites.
James Fallows
You're missing the key difference in that situation: Biden was proposing to raise taxes (reset tax cuts from the 80s) on those earning over 400 million. That's what turned the oligarch tide against him. The media oligarchs thought, "Better fascist than paying my fair share."
Blank Willbur
The Everglades hellhole costs at least $450 million/year. Guess what else does? Public broadcasting for all the USA. Do you want Antiques Roadshow, Masterpiece, News Hour, Finding Your Roots, NOVA, This Old House, mellow cooking shows, & NPR . . . or a Florida internment camp?
Corene Kendrick
I'm sorry, nine HUNDRED former DOJ lawyers all signed this letter opposing Emil Bove's nomination to be an appellate federal judge? 900?!
Jose Pagliery
I don't believe anyone should have to be brave to ride a bicycle.
Graeme Holdsworth @fatherhilarious.blog
This is the kind of content I’m after:
Dr Lindsey Fitzharris
South Dakota announced a $63 million surplus this year. Earlier this year, the governor's office opposed a free school lunch bill because "we can't afford it." The bill would've cost less than a dollar per resident of the state at $616,000.
Dex Anderson
I will say this a bloodlessly as possible: what a massive policy win the Trump/Stephen Miller immigration agenda has been already. We’re gonna be living with the consequences of it for decades. For instance, do we really think the next Dem prez is gonna expend capital and time purging the immigration courts of these MAGAfied judges?
Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social
i can’t remember anything that has felt more foisted upon us than AI. repeatedly telling us why we actually need is like thinking a joke will get funnier the more you explain it.
Marisa Kabas
The far right pretty much globally peddles this idea that cities are unsafe, and the funny thing about it is that literally everywhere, it is in fact bullshit.
Westemnet Czesław Miłosz @dov.bsky.social
There’s nothing wrong with healthy eating, but it is not a “patriotic duty.” The moment you start believing that, you’ve ceded ground to eugenics. This is another ploy to get people to be “fine” with kicking people off their healthcare. To get you to accept death and disease. If they really wanted to make people healthier, they would expand healthcare to everyone. That’s the single biggest factor in determining long term health. If you can’t access basic medical care, your health will suffer.
Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social
i know i am late on this but is there more glaring example of the utter lack of agency the right wing is afforded? where is the guest essay taking the right-wing family to task for being such assholes that their own family members snub them?
darth™️
i find it astonishing, NO ONE can stand up to him?; he's just going to roll over America? not one person can get in his face and poke him in his chest and say fuck no? he's an old, flabby, drug addled bloviating horse's ass. somebody should have cracked him one in the mouth a long time ago.
debbshock
Next to Trump [in the video shown in the post] is Howard Lutnick, who was Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime next door neighbor (numbers 9 and 11 East 71st Street in NYC, respectively) and who bought his townhome from a trust controlled by Epstein and Les Wexner.
Leah McElrath
IMPORTANT: Study finds electrifying SUVs/pick-ups could actually INCREASE emissions by using up scarce battery material that could otherwise be used to electrify a lot MORE smaller cars (and e-bikes). Via @sciencedirect.bsky.social SUVs are too big.
Brent Toderian
1 electric Ford F150 battery pack is roughly equivalent to 100 e-bikes. What's a better use of resources?
grantaskswhy.bsky.social
I keep saying it: The push for AI made so much more sense to me once I realized tech bros talked to it like a woman who won't talk back.
TBQ says it's too darn hot @tbqtalks.com
Andy Singer
social media has been bad really bad for pluralism. previously people who were vaguely socially conservative could kind of opt out from seeing pride parades or whatever and opposition to them wouldn't form the core of their political identity. now there's an entire cottage industry of outraging them
William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social
This probably constitutes a nuclear hot take on this website but it seems pretty self-evidently true and at least partially explains every reactionary backslide we’ve seen in the last 15 years. another way to put this is that minding your own god damn business was load-bearing to democracy and social media killed it
Cross-laminated Tinder @nickhasthoughts.com
It is sort of hard to avoid indulging in conspiratorial theories when the country's current governing coalition is quite literally and very blatantly a criminal conspiracy
Ned Resnikoff
fuck all the people who are burning us alive so they can buy yachts or whatever. just fuck them
Sarah Goodyear
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