BlueSky, July 2026 Part 2

The second half of July 2026 was a time of climate change-induced wildfire smoke and infested lettuce causing diarrhea, courtesy at least in part because of our current administration's undermining of regulation. 

The first half of the month ended with Trump giving a speech about his election interference plans, so this part begins with a few references to that. 

At the end of the month, Republicans had a bizarre show-trial hearing with Anthony Fauci, as if he was guilty of some kind of crime during he covid epidemic. I successfully ignored almost all the discussion of the Odyssey movie. And of course, Trump's corruption and continued apace. 

Everything below the line is in reverse chronological order and is quoted from the attributed account, except some of the images, which I move up or down for better visual balance. 

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Rich people hate poor people so, so, so, so much. They have almost complete class solidarity.
Garrett Gilchrist

People who scolded that we need to allow more and more fascist-friendly Republican ideas in order to win do not have the same energy for actual progressives who actually win. Movement to the right during a time of open fascism? Hey gotta have a big tent. Movement to the left? GET OUT OF OUR TENT.
A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social

This grotesque headline is from the Telegraph. 3,000 people in Britain have been killed in heatwaves this year so far. 20,000 in Europe. Even if Britain did get to “embrace Mediterranean life”, what about the actual Mediterranean, what do they get to embrace? What about India?


Jason Hickel

Here's the thing... If I were to saunter up to an ICE agent and deploy pepper spray in their face it would be considered a criminal assault. But, when ICE does it, it isn't?
spencerdow.bsky.social

Endometriosis takes nine years to diagnose. That’s about to change. NICE has approved two tests: a saliva test reading microRNA markers, and a gut-sensor test returning results in 45 minutes, sparing women the keyhole surgery currently needed.  
Ada Palmer

HUD holds detailed, confidential information from hundreds of thousands of victims of housing discrimination, domestic violence reports and medical records. DOGE got that data. What did they do with it?
Investigate DOGE

People are arguing between road design and enforcement. In the Netherlands, not only do they have both, but they have a third tool: presumed liability. Drivers who hit a pedestrian or cyclist are presumed to be at fault until proven otherwise. This would be a powerful tool in our litigious society.
OB Cycler

America's highest profile gutter racist to spend $100 million supporting the party of racism.
David Roberts @volts.wtf

literally every other week people invent reasons why liberals and socialists should dislike each other. yeah maybe they should in the ideal world where we have a serious interesting debate about the merits of each ideology but in the real world people vote against things and any port in a storm man
Jay Zedbee

my architecture feeds are full of multifamily housing in single stair buildings in walkable neighborhoods where homes have views of cities or trees or parks - meanwhile the apartments in this city tend to have views of stroads or... other buildings that are incredibly close. we should change this.
Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social

Bordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C [104°F] in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking.
Nahel Belgherze @wxnb.bsky.social

Lifted pickups are extremely dangerous. Their blind zones are enormous, and they can crush anyone or anything in their path. Keep in mind: Lift kits fall under state jurisdiction. State legislators and regulators can restrict them, or even ban them completely:


David Zipper

looking at the headlines and reflecting once again on how all the smart, hard-working, honest people I know feel like they’re going at least a little insane in our era of total Stupid Immoral Asshole ascendancy. it’s never a great sign for your society when all the competent people who believe in doing a good job for the sake of it conclude that they’re actively being punished for these qualities, while malignantly stupid criminals are making bank
Faine Greenwood

Trump makes his corruption open and explicit on purpose: It helps normalize and numb people to it, and puts our institutions on notice that they need to bend the knee to him.
Greg Sargent

Well this is true I suppose. trump can’t be bought; he is subscription based. You have to keep bribing him forever
Adam Serwer

Remembering how the "Ebola Crisis" was literally *the* most covered news story - consistently framed as though it was a huge embarrassment to Obama - before the 2014 midterms (after which the media totally abandoned the story)
mtsw

Most rural areas have a ruling class. And they want cheap unfree workers & to pass their fiefdoms on tax-free forever. It ain't rocket science. The fact that we're scared to talk about THAT, ime, is what's costing us a lot of rural voters!
Sarah Taber

Republicans regularly say things in public that a decade ago would have been banished to the darkest corners of the internet and it barely ever gets covered. Meanwhile, we have pundits talking about how a relatively small amount of DSA candidates are bringing communism to America.
Gravel Influencer

Squishiness on trans rights is a dealbreaker for me because (a) it’s a straightforward issue of personal freedom and bodily autonomy much like abortion, and (b) the right is obviously coming after us cis gays next.
Max Dubler

Listen to pro-natalists, and what you'll usually hear are not concerns about numbers, but about being *outnumbered.* That's a paranoid, racist foundation; what flows from there is predictably sinister.
LunchCounterPunch @theultrasecret.bsky.social

I'm not qualified to judge whether such people are psychopaths. All I can say is that they behave as if they are. From today's Telegraph:


George Monbiot

Trump absolutely cratering by many metrics in new CNN poll:
66% say he puts himself over country 
61% disapprove of ballroom, arch, etc
57% say lacks sharpness to serve (!)
73% say he's out of touch w/regular people (!!)
His personalist project is over.
Greg Sargent

If pocket calculators regularly and randomly gave you incorrect answers to your queries like ChatGPT does, we would have left the technology behind, not insisted that 2+2=5 is HERE TO STAY, BABY.
KAFUI @mykafuiohkafui.bsky.social

A group of people who refuse to get help is called a family
andy vs. @im-all-id.me

spain can build over 500 miles of high speed rail for the amount of money Trump wants to redesign an airport
Sam @samd.bsky.social

I don't want a "Smart Fridge" that orders milk for me. I want a fridge that lasts 25 years and doesn't have a privacy policy that allows it to share my late-night snacking habits with my health insurance provider.
Jon of The North @krauza.bsky.social

Visiting Minnesota state parks and appreciating what the CCC built for future generations to enjoy. The New Deal was awesome, we should do that again!


Otto @ottosorensos.bsky.social

This goes in general: it's remarkable how many of the anti-trans crowd become *obsessive* - it feels like this peculiar bigotry becomes all consuming for an unusual proportion of people who feel it, I am not sure why.
lastpositivist.bsky.social

In 2026 so far, the Trump admin has bombed:
—Iran—14,000+ strikes; 1 JSOC mission
—Somalia—strikes on 66 days
—Caribbean/E. Pacific—31 strikes
—Iraq—strikes on 26+ days
—Syria—strikes on 18 days
—Arabian Sea—9 strikes
—Nigeria—strikes on 3 days; 1 JSOC raid
—Venezuela—strikes on 2 days; 1 JSOC raid
Wesley Morgan

The Fauci hearing perfectly illustrated how living through a once in a century pandemic somehow made Republicans far worse on public health. God forbid we face anything like covid again during Trump 2.0. There will be no Dr Fauci around to try to talk sense to Trump.
Aaron Rupar

The overwhelming right-wing sentiment is that COVID was an engineered bioweapon that was also harmless. Trump overreacted to it by shutting down the country, then engineered a drive to create a vaccine that was the real bioweapon that killed millions, and it's Joe Biden's fault.
Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social

Whenever I’m about to make a big life decision, I like to see what someone who thinks that Fauci murdered 9 million people thinks first.
LunchCounterPunch @theultrasecret.bsky.social

Covid appears to have been the shove that pushed much of our society, already teetering on the brink of madness in the anomic world of social media, over the edge.
Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social

Bernie Moreno was a car salesman with a record of wage theft and employment discrimination. Anthony Fauci was the director of NIAID from 1984 to 2022 and in 2008 was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his work fighting HIV/AIDS in that role.
@joshstein.bsky.social

If you find yourself living your normal life today, whatever that entails, instead of being sick, or sheltering in place, or dead, it’s because of vaccines. If you can’t grasp that basic fact and chafe against it, you are a fool.
LunchCounterPunch @theultrasecret.bsky.social

Further disappointed that there isn’t a coordinated effort by Democrats to scream back in one voice that hacks, stooges, and abusers are putting us all in grave danger and that they stand behind Fauci, a man of science and integrity.
LunchCounterPunch @theultrasecret.bsky.social

Imagine devoting your life to public health, responding to two major pandemics, and then having to talk with these dipshits
Casey Stegman

Did you know that producing *one pound* of beef releases as much greenhouse gas pollution as burning 25-50 pounds of coal? And producing grass-fed beef is even worse? We gotta rethink our high levels of beef consumption...

Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social

CONFESSION: Sometimes I stare at the 26 newsletters in my inbox everyday and think: "what was so bad about RSS feeds"
Kate Klonick

Republicans all have 2020 Derangement Syndrome.
J. Elvis Weinstein

The only responsible attitude for liberals and progressives to align on is that all right-wing grievances, claims and believes are not only false, but malicious lies. Nothing passes the mouth of an American conservative in public life that is not meant to harm and destroy the lives of millions.
Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social

Still insane to me that the GOP can gin up a moral panic about innocuous things like drag queen story time while we know Democrats would be eviscerated in the press if they ever started asking what the deal is with youth pastors getting arrested every week.
Schooley

Honestly, I think the constant harping on "no do THIS not THAT as a consumer" is designed to make you give up on climate. This is a job for good old fashioned government, one that regulates pollution, including greenhouse gases.
Courtney Milan

Basic rules of society that we need to re-establish post Covid:
- You actually have to stop for red lights and stop signs.
- If you want to watch videos or listen to music in a shared public space, you need to use headphones.
- Your pet does not need to go everywhere with you.
- Don’t litter.
Max Dubler

yeah look the default bad Democratic candidate is either 'shitty tweets' or 'boringly careerist' and the default bad Republican candidate is 'serial rapist' or 'literal Nazi'
BeijingPalmer

Human rights are the oxygen of humanity:


Robin Boardman

If the entire Democratic Party is being asked by the press and pundits about a few DSA candidates in NYC, it seems like the entire Republican Party should be asked about their colleague who has been credibly accused -- by another colleague's daughter -- of repeated acts of violence.
Kevin M. Kruse

ProPublica obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, even nothing.
ProPublica

if you want to know who is stealing tax payer dollars, look at the people with all the dollars
ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com

“Claims that wildfires can be prevented by [forest management] are not only inaccurate, but they’re also part of a broader pattern of disinformation in response to climate-fueled extreme weather… deflecting from what experts say is the biggest driver of worsening fires: the rapidly warming climate.”
Brent Toderian

Wind and solar have just overtaken fossil-fuel power in Germany
Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org

You don’t want hands-free driving, you want trains. You want trains you want trains you want TRAINS
still a pistachio @streetlightlily.horntforgood.com

if there’s any clear indication of elite impunity it’s the fact that the mainstream press has moved Ross Douthat toward increasingly visual formats. I hate to do feminism but if a woman looked like this CBS would keep her in a dungeon:


Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social

In a better timeline, this would be Musk's Howard Hughes moment, he would spend the next two years in a bunker furiously trying to use Grok to make his anti-woke Odyssey and becoming more reclusive until he died of a bizarre blood nutrient deficiency you can only get by replacing your diet with Huel
scoops @scoopsstp.bsky.social

I suspect many centrists are really just 'not-bothereds' who mistakenly believe that centrism is a neutral position that won't offend anyone.
Reg @reggiehere.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

(looks out at a nation run entirely by Republicans, with literally everything in shambles and more and more disasters on the way.) "You know, the thing I worry about is a handful of DSA candidates winning House primaries."
Kevin M. Kruse

It's not that climate change is "worse than expected." It just feels worse when it happens to *you*
Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social

Cops hate cities, hate the people living inside of them and are much more empathetic to someone trying to race through the city to enter and leave as quickly as possible than they are to like, a cyclist or pedestrian, who represent a class of people (city residents) the cop wished stopped existing
mtsw

I am extremely troubled by the amount of standby pay issued to Minneapolis Police Department officers during Operation Metro Surge. MPD data shows some officers were paid nearly 24 hours per day for 32 days straight, while dozens were paid 8-12 extra hours each day while we stood out in the cold protecting our neighbors. 
EHB on BET @ehbforbet.bsky.social

you are living through a global political realignment. there have been a few of these in (kinda) living memory, but for the last about 40 years they've been to the right. our job is to spend our entire lives pushing for a realignment to the left before we die and the planet burns
Craig Johnson

So, what happens if I'm a parent and I know that my kid needs highly paid teachers, a library full of books with diverse characters, trans-inclusive bathrooms and extracurriculars, and a curriculum unpacking topics like systemic racism, colonial oppression, economic inequality, and climate change?


Jess Calarco

Among the worst ideas floating around is that "the free market" will naturally achieve desirable results for society. No, it won't, not even in theory, much less in practice. Markets don't optimize "good for society" unless you make them.
Max Kennerly

Manosphere grifters have figured out that some men are easily manipulated by making them feel insecure about their masculinity. The GOP has turned this sales pitch into both an ideology and a campaign strategy.  
Adam Serwer

We get told to "learn to take a joke" when drivers laugh about hitting pedestrians and micromobility users that get in their way. We get told that drivers threatening us or revving their engine at us wouldn't actually hurt us and not to be so dramatic. This is the result of normalising and excusing it.
Bread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social

The anti-data center movement is like "I don't want to pay more money for a thing that will not benefit me at all and will actively make my life measurably worse in a bunch of ways" and the pro-data center movement is like "We want it to be illegal for you to not like us."
Andrew @athomaskaye.bsky.social

Every person this administration wrongly deported should be granted asylum and a path to citizenship. Won’t even begin to right wrongs like this. But it’s a place to start.
Radley Balko

"Independent contractor" positions, as used by business to jettison what little responsibility for employees they are considered to have, should either be required to include living wages, or be counted among a business's staff if exceeding a certain percentage in any department.
@hipstersasquatch.bsky.social

Oh I have *opinions* about this but I'll keep it to one: if your business model falls apart the second you have to treat people like employees, what you had wasn't a business, it was a loophole.
Hipster Sasquatch, trapped on the planet of the nepo babies
Ava @avasaysso.bsky.social

Congress appropriated billions of dollars for new transit projects. Why is the Trump administration spending none of it? Why are even transit projects in red states going unfounded?


Yonah Freemark

I sometimes point out that "kill transit nationwide" is literally in Project 2025, and oh hey look
David Weiskopf

This president is allowed to savagely lie about transgender Americans, and Muslim-Americans, and Haitan or Somali immigrants and more because he's America's Special Little Boy. No consequences for him or for the entire party that has his back.
Kevin M. Kruse

culture wars is a top American export.
Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social

The people who complain about empty bike lanes do not want full bike lanes. They want no bike lanes.
bettybarcode

Everyone wants to yell at Democrats or "the left" but the plain fact is that Republicans are the only ones with the power to immediately save us from this nightmare. Every day they choose not to do so.
David Roberts @volts.wtf

Elon Musk's destruction of USAID has killed hundreds of thousands of children, and by 2030 it will be around 3.5 million. Just because he didn't personally kill them doesn't mean he's not a mass murderer.
#TeslaTakedown

An idea: instead of asking Democrats about turning the temperature down, why not ask Republicans to stop being fascists?
LunchCounterPunch @theultrasecret.bsky.social

Whether it be Zohran Mamdani or Abdul El-Sayed, the way the establishment nonchalantly kicks into high key screeching Islamophobia whenever a Muslim person runs for public office should be all you need to know about them.
God @thegodshow.com

My “sensible gun control” policy is that we should melt them all down:


Gordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social

It will eat away at Musk until he dies, that despite his wealth, the majority of the planet think he’s a humourless, pathetic, racist asshole. And THERE IS NOTHING he can do about it.
Jay Lionel

It's funny how often billionaire sociopaths like Trump and Elon Musk call journalists traitors when those journalists report the actual words that Trump and Musk have said.
Spencer Green

What if everyone stopped playing video games and started doing theater?
aric @aghastronaut.com

As a boy, my grandparents wouldn't dream of buying a Ford because Henry Ford — who was long dead by then — had been a rabid antisemite. 40 years later, I'm amazed that so many people who deplore xenophobia remain willing to buy a Tesla.
David Zipper

One reason productive dialogue on social media is virtually impossible is that productive dialogue requires at least some minimal understanding of context and intention and on these hell sites we all encounter one another as free-floating snippets, which cannot possibly contain that information.
David Roberts @volts.wtf

one of the most important things you need to do when developing a new product, especially in tech, is sit down and think about how it can be misused by bad actors. and nowadays it sure seems like the bad actors are less “people to be guarded against” and more “the target customer base”
Micah @rincewind.run

Funny how no one seems to talk about how bad of a Secretary of State Rubio is.
quick13

When I see "Waymo saves lives" op-eds, I always do a quick search to see what the author has written extolling protected bike lanes. Or automatic speed cameras. Or road diets. The results are always the same: Nope. Nada. Zilch.
David Zipper

Riding bikes is 10X more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities. And that’s just the climate emissions. Doesn’t include the massive public and personal cost difference, the air and noise pollution difference, the massive space difference, etc, etc.
Brent Toderian

When the story of why humanity didn't stop climate change is written, it will feature front pages like this. Even as the skies blacken with climate change-induced wildfires, right wing media continue their relentless crusade against measures to tackle it:


Adam Schwarz

Opinion | The Iran War is nonsensical, unethical, illegal, and economically catastrophic. But if students start protesting it in an obnoxious way, I'll have no choice but to support it.
NY Times Pitchbot

UPDATE Brazil has denied visas to the two State Department officials Trump planned to send to undermine confidence in the country’s electoral system
Matthew Hay Brown

The more I learn about it the more I think "the fossil fuel industry has an enormous, massively funded propaganda apparatus" is one of the most under covered and under appreciated stories of our era
mtsw

“the Pentagon had used more than 1,200 Patriot interceptor missiles in the war, at more than $4 million apiece, leaving inventories worrisomely low,…”
Will Jones

Witch-hunts targeted women with financial independence and status. In colonial New England, women from families w/o male heirs made up 64% of the females prosecuted for witchcraft, 76% of those who were found guilty and 89% of those who were executed.
Rima I Anabtawi

I feel like the attack on academia, and on the humanities in particular, has really ramped up since the American economy has become ever more dependent on trying to replace human thinking with AI.
Dr. Genevieve Guenther @doctorvive.bsky.social

I don't think EVs fix the main problem with transportation cities but I hope the Chinese EV industry destroys the criminal American petrol automakers.
Pedestrianize MPLS @mplsdromomania.bsky.social

150,000 marched yesterday in London for trans rights. Opened the Sky News app. Scrolled and scrolled. Nothing. BBC News app. Nothing. Guardian app. Nothing. This is what actual silencing looks like.
Lee Hurley

Todd Blanche is now the subject of multiple federal court orders and rulings questioning his integrity and honesty and that of the DOJ. And he’s probably still going to get confirmed.
Radley Balko

All this money and energy going into AI, a "life changing" technology no one wants, when ebikes already exist.
Getting Gophery

I don't know why these two particular episodes (out of so many) stick out in my memory, but: the Biden withdrawal from Afghanistan and Claudine Gay "plagiarism" "scandal." *No* Trump scandal has received the quantity or intensity of mainstream press fury that those two attracted.
David Roberts @volts.wtf

It is genuinely bizarre that we’ve become acclimatized to right wingers throwing a tantrum every time a black person (particularly a black woman) is cast in something, but are also supposed to pretend that this is not racism but related to some other substantive concern. And just from a dad’s perspective, it seems to me one of the explicit aims here is to make black girls feel like they are ugly. Like why else are you angry about a black little mermaid. And yes I take that shit personal. *it* is happening here
Adam Serwer

We gutted the IRS and took away all enforcement resources and you're surprised about turbocharged  tax evasion? "US Treasury has expressed concern over a number of high-profile tax strategies touted by Wall Street that it says may be 'too good to be true'.” That was the entire objective, m'fers
@realworldrj.bsky.social

interesting to me that as the administration treats democratic-voting states like conquered or occupied territories, you don’t have pundits demanding the president respect “half the country”
jamelle @jamellebouie.net

NEVER FORGET the debt we all owe to the Miccosukee Tribe, without whom it would still be open. And never forget that Indigenous sovereignty and all our safety and flourishing are forever intertwined:


Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg

As with so many aspect of finance, "innovation in lending" is a way to shift value from the financial industry's customers to itself. Remember the subprime crisis? 
Cory Doctorow

The White House correspondents dinner is a hilariously bad idea, like imagine a 1999 War Correspondents Dinner where the guest speaker was Milošević
Dave Levitan

"The impacts on the global landscape could be dramatic. An analysis...concluded that producing about 10 percent of US jet fuel from SAF by 2030...would require about half the US soybean crop, occupying enough farmland to cover the state of Nebraska"
Dan Marshall

Taking away someone's food and medicine makes you responsible for their death.
Thor Benson

CAN'T MAKE IT UP: ICE deported a man to Mexico in violation of a court order in Nov., acknowledged the error and returned him to the U.S. Then they deported him to El Salvador, in violation of court-ordered torture protection. He's currently imprisoned.
Kyle Cheney

Interesting how the Republicans have launched a coordinated attack on communists, of which there aren't any, and not Nazis, of which there are plenty.
Peter Gleick

Minneapolis police getting drones with cameras is just the beginning. Once they get that, the ability to drop “less lethal” weapons from the drone follows, and guess what comes after that! Directly shooting Minneapolis residents from drones. These weapons are tested in the military and brought home.
Ethan Pants

The Trump regime admitted to canceling over $7.5 billion in federal grants for clean energy projects in states that voted for Kamala Harris in the 2024 election. 
David Ho

CDC: Measles cases this year (2,318) already surpass 2025 numbers (2,289)--and 2025 was the worst year for measles in decades:


Charles C. Mann

Not that we doubted it, but it's amazing to see them admit it: $7.5 billion in grants were canceled only because the projects were in states that voted for Harris. I don't think we need to put up with this crap.
Charles McGuinness @cmcguinness.com

The DOJ admission that the administration defunded Democratic-controlled states is immediate impeachment-and-removal behavior for any other president and all involved cabinet secretaries (who, in any other administration, would have already resigned in disgrace)
Nick Fleisher

Set aside all the other carnage and devastating impacts for a moment: i do take it seriously that a soldier isn’t a toy. The way this president has just set those lives on fire for basically no reason and seems to be preparing to get more of them killed — all while obsessing over fucking decor and personality cult branding projects — is uniquely appalling in a way that my mind isn’t really able to fully process
Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social

The big lesson of the Caitlin Clark story is that you do not want the stupids to care about you too much
 @edsbs.bsky.social

lots of reporters suddenly worried about slipping into communism but strangely f*cking quiet about slipping into fascism
Brett Meiselas

Sexiest Man Alive implies there’s an even sexier corpse that needs to be excluded from consideration
lukelukeluke

I previously reported that the growth rate and composition of Trump's wealth gain in office are unprecedented in recent history. Upon request, here is the data on the relative size of Trump's presidential windfall. The extent of his self-enrichment is even more striking:


Steve Rattner

it’s weird that sharks have existed for about 1% of the entire history of the universe
Devin @dervine7.bsky.social

For a very long time there was an international taboo on assassinating foreign leaders even of countries you were at war with, and the Trump administration thought it was because people were pussies not because "now they're gonna try to kill YOU"
mtsw

I’m sorry, but like, did they think that the enemy in a war would not actually try to kill them?
Sky Marchini

Musk insisting in that interview that store-bought tomatoes are better than homegrown tomatoes is the most perfect distillation of how ignorant he is of daily human life and the small joys therein.
Helen Kennedy

"one reason that billionaires find the AI story so compelling: at root, many billionaires just don't believe most other people are actually, fully real" –Cory Doctorow
Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social

Not a single network aired [Trump saying he could read the dead troops' minds] on their nightly news broadcasts yesterday. They described Trump overseeing a "somber ceremony" and called it a "moving moment." The only way to know what trump actually said about the soldiers he killed is to follow aaron rupar which no offense to aaron is insane
Matt Negrin

When 13 soldiers died on Joe Biden’s watch because Biden was *ending a war* that had killed Americans for two decades, these people acted like Biden shot the soldiers himself
Lawdy Gaga @litigaytor.bsky.social

You know, building public transportation networks, high-speed rail, installing bike lanes, and offering tax credits and point-of-sale rebates for e-bikes and other small EVs would go at least some way toward making sure no one ever has to be held hostage by petrostates and maniacal authoritarians.
The War on Cars

Everyone who uses "smart glasses" to be legally required to strap one of these to their head and light it up when the camera is on:


Eddie Robson

Do car drivers ever stop and wonder why they accept violence and death from car infrastructure? The same people are likely horrified by gun violence or immigration enforcement or foreign wars. But when it comes to car dependency, they literally do not care about violence and costs.
Pedestrianize MPLS @mplsdromomania.bsky.social

The idea that we need “balance and openness for different points of view” about whether a cyclist’s death is more important than preserving parking spaces for local businesses is an incredible thing for a human being to say.
Tim Pierce @unchi.org

If conservatives decide that bike lanes are a partisan issue, then they're a partisan issue. I can't argue them out of it.
Dan Miller @meelar.bsky.social

Vaccines, Tylenol, Clean Air and Water, Food, now Bikes, what else will they decide is too liberal and will remove all data to keep you safe?
quick13

Per the police shooting in Madison, WI today, this bears repeating: ICE, CBP, local cops; their violence is all connected. ICE represents an escalation of that violence to be sure. But we wouldn't be here here without years and years of collectively tolerating "regular" cops killing people.
Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social

Once again, it would be great to see more reporting on high fuel prices focus on car dependency in the United States
Gravel Influencer

Somehow we found the two worst people on the planet, Musk and DT, and we have to hear about them every few minutes for years and years
bhendricksen.bsky.social


John Roscoe

15 years after the Norwegian mass murderer killed 77 people, mostly children, motivated by conspiracy theories about cultural marxists and white genocide, his race war manifesto is more or less repeated verbatim to millions of people by the world's richest man, Elon Musk. Let that fucking sink in.
Christopher Pahle @tophepahle.bsky.social

It would be so nice if the democratic establishment and blue maga could fight republicans and conservatism with half the vigor they fight the left with
Oliver Willis

NEW: Taylor Farms is a big player in conservative politics. The company donated $2 million to conservative political groups in 2025 and its CEO has personally donated more than $900,000 to Republican PACs and candidates. It's also spent $810,000 on anti-regulatory lobbying since 2025
Brian Kahn

The 12 year old just found out that artificial gravity isn’t a real thing and would like to file a complaint with all the science fiction writers who failed to properly explain that part was (as of yet) fiction.
Maggie Koerth

The fuckers called Eisenhower a commie and the interstate highway system a commie plot to make America commie, just so you know how long this commie bullshit has been going on.
Justice Putnam

Republicans have been calling Democrats “communists” since FDR.
Leah McElrath

i love how centrists continue to do this thing where they say “if DSA becomes more front and center in the party, republicans will run on that!” as if the right doesn’t just say absolutely anything on and run on shit like peanut the squirrel or litterboxes in school bathrooms
onion person @junlper.beer

I think you could probably just replace their use of the word "elite" with "nerd who did better than me in school" and it makes a lot more sense. Or "scientist who belittled my religious beliefs." MAGA has been mad at those people their whole lives, since before there was MAGA.
KC Momkin

About 24% of U.S. employees stay in unwanted jobs just for health insurance, a report out Wednesday finds. Up significantly since 2021, the uptick in "job lock" is a concerning sign for the U.S. economy. 
NPR

I believe we would have SUCH a flourishing of entrepreneurship and new business founding if we had universal healthcare. I never understand why this isn’t a major argument in favor
Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl @deardara.bsky.social

Do you want to know how popular school vouchers are? They have never won on a ballot. Not once. In any state. Ever. The only way states are able pass a school voucher scheme is behind closed doors. Legislatively. The people would never approve their tax dollars going to private religious schools.
Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social

The fact that in America our kids must be professionally programmed each summer day instead of waking up and roving about with their pals is a tragic result of building the entire nation around cars. Cars have stolen American childhood. Wake up.
MaryMM

You guys aren't going to believe this, but ... it turns out the oil and gas industry knew that they were poisoning people (in this case, with methane) for years, and they hid it and did nothing to mitigate the harm. No, really, it's true!
David Roberts @volts.wtf

Crucial point: Gasoline prices spiked under Biden because of something Putin did. Gasoline prices spiked under Trump because of something Trump did. Any President could face a crisis where oil prices spike. Not all Presidents are responsible for causing that crisis.
Patrick Chovanec

just heard a foundation declare its mission as reducing "polarization" as though there's some sweet spot halfway between white supremacy/radical inequality/climate denial and the opposite we should all aim for. There isn't. Been railing against it forever. There's both the idea that the center is some sweet spot of neutral/true/decent stance (hello, ladies, go have half an abortion! hello, immigrants, enjoy rights on even-numbered days!) and that polarization is the fault of "both sides," as though the truth and the lie need to find common ground.
Rebecca Solnit

Window tint laws do need to be enforced better. But it should not be a reason to search every car like this person wants, it should be enforced via a letter that comes in the mail notifying the vehicle owner that proof of compliance must be shown before the vehicle can be renewed
Moth @walkingminnesota.com

Yeah, that's not convenient because most CEO's of Corporations like UnitedHealthcare are white men:


quick13

good morning mr president, heres your daily list of things you can do to make everyones life worse but will make you the center of attention
Andrew Lawrence

Everyone coming on my feed and explaining to me that all is lost, I note what I have noted before, that there are no Negro Spirituals entitled, “Welp, I Guess It All Sucks and I Am Giving Up.”
Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social

People are shocked when they come to DC now and see groups of fully armed soldiers patrolling our neighborhoods. Trump's occupation of DC has been going on for nearly a year — and he wants it to go on forever. We refuse to allow this to become normalized and continue to call for it to end.
Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social

Ossoff being very clear about the racial animus driving Trump’s attacks on Georgia is important. Not giving any credence to the pretext of fraud when we’re clearly debating who should count is vital to cutting through the bullshit.
@chadstanton.blacksky.app

Correct. When the GOP says fraud, they mean black people participating in society and politics. Gotta get right to the point there.
Hare @haredurer.bsky.social

my favourite opinion about Homer is: it’s an oral text so it is much MORE authentic to listen to the audiobook than to read the Iliad or Odyssey on the page. watching it as a film while people around you eat, drink and chat is more authentic than reading it quietly to yourself in a silent library.
Naomi Alderman

The Supreme Court didn't "end" affirmative action. It declared it illegal in college admissions in 2023. Things do not magically "end" when they are made illegal. Theft has been illegal for millennia, but it happens all the time. So does racial discrimination in admissions.
fredwoehrle.bsky.social

Again their position now is that schools are doing secret illegal affirmative action as evidenced by…the presence of Black people…it’s just racism.
Big Ol’ Mush @chadstanton.blacksky.app

An extreme close-up of a Pineapple Lily (Eucomis bicolor), featuring pale green, star-shaped flowers with striking pink-purple edges and stem, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh:


Nature, Preserved @simonecannon.bsky.social

A snapshot of the death of local news: the 155-year0old Salinas Californian (owned by USA Today) has nary a word on Taylor Farms and the lettuce recall that's affecting the nation's food supply. Like no story at all on the website. Taylor Farms' HQ is on Main Street in Salinas...
Tim McDermott @thebombshelter.bsky.social

If Trump was innocent, they’d release the full, unredacted Epstein files. If Mitch McConnell is alive, prove it by showing him in a live video. It’s really that fucking simple.
Arbaz Kakkar5

If Republicans want to stop Canadian forest fires from inundating us with toxic smoke, they should go arrest the criminal cartel setting these fires. The arsonists are easy to find, in fact they constantly brag about their illicit profits. Their gang name is The Fossil Fuel Industry. 
Patrick Reinsborough @giantwhispers.bsky.social

Musk is the worst, least imaginative kind of sci-fi villain. The drug-addled, power mad, racist, self-aggrandizing, demonically greedy, sociopath with endless money. He's a 1950s pulp villain with zero charm or style. He's L. Ron Hubbard meets Heinrich Himmler with a bottomless bank account.
Erik the Pleb @erikfrechette.com

James Talarico delivered the perfect response to MAGA attacks on his masculinity: “Real men don’t lie and cheat their way through life. They don’t enrich themselves by stealing from other people. They don’t sell their soul to the highest bidder. Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.”
Diane Ravitch

Thinking about how so many people I know said Don’t Look Up was so stupid and over the top and ridiculous but my environmental scientist brother was like “Nope, that’s exactly how it feels”
Mara Wilson

"Cars didn't replace horses. Cars replaced walkable cities, tram lines and mass transit, and children playing in the streets." From Kolektiva https://kolektiva.social/@Hex/116941380970260366
Bret Mogilefsky

bloomberg has a fun article today arguing that the Cybertruck is the biggest flop in automotive history. it includes this glorious graph:


Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social

Just learned that our local cheese shop - a small, single-venue store in South Norwood - will be paying more corporation tax this year than the whole of Starbucks UK. Maybe Andy Burnham's Labour Party should take a look at that.
Marie Phillips

The fact that VP JD Vance and Richard Grenell went to Romania — on behalf of the Trump Administration — to advocate for Andrew and Tristan Tate, who by all accounts, were rapists running a coercive sex ring, then permitted them to come to Florida, should be a crazy, crazy scandal.
Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social

"I don't like being called cis"
"I don't like being called white"
"I don't like being called abled"
That's because you view yourself as "normal" or "the default" and everyone else as *not*. Viewing yourself as the baseline is just another form of prejudice. It's just a more implicit type.
Sheryl Weikal @leftistlawyer.com

People who keep pointing out that golf courses use as much water as data centres as some sort of defence of data centres drastically underestimate the amount we also hate golf.
The Ronettes Pickering @stoatie.bsky.social

A quick word on Taco Bell: That's where we found the suspected lettuce, and it's not bc Taco Bell is gross. It's because Taco Bell is REALLY GOOD at tracing product! Keeping track of exactly where they got their ingredients, and exactly what restaurants each shipment of ingredients went to!
Sarah Taber

One of the most fascinating things about the whole Taylor farms thing to me is how some people think there is like ... A single farm involved here. Taylor farms is not 40 acres in California.
Fancy Pants @farnaby.xyz

Here are some nice mushrooms:


lukelukeluke

Immigration is good for Britain. A government trying to reduce immigration is acting against the nation’s best interests
Dan Kaszeta

We need a journalism for the age of information warfare. “Objectivity” is surrender in the face of propaganda. “Both sides” reporting rewards lies and kills truth. Political reality is not based facts and reason. It is based on emotion, identity, and frames—moral and metaphorical.
Gil Durán

Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset"
U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*
Gingerspiced

Nothing ruins a Saturday like fucking ICE coming to your town
Gravel Influencer

We didn't previously integrate wildfire-smoke costs into the supposed cost of climate change for the US, and it turns out to be bigger than all those other costs combined. Oops! Gosh I wonder if we're underestimating anything else. Probably shoulda done something about this. Ah well.
David Roberts @volts.wtf

Farm-to-Table-to-Hospital Dining
TitaniumMan

Israel is still bombing Gaza, by the way. Every day on my X feed, I see reports of another massacre. They’re small in scale but unceasing. Some of the victims are children.
Leah McElrath

This is the point in Sim City where you’re like well I’m fucked:


Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social

There is nothing at all on the CDC website about the wildfire smoke and how to protect yourself from it. Total abdication of responsibility.
Peter Gleick

I hate that we have two Dakotas. Republicans got greedy for new states in the 1880s and we're still paying for that a century and a half later. Two states that, when combined, have the same population as The Bronx. They shouldn't get four senators.
Kevin M. Kruse

The thing about "national service" is that if it's  voluntary, it's  already been tried/exists (Americorp, the Peace Corp, the military, Teach for America). If it's mandatory (which is what I think these guys are really saying), then it's profoundly immoral outside of a national emergency. It's also telling that it's always people who have aged out and are essentially saying that if we steal a couple of years of other people's lives it will somehow fix some undefined problems that we, as older people, have created.
redstateprof.bsky.social

Half of Canada’s wildfires are in remote areas with no road access. Not only is it impossible to get firefighters on the ground, there is also insufficient time to react.
The New York Times

Republicans threatening tariffs on Canada over wildfire smoke and gloating about Europeans dying because they don't have air conditioning are really bad omens for what happens as the climate crisis becomes undeniable and goes unexplained
Kate Aronoff

Musk's immense wealth has for years been based mostly in investors believing that he's a genius who will, someday, do something that generates an incredible amount of value and the dissonance between this belief and his ongoing failure to do so can only go so long before it must be resolved
Serial Experiments Abigail @popeguilty.bsky.social

Hey chat, is it good that the weather channel app added a forecast for breathing?


Kevin Rowe

It's the fraud economy. A bubble made of bubbles. A puff pastry of whipped bullshit with a nothing filling, held up with stilts that are resting on a plummeting grand piano.
A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social

If you're arresting people at the airport on their way OUT of the country, your goal.was never border security. It's filling for-profit concentration camps.
Auntie Social

Nobody disputes that having access to a car in a car-dominated society is good. It gives one access to jobs, healthcare, food, education, social opportunities and more. All we're asking is for people to go one step deeper and ask why access to such basic rights requires buying and operating a car.
The War on Cars

one of the reasons I went car-free 20 years ago was because I thought about all the ways I might die, and a car crash just felt so pathetic and pointless. Imagined waking up and asking, how did I die? "You got t-boned circling the block looking for parking." No thanks. How stupid.
Pedestrianize MPLS @mplsdromomania.bsky.social

Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”
Katie Mack @astrokatie.com

[There is a] structure, extremely common to reactionary thinking: our one way of doing things, enforced by law, is good and democratic; your attempt to introduce diversity and choice is bad and authoritarian. See the parallel to the "war on christmas"? The parallel to gender hysteria? It's all the same. Enforcement of the status quo is seen as normal, good and right, non-political. Attempts to change things, to introduce other choices and perspectives, is seen as aggressive, political, violent, an imposition. Reactionary thinking is the same everywhere it pops up, in every context.
David Roberts @volts.wtf

I wonder how much Chuck & Don's had to pay Control Data in the big trademark infringement case:


Chris Steller

What if... we didn't assume people needed to be constantly surveilled for their "safety"? Because that's not safety.... that's an illusion of safety.  It's not prevention, it's reaction. WE keep us safe, through connection, community, and mutual aid.   Not fucking cameras and drones.
Marje, herself @minn-finn.bsky.social

The greatest enemy of a free market is a successful capitalist.
Scott Centoni

All the ways Trump has gutted efforts to stop foreign election interference:
-laid off a third of CISA employees
-disbanded FBI task charged with combatting foreign election interference
-eliminated DHS teams combatting foreign disinformation 
-fired all the EAC commissioners
Ari Berman

"Republics wither slowly but surely in the hearts and minds of everyday people. Americans put this admin back in power knowing exactly the nature of Trump...we had to know people would die. We had to know our communities would be poisoned." –Alan Elrod
Greg Sargent

I'm no fireologist, but maybe the fact that Canada's warm season is getting warmer and their warm season relative humidity is getting lower might be why they seem to be burning up every year.
Climatologist49

Just received a call claiming to be from Amazon saying my account has been hacked to buy an iPhone. I said I will check my account online at which point the caller started shouting “you are a f***ing c***, you are a f***ing c***” until I hung up. Something tells me this may not have been legit 
Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social

This administration, supposedly representing the “real” salt of the earth Americans, is filled with people like this who have no idea how Americans actually live. For context, each Taco Bell outlet serves about 900 people PER DAY and there are over 300 Taco Bells in Michigan:


Seth Cotlar

After pushing anti-trans laws to ‘protect women’s sports’, Project 2025’s Heritage Foundation now wants women’s sports gone to ‘assist fertility.’ Turns out it was about women’s sports all along—if getting rid of women's sports counts, that is.
Aleksandra Vaca @transiticsnews.com

I think we will survive Trump II, but without some real change in the future, we're just going to get Trump III. And I don't mean Trump will serve a third term, but we'll get another person who will rule us like a Trump. And if we are really unlucky they'll be a lot more interested in listening to the white nationalists instead of just doing lots of corruption.
The Alternate Historian

I want the American experiment to include trying out new and creative ways to disempower, punish and impoverish our criminal and fascistic elite.
LunchCounterPunch @theultrasecret.bsky.social

My takeaway from that speech is that we are headed down the road of Trump trying to outright rig elections. It probably won't work, but he's going for it.
Aaron Rupar

In the last two days, I've had two instances of drivers straight up *not seeing me.* Me, a 5'11" guy riding a 9-ft long, tomato-red cargo bike, with two kids in the bucket wearing hi-viz helmets. I'm beginning to think the "cyclist came out of nowhere" problem is on the drivers' end.
Warren Wells, AICP

"When the authors extrapolated their findings to an entire year of driving, they estimated that by forgoing speeding, drivers would have saved $22 million per day, based on 2021 gas prices. In a recent analysis adjusted for 2026 gas prices, the daily cost rose to $26 million." –Scientific American
The War on Cars

Absolutely amazing collection of 490 antique matchbox graphics (mostly Swedish, it seems) in red, black, and white:


dynamoe.bsky.social

So far this year we've had: the warmest winter on record in the mountain west,  a record-shattering heat wave in Europe, once in a thousand year rainfall and flooding texas and forest fire smoke blanketing the mid west and the north east. Feels like something's going on with the climate!
Chris Hayes

one of my favorite lenses for looking at american history is “country shaped by successive generations of people experiencing religious psychosis”
jamelle @jamellebouie.net

Furious that Chris Nolan would disregard historical accuracy in adapting The Odyssey by making a "movie" with "cameras" instead of memorizing the entire story and then going on a nationwide tour to sing it to us while tripping on ergotized barley
Jack Grimes @jackapedia.design

I can't breathe the air, I can't eat lettuce, I can't afford gas, and my kids have measles.  But at least now our soldiers will have enough testosterone.
NY Times Pitchbot

Poisonous air is only supposed to happen to people who live in the fallout radius of an interstate highway.
Wedge LIVE!™

Congrats to Sauron for being elected to Congress:


The Alternate Historian

hey, remember: don't eat anything and don't breathe
Ygrene

i remember scientists saying 20 years ago that climate change-fueled wildfires would darken and poison the skies hundreds of miles away. but republicans said that was a lie, so now climate change-fueled wildfires darken and poison the skies hundreds of miles away every summer
bobby @bobbylewis.bsky.social

Maybe it's because I'm old, but men who use the expression "low T" sound like simpering sissies to me. It's not a manly turn of phrase.
Helen Kennedy

History shows us energy megaprojects often have three things in common: underestimated budgets, exaggerated jobs and royalty claims, and foreign ownership. 
Seth Klein

i can’t believe there are actually people taking photos while driving to show off the smoke, like there’s so many layers of wrong here and none of it is the smoke in your photo
taylr @taylordahlin.com

No science fiction could have prepared us for just how stupid the end of the world can be. "The environment was on the brink of collapse, and so, rather than deal with that, we burned what fuel we had left getting computers to scam each other for money."
Marie Vibbert @reasie.bsky.social

Cigarettes no longer being ubiquitous/cool is like one of only two examples of positive cultural change I've witnessed in my lifetime (the other is LGBTQ+ inclusion, which I realize sounds unhinged, but it's still better now than the 80s and 90s)
Gabrielle @gabbklein.myatproto.social


The Tiz @bettiselj.bsky.social

Folks, the Republicans have imposed Diarrhea Law.
LunchCounterPunch @theultrasecret.bsky.social

The news is always "This absolute fool was dismantled in hearings today. He is manifestly unqualified for the position and would be an existential danger if confirmed. Disaster. He is set to be confirmed immediately." When you ask why everyone is furious and exhausted all the time, this is why.
Walter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.social

Increased emissions from wildfires in the past decade have reversed earlier progress made in decreasing US surface-level ozone pollution, a new analysis finds.
Physics Today

Always blows my mind that T-Rex is closer in time to the iPad than it is to Stegosaurus
Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social

BlueSky, July 2026 Part 1

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