Incredible!

When political cartoons hit so accurately you want to make giant billboards of these everywhere.

What makes my heart heavy is that 13 servicemembers and a school full of girls died for no reason except to attempt to boost a sad old man’s ego

COLLINS: Iran can start selling oil right now. Are you okay with that? MARSHALL: Absolutely. We gave them up in response for them giving up their nukes (Iran has never had nukes)

Sen. Chris Murphy: "It's a multi-billion dollar payoff to Iran in exchange for nothing ... Iran won. Trump surrendered."

Growing up, social media was a big part of self-discovery for me and lots of other LGBTQ teens. That's exactly why conservatives want to ban these platforms for kids. They would prefer to keep them isolated and in the dark while surveilling us all via digital IDs. spitfirenews.com/p/social-med...

Of course they start state-mandated pregnancy surveillance among medical cannabis users. Pitch perfect strategy on their part.

Olympics are going to go great.

A male and female goldfinch came to visit my garden today. They were so pretty!

ICE killed another person. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

“The President owns and operates a bank” is satire-level corruption

*at least* $300 billion

In bad news, with disability education oversight being moved to the Department of Health and Human Services from the Department of Education, that means Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will have power over disability policy positions. New from me at @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

JD Vance blows up the rationale for Trump's ballroom: "We're protected. Like, we have so many layers of protection. We have 50 Secret Service agents just in this room."

Most academics being interviewed: Blah, bland, meh. @naomioreskes.bsky.social interviewed: stand back because 🔥 🔥 🔥

Pumped for my trip to Denver! what can’t I miss while I’m there?

If this is right, it amounts to a total U.S. capitulation that trades very specific benefits to Iran, some of which (total sanction waivers) take place immediately, for vagaries on nuclear materials ("will be adequately addressed") and the Strait (no mention of tolls/fees).

One student, who wrote of trying and sometimes succeeding at cutting AI out of their life, wrote of watching a parent who is a lawyer turn over all their legal writing to AI. Almost every student wrote of how much AI is present in everyone's love lives. 10/

Several students wrote of the moral confusion implicit in a college that promotes AI and says don't cheat but makes it really, really easy to cheat. One said they don't pay attention to AI policies because they don't think the college really wants to know what's going on. 9/

One student wrote of the belief among their classmates in another course that their professor had turned to "robograding," outsourcing evaluation of their work to AI. So why not use AI to write it? This student knows how cynical that is. It doesn't feel good. They wish there was another way. 8/

I just learned that the term "carbon footprint" was developed by BP to offload responsibility for climate change onto individuals. Something like that's happening in higher ed with AI. Institutions capitulate or dodge; students are submitting; & they believe it's their individual failing. 7/

Another student wrote with deep fury about AI taking over their education and wrecking mental health. They used to not touch it. Now, they use it to "supplement" their work in econ & math classes. They feel betrayed by the college and their teachers and themselves. 6/

Nobody used the term "arms race," but that's what they're describing: enormous pressure, including from some professors, to use AI or fall behind those who are. Many say they hate it, don't want to use it, but they feel like now it's submit or fail. 5/

(To be clear: I asked for anonymous responses so students could speak candidly & I could share comments.) A number of students wrote of their hate for AI, their disdain for friends who use it to do all their work, & then they said they "only" use it summarize readings or do research. 4/

I wish I could tell you the responses thrummed with defiance. Instead, some read like substance abuse testimonies. A student whose use of AI grew until AI "wrote" all assignments sophomore fall. Got caught. Crushed by shame. Swore it off. But it's creeping back, & they don't know how to stop. 3/

This is at Dartmouth College, where our president cut a deal with Anthropic--which stole the books of 133 faculty--without faculty consultation. Soon, there'll be a Claude for every student. They're already there. They feel like there's no escaping it. & they don't like it.

At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/

for iphone users, if you very suddenly regret NOT turning off biometric unlock, press the lock button on the side 5 times in row - this will lock your phone and require the passcode before biometric unlock can be used again, preventing police from using your face to unlock it against your will.

The mail lady just pulled up to me and said, “Congratulations on your garden. It is so beautiful. I love all your flowers!” Grow a garden. Build community.

Idk man, I feel if the UK government truly wanted to protect kids, they would have prosecuted all the pedophiles of Epstein island before they banned under 16s from social media. Seems sus to do one and not the other.

Nothing like getting a nasty cold in the summertime. at least it happened before the trips I have coming up but still, not a fan.

Money for war. Money for Israel. Money for Iran. Money for UFC. Money to murder fishermen. Money for our own ailing citizens? Nope.

So to reduce the cost for Americans-we are giving a country that Trump started a war with 300 billion? I mean I would have taken healthcare for Americans for $20 Alex.

In 2024, after the election, Mark Zuckerberg met with Stephen Miller to assure him that Meta/Facebook would cave to Miller's/Trump's wishes. Here they are hanging out at the White House UFC event. www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-...

Pregaming

Got two free tickets to wetleg tonight at Mohegan sun if anyone wants them.

NY!

More than 50% used nudify apps? We need new norms. "More than half of the 557 U.S. teens who took a recent George Mason University survey said they had created at least one image using nudification tools. A third said someone had created and shared a nude image of them without their permission."

Never thought I’d root for a NY sports team but here we are.

#TheNerdReich and #Fascism.

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

Insane self-blinding of the US. They are throwing away their investment in the ocean observation system and the benefits it provides. The only explanation I can think of: they don’t want the people to know what their fossil emissions are doing to our oceans. easternherald.com/2026/06/13/u...

Preventing sales to willing buyers at the market price? I’m sorry I thought this was America!

1. The Texas GOP having an elephant at its convention means the Texas GOP enables animal abuse. And Governor Greg Abbot’s name is on the banner, which also means he condones and enables the abuse of an elephant.

Anybody else only like hotdogs in the summertime?

oh for fucks sake. Smartphones are not causing people to have fewer children. Barely being able to afford to be alive and definitely not being able to raise a fucking child is the reason people are having fewer children