Bringing one of the best tweets of all time over to Bluesky in honour of the Three Lions QF victory

Kentucky Voter on Mitch McConnell: Your retirement is long overdue. Give it up. We don't want you. You're not representing us well, so don't represent us at all.

Girl, SAME 😔 'Fiona Apple Says She’s Struggling To Write About The World’s “Endless Barrage Of Horrors”' stereogum.com/2504924/fion...

GET A GRIP Ireland is building a battery that contains no lithium. No cobalt. No rare-earth metals. Instead, it stores energy using carbon dioxide. The project is designed to hold 200 megawatt-hours of electricity, making it one of Europe’s largest long-duration energy storage systems.

I have a number of thoughts, which on its face is a decent bit of writing. But I fundamentally disagree with the premise that we’re in a postliterate society, or headed toward one Also this author is the one who wrote that “where are all the campus protests?” essay a few months ago lol

well this report from Kennedy Center whistleblowers is wild

Mona (1984)

It is genuinely heartbreaking to see all of the people losing SNAP benefits. In West Virginia, 14,000 SNAP participants have lost their benefits. In Arizona, it’s 500,000. That’s not a typo. Half a million people in AZ no longer have nutrition assistance. Republicans strike again.

Tim Heidecker's Emergency talks *exclusively* to RFK Jr. and how Alex Jones popped like a balloon. @timheidecker.bsky.social

"The screens are changing the very nature of what we desire to experience, altering what we want to experience out of screens. And I think this is trickling down to TV itself in very obvious, potentially alarming ways." New from @sonnybunch.bsky.social:

New episode of InfoWars' Emergency with some pivotal breaking news out today: www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9MT...

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has announced that Mexico is taking legal action against the United States in regards to the cold blooded murder of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo by an ICE killer in Texas. They’ll pursue justice for the mistreatment of Mexican nationals. Good. 💙👊

“We all know It’s long past appropriate for Dems in the senate to demand proof of life… The day his office said 84-year-old Senator McConnell was hospitalized, EMS answered a 911 call at his address for an unconscious person who received CPR.” (From @perezbrenna.bsky.social )

Fellow Texans: vote for the guy who is from Texas, likes Texas, and cares about Texans

This is extremely good flaminghydra.com/issue-603/#t...

Fortunately, elections in the United States are administered largely by its 3,000 counties, as well as by the 50 states. This commission has no actual enforcement power. This one of the few levers available to Trump. His intention is clear - but this is an expression of weakness, not power.

Among the reasons commonly cited by viewers who spoke with AP: A fascination with broadcaster Andrés Cantor’s “¡goooooool!” call. Telemundo doesn’t cut away for commercials during hydration breaks. The broadcasts are more entertaining. And in other cases, it’s a cost-based decision.

people talk a lot about pre/post-internet microgenerations but let me hear from all the others in my microgeneration, the “printing maps off Mapquest” microgeneration.

Historical context is a mental luxury some people just can't afford.

my therapist encouraged me to rediscover some of my childhood passions so I jumped off a giant rock and broke my leg

I think @govandybeshear.bsky.social should just appoint a Dem to fill McConnell’s seat. It would force proof of life, and the state law that stripped him of that power should be challenged in court. I’m sure Thune would refuse to seat the appointee, but I think it’s a fight worth having. BE BOLD!

Total Eclipse of the Heart is a perfect song for that scene in buddy comedies where two guys are starting a road trip and can’t decide what to listen to then this song comes on the radio, the bois look at each other briefly, then it cuts to a scene of them both belting out the chorus. RIP in peace

“I’m sorry I made things weird,” I say as I set down my marionette rotisserie chicken.

I spoke to Senator McConnell last night for twenty minutes and asked if it was fun and pleasant where he is now.

There is no Dr. Jekyll, it’s all Mr. Hyde.

I guess for some Americans the question “what if we made an astonishingly stupid racist con man the most powerful person in the world?” needed to be answered twice

WOW -- Danish reporter *goes there* with Rutte "You sit next to Trump when he talks about conquering Greenland, lashes out at allies like Spain -- things it doesn't seem like the old Mark Rutte would approve of. Does this have any affect on your self-respect when you sit there and say nothing?"

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear is asking for an update from Sen. Mitch McConnell: “As Governor, I request that you fully update Kentuckians regarding the current status of your health.”

I just spoke to Bitch McConnell - I told him all about what a scumbag he is and how I hope he burns in hell for what he did to this country. He didn’t argue with a single thing I said. Must have agreed. In fact, he never said a word. Just like with Scott Jennings. Good talk. Enjoy hell, you demon.

Country's got a real joy deficit above everything else. Knicks win, World Cup going well until Trump ruined them is proof of that. Just create constant excuses for celebrations and parties. We need excuses to hang out more than we need maybe literally anything else, economically.

Affordable housing? Too expensive. Affordable healthcare? Too expensive. Spending hundreds of millions of taxpayer money retrofitting a luxury jet illegally gifted to Trump by a foreign government? Apparently that’s in the budget.

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Qatar Force One is costing you anywhere from $400 million to $1 billion. When we take back the House, we will use every tool to demand accountability for every dollar that went into that plane, and to prevent Trump from taking it back to Florida once he leaves the White House.

President Donald Trump has drawn sharp criticism after financial disclosures showed his family made more than $1 billion in crypto last year. https://to.pbs.org/4vdLHtm

LOL, well, damn. Okay, Merriam-Webster.

People that capitalize the first letter of every word in a sentence must be fighting a war none of us are aware of, and I hope that they win soon.

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Matilda Borgström.

oh yeah this is a weekend at bernie’s situation

Not sure we’re surviving this season of America.

A commendable stand taken against corruption by— … omg

The grinning idiots behind him. The grinning idiots in Congress. The grinning idiots shooting Americans in the face. The grinning idiots voting for him. #America has a grinning idiots problem.

Q for the rest of 🌎: Did you really not see this coming? What did you think was going to happen when you let us host the world cup under this president?

oh no i cant believe it but it looks like donald trump inserted himself into a story captivating the worlds attention, overshadowing a unifying event with overt corruption, in an attempt to seize attention and credit for himself

A lot of govts have limited this guys company in order to ensure affordable housing, but he has a different explanation for housing shortages, one courtesy of an organization too racist even for William F. Buckley. And he also in charge of digital branding for the US government under Trump.

Jeanine Pirro indicted a guy for touching the floating rubbershit in the water. Going to bet she get her ass ripped by the judge. Hope she gets a month in jail for her stupidness.

This is the Bluesky equivalent of the Great American Novel. Gripped all the way to the end.

lol

I think I have had enough 4th of July for the rest of my life

Historically, we know the KKK covered their faces because quite often they WERE law enforcement, judges, doctors, teachers, "nice dads", etc etc