Here's a thought: Order the Archivist of the United States to certify the ERA as the 28th amendment to the US Constitution & defend our Constitutional rights (all of them, for all of us) to the hilt. #America250 #Imagine255

We've been excavating Jamestown's history for 30 years, but now rising sea levels threaten future access to America's Birthplace. Read the latest story from Climate Central on The Guardian now: theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/02/sea-level-rise-jamestown-virginia

If a stage collapses and no-one is there to see it, does it make a sound?

I think it will be a mistake to put these people in charge of “the biggest fireworks show in history.” Murphy’s Law runs wild.

it’s hack to even point it out but: if your kid isn’t the unquestioned best athlete in her county by the time she’s 13 she isn’t getting a D1 scholarship. doesn’t matter how much lil mckenna wants to be a college pitcher, if a girl the next town over is 6 feet tall with big hands mckenna is fucked

as someone from a country with multiple annual heat waves if you're mad at Mamdani for that super boilerplate statement on energy saving, you better get cracking on fixing climate change pronto, because you're really not going to enjoy the way advisories are phrased in hot places

He creates his own reality & expects us to believe it. The FELON's FANTASY: Meanwhile, back on EARTH 1:

the amount you’re going to need to pay out in therapy after that job that pays that well will come out in the wash

by 11am *there's still nobody there* its june. its a holiday week. this is washington dc. there's. nobody. there.

Tomorrow is the anniversary of Lee's failure at Gettysburg. (Pickett's Charge)

@emptywheel.bsky.social has a post on the corrupt no-bid expanding contract to the event planner who did the January 6 Ellipse event and that disastrous military parade, and are now in charge of this one. Her theory is that the Fair is a Potemkin village that's mainly a money-laundering op.

“Why is no one talking about…” They are, sweetheart, you just lack the basic research skills needed to find the conversations, which is why we make you take this class in the first place.

Official Malarkey position statement on AI and LLMs: On balance, AI can fuck off.

I wonder if we're going to find out that DOGE or the Big Ugly Bill somehow cut some vital finding and made it harder to staff/ respond to situations like this. www.ocala.com/story/news/2...

Today! My first novel in six years! Everybody's Perfect! Delany once titled a story "A Tale of Plagues and Carnivals." But what if more plague and more carnivals? What if Venice but less substantial? And more magical? With immigration and friendship? It's a bit weird but I hope you like it anyway.

Wants a 'Christian' country... Wants to ban 'foreign pregnant women' Doesn't see the irony.

This is bone-chilling. A conservative hedge fund manager wants to require little girls to pass genital inspections for their “safety.” And it’s only for girls’ sports. There’s a clear link between transphobia and child sexual abuse.

With ACA hanging by a thread and those of us with lifelong conditions remembering the bad times where a single word in your record could make it possible to deny you care forever, yes it's reasonable I ask you to turn the damn machine off.

After seeing a couple of routine doc visits in the last few months turn into over billed messes thx to AI transcription and likely automated billing, I am absolutely refusing AI in future visits till I die. I support this sentiment without reservation.

This is not today's most important news but THAT IS THE POINT. Anyone who doubts that the Roberts Court deliberately hides their most partisan rulings with careful timing should consider how little reporting there is today on NRSC v. FEC. It gives Republicans a major boost in November's elections.

This isn't a case of me seeing a racist movie and revising history to get rid of it. This is a case of me seeing a racist movie and also seeing its supporters engaged in a century-long revisionist campaign in order to keep it (and its message) in the canon.

unless we get the promised DSA insurrection it's gonna be like roe v wade, where democrats campaign on protecting it while behaving like it's actually settled, and republicans strategize on how to chip away at it (the news of which is emphasized in dem fundraising emails) and eventually overturn it

This sounds interesting!

Farm workers oppose the “Securing Agriculture’s Workforce Act” (SAWA) — this twisted legislation will undercut U.S. farm workers, impoverish rural communities, and expand the exploitative H2A guest worker program. 1/

With this ruling, the birthright issue is not going away. The right hasn't really begun *organizing* around getting rid of the citizenship clause. Like Roe, this will be their fight for a generation. And if the Democrats just say "we won" and ignore it, like Roe, the Republicans will eventually win.

The aristocrats have always gotten half a year at the clinic in Switzerland for their Exhaustion, and they still do. Remember not to be twelve minutes late for your shift tomorrow, or else you're fired though.

Yet if anyone of us needed 4 months off with pay these same motherfuckers would tell us to shake it off and get back to work.

So, who has his vote history on funding mental health programs? Can't wait to see it.

Finally realised why I don't like voice notes. People do them because they find typing tedious -- it takes too long. But because speaking is easier, they say FAR more than they need to, meaning recipient has to listen for ages, mostly to waffle. It's shifting the extra effort onto the receiver.

His wife left him in 2024 files for divorce in 2025 - still not settled so he's technically he is still married. Love these bible thumping, viagra addeled old men. And the women is married evangelical influencer with 7 kids.

Not even Ken Paxton wants to go to the Great American State Fair.

Climate change for Republicans is changing vacation plans with mistresses! 🤣

So ... when it got COLD Tx Senator Cruz went to Cancun And ... during a heat wave, Paxton goes to Iceland

One of the top US anti abortion groups says not to worry our pretty little heads about state proposals to throw people in jail for having abortions. “No state pro-life law does this and that’s not changing, as not a single one of these bills has passed.” But that’s only true until the day it isn’t.

Recommend we all forget our phones and go outside for a few days. Been out touching grass this weekend (and water & sunshine & picnic tables & such). Happy to report it's all as wonderful as advertised. 10/10, will do again tomorrow. Then our company leaves and I'll go back to doomscrolling later.

Imperial boomerang: for centuries, Europeans have framed tech to protect against cold (fire, furnaces) as noble and good, while they’ve framed the warm climates they colonized as full of lazy people (Asians, Africans) and, thus, the need to use AC or fans as frivaloues, wasteful & unnecessary

"I will make a child sign a contract so I can steal their voice" is literally the plot of The Little Mermaid

Hope they (their parents?) have agents and lawyers that tell them to fuck right off onto the sun.

Hasbro is facing backlash after reportedly telling Peppa Pig's cast of child actors to sign new contracts that allow the company to reproduce their voices using AI. https://bit.ly/4vqs0iJ

Welcome to the "exhausted but awake past midnight" portion of today's Clean All The Things Before Guests Arrive. Brought to you by "realizing on your last chore that you need to wash the mattress cover before you can put on new sheets and go to bed." Only 1.5 hours to go on the dryer. ;D

“Well, if you don’t like it, run for office.” “NOT LIKE THAT”

I like seeing demanding Trump personally pay things back because seizing all assets of Trump, his family, his organization, is a key part of fixing this country.

Absolutely right. It's also obviously good for the left, as this should help dispel the dumb argument that they should abandon the Democratic Party. Nope. They should take it over.

⚠️ Meta gave 6 executives options worth up to $921M each, then cut 8,000 jobs after a record $56.3B quarter This comes after $8.03 billion from a one-time tax benefit tied to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which promised to "create jobs" Stop using Big Tech's products. Support smaller businesses.

“While I would love to help INSERT PEOPLE DESPERATELY IN NEED OF HELP we simply don’t have the resources and it isn’t electorally popular.” No. You just don’t want to do it and would rather enable and partner with fascists. It’s okay. You can be you. And we can run you from the political square.

The secret, and I really hope people are starting to get it, is that moderates and centrists are just conservatives too uncomfortable with their own ideology to fully embrace it and have to hide behind all these delusional frameworks to maintain a veneer of moral “correctness”

Scientific American is 180 years old. The most eminent science magazine for the general public. And today, sold off as scrap to stop the staff from unionizing. Many top editors I've worked with for a decade on several articles have been fired. What a disgrace @sciam.bsky.social

Lumbee Tribe Rejects Amendment Opening the Door for a Casino Tribal leaders said a casino could bring well-paying jobs to rural southeastern N.C., but critics worried about the speed and transparency of the decision.