heard a firework

Not a conspiracy. Not pattern matching. Mention a document that makes people look silly, and they will wipe years of documents and paid-for research to save face. Only some forward thinking to save a copy prevents oblvion. Or as the Internet Archive calls it, Friday. Anyway. archive.org/donate

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

Trump didn’t just tell Bibi to stop carrying out assassinations, he also warned Tehran. While pushing a deal to end the war, US officials believed Israel was planning to assassinate Iran’s chief negotiators, and Trump made sure Tehran was informed. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/02/u...

I really do think this almost pathological obsession with killing negotiators is something that's pretty unique and only like two countries with international legitimacy do this and often

Egyptian fans repping Palestine in Dallas as they do.

By far the best story of the tournament. Beautiful.

Garffeld

youtu.be/npePn4kvXVk As he should! Way to go NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani! 🧢🇺🇸 Repost 🙏🏼 #Blues #Mamdani #NYC

Xitter's community notes are working overtime calling out people trying to claim Mamdani's attempts to conserve power is socialist. This one might be my favorite.

The other day I noted the only way Trump would keep paying Event Strategies to put together humiliating public events is if it were a vehicle for corruption. Today, Natural Resource Dems released a report substantiating that corruption. emptywheel.net/2026/06/29/t...

the margin in the #CO01 primary has ended up so wide, with DeGette now under 40%

If incumbents want to sneer at primary voters, they'll probably keep losing. Serious "No, it's the children who are wrong" energy here. www.axios.com/2026/07/01/m...

Sorry small town America, Trump’s keeping the 250 money all for himself. https://www.notus.org/agencies/doge-cut-small-town-america-250th-funding

There were two entities: America 250, a bipartisan organization chartered by Congress, and Freedom 250, a Trump-backed group. Companies intending to donate to America250 were supplied routing and account numbers that directed their funds to Freedom 250. wapo.st/4fe4Whs

Like the concept, dislike that you used slop to depict it.

MacFarlane: What's alleged here by Democrats on the House natural resources committee, Pamela, is that there was a hostile takeover by Freedom 250 of the congressionally approved America 250. Freedom 250 is Trump aligned.

I swear, "a pope from Chicago excommunicates a Nazi-adjacent sect" is like a cut scene from The Blues Brothers

Incredible moment where Fox News puts up a graphic with all the reasons it opposes the DSA and why people should be afraid of them

Meanwhile Mayor Mamdani has significantly increased funding in education, social services, libraries, and parks. Proof once more that safer communities come from investing in people—not punishments.

C-SPAN: I'm sure you're aware of the article about Trump's income soaring on crypto venture windfalls. The president reported more than $1.5b in 2025. Will Congress be looking into that at all? REP. MARK ALFORD: Uh, I have not read that article. I am not personally involved in any crypto trading

Pressed on a disclosure showing he made at least $1.4b off crypto in 2025, Trump lied by saying "I don't get involved" (he's personally promoted his crypto businesses), then dismissed a follow up about how he's profiting off the presidency, saying "everybody is profiting." Here's full exchange:

I don't know who needs to hear this, but crypto produces nothing. It has no inherent value or function. That Trump made $1.2 billion in crypto means people simply gave Trump $1.2 billion. Many were just duped. Others gave it in exchange for something, and we don't know what that something is.

Trump’s net worth has almost tripled since he’s been back in office. He rugged his crypto followers for over $500 million. Over $1.4 billion in total crypto profit. Financial corruption hawks on the right, where you at?

In case it helps, I made this thread into a shareable web page. skywriter.blue/@jennycohn.b...

i saw more cis people online losing their shit over playstation ending physical game releases than any part of this since tuesday, but madiba doesn’t miss and gives a fuck and this is what the big picture looks like. which seems not great when you put it into a 234-word graf.

Read the article. ⬆️ It indirectjy involves Doug Wilson. bsky.app/profile/jenn...

The key difference is that they wanted Biden to lose and they want Trump to win and rule over us.

The perfect company is one that produces nothing, receives money, and only has one employee (the CEO). Any time you question why a company would do something seemingly insane, just remember that they are trying to create the impossible, a perfect company, and that should help explain it.

There’s nothing I like better than a boring “grind the math” article and this one is great and oh sweet Lord this is going to be hell on earth.

same with Fetterman. centrists are always like, "oh no the leftists will tar the whole party," but having Fetterman sitting next to you voting for Trump nominees has real electoral downsides in D primaries.

JUST POSTED PART II A NYT ANALYSIS OF CONFLICTS OF INTERESTS EVIDENT IN TRUMP's $2.2 BILLION HAUL (free link) www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/u...

Hell of an observation, Einstein Per @hcrichardson.bsky.social

Once Trump lost interest in Ukraine (after the launch of his foolish war on Iran), Ukraine's situation began to improve.

Absolutely NO LIES TOLD...

dreamcast forever 🌀

Fox endorses DSA (again)

Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future (1987). There's an alternate universe where Canada started its own Tokusatsu-style tradition right here. Just a bonkers science fiction series with an interactive toy gimmick where you "shoot" at sections of the TV while you watch. Impossible to explain.

if you're on bluesky you probably dont know because you're statistically a way too online 42 year old but watching morning tv for 45 minutes is like reading the books that made sephiroth do all that

big fan of the Cantonese version featured in Interior Chinatown. The bit in the book where it talks about exactly why it means so much to Chinese immigrants who hadn't been back in years/decades was emotional www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2BH...

In the first six months of 2025, top Trump officials used at least 13 Signal chats with names like "Iran/Ukraine Planning" and "State USAID." Dan Caine was the admin of a Signal group with Pete Hegseth and Marco Rubio that was set to automatically delete messages after 8 hours.

grilled by Rep. Pocan, Russell Vought refuses to acknowledge that people have died as a result to cuts to USAID. Pocan then reads the names of various people who have died because of the cuts.

Elon Musk gets mad when people point out that DOGE and its USAID cuts killed thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of babies, children, mothers, and elders

Elon now claims he was saving lives by ending USAID