I am in between working on different things and getting distracted, so I thought I'd start a thread here on why I'm so excited the Legacy Survey of Space and Time has finally started 🧵☄️🔭 www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/s...

WATCH: “It’s hard to explain just how unhinged and racist that position is. But let me try,” says Chris Hayes on the Trump administration’s case against birthright citizenship. Constitutional scholar and advocate Sherrilyn Ifill joins to discuss the Supreme Court’s decision.

Absolutely insane. This country is over if there’s no reckoning for his corruption and lawlessness.

Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito are full of shit in their dissents in the birthright citizenship case. Give me two minutes, and I'll explain why.

In a sane world, the 4 justices who argue that the plain language of 14A doesn’t say what it says, would be promptly impeached and disbarred.

Yes! This hijacking is enough to justify removal from office. Add it to the huge pile, which grows daily. If only Congress would locate their spine…

"Crazy Beautiful!" 5,234 images from 2 time-lapse sequences photographed by Sophie Adenot & Jessica Meir on ISS Expedition 74 are repaired, remastered & retimed to create this video of aurora australis with music by Andreas Vollenweider. 11m19s 4K youtu.be/22mTjdmpG1M

Study Contends Free Will Disproven By Fact That Humans Repeatedly Eat At Jimmy John’s

Great news for the American people 💯🎯

I think we just passed oops.

Dystopian. I’m so sick of this nightmare.

Showed my teen kids the first third of LAWRENCE OF ARABIA tonight (so like 1h 40m?). This is a movie that takes its time.

Say it louder for your colleagues in the cloak room!! Thanks @chrismurphyct.bsky.social

Trump has turned the White House into a 24/7 corruption operation. This is a national crisis. Trump thinks the public will stop paying attention. So I went to the Senate floor to call his bluff. I told the ENTIRE STORY of his 500 days of corruption. 1/ Here it is - in one🧵

At the reflecting pool, and guys, this doesn’t look right

If you're going to spend a decade mapping the Universe, you'd better pick a good spot! 🔭🧪 NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory sits atop Cerro Pachón in Chile, where dark skies, dry air, high elevation, and 300+ clear nights per year mean great conditions for exploring the cosmos. 🌌✨

It’s kind of funny because the only commitments the deal compelled of Iran was them allowing the US to surrender to them.

Yes! ❤️💪🎉

The JCPOA, which Trump called "the worst deal ever," ONLY lifted nuclear-related sanctions on Iran. Sanctions for human rights violations, terrorism, and its missile program ALL remained. Trump is promising to end ALL SANCTIONS, even those imposed by international bodies. Victory for Iran.

Red alert, shields up!

"We have a term for enterprises that look successful because they keep drawing in new investors and keep drawing in new investors because they look successful. They’re called Ponzi schemes." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/elon-musk-...

The correct thing to do is to point and laugh and laugh and laugh that they are such pathetic bad losers that they cannot handle that one of the most liberal cities in the country had enough liberal voters to choose two Democratic candidates in a zero-sum election. Cry harder fucknuggets

6/ We eliminated measles 26 years ago. We eradicated New World Screwworm 60 years ago. Keeping diseases at bay requires sustained investment, trained people, and ongoing engagement.

The thing to understand about this is, the US government funded an effort to completely eradicate screw worm, in the US and also throughout Mexico and Central America. Because we knew it would come back if we didn’t do this. Great Radiolab episode about this: www.wnycstudios.org/story/return...

President of MIT not mincing words today in @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2026/05/27/s...

A must-read for Democrats. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/03/o...

Ted Lieu: “Instead of North Korea-style cabinet meetings where everyone kisses Trump’s ass, come clean. There’s something wrong with Trump. He keeps going to the hospital and getting cognitive tests. We haven’t seen him in eight days.” courtesy of @acyn.bsky.social

Jimmy Fallon just used every NBA team nickname in a short monologue about Traitor Trump, and it's the best thing I've seen on the internet today. As a hoops fan, this Mouthy Renegade Writer approves. And GO SPURS! 🏀

This is inexcusable. Shameful. Irredeemable.

RUBIO: The video you just showed me now he was not falling asleep LIEU: So you're lying again? You're lying to Congress, Secretary Rubio. Here's video from a French news channel mocking Trump for falling asleep at a Memorial Day ceremony.

To be clear: the lower court said the map intentionally discriminates against black people in violation of the *constitution* (not just the VRA) and the MAGA Majority of SCOTUS is saying "that's ok now."

"The result is a horror show for US science research.....It is, in short, a recipe for how the government can finish the job of crippling American science." arstechnica.com/science/2026... 🔭☄️

The crime | The accused

I have seen two copper-colored robotaxis in my town in the Bay Area in the last month. Small, no rear window, no side mirrors. This article says the “fleet” in CA has shrunk to only 10 cars, and the CA cars have a human safety driver. The autonomous ones are in TX. Seems like Waymo is way ahead.

This is what the bulldozed White House looks like today, a UFC arena being built directly in front of it, total classless chaos. Literally makes me sick to my stomach.

Zombie movies are garbage. There is a through line to how we got Trump, and it involves Day of the Dead and 28 Days Later.

Ken Paxton is the most corrupt politician in America.  He embodies the broken system we’re running against. It’s time to come together: The People vs. Ken Paxton

Look for beauty

Another reminder: if there exists *any* class of people who don't have due process rights, then *nobody* actually has due process rights because the government can always just say you're in that class.

Worst crossover ever: Do the Right Thing from the Black Lagoon

Also: The great failure of the Biden administration was not to protect Americans against the entirely predictable outrages now being perpetrated by the Trump administration. Let’s not fuck it up again.

Trump did not reach a settlement with the government. There was no case to settle. He has not created a slush fund. He has colluded with Todd Blanche to steal money from the US Treasury. This is not a “deal.” This is a crime for which Trump & Blanche must be prosecuted. It ia a crime.

However appalled you are by this, it’s not enough. It’s a frank statement that Trump and Trumpists are above the law and need not even plausible excuses to loot your tax dollars. It’s a total failure of our civic institutions.

Really?

The wireless charging pad in my car does a great job of heating up my phone, but doesn’t seem to increase the charge level at all.

This is a fake country.

Another for instance! Down in Queensland, Australia, fossil gas used to provide all the peak power. Then batteries start nibbling at it. Then chomping on it. And now they've basically eaten it all up. No more gas. Look at this graphic! Glorious. reneweconomy.com.au/big-batterie...

Name a song with girl in the title but replace girl with squirrel: Squirrel, You’ll Be A Woman Soon

Slightly increase a band: Depeche Median The Prevention

Slightly increase a band: Camper Van Bach