The New Odyssey Movie Is Historically Inaccurate; Matt Damon Isn’t the Least Bit Greek - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

This is exactly why we've warned for decades against mixing religion and government. Once the government decide which faiths count and which denominations are 'real' Christians, religious liberty is in trouble...

My first candidate sign of the season: Patrick Roath for Congress MA-08 for strong & responsive leadership on election law, childcare, healthcare, housing, immigrants & due process & more. Serious change needed! @patrickroath.bsky.social

The criticism of Trump, Kennedy, and Bhattacharya that was so subversive that the ADA had to eject the Editor-in-Chief of their flagship journal from their annual meeting for sharing it? Prior today it had fewer than 1000 views. Do your thing.

Here's the article. diabetesjournals.org/care/article...

I specifically requested no more metaphors

Exclusive: Boston teachers back Lynch challenger in Dem primary fight

We deserve a leader who’s ready to meet this moment, for our country and our communities. I’m Patrick Roath and I’m running for Congress to fight for what matters.

HAPPY PRIDE! I was honored to stand with town leaders and advocates in Braintree this morning for the raising of the Pride flag! This month, you’ll see us across the district, showing up in solidarity with the queer community and pushing for stronger LGBTQIA+ protections!

A moment of concentration immortalized in stone some 4,500 years ago! This scribe statue was skilfully sculpted from limestone. His lifelike eyes are made of rock crystal and calcite, outlined with copper. Old Kingdom, Dynasty 5, from Saqqara. Egyptian Museum, Cairo 📷 by me #Archaeology

i’m old enough to remember when comic book supervillains were fictional

Here was DHS’s statement at the time.

"I just don't think kids should be getting gender affirming surgeries!" Stop. You never cared until it was trans kids. Minors getting breast augmentation as graduation gifts. Teen girls getting nose jobs to make their noses smaller and more feminine. You never cared before.

This. No one even BLINKED when our resident doc at the synagogue offered me a "deviated septum" diagnosis for my bat mitzvah. (Code for getting insurance to approve a nose job, VERY common gift offer when you look like I do from the side). Bat mitzvahs are at 13.

Pride was born as a riot, and has always been an act of defiance. During my life, I survived an internment camp. I came out at 68. I've watched rights get won and now watch them being rolled back. Yet I'm still here, still proud, and still holding Brad's hand.

Ossoff: He’s trying to put his face on the money. He's building a monument to himself . But see, Atlanta, he's doing these things now because no one will honor him when he’s gone… because he's a failed president and a national disgrace.

It’s no big surprise that Trump’s DOJ is deleting all of the January 6th press releases from its website. Here’s the thing: I downloaded all of them in Feb. 2025 (that’s right, more than a year ago) suspecting that they’d do just that. And we’re working to post them all online, as are others.

I mean, true?

Dr. Chien-Shiung Wu, one of the most influential nuclear physicists of the 20th century, was born #OTD 1912. Her Wu experiment (proving parity isn't conserved) won her 2 male colleagues the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics. Her role wasn't honored until she won the Wolf Prize in 1978. #WomenInSTEM 1/2👇

Holy Jesus.

We shouldn’t accept the claim that Platner was “sexting” anyone without seeing the texts. He’s controversial, there are a lot of attempts to sink him, and it’s perfectly possible the texts were just innocent discussions of securing the existence of our people and a future for white children.

Respect For Friend Drops After Reading Book They Recommended

Some perspective on the 2013-2016 #Ebola epidemic versus our current response, my latest at @msnowreports.bsky.social.

This vast 8m figure is known as a Telamon. It was one of many used as anthropomorphic columns to support the Temple of Zeus in Akragas (Agrigento). The temple was started in 480BC but the roof never constructed. It was the largest Doric temple ever built. A model shows how the figures fit in. 📷mine

Cool building, Pittsburgh

BREAKING: My office is suing United Healthcare for defrauding MassHealth out of $100 million. United put profits over people, manipulating health assessments for our seniors on Medicaid. I'll hold any company accountable that exploits our residents and misuses your tax dollars.

The Republican Party quietly deleted their own ad attacking Ken Paxton's record on crime... because Paxton is now the Republican Party's nominee to represent Texas in the U.S. Senate. Figured if the ad is important enough to delete, it's important enough to see...

Here is Tom Steyer personally supporting high school trans athlete AB Hernandez. I don't think I've ever seen a candidate as brave as Tom Steyer in his explicit support for trans folks. It says a lot that it took a self funded billionaire not dependent on donors to do it.

Going to say it again. Stop using AI cartoons in posts. There are plenty of editorial cartoonists who would be happy to let you repost their work; just ask them.

Neurotypicality is stored in the foreskin

The Pope says FACT CHECK YOUR SOURCES

As it is 30 degrees in Cymry today #Ancient Egyptian burial chamber in the tomb of Nebenmaat and his wife. at Deir El Medina.who They lived sometime during the reign of Ramesses II during the New Kingdom (1279–1213 BC). #Archaeology #History #TombTuesday #Egypt #art #painting

The moments where he says “I” really jump out.

Some of us just don't like getting colds

The paper in question: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Boston Globe: The ‘millionaires tax’ was pitched as a $2 billion revenue source. It’s blown past that, yet again. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/05/25/m...

STAR WARS was released 49 years ago today. Hollywood’s biggest movie phenomenon, and the film that launched the career of star Harrison Ford, the behind the scenes story is as spectacular as blowing up the Death Star… 1/37

That’s put rather succinctly

Honestly, one of the funniest tweets I've ever seen.

Fascinating graph

As a science fiction writer I really fucking resent tech bros for ruining the phrase "artificial intelligence." 80 years of it being all about cool androids and interesting computers destroyed by five years of "Spicy autocorrect making everything shittier for money." NEVER FORGIVE.

Back in 2021 I requested that this paper be retracted: "Vaccines and sudden infant death: An analysis of the VAERS database 1990-2019 and review of the medical literature" Finally it has been removed Took them long enough #vaccineswork

A lovely female Yellow Warbler that is nesting in my backyard. I can't see the nest as it's too deep in the cattails, but I've been seeing her flying in and out of the marsh.

Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social.

For #WorldBeeDay - Attic Black-Figure amphora, ca. 540 BC, showing the four men who attempted to steal honey from the hives that fed the infant Zeus - Laios, Keleos, Kerberos, and Aigolios - being punished by bees! 🐝🏺 Image: British Museum (1847,0716.1). Link - www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...

I say without hyperbole that this is the most brazenly corrupt action in US Presidential history. That it does not immediately lead to impeachment is a dangerous sign of how far the rule of law has declined.

FYI