Cut the heel ends off a hot morning and stack them individually in brown paper. Don't store your summer days in plastic. They'll mold.

Edward Hopper (1882–1967) Monhegan Landscape c.1916–19

I asked a Norwegian fan at the World Cup match how so many of their fans can afford to spend the summer in America going to a bunch of expensive World Cup games, and I shit you not he just goes “Our healthcare and school are free and our work is encouraging us to do so.” Fuck man.

Meanwhile, in Scotland 😂

Growing up we spent so many summers visiting Big Bear and Arrowhead, I can smell the hot dry dirt and pine needles underfoot, hear the Steller’s jays and the brown noise of the pine breeze.

NASA & Katalyst Space are attempting to rescue the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, a powerful gamma-ray telescope that's on a death-spiral toward Earth. A booster spacecraft, called Link, is now on its way. It will attempt to grab Swift & lift it to safety. 🧪🔭 spacenews.com/pegasus-laun...

Florida folks: If you have O- blood and are of African or African American descent, OneBlood is searching for donors who have a rare antigen that matches with a teenager with sickle cell disease who needs 50 units of blood so she can have a bone marrow transplant.

Happy Birthday, America 🇺🇸

James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Nocturne in Black and Gold, the Falling Rocket, 1875 dia.org/collection/n...

Goodnight, world. Steady on, no wobbles.

I vote alligators and crocodiles immediately out of the club.

Goodnight, world. Steady on, no wobbles.

Sergei Arsenievich Vinogradov (Russian, 1869-1938), The Seashore. Alupka 1917.

NEW: I thought I had missed something major in my reporting. Turns out I had stumbled into an AI-fueled feedback loop that involved a real LLC’s fictional website and a search engine that’s thrusting unreliable answers on users. By @justinelliott.bsky.social

Happy “liberal arts professor helps save the Union” day to all who celebrate

🚨BREAKING: In the latest blow to President Donald Trump’s anti-voting agenda, a federal court on Wednesday granted the NAACP’s request to halt the U.S. Postal Service’s (USPS) implementation of his executive order against mail voting. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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At least 233 people have been sickened in eight outbreaks that regulators have connected to Mark McAfee’s farm since 2006, and at least 40 of them have been hospitalized. The tally is almost certainly an undercount, experts and regulators said. By @anniewaldman.bsky.social

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Great news for the American people 💯🎯

I don't know, could really see that plot twist about now.

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Goodnight, world. Steady on, no wobbles.

Roy Lichtenstein, Wall Explosion II, 1965 https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1125406

My thoughts to everyone near Caracas impacted by the earthquakes today.

Goodnight, world. Steady on, no wobbles.

😂

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Goodnight, world. Steady on, no wobbles.

“I carry with me a photo of a Muslim child who, during my visit to Lebanon, was standing there holding a sign that said ‘Welcome, Pope Leo,’ and in this latest phase of the war, he was killed. “As a Church, I say again: as a pastor, I cannot be in favor of war.” — Pope Leo XIV

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Goodnight, world. Steady on, no wobbles. *Butterfly in the Daphne blossoms

Gauguin’s Chair - David Hockney 1988

From @AdamTooze's Chartbook on Substack

Cronyism in an idiot sandwich. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/u...

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Each time reporter David Armstrong refilled his cancer drug prescription, he knew the bottle cost his health insurer the equivalent of a new car — even though each pill cost only about 25 cents to make. Listen to his investigation on “Paper Trail”:

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Power lines were one very dangerous issue, but unrelenting sonic frequencies transmitted through the earth? Hard no.

This thread, whew. And what stands out to me is how these students—when asked to just feel, think, and express—did just that without AI. What's heartbreaking is the number of them who don't even realize this, nor understand the real value and takeaway from this exercise. Argh.

Today’s history lesson

David Hockney

Free events offered this weekend at the Smithsonian's Summer Solstice celebration (jazz, tours, nature hikes, workshops (quillwork, bookbinding), dance parties, marketplace.) The museums are open until 11:00PM on Fri (19th)/Sat (20th) As always, Smithsonian museums are free....

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What do these companies have in common? -Block -Citigroup -Coinbase -CVS -Dominion Energy -Disney -Halliburton -Hasbro -HP -Kohl's -Live Nation -Palantir -Paypal -PG&E -Southwest Airlines -Tesla -United Airlines They all paid a lower effective income tax rate than you: zero.