You'll never believe what former Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy just said on national television... with a straight face. Yeah... I'm just going to leave this here for the people who care about the facts.

i don't want infinite music. i want finite music. i want a collection i can comprehend and fall in love with. i want a range of choices, not every record every recorded. i get serious choice paralysis. just let me curate my own collection. i hate the future.

I’d give up 100 years of device time to ride on the Midtown Greenway with people I love, too.

Trump's DOJ had a court order to release the remaining Epstein files and simply refused. That should be a much bigger story right now.

Abbott Laboratories donated $500,000 to Trump’s inauguration fund. Trump bought around $500,000 worth of shares in Abbott stock last year. His DOJ just dropped a years-long criminal investigation into Abbott for potential deadly misconduct. Everything is for sale.

There's already a recently updated bunker. This is about a monument to himself. But he learned that "national security" sells better.

While scientists have long braced for climate change, the growing severity of its impacts is shocking them. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

This piece is worth your time to read in its entirety. Total sellout of once-reputable journalism to hyped schlock

Wish we could get higher ed in this country to do the same. We are dumbing down our future

Who are the masked cowards who call themselves the “Patriot Front”? They’re exactly who you think they are.

I think this might be one of the most incredible, unsettling and symbolic photos of today’s America I’ve ever seen. I can’t stop looking at it. From Reuters, published on the Guardian website.

my brother & his partner are telling me an insane story about this local deity called "st. rat" which is apparently a mosaic relief put up by some queers in seattle. the city kept trying to paint over it, but people would repeatedly just use acetone and remove the paint until the city gave up

So freeing!

The Republican Party is a big tent, consisting of people who are pedophiles and people who protect them.

“This is a real win,” he said. “It is not the end of the fight though, and we’re not walking away until this prison camp is shut down for good.” www.newsfromthestates.com/article/agre...

The entire consumer-facing "A.i." industry is a fucking scam. Ban it from all your businesses and institutions.

Sad to watch this regime purge anyone who puts the country before this president. (And make Us all Less Safe in the Process)

Glad to see more elected leaders stepping up. Anyone who has read the executive summaries of the global reports on climate change, which every human ought to do, should be howling as our administration keeps pushing fossil fuels.

There are a range of media and people who have lost their mind about Mamdani. At the time of real threats to democracy they treat him evoking the American creed they grew up with as dangerous radicalism.

WOW

BREAKING: Fox News America 250 anchors running critically low on lipstick to apply to pig

Trump is watching the Fox News feed of himself watching Fox News

I’m not tired of the Reflecting Pool Jello models everyone took to their relatives’ houses for the 4th yet. They’re so creative! Although this one I’d prob not eat. A bit too realistic.

Like many families across America, Jess and I are with family, laughing, giggling, smiling, huddled around the soft glow of a phone screen reading news about the weather in D.C.

It's like if Woodstock '99 and the Fyre Festival had a baby and then that baby was raised by Jonestown.

I…just can’t anymore

Clean air is woke

A quiet auroral arc in Fairbanks, Alaska. If you see this--it's actually a good sign! These static/quiet auroral arcs are a sign that energy is building.

Still zero for ebikes, zero for transit, and $2b for oil refineries.

"... people throwing the White Nationalist tantrums are being coddled by privileged centrists/moderates who think we just need to understand them and let them scream and cry it out. And for how long? Another 50 years? 100? 200? As James Baldwin once said, how long am I to wait for your progress?"

The weather service must be woke, saying there could be lightning. “Freedom to get fried!”

Anybody who invests in anything linked to that con man is soon parted from his money while the rigged shell game continues

Donald Trump doesn’t own the 4th of July. 🇺🇸 He owns Jan. 6th.

Thank you, 🙏🏼

A. People in DC did not know those fascists were planning to march. B. They marched for 15 minutes and then turned tail. C. People in DC would have been out there had they known they would be there. D. Do people know how people in DC (who actually live in the city) roll?

Probably a bad idea to wrap your face and body in slim-fit clothing on a day with 101 degree heat. Especially if the garments are made from tightly woven cotton or certain synthetics.

Perfect dating profile tbh.

This is actually a good app so it’s great to hear that the NHS is going to absolutely fuck it up beyond all recognition 10/10

Democracy is not something we have, it's something we must always be in the act of doing – ongoing, ING. A country is an idea, but we must ever renew our commitment to its principles or it crumbles. To reminding & renewing what set us on this path [past comics excerpts] spinweaveandcut.com/ing-2020/

My pleasure! And congrats on the mention of your work in Justice Jackson's concurrence in the birthright citizenship case - highlighted in this piece by @chrisgeidner.bsky.social

Nodding to neighbors wrapped in puffy down coats with hoods, fleece vests with windbreakers on top. Yes, it's a true #SanFrancisco summer morning and we wouldn't have it any other way, although it looks like the #4thofJuly celebration fireworks will only be a colorful blur by the Golden Gate Bridge

We need to stop dedicating a disproportionate amount of public space on city streets to cars. I rarely see drivers driving on many streets, but the tax payer subsidized “free” car parking & dangerous car driving greatly hampers traffic flow & safety. Most people drive on the highway anyway.

REALLY good point. This does seem to raise ethics questions that I am not sure have really been wrestled with in the rush by institutions to jump on the AI bandwagon.

Magical passion flower from yesterday’s walk

busy bee on the Stokes' Aster