France reports 109 deaths in Paris’ last 24h alone, due to extreme heat. In case you’re still, somehow, doubtful of the human extinction catastrophe, hospitals are overflowing, young people die of hyperthermia, the country is lacking in available morgues and funeral homes are booked to the brim.

Trump ripped up the walkway between the West Wing and the mansion to replace it with polished African granite carved in Italy. "Paid for by me," he claimed. Except that's not true. Taxpayers paid $689,232, per documents obtained by @michaelscherer.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

This bit.

Extraordinary detail in the new book on Trump's second term administration

NEW: A spokesperson for U.S. Health and Human Services confirmed to Stateline on Friday that the agency is canceling 53 out of 67 grants, worth about $68 million, under the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program, affecting grantees in more than two dozen states.

Grant cancellations like this are test balloons aligned with the OMB rule change (coup) they are trying to execute. You have till July 13th to file a comment. I would like every adult in this country to file a comment that calls bullshit on Russell Vought's OMB.

Quelle surprise

Two defendants who received 50 years each, Savanna Batten and Elizabeth Soto, were never accused of helping plan the demonstration here. They arrived separately, left the protest when guards asked them to, and were not accused of any act of violence talkingpointsmemo.com/news/prairie...

SpaceX shares are trading below flotation price. Most of the greedy mugs who bought into this Nazi rocket company have lost money. So the media is giving the same coverage as they did when helping the conman Musk pump up his bullshit flotation, right? 🙄 In the interests of their readers. #SpaceX

This is not a history job. It is a partisan political sinecure.

You can make more money undermining the humanities, faculty governance, and critical thought than you can make actually doing serious, peer reviewed research and teaching

Not sure how the lesson people draw from Trump’s past success with independent and low propensity voters is that such voters prefer moderation.

Isn’t this a lovely sentiment/marketing campaign?

People talk about US higher ed like it’s all blue haired gender majors but mostly it’s nursing and business students

Holy hell what kind of hotel gym has fixed hours that don’t start until 6am on weekdays? Have people never heard of jetlag? Or there’s no AC in a heatwave? Ffs

Nothing would please me more 🙄

There are many ways of thinking about rulings like today’s from SCOTUS, but one of them is that they are effectively gaslighting the country, telling us that what’s seemed like Constitutional normalcy has in fact been lawlessness up until this corrective moment.

Every one of those people is a hard-working individual who contributes more to our economy than the toxic schmucks who are persecuting them. Let them stay and continue to help building our country.

The armed guards are defending DJT’s ego. Period.

Kagan makes sure that Trump’s gutter racism — and the majority hand-waiving it away — gets into the record.

AI has started blocking the Wayback Machine from chronicling the web. Considering that nearly 40% of websites disappear after 10 years, this will enforce a giant loss in collective memory.

They said this about the Irish, Italians, Eastern Europeans, every Asian culture -- no that's no quite right we had a blanket ban on most asian immigrants through the first half of the 20th Century, so that's different -- and now its these folks' turn. This is a betrayal of all our families.

Two ICE agents tracked down a woman *inside a polling place* yesterday. Why? They demanded that she take down an Instagram post in which she named Jonathan Ross as the man who shot & killed Renee Good (after the Star Tribune identified Ross). www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...

let me just say: l m f a o

OpenAI might pull their IPO because #$SPCX didn't moon hard enough. Yikes.

Fulfilling the purpose for which it was built almost 2000 years ago, football fans packed the Roman Theatre of Amman to watch the Jordan v Algeria World Cup match. What a sight. [kottke.org]

The Supreme Court's decision in the Temporary Protected Status case proves the Supreme Court *is* racist. They don't merely affirm Trump's racism, they endorse it. And while that's not "news" for anyone paying attention, it's still outrageous. My latest in @thenation.com

Big week for Jarmo. Sorry to see Tuch go, but damn it’s good to have Benny locked down 🦬⚔️🏒 #Sabres

AI boosters want to act like time is being saved by doing these trivial tasks, when in reality the work product is meaningless (there is no delta in productive value between a PDF and a PowerPoint generated from it by an LLM) and tasks are simply being created to fill space.

Most white collar workplaces are like a machine shop where the boss measures how much work is being done by the volume of metal shavings left on the floor at the end of the workday; and LLMs are like an app that delivers bags of metal shavings to your door.

“Productivity particles” 🤣

"Converting PDFs to presentation slides" is such a telling example because so much of what LLMs are being used for seems to be labor that doesn't need to be done at all. It's just renting a space heater in someone else's building to accomplish nothing at all.

This universe, Thom Tillis?

There is a pernicious and sustained effort to distort the historical record and do violence to the public’s memory.

“Fall from grace” Mike Vrabel clock in everyday he still ain’t fell from grace www.nytimes.com/2026/06/24/n...

We are in the midst of a new Red Scare in case you weren't paying attention. Not coincidentally as more leftist politicians are rising.

If this had been a Christian claiming his religious rights were violated because he had to do something as burdensome as wear a mask or get a vaccine, the Court would have moved heaven and earth to find a remedy.

The only non-murderous thing I can say about the parent behind me in this airport who has given their kids a phone playing children’s videos on speaker is that at least they are not watching “Oui-Oui”

democrats who don’t take loud and firm stances in favor of the regulation if AI and prediction markets are leaving votes on the table. also easy ways to demonstrate your independence from SV billionaires www.semafor.com/article/06/2...

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

Liz Soto and Savanna Batten are 2 of those sentenced to 50 years in prison for Prairieland. I visited them in a north Texas jail—11 months into their incarceration over a July 4 noise demo—to meet the Trump admin’s “Antifa terrorists”. from behind glass, Soto said, “They didn’t like my book club.”

My god these statements of personal philosophy. AI or just business-speak?

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Each uni has a consultancy in that tells them how to run a degree cheaply. They all simply say 'mega lectures' (LOL, infrastructure) & 'generic modules staff is interchangeable on'. It's pitched as rationalising, creating a 'sustainable' portfolio. But its destroying what university actually is.

Not 2050. Today in France. Peak Temps. Every pink number is 40C+ (104F+) with many stations at 44C+ (111F+). A previously impossible heatwave, soon to be an annual tradition, only hotter. #heatwave #Europe

It is Bookshop's Anti-Prime sale which means shipping on EVERYTHING is FREE. You can support indie bookstores and load up on reads for your summer. This includes my novel, THE DRAGON HAS SOME COMPLAINTS, which drops in three weeks. I want to thread some other book recs, though!

Scientific American is 180 years old. The most eminent science magazine for the general public. And today, sold off as scrap to stop the staff from unionizing. Many top editors I've worked with for a decade on several articles have been fired. What a disgrace @sciam.bsky.social

i for one have full confidence in the trump administration's ability to adequately refit a plane donated by a foreign government into a highly secure mobile command center for the united states executive, following their unquestionably successful renovation of A Large Pool of Water

Something American education (at every level, even the highest ones) needs to do a better job of going forward is educating people that the production of information artifacts is secondary in value to the mental work that goes into creating them, which is the thing that is of actual importance.

Omg, what???? I’m going to throw something