One infection. That's all it takes. For millions around the world, a single COVID infection led to symptoms that lasted months or years. Long COVID can affect the brain, heart, lungs, immune system, and more. (...)

We identified 17 of the 27 'grievances' in the Declaration of Independence with a contemporary analog. We then annotated those 17 grievances with quotes from federal judges across 52 court cases involving the Trump administration. The judges in their words (many referencing the Declaration itself)

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

Please keep hammering this. It's an obvious and effective message that plays widely, especially with low-info voters.

“On multiple occasions the company has sought to quash or tone down political or sensitive stories that were journalistically sound.”

YES TALK ABOUT THE CORRUPTION! Just ask Peter Magyar - he’s proof of concept

Two-thirds of Brits now believe Brexit has made every single issue they care about - whether it’s cost of living, economic growth, opportunities for young people, trade or managing illegal immigration - worse. Happy Brexit anniversary everyone! www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/brexit...

When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

Whenever I hear someone claiming that USAID was evil from a leftist perspective, I hear someone saying “yes, millions ARE dying because Musk and Trump killed USAID, but at least they’ll die free of American imperialism.” Notably it is never the people saying this who are dying.

It is very clear that we need to go exponentially harder at rubbing Elon’s nose in his own genocidal filth.

Notice he didn’t say he would *raise* 9 kids or *parent* 9 kids

I’m really not sure this is the right precedent:

If rumours are to be believed I'll be living with a seventh different Prime Minister shortly. If it carries on like this I'm going to stop making the effort to learn their names.

The rise of larger vehicles like SUVs and pickup trucks, with their taller hoods and larger blind zones, has contributed to a 75% increase in pedestrian and cyclist deaths since 2009. Until we design better streets and ban these vehicles, people outside these vehicles will keep dying.

NBD - it's just the US Pardon Attorney and US Ambassador and Chief of Protocol talking about how the CIA framed Nixon for the Watergate break-in and it was all a hoax.

turns out being deliberately antagonistic towards the people who elected you in order to court people who would under no circumstances ever vote for you is not smart

Larry’s record is extraordinary

Happy Windrush Day. Today is the 78th anniversary of the arrival of the Windrush at Tilbury Docks on June 22nd 1948, an occasion being marked by events and activities around the country.

Should we understand from the recent spate of social media posts that his five children are choosing to spend Father’s Day elsewhere?

“A single Tomahawk cruise missile runs about $3.6 million, roughly what it takes to fund one scientist’s multiyear grant. The entire National Science Foundation budget is less than what we spent in the first week of the war with Iran.” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/20/o...

looking forward to ignoring the discourse on this but it IS objectively very funny that the king of England is going to release his taxes before the president of the USA www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

That’s right - ALL federal grants now have to be approved by political appointees, w/ Vought himself at the top of that pyramid. I’ve seen some references to this new policy in terms of NIH, which is indeed horrific, but it’s also so much more. The head of the OMB now holds ALL govt granting power.

This is some pretty crazy Berlin 1936 stuff.

1/ Happy Juneteenth! How a Texas emancipation commemoration spread across the US is an amazing story. But Juneteenth wasn’t the first Black Freedom Day in America—or the only one of its day. So, let’s talk about em’. Pictured: Martha Yates Jones and Pinkie V Yates, Houston Juneteenth, 1908 | HPL

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The problem with having trillionaires is there is nothing left to buy, so you get idiocy like Mars colonization. The solution to all of this is taxation.

For what it's worth, if I were trying to kill a sport, the first things on my to-do list would be devoting ever more stadium space to luxury boxes that are usually empty, making games prohibitively expensive to go to regularly with kids, and making it impossible to watch every game on TV... MANFRED.

In countries that have successfully reversed democratic backsliding in recent years—from Poland in 2023 to Hungary in 2026—opposition movements made prosecuting those who have broken laws a central campaign issue.

Gov. Ned Lamont says the levy could bring in at least $100 million to offset federal cuts that have driven up the cost of health insurance. ctmirror.org/2026/06/18/l...

Because “fees” aren’t tolls

Michelle Obama: "We simply don't have the luxury or time to be cynical or complacent. To ring our hands in despair. To wait for someone else to fix the problem. Y'all, hope is all we have. Because hope is the essential spark that lights the fire of change…"

Trump administration quietly shifts $352m in federal funds for White House ballroom Funds meant for Secret Service were transferred to project president promised would be financed by private donations www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

So proud of my sister who continues to speak with the press to get the word out about the ways things are very very very very bad at NIH.

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A recent study by @zalaly.bsky.social shows a ~40% reduction in major cardiovascular events among >1 MILLION participants after vaccines. The findings suggest the SARS-CoV jab not only protects against infection but can also reduce #LongCOVID cardiovascular issues. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Always a bit amused when I see a "this is the canary in the coal mine" take about universities or the humanities. My dude, we're knee deep in canary carcasses. Glad've cottoned on, but the eery silence of ceased chirping has long since engulfed us.

My most optimistic take on all of this is that slop AI is going to force us all into an existential crisis where we come out on the other side with a deep understanding and appreciation of subjectivity.

WTAF?

Carlo Ginzburg est mort, annonce la presse italienne. Immense historien, il a su construire une oeuvre originale entre micro-histoire et anthropologie historique qui a considérablement renouvelé la discipline. www.repubblica.it/cultura/2026...

Academic freedom assessment across the world. The US is on a steep decline, below >120 countries www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-...

Folks, we're recognizing an Iranian sphere of influence, withdrawing forces, and paying indemnities, in exchange for merely the same statement from Iran that they have always made about nuclear weapons.

Hell of a Freudian slip. I *assume* he was thinking of the Baader-Meinhof Gang, a far-left terrorist group. Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a legendary and rightly celebrated anti-Nazi theologian & dissident.

So I was out of town and only just saw this but umm the Second World War started ~11 months after Neville Chamberlain returned from Munich declaring “peace in our time.”

The Art of the Understatement

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Susan Collins affirms she likes the Kavanaugh Stop

This just doesn’t sound as good as they thought it would when they came up with it

That moment when you think someone is sub-posting about WWI and then realize it’s about the World Cup. 😂 Historians, amirite??