Turns out this was canny.

Posted on the internet, literally created by government bureaus

Get your bets down on Spain now! ETTD.

When you die, your name is not automatically and magically removed from voter rolls. This is so flimsy when you stop and think about it for five seconds. Of course there are dead people on voter rolls ... but they don't vote. Because they're dead!

“.. in the days leading up the speech, [Pulte] pushed to reveal the names of intelligence officials accused of concealing election interference.” Other aides argued it “could lead to conspiracy theorists to take the law into their own hands.” @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2026/07...

The US is literally being run by the dumbest fuckers on the planet.

1. This is awesome. 2. I hope every Democratic advisor/staffer is taking copious notes, because Mamdani's messaging team is consistently on point. You can't just do good stuff; you need to consistently let people know that you're doing good stuff, and reminding them about it later.

This stuff really does underscore how much it’s objectively speaking about xenophobia, racism, other bigotries as policy, because Trump had repeatedly campaigned on oh we still wanna let Good And Smart Ones in if they follow the Rules, but no, even those people get told immediately to fuck off

Preventing some Iranian villagers from getting drinking water does nothing to prevent the IRGC from firing missiles and drones. Water is a red line. I know those of you who hate the US military and US foreign policy won’t care about the difference, but it’s significant, with very bad implications.

I remember Musk yelling about "the takers." Guess he would know.

An entirely predictable mess. Buoys & razor wire floating down the Rio Grande.

When their landlord tried to raise the rent by more than 70%, the largest multilingual senior center in Sunset Park was forced to close its doors. But Sunset Park fought back.

Miami-Dade's brushfires helped reveal that ICE violated over 100 court orders in South #Florida. The incident has opened a can of worms in federal court. www.wusf.org/politics-iss... via @danielrivero.bsky.social

The revelations came out in a federal court case brought by Democratic states challenging ICE's access to Medicaid data to aid in deportation efforts. n.pr/4f9OdMn

ICE is claiming their thugs in Maine WERE wearing body cameras but didn't know how to work them. Dude if you're too fucking stupid to work a body camera you do not belong anywhere near a firearm of any kind.

This essay develops themes from 'I was in the house' — the cowardice of institutional elites in the face of threats from the anti-scientific, pro-ignorance Trumpist movement & regime; the abandonment of research in the public interest; and the retreat to oligarchically-funded privatized science. 2/2

"The command made no mention of civilian infrastructure." That apparently is code for "war crimes." Gift article #Hormuz #Iran #Truce #Criminality

In light of the increasingly clear mortal threats to the open, democratic & wildly successful scientific infrastructure of the USA — the envy of the world since the end of WW2 — I'm re-upping posts to 2 essays I wrote at the conclusion of the 2025 SynbioBeta synthetic biology conference. 1/2

🗞️ @theathletic.com joined our Wiki Loves Fútbol watch party in NYC on July 10th, as we watched a World Cup quarterfinal + edited @wikipedia.org — part of a campaign organized by WikiLatinos.⚽ Gift link: www.nytimes.com/athletic/744... H/T to @craignewmark.bsky.social for supporting open knowledge! 🙏

This summer, we kept the lights on all night, every night, at five soccer fields across New York City.

This was the scene at Calvert Vaux Park in Gravesend, Brooklyn Tuesday night.

It’s worth noting that Taco Bell identified the source before the FDA did, and promptly pulled it from their stores. The FDA didn’t even name the source until Taylor Farms outed themselves, and hasn’t issued a recall. Basically, Taco Bell is now a more reliable authority than the FDA.

I think it was Alice's Restaurant. The initial release was rated R for some reason.

Impressive pushback, and something every other sitting judge should be doing.

Old enough to remember when ambassadors were supposed to improve relations with the country they were posted to, not antagonize everyone.

The shuffle on foobar2000 did a fine job on this week's #FridayRandomFive. ( #MusicSky & #MutualMusic, if you feel like it, put your music player on shuffle and post the first 5 tunes that show up. ) Starting things off with some Mingus. youtu.be/CWWO_VcdnHY?... 1/5

They’re going to kill more people

Luttig: As a candidate for attorney general of the United States of America, Blanche is an embarrassment to America itself. If the Republican Senate confirms this man, based on his record, to be the next attorney general, it will mark the end of the rule of law in America.

The world whenever Aaron takes any time off:

if blanche gets confirmed i think it's entirely possible we'll see the first attorney general to get disbarred during his term

Josh Marshall: States are not only entitled to insist on their constitutional authority to administer federal elections — they are obligated to do so. The sovereign authority of the states is the key sheet anchor on which everything depends.

These two are great:

GEO Group used to only kill people with medical neglect. Now they’re using a more direct approach

9th Cir., 2-1, no good faith exception where officers indiscriminately rummaged through man's computer even after they found the specific video they had a warrant for and decided it did not show the crime he was accused of. Suppression required. cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op...

10th Cir. holds that it was clearly established law (as of at least 1999!) that it would violate equal protection for public school employees to be deliberately indifferent to student-on-student racist harassment. No QI for employees. www.ca10.uscourts.gov/sites/ca10/f...

This is deeply disingenuous and, frankly, a dereliction of journalistic integrity. A quick glance at Yum! Brand’s annual filings reveal that this is common language included every single year as an investment risk factor. The most recent filing is no different because the risk is always present.

NEW: Aurora Police say an ICE detention center employee shot a protester last night. She is expected to survive. 42-year-old Brandon Booth, who works for the ICE contractor GEO Group, is being held on suspicion of attempted second degree murder and other charges.

Tom Nichols about Trump’s speech: “It is pretty laughable when the president said: ‘we are not trying to reduce confidence in our elections’—that’s exactly what they were trying to do.” @radiofreetom.bsky.social

Only two more weeks to enter your sci-fi stories for the Protopian Prize, given to works that imagine positive futures for humanity, w/tech that serves the public interest. (I'm one of the judges!) Two winners get $5000 US each, and publication in an anthology from MIT Press! protopianprize.com

The Secret Service is "protecting" Trump's failson by "protecting" him from being served with a subpoena from BBC. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

One of many ironies in the documents the WH released is that the CISA assessment of electoral cybersecurity does NOT find it realistic that adversaries could exploit vulnerabilities to manipulate vote totals undetected, but rather that breaches could be used to undermine public confidence...

Mt Fuji eraser. Blue and white, and as you wear off bits of the eraser around the edges, it should begin to resemble a snow-capped Mt Fuji.

This lettuce is literally everywhere and usually it’s in contexts where no one knows/discloses it. Taco Bell is one of the only places doing the right, proactive thing here and misleading headlines are flipping things around making seem like they’re a site of danger instead.

finally i got to write an essay that quotes warren g harding, theodore adorno, a criminal trial and the Subway menu: buttondown.com/theswordandt...

"After boarding a handful of boats — stuffed to the brim with people and pets — community members drove across the lake as their entire First Nation burned to the ground behind them. " www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

we deserve to see this

What Watters is threatening is a form of fratricide, of blue on blue violence. Watters is suggesting that male US Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, &/or Marines treat US female Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, &/or Marines not as colleagues, but as targets for what sexual assault &/or rape, which are war crimes.

Dang they really got a category for everything

Oh come on. Dude financed a series of lawsuits designed to literally bankrupt and shut down critical media sites.

ICE thugs tackled and tried to handcuff a man at Las Vegas airport. When they realized they were being filmed, they simply walked away, leaving the man on the ground with a handcuff attached to one arm. The Las Vegas Police found no outstanding warrants for the man and removed his handcuffs.