Talarico: Every bar has that guy. He’s loud, he’s obnoxious, he makes all the women in the bar feel uncomfortable. He hears you say your name to the bartender and then adds his drink to your tab when you’re not looking. That’s Paxton. And I don’t know about y’all, but I’m done picking up his tab.

This week someone targeted my family for harm with a false report. We’re physically OK, but that doesn’t mean we weren’t harmed. I am beyond furious. Whatever your politics, this is awful, wrong, and can never become normal.

A civilization that proves incapable of solving the problems it creates is a decadent civilization. A civilization that chooses to close its eyes to its most crucial problems is a stricken civilization. A civilization that uses its principles for trickery & deceit is a dying civilization.

People say this about a lot of journalists, but truly, always read @timothypmurphy.bsky.social. "The Kennedys are down to their last and thorniest public servant—a sun-baked, worm-addled, crank incubated in a world of entitlement and unaccountability." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

50 years later, still evergreen

It looks like we found the Reflecting Pool vandal.

Scientists fighting the good fight.

This is Richard. He's sometimes accused of not being a real dog because of his weird paws and inability to bark. Thinks his pack would say otherwise. 12/10 for all (IG: richardandtheguardians)

Finish: “there’s also the possibility that in our rush to automate the burdens of writing, we lose a valuable form of cognitive strain. And a culture that no longer wrestles its thoughts into structured prose, however clumsily, might find that it has fewer thoughts worth wrestling with at all.” 10/

Am I being over-sensitive here or does the term “side effects” have an inherent negative connotation and therefore this headline is sci-comm malpractice? The “side effects” are reduced risk of serious cardiac complications and reduced risk of all-cause cardiac events. Benefits. That’s the word.

Picking up floating litter is a crime… Arranging seashells is a threat… Throwing a sandwich is a weapon… MAGAs are the biggest snowflakes on planet earth. Pathetic. 😎✨

Little man with huge total projection

The propaganda is starting to fail.

The theory that “electable” means “work to appease right-wing bigots under the assumption that majorities agree with them, at least partially, and they prioritize it when voting” has been tried. It has failed. Try something else.

It is absolutely true that Dems need to win swing voters to win elections. The misdiagnosis is that swing voters are “moderates.” They are not. They have almost entirely incoherent politics. You don’t win them from the middle. You appeal to your base with conviction and hope swings like the vibes.

Cognitive surrender.

#BirdSky #Birds #BabyBirds www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Trump’s humiliating Iran surrender in one chart: Obama: 98% uranium cut, enrichment capped, sanctions in place, 0 American lives lost. Trump: $25 BILLION unfrozen, sanctions lifted, Hormuz tolls for Iran, 15 dead + 543 injured Americans, $2.2 TRILLION cost. Pure weakness. #TrumpSurrendered

I’m so tired of all the winning.

It’s only legit if our candidate wins. Got it.

None of this makes any sense, except as desperate rationalizations from a man who cannot face facts and admit defeat. On the most important questions of war and peace, the president of the United States seems to be losing his grip on reality itself. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

FY I: www.josiahcole.com/2026/06/15/b...

I’m not sure how to stream without Roku but I’m starting to research.

WHY DO ALL THESE HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCES WANT TO BE CONNECTED TO THE F-ING INTERNET? Our last landlady installed light switches that don't work properly unless you use them in conjunction with an app. I don't want a fucking app for light switches. I just want to switch a light on & off, using a switch.

Nothing says “dying civilization” like gladiator fights at the capitol for the emperor’s amusement.

As a goddess, Seshat was tasked with presiding over all that was written. She ruled the entire domain of the written word, overseeing its use in the mortal world, the celestial heavens, and the realm of the dead. mythcrafts.com/2025/03/13/g...

OMEN ALERT Our team on the ground at the Kennedy Center reports....RAINBOW

…”To our horror, we walked straight into a vast new construction site in the very heart of the protected area. We saw excavators tearing up the beach.”… www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

You know what would really own the libs? If you said you love inflation and don't care about Americans' economic situation. Would totally work. Keep saying that.

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They are complex little fur people.

It’s a word I needed and here it is.

Excellent advice especially going after non voters as opposed to trying to get people out of the MAGA cult.

How sick is sick enough? New Medicaid work rule worries patient advocates, states

Become ungovernable

“These men came here…to storm these beaches…not to gain anything for ourselves, not to fulfill any ambitions that America had for conquest, but just to preserve freedom, systems of self-government in the world.” ~Eisenhower to Walter Cronkite, “D-Day + Twenty Years,” 1964. Image: Eisenhower NHS.

Just sad.

Interesting.

PLUS:

ISRAEL (AIPAC) OWNS THE USA POLITICIANS REPUBLICANS & DEMOCRATS... SOMEONE MAKE IT STOP!

Antifa in action.

What is happening to our country?

Sometimes the “dramatic” folks are correct.

The SCOTUS has become so bold that they went from "This is the outcome we want, so we'll pretend/twist the law to fit the decision we want to get to" to "This is the outcome we want, so we're not even going to consider lower court rationale, apply the law, or pretend like laws matters for our side."

‘They take you out of life, out of time’: a journey into Spain’s astonishing cave paintings