curious that Trump is not getting the screaming hysterical condemnation from the media that Biden got when he faced facts and ended the Afghanistan occupation

The center-white punditocracy spent ~2 decades sarcastically scare-quoting through takes like "Oh, sure, Oberlin students. Eeeverything's about gender and race. Eeeverything's about how white men perform their masculinity & their whiteness." Next thing you know: Pete Hegseth & UFC White House Night.

The DOJ tried to make a federal case out of former NYC Comptroller Brad Lander peacefully protesting immigration policies. They offered a plea deal. He demanded a trial instead—and won a total "not guilty" verdict in just one day. Read how he beat the regime:👇 www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/the-regime...

jesus christ NO! NO!!! FUCK

NPR is comparing a trans woman fleeing Texas for her personal safety with a conservative fleeing Seattle because he was annoyed with his neighbors. This is honestly insane both sides framing to a degree that is just blatant lying by omission.

SCOOP: So remember Dialog, Peter Thiel's private society that doesn't have a public website and no public list of members? I (along with a number of other journalists) have just been tipped off that embedded in the code of their closed off website there IS what seems to be a list of some members.

evil people tbh

Trump's war has wiped out an entire year and a half of wage growth

Leeds is now the subject of a major inquiry into maternity. I previously reported on its decade long pursuit of 'normal birth' ideology that saw it have the lowest number of caesareans while stillbirths and baby deaths soared to the worst nationally www.thetimes.com/article/f3af...

One reason i think everyone should take an archaeology class is to internalise with tangible examples that there is no pure, natural past utopia and that antibiotics and vaccines are what stand between us and a 50% child mortality rate and scores of women dying needlessly during pregn and birth

I attended an urban infrastructure panel where a UC Berkeley professor argued that libraries were gentrification. I am really struggling to see how this is different from a Republican position of denying knowledge, tools, and technology to low income, disadvantaged neighborhoods.

Every so often, some washed up sitcom dude do this sort of thing where they pretend that they made some truly edgy and controversial comedy that couldn't be made today, and it's just like... you're saying this about THE OFFICE?

seeing the posts about visitors discovering that you can walk around most of our cities and just be yourself in a multicultural setting, discovering tailgating, starting impromptu block parties, my muslim mayor, etc. etc. it's corny to say it but that's our secret sauce. and it means something

Silly as I find anarchism today, lads, when the anthropologists say that the emergence of the early states of human history was a mostly bad thing they really do have a point. Ancient Sumer did not meaningfully provide anyone any public services unless you were very very very rich.

started/going

God is sending a message.⚡️ #UFCFreedom250

Trump’s 80th Birthday. The laws of karma are taking effect.

One of the most striking patterns from today’s historic vote: The higher the share of non-Swiss residents in a municipality, the *lower* the support for the far-right SVP initiative to cap Switzerland’s population at 10M. The contact hypothesis holds up well! Plot (c): @marcokistler.bsky.social

thank god the vote failed but yet another example of lib cities bailing out far-right rurals extra funny bc you’d think that “overpopulation” would be a bigger concern in the expensive cities when in reality it’s just the paranoid NIMBY schizophrenia of rural fascists

/4 Put another way, Jesse Singal wouldn’t WRITE Camp of the Saints, but he would absolutely do a full podcast episode on “Look At All These Hysterical Leftists Who Are Disgusted By Camp Of The Saints, How Lame.”

I’m a YIMBY. I want more housing built. I’m not an Abundance bro because I don’t think interracial marriage is some kind of impediment to building more housing.

shamelessly stolen

Aerial PARTIAL view of the anti racist, anti fascist crowd in Belfast right now. City Hall to the left for scale. This - this is the real Belfast. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.

Huge turnout against racism in Glasgow today - can't even see the end of the crowd. Chants so far include "Nazi scum off our streets" and "Refugees are welcome here."

After the tarp went up to try and stop the “Berlin Wall” moment, Cliff Owen of the AP got the iconic 📸 shot. 🇺🇸

1/ I have written a series of articles this week, ‘Notes on Trust’, about where cynicism towards politicians comes from. The below chart, which I shared last year, was the thing which initially prompted me to write the piece. I just want to set out some of the key arguments here…

This is a drum @oneshoup.bsky.social has been beating a lot, but like, "moderate on immigration" is considered kinda universal advice these days for center-left parties. But the thing is, no matter how much immigration is restricted, it doesn't really defuse the backlash

It’s imperative that all Trump era crimes are prosecuted This would go a long way towards restoring international trust and respect for our country Need to make this mess right- the entire world is watching

It does not bode well for Patrick Condon's academic talk about Seattle's land use code when he is using AI GENERATED SLOP AS MAPS FOR HIS TALK, and doesn't understand that the whole city's base height is 3-4 stories, not just the fantasy realm colored in here. This talk is going to be great.

They came here fleeing persecution; rather than give them refuge, Marco Rubio’s state department will send them to die in countries they’ve never been to. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/w...

Statement from Mayor of London Sadiq Khan calling for Musk and his platform to be held to account:

Dems have an opportunity here to not only make the case that this GOP is to blame now for their falling behind, but they *always* are. It is, after all, the truth. Dem policies help rural Americans. We need to convince them of that not just for 2026/28, but move the needle for generational change.

The police in Northern Ireland have called the rioters fascists. Journalists, you are now safe to do the same thing if you haven't been already.

From the bad place, but I'm fucking losing it lmao

"weirdly accented weirdly named sexually inadequate moon Trillionaire becomes threat to the UK" is a Bond movie premise where eventually he gets pushed into a tank full of horny sea leopards, but MI6 doesn't have the juice for that these days

If you’re still talking about the “Kamala is for they/them” ad like an automatic electoral killshot even though Winsome Earle-Sears ran the same damn ad and was reduced to a smoking crater I’m gonna make some assumptions about why you’re so eager to triangulate on the issue

I thought people were kidding, turns out Elon really did axe the screwworm containment program back in March 25. fucking imbecile www.agri-pulse.com/articles/226...

What an odd thing to say

In 2003, Disney opened an Epcot ride, "Mission: Space." Formally, it was a space sim that used a high-intensity centrifuge to simulate gee stress; practically, it was the most efficient machine ever created for surfacing undiagnosed heart defects in dramatic and potentially lethal ways. 1/

That's why you find a variation of this theme in all working cities (that work for people). Because there is a sweet spot for height, density that makes cities great.

Anyway capitalism and feminism are not the same, capital is not feminine in general and management positions are not feminized, but antifeminism sure is a socialism of fools.

a working majority of the population thinks the federal budget is 95% foreign aid and medicaid/medicare is something they paid for with the hard work of their two hands and no one else's; in short they're abject dipshits who we shouldn't listen to about anything

1) yes, trump is bad and multiracial democracy is good 2) this is a classic example of Sam Haselby being a fucking liar who is also too lazy to read. i did explicitly not say that platner’s behavior was disqualifying. i have written both about gaza and about billionaires.

@davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy This FT graphic on how apps programmed with LLMs are not gaining traction might interest you: www.ft.com/content/8e9a...

I do get emotional at this speech every time I read it

Me, antifa's best propagandist and genuinely in the upper percentiles of skill at normal human interaction among my comrades: better make sure nobody associates d-day with the cause of antifa.

These electric school buses are getting a summer job: Making sure cleaner, cheaper power is used even when grid demand is high. https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/ev-charging/massachusetts-evs-feeding-grid

House Republicans joined by 4 Democrats vote to literally take food away from pregnant women and children

we gotta keep the DSA kids away from certain strains of "lefty" "news" sources. this is important, there are two primary visions of future leftism in America, one is hopeful and will help people and the other one is literally a paid op for a consortium of some of the worst people in the world