Trump on the CHIPS Act: "If you weren't transgender, you didn't qualify. So they'd get the money, they'd look all over for transgender people to run the company."

someone tell serkis that middle-earth isn’t real and there aren’t actually white people in Arda

Truly staggering amounts of graft and corruption: apple.news/AsHrF3OKNT0q...

A clip from a freight train stopped in a wildfire near Armstrong, Ontario. Thankfully, the crew escaped safely. Wildfire is nothing new but the burning of fossil fuels is making them larger, more frequent and severe.

I do not ask for much in life simply to be happy, healthy, and to see elon's empire crash and burn around his ears

Remember back in May, when Hungarian results were coming in, we were watching if the opposition to Prime Minister Viktor Orban would manage to win a supermajority? They did, & they just used it to pass a constitutional amendment to also remove the president from office. www.bbc.com/news/article...

In Northern Ireland, lawyers, community workers, & advocates who support migrants are being targeted by far-right groups. Our new report out today, “Locals Only,” details these threats. @cdsherrard.bsky.social @amanda.ie @finucanecentre.bsky.social www.humanrightsfirst.org/library/new-...

When I see people still saying we should find common ground with MAGA lunatics, I remember they chose a treasonous deranged racist criminal pedo tyrant to destroy the US as he kidnaps/murders innocent people. There’s no commonality with fascism, depravity, immorality, stupidity and hate.

When a news outlet praises Trump's "game show flair" (NY Times) or pays him $15 million to settle a lame lawsuit (ABC News), it's telling the dictator to keep assaulting the free press. It's declaring itself to be a willing victim. My latest.

I wrote about what looks very much like a formal US plan to institutionalize a global network of concentration camps.

The Libertarian Party "might just be the party we need—even if a majority of Americans will not vote for them." ICYMI @bernardtamas.bsky.social on the influence of third parties:

The five largest US banks have reported blockbuster earnings, owing to geopolitical uncertainty and technological upheaval that caused a trading frenzy. www.semafor.com/article/07/1...

Me: "It's time to start eating healthy." Lettuce: "I'm going to give you explosive diarrhea!" Chips and cookies in my pantry: "I would never do that to you."

BREAKING: ICE has ordered agents nationwide to suspend nearly all vehicle stops during enforcement operations, except when targeting serious criminal suspects, after ICE agents shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston, Texas, and Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Biddeford, Maine, last week

An unlikely meeting between Hunter Biden and far-right internet personality Nick Fuentes for an independent web channel reportedly veered into an argument that nearly led to a physical altercation at a Philadelphia hotel over the weekend.

There was a rumor a couple weeks ago that Trump was looking to make a deal with Maduro to let him out of prison if he testifies that Hugo Chavez rigged the election for Biden, which was Sidney Powell and Rudy’s insane conspiracy.

Evidence has mounted that the supposed “gash” in the Reflecting Pool is... ...tire tracks Trump caused by insisting his many-ton presidential convoy drive on the pool’s fragile surface. Why? He was too lazy to walk. Per his own edict, he must now do 10 years in federal prison.

Wooot apple.news/AJNr5TTe1RWa...

ICE defends latest killing: "We like to murder people."

These statements getting lazier over time is the predictable result of them not facing consequences for their previous murders. Why would they make up some convoluted reasoning to explain themselves? They don't have to

the year is 2026. there’s no more video games. a large pizza is $50. infowars is good. everyone has diarrhea 😆

Car juice will be back above $4/gallon on a national average basis in the next couple weeks.

A report on the ground from the ICE shooting in Biddeford that should make every parent in this country lose their minds:

Michigan voters deserve answers for delay in opening Gordie Howe Bridge. We already had a sweetheart deal with Canada. Why are we negotiating a new one? Political donation to Trump PAC by private owner of rival bridge has created appearance of corruption. apnews.com/article/cana...

ICE, boosted by $250 billion in funding over the last year, increased spending on small arms by more than 400% in 2025. ICE has also made over 2,000 enforcement deals (known as 287g) with local cops, the most ever. And those cops are also getting surplus military-grade weapons from the military.

this is “pete hegseth wants an all-white military”

Imagine having an entertainment industry "scoop" so obviously bullshit that variety, Hollywood reporter, deadline and the LA Times all pass on it and you have to give it to fucking Semafor

UPDATE: today, the governor threatened to do the above. Then a couple hours later we get the photo of Mitch. Interesting. @govandybeshear.bsky.social - that photo doesn’t prove that he’s fit to serve. I’d go ahead and fill that seat. bsky.app/profile/cweb...

In general, the whole “Trump-goon-turned-Democratic-hero” genre needs to be retired. Susie Wiles does not get to be a normie center-left podcast guest when she has a book to sell.

it’s so bleakly funny to me that we discovered a heap of math that exposes questions about the nature of problem solving and people want to sell us on using it to write work emails.

GOLD FELL AFTER RENEWED U.S.-IRAN STRIKES LIFTED ENERGY PRICES, STRENGTHENING EXPECTATIONS THAT THE FEDERAL RESERVE MAY KEEP INTEREST RATES HIGHER FOR LONGER. RISING INFLATION RISKS FROM THE MIDDLE EAST CONFLICT, ALONG WITH HAWKISH FED EXPECTATIONS, WEIGHED ON BULLION, WHICH DOES NOT OFFER YIELD.

Michael Fanone's take on Lindsey Graham is one of the most powerful I've read:

I mean, yeah, this is probably the best way to comment on Graham’s passing. No hagiography. But also empathy and hope for the country.

I’m sorry let me get this straight the one-two punch of DOGE and MAHA has made it so that those of us who eat like normal people in a safety-conscious world must now risk ass-spraying mayhem if we try to eat a salad? Just the dumbest, most predictable, most preventable calamities with these people

Teen pregnancy used to be one of the right's top bogeymen. It's now fascinating to watch how their nativism - falling birth rates which now can't be solved by allowing foreigners to join us as Americans- has led them to bemoaning its decline. They're now shifting policies to help teens get pregnant.

Trump and Musk will be forever known as mass murderers.

Yup, listen to Dr Marino, this is his lane It’s unbelievably horrifying that the MAGA/MAHA Administration has taken steps to RESTRICT access to methadone maintenance therapy & other evidence-based approaches to opioid use disorder—doing this is ghoulish & it will cause more suffering & more death

"There is nothing keeping any company from offering flexible work schedules to its employees and no necessary connection between independent contractor status and flexibility."

The other part of his problem is that moderates don't want policies that uplift the poor because idiot swing voters are all middle-classers who want infinite Treats for themselves but think that homeless people just need to be told to get a job

Speaking of death, Trump's now worried he's next, and that it won't be from natural causes But the real risk is to all of us, as paranoia causes him to widen the war and crush civil liberties, including a shocking probe of the NYT Caligula, DJT, and my new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

How many times do they have to tell us that AI isn’t going to take our jobs? “Start-ups are paying white-collar professionals to teach A.I. models how to do their jobs. It’s bleak.” Oh

I’m saddened to announce the passing of my work colleague, The Zodiac Killer. While we were often on opposing sides of the business, I always enjoyed his silly little scavenger hunts.

“Crazy, we go from no more [AI] leaderboard to actual usage limits in two weeks,” one Amazon employee said in a reply on Slack. www.404media.co/companies-ar...

A new Justice Department memo undermines key aspects of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

That Democrats see mass-murdering fascists dismantling the country as nothing more than "colleagues they dislike" is why we've been in a non-stop plummet. Incredible this is still debatable, by people who ostensibly oppose fascism, ten years into this?!?

CDC stopped monitoring parasite now causing explosive diarrhea across the country

he actually did the meme

We're gonna find out that an hour ago someone placed a $100,000 Polymarket bet that Mitch McConnell would outlive Lindsey Graham

Agree about Kristof. I've been a critic of his for decades, but he is often the only mainstream voice calling attention to staggeringly enormous issues. Thanks for this article, which I'll boost. You sound like you would know.

NY Tmes exec editor Joe Kahn said in 2024 that the issue of democracy's survival was not a top priority in his newsroom's coverage. Now Trump is sending federal agents to NYT reporters' homes to deliver subpoenas over coverage he doesn't like. I wonder if democracy is a priority for Joe now.