If you didn't know this already have a fact to brighten your day. This is my cat Boris when he played Jones in Aliens. He was picked because he would hiss on camera because he was not a nice guy.

#Bugsky 🐙🌿 Shared with me by a fof in SoCal - this is a gynandromorph (both male & female) valley carpenter bee (Xylocopa sonorina). Females are black, males orange, so the extreme color dimorphism really stands out. Per Doug Yanega at UC Riverside, bee gynandromorphs he’s seen are mosaic instead—

i didn't believe that platner had a history of sexual violence until ryan grim started defending him

Jamelle out here articulating our need for an affirmative vision for the future

If for whatever reason you used to be a real piece of shit, and now you look back on that period of your life with regrets, that is good and laudable, and also, there might be some jobs that you shouldn't have. I do not find this to be especially complicated.

Classicist here to inform you all that this is ancient Greek for summoning a cat

The National Park Service ordered the removal of three quotes at the Bunker Hill Monument in Boston after visitor complained to staff about a quote related to women’s suffrage as being “woke” feminist ideology, according to people familiar with the matter.

NEWS: A @lawfaremedia.org report finds that *97* Jan. 6ers who received clemency for their role in the attack were arrested, charged, or convicted of subsequent crimes—a number much higher than previously reported. Incredible work by @katherinepomps.bsky.social www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

Hand painted, gilded Serra Angel.

exactly the right response

What's happening with Platner is why you hop off the bus at "he has a nazi tattoo"

On all nights we eat sitting upright or reclining, and on this night we all recline

has any man ever been more vindicated? x.com/stuartbuck1/...

someone like bari weiss who is used to bullying low level reporters and adjunct professors into getting fired is not going to like how this plays out for her when the same tactics are applied to someone whose contract was written by high powered entertainment lawyers

The Kennedy Center’s general counsel ordered staff on Thursday to remove President Donald Trump’s name from the building by June 12, according to a memo obtained by CNN, in order to comply with a recent court order. https://cnn.it/4uTzYkk

The most important cultural lesson of the late 80s/early 90s

Here's Rep Jamie Raskin's bill nixing Trump's corrupt protection against IRS audits. Chef's kiss: It's called the "Block Lawless Agreements and Nullify Corrupt Handouts and Emoluments Act” or the “BLANCHE Act." Backstory below.

Nothing says "intellectual freedom" like forcing students to take mandatory conservative indoctrination classes. Shout-out to all the embarrassing academics who believe any of this was in good faith.

on the one hand he’s a lying misogynist drunk, on the other hand he has no relevant experience and seems to totally lack any discipline

If Biden had passed out at a meeting and pitched over to 45 degrees like this he'd have been forced to resign the presidency

Degrowth Don is taking away your burgers, like no one else ever has. DOGE cut $400M worth of 'foreign aid' that exists to keep those nasty critters as far south of the US border as possible. And now they're about to start wrecking American livestock. I hope you all like tofu and soy milk.

I am obsessed with this finalist in this year's Michigan “I voted” sticker design contest

The regulatory state is more important to the smooth operation of society to which we’ve become accustomed than anyone in this administration realizes, and in a lot of ways, we’ve already run off the cliff and are just starting to look down

are you just going to do this for every generation

It's funny learning that the reason there's going to be a crippling helium supply shortage even though the United States once had a huge strategic reserve of it is literally because Republicans did the "jeff thinks the beans have to take turns lmao" thing to it

Very bad news. Screwworm appears to have made it to Texas, as was predicted. These parasites eat the living flesh of cattle, cause horrible pain, and can ultimately kill them. Yesterday, USDA Chief Brooke Rollins categorically denied that screwworm was close to the border.

Fyi to those unfamiliar with the history: “your sex life makes you too vulnerable to blackmail and so we must ban you from government work” is what we did to queer people in America throughout most of the 20th century

New Republican gerrymanders in 2026 moved the median House seat from Trump+3.1 to Trump+4.9, and they plan to redraw more maps in 2028. The GOP could make the median Trump+9.1 or worse, but if Dems respond in these states, they could cut the GOP’s advantage to less than it was in 2026 or even 2024

greatest president on climate change in history

Good god, fuck Everytown for pushing this garbage and California’s legislature for buying it. FOSS printers are about to get a lot more valuable.

As ICE ramps up their bullshit for the summer, a reminder that me and a whole bunch of other folks will get whistles out to you, for free, in quantities of 100 to thousands, to distribute in your communities. Just send a request here linktr.ee/3Dwhistles

There is a certain irony in cattle people throwing all of their weight behind an administration that promised to be friendly to rancher politics, only for that administration to allow a hideous cattle parasite to make it into Texas because cooperating with Mexico is woke and gay

i mean the answer seems pretty straightforward…they were drinking doodoo dairy

you see this *a lot* with foreign policy where people always assert that there's some hidden material motivation for things, oil wells in Gaza or some shit like that, when the reality is that many of the actors involved being sincere ideologues who mean what they say explains things much better

This proves how little weight we should give the idea that wealth taxes will drive the uber-wealthy elsewhere, especially when it comes to prime places like New York City. Video: buff.ly/bGTSa6H

Congratulations to everyone who said it would get this bad. Your prize is watching everyone who disagreed now claim no one could have predicted it would get this bad.

ahahah

sometimes you dont know what youre signing yourself up for

“Hillsboro’s data centers aren’t significant employers. Washington County records show the industry has 284 local employees, which works out to nearly $300,000 in tax breaks for each job.” www.oregonlive.com/silicon-fore...

This is such bullshit framing, as if Republicans are the ones who powered this

As I was saying, there are 20 people in DC who can end all of this, & they are all Republicans in Congress & more please (also, everyone who constantly yells at The Democrats should acknowledge that they are also doing the work here forcing these votes): bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Give it up for KC Green @kcg.bsky.social the man behind 'this is fine', who just made an AI company take down his work. techcrunch.com/2026/05/31/t...

I've worked in Democratic digital comms for a long time and pay attention to campaign metrics across platforms. Increasingly I'm seeing Dems who crosspost on X, Bluesky, and Threads get better engagement on Bluesky even with far fewer followers. Here's @jamestalarico.bsky.social's clip last night:

To prove racial gerrymandering, a plaintiff has to draw race-blind districts that are just as favorable to Republicans. But that's impossible to do because Republicans uniformly select racists as their candidates and Black voters won't vote for racists. So racial gerrymandering is always allowed.

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