You may have heard about the OMB rule change that will put politics over federal grants. However bad you think it is? It's probably worse. Thanks to @theverge.com for letting me report this one out. There is still time to comment. bit.ly/4v2X4nQ

tacky and fashy

1.) Pete Buttigieg was born in South Bend, Indiana in 1982. This is how he is. 2.) he wished -- as in, in the past tense -- that he could be straight. which is a thing many, many, many LGBTQ people, including myself, have wished.

My contrary opinion is that I would be so angry if I started crying and someone immediately whipped out their phone to film me. How awful.

Look it’s just typical Paraguayan efficiency. Famous Paraguayan precision engineering. Strict, emotionless Paraguayan rationality. No wonder they’ve never lost a World Cup penalty shootout

Maybe Elon Musk couldn't talk to the children receiving help from USAID, but he could talk to parents who've lost children and children who've lost parents due to his cuts.

TMZ DC with perhaps the most brutal video from Trump's Great American State Fair, showing Dr. Oz on stage bragging to Dean Cain about how big the crowd is, only for the reporter to pan around and show absolutely nobody is there. Original post: x.com/i/status/207...

One study found Musk’s closing of the U.S. Agency for International Development could cause the deaths of millions of children.

The three branches of the United States government, as delineated in the Constitution, are the God Emperor, The High Council of the Six Ayatollahs, and the Federal Reserve

Was going through reels and learned about the ~joy~ of the White House's bullshit Freedom 250 website using AI for all the historical portraits leading to Abigail Adams, Phillis Wheatley and Dolley Madison looking exactly how you would expect from AI

average millionaires, welcome to the fight on billionaires

Where are they hiding the 47 year old tradwives??

My deepest appreciation to the hotel clerk and to Streever for being smart and doing the right thing.

I totally get Europeans not having A/C. Makes total sense. But what I don’t understand is the lack of fans and window screens. What’s up with that?

the great meeting of the mind titans

You know, I would’ve thought we’d have found the giraffe by now.

My anxiety has actually been fairly bad the past two days, so chances of me calling out tomorrow are somewhat decent, depending on how I feel tomorrow. Just an all around bad week, honestly.

So far I've only seen Rashida Tlaib take a stand. Andy Ngo gave a snarky reply and his minions are following it up w a ratio. FOX News reported her statement in shocked tones.

I know I can’t eat eggs. But every once in a while, I think to myself that *this dish* will totally be worth it. And I am wrong every time. 🤢

A small man made America's greatness all about him. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

"Pulte has begun to follow in the footsteps of what Hegseth has been doing at the Pentagon, Blanche at Justice, and Patel at the FBI. Looking at their purges along with the mass hirings at ICE, one sees that we’re entering a period of maximum authoritarian threat." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

New from 404 Media: Madison Square Garden made a dossier on activists who have opposed the venue's facial recognition program. MSG scans faces of people so some can be arbitrarily denied entry. Dossier includes specific activists, their contact info, tweets, etc www.404media.co/madison-squa...

I am going to murder whichever neighbor had their dog outside and barking for half the night.

I appreciate so much how everyone looks like a normal person in this show.

AI has started blocking the Wayback Machine from chronicling the web. Considering that nearly 40% of websites disappear after 10 years, this will enforce a giant loss in collective memory.

The mask is FULLY off from the man now.

Widow’s Bay is the best thing that’s happened to me this year.

“.. A trainee in his sixth week of basic training died after falling ill on Friday and being taken to Brooke Army Medical Center, the Air Force said in a news release.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/u...

Also given that we obviously lost the war there’s no reason for Hegseth to keep his job

HOLY SMOKES! Moscow right now 🔥🔥🔥

gift link! www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

here at meta we took something normal and made it worse by hooking it up to the internet and making sure that creeps would enjoy it the most, please invest

gotta start making t-shirts with qrcodes that open up good ol early 2000s shock jpgs

I’ll say it again: The folks in our public life most vocally obsessed with the idea of masculinity all very conspicuously act like an adolescent boy’s idea of a man, not an actual grown ass man.

Benj Pasek, but not Justin Paul???

Dear RFK, pound sand, thx.

Here’s the Big XII lawsuit re: Sorsby and Texas Tech, in case anyone wants to take a look. Lots of fun and interesting points made. drive.google.com/file/d/1-glh...

Take it from a guy who knows how fighters make money and sell fights: Giving the UFC guy notoriety for the shit he talked on the mic is going to make him rich. Roll your eyes and move on. The more you invest yourself in him, even if its in his inevitable downfall, the more he wins in the end.

NEWS: Debbie Hiott has been fired as general manager of KUT and KUTX in Austin. This follows a public dispute with the University of Texas at Austin over the KUT Festival held last month.

This is completely shameful and also a terrible mistake for the republicans long term. I hope they enjoy the electoral fruits of their actions.

It is insane that we have a guy who got rich selling kratom to truckers within a hundred miles of drafting regulation

Two people got murdered in broad daylight by their own government and more and more Minnesotans kept showing up on the streets to protect their neighbors. When you don’t have any moral principles, it’s hard to understand other people who do.

While 2.8°C is still Very Bad, this shows that it's still not too late to take action and save the future. Fuck despair, doom isn't inevitable, better things are possible.

Good morning!! I wrote about how much Trump’s special birthday boy UFC fight reminds me of a medieval lord attending a tournament held in his honor

Ken Paxton is such a loser. He's now threatening Big 12 schools, including others in Texas, if they punish Texas Tech for its QB betting on games. We live in the dumbest timeline. I hate Republicans so much.

I genuinely think Texas Tech was surprised by the backlash it received. I wrote about all that went down this week: nicoleauerbach.substack.com/p/texas-tech...

This is (almost) always a question asked by a man because (most) women differentiate between kinds of showers. See, “everything shower.”