Five facts that you should know about the current Cyclospora outbreak.

I used to teach the students I sent to intern in DC to tip the bartender when they arrived and ask them to please quietly make their drinks straight tonic or soda with a twist of lime. They absolutely needed a way to opt out discretely so folks more involved in the drinking culture wouldn’t notice.

Amanda has a constitutional right to make fun of Vice President Vance on her page @catsonacouch.bsky.social. Yet Secret Service is preventing her from entering government events because of her protected speech. We’re suing.

Timeline cleanse: You're watching Mei & Kira, two sea otters (Enhydra lutris) at the Toba Aquarium in Japan, help clean the pool area after playtime. The reward is an ice treat. Enrichment activities like this promote mental wellness. Let's talk about the SUCCESS of sea otter conservation.

Reminder: our strategy session for NEH grantees is coming up today at 2:00 p.m. ET. If you were notified that your grant would be reinstated and want tips on navigating the reinstatement process, join @jasonrhody.bsky.social and @paulakrebs.bsky.social for this free event.

American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (ASECS) 2027 Conference in Portland, Oregon, April 1-3. For those considering submitting a panel proposal (just a title and a description) this has to be done before July 18th, 2026 #C18

Racists online saw this photo, doxxed her, and found out she had a previous arrest (the charge later being dismissed). Meanwhile she is a mentally disabled working mom minding her business. If someone can put me in contact, I’m happy to offer her a housing relief stipend thurmanperryfoundation.org

"AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP IS NOT FOR SALE!'

Donald Trump is suffering from dementia. Someone needs to step in before it's too late.

🧵 Kreis did the work in the archives, the way serious scholars do, taking nothing for granted. Wurman did not.

“Edo Famous Dengeki Juroku Prince Fox Fire” by Hirokage Utagawa. 19th century

Good. Now release the remaining damages, too.

⭐️⭐️ PRESS RELEASE: Today, the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) + its Texas affiliate, Texas AAUP-AFT, sued Texas Tech University System Chancellor Brandon Creighton and members of the Board of Regents over two system memoranda issued in the past eight months. 1/2

I don't know, man, I think if Joe Biden had kept confusing Zelenskyy with Putin and Iran with Japan, the media might have made a pretty big deal about it?

Uptown.

Timeline cleanse: American pikas calling to each other in the Canadian Rockies. Sound on to hear the loud “MEEP!” made by these potato sized alpine mammals. They’re way off under those cliffs but the calls travel. *this is likely a niche post, but it’s one of my favorite sounds in the world.

Yep.👇🏼

The bro that’s been using them to capture video of girls/women running on the park trails definitely exudes a grossly entitled ick factor. He thinks only older women like me notice and that we’re overreacting to tell him to cut it out, but the teen girl jogging by knew and was grossed out, too.

If roughing up a girlfriend and locking her in a room was a virile, authentic a rejection of “smoothgroined” “HR lady” politics, but a rape is too far, then what’s at stake is not a principled rejection of violence against women but a cynical assessment of how much violence a man can get away with.

Now presenting 24/7 soccer fields in the city that never sleeps. Find your next late-night game at nycopenplay.com.

An ancient tiled gate at Saiho-ji Temple (commonly known as Kokedera or the Moss Temple), a UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Kyoto, Japan.

I think it's good to be the party for men who aren't okay with rape.

🌇The Museum’s Manhattanhenge program returns this Saturday, 7/11, with a lecture & viewing event celebrating the last opportunity to see the Manhattanhenge effect in 2026. Join Associate Curator Jackie Faherty for an exploration of the rare alignment of the setting Sun with Manhattan’s street grid.

Following the program, gather outdoors for a Manhattanhenge viewing event! Enjoy the vibrant sounds of the Williamsburg Salsa Orchestra as the city is bathed in golden evening light. Get tickets: amnh.link/4ypEmtF

Because AI cannot think. It cannot “make sense” of words, so telling it to preserve “the original sense” doesn’t work. The bias is in the base text patterns of the LLMs. It is intrinsic.

Oreo!

Years ago, in a match between Naples and Verona, Verona had a banner saying “Let’s go, Vesuvius” and Naples had a banner saying “Juliet, you are a slut”

This is your semi-annual reminder: Sign up for the bone marrow registry, especially if you're of mixed ancestry.

today on “Give Us This Day Our Daily Thread,” NCR - an outlet I like! - has an interesting story on how Latin Mass stans who really do just like the Latin Mass of it all are scrambling to distance themselves from the now-excommunicated fuckos who made the Latin Mass a dogwhistle for much worse stuff

If this is true -- a very big if -- it is surely how McConnell would have wanted to go: exploiting the timing of the death of major figures (Scalia, RBG) for cynical partisan gain.

Pretty harsh of Gebbia to be talking that kind of trash about Melania and Baron living in the White House.

futurism.com/future-socie... lol

Racist, bigoted, ignorant white boys dress in layers to contain warmth as they leave their mothers’ basements and venture into the world, hoping to garner attention via tantrums followed by massive heatstroke.

On the 250th Anniversary of the accepted official beginning of the US, let's doff our hats to our best Founder, Thomas Paine. 1/

Never mind 1776, here's the Pueblo Revolt of 1680.

LARRY!

This piece. If you work at a university or a nonprofit like Monticello you will feel this in your bones.

I'm very pleased to say my new book, 'Rogues, Rakes and Robbers: a True Crime History of Georgian Britain' is available to pre-order through @calonbooks.bsky.social I hope people enjoy reading it as much as I did writing it! #georgianhistory #historyofcrime #history www.uwp.co.uk/book/rogues-...

I got angrier and angrier as I wrote this for @damemagazine.bsky.social. The collapse of this country’s civic morality dovetails with the cruelty and corruption that dominates policy. The rest of our institutions are being dragged down by or are abetting it. That’s the thing on my mind this 4th.

For 26 years, the herd of deer in our neighborhood have feasted on my ‘deer resistant’ flowers and plants, but they’ve always left my pots of mint alone. Not anymore. It’s so hot they ate my mojito supplies!

I may not like football, but I sure do like Renaissance History jokes about football...

Because of course.

Hey folks -- This is coming up a week from today. A seminar on democracy, Hamilton, and de Tocqueville! It's not free, but they've offered a 20% discount for folks who sign up through me.

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The entire University System of Georgia had to eliminate free speech zones across all campuses in the state as a result of a case that turned on where a student could exercise his 1st Amendment rights. Feels like @fiu.bsky.social legal counsel should consult their neighbors in GA.

Let's hear it for President Dealmaker, who negotiated and signed USMCA (calling it the “best and most important trade deal ever made"), then ran against it, won, and breached it while asking "who would ever sign a thing like this?' from the same desk where he signed it, and now won't renew it.

The other day I noted the only way Trump would keep paying Event Strategies to put together humiliating public events is if it were a vehicle for corruption. Today, Natural Resource Dems released a report substantiating that corruption. emptywheel.net/2026/06/29/t...

1/ The Supreme Court’s ruling in Chatrie v. United States is a win for privacy. In a 6-3 decision (with Justice Gorsuch concurring in judgment), the Court ruled that police need a warrant to obtain a person’s cell phone location information from a third party. Some background and key takeaways: