This is Mariner. He was born completely deaf, which means he gets to enjoy fireworks with all the sparkle and none of the boom. 13/10 (IG: real_marinertheseapuppy)

Just had to explain who Peter Thiel is to my mother, a woman who has CNN on in her house every waking moment. Starting to think it’s a problem that men like this can just fly under the radar because their friends own the press.

There's no way horse-racing regulations could be the secret to defeating Citizen's United... Is there? It's almost certainly impossible, but if anyone can, there's only one man for the job... www.thesling.org/unlicensed-t... #satire

Disruption of the space-time continuum is not a risk @theslingutah.bsky.social takes lightly, but to bring hope to this fraught political moment, they courageously published a sneak preview of what Rohit Chopra will do in next 6 months as head of CA's new Business & Consumer Services Agency

Disruption of the space-time continuum is not a risk @theslingutah.bsky.social takes lightly, but to bring hope to this fraught political moment, they courageously published a sneak preview of what Rohit Chopra will do in next 6 months as head of CA's new Business & Consumer Services Agency

Happy 3rd of July!

A White House aide tied to Trump's psychedelics executive order is now reportedly on the FDA commissioner shortlist. The White House calls it "baseless hearsay." That plus Louisiana's Aug 1 research program in this week's briefing:

“This is the first time the Supreme Court has given its blessing to redistricting across the boundaries of four-dimensional space,” political scientist Jonas Neuhaus said of the decision in RNC v. Garner

American scientific research has led the world since WW2. But 2025 brought profound changes to the longstanding partnerships between the federal government and American scientists. #ResignationBook

NPR retracts its "Alito is retiring" story and illustrates that retraction with a photograph of an upside-down American flag flying out front of Justice Alito's house. (…checks notes…) An upside-down American flag flying out front of Justice Alito's /workplace/. Whoops! My bad.

"And is the Federal Reserve unique, or might history sanction other exceptions too? The Court does not say." Justice Barrett's dissent in Cook tears into the special arrangement "sanctioned by history" gobbledygook nonreasoning to support Fed independence www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

"He who can flatter a despot, or be flattered by him, without feeling the remonstrances of his own mind against it, may be remarkable for the guise and appearance of sanctity, but he has very little if any true religion" - Samuel Adams, 1771 www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/2...

Juvenal's character Umbritius calls out Romans as a bunch of phonies "Who is esteemed now unless he's someone's accomplice"? Gold is not worth "lost sleep, and the sadness of taking regular bribes, and thus being forever afraid of some powerful friend" www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/...

This project of early-career biologists curating and commenting on preprints looks cool. prelights.biologists.com/about-us/

SoftBank’s investor presentation is one of the greatest things ever made. I’ve been thinking about it all day. These are the real slides shown in a speech where Masayoshi Son said he wouldn’t retire for at least another decade. The goose stuff is truly demented. Bravo group.softbank/media/Projec...

Garffeld

Statement by @sciamunion.bsky.social on Springer Nature's sale of Scientific American and massive editorial layoffs right before a successful union vote is counted. www.wgaeast.org/wgae-scienti...

Spider which uses spring trap to capture prey discovered in Australia https://www.europesays.com/uk/1044859/ A new species of spider which weaves a catapult-like silk trap to snare a single type of ant…#uk #news #uknews

Rand report on veterans and psychedelics www.rand.org/pubs/researc...

Also not mentioned in Ezra Klein’s statement, but something Cory Doctorow revealed this week about when he was invited (and quickly, REPEATEDLY declined): You had to pay a minimum of $16,000 to go! I would like to know how much Klein paid to casually check it out. pluralistic.net/2026/06/20/a...

Let me write Jim Henson’s Dracula you cowards

While the article is quite right that the Democratic foreign policy establishment that keeps miring us in unwinnable Middle Eastern wars needs to be replaced... its shining alternative is somehow... Gina Raimondo?? Um, no. therevolvingdoorproject.org/biden-revolv...

"Let those flatter who fear; it is not an American art." - Thomas Jefferson, 1774. avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century...

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration on Thursday announced its selection of interested parties to participate in upcoming administrative hearings on a proposal to reclassify marijuana, each of which is understood to oppose marijuana rescheduling. www.law360.com/articles/249...

My new theory paper (early draft) A new reason why concentrated wealth destroys democracy: common ownership A standalone media owner maximizes profit. A common owner like Musk (who owns X + SpaceX) will run the media firm at a loss to increase the $ of his total portfolio tinyurl.com/mcekr7cd

BREAKING NEWS: The Senate passed the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act to build more housing supply and lower costs. This bill also stops private equity from buying up single-family homes.

A proposed Paramount-Warner merger could put an unprecedented share of America’s media landscape under one corporate umbrella. https://bit.ly/3QowB5J

"A nation which asks nothing of its government but the maintenance of order is already a slave at heart" A few players will rule "by their own caprice... and tyrannize at will... and then men wonder to see into how small a number of weak and worthless hands a great people may fall" - Toqueville

"the strongest associations for autocratic governance are with external financing, patrimonial bureaucracy, spectacular ritual, and high inequality"

Even the billionaires sense that something is inherently unjust with our economic system

The billionaires behind the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger want you to think it's a done deal. But it's not. "Like all good billionaires, they want what they do to seem inevitable [...] The reality is this thing will be challenged," @bedoyausa.bsky.social says

NEW @crisesnotes.bsky.social PIECE: This is my short introduction to a new series I'm very excited about (and already have pieces written for): The Hierarchy of Finance in a Capitalist Economy. www.crisesnotes.com/a-new-series...

Utah's HB 390 funds a clinical study of MDMA, psilocybin, and 5-MeO-DMT for veterans with treatment-resistant PTSD. Not legalization, not decriminalization. First state to name 5-MeO-DMT in law. psychedelicstoday.com/2026/06/09/u...

Cliff Owen with the AP managed to capture this image. It's interesting that the worker appears to be in a lift basket and not just on the scaffolding they spent several hours assembling (lifts were used to more quickly install the name initially).

There’s a rainbow outside the Kennedy Center right now as a crowd awaits Trump’s name to be pulled off the arts venue

The merger of Warner Bros and Paramount is not a done deal and remains under investigation by my office.

This purchase and approval is the result of inappropriate interference by the Trump Admin on behalf of Trump's billionaire buddies.

The consolidation we're seeing in the media space is a threat to free speech. State Attorneys General must keep investigating these transactions.

This is terrible news for every American who doesn't want Trump-aligned billionaires to control what they watch and how much they pay. The Paramount-Warner Bros. deal has reeked of corruption and influence-peddling. This fight isn't over. State AGs must block this merger.

Thomas Paine had a problem: He actually believed in the Declaration of Independence’s revolutionary idea that all people were created equal. https://bit.ly/4xk12KZ

Hi! I'm Bret Rhett Chet, here to tell you why you should buy and hodl SpaceX stonk. For a mere $135/share, you get pro forma tangible book value of $7.85/share, an immediate 94% dilution. New investors are putting up 48% of all capital ever invested in SpaceX in exchange for 4.2% of the shares. /1

Screenwriter and WGA member on how fewer buyers in the market impact what stories get written: "You have to censor your ideas to be more mainstream or broad."

SpaceX is also exposed to significant antitrust liability, assuming a Democratic administration with a spine takes back the White House. www.thesling.org/the-antitrus...

every person who has ever worked retail for even a week has at least one song they can never hear again without being involuntarily transported back to the store

Bari Weiss tried to get “60 Minutes” to make Minneapolis protestors look more violent, AFTER the Feds killed two of us. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/m... (Gift link)

Not to sound cynical, but if these are being dismantled we should assume the worst regarding the AMOC.

How could the power of war-profiteering zaibatsu conglomerates be "destroyed" once and for all? Postwar reformers in Japan had a plan for that... open.substack.com/pub/balancec...

suspect this is a job listing which might appeal to some people on here- go fight the Feds for Oregon

billboard when? www.wsj.com/opinion/ceos...

Wild times. Law as futuring & economic prospecting... Argentina's PM arguing for limited liability for agentic companies: "the creation of a new corporate category in Argentine law: the non-human corporation. These are entities operated by AI agents or robots." giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

I also really want to flag this: Collins is significantly more MAGA this time around than she was in Trump 1.0. In 2017, she opposed Betsy DeVos’s confirmation and the Obamacare repeal bill. She also bought herself time with opposing Barrett. Now, she voted to confirm RFK Jr. AND Tulsi Gabbard