Catholic stubborness

Fifth Third’s acquisition of regional bank Comerica has leaders confronting a dicey question: Beans or no beans? on.wsj.com/3R1VhBx

"In nearly every state, the official humanities nonprofits created by a congress to help make history and literature accessible to all Americans had to give up their 250th anniversary planning when DOGE pulled their federal funding..." www.notus.org/agencies/dog...

How stupid are motherfuckers in my county? Stupid enough that a developer is building a subdivision named Liberty Meadows with a street in it named Trump Court.

Versatile Oakesdale, WA

People may blame my family for the unwashed dishes in our kitchen sink but I prefer to think it was Democratic socialists.

I’ve played/followed soccer my entire life. I’ve made documentaries about the game, and I co-host a podcast about U.S. soccer history. The most galling thing today isn’t FIFA corruption. That’s baked in. It’s how public and clumsy Trump’s corruption is. How nationally embarrassing.

The US Administration will disgorge at least 3 new rules in the next 1–3 months that will shatter our system of recruiting global STEM talent as students at our world-leading universities. The first of these will be the 'Duration of Status' rule, explained here. Two even larger attacks will follow.

The median and mode are even lower

To this day, the Marine Corps is the only service branch that explicitly states women can wear red lipstick with all uniforms. https://to.pbs.org/4va9qKM

Union Pacific’s Big Boy No. 4014 closed early to the public Sunday afternoon. An estimated 65,000 visitors were expected.

Why would you ever doubt a story about Trump doing corrupt shit. This country is filled with misinformation, sure, but you can bet any story involving Trump doing something cartoonishly evil or corrupt is absolutely true

If any American wants me to respect your soccer/futbol, let me say this: the way to do it is for Balogun to score and then mime showing a card.

St. Francis Receiving the Stigmata, by Lorenzo Ghiberti, 1400-05, 📸 by Buda Mendes

JFC

Of course

Thanks, President Trump.

You know Infantino was like, "Don't say anything, ok? Just act surprised." And, per usual, Trump couldn't resist telling the world that he was a Very Powerful Person.

Stupidest timeline possible.

The problem we all live with https://www.wikiart.org/en/norman-rockwell/the-problem-we-all-live-with-1935

We're approaching 25 years since 9-11 and still doing the God Bless America bullshit at baseball games.

Again wearing my Bluey pants and walked over there to get a coffee from the lady selling cups for $1 each out of one of those giant yellow Igloo water dispensers and for $4 more she adds a splash of "morning spice" which is whiskey

I thought McMorrow was a shoe-in to win that seat when she first announced. Like many Democrats, she ran a campaign meant to appeal to everyone and ultimately appealed to no one. You simply cannot run a risk-averse campaign in this environment. You have to provide a vision and be bold.

I would like just one aspect of our culture and our lives that this motherfucker doesn’t have to get his greasy, corrupt hands on. Just something somewhere that can be enjoyable and unsullied.

I asked a Norwegian fan at the World Cup match how so many of their fans can afford to spend the summer in America going to a bunch of expensive World Cup games, and I shit you not he just goes “Our healthcare and school are free and our work is encouraging us to do so.” Fuck man.

Happy birthday to Bill Watterson, the creator of Calvin and Hobbes! Born on July 5, 1958.

JFC, people are stupid assholes. www.nj.com/highschoolsp...

FIFA and the Trump administration are made for one another. Rules are for losers.

Graeter's getting some well-deserved love in this otherwise depressing article about the consequences of seeking eternal profit growth in low margin products.

It was us climate scientists. We can geoengineer record heat waves with our space lasers but a trillion tons of carbon pollution from two centuries of fossil fuel burning can't warm the atmosphere

Good

Has Trump killed anyone in DC yet?

The US is still going despite the shit birds. Fuck yeah, happy 250th.

Worth reading to remember exactly what JD Vance is.

It helps that Leo is incredibly, incredibly good at this, and seeing competent people in charge of things being competent in ways that fuck horrible people over is a really nice change of pace at the moment

If you think the Semiquincentennial is a complicated mess, the Bicentennial wasn't much better. In Baltimore, a July thunderstorm washed a 35-ton birthday cake—already under assault by harbor rats— and 3,000 lbs of icing into water before the big occasion.

Great moments in U.S. History.

And anti-Catholic bigotry.

Episode 31,592 in the series "Imagine if Obama had done this"

gonna salute ben franklin by drinking beer and watching french people do foot stuff

Is tonight's speech when Trump proposes January 6 as a national holiday?

I feel like this is also why it’s so hard to get people to leave MAGA even if they know Trump is a con artist. Their entire identity and social circles are wrapped up in it.

would love to see a hostile audit of Freedom 250. hell, would love to see hostile audits of everything even tangentially related to trump. this will produce endless material. you could conceivably bring the administration to an effective halt!

just asked our dogs what they think about those fireworks you're setting off

Old enough to remember Kobayashi.

One of my all-time favorite Independence Day commemorations.

Happy Independence Day, from the god Jack Handey.

today is a celebration of the US narrowly escaping British tyranny. unfortunately there’s no counterfactual of what would’ve happened if the British maintained territory in north america but we can only assume it would’ve been terrible