Empire collapse under the weight of metaphors.

it's crazy when you see a photo for the first time and recognize it's gonna be used as a shorthand for the era you're living in right now by historians in 100 years

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"Is America Good or Bad" - the greatest thread in the history of forums, locked by a moderator after 250 years of heated debate

Instead of asking for people to not use their AC in the heatwave, how about turning off the data centers instead?

Incredible moment where Fox News puts up a graphic with all the reasons it opposes the DSA and why people should be afraid of them

a grifting match made in heaven

And I was just thinking that Loeb couldn't possibly find a way to be more embarrassing to the scientific community.

anyway i think the proper takeaway here is that a bare majority of the court thinks the plain words of the 14th amendment mean what they say, that four members believe there is a secret hidden meaning only recently discovered by hack lawyers

YIKES: The OPM is proposing new NDAs for federal workers, this means scientists cannot talk about their work. They can't share their data, or talk to journalists. But it's still open for public comment! Comment by June 26. www.regulations.gov/search?filte...

Major signal boost here. Please share and comment. I won't fedpost about the ghoul Russ Vought but I also won't deny sending good vibes to those witches who got... never mind.

Big thanks to @moliaudrey.bsky.social for these incredibly gorgeous Godzilla vs GenAI stickers, they are bigger than my hand!

This confirms what the CDC leader said before she was fired. Kennedy wanted the science to be cooked until it aligned with his politics.

Anyone not running on reforming the Supreme Court cant be the leader of anything moving forward. It's an unhinged gang of extremists unrestrained by anything or anyone.

Fauci needs to sue this man into bankruptcy, if only to dissuade the other inveterate liars of this administration.

I didn’t doubt him for a second after I saw what he did for the Knicks.

Algae is loving this news cycle. They’ve never been more relevant. Microzooplankton sitting at home changing the channel like, what about us? we even have cilia and pseudopods, this is bullshit.

I say this almost every day but The MOST democratic and Democratic thing any of us can do is hold our own “team” accountable. And when we don’t, we end up in administrations like this. I like my leaders to question authority and invite criticism. If you can’t, you should step down.

Of all the things that didn't happen, this didn't happen the most.

And why is Reuters helping them by amplifying unsubstantiated claims as the framing?

The three players in this photo: 1. Nigerian heritage, grew up in England, and is only a citizen thanks to birthright citizenship. 2. Born + raised in Holland, has a dad who immigrated to the US from Suriname. 3. Said he wanted to “make people who look like me proud” while playing on Juneteenth

I’m sorry, no. This is not the guy who did the reflecting pool. No. Come on. We’re just putting a hat on a hat here. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/u...

Reminder that at one point when Zuckerberg was trying to break into China he asked Xi to name his child and Xi was “for the love of God, have some self-respect you weirdo”

As a physicist I find this hilarious. The angle of the photo is so shallow that it’s almost impossible to see the color of the water; at that angle, in that lighting, the water almost 100% just reflects the sky. So congrats to Dept of Interior for figuring out how to make the water blue, I guess?

There's a segment of PoliSky who seems to hate The Onion and trashtalk them for any and no reason, but all I've ever seen from this crew is spending money on comedians/journalists and trying to do the right thing while prestige papers bend at the waist for the administration. This is very cool

america is an ideal worth fighting for

Some serious "Xerxes ordering his men to whip the Hellespont" level of hubris going on at the WH in terms of what they think they can control

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YOU HAVE TO TEAR DOWN THE SYMBOLS OF THE REGIME, SO THAT FUTURE REGIMES KNOW THAT THEIR ABUSES WILL BE IN VAIN

This seems genuinely fascistic. Hot take, I guess, but I don't think that people should be arrested and charged with terrorism for holding cardboard signs that say "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action."

Not surprised that the dark blue paint ended up absorbing more solar energy and heating the pool even more allowing for even more algae to grow.

🎵 Roxanne, you don't have to put on the big light 🎵

that’s right

this is the ideal newspaper columnist. you may not like it but this is what peak performance looks like

This is a key paragraph to me, as it completely ignores the way the Court has dragged its feet to meet requirements of the VRA, pre Callais, only to immediately act post Callais, in both cases to directly benefit Republicans. It's not a slippery slope, we're on our assess sliding down the icy hill.

The differences are not, in fact, "minimal." Collins must lose the race. Stop trying to throw the election to her.

Wrote (and talked) about the maddening presumption of good faith in coverage of the Trump regime's permanent troop deployment in D.C. badfaithtimes.com/bft-pod-your...

another day, another insane arrogation of authority

Pretty easy to wind up 61 Minutes somewhere else.

the supposedly "originalist" unitary executive theory has led us to a point where the president is claiming the sovereign authority to force all institutions, public or private, to bend to his will or suffer the consequences www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/u...

The money was always there for the good things.

Governor Sherrill, control your thugs

It’s truly astonishing to see how comprehensively the US government is tearing down every part of the system that has made it up until now a world-leading power in science, research, and technological development. The entire world will suffer from this wanton destruction.

I literally cannot put into words the level contempt I have for any DOJ scumbag involved in this, anyone who so much as touches this shit needs to be disbarred

What we’re seeing is “respectable” conservatives openly moving to the position that the *only* acceptable form of Christianity is one rooted in white Christian nationalism.

Private employees owe a duty to a private employer. Public employees owe a duty to the public. Sometimes that involves secrecy, but often it involves openness and accountability. Requiring NDAs as a blanket requirement ignores the latter, which is crucial to public trust and rule of law.

i genuinely thought this was a photoshop, scrolled past this several times and just didn’t think it was real at all its so insane lmfao