America: The shitty reboot of the Peloponnesian Wars you’ve been waiting for. Where the Spartans are obese and heavily armed mil-cosplayers and the Athenians forego logic and art to focus on purity tests. Coming to local theatres all around you this fall!

Day five of the #abq international #balloon #fiestas and it was a moody, cloudy green flag day. #photography 📷 📸

Another set of pics from day #1 of #abq international #balloon #fiestas even though it was just a static hold day. #photography #photos 📷 📸

So we didn’t get a mass ascension because the winds were a bit redic, but we got a static launch on the field (inflate, no flight). #baloonfiesta #abq #photography 📷

It’s very uncomfortable that the guy who likely caused Trump’s 2016 election has shown us what happens to people who capitulate to Trump, only to later stand up to him when he goes too far. And now he’s a symbol of resistance. Uncomfortable. Hey, Bob Iger. Guess what?

Waking up to Liquid Glass in iOS 26 gives me flashbacks to 2001 when playing with OS X Aqua / Quartz and the famous “lickable” icons and buttons. #ios #osx #newretro

This seems bad. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

I’m in.

Again, Teen Vogue doing the work NYT and WaPo fail to do

Just going to leave this right here.

Yup.

Flashback to 2013 and the appearance of This Charming Charlie which, as far as I know, was the last moment of civilization. #thisCharmingCharlie

loving this brutal heat wave, are there any politicians or movements that are specifically working toward delivering more of these

I saw so many people talking about how Mamdani and Lander were clearly running because they love their city and want to make life better there, while Cuomo seems to hate and fear it, and that feels like the key piece of this campaign that could be replicable by progressives everywhere

The Temu version of Reagan “freeing the hostages” has led to the Temu version of GWB’s “Mission Accomplished” in fewer hours than it takes to same-day deliver an Amazon package. The 2020z are amazing

Caligula would have blushed.

here’s what the onion’s full page spot is running next to this morning

The Ayatollah’s biggest mistake? Not going on Joe Rogan.

We live in a rogue and dangerous country. Do what you need to do to maintain your internal peace. Hold the core of your spirit. Pray for peace. Commit yourself to justice. And just rest.

Remember just a while back when the republican minority defeated the agenda of the democratic majority … and it wasn’t by supporting landmark legislation www.politico.com/magazine/sto...

NEW: The suspect in the Minnesota lawmaker shootings has been caught, per KSTP / ABC News.

The only thing quieter than President Trump’s birthday military parade is Elon Musk’s phone on Father’s Day.

So it was the "No Kings" marches versus the "No Crowds" parade

Holy mackerel.

[Exit King.]

“There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state. The other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people.” — Commander Will Adama (He also distrusted AI)

More Americans voted for Senator Alex Padilla than for 48 of the 53 red state GOP U.S. Senators combined.

Seems relevant.

Idk man but when the administration that tried to reject humanitarian aid for Los Angeles when it was burning tries to justify their illegal military occupation by saying they aren’t going to let LA burn it kinda sounds like bullshit

Truth-tellers, not rioters. Protect these two men at all costs. “You feel tough with your assault rifles and your sticks. You should be standing here with us. You’re on the wrong side of history.” “John Lewis said make good trouble… that means make trouble on behalf of democracy.”

This is reportedly video from Severomorsk, Russia’s nuclear submarine base.

Pretty dramatic day in Russia: Ukrainian drones have reportedly attacked four Russia air bases, destroying a significant number of strategic bombers and radar planes. (Tu-95s, Tu-22, A-50) Russian milbloggers are furious. One calls it a "black day," another says they need to nuke Kyiv.

PRESI-DEMENTIA/CON-MANDER-IN-CHIEF/FATTY SHACK/AYATOLLAH COMPLAINI/TANNIBAL LECTER/SCAMMY DAVIS JR./RICH LITTLE HANDS/HIPPOPOTUS/OUR FONDLING FARTER/TRUMPELSTILTSKIN/HUNGRY HUNGRY HYPOCRITE/DICTATOR TOT/UNCLE SCAM/QUID PRO COMBOVER/MANGO MUSSOLINI/FRANCIS FORD GROPE-ALA/ALEXANDER SCAMILTON <the end>

What’s shocking is how close the HQs of The Sinners and Sons of Devils were to the former Saint Vitus venue (“whiskey is great, satan is super!”)

"It may seem as though the worst excesses of DOGE have passed. The reality is, the whole government is DOGE now." read @brbarrett.bsky.social's last musings on DOGE (for now!) before he hands @wired.com's politics lab newsletter off to @jakelahut.writes.news!

-$1.5T in new tax cuts predominantly for the rich -$700B in Medicaid cuts -$500B in Medicare cuts -$300B in SNAP cuts -Leasing public lands to Big Oil -Ending IRS Direct File -Ending clean energy tax credits -Banning AI regulation in the states The oligarchy's wish list.

"There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people." - Commander William Adama, Battlestar Galactica

BREAKING: The Fed holds interest rates steady for a third-straight meeting and emphasizes a growing risk of both higher inflation and rising unemployment

My colleagues across the aisle just called our fight to protect Social Security “garbage.” I’m sorry—WHAT!?!?   Seniors, veterans, children, & people with disabilities are not “garbage.” We don’t work for billionaires. We work for the people. And, we will continue to fight like hell for them.

This is a fun game.

Scenario 1: olive oil Pre-tariffs, from Italy $22 … from California $26. Post-tariffs: from Italy $36. From California … Wouldn’t they be stupid to charge less than $36? That’s profit. Not taxes. Won’t even go to pay for the tax cuts to Elon and Bezos.

Bee Geesmith

Tell me more about the California exodus.

The Republican anti-tax coalition is beginning to disintegrate | David Sirota, Arjun Singh, Ariella Markowitz and Natalie Bettendorf

Damn, Tim. This man coulda been our VP.

"Attorney General shall initiate appropriate action to repeal or amend the implementing regulations for Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for all agencies" What's Title VI? "prohibits discrimination against or otherwise excluding individuals on the basis of race, color, or national origin"

The follow-up posts are gold.

The DOW has dropped 1000 points 11 times in history. 4 of those have been since “Liberation Day”

This is the most bone chilling account of cybersecurity malfeasance I have ever read. It’s like Cuckoo’s Egg in reverse.

New orders hit the skids. Imports are off the table, and shipping and transportation is falling through the floor. The “dead cat bounce” (sorry kittehs!) is about to conclude. #econsky #economics #trade