It feels like an insult to the notion of objective reality to invoke “experts” to weigh in on a numerical fact you can verify with a pocket calculator

It doesn't include ICE actions as right wing terror attacks, either.

"experts say" www.cnn.com/2025/08/11/b...

Dave Matthews has the opportunity to do the funniest thing.

Wall Street is currently primarily located in Mahwah NJ, so this doesn't seem like a particularly big deal.

the nfl doesn't pay halftime performers? wtf? good for Swift for telling them to go pound sand.

DHS is barely 20 years old. It was thrown together by a bunch of unsupervised interns in the chaotic wake of 9/11 (that's barely an exaggeration if you read about how inexperienced so many of its creators were). It can easily be disassembled as well. We don't have to live like this.

Under Trump, nearly 320,000 Black women have been pushed out of the workforce. This is an economic & moral crisis with dangerous consequences to Black women, Black families, & Black futures. We're demanding the Fed do its job to ensure maximum employment for ALL, including Black women.

James Comey did everything in his power to get us where we are now.

“According to the new report, 84% of kids with influenza-associated encephalopathy whose vaccination status was known weren’t vaccinated. The finding comes as the nation logged 280 pediatric flu deaths last year, the deadliest ever aside from the 2009-10 H1N1 pandemic” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social

The problem with ICE isn't that the contracts are corrupt, it's that the entire agency is completely corrupt and exists only to enact political violence, and DHS exists purely to make this sort of department inevitable. And furthermore ICE must be destroyed.

But let’s be clear: every day, masked ICE agents are acting violently against our neighbors, illegally abducting them, holding them in cruel and inhumane conditions. Treating them as less-than-human, and not deserving due process.

Excited that "Slow Horses" is back.

Republicans, Trump included, are zeroing in on transgender people and blaming us for the looming government shutdown. They are demanding that Democrats cave on transgender rights. Many of them are copying the same talking points in their messages.

Engraving two bullets with "this bullet only lies" and "this bullet only tells the truth" to really stump the FBI

Yes

This is pathetic.

Shhh let them cook

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

30 yrs ago today the greatest military SciFi space opera to ever air on TV premiered. Space Above and Beyond, nominated for 2 Emmy’s and a Saturn award, tells the story of the 58th Sqd Space Marines and their fight against the ‘invading’ Chigs. #spaceaboveandbeyond www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppdX...

They've lost the 9yos

Having flashbacks

If this doesn't give you "area man graffitis own garage door, calls police" vibes...

the perfect wall clock doesn't ex......

This remarkable therapy uses an approach the Trump administration just cancelled funding for.

it's absolutely fucking crazy that "retroactively legalize Watergate" and "exclude Black people from literally every area of public life" are the two primary a objectives of the chief justice and yet he is never reported on like the vicious gutter racist he is.

Kind of surreal that a government official was caught taking a $50,000 cash bribe and there's not even a question that he will continue serving as it nothing ever happened. Like even the most basic standards of public accountability are a joke.

Honestly, he got it. This is an impossibly hard thing to get right. I can quibble about some parts, and it’s impossible to do normie content that’s also sufficient for the moment, but he did as good a job as is possible. Especially glad he rightfully called out the threat to journalists.

Big tech is going to be lobbying the MA state senate hard tomorrow in advance of a vote Thursday on consumer privacy legislation. If you live in Massachusetts, call your senator in the morning and tell them you want them to support all the pro-privacy amendments and reject those from industry.

I think I'll watch Jimmy Kimmel tonight.

The greatest innovation billionaires have come up with is they found a way to have billions of dollars and still be miserable and angry all the time

Markey would wipe the toilet seat with Moulton. This idea is hilarious.

Is there a good logo for the Butlerian Jihad?

From yesterday and today: it certainly appears ICE in Chicago are wearing the Meta AI Ray-Ban glasses.

she kept finding trump officials?

Help, I think I'm being raptured!

H/T @letschangecambridge.us for producing this chart showing who the various advocacy groups have endorsed, and making it super easy to rank a slate of pro-bike pro-housing candidates letschangecambridge.us/articles/cho...

i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.

Wait, so Schumer and Jeffries refuse to shut down the government even though that is the best strategic thing they could do, and so he's gonna do it for them out of spite because they want not to? Do I have this right?

The United States ended its open borders 101 years ago.

This is best story by far about the SIM farm uncovered in New York by Secret Service. The intent of the farm is not, as suggested by other stories, to disrupt Secret Service protection of dignitaries attending the UN or taking out mobile service for all NY but about managing criminal enterprises

Don't think I've ever felt this embarrassed to be an American. There's shame and anger too. But mostly embarrassment. We're the laughingstock of the developed world. And we should be.

Trump is now whining to the UN about the UN working with another developer and not him on their building

I’m trying to remember any scenario, fictional or real, where the side using a captive five year old as leverage aren’t the villains of the piece. If this was an action movie, we’d cheer those cops being wiped out.

It's all fun and games until a cop handles a Tylenol gelcap with no gloves and within seconds their socks are bothering them.

These Pygmy Nuthatches visited our campsite's water spigot this morning at Tumalo State Park, Deschutes County, Oregon #birding

Dutch TV’s take on Disney trashing the First Amendment — by pulling Jimmy Kimmel to appease a thin-skinned autocrat — is something to behold. 🎬Arjen Lubach

AI Overviews seem about as reliable as that red-faced, bulging-eyed bloke you meet at the pub half an hour before closing-time who then proceeds to super-confidently assert the most unfathomably wibble-brained bollocks you've ever heard in your life.