Donald Trump just called Lauren Boebert to ask her to remove her name from the petition to release the Epstein files. She does not plan to do so.

Q: In the interests of transparency, why not just go ahead and release the full Epstein files? LEAVITT: This administration has done more with respect to Epstein transparency than any administration ever

He might actually be that guy...

Possibly wrong but officially NOT GUILTY

If you're into space opera incl. space pirates, double- and triple-crosses, space battles, and betrayal, The #RenegadeImperium boxes set is still priced to move: $2.99 for the whole set! But it won't last much longer so take the plunge now! www.amazon.com/dp/B0FX1S5ML9

Better and better... newrepublic.com/post/202726/...

Freudian slips are a helluva thang

Best goddam NY Post front page I have ever seen in my 58 years as a NYCer:

Thank you, New York City. Together we made history. Now let’s get to work. transition2025.com

Even fucking Mississippi... www.newsweek.com/democrats-mi...

“Every race. It’s basically been every race. Governors. Mayors. Long-held [Republican] dog-catchers. School boards. Water boards. Flipped a dungeon master in a rural Iowa D&D club. State senators. State reps. A janitor in Duluth. State justices. Three [Republican] Uber drivers. Just everything.” HCR

Le sigh...

It's a simple rule of #capitalism that I've been talking about for 3 decades: you want a #corporaton to change its tune, you kick it in the #revenues: medium.com/@carmitage/w...

#BigGrandioseStupidEnergy www.theissue.io/americas-big...

Demanding context for Kirk but not Kimmel? IDK, folks...sounds like a load of hogwash to me...

Feel like I’m going insane with the revisionist history that Charlie Kirk fostered open debate. He chilled speech and his targeting of professors for wrongthink led to threats, harassment, and being forced out of their jobs. His legacy is chilling speech right now, about him

Yet more of the levers slipping into the hands of the few.

You have to remember, the people running this country now are evil. They don’t merely disagree on the proper ratio of guns to butter, which is what our system is set up for and expects. They enjoy inflicting pain for pain’s sake.

America has officially entered its Dark Ages. God help us all—because there's no longer any reason to believe Congress or the courts or media will. We have lost our way to a degree I never thought possible, and I am not going to pretend to have any answers about how we find our way back. We may not.

Very helpful thread on the role of “debate” at universities:

Great Alexander Skarsgård interview about playing Murderbot: www.youtube.com/watch?v=D69u...

The Republican-led US government is throwing its full weight, at the federal and state levels, behind punishing teachers, soldiers, or immigrants for their speech about the killing of a conservative pundit. It's as absurd and laughable as it is dangerous and dystiopian.

I understand that CK's remarks re: 2A happened within a larger context about gun rights and violence and so on, but I don't see how insisting on that context matters. Does knowing all this make him less dead? Does it make his kids less fatherless? IDK, folks... www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVc9...

Awesome discussion about #mentalhealth and #horror and absolutely stellar readings! Well done @jonfrater.bsky.social, @hdwp.com and @chwallisuk.bsky.social

This is not a coding error.

Trump’s rewriting the map. Abbott’s issuing arrest warrants. Tulsi’s charging #Obama with treason. And the sky? On fire. Redistricting coups, #Epstein cover-ups, and 16 million acres of climate collapse. #uspolitics open.substack.com/pub/marygedd...

For a long time, I resisted reading Murderbot, despite all the accolades (for reasons I'll get into in a sec). I just finished watching it on Apple+, it's brilliant, #hopepunk AF, you should definitely watch/read it. 1/n

It took YEARS for Obama to get a Blackberry deemed secure by the NSA but this guy says let's use an off the shelf civ app for top secret comms? #OpSecFail all around, Walz.

you can be weird and STILL be cute. just saying

Library humor

Honestly, great queer Jewish news for Pride weekend: @bradhoylmansigal.bsky.social, the Democratic nominee for Manhattan Borough President - who is an out and proud queer Jew (married at CBST!) - endorsed @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social! 🫂❤️

Trump's crypto holdings can be tough to track (I know, it's my job)— 💥 Tokens! 💥 Stablecoins! 💥 Memecoins! 💥 NFTs! 💥 Crypto reserves! 💥 Oh my! Thanks so much to @hcrichardson.bsky.social for having me on this afternoon to break it down!

just as centrist pundits once trekked to red-state diners to seek answers for trump’s rise, they must now do the equivalent for mamdani: join an illegal polycule sublet in the mckibbin lofts

Woooooow.....Space X may actually be engineering these prototypes to be WORSE with each successive attempt...

Horror Words Podcast s1e3: @jonfrater.bsky.social www.iheart.com/podcast/53-h... 📚💙 #booksky

HorrorWords Podcast @svpthinks.bsky.social , Catherine Ruff, @jonfrater.bsky.social , Dani, and me. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Npp...

when a nation reaches avg 100 Mbps it enters the doomscroll spiral

TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

Enjoy!

Hmmmm

NEW: The Social Security Administration Is gutting regional staff and shifting all of its public communications to Elon Musk's X read @zoeschiffer.bsky.social:

Hey so uh why is the president ordering the DoJ to investigate anyone and also what the fuck?

This was a response to a creepily cheery post by Adobe that asked "What's fueling your creativity right now?" Best response possible IMO. Brava!

NEW: 404 Media has seen parts of a Palantir-powered ICE database that allows for highly specific filtering of people, which allows for searches of students, people with tattoos, from specific countries, by visa status, etc: www.404media.co/inside-a-pow...

Mark your calendars!

No more outsourcing from abroad—the US will now cultivate its own tired, poor, huddled masses yearning to breathe free domestically.

Someone asked why Stephen Miller has a security patrol. It’s because people keep taking shots at him like this.

A shout out to the millions who marched in the United States for democracy and against fascism. Taking back the country is going to be a long and hard struggle but it has begun. From Canada we say: #elbowsup