“Pope Leo made a plea on Wednesday for countries to offer their ​citizens universal healthcare, calling it a ‘moral imperative’ that ‌people have access to the health services they need.” www.reuters.com/business/hea...

It’s really disconcerting watching the new season of The Silo, and seeing talk about dirty bombs and Iran, in our current geopolitical situation. If you need me, I will be on level 68 with mechanical and trying to avoid being watched.

At 24.8kg at 106 days, Beren’s already bigger than Abla was at 108 days - 24.4kg. Also, he doesn’t really fit on Wally’s outside bed anymore.

Gérard Uféras Givenchy Haute couture, Paris, 2002

Schumer and Bernie need to shut this man down. Together and permanently. It is their job to clean up this mess they both made. It’s not the Maine party ED’s job. It’s their job.

Lawrence on MSNow gives a great lesson on new and exciting candidates. “Wait for the vetting.” He had not commented on his show on Platner until today.

Lovely, suits her. Didn’t realize she was close friends with Swift. Also read she is engaged to Harry Styles, who has suddenly become a favorite after his brilliant tribute to Thom Yorke. Maybe I’ll listen to Styles’ music someday.

The “Platner team” needs to go away and leave us alone. We have had enough of you.

The Grandala is a stunning, high-altitude bird in the thrush family known for the male’s brilliant, deep-blue plumage and black wings, the female grey. They inhabit the harsh, mountainous terrains of the Himalayas and the Tibetan Plateau forming massive flocks up to 500. Diet Insects and seeds

GUYS KEN PAXTON IS RIGHT THAT THERE'S A VOTER FRAUD PROBLEM IN TEXAS BUT THE PROBLEM IS KEN PAXTON'S VOTER FRAUD. great story from @zachdespart.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/ken-...

A LITERAL NAZI TATTOO, LIKE WHAT IN THE EVERLOVING FUCK DID YOU THINK WAS GOING TO HAPPEN

Gustav Klimt, Old Man on His Deathbed, c. 1900

It defies every iota of logic that somebody would try to ram armed officers with guns drawn. These murderous thugs lie over and over and over again to justify their violence.

A Blue Jay picking up some millet that someone had left on the boardwalk railing. Barn Swallows were very unhappy with the Blue Jay being so close to their nest under the boardwalk and went into dive bombing mode.

Donald Trump is a racist.

It’s a start!

I am working hard to meet a project deadline, and my daughter just brought me homemade cookies and espresso. 🥰

Catherine Deneuve so stylish even in the heat. With Pedro Pascal.

there is a cohort of men who resent the responsibilities and obligations of adulthood — of the fact that you owe things to other people. it is a fundamentally childish impulse that they have reconfigured as the height of masculinity, and i think it informs the parasocial attraction to platner.

Rather than debunk Trump’s wildly dishonest, unhinged, and inflammatory new rhetoric about Democrats being godless communists who want to kill Christians, our major news organizations have responded largely with mild stenography – effectively amplifying his lies. presswatchers.org/2026/07/trum...

Florida’s manatees are dying. Here’s why: environmental-action.org/articles/flo...

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'Jeopardy!' is hiring a new clue writer - one lucky nerd will get paid up to $178K for their know-how

yeah with a ouija board

The small house in Steinbach, Attersee, Austria, where Gustav Mahler used to compose 📷 Gerhard Trumler This would be a nice spot to write Bluesky posts.

ALERT: Some arguing "political meddling", "NO KINGS" or "fascism".... 77,000 members of public flood Brendan Carr and FCC with comments about agency's probe of "The View" open.substack.com/pub/macfarla...

Pedro Pascal and his sister Lux Pascal at the Chanel show in Paris https://www.fxoxo.com/304174/ Pedro Pascal and his sister Lux Pascal at the Chanel show in Paris by LunaLore_

Congestion pricing has not only reduced gridlock in Manhattan — new research shows it could also be saving lives: gothamist.visitlink.me/oznagU

This is Rocky. He just stopped by for a quick mid-zoom check in. Seems like everything is fine though, so he'll be off. Good chat. 13/10 (IG: rockyybowboa)

Happy birthday Ringo Starr 🎂 📷 Richard Avedon, 1967 "I am a big Beatles fan. And, you know, unbeknownst to anyone, I used to be one."

Misogyny is our oldest and arguably most enduring convention.

Le Guin on the idea that there is a secret to getting good at writing.

“You shouldn’t have to choose between sexual violence and corporate servitude.” - Abdul Al-Sayed, Michigan Senate candidate on Graham Platner. He debates Haley Stevens tonight. McMorrow has suspended her campaign.

Keep 'em coming

BREAKING: Eleventh Circuit, on a 2-1 vote, upholds injunction blocking Florida from enforcing its 2022 Stop WOKE Act in the university context. The majority opinion is from Judge Britt Grant, a Trump appointee: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Ella’s looking chipper this morning. I should ask her to listen for alien communications while wearing that satellite dish. 🐶🩷👽

#FilmNoir LAURA (1944) 📽 Joseph LaShelle won the Oscar for Best Black-and-White Cinematography 🎞

There's corruption and then there's corruption. Right now, we've got every type imaginable in DC. Some are obvious. But some are so deeply ingrained in our culture we take them for granted. We shouldn't. We need a special kind of leader to undo it. My latest. www.thedailybeast.com/why-trumps-j...

Mamdani: "To the US Men's National Team -- you have made our nation proud. You have brought the people's game to life."

An Afghan national who fought alongside U.S. forces has died from an allergic reaction while in ICE custody, one day after he was detained for deportation proceedings, his death certificate shows. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

ZELENSKYY: I want to emphasize this. Unlike Putin, we're not fighting this war for pleasure or for geopolitics. Russia brought this war to Ukraine and killing our people. Russia wants to destroy our independence and from the first day of this war, we're only defending ourselves.

18thc Myanmar. Shakyamuni, the historical Buddha. Unwavering in pursuit of truth despite a bombardment of demons.

Once again, I am just a small-town international relations professor, standing here, begging our media & our Congress to take our most important signed, ratified international treaty seriously & threats by the One Special Boy to violate it as the presidency-ending scandal that it should have been.

👇🎯 My frustration at the near-total lack of loud, public collective action by university presidents is precisely because of this. The idea that we can just ride out a year or two & it will all be fine & back to business as usual is head-in-the-sand denial. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Even worse, Mike Johnson casually slips in the claim that US citizenship is being "devalued" by "birth tourism." That's very loaded language, essentially declaring that the kids of undocumented immigrants are inferior. Status should not be a matter of bloodline. 5/ newrepublic.com/article/2127...

Vile: Mike Johnson just said GOP might try to undo birthright citizenship with legislation, which is unconstitutional. I've noticed a pattern: He and Vance are using sleazy new language to sell this as a trivial reform. The threat is very much alive. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2127...

I’m reposting both of these today for the very obvious reason that a lot of important pols and commentators simply refused to acknowledge the obvious issues with Platner. And some even reveled in them. www.liberalcurrents.com/graham-platn... www.liberalcurrents.com/the-men-defe...