"Show don't tell" < Show and tell

If Taylor Swift really wanted a private wedding venue she should’ve considered the National Mall.

Monticello spent decades working to tell a more full and honest story about Jefferson and slavery. Then the right wing trolls came for them, and the institutional response was…not great. prospect.org/2026/07/02/w...

45 years ago today. Buried on page 20 on a holiday Friday just like this one, news that changed the world. www.nytimes.com/1981/07/03/u...

Last year ICE said a man tried to murder a female ICE officer while she was trying to arrest him. They swore under oath he grabbed her by the neck and tried to choke her to death. He was even indicted for attempted murder. Problem is, it never happened! Bystander video unraveled the lie.

somebody should make a serial killer hunting movie where three quarters of the way through they get assigned to this instead.

Detainees at the Delaney Hall ICE detention center in New Jersey are going without air conditioning during an extreme heat wave. Families say the AC is off in one of the housing units, potentially leaving hundreds of people trapped in sweltering heat over 100 degrees. www.nj.com/politics/202...

Uh why are we doing this

The AP, like so much of the American press, gets this wrong. The sect that Leo's attacking here isn't "traditionalist". These are fascists, and Leo is acting to break the power of fascists within the Church.

A single mom who works two jobs... in space

So, run national health like, the way the "markets" ran it in...1886? "The National Institutes of Health traces its roots to 1887" www.nih.gov/about-nih/or...

How many more mornings like this one. 🇺🇦 How many more children pulled from rubble. How many more grandmothers wrapped in gold thermal blankets, carried out on stretchers because a missile found their kitchen window while they made breakfast.

Russia launched an attack on Ukraine that struck civilian homes, resulting in a large number of civilian casualties and injuries. This is the same pattern Russia followed in Syria for years, so I fully understand what the people of Ukraine are going through.

A crater where a courtyard used to be. Two apartment towers stand on either side, walls torn open, rooms exposed to the sky. This is Kyiv this morning. 11 dead. 56 wounded. Two of them children.

I have documented 30 native species at our new home 🌾 🌼

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Sad I didn't get to write this headline What to know about the schism

literally the logic underpinning the entire multi-billion dollar global carbon offsetting industry

Sing, my angel of music!

Always a joy to celebrate Somali Independence Day on Lake Street! Contrary to right wing trolls, Somalis are helping Minnesota thrive. Guul iyo gobanimo Somalia 🇸🇴

Ghost pepper > Ghost paper

Oh sad. All my hot friends keep getting invited to fake local apps in their area. I must not be hot, all my apps turn out real

This is FALSE. ICE data showed DHS averaging 1,259 deportations/day through April 4. There is ZERO sign deportations rose by 154% since. Mullin also mixes up DHS's (also FALSE) claim that 70% arrested have any criminal record at all, and claims that 70% are felons. Wildly wrong.

Turns out that a ~10 year supply of coffee pot descaler and cleaner costs the same as ~6 months of the little paper packets.

It was just last week that Ken Paxton was a big advocate of IVF. “I am a strong supporter of IVF and pro-family policies," the Texas Senate GOP nominee told HuffPost. Now he's suddenly walking that back, calling for "restrictions." www.huffpost.com/entry/ken-pa...

The vote on the constitutional question in the birthright citizenship case is an absolute scandal slate.com/news-and-pol...

Please don't interrupt me while I watch this Jemaine Clement interview on Romesh Ranganathan's show.

NEW: Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin is doubling (tripling?) down on flying New Glenn again this year despite the fact that it hasn’t yet figured out why the mega-rocket blew up last month techcrunch.com/2026/06/30/b...

I wrote about what it means to be American from the perspective of someone whose family was here before America was. I also figured out that a sixth of immigrants have been in the U.S. longer than JD "being American is about having roots here" Vance. www.ctinsider.com/columnist/ar...

Wait for 3 independent news orgs for breaking national news

Babies are like Supreme Court judges in that you'll hear from them in 8-12 months.

One of the joys of travel is meeting the locals. On my recent trip to the Greek Isles, I made a new friend: "Sponge Bob." To meet him and learn about the discoveries of my spring research trip, join me tonight (June 29, 6pm PT/9pm ET) on Monday Night Travel. Register: www.ricksteves.com/mnt

Today is a good day to remember that authoritarianism is not inevitable, overthrowing fascists is possible, and good things can still happen. www.pbs.org/newshour/wor...

"I signed it"

Single ply tortillas lmao @miblogestublog.bsky.social

Is Trump the West Wilson of his generation?

When I say that this Raccoon gave me a number of fantastic poses during a recent encounter, this is what I'm talking about. Unbelievable. Hanwell, #NewBrunswick, Canada June 2026 📸 #mammals #raccoon #nature #wildlife #photography #Nikon #Z9 #Nikkor800pf

This is interesting intheweights.com @kottke.org

Getting blocked by the mens wear guy because you keep sending him this picture and asking “thoughts?”

Obsessed with this 1735 illustration of hammerhead sharks from Japan

I love David Hockey's California. RIP.

You know who isn't getting radicalized? Guys who do ships in a bottle. Embrace model-building and avoid the pitfalls of right-wing extremism

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"A nine-year-old boy who survived the San Diego mosque shooting that killed three people has described seeing ‘bad stuff’. His mother, a refugee from Gaza who came to California two decades ago, gave permission for reporters to speak to her son."

I DID NOT KNOW HE WAS A BUSINESSMAN