We are given only a limited number of truly perfect summer days in our time on Earth. One of the more insidious cruelties of fossil fuel greed is how it slowly strips those days from us, more and more throughout our lifetimes, perhaps without us even realizing what we have lost.

NEWS: We’ve secured a final ruling barring the Trump Admin’s use of a single subclause buried in federal regulations to terminate tens of billions of dollars in grant funding to states. With today’s victory, we’ve closed this much-misused avenue for withholding federal funding to CA.

“This well-timed excoriation is no surprise… But it remains immensely valuable for two related reasons. First, Eddins weaves together various threads from this term (and those preceding it) to show the entire web of ultrapartisan judicial policymaking in which the nation is now ensnared.”

Gift link with no paywall because everybody needs to read this one after the June we just had slate.com/news-and-pol...

Tim Pool was paid by a Russian front to create content. This is definitely the dumbest timeline…

I found this quote from Riley Gaines to be really striking. Straight-up conceding that the purpose of trans sports bans is to normalize transphobia, and to give "ordinary" people "more cover" expressing it in public. ballsandstrikes.substack.com/p/anti-trans...

a great piece from Parker that i hope you all read. i would humbly add that no matter the issue, policy, statement, or scandal, we’re more than a decade into the MAGAverse and have seen how little we gain with cries of “aha, hypocrite!”—these freaks can’t act in good faith and don’t deserve yours

"Hi, I'm [blank], and I’m a constituent from [blank]. I'm calling to speak with the staffer who handles immigration policy and Department of Homeland Security oversight. I want to flag a highly concerning new DHS solicitation on Sam.gov regarding overseas detention facilities." Please call!

Yes, and $7.25/hour was utter madness then, let alone now. Waiting for individual states to raise minimum wage is an exploitative mechanism for re-enforcing oligarchy (as are most exercises in “states rights.”) I’m not saying $15/hr is enough to live on, but it would be a good start.

Spoof ad in London

Artists/writers/creators in NYC - please feel free to sign the @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social coalition's letter calling for a two year moratorium on "A.i." in the public schools! We're up to about 650 signatures - would love to get this over 1000! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

actual gestapo shit. "Video posted on social media showed two plainclothes Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents appearing to handcuff a man at a Las Vegas airport while he screamed in terror."

L.A. Material’s Tomo Chien found that L.A. issued nearly $1 million in invalid street sweeping tickets — many in one of the city’s poorest neighborhoods. LADOT claims it voided them but wouldn’t release the data to prove it. Check if your street sweeping ticket was invalid: buff.ly/zxkUcrI

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I still think about this column headline from @deliacai.bsky.social in Vanity Fair from 2021. It was about flooding, but it might as well be about the orange skies from wildfire smoke: www.vanityfair.com/style/2021/0...

Just after Independence Day, I started thinking about national symbols. Who defaces them, and who becomes them. So I went back to the beginning and wrote about Sean Dunn, aka Sandwich Thrower Guy, and the sandwich he threw - an American Hero: buttondown.com/theswordandt...

I've been contemplating how the attempts to make human shaped robots and removal of all personality from buildings, furniture, etc. are kind of the same. Capitalists want nothing but the ability to infinitely rent. No value in individuality. Their business will never be more than dull $ streams.

For no reason whatsoever, I checked my voter registration today, and if you are a US citizen I encourage you to do the same/update that voter registration if necessary/register to vote if you have not already done so: www.vote.org

This is probably the nerdiest video I've ever made. I'm *such* a nerd for colour, you've no idea. I genuinely find endless hope and beauty in how in pigments dance. I'm so nerdy in fact, that I've themed the Dare to Hope Mailclub around colour this month,

Peter Thiel and his dangerous tech cult of power are the subject of my book, "The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy." Something tells me you won't be hearing about it in Politico! Coming 8/18! Pre-orders available here: www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...

The press release states that Thiel has "shaped the public debate on innovation, freedom, and the future of Western societies." This is literally the guy who said "I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible."

More importantly, Politico's coverage of Thiel and his gang—who are a major force inside the Trump administration—has been woefully inadequate. The radical politics of Silicon Valley are lightly mentioned, a background noise, even as their most bizarre ideas are put into practice.

Last year, I wrote about Politico's $50 million Thiel problem. Perhaps its explains why that outlet has been so oblivious/nonchalant about tech fascism. www.thenerdreich.com/politico-pet...

Axel Springer, the company that owns Politico, awards its top prize to...Antichrist lecturer Peter Thiel. No mention of the $50 million Thiel gave the son of Axel Springer's CEO to start a venture capital fund. But the CEO lauds Thiel's "courage and non-conformity." www.welt.de/wirtschaft/a...

One more prop for this Sunday’s (7/19) live performance of The Survivalists pilot at Dynasty Typewriter (and livestream!) the optimized soy protein bars that reduce your risk of death.

I have put a bonkers number of clocks up on codepen in the past few days, if any frontend or design dorks want source. I’m proud of this fella today. You can tap it for different flower arrangements 💐 What a fun hobby

I hope the understandable disillusionment with Jared Polis in Colorado doesn't lead to this absolute psycho becoming the next governor.

If only there were someone in a position of power who could have stopped Todd Blanche from signing off on a $1.8 billion slush fund for January 6 rioters

Leave my boy Taco Bell out of it, it was bitch ass Taylor Farms, the world's largest salad processor. Fight the real enemy Big Salad

TBQ was the opinion I was waiting for.

Hey, everyone! It's @flavorflav.bsky.social's SHE WEEKEND in Las Vegas!!!

Hope the ladies had a great time! Much love & many props to @flavorflav.bsky.social for throwing the SHE Weekend celebration! www.espn.com/olympics/sto...

Editor Commentary: Maybe you think all these Ohio voting changes are good. Maybe you don’t. But none of them have been made in good faith. A problem didn’t exist. It was already very hard to cheat, but now voting in Ohio is much harder because of lies. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/07/16/o...

so, this happens sometimes because of how these investigations progress—you often learn the restaurant before supplier. and most news coverage of the non-bell cases has been minimal. also, the slow federal response + broken media ecosystem + the bell’s public reputation all contributed to confusion.

Very useful compilation of statements from Members of Congress on why they voted for or against the elimination of the disastrous 3.3B in taxpayer funded weapons to Israel

People do not get that! Homelessness is a serious issue of disability justice because so many people become homeless because of their disabilities & so many people become disabled from the brutality of being homeless. Care about disability? Then you better care about homelessness!

Tonight seems to be the ceremonial kickoff of President Trump’s campaign to interfere in the November election. Trump has badly lost independent voters, even MAGA is disheartened; he is failing and unpopular, and he’s dragging his party down with him in the midterms.

Somehow The Washington Post doesn't realize Francis didn't make it canon in the Roman Catholic Church that Muslims worship the same God and that Christian and Muslims share many essential values? That's wild. They can't hire a religion reporter who has studied religion? I guess everybody good quit.

This has been so frustrating because so many people assume that things are safe if nothing or little is being done about them. If the air was that bad, surely more would be done to help people or inform them . . . (If COVID were still bad, masks or vaccines would be required . . . ) (ugh!)

michiganadvance.com/2026/07/16/t... Tribal nations and environmental advocates have called on state officials to shut down the project for years

Indigenous history is American history. Chaco Canyon is a national treasure. To destroy it for petroleum profits is to destroy a piece of our national identity. It is fundamentally un-American, anti-American.

This should be the attitude of EVERY Dem in Congress. No exceptions. Such an amazing and powerful role model for women and girls right here. Shut it Maga at every turn. Don't show them to be part of civilized society. No tolerance for intolerance. They choose this

A real tweet from February 2016. The playbook hasn’t changed a bit.

gotta be real i think the balance on this one leans less toward out of touch and more toward very stupid

she's a 34 year old from florida, she has absolutely been in a drive-thru line drunk at 3am, she just can't do abstract math

Trump's big news is China acquired the publicly available voter file? Bro, DOGE employees took off with our Social Security info on thumb drives.

Hmm?🤔 * $158K annual salary as AG * Blind trust holds his assets * 2M investments in a company called Watch Guard (which gained DPS contract). * 2019 Windfall 5M real-estate investment * securities fraud charges * misusing public office for personal gain www.tpr.org/news/2025-10...

This lettuce is literally everywhere and usually it’s in contexts where no one knows/discloses it. Taco Bell is one of the only places doing the right, proactive thing here and misleading headlines are flipping things around making seem like they’re a site of danger instead.

VOUGHT SAYS IT OUT LOUD A political appointee would be in the position to decide whether a cancer research grant that studies why some populations are at higher risk of dying from some cancers would be against DEI rules. Studying the BRCA1 gene, prevalent in Ashkenazi Jews would be DEI.🧪