if you haven't seen any photos of what the US used to look like before the clean air/water acts, you should take 30 seconds for a quick image search

Everything is so dumb.

Some people are putting it all on the line.

I'm just saying, it seems like a sign www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia...

Yesteryear is actually a bad book. open.substack.com/pub/monicabp...

It is seriously alarming how many of the world’s wealthiest and most powerful people are just screamingly mentally unwell in deeply toxic, dangerous ways.

Been trying for years now to highlight that part of data centers' water footprint comes from producing the electricity they use, so it's good to see more mainstream coverage of it. (Again, yes we should reform agriculture, golf corses Should also be destroyed, & more than one thing can be bad)

Beverly Steele, 69, embarked on a journey to uncover Royal, Florida’s history. That led to the fight to get the community listed on the National Register of Historic Places. https://bit.ly/4vOp4Na

A debate over Matthew 25 has been brewing in Congress over the last year. It’s pitting mainline pastors, Black protestants and the pope against evangelical politicians put on the defensive amid outspoken religious criticisms of President Donald Trump’s policies. religionnews.com/2026/07/01/i...

Heat records are getting broken. Electricity prices are soaring. The administration's response? Let's gut energy efficiency rules for appliances.

The thing is, many Americans have convinced themselves that life has to be terrible.

Wanna hear me cry like a little baby about science communication? Check out the most recent episode of Humans with the legend, Jad Abumrad. (humanswithhank.com)

“‘We need the Democrats to figure out that they’re in a fight for democracy, and they need to fight,’ said Bill, a Maryland Democrat. ‘We always go in with the kid gloves, but we are truly in a fight for democracy right now and the party needs to step up.’”

The message is breaking through

“More Democrats aren’t becoming socialists, they’re just really pissed.”

witnessing the birth of a new all timer post is such a beautiful thing

The knowledge of how many innocents’ deaths he is directly responsible for is clearly tormenting Musk psychologically, and I think he should be confronted with it roothlessly at every opportunity until he has a psychological break like the guy in The Tell-Tale Heart.

Has this been done

JUST POSTED PART II A NYT ANALYSIS OF CONFLICTS OF INTERESTS EVIDENT IN TRUMP's $2.2 BILLION HAUL (free link) www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/u...

Big in Louisiana today: State Supreme Court upheld decision vacating the conviction of Chris Duncan, who spent 26 years on death row claiming innocence. Context: 80% of people on Louisiana death row have been exonerated; this conviction hinged on discredited doctors. We reported on case here:

Is this also why there are like 4 different temperatures on different apps in my area?

Many years ago I wrote my senior thesis in anthropology about how much political symbols matter to people and I feel like every day of this administration is proof of that: newrepublic.com/post/212611/...

People aren't just mad about rising prices; they're mad that the economy seems increasingly unfair. My latest for @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/2125...

An annoying thing about 538 being gone is that I can't as easily point to all the times I was correct two years ago.

Voters repeatedly tell pollsters they want new, younger (sorry ageism) candidates with bold ideas who promise to stand up for them, and that's what they're voting for. newrepublic.com/article/2125...

Was waiting for someone to do the math with this one!

A where's Waldo to celebrate freedom 250 😂👇

NEW 📰: Our fellow @asteephen.bsky.social connects housing affordability, financial stability, inflation, and economic justice to make the case that rent regulation is not just a tenant protection but a tool for managing systemic risk in housing finance. Read: rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

I have watched all the heated rivalry episodes multiple times, I own the books I read the fan fiction. I have not watched Off Campus. It's not the hockey.

[guy who has only read the Nicene Creed] getting a lot of Nicene Creed vibes from this yard sign

Regulate crypto out of existence since it’s a blatant scam. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

the egg price thing under biden was all fake lol

I hope somebody is taking a poll of who is on the mall our of morbid curiosity, who just had the mall on their list of places to see on vacation, and who is actually there because they thought they'd enjoy it.

NPR's Nina Totenberg misheard a statement about retirements and told editor Krishnadev Calamur that Alito was retiring; Calamur then posted a prewritten story (Kelly McBride/NPR) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Data centers are so, so unpopular.

People are dying in France because excessive heat is deadly and our bodies cook from the inside out if we can't cool off and only AC does that and @chatterton.bsky.social is like aw but the French have a je ne sais quoi attitude about life that is all.

5-4 for what it explicitly says in the constitution is incredible. They were this close to undoing the civil war entirely. bsky.app/profile/mjsd...

Obviously the human toll is what matters. But here's a question I keep thinking about. The bulk of the SCOTUS docket is business stuff. If they are now openly reinterpreting the law on days that end in Y, how can anyone have confidence in the rule of law in America, including corporate interests?

Court can't go on like this. The Constitution as plainly as possible says people who were born here have an unequivocal right to citizenship. Four people whose ONLY job is to read the Constitution for the rest of their lives just tried to overturn it because they're tired of brown people. Pack it.

Among other things, a 5-4 ruling on birthright citizenship is an invitation to try again.

If you want to spend the day angry think about how they're constantly claiming SNAP and Medicaid users are committing fraud while being so blatantly corrupt every day of this administration.

See, people always want to make this just about "sports," but the real upshot here is that, 6-3, trans women can't make a claim under the Equal Protection Clause. And if they can't do that, it's hard to see how they have constitutional rights.

They're plundering the national treasury.

"America’s extreme right wing is by far the country’s big problem, and it’s hard to address that problem when powerful elites insist that the trouble is with “both sides.”" newrepublic.com/article/2125...

one kind of striking thing about the 250 birthday fiasco is aren't there usually just regular people visiting the capital every day did this event actually repel visitors

The reasons are that the summers aren't as hot and infrastructure is older. The American South is hard to live in without AC and people didn't move there in huge numbers until it was available. Any cultural explanations are just backfill justifications. This is dumb.

Wow I would think it's fake except I recognize the actors. Alan Ruck is killing his almost perfect batting average by being in this.

The Flamingo Revolution is a good name for a revolution.

As with some other things, i suspect if we have another dem president we will discover that the court did not so much transfer power to the executive as to themselves, ie they will find novel bullshit reasons to block a dem president the same way the find novel bullshit reasons to enable trump