"Love feels like blasphemy when you worship power" is an all-time banger theological burn.

yes, there’s lead poisoning, but I also wonder how much simply increased recognition that mental illnesses exist and can be treated has helped reduce crime rates over the last 30 years.

Thee reason many Western Europeans don't believe North Americans (including Canadians!) when we say our weather is not something to fuck with is tied to New World degeneracy theory. It's from the 18th century from a dude who never set foot here and posits everything in the New World is weaker.

def the shit you want to do in the most LGBT-friendly big city in America when your team is 28-41 and fighting with the Rockies for last place.

We don't have to get used to it actually.

guy has a trillion dollars, 0 friends, and has never landed a joke. I know a pact with the devil when I see one.

Listened to an NPR story this morning about mass child starvation in Senegal without a single mention of Elon Musk, the guy who gleefully created the conditions for the mass starvation

the first truthful thing that has ever come out of this guy’s mouth

As a fan of Star Trek & other science fiction, I don’t mind if science is fudged for dramatic effect. But when the scientific process & scientists themselves are misrepresented, inserting secrecy & efforts at social control, it contributes to distrust in science & misconceptions that can cause harm.

Only took him ten years to figure it out bsky.app/profile/sahi...

Buttigieg: We sit in a in a country that's got the wrong number of people on the Supreme Court, possibly the wrong number of representatives in the House of Representatives. And by the way, when you consider the disenfranchisement of the people of DC, we have the wrong number of states in the US

Buttigieg: Nowhere in the Constitution does it say that there have to be nine Supreme Court justices. That one doesn't even take a constitutional amendment. It just takes a readiness to set up a court that fits this country.

Props to CNN’s chyron writer:

The interest focus of U.S. "business journalism" isn't real people, labor, technology, or whether the technology even works, it's unchecked wealth accumulation. And it's not subtle.

"Don't print lies in the newspaper" increasingly necessitates not hiring anyone who's cooking their brain on Vichy Twitter

If keir starmer wasnt real id think he was a bad writer's invention of a wholly feckless, beliefless politician

Summer is also upon them, so watch for water availability as well for Crimea.

this is incredibly illegal; as in, the individual post office workers would be committing a crime if they followed through on it

There's something distinctly medieval about the US aggression against Iran. It's aimless wandering the countryside (or in this case, the skies) and hitting things without any clear objective. It's more like a prolonged raiding campaign. A chevauchée.

Solar just produced more electricity than coal in the US for the first month ever and it won't be the last... Over the last two decades, the role of coal and solar in the US mix has changed drastically May 2006: 🪨 48%, ☀️ 0% May 2016: 🪨 26%, ☀️ 2% May 2026: 🪨 12%, ☀️ 13%

The thing about this is that actually, given the trajectory of the Republican Party, the Democrats should be running against Donald Trump for the next 30 years

Voters are frankly idiots for making this their overriding issue without giving any evident thought to why it is happening, but if that's what they're going to do we should make hay of it from now until November

A decent rule or thumb is that when you happen upon really egregious misconduct, it’s unlikely that you just fortunately stumbled upon the first unique instance. More often it escalated to be that bad via a lot of lesser infractions for which there were no consequences.

“Court packing is never ever something you should do” is not a tenable position. It’s trivial to imagine a court so extremely anti-constitutional (and yet 34 senators won’t convict) where court packing would be the necessary lesser evil. The only question is if the Roberts Court is that bad. (it is)

This is how I feel about everything Trump is doing right now. Doesn't matter how quiet the headlines are, interest keeps accruing

Part of the reason this stuff is so tricky to predict is that if things actually go bad, uncountable numbers of very skilled people start pulling emergency levers & finding cushions & workarounds you're normally not supposed to even acknowledge. As I understand we're well along in that process.

To be clear: this is a kind of debt & debts get repaid one way or another

don’t think i have ever seen a politician as feckless and cowardly as starmer

voters elected trump to make then rich

Since that pasteurized milk article is getting attention, I need to point out that the article doesn't actually explain what pasteurization is and given that it includes people arguing against "boiled milk" it's useful to note that classic pasteurization uses temperatures much lower than boiling

NEW: Regulators have linked Mark McAfee’s raw dairy farm to more than a dozen recalls and outbreaks that left hundreds of people ill. “I’ve put a couple kids in the hospital,” McAfee said. “But here’s the thing: I’m a pioneer.”

Every general in the military promoted by Heggy is someone he thinks would have backed Trump on 1/6.

There was once much concern about TV replacing the written word and creating a post-literate society where many couldn’t read: so, many educators worked hard to fight back to preserve reading skills, with some success. Now, feels like we’re just..acquiescing…on “the written word is dead”

a key fact in this piece most Americans do not realize: your car already has a speed governor in it — it's just set at a super high speed to avoid damaging your engine, not for safety. "Install a speed governor" is literally just changing a setting in your car's computer and that's it.

The Albanian people have been massively protesting for several consecutive days against slumlord crook Jared Kushner and Crimestress Ivanka seizing land in their country to the sum of billions of dollars to build a trashy resort. I hope they don’t stop until their evil corrupt deal is reversed.

The thing about the left needing a positive vision for masculinity to counter the right is … they don’t have one either. Their whole thing is “don’t be a woman” as arbitrarily defined by whatever they consider feminine. Apparently some people find this admirable and wish to imitate it

With its recent rulings, the Roberts Court has now entirely perverted the purpose of the 15th Amendment, turning an outright ban on racial discrimination in voting into a right to discriminate against black voters. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

It sounds crazy, but I guess when somebody tells you their only mistake was a Nazi tattoo, its possible they actually made a series of other mistakes that did not happen to produce a Nazi tattoo.

Hot take: I think he might mean it, to the extent he can. I've met too many guys who turn over a new leaf on Monday, recenter on what's important on Tuesday, work on themselves Wednesday, make amends on Thursday, resolve to move forward on Friday, & spend the weekend fucking up as usual.

Rather than rubberneck at the inevitable implosion of the Platner campaign in Maine, I'd urge everyone to focus on another swing-state or even red-state Senate race that we might actually win. Ohio and Michigan are toss-ups and we have a fighting chance in Iowa, Texas and Alaska too.

GOOD NEWS! A personalized mRNA vaccine, known as mRNA-4157, has shown promise in keeping melanoma, a deadly skin cancer, from returning. FIVE years later, NEARLY 70% of people in the vaccine group are CANCER-FREE. The vaccine also cut a person’s risk of the cancer metastasizing by NEARLY 60%.

Truly wild to undermine your own extremely online PR spin claiming that there is no legitimate reason for Patagonia to enforce their trademark other than homophobic bigotry by seeking information in discovery about Patagonia’s prior enforcement of its trademark in other cases.

Nothing says "intellectual freedom" like forcing students to take mandatory conservative indoctrination classes. Shout-out to all the embarrassing academics who believe any of this was in good faith.

also, like, there is a big gulf between 'drunk too much in your 20s' or 'cheated on your girlfriend" and "had a SS tattoo for nearly two decades" and "sexted multiple women in the first months of your marriage"

yes

Have you seen how cheap Spanish metros are to build? Well actually, I have and I will tell you all about it! I had the chance to visit the extension of line 11 in Madrid, where I learned a lot about their construction methods, peculiarities and processes. Let me take you along! A thread 🧵 (1/11)

We cannot allow the Epstein files narrative to just fade away. This reading room is brilliant and what they have done here ensures that. #BelieveTheSurvivors