It's milkweed season! Keep an eye out for these guys! Monarchs only eat milkweed, so think and identify before pulling weeds and using herbicides. Without flowers, we have no pollinators. 🦋🌱🍎🐛🐡🥽👩‍🔬🧪

Last cycle, the Democrats bent over backwards to protect Tom Suozzi. In the redistricting fight, they made his seat bluer while making other competitive districts redder. Suozzi just repaid the party by ... functionally endorsing two Republicans. www.newsday.com/long-island/...

If you are Democratic elected official who goes on Fox News to slam fellow Democrats for being progressive you need to be primaried. These people are traitors to the Dem party.

"And there was moonshine, moonshine Quenched the Devil's thirst. The lawman swore he'd get him, But the Devil got him first. Lawman swore he'd get him, But the Devil Got him first." (As the song fades, we see the Tasmanian Devil, rubbing his hands together in glee.)

I’d say the hardest thing about being a writer is the writing.

And this week, with fascism rising again...the DAR defeated a TERF-led resolution to ban trans women. I'm not linking because all I can find is posts by (boo) the Federalist and the Washington Times. It's not up on the DAR website yet. 2/2

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Big week over at The Onion. — Thursday: InfoWars launches live at 8 p.m. ET on YouTube, Twitch and wherever you watch video. New handles and everything. Expect surprises. It is insane. — Friday: An entire history of the country, AMERICA: Birth of a Nation, airs at 8 p.m. ET on all Onion channels.

Jared Kushner wants Albania's protected wetlands. The government obliged. Protesters said no. 29 days later, they're still saying no — with flamingo cutouts and flags, in the streets, every single night. Europe is watching. Is anyone else?

GOP Urges Democrats To Tone Down Rhetoric Used To Quote President Verbatim

Seems like there's a lane wide open for the first company that goes back to calling its non-generative advanced computing projects "machine learning" rather than "AI"

Seems the real problem centrist democrats are facing right now is the people are being very clear that they want leaders who will solve their biggest problems, and centrist democrats really don't want to solve their biggest problems and hate the people for wanting that. It's a real pickle for them.

Germany recently amended their heating law to reduce the role of heat pumps, which can provide cooling, and increase the role of biomethane, which cannot.

"Incredible! Nothing in your X-ray is human!"

I posted my bison pics from Fermilab a few weeks back. There also are some trails behind the housing area to explore, near Lake Law, Atomic Energy Sea, and Sea of Evanescence. 1/

HELP: does anyone have or know of a list of trans-friendly GPs? A friend moved to Sheffield recently and needs to figure out what GP there will be normal about it... Thanks!

I honestly hadn’t checked in on the literal current numbers in this war until I read this piece and they are legitimately difficult to comprehend

The new racist double standard set up by Alito in the TPS ruling: if there’s any other motive in addition to the racism, the racism doesn’t count, but if the state wants to *prevent* discrimination against black people, that is racist and unconstitutional www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Sen. Chris Murphy: "Right now the biggest threat to this country are not a handful of House candidates in New York, it is the president of the United States who is trying to destroy American democracy."

Hey authors, how do you react when you encounter writing that is clearly a response to something you wrote? I'm talking specifically about professional creative work, not reviews/reader conversations or fanfic.

It’s also just very funny to look at the current president and believe that natural born is any kind of deterrent/barrier to preventing foreign interests controlling the executive lol

If you've ever criticized ICE, now might a good time to make a plan for if you are detained. Of course "shut the f*** up," as the legal advice goes, but who will you contact to let them know you've been detained? Who will they contact to get you an attorney? Figure it out and tell them now, folks.

"The only scapegoats in Washington, DC, are the brave January 6 protestors whose only crime was loving their country so much that they had no choice but to smear their own feces all over the walls of the Capitol and try to kill the sitting vice president."

Even this somehow undersells it. It's not that racism /is/ the sole motivation, but that there is no /possible/ other explanation, even if they didn't express that other explanation, and nobody disputes—including them—it was the sole motivation

Alito’s standard for racial discrimination in the TPS ruling, that racism has to be the *sole* motivation to count as discriminatory, is so deranged that it could arguably cover neither Jim Crow nor slavery. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

I just looked at the calendar, and it ends on December 31st OF THIS YEAR!

IMHO, the Supreme Court is a *bigger* problem than Trump, and it should be the primary target for reform. Trump and Congress would both be very different under a law-abiding SCOTUS, which would have stopped government action clearly animated by racism and racially gerrymandered districts.

"You are about to embark on the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you. We just need to wait another 30 minutes for the stock market to close" General Eisenhower

Going through older magazines, this @tomgauld.bsky.social is so on point on the state of corporations disdain for their customers and enshittification… (from @newscientist.com )

The 'Einstein Cross' (Q2237+030) looks like five luminous objects in a tight cross formation. It isn't. That's a SINGLE quasar 8 billion LY from Earth, but the image is affected by gravitational lensing from Galaxy ZE 2237+030, also called Huchra's Lens (the middle 'dot'), that sits between us.

"Authoritarianism is the creation of a police state to force a population to settle for substandard governance and become grateful just to survive."

It is actually maddening that we've been doing this every week for *five months.*

We also need to remember Comptons Caffeteria riot, which happened three years before Stonewall and lit the fuse on Stonewall. It is often forgotten or omitted because, more than Stonewall it was mostly trans women and drag queens on the front line.

I think the people pushing back against this with things like “gay marriage” and “the ACA” are not entirely wrong, but are also missing something subtler, which is that these things have been accomplished without much understanding from Dems that they would need to be defended from truly evil people

AI has not made any discoveries. Iterative AI models have helped *scientists* make discoveries. No version of LLM (generative or iterative) is autonomous and working under its own direction. Being imprecise with language and allowing AI grifters to co-opt the term “A.I.” in the first place

“An Epic Research study published on Friday analyzing electronic health records found that gambling disorder diagnoses have risen more than 60 percent since 2018 in states that have legalized sports betting. The largest increase came from young people, aged 18 to 29, whose rate more than doubled.”

This is a national scandal. It is so obvious that the only aim is to save build costs for developers. And deprive us of the benefits of shade and cheaper power generation. It’s not even a lack of vision it’s inimical dislike of progress and reduction in quick profits.

literally the unique selling proposition for america is that we're not supposed to do this shit

Stand By: As soon as the discovery request hits, Donald always settles or drops his suits.

Inflation has a new catalyst: America’s massive artificial-intelligence build-out is beginning to push up prices on everything from smartphones to electricity. www.wsj.com/economy/the-...

I still don’t understand the use of “State Fair” in the District. So give the District its 2 Senators since it’s now a State.

I haven't seen pics of Trump golfing for the last couple of weekends. Do we know if he's been out on the course? Because it seems to me that him not golfing is kind of a big clue about his health. He ALWAYS golfs.

A lot of media coverage of the ‘AI’ reading of the Herculaneum scrolls really fails to understand what’s happened here. There’s no language processing happening, the AI/ML is not trained on a corpus of texts or language. It can detect ink to see shapes. HUMAN EXPERTS are then transcribing the text.

So they invent the God of the Gaps, where all the things we (or they, personally) don't know about how LLMs do what they do and about how the human mind does what it does are stretched until they overlap, and you get "But how do we know it's not thinking?"

How does Google manage to stop listening to my dictation in the middle of a goddamned word?

This is an auto exhibition at the Great American State Fair. There are dozens more cool cars at the regular 'hey bring your cool car to the parking lot' that my little town has. In fact, this looks like the parking lot for a failing business. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

After federal agents shot Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, a New Yorker sent ICE's director an email in January comparing him to a Nazi. This week, DHS agents stalked him across New York. His home. A hotel. They gave his wife a letter warning of criminal prosecution. www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...

DEADLOCK The adventures of Zombie Matlock.

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