Thanks for the heads up. I wouldn’t have guessed that you’re not allowed to post: “BREAKING: The ICE agent who shot and killed Renee Good in broad daylight has been identified as Jonathan Ross by the Minnesota Star Tribune. I think today is a great day for Jonathan to be indicted!”

also Galileo's main "crime" was being an absolute bell-end, constantly and publicly, to anyone he saw as a rival. Including a somewhat confused pope. Even his supporters felt he brought the heresy conviction on himself, and hoped it might shock him into being less of an arse in public. it didn't.

A military service that is unwilling or afraid to report and confront its own failures, but always gives itself a pat on the back, is a military service that is running on borrowed time.

"he became so obsessed with the idea that his enemies were intentionally growing algae in a pond he'd had rebuilt that it drove him mad and killed him" "yeah, right, and Caligula *actually* ordered his troops to wade into the English Channel and stab the water with their swords. get real, buddy"

I have been doing a lot of critical reevaluation of Roman and medieval historians recently because I am living through the kind of end to an autocratic regime that very sober, serious modern historians have footnoted with phrases like "an unreliable account from a hostile chronicler."

this is so insane

50 YEARS AGO TODAY: The final Soviet military space station lifts off. Operating in obscurity from the general public, the Salyut-5 produced a scandal in the Soviet industry, which led to the premature termination of the Almaz project. DETAILS: russianspaceweb.com/almaz_ops3.h...

It's been over seven months now and they still haven't fully released the Epstein files as required by law because withholding exculpatory evidence is clearly what you do when you're "innocent."

Libra: It can be hard knowing what to do in today's complex modern world, so you'll find it refreshingly straightforward to be hunted for sport.

SORRY THESE ARE LATE I DRANK HALF A BOTTLE OF NYQUILL AND GOT TANGLED IN MY NEIGHBOR’S WIND CHIMES

"The Americans can't get the slime out of their capital's monument pool and will arrest you for touching it," sounds like the sort of lie they'd tell us in the Soviet Union so we'd stop bitching about bread lines.

I find it disturbing that all the morons keep focusing on the algae fail instead of the bit where it is the result of a criminally corrupt 14-million-dollar no-bid contract to a Trump crony though. Who looks like, well words fail me. John Soprano er, Cafaro of Greenwater.

I’m not too embarrassed that we are losing to Iran. It’s a big boy country with missiles and drones and so forth ran by stone cold killers. That’s NFL ball for you. I am a little embarrassed we are also losing to algae.

This should be on the front page of every newspaper in America.       Trump’s DOJ just shut down a federal investigation into a coal company owned by Sen. Jim Justice, one of his closest allies, after it racked up tens of thousands of alleged violations for dumping dangerous chemicals…

Also interesting, I never knew Rutger Hauer raced a VW Golf GTI at Zandvoort, apparently "just for fun"

this will get a hundredth as much attention as a reflecting pool or a squabble with Meloni, but hundreds of thousands will die, because of Trump and Rubio’s racism www.bbc.com/news/article...

Nightmare for a friend of mine in London. Please share.

The art of the deal

Auburn University's own

June 16, 1926: The front porch of the Knoxville Home for Friendless Babies, an orphanage in Knoxville, Tenn.

“With charity toward none, with malice for all ...” (Deepest apologies to President Abraham Lincoln)

Their names were Daphy Michel (age 31), and Nurul Amin Shah Alam (age 56). Daphy was a vulnerable adult suffering from untreated severe mental health issues, and Nurul was nearly blind — but ICE and CBP dumped both of them in the brutal cold, where they froze to DEATH.

omg www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/a...

Quintessential Trump: In 2025, Trump axed the program to combat New World Screwworm, stating that they had "saved" $1.5 million a year. In 2026, the Trump announces a $1 billion emergency program to combat the Screwworm outbreak. $1 billion would have funded the old program for 667 years.

On top of that, the US has alienated virtually all of our former allies and has wasted $350 billion. (The Pentagon claims the war costs much less, but is asking Congress for $350 billion to replenish and repair after the war.) Nothing gained and a total loss for the USA and American security.

Before Trump's war: (1) the Strait of Hormuz was open, (2) Iran had pledged not to develop a nuclear weapon, (3) 13 US Service members were alive, (4) the US had huge stockpiles of missiles and weapons. After Trump's war: no change in #1 & #2, 13 Americans dead and arms supplies almost gone. 1/2

So this admin lets a private company, that the president owns stock in, use the White House and grounds for a pay-per-view spectacle using troops & staff, rents out ads everywhere, and has it streaming on the company whose monopolistic merger it just approved. Grift never ending

Using the military’s “highest ceremonial formation” for this is an insult to every American, but especially to anyone who has served in the military. @hcrichardson.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

Trump used the Armed Forces Full Honor Cordon — soldiers who escort fallen heroes and heads of state — to usher UFC fighters past Abraham Lincoln’s statue like they’re celebrities on a red carpet. I am LIVID.

Of course there's crypto sponsorship too.

Bread is too expensive, so we’ve moved to the circus and circus stage of government.

Charge them.

Have you ever wondered what the in-person version of the Streisand Effect looks like? This guy has not. But he’s about to learn.

This is a disgrace and a vandalism. Screw everyone involved, public or private, and I wish them all the worst for taking part in this rapacious sideshow.

i really, truly, find this offensive

Just watched a chihuahua run an agility course on TV. Funniest thing I've seen in ages. Must say, though it wasn't the fastest, no dog ever ran harder (or took more steps). Looked like a squirrel on the last acorn hunt before winter.

This entire piece never mentions that Conor McGregor is making his return to the octagon despite being a rapist who has been accused of sexual assault by multiple women, in addition to violently assaulting others.

people who work and invest in AI frequently ask me why their work polls so badly

Tens of millions of taxpayer dollars will be spent on Trump’s birthday party.

The past ten years of American politics have just been Evangelicals shouting "Give us Barabbas!" at the top of their lungs.

welcome home, big girl 🥹🥹🥹 #byeJunebug

WAR DAMN JA’KOBE

you'd think the fact that the federal government is too corrupt to function in the public interest, and that all of our environmental, public safety, labor, and consumer rights regulators have been defanged would be a bigger story

This chart remains undefeated

Screwworm eradication was a parasitology moonshot. It was huge, ambitious, expensive, and required extraordinary international cooperation. It is one of the greatest technological marvels nobody’s heard of outside livestock circles and a select group of weirdos, of which I’m one.

Something surreal about seeing Lionel Messi score in the home of the Auburn Tigers, the kind of context collapse that is only possible on the precipice of an American World Cup 🇺🇸

Playing a World Cup in college football country threatens to create heretofore unimaginable of levels of sports fandom

And, yes, the Eagle flew good 🦅

We have to get rid of all the loopholes.