pickett's charge is one of the stupidest military maneuvers ever ordered and I do not have to die on that hill because so many confederates did it for me

A 14-year-old was detained after speaking at a data center forum in Lowell, MA — she’d been ignored the entire meeting. The crowd of 200 chanted ‘shame’ at police.

You almost feel bad for the kid until you realize it's JD Vance

I wrote about the sad Trump Country Fair thing and the very specific and hilariously shitty vision of America that it expresses. The war on metaphor continues apace. defector.com/dead-country...

THE VATICAN IS CALLING IT A SCHISM I REPEAT HOUSTON, WE HAVE A SCHISM

Eating sodium-heavy food in your car on your 1/2 hour unpaid lunch break is what makes this country great. We must protect our American values of big gas station and fast food chicken at all costs

"The Park Service, in a separate document, similarly said that people should ‘wear an n95 mask when outdoors’ and ‘remain indoors as much as possible during and after the show.’” The guidance is to remain indoors ... during the fireworks. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

The Infomercial President

republicans are having their secret police execute americans in broad daylight and letting the murderer walk free. theyre sending innocent people to foreign gulags. they want to denaturalize millions and rip them out of their homes and send them to slave labor camps

Everybody in the "climate space" (which means everyone on earth...) needs to understand these mind-blowing figures. Google's "total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025." In ONE year. The AI corporate arms race is eating the world.

It’s also the anniversary of the 1st Minnesota’s charge at Gettysburg, suffering the worst casualty rate of any unit in US history

🚨 HUGE ongoing surge of ICE arrests, with ICE directing 80% of all officers to go out into the field and round people up, aiming to hit 2,000 arrests a day; which would be more than during the Minneapolis surge. This may be why the nun in Texas got briefly picked up. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/u...

the heatwave has the chance to do the funniest thing

Cold drinks Toledo, IL

it’s long past time lawmakers addressed how companies have taken the switch to digital to redefine purchases as licensing rather than ownership. it’s most egregious when it comes to libraries, but it’s harmful to everyone.

Reposting because of the sony news

See that skyrocketing blue line? That’s the number of times that SCOTUS has been issuing unsigned, unexplained rulings.

a) there are, like, single digit trans girls in sports in most states (sometimes literally one!), this entire thing is made up so that one girl who wants to play sports with her friends can't do it b) do not, under any circumstances, make policy based on angry sports parents

Frequent AI chatbot users more likely to believe anti-vaccine myths, poll finds www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

If you want a picture of the future, imagine your human face and identity being stolen repeatedly - forever. - George Orwell probably www.theguardian.com/media/2025/o...

This is bone-chilling. A conservative hedge fund manager wants to require little girls to pass genital inspections for their “safety.” And it’s only for girls’ sports. There’s a clear link between transphobia and child sexual abuse.

There are fewer people at TrumpFair than in your average elevator ride

Pedophile king of pedophile money

Again, it's kinda crazy that one party of the two party system is, in real time, trying to rig elections in their favor and subvert the written text of the US Constitution and the other party is still trying to work with them as if said subverting the US Constitution party is not trying to do that.

Nothing short of the modern day Plessy v. Ferguson. www.npr.org/2026/06/30/n...

it was 5-4 you dumb old fuck, that's pretty concerning!

I know it’s NPR but this is all going to end up revolving around a prediction-market scheme somehow.

i have run out of things i can legally say about the supreme court

This is what the moderates got us.

Epstein-aligned SCOTUS judges rule in favor of mandatory child molestation

5-4 on Birthright Citizenship means it can go down in the future with a different composition of the court.

oh holy shit it’s only 5-4 on the constitutional question! the plain words of the 14th amendment only get five votes! this is much worse than I thought, these people need to be stopped

Fuck the Supreme Court

it's the final day of SCOTUS's term, which means that they will release their last remaining opinions (including birthright citizenship) at the top of this hour... plus possible retirement announcements, with all eyes on Alito and Thomas.

This is literally why there's a bipartisan effort to remove internet access from young people. It's an attack on queer people, leftists, and anyone who questions authority. They don't want our children finding out that MLK and Frida Kahlo were socialists or that Stonewall was a riot.

With Elon Musk becoming our first trillionaire, I talked to American users of the rapidly growing “Almost Homeless” subreddit, who are struggling to stay housed amid a brutal job market and with social services slashed to the bone. They say this online community is crucial to their mental stability.

Where's the Springfield Pool-Mobile when you need it?

*ahem* NO DOOM POSTING THIS IS NOT FULLY PASSED YET Contact senators, call them, message them, whatever way you can. Most bills that pass the House do not pass the Senate. That is not to say to just assume it won't pass but it is to say again NO DOOM POSTING ABOUT SOMETHING NOT PASSED YET

At least 104 Democrats vote yea to pass HR 7757. The bill passes 267-117. It now moves to the Senate, which is out until July 13th. Will post the roll call of who voted what way once it is uploaded.

TMZ DC with perhaps the most brutal video from Trump's Great American State Fair, showing Dr. Oz on stage bragging to Dean Cain about how big the crowd is, only for the reporter to pan around and show absolutely nobody is there. Original post: x.com/i/status/207...

I realize this is unfortunately not the norm for too many cishet white dudes but social media absolutely let me learn about so many progressive things I’d never have gotten exposed to otherwise, especially the lived experiences of people different from myself

narrowing section 230 ensures only giants like meta have the resources to allow for people to post on their platforms while everyone else has no choice but to end their user-created content platforms. this is just big tech trying to make the internet consist of only their walled gardens

get in kids, the mormons made a chocolate movie about how bosses are great

aside from the merits of the actual proposals, the sheer lack of ambition here is absolutely hilarious Project 2025: we want to radically reshape the entire federal government in a way that will last generations Project 2029: kids should log off sometimes

i cannot stress enough how much this man should not be the democratic presidential nominee

"get in loser, we're going losing!"

Healthcare has to be one of the 2 most important planks to run on in 2028. It has to be Improved Medicare For All or bust. Single payer that includes vision, dental, and mental health for ALL. Go to war with the insurance companies. Tie healthcare to everything because it is tied to everything.

we found a Cursed Object on the way back from brunch

Elon Musk asked for a name of a person he has killed. He got a list.