the leader of SECDEF Pete Hegseth's church held a conference announcing their vision (read: plan) of an america that bans non-"christian" religions, allows slavery, banning 'public' expression of LGBT identity, arguing for a "sexual gestapo" (their words), broadly banning women's vote, etc...

this was a bad idea from people that are unbelievably high off their own supply

"I think there's a small but real chance he's eventually remembered as a Bernie Madoff- or Sam Bankman-Fried-level scammer."

If only there was a website with all the info parents need to find child care in New York City, including a map with every licensed provider in each neighborhood… Oh wait! Now there is: nyc.gov/childcare

A few have suggested that some aspects of this mission--joy, international teamwork, diversity--are being played up to stick it to the hateful attitude of the administration. But I don't think it's that. I think it's just that those things are essential to and inseparable from a mission like this.

I think not enough people understand that the pushback against renewables and EV's is money. Without getting too in the weeds: renewables cannot ever be as profitable as oil and gas. EV's don't make as much money as gas guzzlers. That's it. That's all you really need to know.

Wait a minute. Andrew Cuomo and Eric Adams promised me that New York would descend into anarchy the second Mamdani was sworn in as mayor. www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...

“The Song of Other Things” is a poem made from disambiguation statements posted at the beginning of Wikipedia articles -> thebaffler.com/poems/excerp... @marjeec.bsky.social shared this with me and it really shows she gets me. Always up for contemporary Borgesian vibes.

Stephen Miller urged Department of Homeland Security agents to “force confrontations” with protesters in Minneapolis.

Social media really exposes how many people use progressive politics as cover to bully. It sucks.

Finland has a huge second-hand clothing culture. Tons of gorgeous stores, even in the airport. It’s absolutely brilliant

"ICE agents will be stationed outside graduation events for the nation’s newest Marines to identify whether any of their family members are undocumented, according to the Marine Corps."

Hundreds of millions of people live close enough to data centres used to power AI to feel warmer average temperatures in their local area

We had only written the pilot of Halt and Catch Fire when we read Soul of the New Machine. That book had a huge impact not only on the content of our show, but the tone. The humanity at the center of the work. The book is still on my desk and will be forever. We owe Tracy a lot.

Wild how fast that came together because Delta threatened to take away their special boy and special girl status

We love to see it.

Cows have a surprising emotional depth, similar to dogs. They express shyness, boldness, and even playfulness in their daily lives. Discover the emotional world of these gentle giants.

Beavers are turning rivers into powerful carbon sinks www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202... Beavers might be one of nature’s most unexpected allies in locking away carbon and fighting climate change.

A 13-year-old girl tried to take her life by cutting her wrists with a plastic knife from the cafeteria after guards took away drawing materials, and was put into isolation without seeing a doctor. The teen was deported to Colombia after nearly two months in confinement

Boss, just got a new tranche of things that are no longer relevant. Yeah they fell out of the news cycle. Haven't been mentioned in years. Yeah, it's Russian. And the Middle East. And the digital. Sounds like everything's just been completely sorted out, in that respect. Germany, also wrapped up.

Making the Strait of Hormuz safe for energy shipments would be a remarkable accomplishment, one that the world has never seen since the beginning of the month.

🔥 Whale Shark gliding through Bioluminescent Algae looks like its floating through space. By Mike Nulty

Not once does this story mention that offering a federal job in exchange for a political favor is a crime

Awful. A teenager, dead by suicide in an ICE detention center. There is now a crisis of suicide inside the detention system; I have never seen anything like it. Suicide has happened before, but they were very rare. This is the third or fourth this year.

it’s incredibly blackpilling to me that it takes rising gas prices and rising gas prices alone to have people turn against the war in iran, and not the american government murdering thousands of children and civilians in iran. americans are incredibly selfish

SCOOP from me: CBS owner Paramount squashed an internal panel discussion on the Arab-American experience amid the Gaza war that featured prominent pro-Palestine activist Alana Hadid – all while holding multiple pro-Israel panels, one that included Batya Ungar-Sargon. zeteo.com/p/cbs-owner-...

NEW: Transportation industry money has been pouring into the congressional campaign of Michael Alfonso, a 26-year-old political unknown from Wisconsin. His father-in-law happens to be Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy.

see? here's the thing. A lot of people are like, the earth is fucked, it's beyond salvation, it's hit the tipping point, but time and time again we see that if we just fucking fixed the problem, it rebounds so incredibly fast. Imagine what could be done if people actually cared

Just the worst of us

From our day in Bristol yesterday: Banksy’s version of Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring, where the pearl is replaced by an ADT alarm box

Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Knicks’ Mohamed Diawara at Marcus Garvey Park after sharing iftar at Keur Yayeu Dara, a beloved Senegalese restaurant in Harlem.

Haitian woman, 31, dies alone at Pittsburgh bus stop days after ICE released her to the streets far from home to perish. Rest in power, Daphy Michel: migrantinsider.com/p/the-loneso...

Chicago wind gauge

As someone who went on the Internet for the first time in the early 90’s, I fucking loved the Internet. It has given so many things in life, and afforded me so many incredible experiences. And to see it, and technology in general where they are today is kinda soul crushing.

I love the "could this be a solution" post because it's a perfect example of Founder brain. You have to be a special kind of stupid to imagine that you are the first person to come up with the idea of driving around the Strait of Hormuz. It's being so dumb that you think everyone else is even dumber

Hey does anyone remember how we had like a decade of near zero interest rates? Thank god the USA spent that time investing in infrastructure! What a calamity if we had just squandered the last best chance of our lives

The risk for babies who get measles under the age of 6 months to develop this within 10 years is 1 in 600.

Being old is regularly: ah i have stumbled across this quirky new song from what must be a niche little band waiting to be discovered which [checks] came out 8 years ago and has been streamed 47 million times

Part of Trump’s mass appeal (and of why he’s so dangerous) is that he really seems to share Joe Barstool’s worldview that there are no complex problems: Everything has a simple brute solution, which previous leaders were somehow too stupid or weak to deploy.

I had a good friend who was a producer at Pixar for many years and she peaced out a couple years ago and everyone was shocked because the place looks amazing from afar but she said the absolute wrong people are making decisions and I guess that makes more sense now

When FBI Director Kash Patel fired a dozen FBI agents and staff last week for their role in the classified documents investigation of Donald Trump, he targeted an elite counter espionage unit that investigates threats from foreign adversaries and specializes in Iran www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...

Now would be a good time for anyone who wants to learn about recent Iranian history to read this. It is well worth your time and money (I am sure your local library has it if you don’t want to purchase it).

The two things that I think REALLY separate Millennials and Gen X, are 1. Gen X was born into a declining world - that's what undergirds their stereotypical cynicism. But Millennials were came of age during an upswing. Only to have every good thing systemically taken away from them.

Boomers lived the best version of the American dream and never let anyone have it again

Florida just cut off HIV meds for 16,000 people.

In my utopian vision of the future, instead of offloading all the pointless, annoying work tasks (like reports that none one will read and needlessly opaque forms) to robots, we restructure work and society so that the pointless tasks don't happen at all.

Stopped in Chicago on my way out west and back east on a Greyhound Ameripass trip in 1975.

They spray-painted 666 on the fence. We counted to three. We ran. Girlhood, dares, and the things neighborhoods choose to forget. An excellent story from @marjeec.bsky.social Check it out at Literary Garage: literarygarage.com/come-join-us...

Come join us at the slumber party behind John Wayne Gacy’s Lot! New story @literarygarage.bsky.social literarygarage.com/come-join-us...

Pro Trump, Pro Netanyahu fanatics Larry and David Ellison will most likely now control Paramount, CBS, CNN, HBO, Warner Bros, and TikTok