Maybe the douchebag responsible for this shouldn‘t have a trillion dollars

i don't know how to make it clearer that there are 5,000 soldiers + federal agents + the 30-odd police forces that are always here + like the oklahoma sheriff's department for some reason, in an area that is *68 square miles* and has lower crime than many of the places these folks come from

Graph of Strait of Hormuz crossings since June 2025. See that little spike all the way on the right? The one that's much lower than the leftward 2/3 of the graph, and immediately crashes back down? That's what the US government and quite a bit of US media tell us is fully open, with normal traffic.

Same!

If you avoid Meta like I do, here's a copy of VJayBombs IG post re their June 2026 DC trip

Credit where credit is due. We see the work of activist Vijay Bombs all over Los Angeles. Glad to see they took their brilliant work to DC. 👏🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽

Pirro is asking to be embarrassed like she was when she prosecuted the sandwich throwing guy.

Listen as Jay Bhattacharya says AI will cure pediatric cancer.

Misinfo is not dangerous at all, they say. "Rising number of cancer patients are skipping chemo and opting for ivermectin instead, analysis finds. Scientists are pointing to the Joe Rogan Experience has spreading dangerous misinformation about cancer drugs" www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...

In the news, two very risky stretches of water, both of which are closed, a declining regime unable to control the meaning of either of them.

A beautiful tribute to a woman who never stopped believing in her brother

Celebrate the solstice with the amazingly (in the future) star-studded cast of 1968's "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Judi Dench as Titania! Ian Richardson as Oberon! Ian Holm as Puck! Helen Mirren as Hermia! David Warner as Lysander! Diana Rigg as Helena! www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9Ry...

The primary use of 'AI' will always be technofascist infoweapon.

Business Plot says hi

This is relevant: www.geoengineeringmonitor.org/who-funds-an...

“Let’s see ol’ Donny Trump wriggle his way out of THIS jam!” “Yes,” says the IRGC. “Let’s.”

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…

national guard deployed to keep people from touching the reflecting pool

Fracking: devouring water in some of the world's most drought-struck regions. The article's a few years old but still hugely relevant & free to read: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

These 19 election deniers and vote suppressors are on the ballot in the midterms. We should be worried. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

You will not read about it anywhere, probably, but as of Yesterday the IRS doesn't have a chief counsel, not even an acting one, because Trumps/Bessent's shill Ken Kies acting appointment has expired under the Vacancies Act, and no one has been appointed in his place.

This is genocidal rhetoric. Israel's National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir declared: "For every tear of an Israeli mother, a thousand Lebanese mothers must weep." "All of Lebanon must burn." A senior member of Netanyahu's government is openly calling for collective punishment.

Mona Khalil, Lebanon’s most well-known sea turtle conservationist, died of her wounds today after being injured by an Israeli strike I feel sick

See what can happen when you prioritize hydration?

Amaze amaze 😂

i for one have full confidence in the trump administration's ability to adequately refit a plane donated by a foreign government into a highly secure mobile command center for the united states executive, following their unquestionably successful renovation of A Large Pool of Water

An $11,000 golf cart. More than $7,000 on TV subscriptions. $1.5 million in office renovations. Those were among the expenses that one sheriff’s office billed to a settlement aimed at rooting out racial profiling in the department. With @azluminaria.org

"So far this year, Mr. Hegseth has blocked the promotions of at least 40 senior officers to general and admiral ranks. About half of those are women or members of minority groups." This is an unprecedented effort to whitewash military leadership. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/19/u...

Dulles Airport, Pentagon and/or Pentagon City, so much of the US national capital region was built on land obtained by displacing Black families www.youtube.com/watch?v=gv7g...

Very cool website developed by Regis Barnichon priceofdistinction.org

It was, this was used as reference on set, having mostly practical examples helps visual effects artists understand lighting/movement and scale reference on location to replace with cgi. Examples like this shot below, nothing of the puppeteers and the puppet are actual usable in the final shot.

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

It's worthwhile to document these impacts, because they are harmful. But also: "When utilized in literature review" ... for this AND MANY OTHER REASONS they shouldn't be used that way.

The fact that cleaning the air that patients and staff breathe still isn't the default in U.S. health care kills me. How many more papers are needed for this common sense to sink in?

So cool - thought this was entirely CGI

Funny/sad irony here is Trump has provided a very clear demonstration of the difference between actual power (the ability to shape real-world outcomes) and the shallow reality TV bluster many think is power. The BS well is bottomless. Power is Iran blocking Hormuz. Trump capitulated in response.

Here's @derekberes.bsky.social who originated this concept.

Worth a read for understanding the dynamics of Virginia Gov. Spanberger vs workers/unions and the challenges ahead for organizing for a better future for workers

FYI, if Bloomberg's reporting is correct that 70% of the IPO went to "long-only" institutions, then no more than 1.26% of the company's shares are actively trading on the market. This is one of many reasons why it's ludicrous for Russell 1000 and Nasdaq 100 to rush it into their indices.

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PACER collected more than $150 million in fees last year. That’s a drain on the public for viewing the work of our own public servants. The Open Courts Act is the right fix. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Catbus is REAL!!

Astonishing stat here from 50+1: Two-thirds of House members seeking a promotion to higher office have lost their primaries—a far higher rate than at any point since 1990. The roster includes seven Republicans and three Dems (plus one member of each party who bailed pre-primary).

Let's see if that fucking coward Dubya says anything. PEPFAR was one of the very few things he can point to that actually left the world a better place.

Example #265 of how the press will give Trump a pass for something that would have been a three-day story under Biden.

I suspect that this fails to accurately comprehend the dynamic. Bezos isn't being bullied into going anywhere he's disinclined to go. He's not just grovelling. He's actually changing the ethos of the paper and I suspect it's mistake to assume that Trump is anything other than a permission slip

It really is something to watch the foreign press describe insane behavior as insane as our legacy media continues to search for the most euphemistic language to report on what the lunatic is actually doing.