I think I tried to get at this once in a skeet but there’s something deeply evocative about the semiotics of the MAGA bling thing that *really* apexed maybe in T1? Pretend wealth. Everything is fine. This is so core to conservatism. The euphemisms. The downplaying. Double speak/standards. 1/

My organized sports envy always flares up badly during times like these.

We can't send messages back in time. That's science fiction. However, Einstein's general theory of relativity doesn't prohibit us from doing so. So JUST IN CASE someone ever finds a loophole, these guys calculated how much information we could pack into those messages. That's science.🧪⚛️

The guys that are supposed to be "investigating allegations of employee and contractor misconduct" at ICE are instead ... investigating people who say mean things about ICE on social media. Great story from @regret.bsky.social ... www.wired.com/story/ices-i...

When I entered college I hadn't planned on majoring in Cardboard Box Construction Design but life is funny sometimes.

Move fast and break things

A man who publicly was doing something which, when done wrong, can cause graft-vs-host disease, an autoimmune disease which can attack, among other things, your GI tract, now has an autoimmune disease which is attacking his GI tract. What a coincidence.

Continue to be amazed at how much the broad dynamic on the voting right is just people acting foolish and when embarrassed by it doubling down out of shame and spite.

Retired priest, 84, arrested at Palestine Action protest The retired Anglican priest was among those to be arrested after voicing their support for the proscribed organisation while standing on a soapbox with the message “I oppose genocide” written on it www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

the authorities are saying that, if the resistance continues, they are going to take away the ‘jump to recipe’ button

I get why people are making a deal about the Patriot Front, and even pointing out the group itself still has small numbers. But c’mon - they’re almost irrelevant to the fact that their whole movement has essentially captured all 3 branches of government.

Hey @chicagotribune.com Editorial Board: Why did you describe me as a “bomb-throwing influencer”? This is wrong, inflammatory, and racist. Change it. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/07/05/e...

If you have a pet or know someone who does, watch and share this important @pbsnews.org report. Since the pandemic, private equity companies have been buying up veterinary practices around the country, increasing costs for everyone, putting profits over pets, and making some veterinarians miserable.

El Perro de Los Chingados

Every day. Until they are free.

Im not even really a fair weather soccer fan so whenever I read USMNT I have no idea what that is I can only think of TMNT.

I’m more partial to the framing of ‘this is exactly what a Christian nation would do’. But I totally get his point and am fine with the aspirational framing too as I think we need that.

OMG - reading this paper on LW authoritarianism - hadn't understood it by the title until they referenced a paper by 'Winegard'. Yes, that one. OK, so their thesis is building on his work, which basically says SJWs are LW authoritarians. 1/

Since apparently this isn't making it beyond UK news yet, Rockstar petitioned a British court to section an 18 year old autistic kid under the mental health act for hacking their server and leaking a short GTA 6 clip a couple of years ago. No trial, no term of sentence, just locked up in hospital.

Free Puerto Rico 🇵🇷✊🏾

This the most fucked up thing I've seen in a while. Pastor claims "they're merely pretending to kill the devil" (which is messed up enough) but we know what this is clearly preparing for. www.ktsm.com/news/church-...

Thank you @pastemagazine.bsky.social for talking with us

This article is a great example of the very right-wing nature of the New York Times. Philosophers (already with their RW baggage) team up with technofascists to "study the mind of AI", treating it all as a fascinating and lucrative (finally!) avenue of exploration. 1/ (gift link I think)

This episode is kind of profound. I guarantee it will change your understanding of how heliocentrism was actually overturned. Also, the Tychonic model is *bonkers*.

Detroit cops on their bullshit again.

Hints from the universe, a radical eco-feminism tangent, the Cabo Verde Zeitgeist, orchestral psych-folk, future-tropical sounds, some kind of Americana reminder, cool beats, and a journey to a great live album — all in this week’s Listening Habit. listeninghabit.substack.com/p/a-world-of...

my daughter has had to do this regularly with college papers.

Don’t let the Nazis ride the bus

This energy especially important in November.

My book is about an anti-fascist who goes undercover into this group, fucks up their shit, and identifies abt 80 members. Check it out www.simonandschuster.com/books/To-Cat...

Anefis. Watched, monitored, bombed and as seen, with Russian and Mali army soldiers in attention, in a wake of inevitable approaching. Situation is completely hopeless at this point. JNIM and FLA are coming.

Thomas Paine was a problem for the majority of the “Founders.” Federalists printed runs of Common Sense with entire sections missing that undermined their cause. Others tried to co-opt his ideas, while demeaning him. He became part of the mythology, because he was too popular to leave out.

Happy 10th anniversary of this essay about the dangers of Donald Trump, written by... JD Vance. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Just used the 'term' Freudian and realized maybe its usefulness. Don't know if it's become a common framing. But it feels properly impressionistic. No real prescriptive or serious theoretical elements, but in very broad strokes as a historical phenomena - the notion of the unconscious, trauma, etc.

Ernest Gets Down

Still don't understand why someone hasn't been able to create a tip system for journalism. You could maybe add money into it - just dole it out to videos, articles, whatever. Having to manage signing up for subscriptions everywhere is tedious. I'd absolutely hit people up for little pieces though.

Me: I have to confess something. I have Sax Addiction. My wife: Yeah, you're always looking at hornography.

The feds trying to rein in and regulate random settlers invading Native land regardless of treaty rights is a constant pattern throughout US history, from long before the Revolution to this day. So it's really hard to say whether Native communities as a whole would be better off without it.

One of the things I enjoy about a large number of people I follow round here is their subject-matter credentials. I think it tends towards a (somewhat) collegial style of engagement in that a lot of networks are filled with people to know what it is to be faced with having to be an expert 1/

Thank God I can finally put my own shitty writing into AI so I never have to become a better writer.

The US was also influenced by ideas of cultural hierarchy with agriculture being more "civilized" than foraging, but it didn't extend this to the idea of aboriginal title, which the US always recognized regardless of the nature of a given society's economy.

Hundred years of Solitude iv #art #illustration #drawing

Dear God people

There’s so many of them.

Lord, I know I’ve never believed in you before, but if you could just make this one thing happen.

shaking my head while I squeeze the mustard on so people know I don’t approve of U.S. foreign policy

A federal agent fired a pepper ball launcher from the vehicle he was driving, striking a protester in the stomach. This was outside the ICE detention facility in Broadview this afternoon. 📸 Evan Stone www.instagram.com/evan_stone_p...

Man, watermelon when it’s hot out and you’re both hungry and thirsty…just S tier every time