Abhorrent.

Two weeks ago today, after Nasdaq willingly rigged the rules, somewhere btw $7-10 bil of passive money was forced to buy SpaceX at $160.42 Today, 10 trading days later, it closed at $119.85 It’s an unprecedented forced loss (at least $2b) for passive investors and our financial media is 🦗

This is a good example of the fear that ICE has engendered in so many. A man here completely legally with nothing (on paper) to fear from ICE took off running when they showed up at a gas station and was struck by a passing truck. Awful.

This little guy is a senior dog in urgent need of rescue from the Downey, California animal shelter: www.reddit.com/r/National_P...

FYI: These playful dogs at the Palmdale shelter are in urgent need of rescue. www.reddit.com/r/UrgentShel...

The admin here casually invoking extrajudicial murder as a prerogative of street-level bureaucrats and expecting everybody will take it as common sense. A free country was nice while it lasted

They’re kids!

Ian Wright saying we shouldn’t forget the way the Iranian team and the Somali referee were treated. Correct.

Maddening that the same team that lays claim to Jackie Robinson’s legacy is prepping to visit Donald Trump at the White House.

You can be a hero for Xena (A5574234) and Hercules (A5574232), a pair of cattle dogs in immediate need of rescue from the Los Angeles County animal shelter in Downey, California. www.reddit.com/r/rescuedogs...

I was going to crack a joke about Gulliver's Travels, but time is short and it's a tall tale anyway.

Bella (A5787046) is a German Shepherd in urgent need of rescue at the Palmdale, California animal shelter. Save her if you can. animalcare.lacounty.gov/dacc-details... (661) 575-2888

Royal is still available and in urgent need of adoption at the San Bernardino City Animal Shelter.

Robin is a cute puppy who still needs rescue from San Bernardino City Animal Shelter.

The fact that VP JD Vance and Richard Grenell went to Romania—on behalf of the Trump Administration— to advocate for Andrew and Tristan Tate, who by all accounts, were rapists running a coercive sex ring, then permitted them to come to Florida, should be a crazy, crazy scandal.

Something I talked about repeatedly in 2024: 20 million people, to say nothing of 30, would be the largest forced population transfer in human history, larger any of the three post-WW2 transfers (partition of India, expulsion of Germans, partition of Palestine) or the post-WW1 Balkan cases.

Robin (A593295) needs to be rescued this weekend from the San Bernardino City Animal Shelter. Adopt and save this cool-looking, year-old German shepherd if you can. 24petconnect.com/SanBernardin... (909) 998-4000

Just had a conversation with the owner of a coffee shop where I'm a regular and it broke my heart. He's Nepali so I gave him a heads up about ICE and he said, "I'm a citizen. I've lived here for 29 years. They don't care. They see my dark skin. Then they arrest you or you run and they shoot you."

In 2016, San Antonio cop Matthew Luckhurst was fired after giving a homeless man a sandwich filled with feces. Last month, he became police chief in Benavides, Texas.

Royal (A593011 ) is a handsome husky who needs immediate rescue from the San Bernardino City Animal Shelter. Please give him a chance if you're looking for a new pet. 24petconnect.com/SanBernardin... 909-998-4000

This illegal war must stop. The American people don't want it. Congress never authorized it. It is not making us safer. We are killing civilians. Our soldiers are dying. For nothing. Just end it.

“Nonwhite people in other countries are incapable of self-government” was such an self-evidently racist sentiment that I just quoted people like Wilson and Taft arguing it in Gangsters of Capitalism without comment as evidence of their racism. We’re plummeting backwards.

Your reminder that Massie is an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory nut.

Like Shakespeare, the Greek classics have been interpreted countless times in countless places. If you do antigone in China, are you supposed to scour the place for Greek actors? Nolan’s Odyssey is an American film so it looks like America. bsky.app/profile/beau...

Preventing some Iranian villagers from getting drinking water does nothing to prevent the IRGC from firing missiles and drones. Water is a red line. I know those of you who hate the US military and US foreign policy won’t care about the difference, but it’s significant, with very bad implications.

“More than a thousand people rallied for Justin Pearson, a Democratic state representative running for Congress, in the wake of four fatal shootings by members of the Memphis Safe Task Force over the last two months.”

More idiocy

We can blame DOGE for many things. Diarrhea now included. "The CDC lab that responds to outbreaks of the parasite cyclospora was downsized from 11 people to just three."

Taylor Farms also owns and runs Earthbound Organics, which is available in nearly every grocery store across the US

NEW: Aurora Police say an ICE detention center employee shot a protester last night. She is expected to survive. 42-year-old Brandon Booth, who works for the ICE contractor GEO Group, is being held on suspicion of attempted second degree murder and other charges.

This happened in the county where I grew up, and I can think of no better articulation of why I full with rage thinking of the white supremacist garbage that pervades the area to this day.

ICE also arrested a Venezuelan politician who spoke out against Maduro, fled threatened imprisonment, walked on foot through the Darien Gap, and was following all requirements on his asylum application. THESE HEROES ARE THE PEOPLE WE WANT HERE. www.cnn.com/2026/01/28/a...

Emu night (1/2)

I've repeatedly run into a 4 y.o. tripod husky named Chicken Nuggy at Contra Costa Animal Services. While he's not at risk of euthanasia, I consider the Nug's ongoing availability to be a market failure. Can attest that in person he is the party that his photo indicates. Someone get on this.

Trump doesn’t force people to do bad things. All he did was show people they could get away with being horrible if they really wanted to, and a lot of powerful people decided they didn’t need to pretend anymore. Especially those in influential positions who could push back but did not.

Nuremberg 2.0

Making sure that Black people continue dying from preventable illnesses ==> just more of that good ol’ economic anxiety…

Trump is now a day trader profiting from inside information from this other thing he does - pretend he's the leader of the country. Everything has become about monetization for him/his family. It's why he wants to stay in office forever. It's how he becomes really rich. bsky.app/profile/chad...

Exclusive: Investigators have linked shredded iceberg lettuce supplied to Taco Bell restaurants by Taylor Farms as a potential source of contamination in the outbreak of a parasitic illness that has sickened thousands in United States.

WOW

They know they did it and they are responsible. Which is why they will continue to stonewall this. Good for the reporter to keep asking about it and not let this go, because they are counting on people just moving on.

"Stop criticizing us or will keep murdering people" is just a jaw-dropping thing for a government official to say.

1-in-1000 year rain event again with nearly 30” peak rain. This time #Texas. Flash #Flood Emergency in Texas Hill Country - #Uvalde area. 14” in #Kerrville in 24 hours. More heavy, training #rain is moving in now! Guadalupe River rose 30 feet in just 2 hrs! Be safe all!

A flash flood emergency for central Kerr County is in effect until 3 p.m. Thursday. The National Weather Service said the area is in an "extremely dangerous and life-threatening situation." The city of Kerrville has issued a shelter-in-place order. www.kut.org/live-updates...

Montclair (NJ) pulls $91 mill from Citizens Bank "over the institution’s decision to loan money to the private prison industry, including the operators of federal immigrant detention centers facing scrutiny for their treatment of detainees." montclairlocal.news/2026/07/mont...

like I dunno, if I were a strategist in a functional opposition party I might pay smart and creative people to make viral TikTok and Instagram videos pointing out Republicans are illegally turning U.S. local broadcast TV into a right wing propaganda machine but that's just me

"What happened to you, Todd Blanche?" www.youtube.com/shorts/kn5bA...