Really weird to think about my younger undiagnosed ADHD self and all those nights that I wrote last minute essays, and today a 17 year old would think I was some kind of overachiever.

DID YOU KNOW IF YOU FIND A HORSESHOE CRAB THATS BEEN TAGGED BY THE FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE AND SUBMIT THE LOCATION YOU SAW IT USING THE FORM ON FWS DOT GOV SLASH CRABTAG THEY SEND YOU A BEAUTIFUL CRAB PIN

Mmmmmmhmmmmm 👀👀👀👀 www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/o...

Reuters confirms. 11 more people captured by ICE have been sent to a maximum security prison in Eswatini (formerly Swaziland), a country where they have no ties and committed no crimes. reut.rs/4wpbIGU

Graphical representation of of Brown Econ undergrad cheating www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty... h/t @jacobtlevy.bsky.social and @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com #AI #LLM

"The White House doesn't want history at the Smithsonian. It wants fandom." [email protected] That succinct formulation nails it. Toxic fandom.

new from me: the White House doesn’t want real history in the National Museum of American History. instead, engaging in toxic fandom, shaming the Smithsonian for not stanning its favs hard enough

As DOGE’s charter expires, it’s worth recognizing what this endeavor was at its core: a failed experiment. DOGE’s goals went unmet. Its promises went unfulfilled. It envisioned one set of results but delivered the opposite. Good riddance. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

I was just reminded that I have every right to still be mad about this and also that it was clear he was going to be Like This for ages

American innovation continues to lead the world in the field of “hey what if this thing tasted like some other thing”

i forgot to repost this very good joke during the actual match so please appreciate it now thank you

fun fact: if the Spain-Portugal game ends in a tie, Pope Leo can just issue an updated Inter Caetera papal bull to resolve the dispute

two of the palest fan bases on earth are about to descend on south florida in july

Oh man, putting England and Norway, our palest countries, in Miami in July feels like a cruel prank

i love the idea of world cup players doing acting warmups in the locker room before a match. just playing zip zap zog to make sure their flops seem really present and grounded.

Infantino, hearing there might be another red card to make go away:

wow so glad Ted Lasso managed to recruit this Bellingham kid

england wandering into the western hemisphere and acting like they own the place yet again I see smh

A great story about something I had never thought about www.wsj.com/business/whi... (gift link)

i love the idea of world cup players doing acting warmups in the locker room before a match. just playing zip zap zog to make sure their flops seem really present and grounded.

Ha ha I hate it here

ME: So they made this musical about you, and it was a huge hit, but it was also kinda the death knell of American democracy? A sort of hip-hop threnody for the Republic. Oh wait, you don't know about rap! It's this-- RESURRECTED ALEXANDER HAMILTON: {not looking up from his kalshi trades} Yeah great

A single black woman surrounded by hooded white supremacists is certainly a chilling image.

the ol’ lets give them a couple of wins before we destroy another pillar of a functioning society decision day, really playing the hits

Roberts' core holding is that (a) the Federal Reserve is special because of history, and (b) Trump did not allow Lisa Cook to exercise her statutory right to dispute the charges against her. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Slaughter is an earthquake: SCOTUS has overturned a 90-year-old precedent that facilitated much of modern governance by granting many agencies meaningful independence from the president. Now SCOTUS crushes that independence ... for seemingly every agency except the Federal Reserve.

We have Slaughter and Cook. By a 6–3 vote, SCOTUS overturns Humphrey's Executor and lets Trump fire heads of independent agencies. But by a 5–4 vote, it refuses to let him fire Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p... www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Good things? From MY U.S. Supreme Court??

Reminder that DeSantis was the target of the "I'm not calling him a racist, I'm saying the racists think he's a racist" line. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/201...

The rise of AI-generated animal videos and images is such a travesty. Animal content has always been one of the best things about the internet and it’s becoming increasingly difficult to tell what’s real

Jeremy Carrasco, who helps decipher whether vids are AI or real, has now done the quokka vid that got me. He only goes after ones that’ve fooled many. And I feel vindicated as he lists how people tried to trick us into thinking it was real by cutting obvious AI parts and leaving AI labeling off.

Yes! there was a formal committee and they had been working on America 250 plans for years! But Trump wanted his own thing, so the committee was disbanded and they scrambled to plan Freedom 250 in only 1 year.

Probably the best example of a rapid bottom-up energy transition: Pakistan imported more Chinese solar last year than any country on earth. No big subsidy, no rooftop scheme, no feed-in tariff. Solar is now around a quarter of electricity. More in my piece👇 www.thenewworld.co.uk/jan-rosenow-...

The new racist double standard set up by Alito in the TPS ruling: if there’s any other motive in addition to the racism, the racism doesn’t count, but if the state wants to *prevent* discrimination against black people, that is racist and unconstitutional www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

“Lying is good actually and if you disagree you just lack empathy” is where we are at as a society right now

As my colleague @hayesbrown.bsky.social pointed out to me when discussing this policy, Trump is in fact doing exactly what Republicans accuse Democrats of doing with immigration, as framed by the racist “great replacement” theory.

just got a reminder of this, frankly, banger of a piece i wrote in early 2021 about how the sea shanty trend on TikTok was a bright point of non-toxic masculinity

Scientific American is being sold to LabX Media, publisher of Discover: group.springernature.com/gp/group/med... They've fired me and other union staff, ahead of June 26 vote ratification. My rates are suddenly more reasonable, if you need editing or reporting - [email protected]

not not feeling like this piece was well-aimed

Somehow this just came to mind, from Carter era: —On flight back from int'l conference, then-SecState Cyrus Vance gave reporters "background" briefing, for attrib only to "a senior gov official." —NYT ran story next day —Alongside story was photo of Vance, w caption saying "a senior gov official"

when republicans start their inevitable whining about people making a big deal over the paint peeling algae infested reflecting pool remind them who made it a big deal in the first place lol

The rise of larger vehicles like SUVs and pickup trucks, with their taller hoods and larger blind zones, has contributed to a 75% increase in pedestrian and cyclist deaths since 2009. Until we design better streets and ban these vehicles, people outside these vehicles will keep dying.

Getting to our 7th prime minister since 2016 I wonder if anything happened back then that so destabilised our constitutional and political order?

Find someone who believes in you like oil markets believe in the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.

girl what. be so for real rn.

"U.S. intelligence agencies have warned the Trump administration that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is likely to take steps that will undermine President Donald Trump’s effort to reach a lasting peace deal with Iran." wapo.st/4oE6GE0

He signed an unconditional surrender at Versailles? Come the fuck on.

When Trump went to war with Iran, I watched every speech anyone in the administration gave and made a chart of every reason given for going to war "Eliminate ballistic capability" was the #1 reason given: more even than preventing Iran from getting a nuclear weapon

Both Hillary Clinton and Marco Rubio seem to be describing Netanyahu using the same tactic 14 years apart. The difference is, it seems, the same tactic worked this time.