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"Go on, human, ask me anything. Except basic math stuff. And putting things in sequential order. And don’t do any made-up riddles to mess with me. Real riddles ONLY."

While US venture capitalists were buying monkey jpegs, and DOGE coins, and figuring out how to get Black women fired, and tweeting about white birthrates, and trying to mandate which bathroom trans kids should use, China was making progress on climate change and taking the lead in a real industry.

Wilfred Owen weeps

Trump did on 60 Minutes what he does every time. He spews a blizzard of lies, exaggerations and assorted other falsehoods, and if (as usual) the reporter isn’t equipped or doesn’t bother to push back, he keeps going. Here is a detailed list, via @mehdirhasan.bsky.social zeteo.com/p/factchecki...

Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...

One year ago

Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."

This is the lesson of 2025

My friend Matt Inman made a great comic about AI…

Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.

@timmiller.bsky.social has a message for Stephen Miller

@housedemocrats.bsky.social Please stop treating me like an ATM. If I give money to one candidate, that means I support that candidate. It’s doesn’t mean I want you to spam my phone with texts and calls from every candidate in the country.

Kennedy’s the fifth dentist in those commercials where it’s like “four out of five dentists say you should brush your teeth” and if they cut to the fifth dentist it’d be RFK Jr, tweaking out on Zyn patches and roadkill, licking his rotten teeth and telling you “toothpaste is how they autism you.”

Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.

Despite a muted reaction from economic and financial markets, there will be lasting damage from Donald Trump’s trade war. And American shoppers will pay the price

One last thing on this for the moment: Scorched Earth Conan was incredible TV for a few weeks, and Scorched Earth Conan's enemy was fucking Jay Leno. Scorched Earth Colbert should be really good TV.

in fairness to andreessen he has had to overcome this country’s very real discrimination against coneheads

That there’s a police state.

So urban workers will be sent down to the countryside, then? If only history could be our guide…

You basically cannot.

Reading this headline and smelling toast

U.S. funding for anti-HIV initiatives in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been cut. Humanitarian officials fear infections will surge.

Having kids is fun because you get to see all the stuff that annoys you about yourself plus all the stuff that annoys you about your partner just walking around taunting you starting at 5:30 a.m.

Biden mixes up two names when describing the major problems facing the US in the Middle East: dementia, worse than Watergate Trump announces a totally fake ceasefire in an ongoing war, congratulates Iran, and encourages everyone to finish their bombing runs: big oopsie, Trump being Trump

Much as I would not dare to predict the consequences of this war, I do think we can summarize it thusly so far: A smart and evil man manipulated a stupid and evil man into a war against a fanatical and evil regime.

We’ve bombed Iran. And dismantled our joint terrorism task force. And sent a third of the FBI to help ICE. And gutted the National Security Council. And a drunk guy is in charge at the pentagon. And our intelligence allies probably won’t share intel with us. Because people couldn’t vote for a woman.

Rümeysa Öztürk wrote an op-ed critical of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. She was arrested by ICE and was in detention for six weeks. This white nationalist student wrote a paper that argued the Constitution applies only to white people. He won an award.

Just some creepy armed Mad Max guys trying to gain entry to Dodgers Stadium. ICE says it wasn’t them. DHS says they were Border Patrol. But honestly who the hell knows? They’ve given permission for any psycho to put on a ski mask, point a gun, grab people & throw them into an unmarked vehicle.

"My brave compatriots and I await the orders to approach a moderately busy intersection in the shopping district of a mid-sized American city to confront a force of as many as eleven or twelve of the enemy, all cleverly disguised as 'dishwashers,' 'nannies,' and 'landscapers.'" buff.ly/E8hjuAF

#NoKings Atlanta.

My favourite one like this is Don Henley getting Brian to autograph a copy of Pet Sounds. Brian signed it "thanks for all the great music" then thought for a second, crossed out "great", and wrote "good"

A full Tejano band in a big truck rolled into the Olvera St, the lead singer has a Fuck ICE shirt on, and this protest is now a dance party

Last week, @rhodesben.bsky.social and I did a Munk Debates against Kevin Roberts and Kellyanne Conway on whether Trump is leading America into a new golden age. We won. This is from my closing statement. There’s nothing golden about a movement that bathes in gratuitous cruelty.

At the ICE raid and subsequent community resistance in Paramount, California this morning, this skater kid ate dozens of munitions from Border Patrol agents, walked away slowly and flipped them off.

💥 OPERATION SPIDERWEB: Russia lost over 36% of its strategic bomber fleet on June 1st, 2025. Over $7 billion in damage but more importantly the aircraft are irreplaceable in the medium term.

This is just a partial glimpse of the destruction of American science by Trump and the GOP.

thinking of every other corruption scandal in the history of the presidency and comparing them to the first three months of Trump 2.0 and slamming my head on the desk until I go unconscious

“Abolish ICE” is the moderate position. Radical is “prosecute every ICE employee under RICO.”

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I don’t mean to alarm anyone, but the orcas now have two F/A-18 Hornets

"Around the seven-mile marker, you’ll want to start accelerating. Fall in for a few strides behind a racer who looks stronger than you, then blaze past them, yelling, 'Pleasant day for a stroll, eh, Jeeves! Just kidding, you’re doing great!'" www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

Great line from The Contrarian’s morning email: “MAGA Republicans are ready to wreck your lives to keep their seats.”

“Some of the vaguest language ever devised has been used here in the last three days. The fact that there are 45,000 ‘trailblazers’ here couldn’t devalue the title any more.” Salesforce invited John Mulaney to close out an event about AI. He did not make nice!

Are you a progressive from a blue state who hates seeing Europeans indiscriminately blame all Americans for Trump? Remember this feeling the next time you’re inspired to talk about the South

20,000+ in Atlanta for #HandsOff