Ahead of its 250th birthday, I make the case that the greatest work of American art ever produced is made of garbage and was assembled at the behest of God by a Black man working the night shift as a janitor in DC johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/americas-g...

LOL - these are roughly the terms that would apply if the IRGC had taken NY and DC and the Iranian navy had imposed a blockade along the east coast. Absolute fucking embarrassment.

“I feel like I’m going blind,” Farid said, and he worried that A.I. was obscuring the truth, distorting reality, fracturing democracies and slowly breaking him, too. A gift link to an extraordinary story because if he has to see we should too www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/u...

And there is nothing more embarrassing and pathetic than an 80 year old throwing himself a “big strong man birthday party” when he’s spent his life befouled with garish comfort and spending his free time bragging about musical tickets and commenting on tabloid celebrity garbage.

”we are all of us fighting dragons, every day” www.kameronhurley.com/the-wild-hor...

"Hello, Greenland!"

The price some women pay.What It Costs Women To Survive Men www.huffpost.com/entry/women-...

There are so many good things @hankgreen.bsky.social has done, but I don’t think any of them have moved me more than this one. It’s just such a beautiful, clear explanation, all the more touching for its simplicity. Please do set aside some time to watch it. youtu.be/oaXRREHVkHo

Men resigning after the horrors revealed in the Epstein files is NOT justice.

the new combined entity will be called fraudX

Kao Kalia Yang at @literaryhub.bsky.social - "If they take me and leave the children." One of our great local writers at this moment of crisis.

If you intend to record ICE on your phone, make sure mobile data upload to the cloud is enabled.

Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "

We see this similar garbage logic in Canada. There are people defending timid-ass statements from our leaders because speaking out to defend democratic and law-based norms won't move Trump or might antagonize him. As if Trump is the only audience. The public reinforcing of norms is its own good.

The time honoured Canadian tradition of sitting in one's bathrobe, numbly watching the United States sleepwalk into something evil and stupid

Happy Friday (with crispy sheep)

His demeanor when he says this. So many women (and not a few men) recognize this stance, this aggression. It stops me cold.

Scheer and his cronies can fuck all the way off

The Trump administration is a fascist administration, but the United States is not yet a fascist state. Total state capture takes time. Every obstacle we can present as individuals, groups, communities, and institutions helps slow that process. Everything we do to resist matters. It ALL matters.

That's the question of our times. How low can he take you? How degraded are you willing to be to gain the dubious benefits of Trumpism? How much do you want to be able to indulge your cruellest, crassest whims? Because that's what he offers: total moral abdication. But you have to go first.

“Metamucilini”

Applicable to Canada as well.

Popping up everywhere. #FungiFriends

But justice is not a physical law of the universe. Justice is created and changed by human beings. The moral arc of the universe is bent towards justice BY OUR ACTIONS. To believe it as immutable is as damning and twisted a belief in American exceptionalism as that of Trump and the right.

If I only lived a little closer. Damn this large country. mcmichael.com

Obvious jailbreak or some type of invasion. StOp ThE waR!

This is the very best thread of the UN fiasco today.

It is representative of a *profound* failure of a country that this group of people are up there talking about medicine and science at all

omg. the stupidest timeline and the stupidest people. ffs.

agreed. apologies to any and all with autistic experience/lives for ongoing disparagement from all directions these days. am so sorry for anyone taking on any selfblame based on the crap coming out of this administration

We are also disappointed that he came to Canada. There is an easy solution here.

Albertan can't cede what it never owned

This is why so many of us are sick of the creep from the US. It's also a threat to those outside of the US. www.cbc.ca/news/world/d...

A thing that fucks people up is the refusal to take babysteps in doing something they suck at. Instead of starting where they can, and gradually improving, they just get frustrated that they're not already good at it and never even start.

Bare minimum for holding a conversation: empathy and a sense of humour. Unless you are a dog, then no requirements at all.

Historian suggests fighting a wildfire with a back burn.

When the picture says everything

An "economist" so dumb I had to explain to him how the import price index works last month will now lead the BLS, kill me

"We're all throwing dildos at women athletes to promote our memecoin" really puts a fine point on not just how sexist, mean and stupid so much of right now is, but also the grim degree to which we're just inundated with Stuff a 15-Year-Old Dipshit Would Think is Cool. A confederacy of Beavises.

My guess is that I will not encounter anyone that blames this on the US much less advocates for having politicians send belligerent letters to the govt of WA state. www.nsnews.com/local-news/s...

America has the most corrupt political system in the Western world.

omg…. I am not insane (at least not about this). front visibility out of my cx-5 has bothered me since I bought it. one of the reasons I’d never buy another. I literally move my head back and forth to see around the a-pillar when I turn. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Bill Moyers Saw What Was Coming talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/bill-mo...

Lloyd Axworthy is right—when did appeasing Trump become Canada’s foreign policy? This isn’t strategy. It’s spineless. We should be standing up to bullies, not applauding them. I’m furious. We should all be.