This alone should be a decade-defining political scandal resulting in prison sentences.

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“.. The Trump family’s earnings, experts said, have moved him into an echelon of enrichment more associated with strongmen in Russia and Turkey.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/07/02/w...

A few days late but I hadn't seen this telling earlier.

close enough #oneofus

Words of wisdom from the gay history panel regarding the example of Oscar Wilde"Don't date a rich twinkle who's also fascist"

I am ignoring everything related to the holiday in favor of Nur-D and sci fi erotica and I have no regrets.

Pretty hard-core of the wildcat fireworks folks to be shooting them off a downtown roof *in a thunderstorm*.

Is this something? If it was printed on a tee shirt, and the proceeds went to a worthy cause, like rent relief, or defense fund for the Minnesota 15, would folks be interested? Or do we have too many tee shirts?

I actually don’t care what the founding fathers would say about the present and I don’t think you should either

Given how much geeks are generally highly technophilic, the consistent negativity about AI (generally LLM flavored) at CONvergence is notable.

Everyone’s enjoying the excommunication drama but there are also lessons for pro-democracy political actors. Decades of accommodating and appeasing this sect did not work and only emboldened them. You have to go whole hog. When you have power, break the back of the reactionaries. Shut them out

My queer daughter is looking for two LGBTQ+ friendly roommates in NE Minneapolis. $835 per month plus utilities for each roommate. DM me and I’ll put you in touch. Please feel free to reskeet for visibility.

You never know who you're going to meet in the #cvg2026 elevator. Like Chainsaw Man here.

Today's Inspirobot is encouraging and nicely timed since I'm about to try being insightful in public.

Literally just had this conversation with somebody, trying to figure out "Muppets, but not Kermit and Miss Piggy, and there was a building". Current guess is Great Muppet Caper.

I went to a library craft group for several months and made friends with the librarians. I've taken my coworkers to museums. I got invited to a knitting group because I go to political events. There's lots of options, but they do require leaving the house and talking to people.

i know this is a meme but the actual answer is going out and doing things and being willing to talk to strangers

It’s been a hard and yet triumphant year for Minnesota. Ordinary people have been targeted by their fellow countrymen, and made heroic sacrifices for their neighbors. So, appropriate to remember that 163 years ago today, 262 average Minnesotans sacrificed themselves at the Battle of Gettysburg.

If there was any doubt that Gov Jared Polis’ legacy is freeing Tina Peters, the NYT reports Polis just fired the clemency board members who revealed he overruled their unanimous wishes www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/u...

I'm extremely Team Institutional Reform. The rest of it is negotiable but we don't have a representative government currently and that's not changing without structural reform. Democrats need to have power and USE IT if we're going to get out of this mess.

It's important to understand here that these people were not, in point of fact, excommunicated by Pope Leo, or by the church. They knew they were committing an an excommunicatable offense. They were told this explicitly, and proceeded anyway. They excommunicated themselves.

here is what i think: we're not consumers or spectators, we are participants with agency. you should not hope that democrats will do anything. you must work to force them to do the right thing. the odds are long, but we are far from the first americans to face long odds. we will win.

100%. This session of the Supreme Court was a blow to our democracy (especially the Slaughter decision), and SCOTUS PR chief Roberts is giving us the birthright citizenship ruling last so we'll forget how dangerous this court is. Win the midterms. Expand the court.

celebrating the supreme court and promoting the fiction that they are standing up against Trump is an insane rhetorical stance for someone in Schumer's position. The Supreme Court Gang of Six is the leading vanguard of the plot to enslave our country, you don't have to hand it to them.

people got mad at me yesterday when i said the dems were not ready to take court reform seriously. 5-4 for non-racial citizenship is not a win, it's a reprieve bsky.app/profile/schu...

You may have heard about the OMB rule change that will put politics over federal grants. However bad you think it is? It's probably worse. Thanks to @theverge.com for letting me report this one out. There is still time to comment. bit.ly/4v2X4nQ

It's a guest bed these days, but my childhood bed is a 3/4 size slat bed that was made by my great or possibly great-great-grandfather in the 1880s. For really regular use, our mixing bowls are from both my grandmothers, so probably 1950s era.

Gregg gets it correct here. “New OMB grant rule” sounds nerdy. But this is a huge and insane plan. This is the Trump admin writing down their goal of fundamentally changing the relationship between government and society. Funding for everything will be taken over. 1/

my kind of Jubilee, the Japanese national team vs. 100 kids

If you’re as horrified by the fascist regime’s attack on the rights of Haitian immigrants as I am, here’s one way to help. Demand your Senators vote for a bill extending their Temporary Protected Status at this link. The bill already passed the House (with 10 Republicans voting for it)!

“If Democrats win, Congress will do its job again” is a wild message from the current Speaker of the House

Talarico: Every bar has that guy. He’s loud, he’s obnoxious, he makes all the women in the bar feel uncomfortable. He hears you say your name to the bartender and then adds his drink to your tab when you’re not looking. That’s Paxton. And I don’t know about y’all, but I’m done picking up his tab.

Facing up to the fact you were sold some dodgy vellum - 12th century, Staatsbibliothek Bamberg Msc.Patr.41, f. 69r @MedMilMedicine #globalmuseum #manuscripts #history

This 1679 “Sabionari” Stradivarius is the only playable guitar by Antonio Stradivari left in this world.🤗 So take just a moment to hear a sound that’s well over 300 years old! @55SweetThing #globalmuseum #music #guitar #Stradivarius

this is a terrific opening paragraph for a dystopian pulp novel released in 1997

Russell Vought has a plan for science, but so do we. Join the fight by taking action against the latest OMB grant funding proposal at the link in our bio, or go here 👉 zurl.co/NzgJ8 #StandUpForScience #Science #OMB #Vought #SaveScience

Cartoon by @mluckovich.bsky.social.

For all you hardcore Minnesota primary voters - early voting starts tomorrow! sos.mn.gov/elections-vo...

48 years years ago, on the 25th of June 1978, the rainbow flag designed by Gilbert Baker was first flown, during the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade celebration. The first design included 8 colours, with the pink at the top later dropped due to limited fabric availability. #otd #history 🗃️

I'm sure I'm not the only person who checks out people's bookshelves when they use them as backdrops. On PBS Newshpur yesterday, Gideon the Ninth caught my eye so I got a picture to see what else she has for SF, and saw N K Jemisen and Max Gladstone. Excellent choices.

Please read and call. Flood the zone.

I just sent this out to Democracy Docket premium members, but in light of the Postmasters comments this morning threatening voting by mail, I felt it is urgent to post it online for everyone. Please read and share. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/mail...

The silly little ritual of Supreme Court opinion days is a perfect illustration of the justices’ self-absorption. “We’re gonna decide cases but it’s a SURPRISE which ones, so just keep refreshing this browser tab to find out who still has civil rights!” Profoundly stupid institution. I loathe it.

Reminder to friends: Z won't be able to deliver his agenda unless the state legislature will hold the line against Governor Hochul and force her to #TaxTheRich. To do that, we need to win at least 7 Leftist Assembly primaries today. So if you can join us in the field anytime before 9pm, please do.

GOOD MORNING, DORKS! I have 18k followers and there are just over 8k comments. Which means 10k of you need to head to the link and STAND UP FOR SCIENCE (and democracy) by leaving your public comment. 🔗 fight2win.standupforscience.net @standupforscience.net

Exactly. i think people naturally assume Galileo was hounded unprompted. the reality is he did the renaissance equivalent of a viral Tik Tok about how the people funding him (including the Pope himself) were rubes. then acted offended and outraged when the FO part of FAFO kicked in very mildly.

We can’t let RFKjr and the rest of those loons dial this incredible progress back. A dear old friend of mine died of cervical cancer last July- it doesn’t need to happen to anyone else.

Quality sunset tonight