You don’t owe condolences, prayers, or thoughts to anyone you don’t actually give a fuck about. Public officials? maybe, not really. You as a private citizen? No way, go live your life. Mourn only the laws that are broken, or any injustice allowed to exist. It’s not that deep.

This looks like the home of a mafia oligarch or the mansion of a child trafficking boss.

New— Nazis with giant swastika flags marched in downtown Indianapolis on Saturday with two police escorts. They shouted “white power” and said to the woman who took this video (reshared here with her permission) “fuck you, n***** bitch.” Police did not intervene. I cannot find local news coverage.

My theory is that there are 3 types here: 1. Those who don’t know what’s happening 2. Those who like what’s happening 3. Those who are trying to resist what’s happening I don’t think there’s apathy. There is, however, a lot of feeling beat down. Unsure how to resist. That kind of stuff.

Measles was eradicated with the vaccine, which is 97% effective at preventing measles. Antivaxxers are the ones keeping people sick for profit.

You just gotta LOVE MAD MAGAZINE!!!

The entire business model of R1 public universities rests on 4 revenue sources: 1. Federal grants 2. Private gifts/endowments 3. Tuition (esp. from foreign students) 4. State $ For decades, 📈 in 1-3 offset a secular 📉 in 4. Now, 1 & 3 are being decimated & 4 ain't coming back. The math is clear.

Say goodbye to honest economic data. We knew it was coming. apnews.com/article/trum...

And existing white men "affirmative action": "Who benefits from discriminatory college admissions policies? White males more qualified applications from women, who get higher grades and more than 70% of valedictorians nationwide Seeking to create some level of gender balance, many colleges accept

With Emil Bove's Confirmation, Trump Hones His Criminal Protection Racket www.emptywheel.net/2025/07/30/w...

Pippa decided she wanted to drive today. (My bike filled up the cargo section, so she goes on the floor below the passenger seat)

A newspaper wrecked on purpose.

This happened to me recently. I was having an entire repository scanned for any inconsistencies. The AI then started editing files it wasn't supposed to — ones that had been painstakingly written and not yet committed. The agent was apologizing while actively destroying my setup.

love this. The engineer who beat Apple by creating the first USB-C iPhone has now created a phone case that switches the Lightning port on older iPhones to USB-C www.theverge.com/news/712133/...

"I do think Republicans understand the mess that they have created. I don't know that they're willing to solve it." @chrismurphyct.bsky.social joins @timmiller.bsky.social on today's pod:

Advising women to get helicopter insurance in case they need a lifeflight because a hospital won't provide them care is not a place that would have existed in the country I was born into, but that country exists in name only anymore. There is no man who would be denied care in the United States.

“More systematically than in his first term, Trump’s administration is reaching into the federal immigration bureaucracy to roll back an array of protections for undocumented children,” @mccrummen.bsky.social writes:

It's very difficult to measure harms prevented because they don’t happen. Do the protests or calls or court cases matter given how bad things are now? No one can say for sure. What we do know: if we stop, we lose. So, assume it is working and keep going. It's not unrealistic to hope. It's necessary.

We’ve now entered the revoking citizenship of people who are mean to me phase of the presidency. It only gets worse.

If you're just learning about Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton... In 2024, ProPublica and @texastribune.org found that he repeatedly used the state’s consumer protection laws to investigate organizations — including hospitals and LGBTQ+ groups — whose work conflicted with his political views.

The time is NOW to show up. How this will work is if it's all of us, together. Solidarity is the only way home. We can do this. But only if we all do. That means you, too.

"As concentration camps become more common, they will offend fewer people — and they will be called normal." That line haunts me because too many things that would have offended everyone just a few years ago are now part of the daily news & ignored. Check out this one by @sarahkendzior.bsky.social

For decades, the gun industry & NRA have stoked fear and extremism, fueling a culture of grievance. Now we’re seeing the deadly results—like the killing of MN’s Melissa Hortman and her husband. A must-read from The Trace & Rolling Stone on how gun groups helped radicalize America. thetr.ac/TLJaO

Frederick Douglass' "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" is probably the greatest-ever July 4 speech. And it is NOT a denunciation of the Declaration or the Revolution, but an indictment of failure to live up to their principles: reason.com/volokh/2020/...

The ICE budget is now set to be approximately what the NIH budget was. We’re shifting money from solving real problems to solving fictitious problems.

"On Tyranny" free resources to use and to share, now or any time snyder.substack.com/p/on-tyranny...

So the cuts in the Republican Trump act are delayed. OK. This isn’t rocket science. Democrats need a countdown clock. A website & an app. When every Democratic member of Congress speaks, they should start by saying it is X number of days and X number of months until Medicaid and Medicare are cut.

When's the last time that a rendition of the Declaration of Independence made the hair on your skin stand at attention? @hcrichardson.bsky.social on the most timely of historical documents. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkFx...

This is just the beginning.

How much have Republicans fucked over senior citizens? Trump’s plan is to kill traditional Medicare and replace it with the far more limited and low cost Medicare Part C “Medicare Advantage”. This kills all long-term care, skilled nursing, and out of pocket limits.

STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it has saved *92M* lives. Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost up to *14M* lives thru 2030. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Totally weird from the guy who said one President can't cancel student debt while the other he said can send people to concentration camps.

Duke appears to have lost NIH grants because they used the prefix "trans" in reference to disease transmission, transgenic genetic material, translational studies, or signal transduction www.dukechronicle.com/article/2025...

Be sure to sit down with @nhannahjones.bsky.social’s latest piece in the NYT magazine. It’s a sobering reality that we should be shouting from the rooftops. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/m...

More fake ICE agents doing horrible things. Everyone should be speaking up about this. Masks and no ID required is a ridiculous recipe for horrors. @MarshaBlackburn & @SenJohnson & Sexton should be banning it, not protecting it.

15 canceled NIH grants contained flagged words...In most cases where “trans” was flagged, the term generally referred to other words with the trans- prefix, such as disease transmission, transgenic genetic material, translational studies or signal transduction." www.dukechronicle.com/article/2025...

Did the Mother of Young Adult Literature Identify as a Man? www.nytimes.com/2022/12/24/o...

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.

Inside sources told me the CDC's massive HIV surveys have been halted. This essentially wastes $72 million already spent, years of effort, and 30K people's time. Stopping the next round of surveys means trying to curb HIV in the dark. Inefficient to say the least. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

The “No Kings” protests offered the first real sign that the grassroots resistance to Trump hasn’t died—but it does look different from how it did, and it may, perhaps, be taking a more strategic form.

office of govt ethics report: trump brought in $57,355,532 for his stake in his world liberty financial crypto platform launched last year and millions more in brand royalties:

If you are too young to remember the Iraq War, you'll hear "no one protested" and "no one knew they were lying." Millions of people knew they were lying and protested. The press not only did not want a record of mass dissent; they did not want a record of mass knowledge of lies.

Some early filers say worries about the future under the Trump administration moved up their timelines.

Authorities said the perpetrator was impersonating a police officer, complete with a vehicle equipped with emergency lights. He exchanged gunfire with police before escaping. buff.ly/iqjPBrh

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assassinations, handcuffing a senator at press conference, marines detaining a civilian, and a military parade for the president’s birthday. rough week for democracy.

A most interesting read, with good recognition of Trump. It gets one to explore the boundaries or lack there of the privileged on several levels, as well as the importance to grow from all of this...

Big Tech quietly sponsors Trump’s military parade party

"I can't tell you whether he should be given due process. BUT I'm all for a good ol lynching" -this fucking twat