“How much is a magical world worth?” A beautiful thread about Cabo Verde, the Peace Corps, and the World Cup:

What do you mean abolishing ICE is not doable? It was created in 2003. There are Missy Elliot songs older than ICE.

this is correct except that the political crisis started back in 2000 when Bush stole the election and the "heads in the sand vs we should fight" dynamic has been the major split inside the Dem party since then

pretty devastating dunk at the end of this paragraph

if i were part of the presidential administration i would not say "Watergate was not that big a deal and significantly more scandalous things happen on a regular basis" out loud

I don’t know why every English Department AND library hasn’t adopted this line from “The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins” as their motto “Books are brain movies!”

Okay that ending was very funny actually 💀💀💀

Way too obsessed with the band Driveways after only 2 days of listening but honestly just feed that style of pop punk right into my veins (heavy drums, a little screamo, pop punk vocals with twisty lyrics, sounds like 2003) OCTOBER FOREVERRRR

and this isn't just some random evil racist congressman. he's the majority whip, the third most powerful member of the house! this *is* the party.

Don’t take the job if you can’t take the heat!

I'm sorry he got 30 years for *what*

EXCLUSIVE: Eli Lilly gave compassionate use access to retatrutide, their unapproved powerful obesity drug, to a 79-year-old man in April. The application was arranged by a top doctor at NIH, and cleared by the FDA. www.statnews.com/2026/06/23/e...

From late last month: Americans’ savings rate falls to lowest level since 2022 as inflation outpaces paychecks www.cnbc.com/2026/05/28/s... #EconSky

I am *never* going to get over the Court holding that targeted student loan forgiveness was a "major question" that Congress needed to weigh in on, but refusing to intervene to stop the dismantling of the entire cabinet agency overseeing the student loan program.

1. The debasement of the Reflecting Pool reflects the last stop on the evolution of the Republican Party from the party to the Part of Trump. Trump does not want to fix a design to honor Lincoln, but to make it his. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-the-r...

Shifting Skyline. One of two new Chicago skyscrapers is almost complete at 400 N Lake Shore. The 72-floor north tower (right center) will be ready in 2027, followed by the construction of the 64-floor south tower.

It's tough seeing others live out your dream 🐶🌭

Buying the Washington cherries when they are $2 a pound is really the move

I drank two of those Senorita THC Margaritas at Taste of Randolph it was a very delicious way to chill at a street fest !! 2026 sucks in many many ways but THC sodas becoming the norm at public events is truly a delightful future ✨🥭✨

there wouldn’t if there hadn’t be been ✨this✨ 💚you💚

I appreciate 92.3 just completely DOING IT at 9:15 in the morning 🎉🎉

These are very cool

You mean to tell me the guy who has been parading around Capitol Hill rubbing elbows with the Christian right and pushing to blow up Section 230 and censor the Internet … … was in a fascist group chat? I’m shocked. Pikachu shocked. Never saw this coming.

Supreme Court opinions at 10:00.

See also all those horror movies with out of copyright childhood characters. Oh did you do a film where Winnie the Pooh was an axe murderer? Proud of yourself, are you? Do you introduce yourself to people at parties with that fact? It’s all just so unutterably tawdry.

An obituary worth reading [gift link] www.nytimes.com/2026/06/16/b...

Interestingly, the intuition I felt and spoke from -- that embodied knowing -- is precisely the kind of thing AI, for all of its performative anthropomorphic gesturing at the simulacrum of personhood, can't do. Tech billionaires want us to believe that our embodied/human ways of knowing are useless!

this may well be the defining joke of our era theonion.com/guy-who-suck...

I just learned that the term "carbon footprint" was developed by BP to offload responsibility for climate change onto individuals. Something like that's happening in higher ed with AI. Institutions capitulate or dodge; students are submitting; & they believe it's their individual failing. 7/

Wow. How apathetic are #Cubs fans right now? Not a single Cubs position player is in the top 5 at their position in All Star voting. Their best player, PCA?! 14th!!

the office couldn't be made today because it would be eight episodes for some streaming service that would schedule the second season for three years later and then cancel it for no good reason

You really can’t beat the $12 Millennium park parking for a concert night !! I found the back entrance thru the 4th floor to the bottom of Pritzker pavilion and I’m so jazzed to leave my cooler in the car and sit in seats with cold snacks ✨

NBA Finals by quarter. 1: Spurs + 57 2. Knicks + 29 3. Knicks + 14 4. Knicks: +26

Half the country praying for rain like a dustbowl farmer.

Please god let this close the portal to Hell the Cubs opened in 2016

You can tell he’s got the charm floodlights at full blast.

Michael Busch slugs a 3-run HR into McCovey Cove. He's the 4th Cub with a splash hit, first since Joc Pederson in 2021. Cubs lead the Giants 5-0 in the 5th.

It’s not even 4am at midway and there are 1k people in the security line already 😵‍💫

My 16-year-old daughter’s take on game 4.

I think we can all agree that Trump cursed to the Knicks and then Taylor Swift showed up and restored the karma balance to its correct order

ykw i should have posted this photo instead. this is a grievance against myself. please accept my apologies.

Ahead of this event, I keep thinking about the joke Obama made at Trump’s expense at the 2011 WH correspondents dinner, when Obama flashed the image on the left on the screen poking fun at what a (then hypothetical) Trump presidency would look like. It’s theorized the joke spurred Trump to run.

I haven't read it yet or even looked at it but I am going to take a shot in the dark and guess it does not disclose anywhere that Maggie Haberman's mom worked for Epstein's (and Trump's!) publicist.

The Democratic Party deserves everything that happens to it!

I am rooting for the Spurs to win now just based on vibes alone haha

Talarico saying he's against "gender reassignment surgery for minors" to lots of nodding and impressed gestures from the Barro/Yglesias crowd and a lot of the politics press is, I think, a great example of how much the well has been poisoned on trans healthcare

I really enjoy EB White's take on New York and New Yorkers.