The government shutdown is especially tough on men, who are losing $1.00 for every 75¢ a woman loses.

I'm getting the feeling that neither Hamas nor Netanyahu actually had any intention of moving past stage 1 of the ceasefire, and that subsequent stages were mostly to quiet internal opposition for both parties

Local legislator displays the importance of kerning

I have been traveling and today I present to you...the thing I saw in the Frankfurt airport. Is it efficient? Undeniably. Does it probably work better than the normal way? Oh certainly. Produce less of a mess? Probably? But the existence of Condiment Udders gives me a deep, aghast disquiet.

At this point, I'm willing to bet Trump is giving that $40b to Argentina so he can’t be extradited when he escapes there with his family. ✈️

can we talk about what a deadpan clean cut "without your wife" is

i don't get it. omen sushi in nyc is cheaper than nobu in malibu, where you dined last year without your wife

Léo Gausson

Stained glass window inside the Petit Palais, Paris, France 🇫🇷.

"Tree of Life" gate at the entrance of a garden at Poolewe in Scotland.

No paperwork was filed to the NCPC, which reviews major federal projects in the capital. “Executive Order 11593, issued in 1971, directs federal agencies to consult with the US Interior Dept. before altering historic structures.” “𝘐 𝘥𝘰𝘯’𝘵 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘸𝘢𝘪𝘵…＆ 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶’𝘳𝘦 𝘢 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘭𝘦𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘥𝘰 𝘪𝘵.“－𝘋𝘑𝘛

i think the answer is no, but the reasons why tend to cluster on too eager to be kingmaker and too old to keep on top of things like he needs to be while throwing his name behind strangers

💔Kharkiv: Rescuers evacuate children from a destroyed kindergarten.

We end up with basically with a monarch by default 😐

Same vibes as the callous destruction of Bonwit Teller building and the Taliban blowing up the Bamiyan Buddhas back in the day.

The due process of a Nuremberg trial is laudable, but the fury of a mob may be more vividly remembered.

While we spectate on The East Wing being torn down, it isn’t just another hallway, it’s where Eleanor Roosevelt built the modern Office of the First Lady, where WWII bunkers were hidden, and where the public enters the People’s House. Erasing it is rewriting history.

> @newyorker.com

GOOD NEWS! For the first time ever, Huntington's disease has been successfully treated. A groundbreaking new miRNA treatment, AMT-130, slowed the progression of the disease by 75%. These results are likely to support the first approval of a genetic treatment for the rare neurodegenerative condition.

Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs - Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75% - Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60% - Social Sciences by 50–70% - History by 60% - Biology by 75% - The German department will lose all PhD seats - Sociology from six PhD students to zero

Entire government is an extortion racket.

Voters want action to block huge increases in health insurance costs as part of a bipartisan compromise to end the shutdown. Trump, Johnson, and Thune are playing a losing hand by blocking it.

All across the West, lawmakers are skipping over the will of voters and yanking fluoride from municipal water systems. My latest story for @highcountrynews.org takes a deep dive into the fight over fluoride in the age of MAHA. www.hcn.org/issues/57-11...

They like Trump and support his goals

why the hell are they confirming trump's judges when trump's speaker of the house won't swear in Grijalva?

We live in ranching country. J informs me that on Facebook the right wing talking point is that "the liberals" have introduced wolves everywhere and that's why beef prices are high. I am not making this up. (Also: Trump easing import restrictions to screw ranchers is delicious.)

Oh man, the New York Young Republicans implicated in the Nazi groupchat scandal ran up a $23,000 tab eating filet mignon and drinking at a hotel in Syracuse -- a city with one of the highest child poverty rates *in the nation* -- and then refused to pay the bill.

Trump’s new ballroom you’re paying for is going to be bigger than the White House itself. Because he believes he is more important than the country. The symbolism is disgraceful and obvious. Again: Republicans would lose their minds if Obama did this.

You need to see this… Just so we’re all clear on the gravity and historical significance of what Trump has done to the East Wing of the People’s House.

Israel still fires on Lebanon almost a year after a ceasefire. Some predict the same for Gaza My look at the Lebanon "lessfire" model, with interactive map courtesy of the @apnews.com graphics team apnews.com/article/leba...

'Instead of Doing TikTok Videos, She Should Be Serving Her Constituents,' Johnson Says While Refusing to Swear In Grijalva www.commondreams.org/news/adelita...

It’s not a coincidence that Trump started to demolish the White House in a highly visible, dramatic way the day before Virginia Guiffre’s memoir comes out.

"But when the team looked at the employees’ actual work output, they found that the developers had completed tasks 20% slower when using AI than when working without it. Researchers were stunned. “No one expected that outcome. We didn’t even really consider a slowdown as a possibility.” 🎁link

A spokesperson for Texas Gov. Greg Abbott argued his office’s emails with Elon Musk are confidential under a “common-law privacy” exception to public records laws because they may include “intimate and embarrassing” information. (Published July) With @kutnews.bsky.social @texastribune.org

I mean this is viscerally upsetting because it's really genuinely him treating the white house like it's his own personal property; he's the king and it's his palace. No other president ever thought like this, even if they were a fucking horrible person, because it goes against our founding creed

If you see an otter steal a surfboard, no you didn’t.

Especially since the dust is quite likely full of asbestos or other flame retardant, and the white paint may contain lead.

This is psychologically so important in cities where tall buildings already limit the amount of sunlight and therefore vitamin D people can get. Mental health is greatly impacted by the natural environment because we are beings of nature.

If it isn't expressed in this thread it is, like most of New York, a function of profound corruption. Scaffolding companies grift the system to ensure they're all up all the time. Some in my neighborhood have been here for 20+ years for no reason.

Sidewalk sheds span over 380 miles of scaffolding that would cover more than 7,500 city blocks. Over a thousand sheds have been up for 3 or more years.

Aw c’mon. It’s no fun for the rest of us when someone comes right out of the gate with the objectively correct answer.

They should replace the White House with a really wide bike lane

Like it's just a building but it's also a physical manifestation of Trump believing that he owns the United States government like he bought it in a merger, and I hate that with every lower case r republican fiber in my being

This does provoke a profoundly negative visceral reaction in my gut

The Democrats should say that this work is not legally authorized and the contractor will be held criminally liable for this when they are back in power and also be liable to restore the White House to its original state.

So McCrery is the new Speer. How yummy for them. We all looked at America in 2025 and said what we need is a ballroom. That is what we need. I can not take this insanity.

People might also ask them if they are doing asbestos & lead remediation to protect the public & workers bc I guarantee you both are in the FDR constructed East Wing.

ICE is now the 13th largest military in the world on its own. Never ever accept the lie we cannot pay for Universal Healthcare.

Thank you for documenting all this.