Vicious fight between a dog and a duck: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatis...

Yacht owners and public housing residents once shared Venezuela's coast. Now they share its ruin.

“I’m good at this stuff,” Trump said, following FIFA’s decision to rescind the red card given to Team USA star Folarin Balogun. trib.al/zMfqQtz

Americans are now so used to their president cheating and breaking rules that many of them seem genuinely not to understand why the world was rooting for Belgium.

Insight: Big Tech data centers are driving up power bills at America's Rust Belt factories reut.rs/4p7KyBX

A tranche of water in the North Atlantic south of Greenland is the only place in the world to have cooled significantly since the 19th century. In fact, it has dropped by nearly 1C since 1900; ringing alarm bells in the scientific community over the last decade due to its swiftness and severity.

Since this is paywalled, here is my most important take: Says historian @ProfMSinha “It is a big sign of undemocratic, authoritarian rule when you question the legitimacy of your opponents to even exist, and you question the legitimacy of the citizenship of the people you don’t like.”

If you watched Ball of Thread, you know that what Vance is working toward is just the "peace plan" Putin offered Manafort as part of a quid pro quo back in 2015. But the media is still so afraid of Trump saying "Russia, Russia, Russia" that I haven't seen anyone point it out.

Bonjour! This is fascism. Apropos to nothing, French media just asked “a little naive question” as to why people are not resisting en masse.

BREAKING: Explosive devices blew up ‌in Syria's capital Damascus near a hotel where French President Emmanuel Macron was meant to be staying, a security source said reut.rs/4y9D1qz

Good morning, russia. Have you checked the weather forecast? 100% chance of “everything is under control”💥💥

That’s an interesting stat “ 11 European countries are financing at least half of their increase in defence spending by raising taxes or cutting spending, reckons Fitch, a rating agency.” Link economist.com/europe/2026/...

Presidential policy grounds global globetrotting. #econsky

Its founders came from Evozyne, Genentech, and Prescient Design, laboratories focused on protein design and drug discovery using artificial intelligence.

World temperature anomalies 07.07.2026 East 🇨🇦 , France SUPERSTARs Sahara band South of Africa All of Australia NW #China +W #Mongolia SE Russia Deep 🥶🥶 Scandinavia Central north Russia #ClimateCrisis

In a groundbreaking quantum study, researchers observed phenomena that upend our fundamental understanding of time. Rather than progressing linearly like a stream, time appeared to curve and double back on itself. Particles acted as though their future states could influence…

Brainworm asshole about to fuck up healthcare yet again.

Russia's latest batch of fake news posts targets parties in Germany from the far-left to centre-right, but stopping short of the far right, for obvious reasons. Note the very similar numbers of replies, views, and reposts, signs of bot networks boosting the post, but little to none real engagement.

In the morning news package: “European NATO members and Canada will commit at the alliance's summit, to be held next week in Ankara, to provide Ukraine with military aid worth $80 billion over 2026–2027” … that’s a really polite way to say that

“What we're seeing here is a self-reinforcing loop, where corporate cash buys policy, and policy pays cash back,” said Eileen O’Grady @publiccitizen.bsky.social

8 May 2026 Trump announces Russia-Ukraine prisoner swap as part of 3-day ceasefire for Putin’s victory day parade. 1,000 for 1,000 As of yet, that hasn’t happened either.

Watchdog warns of risks to patients as private equity stake in US healthcare grows. Profits extracted, staff/wage cuts, low investment, asset-stripping, poor patient care Yet UK handing NHS services to private equity, which is draining public purse. Why are govts intoxicated with private equity?

The leaders met at the European Council headquarters in Brussels. No phones or cameras, and everyone came alone. The forces there – or at least the French and Danish ones – were prepared for a hot war with the U.S. Around the five-hour mark of the meeting, Macron addressed his counterparts:

"A prominent venture investor lamented to me how an A.I. idea scribbled on a napkin can bloom into a billion-dollar valuation, while hot companies in other hot sectors — companies actually in operation — can’t get the funding they need to grow." Another point made here is stock buybacks hurt growth

I want to know where the money went.

Republicans demanding Platner resign because we need zero tolerance for sexual assault can go fuck themselves. After years of defending, minimizing, and excusing powerful men accused of sexual abuse, your outrage carries exactly zero moral weight. Also, fuck Platner. Put Troy Jackson in.

The US can still win the World Cup if Donald Trump has the courage

"The change drew protest from Comcast and other ISPs that complained bitterly about the complexity of listing all the hidden fees they had chosen to charge." The Trump admin is truly committed to making the Scam Economy even scammier. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

And the worst part is that Trump will spend the next four years saying the USA team really won.

Natalie Harp for her foreign policy expertise.

Goes to one Knicks game and they lose for the literal first time in 2 months. Calls the head of FIFA to make him overturn a red card and then the US loses in one of the worst matches of the tournament. No one does it like him, it’s actually amazing

Round and round and round we goooo

On July 4th Harris Faulkner compared DSA (Democratic Socialists) to Nazis. The Nazis actually hated socialists and communists. Once Nazis got power they rounded them up and shoved them into prison camps killing some of their leaders. Also so much for turning down the rhetoric.

Apparently Trump has chosen JD to take over the MAGA mantle. So, yeah, good luck with that. newrepublic.com/post/212721/...

I love this so much for them ❤️❤️❤️

👀 "On July 6, China launched an unarmed intercontinental-range ballistic missile from a nuclear-powered submarine into the Pacific Ocean. The United States said it monitored the launch and warned that Beijing’s 'rapid and opaque nuclear weapons buildup' is a concern to the region and the world."

Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties

gigglesnort

Nearly a year after Trump’s mass government layoffs, the National Weather Service and NOAA are scrambling to replace scientists and collect missing data. The NWS is hiring for hundreds of mostly entry-level positions, after losing about 15% of its employees. newrepublic.com/post/212739/...

If we didn't have terrible rulings from the Extreme Court, I would say you can't change the US Constitution just by passing a law in Congress. But here we are.🤷‍♀️

At this point, suspecting the Iranians are the ones on Polymarket

Breyer denies Musk's motion to set aside the verdict in the securities fraud trial alleging Musk lied about whether the Twitter deal was "on hold." You may recall Musk alleged, among other things, the jury was biased against him bc they filled out this damages form:

Welp

Abusers sabotage their own agenda and betray those who share it while placing the burden on victims to come forward and be punished, blamed, shamed, disbelieved, or not come forward and suffer in silence and let an abuser hold power. Abusers demonstrate radical selfishness.

Seems reasonable.

This is the thing that gets me so upset. Also clearly platner should not be drinking

DOGE finally collapses…. in what its critics consider a pile of wreckage Just filed ===> youtu.be/rSDNoag1V5o?...