every once in a while i think about some of the descriptions of north america before manifest destiny and i feel such a profound sense of loss that im ruined for the day.

RIP to the incomparable Sam Neill

Israel’s military has attacked several areas across Gaza, with Palestinians filming flames and smoke rising over Gaza City. A nine-year-old girl was also killed by Israeli gunfire in central Gaza.

god I hope we keep getting pretty consistent rain like we are right now.

Pacific gray whales facing ‘catastrophic’ die-off as climate crisis hits food supply www.theguardian.com/environment/... #climate #environment #nature

This outbreak is likely much bigger than we know given the state of testing. And everyday I’m like why do we have to live this way ?! 😭

Let's assume for the sake of argument that political elites cannot affect public opinion, only pander to it. Even then, you must anticipate trends in public opinion. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to anticipate that an internal masked authoritarian police force will soon become unpopular.

i’m sorry but ‘literally died of hard heartedness’ is the most hack writing yet in an already weak season

Popularism and populism both derive from the same essential impulse, which is to construct a synthetic version of The People that will cure democracy of the need to adjudicate between competing claims.

NBC News shared footage of a visibly shaken Sister Letty being released from ICE custody and embraced by Sister Norma Pimentel, a Catholic Charities leader. “She was very distraught and scared, and didn’t understand what was happening,” Sister Pimentel said: youtu.be/a-h-bmkaxfw?...

Nor is it the first extremely insane story about Rubio's actions on Latin America policy undermining other US national interests -- remember this story? 3/ bsky.app/profile/prof...

The nyt’s recent anti-women campaign traces exactly the path as its propagandistic blitz against trans ppl The elevation of extreme sources and views. The rejection of science and individual human rights. The exclusion of dissenting mainstream voices. The normalisation of fringe right-wing stances

Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.

lindsey graham won't see your jokes and memes because he got diarrhea and is in hell now, but someone writing an op-ed titled "the left's problem with manners" might. So make them really funny.

You're laughing? Mitch McConnell and Lindsay Graham are in hell being sewn together into a human centipede and you're laughing?

it rocks that Lindsey Graham lived to see the US lose a war with Iran and then immediately died lmao

Graham's last words: "I just spoke with Mitch McConnell ..." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/12/u...

packwatch

If Jared Kushner paid €110m to buy an island in Albania that has no fresh water from a guy who did not own it, it would help explain why his negotiations with Iran on behalf of the US have not been entirely successful

Starting a conspiracy theory that after his brain worms died because his brain was too toxic, he entered the health arena on the side of the parasites.

They are penalizing the large strong man for being too large and strong

In Minnesota, girls sell lemonade on the street to help their sisters arrested by ICE. Stephen Miller’s goons are very much still here. Sign reads, “Please help us raise money for my sisters because they were arrested by ICE” & this has been confirmed by trusted community members.

Memphis is under siege from the federal government. This is hideous.

Norway 3-0 win incoming

It's now confirmed that the Italian govt won't send any representatives to the US next Thursday to attend Marco Rubio's get-together discussing "extreme left terrorism" across the world. And there's no reason why Meloni would not have wanted to "contribute" just a year ago...

Mitch McConnell's death being slow rolled is, in addition to everything else, also probably a direct response to these freaks seeing how fast the entire Internet immediately turned Charlie Kirk into a singing potato.

So ICE has thugs wearing “media” vests and masks filming protesters, something that is totally normal in a democracy www.ctinsider.com/news/article...

I grew up on Food Stamps, the stigma was fucking horrible. I have so much to say about this ghoulish piece of shit, Stitt and his desire to shame people. "making it so easy..." Fuck you dude. I'm vibrating with anger right now over this. Being poor is expensive, traumatizing, and anything but easy

this ain't a squat. this is a really bad bodyweight good morning.

Brother what the fuck are we doing here

ICE killed a man without wearing body cameras all because someone in his van “resembled the target” though it wasn’t them.   Now we’ve learned that the agents lied about what happened, mocked the man they shot as he was dying, and stripped his ID from him when they brought him to the hospital.

Reposting this today for no particular reason

old enough to remember a few years back, when a book called Elite Capture came out, and a few people asked its author incredulously why it went so hard in emphasizing that elite capture was not a special problem of identity politics in particular

gonna have to completely reconfigure my lower body training because bilateral hip hinges feel like shit along with a preferred squat pattern. gonna need to switch to unilateral movements or machine isolations for a bit, which is annoying and nowhere near as satisfying.

Instead of changing the language in their legacy scholarship, the Upperman family has decided to pull their $1M endowment from a North Carolina university They plan to move the scholarship to a school where it is likely a Black student will receive it

UPDATE: This first-of-its-kind wrongful death case is moving forward after a state court denied oil companies' motions to dismiss this week 🧵 (1/3)

Science is wild. Doctors figured out they could use high powered ultrasound to seal blood vessels between twins that are sharing a placenta (and where one is stealing blood from the other) www.bbc.com/news/article...

Video appears to show no damage to the vehicle of the man ICE killed in Houston, who had lived in America peacefully for 35 years, despite ICE's claim that he "rammed" an ICE vehicle and "tried to run over" an agent. These people are not credible.

"Our current leaders talk endlessly about American exceptionalism, while turning us into an unexceptional country presided over by thuggish apparatchiks. I dare say Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was a better American than they are."

RETVRN but it's just shooting a firehose of federal funding for a new WPA

freddie is what happens when your entire political orientation is relentless contrarianism glazed by a thin candy shell of left wing ideology

Cover-up is normal law enforcement practice.

cuts to Oregon Health Plan of $421 million, a little bit more than the $365 million the state wants to use to subsidize renovations at the Moda Center on behalf of its rich owners

As much as 40 percent of longform posts on LinkedIn and X that users actually see are fully AI-generated, according to new research Particularly notable because we know these platforms are flooded with slop, but this studied what the algorithm actually shows people www.404media.co/linkedin-and...

Me: food poisoning, food poisoning, food poisoning, food poisoning, food poisoning, FUCKING BLACK DEATH I mean I know the other ones are much, much more common and probably kill more people in the modern world I just have a real bad reaction to Yersinia pestis

Just an amazing speech from Erika Hilton, describing how multiple segments of society (different social movements, LGBTQIA+ community) mobilized in class struggle to pass a bill giving workers 2 days off per week. Cherry on top was telling opponents of the bill that they lost and the workers won.