It's funny learning that the reason there's going to be a crippling helium supply shortage even though the United States once had a huge strategic reserve of it is literally because Republicans did the "jeff thinks the beans have to take turns lmao" thing to it

But Trump ran on bringing down food prices! So on Feb 1 2025, he re-opened US ports to cattle imports from Mexico. Then in March, he canceled a screwworm monitoring program. So we have even less info on where it is & how serious it's getting. www.agri-pulse.com/articles/226...

Happy Tuesday! Who's ready to hear about 1. Flesh-eating maggots (mostly go after cattle) 2. They're native to the US 3. The USDA has kept them out of the US since the 1960s 4. But the flesh-eating maggots are making a 21st century comeback. And believe it or not it may be thanks to MAGA.

"Working class" in 2026 means a blue haired barista with they/them pronouns, a Asian immigrant nail technician, and an undocumented hotel cleaner. And we are going to keep having the same fights until we let the midcentury illustrator mirage of the white guy in plaid with the lunch pail go.

Last year, Trump and DOGE gutted funding for thousands of USAID programs, including monitoring and containing New World screwworm in Central America. Now, the parasite has moved north and infected American livestock. "Efficiency."

NASA ordered its astronauts to take refuge inside a docked SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and prepare for potential evacuation of the International Space Station, but the crew returned to normal operations shortly afterwards

has any man ever been more vindicated? x.com/stuartbuck1/...

If you're single in San Francisco and you make $117,700 or less, I have some bad news: you technically qualify as low income!

Chipotlai Max is an AI agent that runs on “stolen compute” from Chipotle’s AI chat bot. They are looking to borrow from bots from Ikea, Expedia, Home Depot, and others. (via @masnick.com) [github.com]

Basically, if you read things, if you're literate, if you're engaged & know things about politics or current events, if you're moderately intelligent & articulate ... you're a fucking weirdo! An outlier! The vast majority of your fellow citizens are not like you!

This marks the first case of the New World screwworm in U.S. livestock since the parasite was eliminated in the country in the 1960s

wait do people not have this post committed to memory like I do? bsky.app/profile/kyle...

We literally have had a program of releasing millions of sterile male screwworm flies a year into the Darien Gap in order to prevent it from expanding northward into Mexico. What happened to that program under Trump? Who the hell knows--but welcome to screwworm! These guys are absolutely nasty.

GOOD NEWS! A personalized mRNA vaccine, known as mRNA-4157, has shown promise in keeping melanoma, a deadly skin cancer, from returning. FIVE years later, NEARLY 70% of people in the vaccine group are CANCER-FREE. The vaccine also cut a person’s risk of the cancer metastasizing by NEARLY 60%.

nick bilton: be sure to put in the newspaper and on broadcast television and across every social media platform that I got mad and that you hurt my delicate feelings

“I’m Kid Rock.” “I’m Naomi Wolf.” “I’m Kanye West.” “I’m Matt Taibbi.” “I’m Catturd. Those stories, plus Rob Schneider, tonight on 60 Minutes.”

Alexa, play “Mediocrity Rules” #CaliforniaPrimary

Scott Pelley has provided @status.news a statement blasting current CBS News management and even accusing them of having tried (and failed) to "inject falsehoods and bias" into his stories. www.status.news/p/scott-pell...

First day on the job and you want respect? Go right up to the most recognizable and respected guy in the newsroom and have him yell at you until you cry. Then it's time to send him a weepy email telling him how disappointed you were that he did all that. Shouldn't have any trouble after that.

So many people who can reasonably be described as “that little shit” are in charge of so much of society.

Scott Pelley has been fired by new 60 Minutes executive producer Nick Bilton.

BREAKING CBS has fired 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley for cause. This comes after Pelley confronted 60 Minutes’ new executive producer, Nick Bilton, in a meeting yesterday and said Bari Weiss was trying to murder the program.

Welp there’s no unseeing this

someone like bari weiss who is used to bullying low level reporters and adjunct professors into getting fired is not going to like how this plays out for her when the same tactics are applied to someone whose contract was written by high powered entertainment lawyers

Frustration with Cubic bubbled over after the fare collection company revealed that a 27-hour outage that brought down BART’s ticket vending machines and fare gates last month was caused by the company failing to pay its AT&T bill. www.kqed.org/news/12085683

God-tier NYT correction: Correction (left), original (right) www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/n...

Fearful of being labeled antisemitic, the University of Pennsylvania has acquiesced to the demands of a punitive Trump administration and vindictive donors—and it’s chilling speech both inside and outside the classroom. trib.al/HzATmpb

"Here is why Scott Pelley’s stand was so important: He didn’t just refuse to be party to Bari Weiss’s lie—he stood up and exposed it. Even though she has the power and he does not." Unlike so many others who knew and wouldn't say something.

Californians in walkable, diverse, livable neighborhoods with strong public transit options — that's our future.

Tomorrow, U.S. distillate inventories will likely fall under 100 million barrels for the first time in over 20 years, exacerbated by high exports due to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz- this is a powder keg waiting to go off if a deal to reopen the Strait doesn't happen soon

Oddly.

Say what you will about Caligula, but he appointed an *entire* horse to a government position, not just the rear end.

"nobody believes in the future anymore" seems like a good general description of our current socio-historical moment. extends across politics and culture in all sorts of ways.

The Trump administration is dismantling a $368 million deep-ocean observation system that was put in place a decade ago to monitor coastal environments, marine ecosystems and powerful currents that affect the global climate.

Does. Mike. Wallace. Look. Like. A. Bitch?

Big “Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy" energy from Scott Pelley here.

lol Scott Pelley and the old guard at 60 Minutes eat people like this alive for breakfast.

Throwback to when a TV station in Iceland accidentally aired an episode of Teletubbies with subtitles from the Sopranos 👌🏼

Bret Stephens and his ilk are the equivalent of an NFL sixth round project RB draft pick whose only career numbers are “seventeen fumbles each season” and somehow gets a $13million contract every year over a 25 year career

tl;dr: Alabama's ability to administer a new congressional map disenfranchising Black voters has been complicated by the fact that Alabama is celebrating Jefferson Davis's birthday today.

Urine luck!

i don't think we ever quite acknowledged how weird it was that Arnold Schwarzenegger was governor of california for 2 terms and THEN Jerry Brown was governor of california for 2 terms after having been governor for 2 terms in the 70s

Coming soon to Bluesky : Debbie Does Discourse

Half a shitpost: we can tie two of these discussions together at once and say that the only influential art modern American right-wingers have made and are not hostile to is porn

Ya I feel like a very similar phenomenon where they are obviously connected and PR hungry, have no real fanbase or constituency but can still plausibly generate hate clicks with uncritical coverage? bsky.app/profile/jose...