No better time to post Hunter S. Thompson on 9/12/2001. www.espn.com/espn/page2/s...

Are Americans aware that down here in Mexico we’ve been getting bombarded for months with ads of Kristi Noem telling us to our face that we’re out welcome in the US, and that these ads even found their way into our national TV broadcasts Because I feel like I have seen nobody mention it

Very cool that cis people can just access hormones willy nilly but trans people have to jump through a million hoops to get the same exact treatment

NEW: i spoke to nine (!) scientists across several disciplines whose work was cited in the new Department of Energy report that downplays the severity of climate change. all of them say their work was misrepresented, cherry picked, and/or lacked context —

South Park > Columbia University

The American battery industry was booming during the Biden years, with investment even exceeding the Chinese industry in some of 2024. But will it survive the Big Beautiful Bill’s onerous regulations? From @ryanlcooper.com:

To connect the recent Steam and Itch situation to another ongoing bit of news: Visa and Mastercard (and other US companies like PayPal, Stripe, and Meta) clearly believe they are entitled to dictate how people spend money not just through their services, but anywhere at all archive.ph/jigm3

Rooftop solar power in Australia is the cheapest power available to consumers in the world, full stop. I wish more people knew that.

New York Times 1977. Renee Richards, a trans woman, won the right to compete in tennis.

Speaker Johnson doesn't mind keeping the House in session to cut healthcare for 17 million Americans, but he draws the line at exposing child predators.

be but an idle whim

Exactly this

Literally

Old news but I still can’t get over that it looks like the pinewood derby designs I drew with a ruler and pencil as a 10-year-old

We should have listened when the modems screamed at us.

I know it’s easy to say this these days but I don’t understand how the press isn’t absolutely hounding the administration over this. They refused to provide *search and rescue* services in the middle of a disaster! What else do we have government for

Man who advocates for system where people can be jailed or killed for their beliefs asks for money and sympathy because he was fired for his beliefs thecatholicherald.com/article/self...

Not sure why Trump thinks it’s clever to release everyone’s files MLK, Hillary) but Epstein’s. It just makes his coverup of the Epstein files more glaring.

see how elastic our stiff prejudices grow when love once comes to bend them

Politico & Punchbowl report House Republican leadership is shutting down the Rules Committee - which is essential for moving party-line bills on the floor - for the week rather than vote on Democratic amendments on the Epstein files. Dems have effectively halted Republican legislation in the House:

“Since AFP was founded in 1944, we have lost journalists in conflicts, some have been injured, others taken prisoner. But none of us remember witnessing colleagues die of hunger"

One can certainly debate the degree to which the Trump campaign knew about or encouraged Russian operations to influence the 2016 election, or the relevance they had to the outcome. But the evidence that such operations were real is overwhelming and widely attested by non-US intel agencies.

This is, to me, the defining dyamic of everything the last six months. Any game theory notion of deterrence or the shoe being on the other foot ever is entirely gone. Either 1) They don't think they'll ever lose power again or 2) they're confident Democrats won't ever do the same things back to them

I don’t know why people are talking about labubu, I thought it was something I drank in the rainforest

As long as I live, I will never understand how "it should be easier for chemical companies to poison the water my family drinks" became a politically popular position www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

The Senate Intel Committee unanimously concluded that Russia interfered in the 2016 election. If there had been some Obama conspiracy, we would have found it. This latest lie is another sad, dangerous example of Tulsi Gabbard trying to rewrite history and erode trust in the IC.

"the constitution mandates anti-black racism"

So basically what these people have done is reinvent the idea of disparate impact, but inverted it, so that the negative impact you need to look out for is when black people receive any kind of benefit whatsoever, even accidentally

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

Whole article is worth reading…March review, 1000+ FBI agents, NY field office, 100K records

Trump's dialogue on the card to Epstein suggests a shared relish in a common "secret" about "enigmas [that] never age." It's so sick and dark that it can't be dismissed as locker room talk. Trump's only out is to claim it's simply a fake--and hope there isn't compelling evidence it's authentic.

Bump

“I never wrote a picture in my life.” bsky.app/profile/jswe...

American president, 1963: "Ich bin ein Berliner" American president, 2025:

“Enigmas”

BREAKING On April 24, Elon Musk's Neuralink falsely self-certified as a "small disadvantaged business" on a federal filing, a designation that qualifies the company for preferential treatment as part of a racial and ethnic diversity initiative.

Direct File exists. We already paid for it. So we are now trashing software that we have already paid for, that people are using, that people *love*, in the name of "efficiency." Yes, blame the Trump administration for this, but Intuit has been desperate to murder Direct File for years.

The president calling the editor of the WSJ to quash a story about his relationship with Epstein - hoo boy. That won't stir the coals.

I had to shake his hand once. (YUCK AND IT WAS c1993.) It was a disgustingly limp, half-hand, no-grip, doughy thing. My point is, no one’s gonna grip that thing till it bruises.

New bombshell from my investigators on Epstein's sex trafficking operation: the Trump administration has an Epstein file detailing 4,725 wire transfers and almost $1.1 billion flowing through just one of his banks. Hundreds of millions more through others.

Warning people in rural areas about natural disasters, for starters.

Today in Partisan Asymmetry in Adhering to Norms www.politico.com/news/2025/07...

I hope they do it with that bad redaction method where if you look right you can still see the text under the black highlighting

Sounds like when my friend Allen and I convinced our high school physics teacher to let us do an independent study in “astrophysics,” and other than fucking around, we would sit in the library brainstorming things like “but dude what would happen if the thing orbited the black hole like this?”

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Amazing. New CNN poll has Trump's approval on immigration absolutely tanking. It's down to 42-58. A 19-point net swing against him on this issue in just the last few months. Curious what those who keep saying we're in the midst of a huge societal backlash to 1965 immigration law think of this

This is not really very distinct from the people who get told by the LLMs that they have made contact with the universal consciousness and immediately have a psychotic episode

CEO of Oreo Cookies: the oreo cookie is as important as oxygen

This is amazing. Yesterday Trump claimed he talked to his uncle about how brilliant the Unabomber was when the Unabomber was a student of his at MIT. The Unabomber never went to MIT, he was identified in 1996, and his uncle died in 1985.