He’s a national embarrassment. Probably the biggest national embarrassment in American history.👇

I don't know, man, I think if Joe Biden had kept confusing Zelenskyy with Putin and Iran with Japan, the media might have made a pretty big deal about it?

No one in US politics will say this, I don't know why we should expect NATO leaders to do it

Expected but still interesting and important. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Serious question: Does the president not know what’s in the deal he made with Iran? There are no nuclear concessions in the MOU Trump signed. He is a serial liar and would overstate any gains, but on top of that, there’s a live possibility Vance/Kushner/Witkoff lied to him that they got side deals.

Trump having a normal one today then, declaring renewed war with Iran, a halt to trade with Spain, and once again to take over the territory of another NATO country. A clown demeaning his country. www.politico.eu/article/trum...

🧪 Why do hazardous #pesticide regulations change so slowly? Zohar Kalimi & Shira Bukchin-Peles show how institutional fragmentation led to mostly incremental pesticide reforms in #Israel, even after crises and poisoning incidents. 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Mitch McConnell's fine, honey, he's running and playing on a farm upstate with all the other bigots

Seems bad!

On the day that Americans celebrate the start of its war with England, Ken Paxton makes a pilgrimage to England. And, as if that's not showing bad political judgment enough, he takes his mistress. And they are videoed doing what looks like a Walk of Shame. Or, rather, a Walk of Shamelessness. Glory!

Keep fighting. Please.

Once again, I am absolutely begging: bsky.app/profile/mcop... What, in God's name, is wrong with you @coons.senate.gov?

An honest headline would read: "Trump uses NATO summit to attack sovereignty of fellow NATO member"

The Belgian players doing the Trump dance in the locker room after beating the USA is hilarious! 😂😂😂

“A pragmatic conservative” LOL we’re not still doing this, are we? She literally decided that our votes didn’t need to be counted & she could pick the president

SCOOP: Behind the scenes before the NATO summit, Netanyahu urged Trump to rein in Erdoğan.

So, what’s the latest on Schrödinger’s McConnell?

"What's the use of having developed a science well enough to make predictions if, in the end, all we're willing to do is stand around and wait for them to come true?" -- the late, great Sherry Rowland

I see Kyrie believes basketballs should be flat too

A broadside assault on truth that must be taken seriously. This administration wants to replace independent scholarship and curation with propaganda and Prager U. drivel. The Kennedy Center was bad enough. This is worse.

Trump celebrating Balogun’s eligibility to play for Team USA when his administration would strip Balogun’s citizenship tomorrow if he didn’t play world class soccer is really a chef’s kiss.

This feels right to me. He’s dying and desperately trying to build up a legacy, quite literally.

Putin talked about human shields in 2014. ㅤ Asked about a possible clash in Crimea, he said Russian troops would stand “behind” Ukrainian women and children — and dared Ukraine to shoot. ㅤ The mask did not fall in 2022. It was barely there.

How it started / how it’s going

Alito finds his moment? I know it’s just too easy to dunk on the NYT since a few years back, but seriously?? www.nytimes.com/2026/07/04/u...

"Alex, I'll take 'Things that Hitler also said' for $100."

This an official Vatican photograph of Leo at Lampedusa, Italy - one of the world’s heaviest migrant sites - where he went this morning to pray for migrants who died at sea. This is after turning down the offer to come to the United States.

20 years ago today, I launched aboard Discovery on STS-121, the only shuttle mission ever to launch on July 4th. Pretty good way to spend Independence Day. Proud of everyone who made that mission happen and still proud of what this country can do when we invest in exploration.

100 years ago.

A single black woman surrounded by hooded white supremacists is certainly a chilling image.

It is seriously alarming how many of the world’s wealthiest and most powerful people are just screamingly mentally unwell in deeply toxic, dangerous ways.

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

There is a reason actual democracies do not permit such wealth concentration or unfettered access to power of individuals, & we are seeing this on a daily basis here in the country that is not actually a full democracy.

The Globe is going back in time to 1776. The Continental Congress voted to adopt a Declaration of Independence from King George III. Read the day's news from Massachusetts and beyond. globe.com/1776

Evil, fascist, arguably insane, but lets not leave out: really fucking dumb www.cnn.com/2026/07/02/u...

As someone in this picture I find it a little odd that @natureportfolio.nature.com chose this image to illustrate the point. We were very careful when choosing a slogan for our signs that it be scientificly defenceable. "Science says New Oil & Gas = Death" is a plain statement of fact 🧵

More to my fields - I want the college presidents who have gone all in on AI to lose their jobs and never work in higher ed again.

Let's hear it for President Dealmaker, who negotiated and signed USMCA (calling it the “best and most important trade deal ever made"), then ran against it, won, and breached it while asking "who would ever sign a thing like this?' from the same desk where he signed it, and now won't renew it.

With Kathryn Nesbitt, PhD again joining the FIFA World Cup stage as an assistant referee, we look back at the insights she shared in 2021 the journey from chemist to referee. Read here 👇 @rebeccatrager.bsky.social www.chemistryworld.com/careers/from...

Congratulations to MIT CS3 Director Noelle Selin, who has been named as TEPCO Professor in the MIT Institute for Data, Systems and Society & MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences! The award supports distinguished faculty advancing global environmental research and education. 🧪

Russian goals remain maximalist despite massive losses and a faltering theory of victory. Negotiating with russia is pointless.

A California cyclist is currently suing Waymo after a passenger opened the door when the vehicle parked in a bike lane, hitting the cyclist and throwing her off her bike, only to be hit by another Waymo dropping off another passenger in the bike lane.

MIT Prof./CS3 faculty affiliate Susan Solomon & co-authors find #ozone depletion began decades before discovery of ozone hole. Using modern tools, they also determined that carbon tetrachloride, used as a dry-cleaning and degreasing agent as early as the 1930s, was at the root of early ozone loss. 🧪

While I’m heartened that the Supreme Court in a 5-4 decision protected the mail-in voting process, it’s insane that four justices were ready to limit voting rights and ballot access. The next President must reform this court.

After federal agents shot Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, a New Yorker sent ICE's director an email in January comparing him to a Nazi. This week, DHS agents stalked him across New York. His home. A hotel. They gave his wife a letter warning of criminal prosecution. www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...

Signs you might be a far right authoritarian party (#3383):

Abolish ICE.

Ford has rehired hundreds of senior engineers after replacing them with AI backfired and has cost the company billions of dollars. AI adoption is blamed for Ford being the most recalled automaker in the U.S. with 51 recalls covering over 11 million vehicles in the first half of 2026 alone.