Its officials said it expects a 25% rise in electricity costs next year, and advised workers to close the blinds and turn off their computers to make up for it. www.404media.co/henrico-virg...

Infuriating.

Senator Michele Reynolds... call your office! Campaign finance records show Reynolds has accepted nearly $20K from convicted sex pest Andrew Havas, who was jailed for 90 days after gross sexual misconduct with a 15-year-old when he was 22.

The irony is remarkable. The WSJ invokes the struggle against apartheid to argue for regime change in Cuba, ignoring that the U.S. backed South Africa's apartheid govt while Cuba helped defeat it. Cuba's military intervention in Angola led to Namibia's independence & the collapse of apartheid

Lmao okay.

This all but confirms my theory that Schumer's entire recruiting strategy is: 1. Ask the governor 2. Ask other residents of the state, in descending order of their best single-cycle fundraising totals

Hey Chicago! An ICE contractor is trying to buy our parking meters — and City Council decides whether that happens THIS WEEK. We've got time to stop this, but we need as many people as possible to fight back: tinyurl.com/icepark

“Though we didn’t agree on everything…” Shut up. Just say nothing. There’s no law saying you have to say anything. You can just go on as if it’s a regular day.

the fact that our elites cannot, ever, just call a thing what it is will be the death of this society. he was a vicious, antisocial scumbag. his crimes are literally legion. if the opposition can't vocalize that what good are they? and werent they trying to jail this loser? grow a pair

It's bad for senate democrats to post things about the evil person who they clearly care more about than their constituents. Graham was not some guy who wasn't fun to work an actual job with, he was a fascist hog who never did anything of use and frequently did great harm to countless lives.

The Onion looks back on 250 years of American exceptionalism. Watch now on youtube.com/theonion

Yup. You’re not friends over there. At BEST you’re colleagues who’re supposed to be on the same team for voters. But friends? Nope. Nada.

I did not need to wake up to Claire McCaskill on MSNow scolding us all to be "charitable" to Lindsey Graham because he was a "good man." No, he wasn't. He was the fascists' handmaiden.

How many southern bell senators do we have left?!

This is going to ruin the tour

I get that the Normies don’t revel in death but silence is always an option. Like you don’t have to pretend the world is a worse place today.

Lindsey Graham died of “a brief and sudden illness” you say

Curious: Did Lindsey Graham object or say anything when Robert Mueller died and Trump tweeted something to the effect of, “good riddance”? If not, I assume that means he was OK with celebrating a man’s death. So.

Lindsay Graham is dead!

so, the author of the linked piece has been abusive to women and queer people in the labor movement. cherry on a shit sundae

Time for me to shamelessly plug @popfeed.social because I actually prefer that over Letterboxd.

WHCA issues this empty statement as they plan to fete Donald Trump. What a sad joke.

"Zines are not a crime": Why comics creators must fight the Kids Online Safety Act

MSW is not wrong technically BUT I think saying he either didn’t do “enough” or “nothing” are both the same thing in this context because they both produced the same result. A miscarriage of justice.

Not the use of the word "detained" here to make it appear as though the settlers have some legal capacity to be doing this. If i ran up on a US Rep with a rifle and prevented them from leaving it would be, correctly, described as kidnapping; and doing so with political ends would be terrorism.

You see this with Republican attacks on assisted reproduction too—the ostensibly pro-baby, pro-family movement wants only a certain kind of baby from a certain kind of family. It’s really pro-heterosexual-white-Christian-natalism. Pretty gross! slate.com/news-and-pol...

🎥 Lee Cronin's The Mummy (2026) ★★★★★ Solid horror movie. A familiar trope, but feels fresh and well executed. View full review on @popfeed.social

🎥 Cold Storage (2026) ★★★★★ This was an unexpectedly great time! Looking forward to for just a great flick? This is it. View full review on @popfeed.social

This chart of how scores dropped when an econ prof. switched from take-home midterm to proctored in-person final sadly tracks with what I've seen. Why I've thought people (especially STEM profs) have had their head in the sand about LLMs and academia... www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

In response to the SCOTUS decision I want to be clear on protecting our fellow LGBTQ+ Ohioans. Everyone deserves a government that will focus on creating a more equitable state for all.

Commentary: Before one of the Trump-backed “Freedom Trucks” rolls into the Ohio State Fair at the end of the month, state leaders should demand that the roving 18-wheeler museum, created by right-wing propagandists, includes a disclaimer about bias ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/07/09/o...

A friend of mine found these three kittens behind a Bay Area gas station. They are tame, vaccinated, and incredibly affectionate. Unfortunately, she's unable to keep them and I'm trying to find them a home. They are at risk of going to a shelter. Bay Area people, are you open to adopting?

ICE lying about their victim and threatening witnesses.

NBC News confirms the reporting. A reminder that nothing Platner has said or done up until now means he actually has withdrawn, and Dems are largely stuck if he ends up deciding not to by Monday afternoon.

An "unspeakable tragedy" in Texas. National reporters need to focus and work on getting "the full, horrifying story."

Directing Graham Platner’s campaign

If you're wondering if this is just a Ryan Grim thing, this is the Drop Site social person

The son of the man shot and killed by ICE: I am Ronaldo Salgado, the oldest son of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. He should've been picking up the last of his guys before heading to finish up construction. Unbeknownst to all of us, my dad had been shot inside his van by ICE agents in unmarked cars.

Federal judges have spent a full year overwhelmingly rejecting ICE's effort to lock up people the Trump admin is seeking to deport — finding a combination of illegality, unconstitutionality, incompetence and cruelty at a shocking scale. More than 15,000 times.

POP EMERGENCY

Happy 7/9 to those who celebrate.

Maybe Bluesky is a bubble, but its nice not to get people seeing this story and saying "this is good actually"

His campaign manager should fill it out and put it in front of him to sign today and if he doesn’t then they should walk out and tell everyone. Anything less should mean that his staff should be blacklisted from dem/progressive politics everywhere. For life.

MS NOW Exclusive: Kash Patel has been demanding special perks from bureau employees during his taxpayer-funded travels throughout the country, including helicopter tours and jet ski excursions, according to whistleblower accounts given to Democrats on the House and Senate Judiciary committees.

Shockingly? lol no. LinkedIn being full of AI slop is right on brand for the majority of types who use it. Soulless posts about being work family, disguising screwing employees over as good business, and obsession with a self-image they can micromanage without having to do actual work.

An AI detection company found that amount of AI content that users actually see in their day-to-day browsing is shockingly high.