Older lady peeped the rainbow flag on my bike, asked in a thick Russian accent “It’s your Pride?” She told me her youngest grandchild is “not she berry or he berry but no berry.” I said “Nonbinary?” She got so excited. Yes! Yes! And “Is a secret, but they are my“ *looks around, whispers* “favorite.”

Our current stage of fascism is best understood as a desperate last stand by a disparate coalition of forces who rightly feel existentially threatened by the impact of these liberatory movements. White supremacists, misogynists, billionaires-- they knew exactly what time it was on the clock.

Is she three heatstrokes in a trench coat?

They don't want to liberate Cuba from it's authoritarian government, they want to *steal* the country.

The root cause these guys are ignoring is a lack of coherent strategy. Good equipment is downstream of good requirements which is downstream of clear goals which is downstream of political consensus. But then they couldn’t pitch their shittech defense startup and would have to work on messy politics

The Accidental Organism: Fighting Small Slime in the Midst of a Big Slime

My favorite Dril tweet of all time remains undefeated

Lmfaooo

This is an unfathomably evil act that will be a foul stain on our nation’s history forever. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/19/w...

yeah unfortunately the point at which security agents started manufacturing crimes to so they could arrest people to support the delusions of a single personalist ruler was the point at which the story stopped being silly heavy-handed metaphor and started being of real concern

"When a man marries an unemployed woman, he gets a live-in maid. When a woman marries an unemployed man, she gets a live-in gamer." www.liberalcurrents.com/heterosexual...

Plato's thirsty dog

Of course they would use this for blood and soil propaganda with one of the players in the photo being American out of virtue of birthright citizenship and the 14A. Shit like this makes me minimally excited about the prospects of Americans advancing in the tournament.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump are re-segregating the American military by race and sex Secret Vetting and Blocked Promotions: Inside Hegseth’s War on Diversity www.nytimes.com/2026/06/19/u...

“Mother, I've weighed the risks - which I prefer to living in a world dominated by Nazis. Bill" Thank god for Bill and so many more like him (Pic from @profpeterdoyle.bsky.social on X)

I used to do respiratory disease surveillance as an epidemiologist for the Army. Trainees at Basic come from all over the country, bringing local germs with them. They live, train and sleep in close quarters, under huge physical strain. Training camps are famous as outbreak hotspots. 1/2

Major Nicholas Dockery was never seen without the Medal of Honor tied tight around his neck. His wife always wondered why, but he would never say. Many years passed, and when he was on his death bed he told her she could untie the ribbon. She slowly loosed the knot...and the Major's head fell off.

Waded into this behemoth this afternoon. The amount of research alone is staggering, with over 140 maps and charts. The notes section alone will make for good reading. This is an important book and one every dad should have. @hoosierhomer.bsky.social you will enjoy this.

I’ve tried learning Ukrainian to prepare for our new overlords but it’s hard so I hope they remember that I helped send them weapons

that the liberal commentariat basically normalized radical right concerns and discourse, as this book argues

Also the US president promoting it is a gutter racist who secretly had a stroke. It's like poetry; it rhymes.

Me watching Iraq vs Norway

The most haunting thing I saw when I was at Verdun last year was a memorial to the war dead of a village that no longer exists. The village died for France - but its sons are still remembered there.

Press F to Show Alf Hog

UFC-style gladiatorial spectacle should be deeply troubling on republican grounds because it abstracts violence from its political and moral ends, imbuing it with civic meaning corrosive of self-government.

Japan is consistently respectable in international football by working so hard and playing with so much discipline.

My god that Kai Havertz finish

Had a request for Dien Bien Phu maps, so here are some screenshots I just made. Digital work by erikthehistorian (erik villard)

This is despicable agitprop being promulgated by the ODNI. As an IC veteran it literally sickens me to see this kind of rot. Putin's talking points, innuendo, purveyed to a public that has no knowledge of the topic to base a judgment on. Just sickening to see the IC doing Russia's work. #treason

Remembering a multi-day conservative freakout because Lizzo briefly played a founding father’s flute

i really, truly, find this offensive

Thank you, birthright citizenship, for that goal

Thierry Henry trying to talk to Alexi Lalas

ICE's flight taking persecuted people from safety into a civil war is on its final leg to the Central African Republic, a country so dangerous the United States recommends all Americans avoid traveling there for any reason whatsoever. So much for supporting the people of Iran.

You love to see it and my hot take is that the contractors who put it up in the first place should face financial and legal consequences in 2029.

12 June 1929 | A German Jewish girl, Anne Frank, was born in Frankfurt. In 1942, on her 13th birthday, she received an empty diary. She perished in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945. 'Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character & goodness.' (A.Frank)

First WC opener with three red cards lmfao

A couple of courthouse clerks in Utah are accused of helping immigrants evade ICE officers. After allegedly doing this, they "were spotted on a surveillance camera waving and smiling at it," with one using "her middle finger in an obscene gesture at the camera.” www.sltrib.com/news/2026/06...

One hour left, quick, post your predictions and fantasy team

i am obviously not from the British Isles so my perspective here is biased, but I see this as essentially a question of national sovereignty. X is run by a man agitating for the overthrow and subversion of a foreign government and is protected from consequences by the geopolitical power of the US

Graham Platner is a dilettante adventurer reaping the benefits of both a privileged upbringing and his (unearned) image as an average working class man. I wrote about how these converge to grant him impunity www.liberalcurrents.com/graham-platn...

Born in Jim Crow Florida, died a four-star General.