Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

79. American citizen.

huh, the entire alberta energy grid was free for 16 hours yesterday wind power was overproducing, so it just... goes to zero apparently

“Did not participate in a moment of silence”

Ich gehe jetzt einfach mal davon aus, das Trump das nicht kannte.

Love this: "At Merrill Auditorium, a group from New Orleans stipulated, 'Do not feed us Cajun food.'" www.pressherald.com?p=7484598&uu...

from chandra manning's wonderful book "what this cruel war was over"

I mean…come on… The moon through the top of Erin’s eye last night, taken by the #hurricanehunters

He has kept among us in times of peace Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution & unacknowledged by our laws.

This is a masterpiece. Simply excellent www.instagram.com/reel/DMVGMIC...

The benefits of studying history. #stablecoins www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/b...

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

If you're a storymap kind of person, here's one that nicely explains what's happening & why with the glacial lake outburst flooding now underway on the Mendenhall River near Juneau. #akwx #ClimateChange #Flood #Glacier @spiraledu.bsky.social @alaska.bsky.social storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/72ce...

we can sneak around town / hunting working folks down / I hear they got a great benefit plan join ICE boy ain’t it nice / join ICE take my advice www.tiktok.com/@jessewelles...

Less reliable weather data hurts Americans' ability to protect our families and property from natural disasters. Less reliable economic data hurts Americans' ability to protect our businesses, investments, & jobs from economic risks and to grow them by recognizing opportunities.

“if you hold back from rescuing those taken away… if you say, “Look, we did not know this”— does not he who weighs the heart perceive it? Does not he who keeps watch over your soul know it? And will he not repay all according to their deeds?” ‭‭Proverbs‬ ‭24‬:‭11-‭12‬

My firmest belief is that Americans won't realize what they had until it's gone.

On the occasion of Ichiro’s induction, here is one of the greatest sports profiles I’ve ever read, by Wright Thompson. www.espn.com/espn/feature...

My kid sees me re-reading Jesus and John Wayne by @kkdumez.bsky.social Kid: what’s that about? Me: why evangelicals are so into Trump Kid: and? Me: it’s all about gender Kid: Why reading it again? Me: to see if it hold up Kid: does it? Me: somehow better than before Kid: can I borrow it

When I was a kid in church this was basically my understanding of the Final Judgment. All your worst sins played on a huge screen in front of the whole world, who judged you pitilessly. Whether you got mercy from the Lord was another matter. But everyone else would always know…

“Then they started to talk about cuffing me, and that if the kids were here legally, what do they have to lose by answering. I told them that they still have their fifth and fourth amendment rights, and that they don’t have to speak to you or help with any investigation.”

This is among the best explainer I’ve seen so far regarding the Texas floods particularly because Alan ties together the meteorology issues and the emergency management issues.

Liberal democracy is a fighting faith. Fight to defend it. Cynicism is an authoritarian government’s best friend.

I wrote something for Independence Day www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/rc...

For example the next Catholic reporter to interview JD Vance needs to ask him if he’s made confession for bearing false witness against his neighbors in Springfield, OH.

This is incredibly courageous. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/o...

Hey @edsbs.bsky.social @hollyanderson.bsky.social @janecoaston.bsky.social if you are looking for maximum Tuesday mayhem, head over to www.youtube.com/live/GMzW19i... for the finals of Calcio Storico Fiorentino. Cross between football and a gang fight fought on sand in front of Santa Croce church.

Mary Oliver

On second thought, there may be some cases where US Marines could intervene appropriately.

Gonna tell my AI that’s why they made Henry the Pope

'No Kings' rallies were held in dozens of Maine communities on Saturday. Protesters called out President Donald Trump's immigration policies on the same day as a military parade in Washington, D.C.

“Nekulturny” - in the ancient days when I studied Russian I understood this to be a deadly insult but idk if that’s still true.

From my undergraduate lecture notes on the Weimar Republic's collapse

Terrific thread

real contender for the defining quote of american christianity here

This is why people need to be carrying American flags at protests.

whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing

Same, same 😟… “forecasters like me are flying a plane in the clouds with no navigation system” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/o...

Every year on Memorial Day, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring. They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died. France also gave us this land as American soil.

Javert actually had more honor than ICE

This is very good - not just because it confirms what I’ve come to believe after decades in the public debate business, but yes, also that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

500K Mexican-Americans served in the U.S. armed forces in WWII, as did millions of 1st and 2nd-gen immigrants, and 109K noncitizens. Mexican immigrant Macario Garcia won the Medal of Honor in Normandy. When he returned to the US, he was was arrested for trying to eat at a segregated restaurant.

*Nervously checks how often I and people I love have to fly in the foreseeable future*

Sean Duffy changed his wife's flight on Monday to avoid Newark Airport and then made a TV appearance on Tuesday insisting it's safe to fly from there.

100% of the time: routine maintenance is faster, cheaper, and easier than fixing broken shit - whether it’s cars, relationships, teeth, lawn care, or literally anything, anywhere

for the past few months the us has been ruled by a lawless triumvirate--a mobster (trump), a plutocrat (musk), and a commissar (miller)--haphazardly implementing, respectively, a great leap backward (tariffs), a kleptocratic shock therapy (doge), and a gestapo-spearheaded ethnic cleansing (ice)...