“Notable—Haley Stevens shows respect towards the pain & disappointment which Mallory McMorrow supporters must be feeling today, giving them time to process & heal, while El Sayed immediately pounces on them.” #FIFY

Six hours and also the exurbs are the grimmest most crime ridden places in the region.

Not true. In their list of grievances, the Founding Fathers complained that King George III was blocking colonial laws that would promote immigration and make it easier for foreign settlers to become citizens.

Joy is essential. *Especially* when things are bad.

The Coast Guard just removed the Clearwater from the tall ship parade in NYC for having "Save the Clean Water Act" and "Indigenous Rights, Racial Justice, Climate Solutions” banners. They were escorted out by the Coast Guard, US Navy, and NYPD. www.instagram.com/p/DaYOP8OlIq...

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I was trying to make this case to folks the other night. What a gift to see every team with a diasporic rooting section.

the funny thing is that she might not have been *before*, but after seeing this flaming carnival of incompetent horseshit on fox news every day for a week, she might be now

A key part of marketing, and using social media in general, is shutting up when you need to

most irritating part of "how can you root for the US did you know we are bad" is why the fuck do you think I got here without thinking about all this and coming to my own peace with it why do I have to be in the slow lane with you, ever you missed this meeting I'm not giving you my notes

This is why I'm really not on board with all this complaining that we shouldn't make Americans who've "changed their mind" about Chump feel shame. Ultimately it's just giving them a free pass to not think about how they got there, and they'll just go back down that path again.

important to note that, while Benedict was the one who un-excommunicated them (because he sucked), the much-more-liberal Francis ALSO made concessions with SSPX. he tried to give them a few things they wanted in the hopes that they would then offer compromises from their end, but these guys never do

Hey thanks I really appreciate that! Mark would absolutely refer to himself as queer, because that's who he is, and yeah, that NYT column is not great!

"There's nothing wrong with America that can't be fixed by what's right with America," you might say

i also think posters on bluesky are not a good proxy for how the rest of the world sees it

again, I understand why that rankles and there are futures where trying to fight xenophobic American nationalism with inclusive American nationalism will look like a huge mistake in the rearview. but I do quite honestly believe it’s our best shot at winning from within

"you should keep in mind that your government is bad and harmful when cheering for your country's team" is something that more than 98% of global soccer fans would jam you in a locker for saying

I get why it rankles and we do own it on some level but the most straightforward path to defeat Nightmare America from within is a vision of America the Beautiful

Everyone’s enjoying the excommunication drama but there are also lessons for pro-democracy political actors. Decades of accommodating and appeasing this sect did not work and only emboldened them. You have to go whole hog. When you have power, break the back of the reactionaries. Shut them out

i'm seriously considering trying to find the cheapest hotel i can get near the end of a metro line to stay at through saturday because these fucking flyovers are already getting to me

idk, man, i think when you dismiss mamdani and the dsa folks as "team gentrification" and puff your chest out to politico they have a right to tell you to eat shit also someone should tell the poor kids running schumer's account they've got it easy

And this kind of makes sense: a weekend/intermittent war is preferable to or at least more hopeful than constant strikes & escalation. But some of the "extraordinary state interventions" e.g. removing sanctions on Iranian oil, drawing the strategic petroleum reserve way down can only be done once

That terrible feeling of finding a book that is a wealth of information for your chapter but also inscrutably written

Honestly surprised at how little I feel about the country’s 250th birthday right now. No sudden outburst of patriotism, but no real sorrow or anger either. Only sort of a tired, resigned acceptance that a drunk giving Kid Rock joyrides in an Apache gunship is just our lives now, you know?

I actually spent some time this June thinking about why I prefer the term "queer" for myself. And I understand why some (often) older gay and lesbian folks don't like the term and don't want to use it for themselves. But these guys need to get over themselves. 1/2

Excluding people who have more complex relationships with gender and sexuality than these two guys want to deal with is simply exclusionary and frankly snobbish. Let's support each other, not tear each other down, and let's recognize who the real adversaries are. 2/2

So basically he demanded an airplane parade. I will bet that's literally the language used.

People are like "get a load of this guy, he thinks the war ended" but he's right: the war ends every monday in time for the markets to open, and resumes every friday after markets close

Mamdani: "As we mark 250 years ... we see the wealthiest country -- one where children go to sleep hungry while the world's first trillionaire hungers for more ... we see masked agents terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by undocumented neighbors before spiriting them away in unmarked vans"

excuse me the what tent

Leaving aside all the other problems with this, while I can respect viewing your sexuality as just a part of you with other parts you value or consider more, by the same token your problem here is with the straight people, not the queer people, and I say this as a straight person!

New York City is basically its own state, and Jeffries has the unfortunate problem of being a pretty good national politicianand a genuinely lousy state politician.

This is an amazing open letter by Brad Lander. This puts him in the circle of my absolute favorite electeds. forward.com/opinion/8355...

thomas jefferson's home alienated conservatives with progressive issue positions on gender and race, such as "acknowledging the historical fact that jefferson was a slaveowner" and "acknowledging the historical fact that he raped his slaves"

‘Along with codefendant Savanna Batten, the trio ran the Emma Goldman Book Club, where members shared anarchist and socialist literature in the form of zines or homemade booklets. The Sotos were also accused of operating an account on X for “DFW Antifa.”’ A book club.

This is where the Jeffersonian rhyme 'hold the wolf by its whiskers' comes from, Jefferson was literally talking about the violence necessary to maintain the institution. He was perfectly aware it was evil, what he was doing. He said as much.

The deep historical irony being that Jefferson, unique among the slaveholding Founders, had enough self-awareness to know it was bad and write about it, compared to say, Washington's conduct with Oney Judge

Look at a certain point you just have to say "Joe Rogan is a dolt and I am not going to pay attention to or take seriously the dolt things he says" and if you have a Joe Rogan fan in your life you need to tell them that repeatedly until the implications sink in.

I don't know if people are paying attention but Ukraine is defeating Russia in a conventional war right now, straight up, and its purely a good thing

Just related to this it's been incredible to hear the accounts of Muscovites who are melting down at Ukraine hitting military targets near Moscow while the Russians have been hurling incredibly expensive missiles at apartment blocks without ceasing for three years

“We shall begin from first principles! Our sole assumption is that we are inherently superior to those around us, and that there are special insights that only WE can glean.” “…Oh gee, look what surprising conclusions we have reached. Such crazy random happenstance!”

Good morning with good news: Renewables & nuclear generated 49.9% of US electricity in May 2026, up from 47.4% in May 2025! Solar and wind jumped to 24.3% in May 2026 from 21.5% in May 2025! They drive decarbonization. RE were 32.1%, up from 29.8%. Nuclear was 17.8%, up from 17.6%.

49.9% means your solar panels are assembled with 50% emission free electricity and your EVs are charged the same.

best part of any book about american naval warfare 1941-1943 is when ship captains tell their commanders all their torpedoes either miss, bounce right off enemy targets, or go in a circle right back at them and the navy's engineering board just responds with

P clear that Vermont Humanities wanted to avoid this exact situation

I guess that's part of the point right, this is what makes conspiracy shit so exhausting- "[something totally false] is true, could it be because of [insane reason]" like they just pump this stuff out effortlessly and it's so far removed from the truth you have to like rebuild reality to debunk it

Everything else aside it's extremely easy to pull up the charts and see that there is rap on them

Ok I’ve solved the Bluesky US flag argument this is what we’re gonna fly from now on so you know We Don’t Mean It That Way

usaid guy at a finance committee meeting asking for an increase to get "hey ya" on the hot 100

“What to the Slave Is the 4th of July?”: James Earl Jones Reads Frederick Douglass’s Historic Speech