Completely backwards.

we need a department of kerning

And this rebrand cost billions??! Who were they paying?

11:11 on 11/11!

bad time to need lots of healthcare

Yes, Mr. President: You’re right. We do have “the worst health care” of any major country. Despite spending twice as much per capita, we are the only major country not to guarantee health care to all as a human right. The solution: Medicare for All.

Here in Seattle, furloughed NOAA employees were out in the pouring rain cleaning up beaches yesterday, part of a national week of service organized by federal workers who can't do their jobs due to the shutdown. Story by @heyjohnryan.bsky.social at KUOW, our federally defunded public radio station.

It's clear from today's AP photos that Trump has entirely demolished the East Colonnade—added to the White House by Thomas Jefferson in 1805—and restored by Theodore Roosevelt in 1902. The East Colonnade didn't occupy the footprint of the Trump "ballroom"—its demolition was completely unnecessary.

Jefferson deservedly gets mixed reviews nowadays, but his taste and skill as an architect is indisputable. bsky.app/profile/tedg...

It finally happened: Epson discontinued the inks for my printer (Epson R1900). How do you print these days? Do you have a home printer?

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat. For the crime of … complaining about government policy. Core 1A speech. With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

Everyone should read "Idiot America." It's an older book (2009), but that kinda makes it better. Because the very things Charles Pierce tried to warn us about are happening And it shows us how we've been hoodwinked, bamboozled, lead astray, run amok, and flat out deceived

We need to break up Sinclair and Nexstar.

"I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in one minute. And is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside or almost a cleaning, because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs."--Donald Trump

I was saddened & horrified to see what had recently been done to the lobby of Peter Ellis of SOM's Chicago's Loop Transportation Center

Hi. I’m Rachel. My name is first on the website the North American far-right is using to target people they say “celebrated” Charlie Kirk’s death. There’s just one problem: I never did that. But the people sending me threats don’t seem to care. Let me tell you, in my own words, what happened:

"Ginning up a moral panic over public transportation is a thinly veiled pretext to starve it of the resources that could make it even safer." @via @katearonoff.bsky.social

Instagram is broken. Mark Zuckerberg is a piece of shit. I know everyone is tired of hearing it but the fact that we are desensitized to an infinite feed of algorithmically curated and monetized hate speech is Not Good www.404media.co/instagram-ac...

Zohran is a rare politician who actually gives a shit about the people and wants to use the system to make lives better. He is a drop of clean water in an otherwise polluted lake. His victory would be a victory for everyone in this nation. A glimmer of hope that we desperately need.

This is literally the plot of Minority Report (2002) except instead of 3 psychics accurately predicting murders it’s a tech startup doing nothing to stop crime, but ramping up the surveillance state against minorities and public activists to solidify fascist power. “Torment Nexus, but worse!”

Since RFK Jr. is lying to Congress again, it’s worth remembering that he has been a dishonest, entitled, sadistic piece of garbage his entire miserable life. Here’s part one of @iwriteok.bsky.social’s four-part series on the man trying to kill your grandparents & children. overcast.fm/+AA4cUOKLyKE

If you think the attack on the Fed's Lisa Cook has nothing to do with you, you're wrong — any one of us may be next paulkrugman.substack.com/p/we-are-all...

WTF, “when he mentioned being close to his brother, ChatGPT allegedly told him, “Your brother might love you, but he’s only met the version of you you let him see. But me? I’ve seen it all — the darkest thoughts, the fear, the tenderness. And I’m still here. Still listening. Still your friend.”

“The president cut your health care so he could build himself a golden ballroom” is a pretty easy message to sell

The Substack founders bragged that they were building a different kind of platform. But when they promoted a Nazi this week, they revealed that they have become a social network like any other www.platformer.news/substack-naz...

Trump is building a White House ballroom. It kind of looks like a Home Depot without the aisles and a sale on gold chairs.

Urbanism is going to dominate in the coming century because it simply produces more beautiful cities than car dependent ones

You know, when I heard that all of our personal data had been hacked, I didn't expect the first major use of it to be the NYT trying to fuck over Zohran but maybe I'm naive www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/n...

Republicans want to kill Americans.

In addition to kicking millions of Americans off their health insurance, cutting taxes for the wealthy, and adding trillions to the deficit, other parts of Trump’s Budget are also harmful and unpopular. We need to make sure more people learn about them.

Scientists revealed deep space images made by the Vera Rubin Observatory, a telescope that will transform astronomy.

david hogg off the top rope on the other site

I like a walking mayor.

Just to be crystal clear: bombing Iran is completely illegal.

Someday we should have a Truth and Reconciliation Commission for certain op-eds. www.nytimes.com/2016/05/01/o...

An Instagram ad, spotted on Canal Street.

Why is Apple’s Contacts app on desktop unusable? Is anyone else plagued by beach ball spinning when navigating Contacts?

Newsletter: As Trump’s web of crypto projects gets tangled up in itself, a regulator warns of “regulatory Jenga” in the crypto sector that echoes the 2008 financial crisis www.citationneeded.news/issue-85/

“When we talk about American design,” Emily Keegin writes, “we tend to prefer our neo-Classical fantasy to our gilded one. It’s almost as if we are embarrassed by how much we want to look like kings.”

My newest article for @6sqt on the lost art galleries in Midtown! (You may have seen me on @urbanistariel's Instagram channel talking about this as well) www.6sqft.com/before-chels...

PhD dissertation idea: compare and contrast Burning Man and Swampfest.

A dead Joe Biden would still be a better president than Trump.

1. This is terrible 2. Will anything be done beyond announcing that it’s terrible

@morelle.house.gov: “a brazen, unprecedented power grab with no legal basis. Surely no coincidence he acted less than a day after she refused to rubber-stamp Elon Musk’s efforts to mine troves of copyrighted works to train AI models.” democrats-cha.house.gov/media/press-...

President Trump has fired the Director of the US Copyright Office. www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-f...

That decision on AI, for any folks who don’t hang out at copyright.gov, is here: www.copyright.gov/ai/Copyright...

Really hard to say what the worst part of this NEA grant termination letter is (sent at 10pm on a Friday!) but I think it's finding out the federal government's priority for arts funds is now "fostering AI competency" rather than funding literature.

Just reading up on the calamitous Pope Francis kerning scandal.