Does anybody know what I’m looking at here? My guess would be some sort of military equipment under tarps?

Fryeth of July Festival

Fyrework Festival

Happy Canada Day to the best upstairs neighbor a country could ever hope to have! (And I’m sorry we have the world’s most obnoxious tenants disturbing your peace lately)

IMF portwatch update on traffic through the straight This is only up to date through Sunday with Friday being the peak. As far as I know, the straight has remained closed since then. Even so oil prices continue to drop on the expectation of a re-opening.

The President of the United States grifted $1.2 billion from crypto his first year in the office. RIP America. (For the record holders of Trumpcoin and WLFI coin are down 98% and 88% respectively from day one highs. I hate it here.

The ceasing of the ceasefire continues.

This feels like the type of plot arc the writers go to long after the series should have been cancelled.

Hadn’t checked in on the Reflecting Pool in a few days. From this video, it appears the water is actually somehow greener and browner than the surrounding grass…they should just call it the Reflecting Swamp now.

Sharing some peaceful vibes on the Sunday skyline here, hope you all managed to find a few minutes of R&R amidst the constant chaos.

I can’t even look at that ridiculous photo without thinking of The Emperor’s New Clothes. Definitely glad I won’t need another passport during this humiliating term.

Due to Philz closing at 4:30 and caffeine-based lifestyle, I regret to announce that I have officially ended my lifetime streak of not patronizing Erewhon. 🫠 For those who have never been, everything they told you was true.

You know, the murky green algae water is growing on me. Really a perfect metaphor for Trump’s unprecedented corruption and how he’s made the White House into a disgusting swamp.

Graph of Strait of Hormuz crossings since June 2025. See that little spike all the way on the right? The one that's much lower than the leftward 2/3 of the graph, and immediately crashes back down? That's what the US government and quite a bit of US media tell us is fully open, with normal traffic.

SpaceX's business model is currently less "data centers in space" and more "space in data centers" www.cnbc.com/2026/06/22/s....

CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @andertoon.bsky.social)

Example 97,492 in “Trump only hires the worst and most unqualified people.”

Trump can’t keep either the Strait of Hormuz or the Reflecting Pool open.

Sounds about right.

Just in case any of you thought Bessent was less evil, less foolish, or less in Putin’s pocket than the rest of the clown car administration:

Advertise your Bluesky account with a Simpsons GIF

“Let them eat [my new private jet]!” -Marie Goldtoilette

i think more than the fact of having bad opinions about gaza itself, looking at everything happening in the world right now and choosing "im gonna write an op-ed praising trump on gaza" as the thing you want to speak up about is insane.

If this news doesn’t make you want to dump your corporate bond funds, I don’t know what will.

Just a friendly reminder. If the US had taken only a small fraction of the money and military equipment it has squandered fighting and losing to Iran, and instead helped Ukraine, the Middle East would be more stable and Russia would be facing defeat.

This is how you know it’s a humiliating deal for America—so bad Trump doesn’t even want to have a ceremonial signing photo shoot. Remember this is the guy who flew to Korea for a photo op with Kim Jong Un!

Love Trump’s new campaign messaging for the GOP (“the word affordability is a fake word made up by the Democrats!”) going into the midterms.

What’s in the Iran MOU?

This is the same text that was reported earlier. It's baaaad.

Just in case there was any doubt that Trump has surrendered to Iran (and left both America and its allies worse off than we started):

The Knicks won every Finals game that Donald Trump didn’t attend.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me 38 times, …?

If you’ve been following the “rigged election” rumors from the CA primary and thinking, gosh, haven’t we seen this all before? Well, you’re right! Sounds like you’d be competitive in a friendly and frenetic game of “Rigged Election” Bingo! uwcip.substack.com/p/rigged-ele...

Perfect metaphor, if you ask me.

🌕🔫 www.ft.com/content/57ff...

The boy who cried TACO.

“Thunderous boos.”

When you get your health advice from RFK

"Ranked: The Prices Surging Fastest in 2026" www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-price...

The entire story of the US markets, the K-shaped economy, normalization of grift and YOLO culture is right here in this screenshot of tickets for the Knicks game.

Is it possible that today’s market selloff was driven by White House insiders (and their cronies) front running a planned after-market escalation? Trump did blurt out that he had “a war to get back to fighting” towards the end of his event this afternoon.

I rarely recommend articles here but this one is fun to read and absolutely worth 5 minutes of your time. Especially if you aren’t familiar with the (other) space bubble of the 1960s.

ok the kids are right, this man has got the juice, please don’t break my heart Texas

Um, there’s a lot to be concerned about but this part of the oppo drop is most concerning for me personally:

Henry Blodget was thrown in prison for far less than this.

RBADVISERS: “.. Extreme IPO Issuance is one of the classic signs of a bubble. The fact that today it’s BIG IPOs instead of lots of little ones really makes no difference.”

Yesterday, USDA Chief Brooke Rollins categorically denied that screwworm was close to the border. She should resign tomorrow.

Ken Paxton was indicted for scamming his own friends. He convinced them to invest hundreds of thousands in a company while secretly pocketing a commission. Paxton sold out his own friends for a quick buck. What makes you think he won't sell you out in the Senate?

Freedom 250 sounds fun www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

So in addition to all the other ways she is incompetent, Weiss evidently hasn’t been able to find a decent lawyer based on her use of “hostile work environment.” Quite amusing to hear a CBS manager accuse an employee of creating a hostile work environment by speaking up for journalistic principles.