7-Eleven’s beloved drink is turning 60 Saturday and free Slurpees for everyone is how they’re celebrating.

Kids today have lost the fine art of bullshitting a 10 page paper from a single Funk & Wagnalls entry or from reading only the CliffsNotes. 🤣

Extremely Large Red Thing (Hibiscus coccineus), an absolute stunner which ranges into Florida. The more mature plants and giant flowers were towering over me, in a secluded spot along the St John's. ❤️ #Bloomscrolling

The great thing about a new season of X-Men ‘97 is that it’s more people get to realize that the opening theme is just “I’m Your Baby Tonight”…

the embargo is now up so i can tell you that the little house on the prairie essay i wrote for nymag will go up probably next week, and in the mean time i look forward to watching the right-wing media lose its shit over Woke Little House

NO WALL, Y’ALL

Man, nobody could build a shithouse like the WPA.

Soft girl summer - beach body ready and primed for coastal deployment 🏖️ Prints: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...

ICE claims that Araujo drove into one of their SUVs with his van and then tried to run over an agent. There were no marks on the van and KHOU11's Jeremy Rogalski found surveillance footage showing ICE chasing Araujo and cutting him off. Renee Good all over again.

Though I will allow that Danny Kaye could get it.

My beautiful pair of ravens 🐦‍⬛ 🐦‍⬛

In my experience, scholars of a particular historical period are the LEAST uptight about "accuracy" in fictional representations of their period, which is why, as a medievalist, I can assure you that A Knight's Tale is the greatest movie set in medieval England that has ever been made.

Huge turnout tonight for a protest over ICE killing Lorenzo Salgado Araujo on Tuesday Magnolia Park, Houston. Video is from my colleague Macy Meinhardt, who is not on Bluesky but is on the scene.

Half Price Books is kind of a fascinating company. I spoke to their president about the new Houston store and how the approach expansion: "Our sales are up across the chain. We are very, very healthy. We're doing great. People are coming back to reading." www.chron.com/culture/arti...

Judy Collins everyone!

The son of the man shot and killed by ICE: I am Ronaldo Salgado, the oldest son of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. He should've been picking up the last of his guys before heading to finish up construction. Unbeknownst to all of us, my dad had been shot inside his van by ICE agents in unmarked cars.

Trouble with the AV system. Speaker says at least he has Judy Collins here (in blue, looking fab) to give him vocal couching.

RIP Bonnie Tyler. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c9...

"why didn't they come forward sooner" every single time a woman comes forward men become the douchiest fucks imaginable about them and their lives and chocies and try to justify why bad things happened to them and that's before we look at the failures of police and the justice system God damn it.

Meanwhile, in Texas, James Talarico announced he raised $30 million in the second quarter of 2026. Curious how much that came after Cornyn lost to Paxton

It has been criminally underreported but Kelsey Pfendler has just rowed solo across the Pacific Ocean from the US coast to Hawaii in record time. A 2,400-mile unsupported journey in 43 days, 17 hours, and 55 minutes. Notably beating the Men’s record by 9 whole days.

Go-Go’s release their debut LP “Beauty and the Beat” 45 yrs ago today. “It all happened so quickly,” said Jane Wiedlin. “One minute we were playing clubs and sleeping on people’s floors, and the next minute we were the No. 1 album in America. We didn’t really have time to stop and think about it.”

Wednesday backyard #2

Quite a number of Ladybird artists also illustrated railway posters in the mid-20th century. This lovely is by Septimus Scott

FWIW: Edgar Sandoval is a fantastic reporter and he's doing good work on this story - www.nytimes.com/2026/07/08/u...

My God that article is pathetic. Who owns the gas stations? Who's paying for the subsidy? Has Trump - recently heard screeching about incipient communism - really started a government takeover of retail gas sales without congressional approval? None of this crossed the dolt reporter's mind.

Houston is the 4th largest city in the nation. ICE is here, has been here, and killed a man here. His name was Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. Don't let that pass you by because it's not on your feed as much as Chicago or Minnesota or LA.

feels like this whole story should be a bigger national story.

If it had been Talarico caught voting illegally, the prevailing narrative would have been that the election is over for him The reverse should also be true for Paxton, but it's not The double standard in Texas politics is wild

And now we wait to see how many of these organizations devote headlines to Trump making the exact same mistake.

The Villa of the Papyri, buried by Vesuvius in 79 CE, has a library that is almost entirely made of SCROLLS. The Nag Hammadi library, 390 CE, is entirely CODICES (bifold books). SOMETHING happened between these two events that changed reading forever (& it might have been Julius Caesar).

Uptown.

Dammit. Now where the hell did I park my. . . Ah. Found it.

"Dem HR ladies" is such a misogynist turn of phrase, I'm still kind of speechless about it.

“One of his sons witnessed his death” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

NEW: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections in the past two years — despite warning voters that “it is illegal to misrepresent your residence on election records.” with @texastribune.org

when i was young they had these people called “investigative journalists” who could find out stuff like if a senator was dead or not

Ancient Egyptian hedgehog shaped pottery vessel 🦔❤️ Dated c. 1539-1292 BC. Ashmolean Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology

speaking of candidate vetting, trump picked a doozy in texas

That time WIllie and Asleep at the Wheel played Pancho and Lefty .. youtu.be/TQt3d9fQu64?...

this isn't exactly directly applicable but it's also not not applicable and i think you could stand to hear it

Don’t send a man to do a woman’s job

Before the whitewash comes in, a reminder that because of Mitch Mconnell American women are dying and bleeding out because they were denied abortion care. Because of McConnell the Russians were free to interfere in our elections. Because of Mitch billionaires are coddled while kids get screwed over.

Live your life so that your Nazi tattoo is not the least problematic thing about you Also don't get a fucking Nazi tattoo

In honor of Hanna-Barbera’s 69th anniversary, what’s your favorite show from the legendary animation studio?

lupita nyong’o looking like a goddess in christian cowan fw26 at the world premiere of "the odyssey" in london

I hope that the survivor has a soft place to land with lots of support.

something i don't fucking understand is we are at tank bottoms - and have been for >two weeks!! - in crude, we're well below '22 lows in distillates, and.... nothing has fucking happened? there's basically no signs of operational stress in the system?

we, the american people, are being robbed of our right to celebrate the death of mitch mcconnell, one of the four horsemen of the death of our republic

personally I don't think "corruption is cool when it helps me" is very progressive