Roost is an app that combines birds, mini-games, messaging, etc. Join the flock on Roost! Get a free bird when you sign up with my code DQRRSN. roostsocial.app/invite/DQRRSN

Decided to have an edible to get through this stormy day.

Today I learned that Riley Gaines prefers slathering her face with beef fat to showering. Unclear if this is true, or if she's just auditioning for a job in RFK's HHS.

"President Donald Trump is planning another significant change to the White House grounds: a new permanent fence that would allow officials to close the public park across the street from the executive mansion..."

Seventy five years ago today, my parents were married. My mom made their silver wedding bands and they had to borrow a car for their honeymoon. I still have their rings and the cake topper. I miss them both so very much.

Trump on Egyptian President el-Sisi: "He was in a hotel and I met him. We fell in love, deeply in love ... we didn't know each other before that. We had great chemistry, and I stayed twice as long as I was supposed to."

Our present situation makes much more sense when we recall what proudly bigoted trolls many College Republicans were in the 1980s.

We're about an hour away from Round #1. Round #2 will hit this eve. My beloved and I have taken down our screened tent, sheltered some outdoor things that might blow around, and have prepped our storm shelters (she gets a bathroom, I get a closet). Good wishes to everyone riding out today's storms.

Seventy five years ago today, my parents were married. My mom made their silver wedding bands and they had to borrow a car for their honeymoon. I still have their rings and the cake topper. I miss them both so very much.

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Highest-probability outcome remains either a) Netanyahu attacks again, & Trump joins in; or b) Trump gets embarrassed by Fox News headlining what he's giving away, and starts bombing again.

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I just learned that the term "carbon footprint" was developed by BP to offload responsibility for climate change onto individuals. Something like that's happening in higher ed with AI. Institutions capitulate or dodge; students are submitting; & they believe it's their individual failing. 7/

Wally Wood 17 Jun 1927🎂 #ArtSky🎨 @anuncivilphd.bsky.social

Voters on Tuesday defeated State Question 832 which would have gradually increased the minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2029 with additional increases based on the cost of living. buff.ly/xl7myY9

Goodnight, friends. Wishing you all a peaceful night and hopeful tomorrow. I love you.

Goodnight, friends. Wishing you all a peaceful night and hopeful tomorrow. I love you.

Baby sandhill cranes called colts take approximately 65 to 75 days from hatching to grow their feathers and make their first flight in their awkward stage they practice preflight training by energetically flapping their wee wings, and doing practice hops.

none of this is true and the place where this is going is potentially very awful

In bad news, with disability education oversight being moved to the Department of Health and Human Services from the Department of Education, that means Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will have power over disability policy positions. New from me at @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Friends in the weather danger zone tomorrow, please prepare tonight or tomorrow morning for what is coming tomorrow. Remember, you will need soled shoes/slippers as the number 1 injury in tornadoes is to the feet! I recommend charged devices, flaslight, water, ID, med lists & a few days of meds.

RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter

Not inspiring when the local weather forecaster says about tomorrow, "Between 5-10p, if you don't have a designated safe place to go, you'll want to be a few minutes at the most away from it" and the NWS says, tomorrow is "the classic type of set-up (for) long tracked strong-violent tornadoes"

ICYMI: Flock, the surveillance company that says protecting customer data is their 'top priority' (that also shares your vehicle data with ICE & police) has had another data leak! www.404media.co/flock-leaked...

The performers for the Obama Presidential Library opening on June 18 have been announced: Stevie Wonder John Legend Jennifer Hudson The Roots Bruce Springsteen Christina Aguilera Marsai Martin Common U2’s Bono and The Edge Eddie Vedder Marc Anthony Tems

Here is a public service announcement filmed by the Dallas Cowboys in the 1980s, and I promise that you would not correctly guess who pops up at the end if I gave you 10,000 tries

More than 200 of the world's elites registered for a retreat whose agenda runs from panels on cult-building and sex to prepping for World War III. An associated app offers matchmaking. www.wired.com/story/leak-e...

Just wrapped up a guest talk w/ an art history class about mid-century comics and censorship. Students had great questions and I got to toss in some bonus knowledge about Wertham's love for Suprematist art and the Arbeitsrat für Kunst movement.

Some of you are shouting ‘go France!’ Or ‘go Senegal’ while I’m shouting ‘go reflecting pool algae & the relentless tide of entropy frustrating a corrupt tyrant’

BREAKING: the algae have left the reflecting pool and are marching on Congress

Just wrapped up a guest talk w/ an art history class about mid-century comics and censorship. Students had great questions and I got to toss in some bonus knowledge about Wertham's love for Suprematist art and the Arbeitsrat für Kunst movement.

"Woke capital" was always performative, but the thing is: performative virtue was still better than the current vice. www.huffpost.com/entry/bud-li...

Goodnight, friends. A reminder both for #Pride and for living under fascism - "There is no such thing as the State And no one exists alone; Hunger allows no choice To the citizen or the police; We must love one another or die." (from W.H. Auden's poem, "September 1, 1939") I love you.

Goodnight, friends. A reminder both for #Pride and for living under fascism - "There is no such thing as the State And no one exists alone; Hunger allows no choice To the citizen or the police; We must love one another or die." (from W.H. Auden's poem, "September 1, 1939") I love you.

Obsessed with this 1735 illustration of hammerhead sharks from Japan

Tremendously disappointed that this wasn't the fight card

"DOJ lawyers scrutinizing the merger were leaning toward recommending a lawsuit to block the deal, but had not made their final recommendation, were told that it had been approved on Friday."

“Don’t worry, the Trump DoJ drafted the legal parts.”

I was particularly struck by Henry VIII's careful drawings of birds and manicules in this book. he was clearly a prince with time on his hands... 🗃️ #BookHistory

Just to be clear, this affects all LGBTQ+ veterans. www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

Bigoted school boards are citing HR 2616 as the reason they're taking anti-trans policy actions now. This is from Colorado, which you may recall has an anti-book ban bill. They've banned a book because it centered a trans narrative: gazette.com/2026/06/12/d...

A reminder to please share your US-based Pride attack stories–whether covered in the news or not–in this form. Submissions are anonymous, and it's used for an annual wrap-up on what is and is not happening across the country.

"We don't want to be known, but we spend our days feeding ourselves into a great engine of knowing every single thing about us: our tastes our opinions our beliefs, what we’ll buy who we’ll love where we’ll go. The unseen actors who harvest this knowledge modify us to their own ends." Zadie Smith

Heads up: The U.S. Postal Service has proposed a new rule that would allow it to refuse to deliver mail ballots in states that don't turn over voter rolls to the federal government. Dems say it's clear evidence the Trump admin is trying to unconstitutionally intrude on state-run elections.

Importantly: this comes with all the user watch data because Roku tracks everything you watch

I learned everything I know about government from Jay Ward cartoons—and our gov't. It's still all true, only worse.

"And lastly, Michelle Obama is a man, am I right America?" Said on a UFC ring on the White House lawn while Joe Rogan holds the mic as it's broadcast on the Ellison controlled Paramount+.

Goodnight, friends. Watching the #RiseUpSingOut program this evening has amplified both the hope I hold in my body. In the words of LaTosha Brown, "If you aren't raising your voice, you have already chosen a side...Our politics won't save us. Our humanity will." I love you.