My colleagues & I have taken a huge gamble to set up @thenerve.news We’re trying to build a new independent publication from the ground up. Social media is our only distribution for now. Sharing this article in your networks would make a huge difference. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏

The idea that someone can become British but never English is so agonisingly stupid that it makes me fear for the future of the species.

If People Magazine wants to restore their credibility, they'll recognize me as Sexiest Man Alive. I've earned it.

Our authoritarianism is run on clichés borrowed from the Eastern Europe of twenty years ago. Paid protestors, disloyal cities, evil Soros, vast conspiracies — it was all tiresome then and there, and now it’s pathetic.

Reminds me of this excellent sign that I saw at the Tubman African American Museum in Macon, Georgia.

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE Truth: No cars rammed ICE Claim: She boxed ICE in Truth: ICE boxed her in Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE Truth: She did not have a rifle Claim: ICE returned fire Truth: Only ICE fired Claim: She drove herself to the hospital Truth: Paramedics found her

This is what the Stasi did in East Germany - it's crazy how fast and how unopposed the US is falling into this

A blackout at Chornobyl, while serious, is not of immediate concern as it's not an operating plant, and power is only needed to operate the cooling-pond pumps where its spent nuclear fuel is stored. It would take weeks for the water there to boil off. Worry about Zaporizhzhya.

Sadiq Khan bringing Sharia Law to London like

This is not a thing — there is no “domestic terror organization” designation — and the president doesn’t have this power. (State does terror designations!) So media: Please make all that clear in any coverage. This is a random tweet on White House letterhead. That’s all.

46 years ago today Pennie Smith photographed Paul Simonon of The Clash at the New York Palladium, September 20, 1979. She made one of the most famous images in (punk) rock history. #punk #punks #punkrock #theclash #PaulSimonon #penniesmith #history #punkrockhistory #otd

I’ve never felt so disheartened. My small business means everything to me and I want to keep going. Please have a look at my website. Buy things, commission me or repost. www.gailmyerscough.co.uk Thank you.

It's full steam ahead for NASA, according to Sean Duffy, the agency's acting administrator. During an internal employee town hall, Duffy warned of "letting safety be the enemy of progress" when it comes to winning the space race, according to a recording obtained by NBC News.

There's so much bad news in the world. So, here's some wrapping paper designed by Japanese artist Ippei Tsujio that turns everything into bread. A delightful (delicious?) distraction. More info: spoon-tamago.com/bread-wrappi...

We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.

The gun that was used to kill Emmett Till goes on display today in Mississippi. Wright Thompson on how it got there—and why it’s a rebuke of attempts to erase history:

Tonight one of the CDC’s top public health leaders, Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, has resigned from his post. Below is his full resignation letter. You should read every word. This is a truly scary moment for public health in America. 1/2

Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!

Imagine doing a deal with a bunch of fundamentalist crazies with no interest in the rule of law. Don't know what the Taliban are thinking.

I loved the movie OPPENHEIMER about the race to build that world-changing negotiation.

Homeland Security guys and Treasury agents...going after fare evasion. The nominal excuses to flood the city with cops and feds are absurd.

“He’s soft spoken in a certain way” 🤔🧐🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

Thing that was never going to happen now officially never going to happen

Important #AI info for #authors #publishers re: Anthropic from @authorsguild.org

Pour one out

In case you wondered whether ICE has fully transitioned to a tool of a fascist regime: This is not something any federal agent should shout at a member of the public.

i hope you find something you love in life as much as Trump loves Putin (Getty)

“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.” Arendt open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

Sean Duffy warned us about Subway assaults and in our ignorance we misunderstood him.

Oh no. Tom Lehrer gone. At his great age, it’s not a tragedy, I know, but it just does feel bad not having his genius in the world.

The jump scare when you realize Buzz Aldrin is not looking at the flag, he's looking at you

My pal Gavin Edwards wrote Ozzy's obituary for The New York Times.

The joke at the bottom is the one that got me.

My oral history of the first atomic explosion, 80 years ago this week: “For a fleeting instant the color was unearthly green, such as one sees only in the corona of the sun during a total eclipse. It was as though the earth had opened and the skies had split.”

Winning the Cold War With le Carré and Cosmopolitan Magazine www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/b... @nytimes.com

'Over London - By Rail' (from 'London: A Pilgrimage', 1872) by Gustav Doré

I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better

If you don’t live in California, you might be unaware of all the ICE mayhem. Here’s just part of the @latimes.com front page right now

My new book — an oral history of the Manhattan Project and the atomic bombings — comes out one month from today. More info (and information on preordering!) here: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/coming-in-...

This is what a city with over a thousand years of history, the capital of the largest European country, looks like when your neighbor is the terrorist state russia. #UkrainianView

You know things are going great when you find yourself saying, "You know, as a historian, technically I can confirm humans *have* lived through worse historical moments..."

Worth putting it on the record here, though you probably already know it: “Alligator Alcatraz” is a concentration camp.

I have thought about deleting this, but on the whole it seems better to leave it up with updates/corrections both in-thread and as QTs, so people looking at the original see the updates in context — and so they can see *why* researchers had the reaction they did to the archive’s bizarre announcement

Natasha Bertrand, whom Trump is seeking to get sacked for exposing the limits of the Iran bombing, is an outstanding journalist. Follow her at @natashabertrand.bsky.social

If New York turns into London, do we get an efficient underground train system, the National Health Service, Borough Market, the Soane Museum & Bukayo Saka?

The perfect @amiberger.bsky.social content does not exi-