The air conditioning at the Delaney Hall concentration camp failed today, so now people are roasting inside as temperatures rise above 100 degrees. It's so hot they can't breathe.

I keep forgetting people think there’s a “safe” way to give AIs dangerous access to things. Like, no, it is never safe. Embrace it. Put it in situatons where screwing up can’t matter. If you get into a situation where your answer to a voluntary LLM inquiry could be life or death, uh, don’t do that

The pipeline announcement begins with Carney acknowledging, without a hint of irony, the “biblical weather” in Ottawa yesterday. Extreme weather huh? Like the kind exacerbated by climate change? You don’t say! Hm!!!!

I emailed The Onion bc after two months I hadn't received my Infowars rainbow onion tote and within like 48 hours they sent me TWO OF THEM. I'm still recovering from this level of customer service, which I never got from Alex Jones. Alex Jones never sent my anti-gay-frog pills

Do white USians wonder how it feels like for non-white people to live in a country where the President is a full on racist white supremacist? Like where he announces every single day that you are inferior, unintelligent, and need to be eliminated from the country?

*I do not endorse any pope, I just endorse consequences and would like the democrats to be to the left of the fuckin pope

We're so starving for consequences we're reading Vatican press releases

And expanding solar. Even at this heat I’m sending excess energy INTO the grid, dammit! I’m doing my part!

oh shit chicago pope off the top rope?????

every job i see these days is like: LEAD CONTENT ANALYST, Puppy Killing Factory (remote). $350,000 - $500,000. You will edit our internal newsletter (circulation 500). Associate Editor, Nonprofits, Global Good Magazine (in office, NYC). $27,000 - $28,000. Lead ALL of our fundraising efforts!

Two years ago, my colleagues and I were sued by Stephen Miller's America First Legal. The Hines v Stamos case — built atop a number of false allegations — was a central element of the "censorship industrial complex" myth. Today, that case was dismissed (by a Trump judge in LA). We won.

The US tech sector continues bleeding jobs—American tech sector employment is down 49k over the last year in data released this morning. That's nearly as bad as the worst of the 2024 tech-cession, and significantly worse than either the 2008 or 2020 recessions

So it's not fair that trans women play sports. Because they have an unfair advantage, you see. That's not okay. Fairness is most important, even in something as basic as sports. Also, say THE SAME FUCKING PEOPLE, it's completely fine that billionaires and even trillionaires exist.

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The other day I noted the only way Trump would keep paying Event Strategies to put together humiliating public events is if it were a vehicle for corruption. Today, Natural Resource Dems released a report substantiating that corruption. emptywheel.net/2026/06/29/t...

Slavery Classic! Slavery Throwback! Slavery: The Next Generation! Slavery: The New Batch! Slavery: Rebranded! Slavery: Let’s just call it what it is!

In today's Morning File, I interviewed some of the artists whose work will be featured as part of InterCHANGE, a temporary art project in the new Cogswell District. www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file...

This. If a sex phrenologist were 96% accurate, it would, at optimal functioning, identify 96% of trans people and 4% of cis people as trans. But trans people are only ~1% of the population, so that would work out to the following:

this is for everybody but in particular for @clairewillett.bsky.social

THE VATICAN IS CALLING IT A SCHISM I REPEAT HOUSTON, WE HAVE A SCHISM

As the United States gears up to celebrate 250 years of independence, a Haudenosaunee art exhibit in New York state shows a history less heroic than the version taught in schools. /1 thread www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...

to mark the 250th i wrote about the ways that black americans did vital work to invest the declaration of independence with the universalism and egalitarianism that we now see as its core promise. (gift link)

Literally the Supreme Court upheld sodomy bans in 1986 and said homosexuality was worse than rape and nobody even talks about it

🔥 The Los Angeles Dodgers ownership group has DIVESTED from GEO Group, the private prison company running ICE detention facilities. No one should be profiting from ICE detention camps. #DIVEST #$GEO www.latimes.com/sports/dodge...

The use of the word “eliminate” in this context should really freak out more than just those of us he’s seeking to remove, to be honest. This should be a red flag so big that it’s visible from space.

This interview in Vanity Fair came out in 2010, and this exchange from it has lived rent-free in my head ever since.

piracy is the only extant form of media preservation that exists in games right now, you might find it morally reprehensible but there is literally no other institution that will keep games alive in 25, 50 years' time

As the director of a historical video game preservation institution, and someone who has dedicated his entire adult life to this cause, this is accurate. We have attempted to work with the industry's trade organization to find a legal path forward, but they refuse to offer a meaningful alternative.

Parked but not idle: The buses “will charge up their nearly 200-kilowatt-hour batteries overnight, when the power supply is at its cleanest & cheapest, then send energy back to the grid from 4 pm to 7 pm on days when the grid is strained. The district will earn revenue for the power it shares…”

I'm suing Puppy Boutique in Brooklyn after they illegally sold puppies to New Yorkers, exposing them to exorbitant veterinary bills for animals raised in inhumane puppy mills.   I'll continue to ensure that animals are healthy and protected, and that abusive breeders are stopped.

the continual assault on the right of trans people to participate in sports, one of the oldest forms of social connection and engagement that entails athletic attunement with your body, only makes me want to do more. they don't want me to have ownership over myself? fuck 'em. sports are transgender.

Your kid isn't getting admitted on an athletic scholarship no matter how much you drive her to practice, but it always feels better to have an Other to blame, especially one that isn't real and can't be falsified.

The Ponca Nation just became the first Tribe in the U.S. to endorse the Fossil Fuel Treaty—a global agreement for an equitable phaseout of oil, gas & coal. 37 Indigenous nations & 18 countries have now joined.

You know what would help with this? Expanding the House by population density so that cities have not only more representation overall, but multimember districts that allow members to focus on more issues. That way, the chamber that controls spending allocates cash like cities matter.

Obviously this is a dipshit opinion. But since I sometimes see people on the left rolling their eyes about those signs, I just want you all to know that the other night some lost Black teens came to our house after taking the wrong bus and we were able to get them home. Why’d they pick us? Signs.

being in the punk/diy scene led to me becoming a bit of a factory romanticizer so it was very good that I briefly had a factory job and could viscerally experience "my feet and legs hurt so bad from standing at my station that i might need to go to the hospital" at age ~20

Every year, someone on social media calls me a hypocrite because I criticize Shark Week’s harmful nonsense while still taking Discovery’s money and appearing on Shark Week shows. Sick burn bro. Except I have never once appeared on a Shark Week show. Not once ever.

as always one must understand that when they say "women's safety" or "children's safety," they mean "protecting cis men's property from contamination or property damage." they mean "asset safety."

We have sold > 200 tickets for this fine absolutely not grudge-filled event in less than 3 hours AND that was before I sent out my newsletter.

the collapse of trans rights in the uk has been spearheaded by wes streeting, a gay man

As I was saying: anti-immigration politics is insatiable—literally cannot be satisfied—by any concrete menu of policy changes because it's not about policy! It's about ethnic purity, & purging the body politic of the enemy alien. Every 'reasonable grievance' is a stalking horse for ethnic cleansing

By "split" we mean more than 85% of the caucus voted for Tlaib's bill

When I say Happy Canada Day, what I actually mean is land back

Skoden motherfuckers!

Today, the US Supreme Court ruled against a sixteen-year-old girl named Becky Pepper-Jackson. She spent five years fighting for the right to compete on her school’s girls’ track team as a #transgender athlete.. I lost at that same court 26 years ago. buff.ly/1kAIFq8 #LGBTQ #SCOTUS #USPolitics

Their definition of “staunch progressive” is regular people’s definition of moderate centrist. Their definition of “moderate centrist” is “Reagan Republican.” Really, we should primary every Dem from the left. Leave no incumbent in office at all.

What the actual fuck? Me in 2024: «All anyone will have to say is that they saw you with a banned book or they suspect you of being antifa.» Reality in 2026: «30 years in prison after he was convicted of moving boxes containing leftwing zines» www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

In this framework, trans girls are viewed as illicit usurpers and invaders who OF COURSE do not deserve to compete for scholarships and college. The framework itself - "sympathy for these mothers of cis daughters, who might lose an opportunity!" seeks to de-legitimize trans girls, to other them.

Updated: Over the last 8 days, I'm counting 15 Democratic incumbents who have lost to a challenger to their left. —3 congressmembers (2 NY, 1 CO) —4 state senators (2 in NY, 2 in MD) —8 state house members (5 in NY, 1 in MD, 2 CO) Here's a thread for you to know about all 15 results: