this is a great illustration of one of the fundamental insights of democracy — that there is no such thing as "the people" and that majorities are elusive and ever shifting. no election, no decision, is final and treating an election as a final decision is profoundly undemocratic.

Elizabeth Warren says Trump’s canceling his signing of the housing bill shows he doesn’t care about American families He's cancelling it because GOP senators are coming to the WH for a conference and he's going to say, "You have to support me in everything or I don't sign the bill. Obey or lose!"

I will forever be grateful to a British schoolteacher who, in first grade or second grade, pulled me aside and taught me to strip sentences down to their core theses, to understand true sentiment Such as in the thesis mentioned below, “At least they’ll die”

And yes, I'd sure as hell love to see the Democratic party take aid more seriously. I want to see leftists take aid more seriously. I am on this tear specifically because it angers me that too few people from across the political spectrum give a shit about aid.

Just got an earthquake alert

Sounds like a pretty good Starmer post-mortem, too. (Who had "listen to Hunter Biden" on their Bingo card?)

My account is a love letter/spiritual successor to Starlog, so I'm glad the future is back!

How did Judge Doom get a J.D.??

Other smaller teams at the WC: "Stay compact, try not to concede, maybe nick a goal from a corner" Cabo Verde:

Muppeteer Richard Hunt's memorial panel from the AIDS quilt.

"Mr. President, we've received early reports of inbound missiles" "I CALL THE DEMOCRATS DUMBOCRATS, ISN'T THAT GOOD?" "Yes, sir, but what should we do about the impending attack?" "I'M GOING TO RENAME ICE 'NICE' AND THEN PEOPLE WON'T BE MAD ABOUT IT" "But Sir ..." "ANTIFA PUT ALGAE IN MY POOL!"

If you love the energy of the world coming to the US for the World Cup, and being super into all of the stuff we take for granted… …may I introduce you to State Department Public diplomacy programs?

QTP with a ship that's not from Star Wars or Star Trek

Both totally unnecessary and extremely funny that the Guardian has an interactive graphic for you to change the color of the US flag's blue to the color of the Reflecting Pool from 8 to 19 June and counting

Did DoD just admit in a court filing that it used xAI's Grok Gov Model to hit the girls' school on the first day of the Iran war? Based on some passages flagged by @rgoodlaw.bsky.social in DoD's recent filing in NAACP's case against X, it looks like it did 1/

And here is the CENTCOM report that lists 1,700 targets truck in first 72 hours, which also corroborates. If Grok was used for 2,000 in the first 96 hours, then it had to be the technology that was responsible for the strike on the school. Let's stop talking about algae, this is a scandal.

“The scandal of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is such a complete encapsulation—and such a perfect metaphor—of incompetence and corruption that it deserves to be both a long-remembered failure and a final straw for a restless, angry nation.“ www.americaamerica.news/p/what-does-...

"There is a theory which states that if ever for any reason anyone discovers what exactly the universe is for and why it is here it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another that states that this has already happened." Douglas Adams

Stone, Flynn and Gabbard? What a nice little Russian triumvirate.

I really need people to understand that Palantir is not an engineering marvel; it is a multi-billion-dollar contractual containment layer wrapped around the world's ugliest legacy open source frankenstack. It's a shitty Snowflake for companies that don't know how to do data engineering.

Our West Oakland communities have been clear: no coal in Oakland. Today, I filed an amendment to the Fiscal Year 2027 Energy and Water Appropriations bill that would prohibit funding for the proposed Oakland coal export terminal project.

Back at the first modern Army Warfighter Exercise (WFX), which was done by III Corps in 2012, the final inject complication was a massive earth facing coronal mass ejection. So if you don't think this is a natsec or military issue, think again & give this a read!!!

You thought tank turret tosses were good? How about oil tank top tosses? During another big drone attack on Moscow this morning, a drone hit an oil refinery storage tank, sending its top into the air like a flying saucer. Huge smoke plumes now over fascist Russia’s capital.

What makes my heart heavy is that 13 servicemembers and a school full of girls died for no reason except to attempt to boost a sad old man’s ego

"So ... so I said ... why not sign your treaty here, at Versailles?"

Somehow made it into my late thirties without doing a proper dive into USAGI YOJIMBO, and it's kind of blowing my mind. This is one of those COMIC BOOK comic books. Kind that makes you want to make them in the first place.

Both Hillary Clinton and Marco Rubio seem to be describing Netanyahu using the same tactic 14 years apart. The difference is, it seems, the same tactic worked this time.

President Trump signing an instrument of defeat at Versailles. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

It was a political hire, cont. This is something I don't get about the merger. If the new company comes with a massive debt, it will require quick profits from all divisions— including the newsrooms. Do the Paramount executives really believe that "center Right" Bari Weiss has a formula for that?

The thing is you gotta be obsessed with the Nazi regime to even reach for a Bonhoeffer reference here and you gotta be an incredibly twisted soul to think Bonhoeffer’s nonviolent heroism is the tragedy we can’t repeat in that story.

It certainly was a morning. People are shockingly resistant to hearing "your One Neat Trick to solve online abuse forever is not not being used because sites are evil and don't want to solve online abuse, it's not being used because we tried it and it makes things fucking worse".

I’m in @foreignpolicy.com taking a big swing (but not a hot take): Trump’s defeat in Iran is a bigger US defeat in strategic terms than the US loss in Vietnam foreignpolicy.com/2026/06/16/i...

Thank god we have a copy of ResEdit in the Strategic Abandonware Reserve.

The IRGC navy just motors around blaring an add imploring barges to “download the Hormuz app” all the time.

The emphasis on how autistic kids will "never pay taxes, never hold a job" (which is bullshit) gives the game away. He's a eugenicist who wants you to believe that people with autism can't be productive members of society and are therefore surplus to requirements.

youre not going to believe this but the dumb assholes we put in charge have fucked everything up

RFK says I’ll never write a poem but check this out There once was an old man named Kennedy Who had the most unsettling energy He worked out in jeans While he ate raccoon spleens And had a brainworm as a frenemy

my god, it's real

U.S. Navy in 1944: we will island hop across the entire Pacific Ocean and destroy the Japanese Air Force 5 times over U.S. Navy in 2026: please pay for VIP pass so we may escort you maybe

Well, that was a fucking ride.

This is the perfect example of one photo being worth a thousand words.

None of this makes any sense, except as desperate rationalizations from a man who cannot face facts and admit defeat. On the most important questions of war and peace, the president of the United States seems to be losing his grip on reality itself. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

A Blue Jay and a male Baltimore Oriole battle in a Cottonwood tree. The Blue Jay looks to have the upper hand (upper wing?) here, but was eventually chased off by the Baltimore Oriole.

Bonhoeffer was an anti-Nazi Lutheran theologian, executed in 1945 by the Nazis. Brandon Gill, man of the people, is a Dartmouth grad with a history degree. Oopsie.

this is a catastrophe and he will do harm, and only harm, to those living with disabilities

Such cool science! Scientists transmitted radio waves from a radio telescope out to one of Jupiter's moons, then received the reflected waves back at multiple telescopes and measured the radio albedo. Using circular polarization, they can measure the transparency of the global ice sheet. 📡

The most disappointing part of that UFC fighter calling Michelle Obama a man was the fact that he knew he could do that in front of a sellout crowd and the President of the United States, and not face any repercussions for it.