I had never thought about it either. Also, it’s worth remembering that you can, in fact, dramatically improve the world by thinking of a simple thing that would make a difference and becoming obsessed with it. 🤗

Florida folks: If you have O- blood and are of African or African American descent, OneBlood is searching for donors who have a rare antigen that matches with a teenager with sickle cell disease who needs 50 units of blood so she can have a bone marrow transplant.

Cabo Verde team returns home. Such joy!

Do it!

“Most infamously Obama’s reopening …”

Missouri peeps, more to pay attention to here

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1/ I appreciate Howell Raines giving me credit for naming "Alabamafication." A lot has happened since I coined that term in the spring of 2016, and I've come to think it's no longer sufficient. 🧵

So true. And if you try to accomodate w/ costly changes they say Affordable Housing costs too much. You just have to push through. Nine times out of ten fears evaporate & they forget what the controversy is all about once the housing is built & occupied by real people.

Nor will anyone who has actually read the Declaration of Independence.

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This explains a lot. nathannewman.substack.com/p/the-sane-n...

Cats in Cars Sunday Drive Edition

Adding to the weirdness around Mitch McConnell: His wife, Elaine Chao, reportedly traveled to China just three days after his heart attack. She is said to have met with met with Chinese Vice President Han Zheng in Beijing.

Colonial Boston Drone Soldier is real and they can hurt you.

The thing is, it’s not as though the possibility of thunderstorms was unexpected. It’s not as though they couldn’t have planned.

A lot of people don’t seem to realize that there was a delay and that the fireworks are after a speech of indeterminate length and when they find out they mostly just bail instantly lol

For the record, Baltimore has had fifty homicides so far this year. In 2022, it had around 150 by this time.

Saw this ad for a goat on Facebook. It’s perhaps the greatest advert I’ve ever read. It’s just superb.

After 25 years in Baltimore, it’s surreal to live in a town that’s just now noting its third gunfire episode of the year. csindie.com/cambridges-t...

I checked. This is true. 😳 www.nytimes.com/live/2026/07...

Parades nixed in Philly and DC. National Mall evacuated. Flyovers suspended. NYC’s fireworks display on weather watch. Parades canceled all over because of extreme heat; fireworks replaced with drone shows because of fears of wildfires. The Climate Crisis is the signature event of #America250.

Trump says he will send the communists into exile

He's pardoned his way through so many major assholes he's down to the minor assholes now.

Evergreen piece from 2022: "flag cakes have been done to death, but America has really outdone herself this year, and she deserves a cake—an unprecedented cake, a flag cake flambé."

This an official Vatican photograph of Leo at Lampedusa, Italy - one of the world’s heaviest migrant sites - where he went this morning to pray for migrants who died at sea. This is after turning down the offer to come to the United States.

Happy 10th anniversary of this essay about the dangers of Donald Trump, written by... JD Vance. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

For the first time ever, from April 2025 to April 2026, solar energy outproduced ‘natural gas’ in Asia. First coal, now ‘natural gas’… the fossil fuel dominos are falling… and they said it cant be done…

A dessert for your holiday menu: Reflecting Pool Jello. 🇺🇸 💚

All those conservatives who think they have a monopoly on patriotism and its cosplay variants have NEVER been to Boston.

Spotted in Blackfield, near Southampton

This is true. It was huge, and mostly nonpartisan. I shook Gerald Ford’s hand at either Lexington or Concord (can’t remember which.) There were tall ships. It was awesome.

If you believe that absurd hypotheticals override the plain text of the Constitution, but you were born here, you’re still an American, albeit one who should take remedial civics.

In front of fans and kids taking photos, a Dallas police officer starts shoving staff members of the Egyptian national team here for the World Cup. At one point, he even reaches for his handcuffs. The video is already being shared internationally by news outlets.

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God, I love cats.

Apparently Pete Hegseth is now Russia's Minister of Defense.

The U. S. Department of Justice chose to DEFY a judge's order to turn over evidence they're STILL hiding from the Epstein files; Baselessly arguing the materials include sensitive victim information. Despite widespread knowledge it's a bid to protect Trump abcnews.com/Politics/doj...

new metaphor just dropped

Boo hoo hoo, she lied.

it's not your country, innit

Just here to post this again like I do every year, not only because Douglass was one of the founding philosophers of American liberty but because I am so moved by the kids Frederick Douglass’ descendants deliver “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July”

Turns out Trump’s market manipulation with a series of tariff announcements and pauses that tormented American businesses was done to enrich himself.

"Oh, to be a fly on the wall"... NO Oh, to be a cat on that mantelpiece

The U.S. Took Over Venezuela’s Oil Industry. Where Has All the Money Gone? www.cfr.org/articles/the...

“… and they do that out of economic desperation, because farmworkers are also some of the poorest workers in the country,” @ufw.bsky.social’s Elizabeth Strater continued. “Farmworkers are really affected, and very much on the front lines.” #WeFeedYou

CLARKSVILLE — UPDATE: Darrius Chappell, the unarmed man seen below being attacked by a police dog, has DIED in custody at a Montgomery County jail. TBI is investigating. The officer who put the dog on him has been placed on leave. More: www.wsmv.com/2026/07/03/t...

Jesus has he been adding a new trinket every day since he took office

The right-wing attack on birthright citizenship is not just about birthright citizenship itself. As MAGA’s reaction to the Supreme Court ruling proves, it is part of their opposition to a broader ideal, that “All men are created equal.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...