More specifics have emerged. This is murder. The driver claims he was only going 15 mph, but police say the physical evidence disputes this. www.kbtx.com/2026/07/19/n...

My gastroenterologist's office is admirably accommodating to time travelers from the Middle Ages, many of whom probably do have gastroenterological issues

Trump Media plans to charge trading firms for access to Trump’s Truth Social posts milliseconds before they appear publicly, the FT reports. The product, Truth API, is aimed at firms that rely on ultra-fast data to trade in markets that are often moved by those posts.

I genuinely can’t believe this is really happening. We need the night. This is some of the most dystopian stuff I have ever seen in my entire life.

A death certificate shows an Afghan national who fought alongside U.S. forces died from an allergic reaction while in the custody of ICE, one day after he was detained.

The NCGOP doesn't believe poor people deserve justice. #ncpol "Nearly 80% of its clients are women, and the main issues Legal Aid helped them with last year were domestic violence, housing disputes and help after escaping from human trafficking." www.wral.com/news/nccapit...

My op ed "I Drove Myself Insane Clicking Around on the Computer and It's Your Fault"

NC's proposed budget gives Republicans new powers over the lawyers who help poor people (Legal Aid and public defenders). It also creates a creepy new Family Court, whose judges will be chosen by legislators and Chief Justice Paul Newby (not the voters). drive.google.com/file/d/1Ansr... #ncpol

Stop the presses, it seems like the NC legislature did something good??

Men who commit this kind of violence with this kind of rhetoric are not protecting women and girls; they are trying to legislate which men have the right to harm women and girls (and of course it's men like them and not those other men).

A SECOND person died of exposure last winter after DHS dumped them in the middle of nowhere, miles from their home, without notifying their family.

Adorable young kestrels surprised by a butterfly.

I love that the woman being a republican operative is somehow discrediting for her and the fact that Platner was dating a right wing operative is not at all discrediting for him

People will try to complicate the Platner story, but no one should lose sight of the basic standard that partner abuse should be disqualifying for public office.

The NC Republican Party threatened to get a Republican removed from his county election board if he didn't help take away an early voting site from Western Carolina students. State Auditor Dave Boliek reportedly joined the pressure campaign. #ncpol #wcu ncnewsline.com/2026/06/03/a...

Here in an Odessa bunker—our third air raid of the day, this one at 3:40 am—there’s no question about the heightened intensity of Putin’s murderous bombing terror. All around Ukraine Russia’s escalating cruelty has inflicted increasing, unspeakable pain, death & destruction.

Your periodic reminder that cretinous Trump sycophant Rep. Andy Ogles, whose district Republicans just further gerrymandered to protect, raised $25K from a Go Fund Me to create a cemetery and park for stillborn babies and their families. He took the money and never built the park.

GOD IS A CIS WHITE MAN AND SMALL BUSINESS OWNER FROM THE STATE OF OHIO. HE LIKES GRILLING AND CONSUMING MEAT, DRIVING HIS SPECIAL EDITION CHEVY SILVERADO, IGNORING HIS SMOKING-HOT WIFE AND THREE STUPID SONS (KADEN, CADEN, AND CASON), AND WATCHING THE CLEVELAND BROWNS LOSE TO THE CINCINNATI BENGALS.

So unbelievably angry. This is blatant child abus, a shocking escalation in the kind of everyday violence against trans kids that has already cost lives. Everyone involved in enacting this must resign, and every teacher, counselor, and social worker must be vociferous in our condemnation. Get loud.

I would never call a wife “mid“ no matter what her job is

A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking Al to write their breakup texts. So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world. What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable.

“Bubble” is just a pejorative way to say “community.”

Some thoughtful person provided a link to a non-paywalled version of this article: gcaptain.com/drowning/

You can’t run on a platform of holding rich people accountable if you also run on a platform that taxes are fake

Yaaaaas

WHERE DO I VOTE

The $1.7 billion would be enough to give all of these thugs $1 million each, with $100 million left over.

Has it ever occurred to the centrist op-ed industrial complex that we shouldn’t actually want to win the rural white working class

Anyway Me Too was a women’s free speech movement.

Zelensky has issued a presidential decree “allowing” Russia to hold its annual Victory Day parade in Moscow. The decree provides exact coordinates of the Red Square that shall be excluded from the list of Ukrainian strike targets. Phenomenal power play.

Wild. I have a feeling there’s something more to this than “wanting to spend more time with her grandchildren.” www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...

(I make a "mouth" with the side of my hand and draw little eyes above it) Richard Dawkins: hmmmm (I put lipstick around the "mouth") Richard Dawkins, suavely: well hello

You people need to get out of Will Stancil's mentions and into the Lord's

Raleigh says Fund Schools, Not Wars. #MayDay

There is no equivalent on the Democratic side for the pure, undiluted nihilism coming from the federal government right now. We basically have one party of technocrats and one party of Branch Davidians.

if only Louis XVI had had a ballroom he might be alive today

Wow. Several years ago, it would be hard to imagine a story like this. Now, it's not routine, but not anyhing out of the ordinary. A ground robot evacuated a 77 year old Ukrainian lady from Lyman. Her home of 53 years was destroyed by Russians.

Atlantic writer sued by Kash Patel says she’s been ‘inundated’ with new sources corroborating her reporting

ICE kidnapped a Virginia Tech student

the penne opticon

the strait of hormuz needs to have regular, predictable open hours or frankly they are going to lose me as a customer

whale head. raccoon penis. it's glaringly obvious that rfk jr is assembling some sort of Super Animal... and i fear he may soon acquire flamingo legs

The Artemis II astronauts return from their historic 10-day mission around the moon. Christina Koch, Victor Glover, Jeremy Hansen, and Reid Wiseman became the first humans to travel toward the moon in more than 50 years, and set a new record for the farthest distance ever traveled from Earth.

For decades, birthday party clowns folded balloons and played games. John Wayne Gacy is taking a different approach.

Key Sticking points in US-Iranian Negotiations: -Admitting the other exists -Object permanence -Linear time

People in the Budapest Metro, Hungary, shouting: “Russians, go home!”