So, to all the "RFK's got some good ideas" folks (Rachael Bedard, Leana Wen) and Jay Bhattacharya is "an excellent choice for NIH" (Steven Macedo, Frances Lee) and Vinay Prasad "will bring a breath of fresh air to FDA" (Adam Cifu, John Mandrola) groupies--you own this now too.

Just sickening. This is what happens when you elect a multi-time felon who appoints a toxic man-baby with no experience or moral character to run the world’s most lethal armed forces. It is a stain on each and every one of us that will not wash off. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

They didn’t even try to name it something less obvious lmao

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"You can't fold, I haven't even dealt yet" -- dealer to Chuck Schumer at a poker game

That this only happens in one direction is telling. In the history of the media, has anyone ever been forced to resign for being too biased against the left? www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!

1. In the wake on Mamdani’s win, we’ll see a lot more far right anti-urban sentiment. Here’s a thread on its roots and evolution. The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵

All the thinkpieces about Bluesky don't account for the fact that it's occasionally 100% wall-to-wall baseball on here

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

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Every once in a while, the internet will remind you what it was made for.

ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert

Million frog march!

“I’m worried about my community… I’m out here in a frog costume to show how ridiculous the notion that we’re violent terrorists is, and showcase how that narrative is wrong…” Serious Q: is it too late to give this dude the Nobel Peace Prize? 🐸 🏆

The campaign against “antifa” is about establishing a beachhead for further attacks on speech and assembly rights. We see that today in the effort to preemptively label No Kings protesters as “terrorists.”

oh fuck yes now we are cooking

TERRORISM EXPERT HERE: This statement is a clear example of what is known as “State Terrorism”: When the dictatorship will order all instruments of its state security & intelligence apparatus against its own citizens to terrorize the population.

McSweeney’s can skewer like nothing else.

He didn’t end 7 wars or win 2024 by a landslide. There is no war in Portland. Tariffs don’t build strong economies. Vaccines save lives. Tylenol is safe in pregnancy. Crime is not skyrocketing. Facts are not partisan. The only thing unhinged is his grip on reality and the danger is real.

this exists it is called thinking

If a social media addicted billionaire says “The left is the party murder,” it’s an indisputable fact. If a think tank founded by the Koch brothers concludes that right-wing terrorism is responsible for far more deaths than left-wing terrorism, they were just cherry-picking.

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Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.

The people who belly-ached for a decade about cancel culture sure are cancelling a lot of culture.

Kirk's murder is the latest attempt to establish a Reichstag fire in the US. Will this attempt succeed?

“We’re all trying to find the guy who did this”

Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it

it’s basically trite to note at this point but if this were any other president, and certainly a democrat, spending a ton of money to gild the white house would be a legit scandal

It’s mind boggling how many additional people this administration is killing. “I have been in this business for over 50 years on the front lines of public health…And I can say unequivocally that this was the most dangerous public health decision I have ever seen made by a government body.”

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

I don’t want the NIH to be fucking profitable, I want it to cure cancer and Alzheimer’s

When you strip away humanity

Republicans are waging a generalized war on science, but I think many of them don’t fully grok that RFK isn’t at war with science alone or per se: he’s at war with sick people, and of the view that only the lucky should be allowed to survive into old age. They are know nothings, he is Mengele.

new all-time reaction image just dropped

little library gallows humor for ya :'D

I’m so glad to be reminded of Station 11. A tough but fantastic watch that’s perfect for the times we’re entering. A dystopic drama framed by our deep need for the arts. It’s singular.

An addled president is shredding the Constitution to usher in white nationalism and fascism while destroying the economy and our health care, so if you’re going to write an alarmist op-ed because a mayoral candidate might open five (5) city-run grocery stores, you can kindly get bent.

Congrats to one of the good guys from @rec.poker @csavagepoker.bsky.social on winning his first bracelet late last night. So happy for him!!! www.pokernews.com/news/2025/06...

VACCINES: Former ACIP members warn that the abrupt dismissal of all 17 panel members and replacement w/only 8 appointees could undermine decades of vaccine policy, weaken access to life‑saving immunizations, and erode public trust in U.S. immunization programs. buff.ly/lsqWej8 #medsky #IDsky 🛟😷🧪

This is a moral question a toddler could answer correctly. If you do this, you are absolutely complicit.

"I was never a Sauron fan. Did I facilitate Sauron's rise to power by donating most of Isengard’s resources to his reconquest campaign and persuading my legions of Uruk-hai followers to support him? Sure, but that doesn’t mean I agreed with him on everything."

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my most Gen X coded belief is that cities and the culture at large suffer profoundly for the near-complete death of alt-weeklies

A must read 🧵 if you churned your way through the pseudoscience vomit that the New Yorker just published.

Agreed. Just cynical grifting which cheapens what should be a showcase for two otherwise fun teams youtu.be/q6JgPCftltY?...

this would be the kind of scandal that demands resignation if these people had any commitment to public service!