Chicago priest Father Michael Pfleger: "The state of emergency is in AMERICA, not Chicago. It's birthed from this president and his admin's reign of terror." ( ht: @mikenellis.bsky.social )

Occam's Razor always rules. Always.

Right now, I’m reflecting upon whether, given how the world might look in 30, 20 or even 10 years, whether that extra decade is even worth passing on fries, ketchup and mayo. #longevity -vs- #philosophy

A photo of the California #Nebula I took from my driveway… if you dropped the Earth into this scene, it wouldn’t even be the teeny tiniest speck… #astronomy #astrophotography #perspective

Kimmel: "The President of the United States made it very clear he wants to see me and the hundreds of people who work here fired from our jobs. Our leader celebrates Americans losing their livelihoods because he cannot take a joke."

Look, it’s Heroin and Adderall ganging up on Tylenol.

The term Antifa is a shortening of antifascism. It's NOT a formal organization. It's a belief. A really good one. The stupidity of trying to declare it a "terrorist organization" is just ludicrous. It would be like doing the same thing with the word democracy. What the hell is so hard about this?!

Raskin: "He wants to condition the public to the idea that it's completely legitimate for the president not only to be ordering prosecutions of particular people over the objections of prosecutors, but he wants to condition the public to accepting the idea he can do that in public, openly."

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

“Maybe I met him on some boys’ trip? I feel like I’ve seen his penis before. Have we ever gone swimming at the same time? You have a mole right here under your rib cage, right?” said Trump

Add to the weapons-grade cringe her use of "P word", to avoid having to write Epstein's side-hustle in full. “As you know, I did not, absolutely not, say the ‘P word’ [paedophile] about you but understand it was reported that I did.” @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Actually, when only 97% of the stories about a person who is 100% bad are bad, it means someone is the media isn’t doing their job.

This is the biggest attack on free speech since the McCarthy era but it also has significantly less popular consensus behind it than the second Red Scare. It's being done on behalf of a minority faction led by the most unpopular president in modern history. Organizing against this can win.

Campaign group Everyone Hates Elon have installed a spoof tribute to Jeffrey Epstein from Donald Trump on a bench at Trump International Golf Links in Aberdeen, Scotland. It comes after US lawmakers published an Epstein 'birthday book' with an alleged note from Trump.

Ok, you can get to the files from The Oversight Committee site. Warning: It is not easy reading. oversight.house.gov/release/over...

‘La tapisserie, c’est moi’: Macron accused of putting politics first in Bayeux tapestry loan

Baron Bartram tied Mr Benn's balloon to a drain pipe, but his plan backfired as the pipe helped drive the balloon forward to win the race.

Loved meeting Terence Stamp, hearing about his world youtube.com/watch?v=ViJ3...

The White House landscape now matches our national political one.

“So to the Biden and Trump administrations, to Democrats and Republicans in Congress, to the US media, I say this: history will judge you. For non-stop complicity in a genocide; aiding and abetting the crime of crimes.” My latest op-ed for the Guardian:

Molly Ivins's quote about Dan Quayle applies equally well to Trump: “If you put that man’s brain in a bumblebee, it would fly backwards.”

reposting this for no particular reason today

This clip...I have no words. Gaza Humanitarian Fund whistleblower Anthony Aguilar describes ordering pizzas for their site while Palestinians starve.

🚨🚨🚨 Jeffrey Epstein during a 2010 deposition: Q. Have you ever socialized with Donald Trump in the presence of females under the age of 18? A: Though l'd like to answer that question, at least today l'm going to have to assert my Fifth, Sixth, and 14th Amendment rights, sir.

lol

Hugely significant that Court agreed foreign interference is a threat to our right to free & fair elections & there’ll be cases when states must investigate. Tho disappointing they found UK has done enough - our democracy still isn’t safe ⁦‪⁦‪ @the-citizens.bsky.social @carolecadwalla.bsky.social

A wildlife photographer joked that his wife managed to capture an extraordinary photo that outdid him: a European eagle owl, one of the world's largest, perched on his camera lens.

not to be the flyspeck nyt copy as if it's the most important thing guy, but seriously wtf is this?

This is equally sad and funny!!

Dear @theonion.com, Beat this.

1/2 Babies in Gaza are starving to death. Mothers can’t breastfeed. Hospitals have no formula left — and the world looks away. Governments must act now. Sign the urgent petition to help save newborn lives secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/...

George has been catty since the year . Great to see he’s not lost it. Forty years ago, he was the first man ever to appear on the cover of Cosmopolitan, when gender-bending raised eyebrows and not blood pressure, and “real women” meant something else entirely.

My face had turned itself fully inside out by the time I reached the last word of this sentence.

The best way to 'kill' the bill and others would be to send French notaries and administration to negotiate. Anyone who has ever dealt with French admin will understand.

But, but, but, the Founding Fathers wanted everyone to have an assault weapon… www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...

British surgeon Victoria Rose has just returned from working in Gaza and she's asked about the conditions there. #trevorphillips

🚨BREAKING: Gaza has become "an abbatoir where starving people are lured out through combat zones to be shot at", says Kit Malthouse MP. "If the situation were reversed, we would now be mobilising the British armed forces as part of an international protection force", he adds.

great answer.

Speaking with Andrew Marr about the horrifying situation in Gaza. There is growing agreement from MPs across all parties that we must take strong action against the Israeli Government. The innocent women and children of Gaza cannot wait any longer. Action needed now.

Weapons grade stupidity, including for selfish reasons: all the US measles outbreaks this year are related to IMPORTED cases—so we SHOULD fund a global network to protect the rest of the world AND OURSELVES The MAHA men—RFK Jr/Trump/Makary/Musk/Vought/Bhattacharya—are DESTROYING US & global health

Ukraine's Trojan Trucks open.substack.com/pub/clairebe... Gosh, it would really be better if we didn't have literally the last man in the world I would trust to take that 3 am call as our president right about now.

This statement from Jonathan Joss's husband is heart breaking. No, headline writers, he wasn't "killed in an argument with a neighbor." He was *deliberately murdered* for being gay right after his dog was decapitated. Bet the murderer calls himself a "Christian." THIS is why Pride is important.

La Place Alziary de Malausséna, Nice. #Photography #PurpleFriday #FlowersonFriday #Nice06 #France

Omg, 😍. “This is a site for pictures of owls… in towels.” owlsintowels.org

They pretend that the USA was founded as a Christian nation. Then they pretend and insist they’re Christians. Then they govern like the motherfucking antichrist.