Sometimes if people want to get hit by lightning you just let them

new metaphor just dropped

In a just world, Cynthia Rothrock would be 10x as famous as Steven Segal and Chuck Norris combined.

been rewatching Atlanta the past few weeks and the Michael Vick cameo is still easily in the top 10 jokes I've ever seen on a television show

The task at hand is Sisyphean. How do you keep attention on violence when we are already saturated in it? How do you ring warning bells when people are desensitized to them? We have more questions than answers at this point, but we keep pushing. History tells us what will happen if we don't.

This normalization is taking place more easily precisely because we've also normalized a carceral system that has fed on millions, disproportionately Black and brown people. U.S. police killed 11K+ people in the last decade alone. And we are collectively numb to it:

Earlier this week, Intelligencer ran a piece called "ICE Won." We definitely don't agree with the title, but its gist—that the normalization of federal police violence is accelerating—is proving accurate. ICE arrests roughly doubled in Chicagoland in June over May. Some more thoughts on that:

The difference between now and the 80s and 90s though is that there's so much less public space and every square inch of it is surveilled by a much larger, trigger happy militarized police force

🌡️ June 2026, Spain: heat killed silently. MACE recorded: 🔴 1209 deaths from extreme heat 🟠 3008 from moderate heat Moderate heat kills more than heatwaves. Chronic, cumulative exposure flies under the radar, but not under the data. 💻 ficlima.shinyapps.io/mace/ #heatwave #health #climatechange

“I’m not hurting anyone. We just don’t want data centers.” “I just graduated from Stoklosa Middle School. I am the future.” www.bostonherald.com/2026/06/30/l...

***Amilcar Cabral intensifies***

Another one: In January, a guy wrote an angry (but non-threatening) letter to former ICE chief Todd Lyons after the Good, Pretti killings. Last week, ICE agents tracked him down at the NYC hotel where he and his daughter were staying after returning from a vacation in Finland.

we all make jokes about how woke 1 went too far but woke 1 was extremely, absolutely correct about how much these people were dogwhistling, absolutely correct about the direction they were going in, absolutely correct that how their beliefs were not compatible with a free society

the anti-birthright idea didn’t circulate for long enough in conservative legal circles. If it had circulated for another three years it would’ve been a majority opinion. I really do not think this fight is over

Guaranteed: 1) Black girls will be harassed and demanded to be tested over and over again regardless of how competitive they are. 2) Winners from public schools will be relentlessly hounded by the parents and coaches of losers at private schools, with the goal of making them quit the sport.

The US Supreme Court should not have taken up the Trump administration’s case on whether the 14th Amendment actually ensures birthright citizenship, something that has been long settled. Doing so was racist overreach.

I think this is the right take. I didn't know jus sanguinis existed until I was 25 and a friend sat me down to explain how even though she was born in Germany, had lived in Germany basically her entire life, she was legally Croatian. I think most people do not have these interactions.

Quite the meltdown on the postliberal right today....

In a sane world (an alt reality) today's dissents would sufficient to warrant Thomas, Gorsuch and Alito's impeachment and removal from office. If you defy the plain words, meaning, intent, history, precedent of a black letter constitutional injunction u are abusing your power and should be removed.

As always

Israel’s genocidal leadership is proudly saying that they want to ethnically cleanse, occupy, and illegally annex Lebanese land. All of this is going on with the US government’s support. Congress can put a stop to it by passing Rashida Tlaib’s Lebanon War Powers Resolution tomorrow.

even if it was good policy, this shit is completely ancillary to the goal of actually limiting the power of big tech. Elon Musk has a trillion dollars and is trying to start a global race war, your response to that can’t be “kids should be on their phones less”

I made a new t-shirt that I think has an important message about the future and also about friendship and i think maybe you will like it roryblank.bigcartel.com

I worked really hard on this and it just sucks to see people I like and respect on here shitting on it. Everyone talks a big game about supporting artists but then they all pile on just to score a few points on the internet. Try creating your own stuff instead of making fun of someone else’s.

a common debate that happens every pride is whether cops should be allowed at pride events. and I know this might be controversial, but I want to propose a compromise: One Cop At Pride

A new granite walkway. Refinishing the wall to glue those hideous gold accents. Trump claimed he was paying for all of it. He lied. They’ve been looting the National Parks.

Oh man i woke up this morning and the city name and exact time appeared in the lower left with clicky-clack typewriter sounds. Bro i do not have time for this shit

I love to turn my house into an escape room with my $500 Level Lock Pro that might be randomly deactivated at any time

you need to stop what you're doing and see what this is in reply to.

We wanted to understand why a Jewish candidate defeated another Jewish candidate in one of America's most Jewish congressional districts. So we talked to three Evangelical Christians at a gun show in northern Idaho.

There are so many fucked up things about this, not least of which is that they tracked down this completely anodyne post quoting a news article from January and just happened to come to her in June, when she was working a polling place.

MY MAN THE NAZIS CONTROL ALL THREE BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT AND THE ONLY THING LESS POPULAR THAN THEM IS GUYS LIKE YOU you got everything you wanted within the liberal coalition since the clinton years! and this was the result of the world you created!

Look man, we need moderates. We need people who tell us that we should fight pointless and expensive foreign wars, racism lite, and a brand new 72 part tax cut that applies to people who complete an obstacle course on every third Friday of 2029.

"I don't know how to do this job" is a wild thing to say directly to a CNN camera.

Extremely strong and good response

valve could change the world overnight if these pages included a giant blurb at the top that says "this price increase is because of AI causing component shortages" and their intended price next to that

when people say that there is an entire welfare network for far right cranks that are bankrolled by local car barons and billionaires, what that means is that every university is prone to opening a Center For Freedom Thoughts Studies that focuses on how to ban trans people and put migrants in camps.

Rest in peace 🕊️

He hasn’t tweeted today what happened

putting John J. Cafaro on the vision board. hashtag never stop grifting

mom is taking away my car keys because I committed some light manslaughter is what governmental accountability looks like in 2026

If someone chooses to live in a smaller home in the inner city in part to avoid a long commute, they generally don’t pressure society to build them a bigger house with more stuff. So if you choose a bigger stuff-filled house in the suburbs, don’t expect society to build you a fast car commute.

REPUBLICAN SENATOR: Democrats want you to believe that sending FIVE MILLION DOLLARS of YOUR tax money to MEXICO to “manage” the “Dick Exploding Spider” population is “normal” SAME SENATOR SIX MONTHS LATER: (walking like a saddle-sore cowboy) This is the greatest public health crisis of our lives,

Ah so LLMs operate like senior male academics. Who could have envisioned that technology trained on existing texts could operate in a fundamentally conservative nature

World Cup might be the closest thing we’ll get to world peace

One of the things that I think people don't understand about Netanyahu is that they think he is racist in some inscrutable or exotic Israeli way, when he is actually racist in the exact way you'd expect a guy who went to high school in the Philly suburbs in the late 1960s (as he did) to be

there's an amazing guy here tonight, a big big supporter of mine, where's Lestat? we love Lestat don't we folks. He told me all about his Dark Gift, and it's a really wonderful gift. Louis was very unfair to him and we're going to be wishing Lestat well

“Scots discovering tailgating” could be a real Prometheus stealing fire moment