"When you’re trying to celebrate the birth of the nation and you can’t get half the nation’s states to show up, something has gone wrong at the planning stage."

If you haven’t already read Wynn-Williams’s Careless People, I encourage you to do so as soon as possible. bookshop.org/p/books/care...

More than a decade ago, a group of young, internet-connected Belarusian dissidents launched a series of increasingly high-stakes, increasingly surreal confrontations with the corrupt, authoritarian government of Alexander Lukashenka, a man who is often called "the last Soviet dictator." 1/

Fresh off of endorsing Chris Rufo —by name—and his vision to destroy higher education, Yale is rushing to help the Trump admin resegregate education. An absolute disgrace.

Welcome? This witless chowderhead doesn't know that passports are issued to US citizens for use traveling abroad? Welcome? Christ, he's so relentlessly stupid.

Radiohead was named after a story Stephen Tobolowsky told David Byrne about having psychic powers while in college. That became the song “Radio Head” from True Stories. Then when EMI asked newly signed band On A Friday to change their terrible name, they went with Radiohead, after the song.

You've jovied your last bon.

EFF’s @doctorow.pluralistic.net talked AI with @democracynow.org: “When labor drives automation, it’s usually in service to making the product better, and when capital drives automation, it’s usually in service to making more of the product.” www.democracynow.org/2026/6/25/r...

I blogged about how the Reflecting Pool fiasco is a textbook example of the *precise 13-step process* that power every Trump debacle in the second administration. My proposed headline was 'Anatomy of a Mall' www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

One old trick in politics is to oppose something possible while calling for something impossible. Example: Here's Gavin Newsom leading the charge for a "national billionaires tax" while he and his paid goons work to kill a state billionaire tax. This allows him to be on both sides for 2028.

If Republicans maintain their majority in Congress, Speaker Mike Johnson intends to spend the next two years running an anti-oversight “protection program” for the White House and its allies. I’m honestly a little surprised he admitted this out loud and in public. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

"I run the protection program." Nothing to see here, folks. Move along.

So much of contemporary tech policy is based on either the ignorance or acceptance of other people's pain.

Suddenly, everything froze. Only the buzzing of the tsetse flies could be heard. The crackling grass wasn’t Cummings returning to camp after all, but an animal who didn’t like to be surprised.

"Creature" is a choice.

Everyone’s been asking for my get ready routine, so here you go! With a little help from some friends🌞 youtu.be/IRr7bP36PFE?...

When this is all done, there needs to be a detailed, book-length list of every lie--big and small--told by this president and his administration, so we never lose sight of how mendacious this presidency was.

Instead of railing against the latest “I asked Claude” article in a mainstream publication, I’ll just post this.

Wearing my @dbrauer.net couture today

CBS staff, you have one job and that is to incept Bari Weiss into believing she can win over Isaac Chotiner.

I, for one, would like to see more "spirit of aloha" in the United States.

Here are the top 5 dogs of the week!

🧵🧵🧵 Take this quiz: Which of these quotes are Republicans talking about Somali immigrants and which are Nazis talking about Jews? 1/ They’re “garbage. These are people who do nothing but complain.” 2/ “Public pests … vermin … leeches.” 3/ “They’re all crooks.” 4/ They’re “criminal-minded people.”

How many Great Awakenings can this country endure?

Also @annaleen.bsky.social wrote the definitive story on this in *checks notes* 1998. Everything just repeats, shittily, forever.

absolutely fucking not.

Law school faculty: please consider submitting information about your school's 2026-2027 hiring plan and hiring committee. Requested information, plus link to Google form to submit info, at prawfsblawg.com/hiring-plans... - once I get initial set of info I will make it sortable, filterable, etc.

Surely, this is @theonion.com

John Roberts' Constitution forbids any attempt to proactively ameliorate racial discrimination and racial inequality, but permits open racial discrimination as long as there is a facially neutral explanation available, even if it isn't remotely plausible. This, my friends, is "Colorblindness."

Guy with Crusader Tats Suffers Humiliating Defeat at Hands of Islamic Republic emptywheel.net/2026/06/26/g...

What’s remarkable about all this stuff is the stolen valor. You didn’t build shit, you won a birth lottery. You are a podcaster not Emperor Vespasian. bsky.app/profile/just...

Oh no. Very sad to learn that @om.co has passed. He and I started tech reporting (and blogging) around the same time, and we used to compare notes frequently back in the day. om.co/2026/06/24/1...

You’ve DCed your last AC.

You've chained your last Alice.

I assimilated all the way to Congress and this idiot still tells me to go back where I came from.

"Katie Phang ... brings this action against Todd Blanche ... claiming that he has improperly withheld information and failed to comply with other requirements in violation of the Epstein Act." "[T]he Court GRANTS Ms. Phang’s motion." 1/🧵

Fulfilling the purpose for which it was built almost 2000 years ago, football fans packed the Roman Theatre of Amman to watch the Jordan v Algeria World Cup match. What a sight. [kottke.org]

Is the Oval Office now like Trump's twisted version of college football helmets, where he awards himself another piece of gold-painted wall trash every time he does something selfish, cruel, or stupid?

This is Vinnie. He just got a new splish splash pad and literally can't contain his excitement. Thinks this is going to be the best summer ever. 13/10 (FB: Claudia Carr)

An excellent thread on why this Supreme Court's "history and tradition" "standard" is just another vehicle for its far-right members to make the law fit their worldview, even when that means changing their own interpretation of their own rule as needed.

It is difficult to read the Supreme Court's opinions over the last week and not see the general trend toward accretion of Court power. Interpretive philosophies like originalism give way to "plain text" readings (by judges) and historical "standards," without any specific guidelines. /1

Israeli forces arrest Palestinian ‘doctor of the poor’

as one does.

Einstein’s E = mc² is only half of the full equation Pretty much everyone knows Einstein's most famous equation: E = mc². But that's only half of the full equation for energy in the Universe. What comes out of that is so much richer. bigthink.com/starts-with-... #Einstein #energy #mass #physics

This the right move - and right reason. Hochul should not delay following suit - as should all Dem governors and Rs too to if any vertebrates remain among them.