"short-fingered vulgarian" lives on! thank you, Graydon Carter. RIP Spy mag.

THE BLUE SIDE WON !

@karaswisher.bsky.social please do this! you know the people. make this happen. it would be great in so many ways!

wow

Please support @democracydocket.com They are fighting on our front lines. Do what you can.

""When the universe was just 850 million years old, they say...." Oh, science! news.mit.edu/2026/mit-ast...

Alone with the moon. #grickledoodle #duck #night #summer #thoughts #cartoon #art #drawing #funny

Your daily reminder this should be the biggest scandal in American politics right now but nobody seems to care. Ken Paxton freed a man who raped a boy for 3 years. He also doesnt have to register as a sex offender. www.texastribune.org/2026/05/19/k...

what would we do without The Onion omg

This one is a street date instant onion classic. I have been laughing at “I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children” since I got the print edition last week

ffs

I feel bad for every time as an angsty teen that I snobbishly dismissed the villains of cartoons as unrealistic and heavy-handed writing.

🔥 An oil refinery is on fire in Russia’s Samara region following a reported drone attack. The targeted facility is believed to be the Rosneft-operated Novokuibyshevsk refinery, one of the key fuel-processing sites supporting Russia’s energy and logistics network.

This one hits hard.

This administration is obscenely enriching itself through naked graft, corruption, and bribery. The president is pardoning scores of rich white guys convicted of fraud after they make a proper contribution to his many grifts. But sure, Jimmy. It's the black people.

37 imaginary imminent deals with Iran, and counting. And last night he thought he got a standing O at the Garden. Donald Trump, who has always been a narcissistic sociopath, is now decompensating mentally and physically faster than ever before our eyes. www.cnn.com/2026/06/09/p...

Donald Trump is a sick man who has no idea what he's doing in Iran. And that is another reason why we MUST impeach and remove him and his cabinet from office. #NY12

NEWS: Nevada Democratic Attorney General Aaron Ford has won the Democratic primary and will advance to face Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo in November

⚡️Update: Ukrainian missiles, drones reportedly strike oil refinery, manufacturing site in long-range strikes on Russia.

Musk/DOGE brought Texas screwworm, but read the whole thread.

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Go Annie!!!

"This feels ridiculous, and those of us who are invested in index funds feel like we're forced to support Elon's grift." @timmiller.bsky.social presses @jasonmcalacanis.bsky.social on Tesla’s valuation, the Nasdaq fast-track for SpaceX, and why ordinary investors feel they are being dragged along.

A new state has taken center stage in Trump’s assault on free and fair elections: California. Rather than viewing the time that careful ballot counting requires as a sign of integrity, Marc Elias says, Trump seeks to weaponize it with false claims of fraud. https://bit.ly/4ec9ymv

important to understand the screwworm debacle and who caused it 🧵

always read @hcrichardson.bsky.social "MAGA Republicans supported Trump in 2024 because he promised to release the Epstein files, and Senate Republicans responded to their anger that the Trump administration was hiding those files by voting unanimously to require—not request—their release.

@justinjpearson.bsky.social is so fab

For Gutfeld and Murdoch, the Iran War is just a new reality TV show. The moral depravity of this is jaw dropping.

THIS IS SO FUCKING POINTLESS www.wired.com/story/anguis...

keeper!

They had contracts for prison labor at these camps?? Before they even bought them? www.projectsaltbox.com/p/contracts-...

On the left is the ICE concentration camp near El Paso. On the right is an industrial chicken farm in Maryland. Do you know what happens when bird flu breaks out in the latter complex? Warehousing human beings these conditions will accelerate to the spread of diseases in any population.

Britain, Canada, France and Norway announced new coordinated ​sanctions on Tuesday against Israeli networks involved in financing, enabling and carrying out violence in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. On Trump's instructions, the US in not participating in the sanctions effort.

So says dangerous third world savage Elon Musk

an... another small moment of indulgence in schadenfreude.... ☺️

One million gazillion batrillion percent this. It’s why @standupforscience.net has been doing virtual and accessible events this year! I, personally, have learned SO SO SO much about organizing from the D/disabled community and better access for one group levels the playing field for all!

"The first question senators should ask Todd Blanche is why they should trust him any more than anyone in the legal world trusts the organization he’s been helping to run. Right now, that’s not a lot."

JFC. On one hand, I understand the concerns about historian access to a president’s papers. OTOH, the navel-gazing that the Atlantic had to engage in to get this spin is astounding. A presidential center that seems to focus on encouraging people to actually get involved seems a good idea to me.

As the parent of a girl, I *wish* my worst fear was someone making up a lie about her

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"top federal prosecutor" used to mean something

Again, “but he can’t do that and that’s not how it works” is no longer an answer to these sorts of questions. That is true of ~100% of the things he does now. It’s not doomerism to ask what the plan is when he does the ultimate “he can’t do that thing”:

Once again, I ask what anyone has seen, at this point, to make them really believe that the 2026/28 elections are going to be free, fair, & competitive. Who is going to stop Trump from simply declaring the results of blue states invalid for "pro-terrorist conduct" or some other invented reason?

If the president can simply rendition legal residents on a whim, & he can simply cut funding for anything he wants, & he can violate all of our treaty commitments, & he can monetize the presidency w/o consequence, then what exactly makes us believe that accepting election results is any different?

Fuck the UFC … and fuck Trump.

#TrumpMakesUsSick My healthcare insurance was already unaffordable at $1,700/mo. We still paid it. Then it jumped to over $3K/mo because of Trump’s Big Ugly Bill. And here’s the part people need to remember: most of the bill’s pain doesn’t even hit until after 2026 midterms.