One of the most striking things here is how absolutely mutable conservatives’ specific views are. Trump emerged on the scene ten years ago and within that time, it has become dogma that the previous 160 years of birthright citizenship are incompatible with even *being* a nation.

Donald Trump made more than $2 billion last year while lying that affordability issues are a hoax and prices are going down. Never in American history has a man exploited the White House for such corruption and self-enrichment.

Trump is profiting from ICE detention facilities. Financial disclosures show he bought and sold stock of GEO Group, the private prison company running most ICE prisons. #DIVEST #$GEO

Again, money is not speech. Cartoon all the way back to 1997. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/u...

Notably, FOUR justices would have rewritten the Constitution by fiat. Kavanaugh only concurred because he thinks the law Congress passed in the 1950s granting birthright citizenship governs the case, but he thinks Congress could eliminate birthright citizenship along Trump's lines if they wanted.

Slaughter is an earthquake: SCOTUS has overturned a 90-year-old precedent that facilitated much of modern governance by granting many agencies meaningful independence from the president. Now SCOTUS crushes that independence ... for seemingly every agency except the Federal Reserve.

Ford has rehired hundreds of senior engineers after replacing them with AI backfired and has cost the company billions of dollars. AI adoption is blamed for Ford being the most recalled automaker in the U.S. with 51 recalls covering over 11 million vehicles in the first half of 2026 alone.

I feel like Hickenlooper perhaps did not fully think through this ad.

This Danville, VA city council candidate made a very dramatic video about sidewalks and public safety, and I love it and him. Worrying about a possible milkshake duck situation, I looked at his FB page, but he seems ok. Juneteenth celebrations, community outreach, Methodists. A solid old gent.

SoftBank’s investor presentation is one of the greatest things ever made. I’ve been thinking about it all day. These are the real slides shown in a speech where Masayoshi Son said he wouldn’t retire for at least another decade. The goose stuff is truly demented. Bravo group.softbank/media/Projec...

The Utah legislature put a "moratorium" on trans youth healthcare while it commissioned a study. When their own study showed benefits, and little if any evidence of harms, they ... ignored it and turned the moratorium into a permanent ban, of course www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

We have a new entry in the climate dictionary under “irony”

I am *never* going to get over the Court holding that targeted student loan forgiveness was a "major question" that Congress needed to weigh in on, but refusing to intervene to stop the dismantling of the entire cabinet agency overseeing the student loan program.

Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) has issued memo to US Secret Service announcing a probe of "waste, fraud and abuse" in the Trump White House ballroom project Blumenthal asks agency to turn over records on the reported $352 million in Secret Service funds "redirected" to Ballroom

Happy Father's Day 🖤

Algae are prolific producers of oxygen (and consumers of carbon dioxide), en masse producing a huge proportion of the oxygen we breathe, which means that the greening of the Reflecting Pool might be the most pro-climate thing Trump has ever done.

‘Termination shock’: trust our expert warnings on geoengineering’s planetary risks | New op-ed in @theguardian.com by Ray Pierrehumbert (@climatebook.bsky.social), Julia Slingo, @valmasdel.bsky.social & yours truly: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

You need pool work done. On the left, the guy the Trump regime actually hired. On the right, Sean from New York. Choose your fighter.

Since I did do my PhD in cyanobacteria growth and treatment optimization modeling AND work in the water treatment industry, I’m gonna share my theory as to what’s happening here and how to fix it. People are focusing on the painted bottom of the pool increasing residual heat, and while that 1/19

Delighted to share some good news 🧪 “This hugely encouraging news shows the life-saving impact of the HPV vaccine, and it’s incredibly exciting to be able to say to this whole generation: cervical cancer shouldn’t be a risk for you,” says Caroline Temmink www.newscientist.com/article/2530...

Warnock: Right before they passed that ugly bill that cut $1 trillion out of medicaid, the Speaker of the House joined with other legislators and said a prayer, and then they went and voted for that bill. I just want to know what was in that prayer.

This is not part of the agreement. He is making this up. Iran agrees to give up NOTHING on their nuclear program in this deal.

I know "Imagine if a Democratic president said this" gets tiring, but if a Democratic president said this, Republicans would wave this comment as the bloody shirt of betrayal FOR DECADES

At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/

Pure corruption

1. In a move that is likely to be seen as capitulation to Trump, EITM can confirm that Mamdani's first ever trans direct care clinic will deny care to those under 19 years of age, the age from Trump's anti-trans EOs. It is a far cry from his pledge to "use every tool" to fight capitulation.

Musk's gutting of USAID killed hundreds of thousands, possibly millions. He has used his net worth to stoke hatred against people he dislikes and to fuel white supremacy. So no, I don't think he is uplifting humanity.

Oh good lord. 🙄

Someone's getting a Presidential Medal of Freedom for this... from the next president

I've been a broken record on this for three years and I'll be a broken record for as long as that fucking website exists: X is a viciously racist far-right organising platform that ONLY WORKS because a huge number of centrists, lefties and progressivs cannot stop propping it up

The US will almost certainly lose its measles-elimination status this year or next www.wired.com/story/anguis...

“Deleting accounts of the past not because they are false but because they are true betrays a curious lack of confidence. Do the censors fear that Americans will cease to love their country once they know the full story?” (Gift) www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

In between calling out Bari Weiss for putting a target on his back and then actually being targeted by Israel for assassination, Refaat Alareer wrote a poem: “If I must die”

Speaking of Bari Weiss, she put a target on the back of the poet and professor Refaat Alareer in Gaza and he was assassinated by the IDF less than two months later. He, his brother, his sister, and four of his nephews were killed in a surgical strike.

Story from November but sometimes it’s worth remembering prior crap the Trump regime has done.

"... sources say Trump, in his demands that Blanche not “fuck up like Pam,” was specifically referring to her perceived sporadic unease with the president’s sustained pressure campaign on the Justice Department to prosecute his political enemies."

A new study has found that the National Guard's presence in Washington, D.C. had no effect on violent crime in the city. The Guard has been deployed since last August as part of a federal task force to fight crime, and their numbers are set to double in the coming weeks. n.pr/3PWDxqK

Oliver Darcy got the audio of the heated 60 Minutes meeting where Scott Pelley dressed Nick Bilton down! "You know what was rude? Black Thursday. That was the absolute definition of rudeness. Telling Tanya Simon she had to be out of here at five o'clock." www.status.news/p/scott-pell...

welcome to the future. everything you have ever owned or eaten or touched has its own individual app now

After ICE deported Wendy Hernandez Reyes, it turned her 3-year-old son Orlin over to her sister’s estranged partner, who tortured Orlin and beat him to death. I can’t say what I think should happen to those responsible without violating this website’s TOS. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

🧵AP: US financial regulator aims to kill climate disclosure rule. This is something I feel qualified to talk about, as climate disclosures in finance were the subject of my MSc dissertation at Oxford. >

Cops raiding a mutual aid tent, where Delaney Hall protesters could get food, water, first aid supplies, etc.

Have you, like me, spent the last 26 years worrying if the Canadian Potato Museum STILL has the display of various potato diseases with potatoes in little coffins? Stop worrying. I checked today. Still there.

President of MIT not mincing words today in @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2026/05/27/s...

This is the destruction of federal funding for scientific research & universities as we know it. A total, comprehensive politicization of the process & an end run around Congress.

Meet the new boss at “60 Minutes”.

I want a future where I can pay to punch Sam Altman, on a sliding scale depending on how hard and where

Absolutely nothing is stopping John Cornyn, Tillis, Murkowski, & Paul from caucusing immediately with Democrats & giving them control of the Senate. The same is true of Thomas Massie & any 2 retiring GOP Reps in the House. It is a choice to continue caucusing with the authoritarian personality cult.