Nearly half of the weather balloons in the lower 48 are missing because of DOGE

Sir, the pickles! They’ve gone woke!

BREAKING: Melat Kiros has won the Democratic primary in Colorado’s 1st district. The democratic socialist has unseated the district’s 29-year incumbent by running on Medicare for All, abolishing ICE, ending forever wars and more.

I have watched all the heated rivalry episodes multiple times, I own the books I read the fan fiction. I have not watched Off Campus. It's not the hockey.

The stories of enslaved people that the US education system is most comfortable with telling are those stories where enslaved Black people outsmarted their enslavers. Henry Box Brown mailing himself to freedom doesn't challenge the status quo. The Haitian Revolution does.

I’d like to note that one of the ads for the Freedom 250/Salute to America thing has wind turbines in it, which Trump notoriously hates

The thing I think a lot about the US is we're supposed to endure unspeakable horrors but never react to them in socially maladaptive ways.

So many of these guys. It's disappointing bc they earn their attention initially through good work and thoughtful reporting and then get caught up in just maintaining status over doing the actual work.

I just want to add that the fact that we talk about Haiti this way without also talking about Haiti in 2026 is a product of centuries of American interventionism....

Re: Ezra Klein. Normally this is where I'd quote Chomsky but he's in the Epstein files so fuck him. Klein learned where his bread was buttered in the journalism space and has moved accordingly. See also: Matt Yglesias. Their moral center is attention and money.

They're also setting the ground for more severe fires.

A result from New York today, one week after the primaries: Mo Brown has ousted Assemblymember Bill Magnarelli in the Democratic primary for a Syracuse-region legislative seat. www.localsyr.com/news/your-lo... Brown is a democratic socialist, adding to Left gains NY, and outside of NYC.

hilarious to be in a WC host city where people are partying in the streets, everyone’s naturally taking care of each other, even if they don’t speak the same language, and see armed soldiers wandering around the capital. absolute theater.

I FUCKING KNEW IT I sometimes see forecasts change MID DAY

During Covid I saw Black Lives Matter signs in WHITESTONE of all places IYKYK. I agree with Louisa that (especially in white enclaves) where people can default to thinking everyone thinks like them (wildly racist) signaling another perspective is useful.

Obviously this is a dipshit opinion. But since I sometimes see people on the left rolling their eyes about those signs, I just want you all to know that the other night some lost Black teens came to our house after taking the wrong bus and we were able to get them home. Why’d they pick us? Signs.

Turn off the air conditioning at the White House and let's see how they feel about climate change.

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who is this for?

if you have feelings about SCOTUS after today, and after the last week, and after the last months and years, remember that at least you can vote for state supreme courts in many places this year, and those matter a ton too my state-by-state guide to every state supreme court contest:

Justice Brown Jackson's argument for birthright citizenship is very moving. I recommend reading it in full. An excerpt with alt-text below. “The Reconstruction Amendments were an anticaste, antisubordination reset for the Nation, not a mere spot treatment for the dark stain of slavery.” — KBJ

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This is bone-chilling. A conservative hedge fund manager wants to require little girls to pass genital inspections for their “safety.” And it’s only for girls’ sports. There’s a clear link between transphobia and child sexual abuse.

happy Possible Schism Eve to all who celebrate!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yea it’s hard to convey to people but it’s so hard. I grew up in Dallas which produces more pro athletes than the average area. In HS, I had a teammate who had been summer training and swimming since junior high, and he got about 4 or 5 years in the NFL. It’s so hard to get into pro sports.

I saw a different portion of the interview where she brings up her sons again and she's weaponizing her kids btw. When you hear "sons" you think small children but apparently her youngest is 17 and her oldest is 20.

Time is running out for Odai. He’s back in the hospital and needs urgent surgery for the metal plate in his leg. Every delay is making things worse, and we still can’t afford the treatment. Even $5 can make a real difference 💔🙏 chuffed.org/project/1656... Please help now!! God help him

Thanks to @melissagiragrant.com for letting me know that my Zwilling is subject to a recall. To get the recall you have to cut the cord off though which means I'm now in stainless steel, temperature control electric kettle buying hell. Here is what I found.

I grew up saying the Nicene Creed (Profession of Faith) at least once a week for probably for 12 years. I have never once looked at those signs and seen a similarity. This is looking for things to be angry about.

Baltimore’s homicide rate hits another historic low

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This is why the effort to paint what we were seeing from Border Patrol and ICE as the result of bad training and/or militia infiltration was and remains counterproductive. blockclubchicago.org/2026/06/30/w...

It seems like the only people attending this are journalists and the morbidly curious (a group with incredible overlap).

The sad reality is that so much of this goes back to COVID. A pandemic was raging, the economy was in shambles, people were dying... Republic legislators needed to look like they were doing something to help their constituents, so they started pushing trans sports bans through state legislatures.

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.

I actually think the goal would become to make it exactly that complicated, so that people would fear becoming stateless at the hands of authoritarians and that would lead to greater acquiescence.

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A University of Hawaiʻi report says that building more solar farms with battery storage is the most cost-effective way to power Oʻahu, rather than building new power plants. The electricity company doesn’t agree. Lol.

Globally, 84% of the heatwave days people were exposed to in 2020-24 would not have occurred without climate change. The rate of deaths associated with heat exposure increased by 23% from the 1990s, reaching 546,000 deaths annually. Look where people are dying. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

ok uhm I just watched a video from when London was still in the heatwave of a bus driver outside of his bus getting cold water poured all over him complaining it was 35C (95F) inside his bus. Which lead me down a rabbit hole, and a Question why don't London buses have real AC?

US data centers for AI tend to run on more fossil fuels than renewables → they produce proportionally more climate pollution → which is supersizing extreme weather → which is now the #1 risk to data centers themselves. The very definition of "coming right back around to bite you."

this story makes me feel so insane, I can't get over it

Question. It is going to be 103F (40C) on July 4th in Philadelphia. It is my understanding the stadium is not air conditioned. Are they really going forward with the World Cup match?

Today's tasks involve installing the bedroom AC ahead of tomorrow's heatwave, and stitching together two thermal curtains to keep the AC out of the entryway (they were bought for a different apartment and are too short)

This comes at the same time that the North Carolina Democratic Party becomes the first statewide Democratic Party in the country to endorse a full arms embargo on Israel "until Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and B’Tselem certify that Israel is no longer engaged in apartheid rule."

overheard the wife saying "I'm married to a man who told me to relax and go outside and went though a house on fire calmly collecting cats but has a panic attack because he was asked to put in a contact lens"

NYC: Tomorrow when Con Ed tells you to turn up your AC to avoid blackouts - do not lower your thermostat and tell them to turn off Times Square. Unless you have the misfortune of living on the Times Square Network they could turn it off completely and it wouldn't affect what ConEd needs you to do

Deadline today at 5:00pm: If you are on the NY Essential Plan and have a health vulnerability in extreme heat, you are eligible for a free air conditioner, installation included. Info and to apply:

Goddamn it. Kavanaugh also has the campaign finance case. 6-3, spending limits on dark money violate the First Amendment. Peter Theil's boy comes through for him, throwing WIDE the gates on the billionaire class buying elections.

The outcome is thus: 5–4 that the Constitution protects birthright citizenship for the children of all immigrants. 6–3 that Trump's order is unlawful (because Kavanaugh says it violates a statute, NOT the 14th Amendment.) www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...