I love Mahler and the hammer bit is extremely fun but 9 times out of 10 they take his direction for the strike too literally and it just sounds like a dull “thump,” outrageously anticlimactic. They should just do whatever they need to to make it loud as hell

Former New Jersey cop admits in court he stalked two teen girls, one of whom he met at a local National Night Out event, "an annual community-building campaign designed to promote police-community partnerships." patch.com/new-jersey/m...

Via @courtwatch.bsky.social: Yet another former Florida Fish & Wildlife employee is suing the state after being fired for posting "rest in p!ss 😊" in a private Facebook group in response to Charlie Kirk's death www.courtwatch.news/p/181-an-exe...

"According to court records, Doña Ana County sheriff's deputies said Skaggs was driving on Monday afternoon when she hit a man as he crossed the street. The man died from his injuries. Deputies said Skaggs left the scene of the crash." www.koat.com/article/new-...

Some asshole grievously wounded a porcupine with their car in front my house this morning. General PSA: please slow down and watch where you're driving, especially this time of year when critters are on the move.

"i frew up"

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

Lunacy. Here's Emmer 10 years ago.

bröthers, let us feast upon the Writhing Mass

When a license plate is captured by an automated license plate reader (ALPR), it’s instantly compared against a list of vehicles that the police are actively looking for, known as a “hotlist.” EFF has learned that one of these hotlists targets immigrants on behalf of ICE. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

the truly enraging thing is that sam alito will never face this question from a member of the public. we have allowed these people to create a wall between themselves and the people they rule over.

Fed. judge holds that Trump's Federal Election EO is ultra vires and violates the separation of powers. All agencies, including importantly USPS, are enjoined from implementing the EO with respect to the Nov. 3, 2026 election. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

If you want to get your blood pressure up this morning

Roanoke installed 41 Flock Raven audio sensors across the city, and they somehow placed 30 of them in the wrong locations. They're blaming it all on a data entry error but I'm struggling to understand what kind of error would produce a screw-up like that www.wfxrtv.com/news/roanoke...

If you had asked me to draw a cartoon of somebody who makes terroristic threats in the comments section of a news story I basically would have drawn that guy

ICE agents went into a polling place yesterday to demand an election worker take down an Instagram post naming Jonathan Ross as the agent who murdered Renee Good. www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...

We've learned of two new cases of police officers using Flock to stalk wives, girlfriends and exes, bringing our running tally to 20. If you're aware of any that we missed, drop us a line! We can protect your anonymity if needed, and will not publish info about victims. ij.org/police-have-...

"I have tried other VR and AR demos. So many are like this. They all have problems even in highly controlled environments and barely do anything more than your phone can do, with the added bonus of being incredibly expensive, uncomfortable, and branding you as an asshole." 👍

When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

Trump administration does a lot of vile shit but "a refugee program only for white south africans" is so cartoonishly heinous it takes your breath away

Great moments in policing: After a Georgia woman sued the government over a wrong-house SWAT raid in search of a suspect *who was already in custody,* the government is now claiming they were looking for a *different* suspect with no relation to the woman. ij.org/press-releas...

Between topical anti-tick treatments like Frontline and an actual working vaccine, my dog is vastly more protected from Lyme disease than me or my kids and I think that's a sign of deep societal failure. What are we doing?

Thought I had the moths in my flat under control after ripping out all the carpets. Then I discovered they’ve eaten their way through two cashmere sweaters, a merino cardigan and two wool skirts. I have today unleashed a new weapon: tiny parasitic wasps that hunt down moth eggs and devour them

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.

FUCK

There should be a movie called “all cats are big now” where all cats are suddenly 10 feet tall and hunting their owners and Patrick Wilson is a scientist looking at a screen and it shows a graph of cats being small and then big with an arrow pointing at big and he takes off his glasses dramatically

Don't make me tap the sign again. Tetraethyl lead was one of the worst mistakes our society ever made.

The most off-putting man in the world

TMZ meets reflecting pool police state is the coverage we deserve. www.tmz.com/2026/06/22/w...

I used to be really into tracking air pollution, because the harms are real and implicated in risks of 1,000 different bad things I wanted to minimize. Then I got hit from out of the fucking blue with a random-ass cancer with little-to-no nexus with any of it!

I did not know about the A-pillar blind spot problem (gift article) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Using criminal charges to scapegoat innocent people for the regime’s mistakes is about as authoritarian as it gets. www.reuters.com/world/us/peo...

eye-popping dispatch from a bowfishing tournament in Minnesota where anglers shoot fish all night and throw them away minnesotareformer.com/2026/06/22/t...

Britain about to get its seventh Prime Minister in ten years. I can’t say I’m surprised. As a people they’re often wonderful of course—very musical, for example, many charming customs, and always joking around in their quirky way—but they just don’t have the temperament for stable self-government.

You’d think that “don’t drive into a fucking house” would be in like the first 100 or so lines of code for these things

These people have lost their whole minds. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/20/a...

Instead of the hype video Mamdani's office put out there'd be a murky video of Adams swaying at an enormous jersey with Mayor on the back over a full suit at a nightclub called MORE, owned by a guy who has been to prison twice for medicaid fraud.

A badge of honor.

earlier today I saw a friend on facebook repost this graph from Institute for Family Studies, coauthored by Brad Wilcox. immediately it felt fishy to me not only because of the source but because something just smelled off about the graph. what would be the mechanism for that kind of plunge?

This does. Not. Happen. The government does not agree to pay defendants’ legal fees. It is not done. They are doing it in the hopes of avoiding discovery, because they are hiding something that is somehow even worse than what we already know.

If you’re wondering how bad things got, I tried to put as much of this as I could in one place. Please read: www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

He has dyed the reflecting pool green in honor of Islam per Iran's demands.

DOJ's indictment today of anti-ICE protestors in Minnesota suggests that "opposing the authority of the United States government" is illegal www.startribune.com/live-federal...

Kohen Wiley, a 1-year-old child, is dead after a Mississippi police officer shot into a car and killed him. Family members say his mother was holding him in the passenger seat. The officers were responding to a shoplifting call over a box of diapers at the Senatobia Walmart.

Workers dumping hydrogen peroxide into the Reflecting Pool this morning

There are no circumstances in which you are better off voluntarily speaking to the FBI without a lawyer. None. Don't be polite and chat. It could ruin you.

A Muslim Texan sought to find his place in the party at the state GOP convention. He left in tears. www.texastribune.org/2026/06/15/t...

Attn: @darthbluesky.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/06/13/u...