Not to be a broken record or anything but it’d be just aces if literally anyone with the authority did something about the unyieldingly apocalyptic damage these soulless pieces of shit are doing on a daily basis seeing that it’s already going to take decades to even begin repairing.

Daniel makes great stuff! Buy some and help a good cause at the same time! (Make great gifts for the spacey people in your life …)

Trump's illegal murders in the Caribbean just got worse. An internal DOJ memo on the bombings says the victims are waging war on the US, but per NYT, it extensively cites the WH's *own claims* to this effect as evidence! It gets even darker than that. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2032...

The Founders were so concerned about bribery that the Constitution forbids it three separate times. Two emoluments clauses ban officials—unambiguously including the president—from accepting things of value, plus bribery is the only named impeachable offense besides treason. Unprecedentedly corrupt.

This whole thread. Republicans in Congress are as corrupt as Trump. And the Dems who didn’t dig in their heels to block this are part of it. Talking about you, @kaine.senate.gov. You betrayed me with this.

Congratulations to the ESCAPADE team! science.nasa.gov/blogs/escapa...

NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected. And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.* Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:

LANDED IT! That was crazy! Looked like it was going to miss, but slid back into the target and pretty much hovered to the deck and nailed it!

#BlueOrigin did it: New Glenn launched the two spacecraft if NASA’s #ESCAPADE mission to Mars — and landed its monster booster successfully on drone ship Jacklyn!

This is the best takedown of Musk I’ve ever read. From a beloved author around my age no less, Joyce Carol Oates.

New from 404 Media: ICE plans to spend as much as $180 million on bounty hunters to physically locate and stalk immigrants. I spoke to multiple private investigators/skip tracers. Some horrified. Others said they will do this work. "Money is money." www.404media.co/ice-plans-to...

This — makes me feel old. But also validates my experience of doing spotlight tours in the National Air and Space Museum’s Destination Moon gallery; most of our visitors did not see Neil Armstrong walking on the Moon, or know that Gene Cernan was the last human on the Moon in 1972.

The President pardoned members of his private militia after they failed to overturn an election; they, in turn, pledge their support to him and urge him to use them to police civil society.

Morally repugnant. Just unspeakable. bsky.app/profile/chri...

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

My first photos using my new Seestar S30 smart telescope: last night’s Beaver Moon, captured from my front yard. I have to master manual focusing on a dinky iPhone 13 mini …

I understand this in large part because of @nkjemisin.bsky.social's The City We Became.

Every single county in Virginia shifted Blue.

Republicans got their asses kicked so bad tonight, I would advise all Venezuelan fisherman to stay home for a few days if they can.

i want to repeat this: mamdani and spanberger have run similar campaigns tailored to their respective electorates and it is maddening to watch political journalists attempt to create some broad contrast where none exist

I worked Fairfax County’s most populous precinct, 332 Coates, and these were the results we posted tonight.

Came here to say this, but Jamelle Bouie has this covered. 👇 When the Democratic tent includes candidates like Spanberger and Mamdani, there is no crisis, or fight, for the party. IT’S A COALITION, NOT A POINT ESTIMATE.

The polls are open in Virginia! We poll workers are eager to welcome you! #election2025

Even if the House was fully functional, they're in session for an avg of 147 days and out for 218. Under Speaker Johnson, Congress has been in session only 12 of the last 97 days, and he still won't swear in Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva. These are the people who demand Work Requirements.😐

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Hey, @kaine.senate.gov @markwarner.bsky.social @jameswalkinshaw.bsky.social — here’s an idea for you. Take a page from the Black Panthers and demonstrate in practical terms that Democrats help people on literal kitchen table issues …

Once again, the main day of Tea Party protests had about 300,000 nationwide, but saw endless coverage. The No Kings protests had about 7,000,000 nationwide, and many media outlets reacted with a yawn. No Kings was nearly 25x as big as the Tea Party but the Tea Party got 25x the attention.

SNAP benefits are about to lapse because of the shutdown. Reminders: 1. About 1 in 2 children will receive SNAP benefits at some point and 1 in 4 children are receiving benefits in a given month. 2. Trump is already planning to cut SNAP in other ways. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-big-be...

Too 🐸 brilliant!!!

i really resent the continued assertion that there’s so much anger on both sides, as if the causes of the anger are equally legitimate. we’re angry because masked maniacs are violently snatching our family and neighbors off the street, and they’re angry because we’re calling them out for it.

I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak

I find it amazing too that Republicans’ boycott of Washington isn’t the biggest story of them all. The shutdown can’t end if they refuse to show up for work.

the symbolism of “Trump destroying the White House for a overpriced luxury vanity project, during a government shut down, days after a historically-large mass demonstration against his regime called “No Kings”’ would be rightly viewed as laying it on a little thick if it was in a work of fiction

The 14th Amendment was adopted after the Civil War to protect the rights of Black Americans. An argument being made at the Supreme Court invites a return to the era when race was a barrier to entry for political representation. bit.ly/4qeZmz4

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the crowd sizes are obviously the highlight here but the fact that *this* is the public statement of the NYPD does not bode well for the regime. or, put another way: I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

Amazing that “No kings and no Nazis” is suddenly a controversial slogan and up for debate in 2025. These are the two most basic creeds of American history.

My sister — about to turn 72 — did her very first solo protest today as part of #NoKings. She made her own two-sided sign using my foamcore stock and thick rainbow Sharpies, and bought a yellow sweater vest from a local thrift shop. I’m very proud.

These are the only sentences which should be said over and over again to the SCt “The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments were expressly crafted to grant Black people equal rights as citizens in a democratic society. The Court is preparing to use those very Amendments to deny those rights instead.”

Pope Leo calls on journalists to report facts and expose disinformation. www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

My participation in the #FairMaps rally at SCOTUS on Wednesday got documented on the local NBC News 4 broadcast tonight! Guess the cameraman liked my sign …

Mike Johnson called us back from July 4 recess on 7/3 so he could gut Americans’ healthcare in the Big Ugly bill. Since then, he has only had the House in session for 19 of the subsequent 104 days. That’s how we ended up here.

I was part of the large peaceful protest at SCOTUS this morning before and during the arguments on the Louisiana voting rights case. #FairMaps

Trump found another $20 BILLION to give to Argentina, totaling their bailout to $40 BILLION. Yet we can’t afford to prevent millions of Americans from losing their healthcare. Shame.

Very straightforwardly detained by secret police for speech. I honestly don't know what establishment figures are telling themselves any more to avoid cognitive dissonance over this shit.

I’m on my way right now to participate in the #FairMaps protest at SCOTUS this morning. My sign reads, “VOTING RIGHTS are for PEOPLE, NOT PARTIES” with “FAIR MAPS” on the other side.