this is the chaplain btw. wonder why he was fired.

“The last night I was a pediatric resident, a child came in with Hib and promptly died by the next day. I didn’t work for 50 years to have everything destroyed by one man.” -Dr. Kathryn Edwards, Vanderbilt University This is what RFK Jr. and the anti-vaxxers have wrought.

Blanche “used the 2-day interview to test whether and if so how Ghislaine would implicate various famous ppl, including Trump. After she declined to do that, even w/testimony that directly conflicted w/piles of records Blanche had in his possession, he rewarded her with … a transfer to Club Fed.”

Blue hour with full moon over cathedral, New Orleans

I just don’t think you need to love war crimes to be a real man.

Hegseth can't hurt the guy he wants to--Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll--so he will have to settle for somebody who works for the guy he wants to hurt. Pain by proxy is part of Hegseth's deeply unwell leadership philosophy.

I heard someone say that we should be registering voters at gas stations.

Wired Magazine absolutely killing it lately. www.wired.com/story/border...

All the fall guys are women. Weird

The New York Times rolling up its sleeves to do the hard work of normalizing the idea that women should not have the right to vote.

Textbook corporate greed.

Rep. Garcia: Todd Blanche was Donald Trump's former personal lawyer. And this is the same person that moved Ghislaine Maxwell from a secure facility to this club facility where she was able to communicate, talk to pets and have secret meetings with God knows who. Todd Blanche has a lot to answer for

In case you were wondering: Yes, there is a Jonathan the Great Tortoise angle to the Pam Bondi firing news.

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Noem gave the Coast Guard Commandant THREE HOURS to clear out. Do we really not have an answer to this question yet?

Someone sent me this.

It’s a small thing, but are noem and bondi going to be forced to leave the public housing they stole from the taxpayers?

The Chirodectes jellyfish, seen only twice, is a rare marvel of the ocean. This footage captures its stunning speed and unique markings. A gem for marine research.

Two brilliant civil rights lawyers - one Asian American; one Black American. Both women. @aclu.org’s Cecellia Wang & @legaldefensefund.bsky.social’s @janainelson.bsky.social. They argued two of the most consequential cases in SCOTUS this year. This embrace is one of my favorite moments of the day.

And in honor of this weekend:

***Leaked White House Video*** Trump previewing his Iran war speech: “Tonight, I’m making a little speech at 9 o’clock and basically I’m going to tell everybody how great I am. What all great job I’ve done. What a phenomenal job I’ve done.”

There are now 10 toilets in Space International Space Station: 4 Crew Dragon Docked at ISS: 1 Soyuz Docked at ISS: 1 Tiangong Space Station: 2 Shenzhou Docked at TSS: 1 Artemis II on way around Moon: 1 This will be the first time a toilet has left low earth orbit!

One thing is clear tonight, Trump started this war with no goals, fought it with no strategy, and now is trying to end it with no grasp of reality.

The Biden debate performance that ended his presidency was one-tenth as addled as what I'm watching right now.

They took this down. Would be a shame if a lot of people saw it and reposted

This is Honey. She's a half-blind senior who survived a bear attack while protecting her family and farm. “She protected our chickens and our family," said her mom. "She’s our little savior." Honey has been treated for her injuries and is on the mend. We're awarding her our highest honor, a 15/10

Got a smidgen of dust in my eye

If you look closely, you’ll see that amongst the factual accounts, the NYT left it to a poet to convey the eloquence, beauty and the enormity of the moment.

Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social

He literally falls asleep at every meeting where he's not talking

i like the fantasy of trump attending the supreme court hearing on revoking birthright citizenship, as though he will be thoughtfully considering the legal merits of the case with great intellectual mind, instead of staring down conservative justices to make sure they do his bidding

Is this chair in the room with us right now?

Without birthright citizenship there is no freedom. No civil rights. No democracy. Because then your citizenship in the country where you were born becomes a political question. People with power decide if you belong. Instead of the other way around, the way it should be.

The fact that Trump is going to oral arguments to pressure the justices to acquiesce to his attempted nullification of a constitutional amendment and create a stateless class for the first time since the civil war, illustrates what is really at the core of the Trump project and it isn’t tariffs.

"trans ideology is a sickness." [reads the news] "people's personal affairs are none of our business and we should talk about immigration"

A new statue, a toilet spray painted gold and set on a faux-marble pedestal, is the latest in a series of protest artworks and installations taking aim at President Trump and his administration that have popped up in Washington, D.C. https://wapo.st/484QCUB

"Israel" doesn't start with a J.

After I shot this photo of Stephanie Tubbs at the #NoKings rally in Hattiesburg, I asked for her name. She hesitated, worried about how her family would react. "No problem," I told her, "We don't have to use your name." She paused. "Fuck it," she said, drawing cheers from the women around her.

My greatest adult disappointment was discovering that bad people get away with everything.

I mean there it is.

The U.S. Army is investigating why two AH-64 Apache attack helicopters flew over a No Kings protest in Nashville, Tennessee, on Saturday, and then performed low-altitude maneuvers near the home of musician Kid Rock. trib.al/6ll4xwh

Cruz went to Harvard and Princeton

"A statue of Jefferson Davis still holds pride of place inside the Capitol a mile or two from where we are meeting. “I mean, are there statues of Adolf Hitler in Berlin?” Stevenson asks." My Lunch with Bryan Stevenson - one of the most remarkable people I've met. as.ft.com/r/03ca3d70-9...

"What's really exciting about this work is that it suggests that the roots of this capacity for imagination are not unique to our species," said study co-author Christopher Krupenye with Johns Hopkins University. https://to.pbs.org/3NZsw6E

Goldin wrote her first book (1976) about urban slavery in the antebellum South. She was one of a cohort of "cliometric" historians who used quantitative methods to shed light on the history of slavery.

"You gotta mike the box." the engineer Bill Halverson on the making of "Ain't No Sunshine," 1971 (from a Mix interview in 2012)

So um Bob just announced a patreon

Heather Cox Richardson has a larger audience than almost any dudefluencer. More informed. Better values & policy preferences. And yet there are no profiles, no elevation or lionization, because there's *nothing* US media is less interested in than middle-aged lib women. No diner interviews for them.

After Claudia Goldin became the first woman to win a solo Nobel in economics, she got hundreds of invitations. She accepted three. One was advising WNBA players on a labor deal. She helped players land the biggest % raise in US sports history. www.wsj.com/economy/wnba...

@leahgreenberg.bsky.social @indivisible.org We can check Antarctica ✅ off, they had a No Kings event there too! Passengers on the Hondius, 62 degrees south of the equator: