I don't think I've worn a football shirt, aside from actually playing a match with a team, since I was a kid in the 1980s, but this one is perfect for the Aotearoa summer. Trans rights are human rights. Denying gender affirming care to vulnerable teens is health care fascism.

Probably because Pence knows, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that Trump would let MBS send guys to hack Pence up with a bone saw he wouldn’t think twice about. Especially if some sort of payoff was involved for Trump? Not even twice.

"I'm a model You know what I mean And I do my little turn on the catwalk Yeah on the catwalk On the catwalk Yeah I shake my little tush on the catwalk"

Damn, just started out yelling "JEEEEEWWWWS" and went from there

when you sign up for the military you sign up to protect and defend the united states of america, not the pedophile protector donald trump.

one of the earliest things i worked on at @mmfa.bsky.social was stuart varney freaking out about (unofficial) "gay days" at disney world. he asked the ceo if their new mickey themed computers had gay days on it. www.mediamatters.org/fox-nation/f...

Just telling on themselves repeatedly and unprompted.

Musk gets glazed for something called "first order thinking," and the first question is "how do you manage to always disrupt every single industry with that thinking?" "Well, it's mostly not disruption, it's creation," Musk says. He says there were no electric cars before Tesla (NOT TRUE).

the face of a dog who bamboozled the humans into three dinners and is gunning for a fourth

Swedish Deputy PM: Sweden needs to pick its friends wisely, and we are choosing Canada… So when we come to America, we come to Canada now.

I saw this illustration by @annafollies.bsky.social on Tumblr today and instantly lost it. Still missing Fergus every day. 💔 www.tumblr.com/annafollies

Same vibe.

i believe my dog understands english and is on par intelligence with me--this isn't a joke

I mean....

okey doke

Every day we learn anew that the man who has been hailed as an ultragenius is the biggest fucking dummy with a Jetsons-level understanding of technology.

after 4 years of blaming biden if they stubbed their toe, fox news now says its "unfair" to blame trump for the economy cause he's only been in office 9 months So much for Day 1: Fox News says don't blame Trump for awful economy www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

This is the most ridiculous article I could possibly have imagined anyone could write. “AI is energy and therefore opposing AI is opposing thermodynamics” has to be the most nonsense take I have seen about AI.

Dems created this mess. They reopened the gov’t, got nothing, and now GOP wants tighter abortion limits in exchange for subsidies. States that require abortion coverage are stuck because Dems started a fight they were never ready to finish.

I'm sure many people have mentioned this, but I think it needs to be mentioned again: women do not have yearbooks. Children do. Because yearbooks contain photos of high school students. Or younger.

Utility rates are up 11% since Trump took office, health care premiums are about to surge for millions, and Trump’s tariffs have driven grocery prices up. But you wouldn’t know it by watching our president. talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/trump-w...

📣📣📣 NEW: Conservative Poll: CLEAR majority of swing district Americans support preserving enhanced #ACA premium tax credits: acasignups.net/25/11/18/con...

one thing i think is true is that republicans assumed that democrats would not respond in kind and that the forceful pushback spooked them (a lesson to learn here, perhaps)

Remember according to Republicans, 15 year old girls are actually adult women while 30-something year old men with government jobs are just wee little lads who aren't responsible for their racist and Nazi memes because boys will be boys.

NEW: After fighting to keep emails between Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s office and billionaire Elon Musk’s companies secret, officials have released nearly 1,400 pages of documents to The Texas Newsroom. All but about 200 pages are blacked out.

YOU try saying no to this dog.

One, enjoying his space at the end of the sofa. The other (the burrower), mostly under a blanket, on my lap 💤😂

Anyone in Austin up for this?

Good morning everyone! Democracy Docket v. Washington Post.

she's a lil cold

My training continues with a light round of mind melding. #dachshunds #dogsky

Plus, publications themselves are now run by callous editors and publishers (often from England inexplicably) who do not invest in reporter development and are fine with waves of devastating layoffs. I have friends who were recently fired by Emma Tucker of the Wall Street Journal for no reason

We said the same during the Iraq war and then they just rewrote history and everyone gave them a pass

CDC officials confirm that the US is two months away from measles being considered endemic for the first time since 2000. “Elimination status is lost if the virus spreads continuously for 12 months.” [arstechnica.com]

wait until this guy finds out human bodies aren't houses

From France, #Christmas 1979: Bicycles from Axe (+Racing Bicycle; Mixed Women's Bicycle; Junior Half-Racing Bicycle; Folding Bicycle; Bicycle; and Bicycle with Tire Band) [ENGinALT]

This is the hardest I have seen any member of Congress work to try and address transphobia in Congress, and her ability to get nearly all Democratic lawmakers to sign onto this letter is something any first would applaud

The rest of this headline made me yell “WHAT?!”

I see this, and not only do I think about their lack of ethics and terrible writing, but then I add in guys like Thrush and Halperin and think about all the people who couldn’t even get a foot in the door because they were the ones taking up space, blocking the door, and sucking up all the oxygen.

Dementia rids you of filters. This is the real yamtater.

bringing this from elon's place: aside from the epstein stuff, it has long been known that summers was a bully who would ruin people and burn everything down if he didn't get his way and he had a small army of defenders.

The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion. In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose 29%. (Published May)

Anti-DEI is just pro white supremacy.

authors you have the chance to do the funniest thing right now

I am reminded of a woman who writes really, really well and has never slept with even one (1) source and yet her career as a writer caught terminal is-not-Nuzzi-itis years ago. Who *was* she? I'm blanking on her name oh wait IT'S ME.

I love mess but man this whole thing underlines how much it sucks that all the worst journalists somehow end up with flashy high-paying media jobs

It is genuinely incredible to me how much evidence there is to support investing in the public good and how much animus there is to do this simple, effective thing.