Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social. #MAGA

New look at the Reflecting Pool explorethomascole.org/project/deso...

Someone please mash up Narcissus and the Portrait of Dorian Gray into the tale a demented man who thought to see his own magnificence reflected in, well, a Reflecting Pool and instead saw failure and algae and decay.

Trump's War, The Musical

We could house everyone, feed everyone, care for everyone & build devices to last as possible aligning our manufacturing around the needs of the people That's why leftists are angry. The resources for a world where everyone thrives exist We just use them now to pamper the rich or murder the poor

At Millvale Pride

This is the equivalent of “sharpiegate” but in this case someone called b.s. on Trump. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/19/w...

The idea that this or that skill or major is the secret to immediate, secure employment for undergrads requires rejecting most of what we know about the career effects of undergraduate education. Embracing that kind of zero sum logic is just pushing your neighbor in front of the bear.

And here we have the latest comment on the reflecting pool restoration.

I love when Texas brags about Juneteenth like Union troops did not have to go down there and tell them, “Fucking stop. Slavery is over.”

I frequently find myself reminding people that there’s virtually nothing that humans or the universe could do to the Earth, short of basically breaking it in half, that would make it less habitable than Mars is now.

He signed an unconditional surrender at Versailles? Come the fuck on.

It’s clear now that Trump tore up the Obama nuclear deal with Iran because he thought it was unfair to Iran. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/06...

As other people have pointed out: Trump promised "unconditional surrender" after his Iran war. He has delivered. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/06...

Cowbird

Short take: U.S. goes to war with Iran. Iran wins. China wins. (Gift article.) www.nytimes.com/2026/06/16/b...

I assume the Iranians are absolutely astonished at how well this war has ultimately ended up going for them, compared to what I assumed they expected at the start of all this stupid nonsense.

This is outstanding news. Of course, solar needs to grow faster, coal needs to go away. If not for Trump's soviet-style interference, both of those changes would be accelerating.

1. Progressive Champions PAC, a super PAC created last month, says on its website that its mission is to “elect bold, progressive candidates up and down the ballot.” A Popular Information investigaiton reveals that it's a GOP front group. Following along for receipts. 🧵

Carrick. Sunnyland Ave. Caller says that sometimes when the mailman delivers mail it blocks her security camera. Caller is upset.

Now would be a good time to read Liu Cixin, The Wages of Humanity. And also a good time to tax the rich. A lot. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/t...

Inside you, there are two wolves. One is Sheetz. One is WaWa. They want you to call a sandwich made with cold cuts by different names. You are Pennsylvania, and the primordial hatred and enmity of the western and eastern sides of the state will not be calmed.

"I never thought leopards would eat MY face," sobs man who *helps run* the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party

Strongly recommend.

Fancy way of saying everything Trump touches turns to shit:

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Ok. These data centers need to slow their fucking roll. Between the water and fuel needed to run them, and the environmental impacts, including ground warming, they need to stop. Just fucking stop. Let’s be smarter about this.

Tl;dr but thoroughly dismantles the notion that LLMs have, or will soon have, consciousness. This is on the level of believing that the voice recording of “your call is important to us” actually values your call. www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...

Timely reminder.

Shadyside. Ellsworth Ave. If you put a gun in someone’s mailbox, they were not expecting it.

Welp there’s no unseeing this

the only depths to which they will not sink are the ones that would give us useful data www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c...

Trump can repeatedly bomb the hell out of Iran and they still won’t back down, while Republicans in Congress spend every day terrified that they might draw a mean Truth Social post if they step out of line from Dear Leader’s whims and wishes.

How many times have we heard that we live in the wealthiest country on earth? 45% of households cannot cover the basics. www.wesa.fm/national-int...

The moment the government starts telling you where free speech is allowed, it stops being free speech and becomes government-managed speech. The First Amendment Zone is the entire country.

What a coincidence! I just interviewed this Fisher Price Farmer Says See 'n' Say, and it told me some incredibly interesting things about farm life. Let me know when you'd like to publish this!

This Day in Labor History: May 31, 1889. The South Fork dam, on the land of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club above the city of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, collapsed during a heavy rainstorm. The Johnstown Flood killed over 2,200 people and helps understand class inequality in the Gilded Age!

“They said they felt daunted by an unforgiving job market, pessimistic about matters as personal as their romantic prospects and broadly unsure of where they fit in society.” Just solve those issues Dems and you can depend on the young male vote. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/28/u...

If you're a die-hard transit rider, if/when something changes, your Plan B might be a car. If you're a die-hard bike rider, if/when something changes, your Plan B might be a car. what if we planned the network to demote the car to like Plan C maybe

I've also been touting this book ever since 2016. Brilliant work, but also (sadly) timely.

Advocate for the value of your discipline until you're sick of it. Advocate for the value of your discipline until *they're* sick of it. It, whatever it is, is too important to not advocate for.

Carrick. Brownsville Road. Caller said that he sees a van that says "Cocaine Van" written on the side. Caller believes that is suspicious for the area.

Making progress is key

“That a priest like Labat, who was a firm believer in the Code Noir, could be simultaneously compassionate and monstrous was not merely a failure of character; it was the system working exactly as designed.” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/25/o...

It’s like a war. You can’t move on as long as anyone alive still pines for what used to be. Twitter collapsed as an ideal because it was just the fumes of an idea that was already dead. But the memory of it being great will haunt us until our generation fades.

A good primer on how the banality of evil still operates. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/w...

How do Americans feel about the war? We asked ten big city homosexuals to share their thoughts.

Let's call it what it is: To enrich himself and the billionaire Epstein class, Trump is carrying out the most blatant heist of all-time. We are witnessing the rape, plunder, and pillage of America's working class — and the most insane rise of our national debt in history.

Oh, for the days when students were eager to read.

Folio, Quarto, Octavo, Duodecimo, Oblong, WTF?