I know antifa isn't a real organization because I don't get 40 texts a week from them asking for donations.

This is a ten minute video broken up into parts for Bluesky from two australian doctors who made it into Gaza. The video starts with them saying the baby formula they brought with them was taken away and that Israel bombing the hospital in front of them and lying about giving warnings

How fucked up is the U.S. as a nation? It is now so fucked up that ICE is arresting elected officials, Congress won't mount a plaque to honor the officers who defended the Capitol during the J6th Insurrection and the same Congress just voted to honor an avowed hate monger. I no longer recognize it.

Well, I think we have confirmed that the revolution will not be televised

Jesus Christ I am trying to get through this article about the new Democratic think tank that will solve everything and each sentence is more infuriating than the last, threading a sampling of the most ridiculous and out of touch please enjoy. archive.ph/8tKsC

And yes, I was the last Black full-time columnist in the Opinion section. Washington Post -- operating in a city which for a long time has been majority Black, is now without any full-time Black opinion writers.

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

The only thing Charlie Kirk had in common with Jesus is that Christians get mad when you quote him to them.

I like how this dude looks like he's either extremely annoying or incredibly cool www.nbcboston.com/news/health/...

"Why should I care about U.S. Space Command being transferred to Alabama? I hate the military-industrial complex. We spend too much money on defense. Why does it matter which rich people get richer off it?" There are a number of reasons you should care, but you really only need one. (thread)

My favorite evergreen Molly Ivins quote: "I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag."

Checks out. Absolutely true story. www.newsweek.com/ice-detains-...

Here’s what I see: A) The vast majority of Dems have coalesced around a morally clear platform. B) The vast majority of elected Dems have coalesced around protecting and pleasing their donors. C) Those two encampments are miles apart.

The president is just buying companies?

Trump keeps MAKING UP grand accomplishments that he didn’t accomplish, and then whining that he wouldn’t get credit IF he accomplished them.

Then they came for the reasonable people, And I did not speak out, Because I was listening politely while I gave them a fair chance to make their case in the marketplace of ideas as they were kidnapping me, locking me up, and deporting me.

Hey, shut your mouth about New York! Also, this is true.

My wife shared this with me and I’m tellin you… it’s worth the read.

What voters love - I mean fucking *love* - are candidates who talk like a corporate Chief People Officer, dancing around direct questions and just saying words in the hope that you’ll forget what the question was. People can’t get enough of it. I am smart and my consulting fee is $250,000.

I've seen this on Bluesky and had to try it myself. The image below was the response to the prompt: "Show me a diagram of the US presidents since Herbert Hoover, with their names and years in office under their photos" Bravo, OpenAI, bravo.

Only when I told it to go out on its own did chaos, including Nobama! and Nobiden!, ensue: “Can you make me a diagram of the US presidents since Herbert Hoover, with their names and years in office under their photos, not just give me someone else’s.”

What a perfect definition of a “good neighborhood.” I live somewhere similar and love it.

In fact, the news media keep reporting tariffs as "President Trump put XX% tariffs on Country Y." It actually should be, "President Trump put XX% tariffs on American importers of goods from Country Y." I have never seen that phrasing, which would be accurate.

Omg.

This is crazy "journalism" by the New York Times. Just don't do this.

The Tom Lehrer-est response ever.

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

DHS has arrested two medical personnel at a surgical center in California for demanding that the officers trespassing in their building identify themselves & provide a warrant, accusing them of another.... wait for it... ASSAULT. The case shows how DHS lies relentlessly to violate the Constitution

Turkey reached 50.0°C (122ºF) for the first time in recorded history today. This isn’t just a heatwave, It’s the edge of human survival. In low humidity just 30 minutes of exposure risks heat stroke. Increasing humidity shortens that time.

God this is good.

Scotland

🚨BREAKING: The last journalists working for AFP in Gaza have said they can no longer work for the news agency. They are out of energy and they are starving to death. I have never seen a statement from a news organisation like it. 🧵

MATEWAN (1987), written and directed by John Sayles. AVALON (1990), written and directed by Barry Levinson. Because (1) they really would go together, and I would appreciate seeing them again, and (2) talk about two movies that reflect today's America through its history. There are none better.

Holy Crap look at the posted job applications for Alligator Auschwitz! The amount of money these so called Guards will be making is insane! 🤬🤬

if your local economy is built on "high paying jobs" at the prison, your economy deserves to fail

They’re saying it proudly on Fox News now. As a Jew, I actually appreciate the clarity.

Lawyers for ICE are increasingly hiding their identities in court. This is completely unprecedented. “We’re not really doing names publicly,” said Judge ShaSha Xu — after stating her own name and those of the immigrants and their lawyers. theintercept.com/2025/07/15/i...

Part of living in a police state.

This makes total sense if it's a scene from Idiocracy.

Got damn

"Most likely I gave the order but I haven't done that yet"?

"I can't think of a Jewish Nazi, but that's what you are right now."

Holding the wrong sign is illegal in London now. novaramedia.com/2025/07/05/p...

This is a good idea and should be a fixture in every city.

Conditions don't matter in concentration camps.

The NYT is publishing a top 100 films of the 2000s and lets you do your own top 10. Here is my own list, but my top observation is that reality has made IDIOCRACY indisputably a top 10 film.

This is very smart.

Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.

Alexandra Petri.