The OMB received a total of 341,699 comments in response to their proposed fascist takeover of U.S. science. Let us not forget that there are more of us than there are of them. Fuck these losers. Let's keep the fight going.

we effectively cured AIDS and have a pancreatic cancer vaccine that just passed phase 1 trials

Unreal. Just look at this outbreak of wildfires near the US/Canada border as seen on radar. Climate change has consequences…

this is the closest ICE has ever come to saying "yeah we just murdered a guy"

It was never about female sports

Trump’s talking about Lindsey Graham like he’s a past drummer of Spinal Tap.

I was misquoted if I said it.

"the second time in a week that federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have stopped the wrong vehicle while executing an arrest warrant and fatally shot someone."

Spaceballs: The New One: The Teaser Poster. In theaters April 2027.

it's even dumber than you think

Reminds me of his flip on crypto: First he said "It's a scam," then he realized he was right, and if it was a scam he wanted to get in on it and be the biggest scammer of all. Now it's: How DARE Iran charge tolls in Hormuz! Wait a minute...what if *I* charged tolls in Hormuz? That'd be awesome!

jk rowling spends her days threatening international human rights organisations. do you know how utterly deluded you need to be to do that and think you’re the good guy? she is so far gone. her brain is literal soup.

BREAKING: Federal judge finds that Trump's IRS suit was improper because Trump controlled both sides of the litigation. Judge Kathleen Williams also sanctions Trump's lawyers, issues monetary sanctions, and harshly criticizes DOJ's "untenable" conduct. More to come at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com

You really need to watch the whole thing and see how truly batshit this whole exchange is. Then at the end they compare him to George Washington "who was also shot at."

Billings, MT 3pm temperature is 110°F which is a new all-time record that will likely rise even further. Same thing at Salt Lake City with 109°F so far. Astonishing

"TOY STORY" will be at $1B by the end of the year. The box-office story that's shaking out is the same one predicted for awhile: Millennials are the blockbuster audience, Boomers and Xers are wait-for-streaming, Zoomers are falling into familiar teenage patterns (horror and "new" IP)

The big literary discourse on twitter right now is whether The Hobbit—a children’s book that won children’s lit awards and was literally written for the author’s children—is appropriate reading for children or in fact such a difficult book most adults can’t “get their head around” it.

He won’t even discuss his failed fucking war

I love how this makes it seem like they stopped monitoring RFK Jr

A new OMB rule would allow the executive branch to cut scientific research funds on behalf of corporate interests and against marginalized people. Please submit public comments before the deadline on Monday July 13. This link gives excellent instructions: www.faseb.org/science-poli...

The Cam Of God

Americans voted to violently shit their organs out because they like racism. Who needs regulations and government agencies that work to prevent parasites from infecting produce, right? As long as the Blacks are oppressed and the Browns are rounded up into camps, that's all that matter.

I hope I live long enough to see Russ Vought and Stephen Miller tried for crimes against America.

It's just sad at this point. (Source: apnews.com/article/iran...)

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social Assigned Media finds NYT ran 5 trans sports stories after recent SCOTUS ruling but none quoted trans ppl. This continues its run of being the most likely major outlet to run multiple trans pieces but least likely to quote trans ppl. Grow up, Sulzberger.

"I've also asked that if anything happens to me, half of the Cabinet must be buried with me. I'm not going to say which half."

It's a thing how you can basically sum all the modern dysfunction of government and put it all at Gingrichs feet. There was dysfunction before, don't get me wrong. But every solution to every problem he implemented broke something

The only responsible choice in that election

The labeling is voluntary, so let's see how *that* goes deadline.com/2026/07/musi...

This is exactly what all the AI hype bros sound like to me, thank you The Onion dot com

what a surprise. again, he reacted like this when the Nazi tattoo was revealed! he wasn't contrite, there was no actual acceptance or suggestion of change, it was pure entitlement and anger. All of this should have been obvious.

JUST POSTED: Security Precaution Led Trump to Use Old Air Force One in Leaving Turkey The Secret Service is said to have asked that the president not use the Qatari-donated jet when he left Ankara. The swap deepens questions about the retrofitting of the new plane www.nytimes.com/2026/07/08/u...

I hate this headline. I hate it so much. Let me tell you why. It makes it sound like the AI was "cast" in a movie, except the movie is being made by the same people who made Tilly, it's all in house, I might as well announce that Dan Olson has been cast as the host of a Folding Ideas doc.

A lot of actual card-carrying Nazis were also dimwitted chuds. Just because they didn't do the reading doesn't excuse them from the club, and we can feel entirely comfortable painting them with the same brush. In fact, we should be clear that doing Nazism for the irony doesn't absolve you.

Bullying is all he knows. And it’s worked for him in other parts of his life. But brute bullying isn’t enough here. He’s on a world stage with skilled leaders—exposing weakness with every blast of bombast.

When my Civ VI game gets really interesting

Geez, the studio gave Mel Brooks a huge advertising budget

A newly filed lawsuit alleges that the Trump administration shared confidential information with Tehran about Iranian asylum seekers as it worked to deport them from the United States, putting them at risk of “persecution, torture, and death following their arrival in Iran.” https://cnn.it/4ybCQLn

*angrily, bitterly*: "you can't even be a rapist anymore, because of woke"

how to get to sesame street

By my nonscientific count, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo is at least the 30th person immigration agents have directly killed or participated in the death of since Trump retook the White House. That's on top of the at least 59 people who have died in Trump's concentration camps since then.

Donald Trump is the worst sports jinx of this lifetime.

I have a general rule of thumb: never, ever compare a white man to Emmett Till or Dr. King. Especially if they haven’t been murdered. And especially if they have a Nazi tattoo

We’ve entered the period of the evening when I can’t tell whether the “it’s all over now” vagueposts are about Platner, the USMNT or McConnell.

Well that was pretty terrible, all things considered they’re lucky to only be down 1

SSTs in in Gulf of Mexico are at a record high for this time of year, courtesy of last week’s heat wave. Huge 1°C jump in the past week. Good thing it’s an El Niño year, reducing the odds of a hurricane there. kouya.has.arizona.edu/tropics/GOMs...

Murmurings that the Maine Dem party is planning a state convention if Platner drops out for a replacement candidate, where delegates select the nominee. That's better than an opaque announcement. It's a tick worse than a statewide caucus.

The roof of a BJ’s Wholesale Club collapsed during heavy rains in New Jersey; there were no injuries immediately reported www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...