First, you will all get explosive diarrhea.....and you will deserve it.

This is complete insanity. But it’s their new apocalyptic talking point: that we are somehow on the brink of a communist takeover and we need them save us. And they use these end-times warnings as a pretext for power grabs.

Lindsey Graham was one of the main subjects of a @theatlantic.com cover story I wrote in 2020, on why people collaborate with regimes they know are immoral. Here's a gift link: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

The frontman of a Russian rock band denounced the war in Ukraine onstage in Yekaterinburg. His management now says he was slipped drugs by strangers in his dressing room and that everything he said was "raving." meduza.io/en/news/2026...

Most support refuge for people fleeing persecution, Ipsos poll shows reut.rs/4ykCdz3

14 July 1931 | An Italian Jewish girl, Eleonora Pergola, was born in Rome. She arrived at #Auschwitz on 23 October 1943 in a transport of 1,035 Jews deported from Rome. She was among 893 of them murdered in gas chambers after the selection.

An incredibly corrupt administration

More signs of resurging HIV after USAID’s closure. African Neonatal Network reported at IMNCH (a global health conference): HIV+ pregnant women ↑50% & those not on antiretrovirals ↑>300%, year-on-year, across 22 hospitals in 5 nations. @vtoxfordnetwork.bsky.social

Much of our conversation with @hcrichardson.bsky.social about ON COURAGE came back to this: after talking to dissidents on five continents, we believe defeating authoritarianism begins by expanding your circle of commitment. Full “American Conversations” interview: www.youtube.com/live/NgpJUas...

This is a really good explainer about the mortality estimates around USAID. One big point is that dismantling USAID also dismantled one of the main sources of mortality data in some of these regions. Early indicators of mortality are very worrying.

Elon Musk’s family foundation took Tommy Robinson to Russia, says Musk’s father

His most famous quote is still on Twitter x.com/lindseygraha...

Lindsay Graham was, I think, one of the most contemptible figures in US politics, a titan of respectable bipartisan foreign policy for years who displayed no principles, no insight, and no beliefs beyond a gleeful and vicarious love of violence. An indictment of every institution he served in. RIP.

Yes you're blowing shithole craters in your pants. But at least the acolyte didn't get a second season bsky.app/profile/phil...

I'm afraid he's being sincere here: goals with respect to Earth rather than SpaceX.

my man this is the fifth praise be to allah this year. they have betting markets for it now

Preening arrogance is a funny way to talk about a dude who's aura is best described as "guy who is optimistic to the point of being annoying that says hello and smiles at everyone on his 6AM walk to work"

People of Clacton: you could be legends.

Nothing says “this insurance company knows my country” than using an AI generated map of Belgium that puts Ghent in Wallonie, gives us two Namurs and a south coast on the Med.

this is one of the many small changes Trump is making in his attempt to manipulate the midterms

10 July 1921 | A Polish Jew, Gerson Rosenholz, was born in Kańczuga. In #Auschwitz from 15 December 1941. No. 24567 He perished in the camp on 26 March 1942.

9 July 1886 | Dutch Jewish woman, Mina Levie-Monas, was born in Bergum / Burgum. In November 1942 she was deported from #Westerbork to #Auschwitz. She was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.

Where are all the newspaper editorial pages crusading for democracy? Or has the advent of fascism proven their worthlessness definitively?

One of the first things Facebook’s algorithm showed me today was this propaganda post by Patriot Front. It’s not just that FB is platforming fascists. They are algorithmically PROMOTING and amplifying them.

Thought I should say, for reasons: if anyone's tried to contact me through DMs here, their messages have not reached me.

As much as 40 percent of longform posts on LinkedIn and X that users actually see are fully AI-generated, according to new research Particularly notable because we know these platforms are flooded with slop, but this studied what the algorithm actually shows people www.404media.co/linkedin-and...

the final reckoning between AI hype and reality is upon us. buckle up.

NEW: Last year, a whistleblower alleged that members of DOGE had accessed, and potentially exfiltrated data from the National Labor Relations Board. The claims spurred an investigation from the Government Accountability Office, which published a report in April... www.wired.com/story/federa...

800,000 dead. @jackohman.bsky.social on Elon Musk’s USAID cuts. Make a former trillionaire cry. Share this cartoon everywhere.

That sure puts Vance's alarmism over islamization of US allies into a different light

It’s pretty simple, actually.

People this clinically insane shouldn't have the keys to a golf cart, let alone the federal government of the United States of America

JC!

Sudan is on the brink of another major human rights disaster The UN has issued a “red alert” over el-Obeid, warning of a possible RSF assault as civilian protection rapidly deteriorates We cannot look away again

Imagine you see your little kid on a cute day of ceremony being demonized by the president of the United States and their face targeted in front of the world.

1/ An Israeli soldier threw a stun grenade into a Palestinian vehicle while blocking the door and preventing the driver from escaping, during a raid on the Qalandia refugee camp near Ramallah yesterday.

The Atlantic republishes JD Vance’s anti-Trump essay from 10 years ago

The US abandoning Ukraine in an attempt to facilitate Russian victory has serious consequences. As Ukraine increasingly manages to strike Russian energy infrastructure, Russia bombs Ukrainian civilians hoping to make Ukraine quit, and more Russian missiles get through due to air defense shortages.

Trump brags about locking people up for stealing a toothbrush. It is far more expensive to incarcerate the poor than to care for them.

An elderly neighbour left a 70 minute butt-dialed voice note on the street chat last night. Its entirely white noise. This is what WhatsApp's "transcribe" feature thinks it says.