little to add to Platner discourse that others haven't said better. so i'll just say once again that the era of consequence free politics is no good and it is important to bring back shame

Art imitates life.

"They just want to turn it off." A fascinating story of the librarians who have started teaching classes showing people how to remove AI "features" from their phones and apps. www.bangordailynews.com/2026/07/02/m...

I wanted to let you know that this afternoon, federal agents and ICE vehicles were parked at the Powderhorn Park Recreation Center parking lot and on the 3400 block of Bloomington Ave S. Please continue to be on the lookout, and alert your neighbors if you see any ICE presence in our community. 1/

Not to go all literary and shit, but the parade of Republicans claiming to chat with Mitch McConnell brings to mind Henry IV and Owen Glendower's boast that he can summon spirits from the "vasty deep." Hotspur in reply: "Why so can I or so can any man. But will they come when you do call for them?"

I suspect the actual mechanism here is that Twitter's algorithm systematically promotes left voices who hate Democrats and the Democratic Party and all those people loved Platner vs Bluesky which doesn't have an algorithm at all.

If a company has to lay off 10,000 people, the executive team should be fired, because they clearly weren’t businessing very well.

They’ve said this about nearly everyone they’ve shot in a moving car, and they’ve lied nearly every time.

The right time to unfollow Ken Klippenstein was probably a long while ago, but if you're like me, you have to settle for right now before your SQUIRREL brain is off chasing something else.

Join the festivities today to celebrate a man taken too soon!!

I am begging the editors of the New York Times to seek help

what a fucking asshole

The initial reaction from senior sports federation officials in Europe is that reinstating Russia while the occupation of Ukraine is ongoing will likely lead to a mass European boycott of the LA Olympics, and there will be pressure on Canada to join it.

One of the reasons I wrote this essay was to unpick what all those factions had in common re: their support of Platner. What united groups of Extremely Online liberals, leftists, feminists, progressives, Substack centrists, James Carville, and your dad. This happened. You have to deal with reality.

Zohran up 32 points over Bibi among American Jews should scramble a lot of very dumb narratives

I'm so disillusioned, I almost don't even care who gets the FIFA Peace Prize next year

👀👀👀

We got a lot of great things done because she was the governor. And that's apparently not what she wants to be known for.

Egypt absolutely got screwed this game. This isn't a game. This is FIFA making sure Argentina advances.

Hey, I learned a new (very old) thing today!

Oh, VRA is really just going to ignore that foul on Mo Salah in the box to let the anointed ones win this game, huh? FIFA just showing their whole ass this tournament.

Benny Johnson: “...high-level people inside of the government and inside of the Trump White House” are saying that “Mitch McConnell is brain dead”

"Emil Bove had a picture of Donald Trump as his iPhone wallpaper" sounds like the kind of dumb joke I would make to try and convey how MAGA brain-poisoned Trump's judges are. As it turns out, Emil Bove...actually had a picture of Donald Trump as his iPhone wallpaper.

It gave us the great Disco Elysium Vance video:

ok anyway last night i learned that the minnesota lynx have the greatest sports t-shirt in the history of sports t-shirts

ICE defended its decision to target Mohammad Nazeer Paktiawal for deportation, though he had not been convicted in any case. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

I don't think BlueSky can structurally handle all the "I told you so" it's being loaded up with now.

I am certain I have lost the ability to read.

Learn to spot a person who yearns for power and believes in absolutely nothing and your life will improve, to say nothing of your politics.

I gave up arguing with Platner cult members who were willfully blind to All The Fucking Red Flags That Screamed He Was A Bad Dude No Matter What He Said In His 70 Town Halla

A sacred tenet of the Senate is that you don’t have to be conscious if you have good staffing.

apparently one of the possible replacements on the ballot if he drops is Patrick Dempsey, so we could get Senator McDreamy

I love how Mbappe has matured into such a smart spokesperson as well as being a brilliant striker.

"the last two decades of Supreme Court jurisprudence have tended systematically to corrupt American democracy across a variety of related issues: campaign finance (including last week’s decision), presidential immunity, and, of course, the prosecution of bread-and-butter political corruption."

If you know the history of the red scare and how the elite used it to undo everything that FDR and the progressive movement of the early 20th century managed to accomplish, you know that Trump has a VERY close connection to one of the KEY players. The man was his mentor. Historical context matters.

Microsoft is laying off 4,800 workers today. Its CEO made $96.5M in 2025, a 22% increase from the previous year. Microsoft made $101B in net income last year — and raked in up to $12.5B in tax breaks from Trump's Big Ugly Bill. This is what a rigged system looks like.

“The Times stands out as the only news outlet to run more than three stories on the court decision without quoting a person identified in the copy as transgender or as the representative of a transgender rights organization.”🧵

There's a part in the book "Careless People" where the author beats Zuck at Settlers of Catan, and he is absolutely wrecked by it. Someone pulls her aside to explain everyone else has been letting him win for years. I think about this a lot re: why tech bros think everyone will love AI chatbots.

This is an actual screenshot from the syllabus for this class. Beyond parody

The have reversed the logic of democracy: they are no longer accountable to us; we are accountable to them

Why should you support independent trans media? Perhaps because we take on the bias of major news organizations with facts and data. Here's the latest from @evanurquhart.bsky.social, who found NYT wrote 5 stories on the trans sports ban decision without quoting a single trans person. 🤯🤯🤯

This is the worst part of America's culture of abuse. The battered must be blamed. The right put billions into making trans kids targets. It's a huge motivation of the billions Musk put into buying 2024. Not hiding enough is not the solution. Not hiding is.

Using up a bunch of interceptors in an illegal and unnecessary war with Iran seems suboptimal. www.wsj.com/world/europe...

No. Frogs. Left. STRAIGHT.

6 years of research: "The only trait that consistently predicted objections to remote work was narcissism—the tendency to be self-centered & entitled. The higher the opinions of themselves leaders expressed, the more they coveted power and status—& the more they favored return-to-office mandates."

The owner of X is embracing an explicitly fascist ideology which is opposed to liberalism, universal suffrage, and racial equality—and yet every Democrat in Congress and most journalists still use his website every day. It’s absolutely disgusting.

Reminded that Trump was the one who originally wanted to ban TikTok after kids on TikTok reserved a bunch of fake seats for a rally, leaving an empty stadium. And then the Democrats handed him the ban (because they were upset that kids were saying mean things about Israel) for Trump to "save."

I can't believe England stole Wonderwall from Minnesota United!