The US built the greatest talent magnet ever, attracting the smart, skilled, and striving. They’d come to study, then stay and build things here, or leave with positive impressions and fruitful connections. Helped make the US wealthy and powerful. Then America chose to throw it away. And for what?

If you're at the airport, stout counts as coffee.

This guy is the definition of a prohibited possessor - not only (legally) should his firearm rights have been rescinded, he became an ICE agent and...killed someone in the process.

Literally some.of the smartest people I know are people who came to America to get an education, and then stayed. Policies like this make America weaker and poorer, just to satisfy the racist impulses of Trump, Vance, and Miller.

If you are under the age of 50, then for more than half of your life, the President has been born in 1946.

If you ever get a chance to spend some time near a C-5 base you should do it, because it is genuinely stupifying to see something that large airborne.

To translate: Vice President Vance, like disgraced former Korean President Yoon, has had his brain poisoned by spending too much of his time consuming insane content on the Internet.

oh neat, Vance got Yooned by Kirkification

The USMNT and Knicks being really good except for the precise moment when Trump involves himself is really funny

would love to see a hostile audit of Freedom 250. hell, would love to see hostile audits of everything even tangentially related to trump. this will produce endless material. you could conceivably bring the administration to an effective halt!

the feds have done more to harass americans angry over good and pretti’s killings than they have to investigate them

Venezuela quake: The most useful thing to give after a major catastrophe is cash. But it can be tricky figuring out where to send the cash where it’ll have the biggest impact. Local charities with known track records & connections work best, but… they’re the ones also struggling in the aftermath.

holy shit this game is going to be dope

What a beautiful country we live in

happy Father’s Day, everyone even if you’re not technically a dad, take a minute today, open the hood of your car and frown intelligently at the engine it’s your day

In Opinion The system that turned Gila monster venom into GLP-1 drugs is being dismantled through research budget cuts, Jeff Coller writes in a guest essay. “Less support for scientists means strange questions no one will get to chase. Exploring those questions is how medicine advances.”

NASA's X-59 research aircraft reached its target speed and altitude for the first time on Friday

The story of Icarus provides us with a valuable lesson: never fuck up real bad

WHITESIDES: The truth is the cheapest form of energy on a per unit basis is daytime solar. Is that not true? CHRIS WRIGHT: It depends-- WHITESIDES: No it doesn't depend! It's true. You are amazingly misleading the American public. WRIGHT: It depends-- WHITESIDES: No!

I toured the Los Angeles election office two years ago. It is impressive, but what is particularly galling about Trumo’s vote fraud claims is that they made special viewing areas just so anyone (including the campaigns and parties) can observe the full ballot counting process

There really is a tweet for everything

#NASA #ArtemisIII - Crew Announcement Event starting, watch here www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fLR...

HAHAHAHA SHE DID IT RAMAN GOES TO THE RUN OFF AGAINST BASS

Birds in Donetsk are using fiber-optic drone wire to build their nests...

Did another political thing where 80 percent of the volunteers were femme presenting. Dudes, gotta step up. If you're not volunteering for anything, pick one (1) thing and start this week.

AOC: This is what I want people to understand: this is our money. When you pay your taxes, that money is being stolen to pay for a vanity project like a ballroom or whatever it is that this guy wants to do, instead of what it should be used for…

Amazon sets the routes, the quotas, the uniforms, the cameras — and then tells workers they don't actually work for Amazon. Every delivery worker in this city should be able to afford to live here and have their rights respected. Workers deserve better.

Happy pride month. In 2024, NASA created a pride flag made of various space imagery. For weeks, it was the most-liked image on Bluesky. Under the Trump administration, NASA was forced to delete it. www.southernfriedscience.com/the-story-of...

so like are Californians aware that their election administration is at this point a national laughingstock

California is not the only state that uses mostly, or in a few cases 100%, mail ballots. It is the extreme outlier on being the slowest state to count and report results. Just noting it doesn't have to be this way, they can and should get their act together and catch up to plenty of other states.

My god, Octavia Butler, just miss ONCE

maybe the worst part about private spaceflight is that the two biggest players in the space are such obnoxious pricks they've negatively polarized tons of people against the concept of rockets i think that's kinda sad

Watching random first season Xena episodes and man, we used to make 26 episodes of TV with a budget of 60 dollars and a dream and its BULLSHIT that we dont anymore

In case you have forgotten who Andy Kim is, he’s the rep who came into the Capitol building after Trump’s J6 goons had trashed it, got down in his hands and knees, and cleaned it up. And ICE have gassed him. They have peppersprayed the true patriot who thinks American ideals are worth defending.

This photo of Andy Kim in the moments before ICE gassed everyone at Delaney Hall is going into the history books. We need more of this from our electeds.

The "batteries are just as bad as fossil fuels" stuff is so fucking stupid, so easy to refute with just a minute or two of rational thought, so *obviously* a piece of propaganda, that I just have no sympathy at all for people who fall for it. Gonna block everyone who drags it into my feed.

This is both true and without question one of the greatest things about the United States.

Let this radicalize you

lol, they gave Artemis II astronaut (and Philadelphia sports fan) Christina Koch an astronaut Gritty

Masked federal agents tear gassing & pepper spraying children is a feature, not a bug, of Trump's America. Devastating @propublica.org report about the harm ICE has inflicted on kids. Sickening stuff. You can't reform an agency this evil or violent, you must abolish it.

A bunch of extremely beautiful pictures of wind farms in China - all photographs by Weimin Chu e360.yale.edu/digest/china...

A-fucking-men to @jamellebouie.net:

Hot take but this is an issue I agree with him on. California requires universal background checks, more thorough background checks, and passing a written safety test, and I think that is much more responsible for our lower rates of gun crime than requiring ar-15s to have a fin on the grip

I’m proud to have opened today’s California Gubernatorial Candidate Housing Forum, hosted by @ezraklein.bsky.social and the @nytimes.com One of these participants will likely be our next governor – so tune in to learn where they stand on California’s most important issue.