Japanese scientists have confirmed a monumental discovery: asteroid Ryugu contains all 5 nucleobases essential for DNA and RNA. By analyzing 5.4 grams of material returned by the Hayabusa2 spacecraft, researchers identified adenine, guanine, cytosine, thymine, and uracil in similar proportions.

They’re trying to deport the men who witnessed the killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. newrepublic.com/article/2129...

Really feel like I earned pointing out that I called my shot with Platner the day his announcement video dropped

Wanting better shouldn’t be humiliating; but Platner’s voters should be filled w/ rage at the callous, arrogant disrespect Platner and his team had for their own donors and volunteers. By treating his own supporters as commodities & rubes, in the end, Platner was ironically just Politics As Usual.

Huge turnout tonight for a protest over ICE killing Lorenzo Salgado Araujo on Tuesday Magnolia Park, Houston. Video is from my colleague Macy Meinhardt, who is not on Bluesky but is on the scene.

Quick reminder that this guy retweeted stew peters, a man who once marketed a scam “Jew proof“ crypto, in February. February 2026. This year.

In my one interaction with Ben Chin in December of last year he guaranteed me there was nothing else negative that could possibly come out about Platner’s background, and blamed their problems on disgruntled former staff. So, you know…trying times don’t build character, they reveal it.

What Platner is doing right now is trying to ignite an intra-party nuclear exchange, so that he can tell the Maine Democrats that THE PEOPLE will not accept anything but him or his designated successor. This is the kind of thing Trump would do.

This woman has been the subject of three NYT pieces in 2025-26

I don't know, man, I think if Joe Biden had kept confusing Zelenskyy with Putin and Iran with Japan, the media might have made a pretty big deal about it?

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.

Springfield, OH hate crime. Haitian father shot driving his kids to church. "They said he was going to give someone a ride and 'they just shot him. I don’t know why.'" Consequences of hate from our gov't. www.springfieldnewssun.com/local/crime/... @gregsargent.bsky.social @jimswift.bsky.social

hope I’m wrong but would put money on a Platner right wing heel-turn via manosphere podcast in the next 90 days

Bernie Sanders urges Platner to withdraw from the Maine Senate race, becoming the most prominent early supporter to push for his departure after a rape accusation. @baylisswagner.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/07/07/u...

One reason Platner might be doing poorly among non-college educated voters is that his campaign advisors (e.g., Morris Katz) haven't ever run elections (in their limited experience) where convincing non-college educated voters, especially *white* ones, has been a primary goal. Plater did, until…

People are right to be mad about the predictable Platner fiasco, but it's worth remembering that last year a ton of establishment Democrats supported disgraced sexual harasser Andrew Cuomo against clean-as-a-whistle Zohran. Tolerating problem men is an issue across the ideological spectrum.

The allegations against Graham Platner are deeply disturbing. Mainers deserve a Democratic candidate who can serve the people of their state, which is why it’s time for him to end his campaign. Maine Democrats should select a new nominee for U.S. Senate who can beat Susan Collins in November.

A Dallas cop goes berserk on a World Cup team in a hotel lobby, the city's paper of record presents it as a both sides issue, then buries the fact that DPD was forced to apologize and never even attempts to name the officer involved or ask how he's being held accountable.

AI isn't 'inevitable'. Banning and resisting it isn't 'going against the tide'. We can reject this narrative and determine our own future. But it will be a fight, and it will take greater tech literacy. Which tools are bad and which are not? Who are the bad actors? Which politicians are fighting?

The anti-vax group formerly led by Robert Kennedy Jr. has been promoting the story of a woman who says vaccines killed her 18-month-old twins. She’s the lead plaintiff in the group’s lawsuit against the American Academy of Pediatrics. Well, now she’s been charged with suffocating the toddlers.

worth saying is that this was the sentiment behind trump's election year rhetoric about "black jobs"

every job i see these days is like: LEAD CONTENT ANALYST, Puppy Killing Factory (remote). $350,000 - $500,000. You will edit our internal newsletter (circulation 500). Associate Editor, Nonprofits, Global Good Magazine (in office, NYC). $27,000 - $28,000. Lead ALL of our fundraising efforts!

I see a lot of “so-and-so is a birthright citizen” because their parents weren’t citizens when they were born on American soil. But the truth is, we’re all birthright citizens, unless we have been naturalized.

this is incredible lmao jfc www.instagram.com/reel/DaQCjQ5...

If there was any doubt that Gov Jared Polis’ legacy is freeing Tina Peters, the NYT reports Polis just fired the clemency board members who revealed he overruled their unanimous wishes www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/u...

I did not realize how crooked an outfit "Track AIPAC" seems to be. They appear to list J Street contributions as being part of AIPAC or functionally the same thing. Their "individual expenditures" list seems to include a lot of giving from people who are simply Jews.

Jamie Raskin on the Supreme Court’s ruling trans kids playing in women’s sports: “Well, I would just say to the kids and the families who feel besieged and scapegoated by the authoritarian politics of mega Republicans, that there are millions of people across the country who stand with you”

🧵Some real alarming signs in right-wing media chatter about elections this last week. Election deniers demanded a “national emergency” declaration so Trump can give himself “king-like powers” over the midterms -- and now he's echoing their calls www.mediamatters.org/voter-fraud-...

By virtue of being a parent to two teenagers, there are some trans kids adjacent to my life; a couple of whom I’ve known since they were kindergartners. Just want to say that they are worthy of love and dignity and safety, not to mention full civil rights under the law. SCOTUS sucks.

Ezra Klein sitting down for his journalistic interview with Chris Rufo

A few times a year we all gather around the computer to find out which of our constitutional rights we no longer have.

Dems should use this post and similar ones to strip Musk of his security clearance and completely remove him from SpaceX ownership.

And 30 years in prison for moving some books around

Said this yesterday but will repeat: I engaged with one of these people yesterday and moved her (I think) from Paxton to undecided in the Senate race just by saying “google ‘Adam Hoffman Ken Paxton’” and talking about the case.

The new centrist Democrat group boosting Polymarket is really just the icing on the cake here.

The usage of “says” is just so messed up. He's not claiming it happened, the police confirmed it. Do better NYT

Fun fact: I talked to one of these Republican volunteers and said “google ‘Ken Paxton Adam Hoffman’” and she moved to undecided in the Senate race.

hey man just letting you know you're on camera

Two ICE agents tracked down a woman *inside a polling place* yesterday. Why? They demanded that she take down an Instagram post in which she named Jonathan Ross as the man who shot & killed Renee Good (after the Star Tribune identified Ross). www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...

Bethany Mandel everyone: normie Jewish people I disagree with are the servant of Nazis but not like our cool Nazi friends

“I will be one of the Jewish members of Congress most willing to stand up for Palestinian human rights. And I will stand firmly against bigotry aimed at Jews. Those are not two different jobs. They are the same job,” Brad Lander said.

democrats who don’t take loud and firm stances in favor of the regulation if AI and prediction markets are leaving votes on the table. also easy ways to demonstrate your independence from SV billionaires www.semafor.com/article/06/2...

Antisemitism is structurally necessary to Elon Musk’s politics, because he is desperate to brand himself an insurgent against the powerful elite, but as the world’s first trillionaire, he needs a definition of “elite” not rooted in wealth or corporate ownership.

Absolutely disgusting

And why is Reuters helping them by amplifying unsubstantiated claims as the framing?

I think it’s cool that, unlike Claudine Gay, Monica Crowley actually plagiarized swaths of her Columbia dissertation, but because she’s white and a Republican she faced no consequences and has only thrived in GOP politics. Sort of gives away the game on that stuff, no?

It is absolutely true that Dems need to win swing voters to win elections. The misdiagnosis is that swing voters are “moderates.” They are not. They have almost entirely incoherent politics. You don’t win them from the middle. You appeal to your base with conviction and hope swings like the vibes.