This is a jaw-dropping glimpse inside Trump’s police state. Note: all charges against this hero were dropped once NYT started asking questions. My only beef is ascribing the obvious conclusion to “critics”. Just say it.

The reflecting pool debacle is the perfect visual metaphor for the Trump Administration - superficial approaches to complex problems leading to worse outcomes than if he had done nothing.

Feels like a metaphor for the administration

Donald Trump inheriting a situation that was suboptimal but honestly fine, deciding to personally intervene, and making everything significantly worse at great taxpayer expense is a perfect synopsis of every single thing he has done as president both times.

OMG 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Truly amazing that Israel worked their asses off to oust Joe Biden (probably the best friend they’ve ever had in the White House) in favor of a guy who would follow a bee out of a penthouse window if he thought it liked him.

i have been obsessed with this for years. allowing manufacturers to sell direct to consumers would be good for consumers and also destroying the car dealership would be an existential crisis for republicans

ICE observers in Minneapolis have begun receiving visits from FBI agents sent to intimidate them. A close friend-combat vet, mother, no criminal record-who was a volunteer observer during the ICE crisis, had a visit and was threatened for taking photos and videoed, claiming that filming was illegal.

Obama paid 1.7 billion to Iran and that was supposedly bad but if I read this correctly Trump has agreed to pay Iran over 300 billion dollars lol

seeing the posts about visitors discovering that you can walk around most of our cities and just be yourself in a multicultural setting, discovering tailgating, starting impromptu block parties, my muslim mayor, etc. etc. it's corny to say it but that's our secret sauce. and it means something

Crash (1996, d. David Cronenberg)

Remember this scene the next time a corporate reporter tries to insist that a rural diner full of white men in their 60s is somehow a more authentically "American" place, somehow more representative of who we are as a nation.

personally, I’ve become pretty good at saying “Elon Musk has murdered millions of people” whenever he comes up in conversation with a glassy, graveyard-serious look in my eye: experiment with your own ways to drive the point home!

I thought the world cup was going to be a nightmare, but I forgot that we actually love when people like us

“He’s gonna Hormuz it” needs to be a thing. #HesGonnaHormuzIt

Pat Harrigan (@patguy.bsky.social) invites you into "Jack Cade's Dream," his latest work of Weird Microfiction for The Sunday Scaries! "One’s more steady than the other, but that other is the jack of dreams, and Jack was the maker of the dream." www.ghoulishdelights.com/the-sunday-s...

Just think when it happens the whole country will look like nyc tonight

What you wish you could be doing in New York right now is what you could be doing when It happens. HAVE A PLAN.

I don’t even follow basketball and I am not from and have never lived in NYC but this thread is genuinely lovely.

multiculturalism is pretty great

Please god let this close the portal to Hell the Cubs opened in 2016

Reporting on Elon Musk becoming a trillionaire should be done with the same general tone as a lethal virus escaping containment, not as an awesome achievement.

We must speak plainly about the agenda Elon Musk & other MAGA leaders are pushing. It’s white nationalism. There’s no room for Black, Hispanic/Latino, Asian, Native, Jewish or all other Americans in Musk’s monocultural vision. Multiculturalism is superior. We can’t allow Musk & others to end it.

The world’s first trillionaire is a killer. “A year ago, Musk’s actions directly led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. He did it knowingly. And, worse — gleefully.” [theverge.com]

I'm sometimes critical of cable news TV but this is programming I can get behind www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAhm...

BREAKING: Rep. Garcia has formally requested the Oversight Cmte. call in the following Trump officials in the wake of that new NYT report on Epstein: J.D. Vance Susie Wiles Tyler Budowich James Blair Karoline Leavitt Steven Cheung Kash Patel Dan Bongino Stanley Woodward, Jr.

“Palantir tracks everyone. So we built a site that tracks Palantir. They've been watching us. Now we can watch them. Contracts. Lawsuits. Executive pay. Global footprint. Lobbying activity. Media strategies. All in one place.”

Dave Eggers, on NPR's Wildcard with Rachel Martin: www.npr.org/2026/06/11/n...

I generally don't like cross-posting from Twitter, but Mike Young absolutely nails how the US wound up with a resurgence of the flesh-eating screwworm decades after it had been eliminated.

Stick to sports, I cry out as the democratic socialist mayor of New York tries to create an accessible communal event to watch the city's pro basketball team while the team's billionaire owner fights him because the city's residents were mean to his buddy, the nation's first tyrant.

The idea that this just happened to the Broadview 6 — forcing grand juries to indict by cajoling them in an elevator, vouching to the grand jury, and telling "no" votes to leave if they don't want to indict — is nuts. It's probably happening everywhere. And it means the law as we know it is dead.

there were already many reasons to do this but Elon Musk actively encouraging racist violence in Belfast should be the final straw for every UK government institution to stop doing business - including being on X - with him in any way, and for him to be barred from entry to the country.

When we give a lower or secondary school student an assignment like this, the important part isn't the final result, it's the work along the way. All of the learning happens in those steps. Let's think about what learning opportunities are lost in this process. 🧵

It's pretty crazy how we have both the World Cup and America 250 this year and almost no one cares about them because the administration has wholly sucked the joy out of even momentous national events.

Anthony Bourdain died on this day eight years ago. He never minced words, and he knew which side he was on.

Booing the tyrant during the national anthem is patriotism 🇺🇸

Adorable young kestrels surprised by a butterfly.

I would call these people Trump’s biggest marks except that this isn’t even something he lied about, they just hallucinated it

We all agree that it's morally justified to send people to Carousel when they turn 30. Why can't we have a Carousel for billionaires? I am a single issue voter and this is the issue

PELLEY: “Paying the bribe to Trump broke our hearts, but they did it to get the sale through.” GARCIA-NAVARRO: “Paramount denied those two things were linked.” PELLEY: *laughs*

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said it is time for the Democrats to ignore party leaders, embrace a “new vision,” and call for the abolishment of U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement.

Into every breakfast buffet, a little rain must fall. Pat Harrigan (@patguy.bsky.social) presents another work of Weird Microfiction for The Sunday Scaries! "A Caribbean morning, bright and lovely. We queue for the buffet." www.ghoulishdelights.com/the-sunday-s...

Difficult really, to think of a single, more disgusting act a journalist can commit than lying to the public to justify someone being murdered by their government for activism. But this is who these people always were.

Thou shalt boo the ever loving fuck out of Donald Trump when he shows up to the Knicks game in NYC. Boo him so hard he leaves immediately.

The nostalgia cycle means that around 2055, someone's going to assert that the mid 20s were 'good' and 'we should go back to them', so I want someone to find this image and caption, then cancel the fucking shit out of the live action Paw Patrol Six-Seven Mr Beast: In Search of Elon's Crypto movie.

There is not a fantasy, sci-fi, or dystopian novel as bleak as "the stealing entity that desecrates and wears the skin of the dead also despoils the air, water and soil while whispering ways you can harm yourself and others and provides means and methods to do so."

Ted nails it. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...

Christ, you're the governor of the entire state. Shut the building down. It's not sovereign territory like a foreign embassy. Pull the certificate of occupancy. Cut the power. Back it up with state police. Stop coddling fascists and groveling every time they order you around. Act like an American.