Country's got a real joy deficit above everything else. Knicks win, World Cup going well until Trump ruined them is proof of that. Just create constant excuses for celebrations and parties. We need excuses to hang out more than we need maybe literally anything else, economically.

Real idea: As part of the effort to get DC and PR statehood, next Dem president should invent about State Weeks. Each of the 52 states gets its own celebration week every year. A random July week is Montana week. Tourism bonanzas. Televised lottery every year for week placement. We ain't above this.

Believe Women is an epistemological stance. It doesn't mean you assume that every single woman is telling the truth and women never lie. It means you understand that in the system that we exist in, there's much more risk and pain for women coming forward about abuse than there is anything to gain.

Repatriating a body is an incredibly incredibly expensive process. We ultimately couldn't afford the cost to do so with my dad - so please contribute if you can to Luis's family. It's incredibly meaningful.

Getting off work to everyone in the house being cranky makes me long for a commute in which I can sing loudly to music, gas prices be damned

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Just a reminder. I'm always surprised how many people aren't aware of this. #Libraries

Since apparently this isn't making it beyond UK news yet, Rockstar petitioned a British court to section an 18 year old autistic kid under the mental health act for hacking their server and leaking a short GTA 6 clip a couple of years ago. No trial, no term of sentence, just locked up in hospital.

Oooh look at these elegant mono white ones

"Trump gets blamed, but he's an inflatable tube dude at a mafia chop shop. His apathy to governance is mistaken for sway. Governing was never the point. Trump’s casual treason has always made him an ideal vessel for America's going-out-of-business sale." sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/stop-colla...

I have made it an annual tradition to document Mark Twain’s hatred of July 4th celebrations, but I saved something special for America 250. Twain was part of the centennial celebration in Philadelphia in 1876. He was part of what the dubbed the “Congress of Authors”…

I really am not surprised if D&Q would turn the other way wrt stealing other people's works (LRT) since they did it to me for Constitution Illustrated. "Fair use" was their excuse for tracing wholesale.

I once saw a band called 'Kneel Down Like a Saint Gorilla And Pray'. They had a jar of dead flies that they picked out and rubbed along the strings of a guitar until someone got fed up and unplugged them. Then they hit 'stop' on a big timer and bowed. Lovely bit of business.

If buying isn’t ownership, piracy isn’t theft

My daughter found this Luna moth at the gas station and I think he’s lovely.

Yes. Using a computer now feels like this at all times.

Someone buy it when its done lol

Ford has rehired hundreds of senior engineers after replacing them with AI backfired and has cost the company billions of dollars. AI adoption is blamed for Ford being the most recalled automaker in the U.S. with 51 recalls covering over 11 million vehicles in the first half of 2026 alone.

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

Happy 100th, Mel Brooks.

Making a picture book for elder millennials. It’s called “Oh, The Places You’ll Never Go”

This Danville, VA city council candidate made a very dramatic video about sidewalks and public safety, and I love it and him. Worrying about a possible milkshake duck situation, I looked at his FB page, but he seems ok. Juneteenth celebrations, community outreach, Methodists. A solid old gent.

You’ve savaged your last garden

Hard to overstate what a huge deal this is for NYC residents--just a massive "I did exactly what I said I'd do" moment for the mayor. Can't wait to see who denounces or downplays it.

someone pointed out that the disproportionate response to democratic socialists popping up vs republicans’ blasé response to the mainstream dems these last few decades really punctuates the implication that they’re actually worried for once. that dem-repub ratchet they rely on is about to break.

I have been camping the Helium St. Louis event page for MONTHS and @emophilips.bsky.social tickets are finally available! It is literally the only thing I care about going to this year!

“…convicting them of ‘providing material support to terrorists’ for acts such as printing & distributing leftist zines, joining an anarchist book club, communicating on the same messaging app, or [visiting] the same shooting range. these people are now facing 30-, 50-, 70-, & 100-year sentences.“

Two ICE agents tracked her down at a polling place & threatened her over her Instagram post saying JONATHAN ROSS, ICE agent who murdered Renee Good in Minnesota, should be arrested. One of the ICE agents has been identified as DAVID BRODY. He should be arrested. www.rawstory.com/ice-agents-p...

You can also make a direct donation to the support committee at www.givesendgo.com/supportDFWpr...

"The Government Doesn't Want You To Read These Zines" – new benefit zine packets from South Bend Commons! All proceeds go to Prairieland Defendants. firestorm.coop/products/253... @dfwsupportcommitt.bsky.social

He posts an effort skeet, he posts a lazy skeet He posts a reference skeet, he posts a weed skeet He posts the skeets that remind him of the something awful times He posts the skeets that remind him of the old twitter times

This is the legal defense fund for the 15 anti-ICE organizers who were recently arrested in Minneapolis. Please contribute generously. They are going to have millions of dollars worth of needs. chuffed.org/project/1865...

The USFWS plans to hand over more than 700 acres of The Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge — home to some of the United States’ most critically endangered species — to SpaceX in a reckless land swap. Tell your senators to stop this giveaway. act.biologicaldiversity.org/Ws09iSNvsE2X...

I keep thinking I’m having a midlife crisis and then coming out of, but then it dips even lower. WTF is wrong with me. I don’t want anything. I don’t forward to anything. I feel incredibly stuck and I want to run away/disappear.

You don't have to answer the door for the Feds. Do not voluntarily talk to the Feds. If they have a warrant signed by an actual judge, then they can do precisely what the warrant says. But DO NOT TALK TO THE FEDS. Do not answer the door. If you're arrested, your only words are "I want a lawyer."

1. Progressive Champions PAC, a super PAC created last month, says on its website that its mission is to “elect bold, progressive candidates up and down the ballot.” A Popular Information investigaiton reveals that it's a GOP front group. Following along for receipts. 🧵

The school is burning down all around us, and the principal is on the PA reminding us about spirit week

National Park Service has open comment page, for Albert Speer Memorial Arch that is next on MAGA wish list You can make comments here: parkplanning.nps.gov/documentsOpe... That page has lots of "before and after" illustrations. Below, before/after view from near JFK/RFK grave site in Arlington

The Fred Rogers Production has started uploading every episode of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood for free. www.youtube.com/@misterroger...

Those agendas and biases can be anything! Case in point: you think the fruit in the garden of eden was an apple because a guy translating the story into Latin wanted to make a pun.

Hastings museum had an LGBT history exhibit and there was a bit on a trans guy and a cis woman who married in 1954 that I found moving

Is this outrageous to you? Call Gov Ivey 334-242-7100 to ask for clemency for Jeffrey Lee. Mention the others awaiting execution in AL due to judicial override which is unconstitutional & was abolished in 2017 but not applied retroactively. It would save so many lives for her to do that now.

A man is set to be killed next week even though his jury voted for LIFE. How can this be?! Urge maker of the gas mask used in #nitrogensuffocation executions to denounce such use of their mask. All this and more in this week's DPA Dispatch... 🗞️ open.substack.com/pub/deathpen...

extremely urgent yet VERY CRUCIAL & DOABLE‼️ please let’s get this past the finish line before it’s TOO LATE a disabled person is going to lose their only shelter! this is PREVENTABLE 350 remains, ~3 HOURS ⌛️⌛️ #HelpSky💕💸 #MutualAid #FundSky #HelpFolksLive2026

The most important cultural lesson of the late 80s/early 90s

Well... fuck. Fuck.

The Federal Government is now going after the records of trans care at Stanford Children's Hospital. I hope it's clear at this point that they are going for the records and private information of all trans kids, bringing them all under control of the Northern District of Texas.