Aviation worked hard to develop a safety culture. SEC Hegseth is trying to undo it.

abolish ice is the middle of the road, centrist position

When I worked in the Senate (eons ago), there was a phrase I remember hearing, often from senior staffers, if someone expressed total contempt for another senator, even if well deserved: "He got elected, too, the same way [our boss] did." It was a mark of basic respect for the democratic process.

Surely no one will pay any attention to this joke now. Surely it won't be the only joke anyone recalls from this event.

My Odyssey and Iliad translations are available as audiobooks, read/ performed by very talented real people: Claire Danes and Audra MacDonald. They do a much better job than the robots! www.audible.com/pd/The-Iliad...

I hope I speak for a lot of my friends here when I say that my childhood was in large part brought to me by the Sears-Roebuck Foundation

Here's hoping.

Also shout out to @sundermannaj.bsky.social for this fantastic scicomm because this is EXACTLY the detailed explanation and context of how tracing works that’s missing from all the reporting on this, which is what has been causing all the confusion and frustration.

This is a *fantastic* video that explains exactly WTF is going on with Taylor Farms and how tracing works TLDR: - they are responsible - the false positive was only on one of several samples - it’s difficult to test parasites - there may still be other sources - Taylor Farms is being shady AF

The Mamdani thing is hilarious because conventional Dems are all "how can he get away with this?" and his answer is to just ignore the yowling of the worst people on earth. Like just be completely unbothered by what some pundit-poisoned nitwits say. Just ... decide not to listen to them.

To be fair, I'd read that comic book. Or write it.

The Ellisons want to MAGA-ify your movies and TV with this Paramount/WB merger. This will make the movies suck way, way more. But they don't care. Experts I spoke with said their goal is political domination, not making movies. www.salon.com/2026/07/20/p...

I want to see The Odyssey in IMAX but it’s way out in the suburbs and getting there is fine but getting home might take forever.

Nothing says “I should be taxed more“ more than using $82 million to argue that you should not, in fact, be taxed more.

very funny that trump literally just threatened to cut off trade with spain and embargo spanish imports and then spain came to the US and won the world cup while trump sat there and watched

Miles Davis, “Concierto de Aranjuez”. Congratulations to Spain on their great World Cup win. 🇪🇸 youtube.com/watch?v=CsWi...

Their "creative destruction" will be democracy rising.

Michelob Ultra ad: "Superior is worth paying for." Yes, this is why I get better beer than Michelob Ultra.

Called it two days ago.

Nike ad with the boy kicking a ball against the wall, "some may think the U.S. will never play j this game...but I'm sure they will...because he is." 24yr: "Does Nike know about the U.S. women's team?"

“DU-DA-MEL! DU-DA-MEL!”

Wait. Why is The Count there?!?!? Zero goals. Ah ah ah. #WorldCup

There is no point in having Gustavo Dudamel conducting the Electric Mayhem if you aren't going to let Animal say, "Gustavo Dudamel." #WorldCup

Speaker Mike Johnson spewing Christian nationalist nonsense. Every person has inherent dignity and worth whether they believe in his God, any other god, or none at all. And he cannot stand that. Johnson et al have shown they do not believe anyone has value or dignity unless they follow his god.

1. Uh, that's a theocracy which the US is expressly NOT supposed to be and is specifically no where in Constitution. Also would not be the "first" regardless. 2. No? Human rights exist because of humanity. Religion and belief in a "god" did not in any way create those rights. 3. Yikes to infinity.

No.

Government-promoted anti-intellectualism is a common feature of fascist states, with “intellectualism” coded as feminine and/or Jewish/leftist.

Montclair. My dudes. bsky.app/profile/nanc...

Taco Bell was one of the first companies to sign the "Yes, we WILL only buy tomatoes from farms that stop doing slavery" pledge with Coalition of Immokalee Workers. @immokaleeworkers.bsky.social

Virtually every country in the world *except* for the US is responding to the Iran War in a rational way -- ie, trying to reduce their reliance in imported fossil fuels.

I have been saying this ever since they announced the film.

ZOHRAN: “For all the fearmongering about Democratic Socialism, the best response is to show what it actually means.” NYT: “Are you a Democrat, or a Democratic Socialist?” ZOHRAN: “Both.”

"Social media influencers," @apnews.com? Really?

Thread. What Bruce Taylor at Taylor Farms doesn't seem to understand is that the regulations and precautions he's lobbied against and has tried to weasel out of are a big part of what keeps his business successful. If we can't trust their process, we stop buying their food and their customers.

No one has been as vindicated as those of us who sounded the alarm early about the danger Trump posed to the US and the world.

This is a politician who understands that this is not an indulgence, it's an investment. Every public space where you can have fun and not spend any money is probably more of a crimebuster than 100 cops.

‘Targets’ is the operative word here. A world of allowable, often encouraged bigotries and misogyny creates infinite targets for abusive men, and an environment of harassment and violence for the rest of us.

This is a war crime. It violates the Law of Armed Conflict. Up until Trump returned to office & had the lives of Ernst & Tillis threatened to ensure Hegseth would be confirmed as SecDef, it also violated US rules of engagement.

It would be nice if The Odyssey was the moment Hollywood execs stopped listening to the whiniest motherfuckers on Earth who only see movies when a YouTuber half their age gives them permission

In case you need another reason to be wary of chatbots... "OpenAI has admitted that ChatGPT can go rogue and delete people’s files without telling them.... One engineer said that it had 'deleted my whole production database.'" www.the-independent.com/tech/securit...

Utterly moronic. Ohio, why did you elect an idiot car dealer to represent you?

Further status report: lying here watching JOHN CARTER and cursing the dimwitted marketing & production folk who kept this from becoming the anchor of a long-running “planetary SF” franchise. 😡

Just say lies. Don't sugarcoat it. "False claims" allows for semantic wiggle room. They're lies. That's all he does, all he's ever done.

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This is how every Democrat should be talking about this and him. Take notes, @housedemocrats.bsky.social. "Donald Trump is taking us backwards" was obvious and ineffective in 2015, it was messaging like this that contributed to his election in the first place.

imagine if this guy were running for public office or something lol

I love living in a world where this, the absolutely obvious explanation that everyone with a single fucking brain cell knew to be the case weeks ago, was never mentioned by the media as because they were too busy echoing and amplifying Trump's obvious lies about vandalism. bsky.app/profile/wash...

I’ve wanted to see more elected Democrats and other prominent opponents of the Trump regime take this sort of approach. Address it on a human level. A basic what’s wrong with you, why do you debase yourself like this. Or as Sen. Ossoff put it: “isn’t it humiliating to be unable to answer this?”

This is what Eric described as "probably the highlight of their day" and Hegseth joked about continuing until "morale improves".