People has been really great in their straight news reporting. They can just share facts without having to worry about their balanced reputation or whatever.

to me there is nothing less traditionally masculine than a masculinity obsessed man complaining that masculine men dont exist anymore

life is just doing dishes and laundry until you feel the sweet embrace of death

George Wallace in 1962: "I started off talking about schools and highways and prisons and taxes and I couldn't make them listen. Then I began talking about n**rs and they stomped the floor." Donald Trump in 2023⬇️

Fam, is it bad when the head of your state judicial system cuts a secret deal with the feds?

AI companies trying to promote adoption of their products or ward off excessive regulation really need to make a decisive break with anyone who sounds like a super villain.

It’s important sir for us to make as many recordings of you saying “I can do anything, I can destroy the country” as we can sir can you please say it again sir

I think national press and rightwing watchers are neglecting NH. Always conservative for New England, its legislature has gone Texas-level MAGA, seeking concealed carry on campus, leading the nation in defunding public ed, battling vaccines, etc.

“Spending three days on the ground in Minneapolis brought home something that may not be obvious from afar: Minnesota, especially the Twin Cities, has been—and still is—under a paramilitary occupation in which the federal government is at war with the population.” www.thebulwark.com/p/what-i-saw...

Noticing a recent trend online of conservatives and Republicans suddenly chorusing that “being conservative or Republican doesn’t mean you’re MAGA or support the MAGA agenda.” Which feels like a cop out for people who voted for Trump but don’t want to be associated with his horrors. Fuck them.

Positive take (relatively) on “we have lived among such people this whole time”: Yes, and that shows things don’t need to be like this. There will always be the sort of people who’d try to get the state to hurt kindergartners. We just need to keep them out of institutional power, and on the fringe.

A lot of people, including me, were wondering how an IRB could ever approve this study. The answer is that no IRB did. The person who “signed off” on approval from the only ethics board that reviewed it had resigned three years earlier. His signature was used without his knowledge.

NEW: JD Vance flew to Rome to formally invite Pope Leo XIV to join America’s 250th anniversary celebration. The first American pope has declined — days after rejecting President Trump’s “Board of Peace” invitation. On July 4, he’ll be in Lampedusa, standing with migrants.

Pritzker’s invoice to White House: (via @nbcnews.com) @govpritzker.illinois.gov

Thread.

“I am just stunned at how little anyone we've spoken to lately – whether they be senior administration officials, Trump advisers, or anyone else close to the decision-making process – can give me a straight answer about what the mission would be here, beyond the Mad King Donald just doing his thing…

stancil agreeing to be profiled as part of a piece covering the situation in minneapolis, but then it only being about him, really gives away that our established media/political class *only* care about content and how it plays on twitter/etc. they don't care about policy, they care about posts

getting word the president is being a huge baby, will check with my sources

"the Catholics get real touchy about communion" is like a bedrock of modern religion and they missed it.

ICE not only has mistreated their flock, they interfered with the Holy Sacrament. You don't do that. That is a mortal sin territory. As I understand it.

you wear shorts in the senate chambers

Trump Suffers Setback Unrelated To Child Rape

Odds companies reimburse consumers?

a lot of you are probably too young to remember this but there was a time when the married dhs secretary using taxpayer money for a custom built fuck palace in the sky for her to bang coworkers wouldve been a big deal

The movie elides this, of course, but the first guy who stood up and said “I am Spartacus” was obviously a hero. Don’t discount the bravery of the second to do it either. By the time the fifth guy says “I am Spartacus” those guys just don’t want to be left out of the fun

I don't know enough about the way SCOTUS operates or how their timelines work to know how much of this is coincidental, but it does strike as interesting that the tariff decision comes down at a moment where Trump's power seems to be waning.

“The Board of Peace should be spelled B-O-R-E-D”

A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right. Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement. This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.

The Medal of Honor is no joking matter. Not if you’ve ever sat and read the citations of those who received it, many posthumously. This man knows nothing of duty, honor, country.

Lord I’ve seen what you do for others 🙏

MEGAN KELLER WITH A DIRTY DRAG MOVE AND A GOLD MEDAL WINNING GOAL 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸

Countries that do not use Fritos as currency could be "left behind," says Frito-Lay CEO Ken Biddleman

IT will still happen, but it's always crushing to learn that it hasn't.

Directly ABOVE the US flag is a fun little touch.

La Retraite de Hugues de Payens, by Georges Mathieu, 1958 (rotated), 📸 by @tiltoncreative

i would like to see unedited footage of our president, with a modest budget, go thru a self checkout while buying seven days worth of food

[Enter Puck.]

PLAY FREEBIRD

This USA women’s hockey team is possibly the most dominant Olympic hockey team ever. And every player is a product of the United States’s NCAA hockey programs. Canada—the second best team competing? Every single player ALSO attended an American university’s hockey program. All thanks to Title IX.

The President is taking a *pre-noon* nap. In public. At his big event. On World Peace. This will go mostly unremarked upon outside here. Meanwhile, the commentary class thinks it deeply important to inform you that AOC said "uhm" a few times in response to a question on the same topic a few days ago

Part of what makes the Olympics special is that it's one of the only sports broadcasts left that hasn't been enshittified. There are no ads on the uniforms, no ads on the playing surface, and no live in-game FanDuel/DK betting segments. It's how all sports broadcasts *should* be.

like even without a public release of the files: this seems like the sort of thing that should have gotten a taskforce with foreign law enforcement?

so genuinely: uh, what was Merrick Garland doing with the Epstein files, given uh, it's brought down a royal and multiple Euro politicians/

Was there a congressional appropriation for this, or are we at the stage of openly robbing the treasury without any pretext at all?

The "Accountability" issue is getting muddled and we should be clear about what it is and isn't. I don't need Democrats to post Trumpian memes and say swears on TV, I want them to impose legal consequences on our criminal president and his accomplices. Until they can, they should cheerlead for it

HE'S ON THE BOARD OF PEACE AS A PRIVATE CITIZEN, HE'S JUST STEALING $10 BILLION OF OUR MONEY

Wow the exact same amount he was suing the IRS for. He just took it. Not only impeachable but [Redacted] as well.

That dystopia you ordered? Here it is, hot & fresh