We have been reminded yet again, for no good reason, that the current president of the United States is a fucking moron.

Tonight seems to be the ceremonial kickoff of President Trump’s campaign to interfere in the November election. Trump has badly lost independent voters, even MAGA is disheartened; he is failing and unpopular, and he’s dragging his party down with him in the midterms.

Map of North and South America, it’s not just Canada 🔥‼️🚨 Link firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/usfs/map/#d:...

Qatar defense ministry says its armed forces intercepted missiles that targeted the emirate.

NYT nails it.

one of the supposedly damning docs the White House released tonight says Russia tried to undermine BIDEN. Also says China "prefers that President Trump be defeated" but actually "Beijing did not intend to try to affect the election" (!)

The so-called SAVE Act is a voter suppression bill masquerading as an election security measure. Trump wants it because democracy is bad for him in the midst his catastrophic failures & abysmal approval ratings. Trump has used mail-in ballots & now he wants to pretend that's cheating?!

“Declined”? What is this, an NFL penalty?

It's not that I think they have a super-secret plan to overturn the elections and seize power, but you're watching an entire political party, from top to bottom, meme itself into convincing itself that its opponents are inherently illegitimate, and that road doesn't go anywhere good.

This is one of the most beautiful cross sections of cilia I've ever seen in our data, found by @csigulinsky.bsky.social. It is perfectly perpendicular to the plane of imaging which brings up an important point ~ connectomics. You gotta have enough resolution to see the important things. 2nm/px FTW!

Analysis of quantum entanglement observables in top-quark pair production via Z' bosons at future lepton colliders, demonstrating how CHSH parameters and beam polarization probe chiral gauge interactions beyond the Standard Model. #QuantumInformation #ParticlePhysics #Research

The New York Times asked a judge to invalidate subpoenas the Justice Department issued to several of its reporters last week, challenging the aggressive law enforcement demand to compel journalists to testify before a grand jury over their reporting.

“We understand that our safety cannot be guaranteed, but we are in a uniquely vulnerable position and have the right to carry out our duties without worrying that we’ll turn a corner one day and find Brett Kavanaugh standing there in the hallway,” said Justice Amy Coney Barrett

Shipping data on Thursday indicated that the number of ships leaving the Strait of Hormuz was in the single digits. https://to.pbs.org/4vBggcz

The latest generation of AI models are such competent coders, engineers and (soon) scientists that many worry they may be among the last ever made by humans

Oil rises on intensifying US-Iran hostilities and threat of Red Sea closure reut.rs/4fm6NzE

Yup

CENTCOM: Today at 9:40 p.m. ET, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) completed its latest major wave of strikes against Iran.

Critical context about Trump's speech: Trump knew he lost the 2020 election and criminally conspired to subvert it. That conspiracy was based on knowing lies. Not delusions. Not mistakes of fact. Lies designed to preserve and grow his power.

Speaking of documents, when is the full release of those Epstein files going out next?

Craig Spencer has followed every Ebola outbreak since 2014 and seen how the world’s capacity to control the virus has improved—but the U.S. is forgetting what made that possible, he argues.

Andy Burnham plans policy blitz on entering Number 10 ft.trib.al/feTak5K

CBS can’t wait to do some election denial

#Starship #IFT13 HOLD at Startup - liftoff aborted

Ignition and ABORT! But did not explode. Scrub, try again another day

Starship scrub after T=0 abort

The FDA has approved a new pill to lower cholesterol levels. Read more about enlicitide and how it works: #chemsky 🧪

Our ability to speak involves remarkable feats of motor sequencing that most of us take completely for granted. The new issue of @science.org has a fascinating essay by Sergey Stavisky, covering his team's use of brain-computer interfaces to restore speech for people with neurological injuries. 🧠🗣️🧪👇

Why did the researchers even think to search for helium in the first place? @danclery.bsky.social has the story of how an atmosphere on a rocky #exoplanet was detected using a ground-based telescope, while JWST has found only bare rocks. ☄️🔭🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

5-year-old Camila's crayon drawings in detention look just like my 5-year-old's drawings. We need this to end, and then we need prosecutions for everybody who had a hand in harming these families. www.ctinsider.com/news/article...

‘Sovereignty comes with responsibility:’ U.S. lawmakers to Canada on wildfires

Laugh of the day. Science wins every time.

While the sale price was impressive, the pen and switch did not break into the top 10 list of the highest prices at a public sale for space artifacts and memorabilia.

The government of Uganda has gone quiet on an outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus that it reported late last month. www.statnews.com/2026/07/16/w...

After a devastating electric scooter crash, N.L. teen faces long recovery, Garrett Barry reports. Find this article and more at canadahealthwatch.ca #CdnHealth

This video is based on 20+ years of Hubble archival data and recent #NASAWebb data, used to measure the small movements of Omega Centauri’s stars over time. With this approach, a star was located orbiting an invisible object that is—according to calculations—so hefty that it must be a black hole.

America250, Pensacola @JonAustenLinch 🤯 Blue Angels flyover way too close for comfort!

The Pensacola flyover in question:

Eric Trump defends low-altitude flyover above civilians on the beach

Family fun at the beach with a surprise low military flyover courtesy of Pete Hegseth.

China lines up methalox Long March 10C as their commercial workhorse after first successful booster recovery.

Great interview with @kschake.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/o...

The ACLU has just detailed hundreds of cases of misconduct by immig agents: -kneeling on necks 52x -Agents choking people 10x -smashing car windows 47x -ramming cars 14x -Hit people w/ car 6x Report repeatedly cites ProPublica's reporting B/c transparency takes a village--when the govt blocks it

The world was forever changed in the early hours of the morning 81 years ago today. In the quiet desert basin near Alamogordo, New Mexico, a plutonium bomb was detonated, launching the Atomic Age with what is known as the Trinity Test.

Drew Sheneman, Newark Star Ledger

This is how Trump rigs the US prosecutors. He just fired a legitimate US prosecutor assigned by federal judges in Seattle. He dominates an interim prosecutor, then lets the term run out without Senate confirmation, then assigns him as an assistant US prosecutor. Not legal or constitutional.

He really does care about crime prevention, safety, and security for ordinary Americans, doesn't he? (And don't get me started on accountability for sexual assault.)