My great grandchild: grand papa, how did you celebrate the semiquincentennial? Me (92 years old): well, mostly by learning the chemical processes involving pool painting and the phosphate cycles of algae blooms

The Obama Library celebration was jarring in juxtaposition to the clown show that is Trump.

One young person died as a result of this flu outbreak. Shame on Hegseth for making vaccines optional, for making troops weaker.

ICYMI — Trump admits he was manipulating the stock market with fake news about Iran

Cervical cancer deaths fall to zero in young women given vaccine. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A publishing friend wrote me

>renames it to the Department of War >names himself the Secretary of War >fights one war >loses

The point was never to fix the pool. It was to have a no bid contract and payola

If you follow me and the dogs all year id love if you could watch this. It’s a once a year thing I do. The only time I ever ask. You can support here happydoggo.com/donate?utm_s...

Horrendous

Trump is the same guy who negotiated the Afghanistan pullout too don’t forget

Just fill the whole thing with clear epoxy and use lights and lasers or whatever to make it look like water.

Maybe the dumbest bit that still seems to have purchase in American politics is “that really rich guy can’t be bought!” I assure you, his wealth is *proof* that he can be bought, despite a weird elite class of Americans who want you to believe they won their fortunes in single combat or something

It’s wild to talk to folks about Missouri only to hear someone blame “the Democrats.” What Democrats? We’ve had a Republican legislative supermajority for over two decades and haven’t had a statewide elected Dem since 2018. Everything you see in this state is due to Republican authoritarianism.

Not only that, but it's vital to note that Obama was giving them back their money (frozen assets) while Trump is paying them off with OUR money.

If true, that’s not a ceasefire. That’s a bribe.

Anti abortion activists said “leaving abortion to the states” would alleviate partisan rancor and get the justices out of the “abortion umpire business.” Now they’re demanding the courts force pro choice states to help enforce abortion bans. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Wasteful incompetence.

“ One good day can cure months of sadness.” Beau Taplin. Photo art by Benjamin Wolf "Lonely Tree"

Maybe your next article will outline how infant mortality rates are typically higher in red states because Republican voters spend more time on their cell phones.

no really, i’m serious, why am i paying taxes if a trillionaire is getting billions and billions of dollars from the government? i can’t stop asking myself this question…

Healthcare and employment should be kept separate. Employers should have no say on your health, other than working you to death, as always.

Im a childless adult responsible for two children for the next 72 hours. They have ordered dinner to be two half cheese half pepperoni pizzas. Not a cheese pizza and a pepperoni pizza. Two half cheese half pepperoni pizzas.

Old meme is still valid. Just change some names around.

There goes the neighborhood

Cartoon by @stevesack.bsky.social

Unlike other TPUSA events this year, the women's leadership summit had robust turnout. That's why it was even more alarming that the message to its young audience was that girls and women should basically hate themselves. www.salon.com/2026/06/12/t...

I want to see the Venn diagram of rotating villain truthers who have spent the past six months going to the mattresses for the most obvious rotating villain of the 120th, 121st, and 122nd Congresses.

Democrats really looked themselves in the mirror and said “we gotta get more misogynist”

I didn't see the little one til I got this open on my laptop

“Let him finish!”

Order of events in my Phone‘s newsfeed shows the priorities of the current administration. Power instead of People.

It’s a pretty weird week when a guy who wants to be a trillionaire is simultaneously getting headlines for the economy-shattering IPO expected Friday and the racist pogroms he is accused of stoking — but these stories are viewed as separate and in no way connected or prescient of the future.

@emophilips.bsky.social said it best: www.theguardian.com/stage/2005/s...

Horrifying

REWIND: All Things Considered host Steve Cichon heads a Long Way Down to provide a This Day In Buffalo History for June 9, going back 39 years to the first album release for the Goo Goo Dolls.

I still haven't seen a proper explanation as to why that interview was being conducted on the set of Hee Haw.

Did you know Buffalo has one of the largest and oldest Juneteenth Festivals in the country? It does, and today I was proud to join many others to raise the Juneteenth flag over Niagara Square to signify the beginning of Juneteenth festivities, the historic 50th year of the celebration locally. 1/2

Honest to goodness, there was a time not so long ago when this would have been a massive scandal.

Republicans every god damn time.

Our government is currently not working for us...

Our job in 2026 is the same as it would have been in 1939—not to be "Good Germans" in the face of obvious fascism, racism, wicked cruelty.

"There's no democracy without journalism." Scott Pelley is the best of us. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/m...

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.

Free Speech Champion(tm) Bari Weiss demanding CBS News smear an American executed by her government for protesting bsky.app/profile/elio...

Since PTSD is being invoked to excuse any and all abuse and misconduct, let us acknowledge where it is most common. .... From my book Recollections of My Nonexistence.