Great NYT op Ed that follows the data and tells the Atlantic to calm the f down with all the panicking about the “end of reading”

Staying away from fresh fruit and veg to avoid the super diarrhea? Try some glass-filled crescent rolls.

Single bird flys in front of a melty boi tonight. 🪶

WOW. The ex-wife of the ICE officer who shot a 26-year-old Colombian man in Maine has come forward to say that he had mental health issues and was abusive in their relationship. She says after the shooting he called asking her to vouch for him — instead, she went to the press.

Fucccck they got him with the Gun That Makes You Italian

I have a piece in the NYT today arguing that the law should permit victims of ICE abuse to sue not just individual officers, but supervisors and policymakers like Stephen Miller and Gregory Bovino. A Democratic president and Congress could do this in 2029. And they could make it retroactive.

The Luddites loved technology. They owned looms at home and would ‘mod’ them to count threads. Their battle was against worker exploitation. The degradation of their rights, safety and wages. They were against a handful of rich businessmen owning the means of production. Sound familiar?

I'M DYING OVER HERE 💀💀💀 THE CAT GOT AI SCAM EMAIL 🐈 Aeschylus, our orange tabby, got an obviously AI email about selling more copies of the Oresteia on A**zon

Whoa. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

The most anti-legal immigrant administration ever just made it illegal for international students to transfer schools or change majors or shift any "educational objective" in their 1st year and for graduate students **at any point** ever, at all. There is no legal basis for this

An untenured prof/administrator made a very measured criticism of Seattle U's provost on Instagram, and then the University "non-renewed" her employment & ended her contract 2 months early. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

This is a trend I wouldn't mind seeing the back of 🙏🏾

"According to public reporting, Mr. Blanche spent approximately nine hours meeting with Ghislaine Maxwell. He did not even spend nine minutes meeting with a survivor." -- Dani Bensky, testifying this morning before the Senate Judiciary Committee

“It’s not coming home.” Ironically, the English football reality and The British Museum’s slogan

I just love being at an age where sports announcers talk about athletes 5-6 years younger than me like they might just pass away at any moment

may all our current books be

if i were a man who was, you know, normal, well i'd be mad as hell every time some guy got on a microphone to talk about what a big stupid lunkheaded alcoholic rapist i am

🚨BREAKING: President Trump’s administration installed overnight a new exhibit at the site of George Washington’s Philadelphia home instead of the memorial to the 9 people kept in bondage at the nation’s first White House. National Park Service dismantled the original slavery exhibit in January. 🎁 🔗

democrats need to get all-in on anti-data center. yesterday.

The University of Chicago law school has banned AI and electronic devices from its classrooms for first-year students. Why won't the college do the same for its first-year undergraduates?https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/07/13/university-of-chicago-ai/

Waymo’s robotaxis keep blocking bike lanes. It’s emblematic of a bigger problem. When passenger convenience and public safety conflict, robotaxi companies will favor the former. 🧵 about my guest essay in @driverlessdigest.bsky.social

This morning, I was notified of another death in ICE custody. This is the 53th death on ICE’s watch during Trump’s second term. We must continue to fight for accountability for everyone who has lost a loved one. And it’s time to end the use of all for-profit detention centers.

I respect France's commitment to not working on a holiday.

i had no idea this would become so literal

Señor Vader is adopted! Thanks to your support, we were able to sponsor the surgery he needed to fix his broken elbow. He has since traded his metal hardware for a forever home with the very foster who saw him through his recovery, and we couldn’t be happier ❤️‍🩹

For context, ABC, NBC, and CBS refused to air an Obama address in 2014 that expanded DACA and shifted border enforcement away from folks who clearly posed no threat. apnews.com/20ccd7a90e43... What did they air instead?

US inflation is the highest in the G7.

Officers shooting a man, running away from law enforcement, who is not a target of law enforcement, and who poses no threat to law enforcement, is murder. Federal officers do not have the power to commit summary executions because they are aggrieved.

Been editing/looking over things for various colleagues (grant proposals, and a few other things) and I feel like the three-term series is ubiquitous these days. For those in the know, is that an AI writing tell?

While JK Rowling and Amnesty are being mentioned in the same breath it's worth remembering why she lost her job there.

When you look at a post and think 'I wonder if they're an op' that's a good time to block if you want to go the extra mile and look at their timeline and specifically REPLIES to people and go 'oh yeah they look like an op' that's an absolute block my friends. We all need to be on that. more...

Higher education is one field where much of the reporting is rooted in nostalgia for the memories of their own narrow past rather than a reckoning with the realities of the wider present.

Maine is in absolute outrage! Protesters took over Senator Susan Collins’ office chanting "VOTE HER OUT" after an ICE thug brutally executed a 26-year-old Colombian man. We demand immediate accountability for this state-sponsored murder! Enough is enough!

When It Happens, if any Democratic politician utters a single word for him other than pure contempt and scorn, I will be waging a holy war against that person for the rest of my natural life

"She was still in her Bluey pajamas."

To date, immigration officials have shot and killed 11 people, including two Minnesotans. Across the country, they operate with no respect for human life, the law, or consequences. There's no reforming this agency. Rip it apart.

Monstrous. Again

A report on the ground from the ICE shooting in Biddeford that should make every parent in this country lose their minds:

My TL;DR is that the incredible amount of police violence Americans live with and tolerate is important background to DHS violence.

My random Sam Neil story. An actor friend of mine was cast in a small role on Peaky Blinders. Never receives his script pages. Discovers his role has been pushed to non speaking background, which is less fun/less money. Sam Neil spots him looking dejected on set and finds out.

ICE and the cops have pushed journalists SEVEN BLOCKS AWAY to keep any details of this murder getting out. That is not normal, even the local Fox News reporters are saying so repeatedly. ICE is actively trying to cover up yet another murder in broad daylight in Maine.

other best thing:

The bells of Cork city are playing the Jurassic Park theme today.

let us not forget one of his greatest roles

My real name is Nick Farruggia, and the best thing about me is that I’m the son of Robin and Doug Farruggia. My dad passed away unexpectedly last week. The world should know what he was like, so I wrote about him.

Apropos of nothing... a series of Pride and Prejudice memes.

damn, covered up his favorite tattoo for no reason