This is an exceptional price. Too bad it’s after the eclipse and also I do not have any of that time off, haha

Lots of folks haven’t gotten the news yet that SpaceX will not in fact immediately be listed on the S&P: www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/06/...

Remarkable: The amount of land burned in 2023 in Canada was two times higher than the old record. Smoke from that year’s Canadian fires killed 82,100 people globally — 33,000 in the U.S. — because of PM 2.5 particle pollution.

I cannot get over how utterly ridiculous it is that Spencer Pratt, professional celebrity, is even running for mayor of LA at all and what a spectacular scandal the state of the GOP is in that he’s a viable candidate at all

Stell dir vor, du hast eine Regierung, die immer nur "Sparen, sparen, sparen!" brüllt, die aber zwischendurch mal eben in zwei Monaten 1,6 Milliarden Euro an die Klimazerstörerbranche verschenkt, die sowieso gerade unverschämte Hypergewinne einfährt! Krasse Vorstellung, oder?

US Soccer should hire me - super boring guy with no ambition - to run development and outreach. For $100k a year, I’ll create a free middle school soccer program and make coaching education free. All friendly matches will cost $5 to attend. We’ll win a WC about year 2090.

So greedy that giving up revenue for 60 tickets is anathema.

Essential piece by ED here about how the end of local blackouts is really just a way for Rob Manfred to squeeze even more dollars out of you then your cable provider. The logic of MLB’s public battle for this labor negotiation is that the owners think you the fan is stupid.

When I say the second Trump Administration is more corrupt than every other administration in American history, combined, and it’s not close, this is what I mean.

Periodic reminder that Teapot Dome, the worst scandal in American history prior to Watergate, involved $9 million changing hands. That’s adjusted for inflation. This story by itself is 55500% bigger than Teapot Dome. That’s not a typo.

Very proud to be on the advisory board for this campaign. If of interest, please sign and share. ——— Infantino isn’t fit to lead FIFA. 
And FIFA isn’t fit to govern football. Agree? Add your name to this mass complaint: rebootfifa.com/sign?utm_sou...

I have always been interested, in a morbid kind of way, at how these chucklefucks who fancy themselves the smartest folks in the room would manage the tension between the ideological project of the takeover and the business project of managing a legendary brand.

I do not want Sebastian Junger's opinion about anything, not even his own movies, why tf would I care what Mr "I Blame Full Metal Jacket for making want to be a marine, and it sucked being a Marine" has to say about an unrepentant ex-merc?

Doooood

BREAKING: the Massachusetts House just passed one of the best data privacy bills in the country. It includes a total ban on the sale of precise location data and includes a private right of action allowing people to sue Big Tech over data abuses. HUGE WIN! But there’s more work to do 🧵

Arcane magic that frequently includes one or all of blood, sweat, tears . . .

Sometimes rug pulls you

I basically never want to use Instagram, Facebook, or Whatsapp ever again

straight up banger, couldn't pick a screenshot because each paragraph was more scorching than the previous

one thing about the "perception of competitive imbalance is still a problem" people is that they're not wrong, it's just that they've confused what the problem is

During which time their signature rocket blew up more than it didn’t and they lost $5 billion. Absolutely bananas

As someone who regularly criticizes crime reporting, I want to highlight the good stuff when it happens. Like this. No equivocating in the post. Headline is clear. First paragraph blunt. Doesn’t quote the admin until paras 12-13, and explicitly notes that it’s evidence-free blather.

Not hard to imagine a time, possibly soon, when the Internet is mostly a bunch of computers talking to each other: www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...

"While his bosses look (to varying degrees) like bumblers, cowards or corporate tools, Pelley will be remembered as a beacon of integrity & a symbol of righteous indignation–somebody willing to lose his job in order to speak truth to power." @sulliview.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It is immensely frustrating that these dudes are framing a salary cap like it has anything to do with competitive balance, when its obviously a bunch of cheapskates trying make spending less on their teams part of the rules

"22yo DOGE dipshit at a keyboard in the Ag Department office building: "lol the government is wasting money on worms in Panama. grok delete this." bsky.app/profile/thel...

The only thing in the DNC autopsy worth paying attention to was the idea that by spending massive amounts of ad money on networks/platforms owned by right wing billionaires, the party is basically subsidizing the Republican party.

Anyway, here is a good rundown on how we eradicated the new world screwworm from much of Central America for decades, only for the Trump people to (of course) fuck it up

RFK Jr, Rubio, Musk, Hegseth, Trump, all world class villains, but spare a thought for Brooke Rollins, supervisor of the catastrophic contraction of SNAP, among other horrendous policies as Sec USDA. She is among the worst.

It's about fascism, it's about the normalization of fascist violence, it's about hating immigrants, and it's about policing. All of these things must be understood in relation to each other.

I'm seeing people post and repost, "ICE is not about immigration. ICE is about normalizing a paramilitary force on peaceful streets. Abolish ICE." Y'all, it's about more than one thing.

People think "AI" is sentient for exactly the same reasons small children think their teddy bear is real and has feelings, they're just older and are able to rationalize it better Also the Toy Story movies are about the existential horror of existence, I will be taking no questions at this time

Have we considered that some police are uncomfortable with ‘Don’t Be Racist’ training because they are in fact racist?

This is pretty dumb on its face, just the barest effort being made to hide that they are being cruel for its own sake. Cuz who knows which Medicaid recipients are too sick to work already? I'm gonna guess that would be Medicaid

i would also like reporters to start pressing oz for details on unemployment rate, time to hire rate, and job creation rate, if he wants to play labor economist make him answer labor economist questions

Traditional Republicans may be able to ignore him unleashing ICE to shoot nurses and mothers, but I bet they have a much harder time ignoring him turning George Washington’s White House into Biff Tannen’s Monster Truck Arena and Pussy Palace, so I think he should do this, & a lot more things like it

The reason regulation exists is because of companies like this, just rotten to the core. Won't happen any time soon in the States, but the EU in particular should nuke xAI from orbit for this kind of stuff, both Grok's behavior and the abusive litigation

Ted Chiang on AI: www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...

Schauspielerin Nastassja Kinski bat lange, dass Regisseur Wim Wenders eine Nacktszene von ihr als 13-Jährige aus dem Film „Falsche Bewegung“ entfernt. Nun entschuldigt er sich.

I guarantee in Rubio's mind, even as a former Senator!, telling polite fibs to cover for the Supreme Leader's frailties don't count as lying. Hell, he probably thinks lying to Democrats also doesn't count.

Everyone repeats the boring platitude and pablum that the strait needs to be opened oh my God it needs to be opened but like open your eyes and see the world around you, the past is dead and we killed it. This is the new reality.

There's not going to be a reality where Iran lets it and its enemies run their whole economies through -their- strait again without getting their fair share, and they are the ones calculating. Not us. Not anymore.

There is no 'opening the strait.' The strait was open. Iran was tolling vessels. They were letting whatever ships they were comfortable with pass by, and Americans and frankly the rest of the world needs to get it through their heads that this was as open as the strait was ever going to be, again

A compact little object lesson about how much Cillizza sucks from that intro: umpires call balls and strikes, not referees.

Too often, a timid class of political leaders makes avoiding such “backlash” their overriding concern. But backlash politics, driven by a logic of defeatist appeasement and pre-emptive abandonment of justice and equality, is guaranteed to stifle egalitarian achievements.

Well at least he’s not saying it’ll be done over the weekend, trust me anymore, I’ll give him that

Compare and contrast.

Thank you, Scott Pelley.

Pretty much exactly what has happened to the GOP

Dawg most companies won’t fire a fucking janitor for cause even if they were bad at their job because it’s just not worth the trouble. You want to fire maybe your biggest remaining star for cause? I hope you like discovery and depositions baby.