This would sink a presidency in any other era. I would bet most Americans will never hear it even happened.

Trump bought over $1 million in SpaceX debt days before unveiling space policy

The purchase, revealed in his latest financial disclosure, involved a firm directly affected by his administration’s actions — and led by presidential ally Elon Musk.

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This map from @terriblemaps isn’t a terrible map at all. This most Texas of all maps measures the distance from Texas in Texases. Very Texan!

On the Balcony of Eugene Manet's Room at Bougival https://www.wikiart.org/en/berthe-morisot/on-the-balcony-of-eugene-manet-s-room-at-bougival

Super cool graph for the history buffs out there. All the emperors of the Roman Empire from start to its divided finish.

Untitled https://www.wikiart.org/en/keith-haring/untitled-1986

Angst 1896 (printed 1906 or later) https://botfrens.com/collections/90/contents/1243536

Imagine having a law degree from Yale and saying this with a straight face to a national audience.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Q: How do you define socialism personally? JD VANCE: I think in reality what it actually means in the American context is you want to replace American workers with foreigners workers, and you want boys to play in girls' sports

As a political science professor, I can confidently say: If I asked a student to define "socialism" on an exam and they wrote that, they would get an F

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Q: How do you define socialism personally? JD VANCE: I think in reality what it actually means in the American context is you want to replace American workers with foreigners workers, and you want boys to play in girls' sports

There's no reason for us not to have a documentary about the Valkyries

Guardian US@us.theguardian.com · yesterday

The second-year WNBA franchise have become the first women’s professional sports team to surpass $100m in annual revenue, according to Sportico

There's a lot of good stuff in this post by @smotus.bsky.social but a really key point that I need to think more about is that we don't seem to have a clear theory of when Trump follows through on his most extreme threats and when he doesn't smotus.substack.com/p/preparing-...

Preparing for the attack on democracy

Some lawmakers try to head off an unlikely but plausibly damaging barrage of election denialism

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My Aunt Tami does cool things! Check out her TED talk that just dropped: "She wanted to find a healthier way for people to talk about politics without contempt. The result is the Dignity Index: an eight-point scale that measures the language we use to disagree." www.ted.com/talks/tami_p...

What my politically divided family teaches me

Tami Pyfer has five kids who belong to five different political parties, and sometimes family conversations get heated. Drawing on her work as a former policy advisor to the governor of Utah, she want...

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Angel Clutch Reese #WNBA

The Liberty will have to reverse sweep the Dream. So that's where we're at with that. #WNBA

That New York Atlanta #wnba playoff game just now was 🔥🔥🔥 My 11yo little girl watched it with me. She's a gymnast but humors me by watching a basketball game with me now and then.

The Dancer https://www.wikiart.org/en/andre-derain/the-dancer

Iowa Women’s Basketball tickets are sold out. Iowa Men’s Baskeyball had a 97% season ticket renewal rate. Going to be an exciting basketball season!

According to a recent Supreme Court ruling, this is basically true. Presidents now have presumptive immunity for any crime they commit while in office.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

Trump: "I could've done very bad things to Hillary Clinton. I could've done very very bad things to Joe Biden. I could've done very bad things to Barack Hussein Obama ... I can do whatever I want, if I want."

The kids these days will hardly believe it, but a mere two years ago, the mental & physical (lack of) acuity of Elderly Presidents was the Great Issue of Our Time. Someone should tell Jake Tapper & Alex Thompson, so they can write a book on it

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

Trump: "There's never been anybody in the history of the Nobel Prize that deserves it more. I settled eight wars. I stopped the total obliteration of the world."

And if you say this is wrong @MarshaBlackburn calls you a communist

I just submitted a proposal to present at AAPOR 2027 @aapor.bsky.social next year in Austin on survey weighting with B2B research. Fun to dig deeper into (as Michael Bailey put it) the "Wild West" of business survey research.

The Port of Collioure https://www.wikiart.org/en/andre-derain/the-port-of-collioure-1905-1

Saying he'd be cool with Iran nuking my home city is pretty bad but not quite as bad as when Hillary said some trump supporters were deplorable so I can see why the media turned the latter into a major scandal and not the former

Bayliss Wagner@baylisswagner.bsky.social · 4d ago

BREAKING: In Nebraska rally, Trump just suggested he would be unbothered to see Iran "take out" LA or San Diego: “They could take out a city,” he said. “Let them take—Let them take out Los Angeles. Let them take out San Diego. That’s—this is a very small price to pay."

In the 19th century, industrial chemists invented new synthetic pigments—chrome yellow, cobalt blue, emerald green. By the 1880s, Van Gogh seized their brilliance, swapping the browns of his peasant scenes for blazing color and fierce contrast.

The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️

In the Garden at Maurecourt https://www.wikiart.org/en/berthe-morisot/in-the-garden-at-maurecourt

Death and Life https://botfrens.com/collections/109/contents/28572

Karen Kasper - Fall Foliage. 🍁 Acrylic on canvas.

This painting was inspired by a canoe trip down a slow-moving creek in Oregon's Willamette Valley. Tall, overhanging trees lined the banks, enclosing the creek and enveloping it in silence. Gilded Reflections by Erin Hanson, 2026 Oil on canvas 60 x 48 in #oregon #pnw #impressionism #art @bsky.art

This is art

Japanese dwarf flying squirrel: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFu...