48% actually. I keep this graph on my phone

Sam Miller@kaisermiller.family · 8h ago

Antivax is a luxury belief. If antivaxxers were transported to an era where 20% of kids died before age 5, they'd be begging for the shots back.

There’s been surprisingly little about how we are in the very last years of living memory of service in WW2.

Son of Sandor @sonofsandor.bsky.social · 3w ago

Begay, one of the last two living Code Talkers, grew up speaking only the Navajo language. At 13, like many Native American Code Talkers, he first learned English when he was sent to boarding school. The other surviving Navajo Code Talker is Peter MacDonald. www.pressdemocrat.com/2026/08/14/n...

UPDATE: uh holy shit we’ve raised over $12k since I posted this. that’s enough to give each of the 9 candidates here over $1K each, a significant fundraising boost that they will feel on the ground in these must-win swing districts

Sam@samd.bsky.social · last mo.

I love Talarico and hope he wins. But he’s already raised $70M On the flipside, control of critical state legislatures will come down to seats where candidates raise 0.1% of that. I’ve researched the highest leverage swing district candidates you should donate to secure.actblue.com/donate/donat...

if you want to see normally sclerotic do-nothing local governments suddenly snap into action, do some quietly beneficial tactical urbanism type thing like this and watch how quickly they race to remove it

wishda@wishda.bsky.social · last mo.

The DSA in Wilmingotn, N.C. has created a "crisis" by putting benches at city bus stops, after literal decades of the city promising and failing to do so.

JUST IN Harry Mitchell, a former Arizona Congressman and longtime Tempe mayor, has died, according to his son, former Tempe Mayor Mark Mitchell.

🌕 Today marks the 57th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing. If you have a small telescope, head outside tonight. By a remarkable coincidence, the Moon is almost exactly the same phase it was when the Eagle landed. We'll show you how to find Tranquility Base at capitalweather.com

Much has been talked about GOP PAC/Committee fundraising advantages and well they are going to need it. NRSC/SLF/MAGA PAC are going to be needed in Ohio, Georgia, Texas, North Carolina, and Alaska specifically If there is a Senate candidate you should give to it needs to be Josh Turek in Iowa

These good people are selling balcony solar units at cost--a few hundred bucks to join the solar revolution. thank you @brightsaver.bsky.social !

Bright Saver | Plug-In Solar@brightsaver.bsky.social · 2mo ago

There's a lot of different ways to highlight the accessibility of plug-in solar. @billmckibben.bsky.social nailed it in his mention with @canarymedia.com "The solar revolution is the great sunny hope of our time, now everyone can participate." www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...

I wrote about what it would mean for the Suns to trade for Miles Bridges 2 and a half years ago when these rumors first started popping up. My feelings haven’t really changed on the matter:

Miles Bridges: What it would mean for Suns to trade for him

There are moments that are bigger than basketball. Here's what it would mean if the Phoenix Suns traded for Miles Bridges.

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obviously not the first person to make this observation but the "move along, citizen" shit for regular DC residents is especially galling in context of the pardons for the rioters who broke into the fucking capitol

amanda moore 🐢@noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“Loitering is not permitted in this area. Please proceed to a designated location. Thank you for your cooperation,” a surveillance machine tells a small cluster of National Guard members as they patrol the fenced off Reflecting Pool in the rain.

imagine if Adolf Eichmann was an insecure stammering imbecile

Razzball@razzball.bsky.social · 2mo ago

his excuse is they wouldn’t put the starving children on the phone with him.

There are many midterm forecasts, but this one is mine: pollcast.net/senate_forec...

2026 U.S. Senate Forecast

2026 U.S. Senate forecast: probabilistic seat projections, per-state win probabilities, and the path-to-majority distribution.

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Anyways there’s a neat unaffiliated union guy running here in Utah for HD38(R+10.8, open) Sergio Sotello. He’s an immigrant and no Dem is in the race, he’s already raised over $18k! www.electsergiosotelo.com

Sergio Sotelo for State House District 38

electsergiosotelo.com

#otd in 1944, planes from the 5th fleet shoot down more than 350 Japanese planes in 12 hours. History will remember it as the battle of the Philippines Sea but to the Naval aviators of task force 58 it would always be “The Great Marianas Turkey Shoot.” The navy had come a long war from Coral Sea

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

Donald Trump inheriting a situation that was suboptimal but honestly fine, deciding to personally intervene, and making everything significantly worse at great taxpayer expense is a perfect synopsis of every single thing he has done as president both times.

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 3mo ago

They're dumping hydrogen peroxide into the reflecting pool this morning trying to stop the algae.

Okay, folks: The big El Niño update is now out on Weather West! This sure looks like it's going to be a dramatic year from a global climate perspective, and there are major implications for extreme events (across California, the U.S. West, & well beyond).

Special update: Rising odds of a strong-to-historic El Niño event in 2026, with growing likelihood of significant regional-to-global scale impacts - Weather West

June 11, 2026 - Daniel Swain - A quick refresher: What is El Niño and how can it affect global weather patterns? El Niño is the warm phase of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), a semi-regular recurring cycle that transfers vast amounts of heat and momentum from the tropical Pacific to the global atmosphere. It is triggered every 3–7 years when the #

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Interesting that the Trump administration is laying down a marker that a military attack on an unarmed craft can be the basis for prosecuting senior government officials who supervised the attack in home countries of the vehicles' occupants.

Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray”@ryanjreilly.com · 4mo ago

Castro indictment is out: www.justice.gov/opa/media/14...

They're stealing billions of your money to pay off violent right-wing psychos while doing everything in their power to spike gas up to $5 a gallon, make groceries into a luxury and hand the country over to the oligarchs who want to permanently replace you.

Bill Cassidy voted to confirm a man who has killed countless people for this. Pathetic

Decision Desk HQ@decisiondeskhq.bsky.social · 4mo ago

DDHQ Race Update (est. 80% in): Louisiana US Senate Republican Primary Julia Letlow (R): 127,493 (44.8%) John Fleming (R): 80,259 (28.2%) Bill Cassidy (R): 70,758 (24.9%) Follow more results here: votes.decisiondeskhq.com/races/243606

Woof. I've been critical of this Urban Institute study since it first dropped, but it turns out that the methodological errors were even more serious than I understood. econjwatch.org/file_downloa...

This is how I approach bars as an adult

Kathy Flann@keflann.bsky.social · 4mo ago

My child gives a restaurant as many stars as extra maraschino cherries he gets with his pineapple juice.

The millennial craft movement vastly improved American gastronomy and I refuse to let zoomers with no cultural memory of the bland garbage we ate and drank 20 years ago meme me into thinking it is cringe.

paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner)@danlehner.bsky.social · 4mo ago

the thing is I like all this stuff. I like the hot honey and ricotta slices. I like the turmeric brussels sprouts. I like the corporate slop bowls. it's either my least or most pretentious opinion that most of this food is actually pretty good.

by my tally we are now spending ~$2B to companies to NOT build more energy infrastructure. in the middle of an energy crisis

The Associated Press@apnews.com · 4mo ago

The Trump administration has announced two more payouts for energy companies to walk away from U.S. offshore wind projects under development.

A lot of politicians fail to think through second and third order consequences. Trump is unusual in struggling with first order ones.

Eliot Higgins@eliothiggins.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Gee, I wonder why?

It’s Tax Day. Don’t forget to file, and also don’t forget that this Administration got rid of the free IRS Direct File program, gave tax breaks to billionaires, reduced the staff of the IRS by one-fourth, and cut the budget for investigating sophisticated tax schemes.

it's sad that prejudice blinds people to how bad driving isn't a matter of ethnicity, but of being from Maryland.

ae@aelkus.bsky.social · 5mo ago

"ah, it must be an armenian, they can't drive!" = vietnamese-am girl "ah, it must be vietnamese, they can't drive!" = armenian-american girl both from same college, just different days

Joe Kernen comes close to having a coronary on air as Pete Buttigieg dogwalks him all over the Squawk Box studio about Trump's economic mismanagement and inflation

We’re going to take underdeveloped state-owned land near Metro or light rail stations and turn it into housing so people can live near transit and get to wherever they need to go. It’s a plan that’ll help lower housing costs, increase ridership, and bring in nearly $1.4 billion in tax revenue.