Sometimes I see something in nature and then spend the next several years waiting for the shot. Sometimes I never get it. Sometimes you see it and a week later you land it: I give you tonight's murder of crows in front of the sunset. 🪶
Dog park party and then cornbread night. Rupert’s best Friday.
NYT stating this like it’s normal when it’s absolutely berserk.
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Very interesting. According to Politico a big reason slimeball Rep. Andy Ogles got whacked in Thursday's primary is because he was targeted with $2M by a super pac funded by solar execs. They didn't user solar or enviro arguments. They used standard right wing ... www.politico.com/newsletters/...
How the solar industry helped take down Ogles
An aggressive new PAC backed by renewable energy supporters notched a major win last night by helping unseat Rep. Andy Ogles.
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“Relative success” aka, he lost.
Julianne McShane@juliannemcshane.bsky.social · 3d agoSCOOP for @ms.now w/ Akayla Gardner: Trump met with Spencer Pratt in LA this week, a White House official says Republicans have been floating Pratt as a future presidential contender after his relative success in the LA mayoral race. 👀
in which we discuss -a thousand years of japanese pescatarianism -emperor meiji eats beef -ramen and black markets -the rise of japanese worcestershire sauce buttondown.com/theswordandt...
Notable Sandwiches #145: Yakisoba-Pan
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where my editor David Swanson and I slip messily through Wikipedia’s List of Notable Sandwiches. This week, a...
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This little corgi is patiently waiting for outside the coffee shop for his family. He’s hoping they bring him a doughnut.
HOW DO WE KNOW THIS WAS NOT THE KOOL-AID TEST AND THIS PUP WAS SIMPLY THE KOOL-AID BEST CASE CLOSE
Razzball@razzball.bsky.social · 2d agogets incredible air here
It really is amazing that Trump keeps pushing to throw some random guy who didn't seem to commit any crime into prison for a decade and this isn't being treated like a huge scandal.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoTrump: “US Attorney Pirro should re-visit her hastily made decision, especially since it turned out that the ‘gentleman’ involved is a big player in ActBlue, a disgraceful fundraising SCAM, and is represented by a TRUMP DERANGED SLEAZEBAG, Political Hack Lawyer, Norm Eisen”
LOTR ent sitcom called Tree's Company
los 🦦@los-los.bsky.social · 3d agoLOTR sitcom called How I Met Your Mordor
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I'm a broken record on this, but I'm compelled to say once again that this is absolutely not what the attorney general should be. The Attorney General isn't supposed to be the president's lawyer. He's supposed to be ours.
Matthew Gertz@mattgertz.bsky.social · 2d agoWith Blanche, MAGA media is finally getting its dream AG, someone who shares President Trump's vision of the post as an extension of his will. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/tod...
barr then told cassidy he was the wallet inspector
Steven T. Dennis@steventdennis.bsky.social · 2d agoCassidy — amazingly? — says he was convinced in part by Bill Barr's argument to him that as Trump's former personal lawyer, Todd Blanche would be more likely to successfully "push back" on the president. (Is there any evidence Todd Blanche has successfully pushed back on Trump?)
Cassidy — amazingly? — says he was convinced in part by Bill Barr's argument to him that as Trump's former personal lawyer, Todd Blanche would be more likely to successfully "push back" on the president. (Is there any evidence Todd Blanche has successfully pushed back on Trump?)
See also Jeff Flake or Ben Sasse. The reality is that for all their talk of principled stands, these senators don’t want to risk exile from cushy lobbying jobs or other perks that would await senators who continue to serve the party line even when they don’t have to
Our latest Cover Snark has us banding together to save a dog from what we assume is becoming a cowboy's sacrifice. https://smartbitchestrashybooks.com/2026/07/cover-snark-we-gotta-save-that-dog/
it's always odd when "you should expose yourself to more diverse ideas" always means a certain kind of conservatism instead of like, Indigenous art, new fusion foods, math paradoxes, or the Dvorak keyboard layout
Two security researchers shipped me a pink plastic kid's smartwatch from Amazon. When I wore it, they tracked my movements, surreptitiously took photos of me, even listened to my conversations. The same backend they hacked is used by 30+ watch brands for kids. 🧵👇 www.wired.com/story/hacker...
Hackers Stalked Me by Hijacking a Smartwatch for Kids
Security researchers tracked and eavesdropped on a WIRED reporter using vulnerabilities in a pink plastic smartwatch. It’s just one piece of a deeply insecure supply chain of GPS-enabled gadgets.
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It’s infuriating that Waldo is always smiling and waving when you find him. Bitch, I been looking for you for two hours
Bill Cassidy finally figured out a way to bump his RFK Jr. confirmation vote out of the first sentence of his obit.