Finished my pre-ordered copy of Daggerbound by @tkingfisher.com and here's my recap: -Zale makes an appearance (#blessed) -Main Character with undercover hero energy -A new species has entered the villa All in all, another hit by the author who doesn't fucking miss, 10/10.
if only this approach had already been implemented successfully in well over a dozen western countries
Jen Taub@jentaub.bsky.social · 2w ago“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...
we're at the "they're arming unaccountable masked men with electric torture gloves" stage of fascism
Senate primary here in MN tomorrow. Peggy Flanagan wants to dismantle ICE. Angie Craig supported a resolution thanking ICE for their service. Wants to reform ICE. Voted yes on Laken Riley Act, then said whoops. Given what’s happened here in 2026, it’s not all that complicated a choice.
You can kill a French vampire with a baguette. It's a painstaking process but it works.
They are dead because of Donald Trump. To this day we never got a coherent explanation for why the President illegally attacked Iran in the first place (vague muttering about "Israel made us" or "nuke-u-lur" doesn't count), and we still have no strategy for getting back to the status quo.
Two US Troops Killed, One Missing After Iran Strikes Neighbors
Two American service members were killed, four were injured and one is missing after an Iranian attack in Jordan, the US military announced, following several days of intensifying strikes from both si...
bloomberg.com
I've been saying this since I was a kid -- never eat lettuce.
When journalists asked me "where we will see the effects of DOGE on outcomes?" one of my responses was "during crises...as long as media connect the dots." Well, dots connected: www.wired.com/story/cdc-cy...
The CDC Has a Cyclospora Lab. DOGE Downsized It Last Year
“Based on simple math, these outbreak responses—which require rapid, timely responses—are going to be greatly diminished,” the former CDC lab director tells WIRED.
wired.com
Today I emptied my car trash: a trade paperback sized canvas bag with a elastic maw you can shove items in. The bottom of the bags folds over and Velcros closed, so emptying the trash involves opening the bottom and squeezing the trash out not unlike a toothpaste tube. (Satisfying)
It took a team of AP reporters about 2 days to get this information. The same information ICE could have gotten before they hired the man who said he shot and killed an immigrant in Maine.
The Associated Press@apnews.com · 2mo agoICE officer who shot Colombian man in Maine has history of threatening behavior and mental illness, family and court documents say.
They aren't just "enforcing the laws." It's very tiring to keep saying this but there is no law requiring racial profiling and random vehicle stops. That law doesn't exist.
Goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool
Even if he was, there is no death penalty for being the target of a warrant. There is no death penalty for being arrested. There is no death penalty for being indicted. There is no version of this narrative that exonerates them @apnews.com
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2mo agoBREAKING: BIDDEFORD, Maine (AP) - Homeland Security secretary said man killed by ICE in Maine was not the target of warrant, Maine Sen. Angus King says.
”abolish ICE“ means (1) abolishing a particular agency and (2) salting the earth so that nothing that does what it does can ever emerge again—no matter what it‘s called or who is in charge of it.
In a sane world the findings here would be enough for a unanimous impeachment and conviction: the President attempted to steal nearly 2B from the US
Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2mo agoOpinion and order: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
This is absolutely awful. No one should be shot in the street for no reason. ICE has shot at least 4 people to death in 2026. Two times 4 people, is 8 people. 2 X that is 16 people. 2 X again is 32. 2 X again is 64. 2 X again is 128. Cops have killed 153 Black people so far this year.
Will Bunch@willbunch.bsky.social · 2mo ago"I tried to stop," said the immigrant shot in the head and bleeding to death This is the new "I can't breathe" www.pressherald.com/2026/07/13/b...
Chicagoans came to the Broadview ICE facility to hold a funeral procession for the 118 people who have died at the hands of federal immigration enforcement since 2018. This comes after 52-year-old father Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was fatally shot by ICE agents on Tuesday morning.
ICE agents must be tried for the murder of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.
Jennie Coughlin@jenniecoughlin.bsky.social · 2mo agoFederal immigration agents who killed a man during a traffic stop in Houston on Tuesday had been searching for a different person, according to a Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman.
In other "excellent news from religious bodies", the US Presbyterian General Assembly has formally voted to start the process to (correctly) declare white Christian nationalism a theological error incompatible with the teachings of Jesus: pres-outlook.org/2026/07/pcus...
PC(USA) labels White Christian nationalism "Theological Error"
Calling White Christian nationalism incompatible with the teachings of Jesus, commissioners approved a proposed constitutional amendment and a new policy statement opposing the ideology.
pres-outlook.org
Political scientist here: this is not funny, democracies only do this when they're in extreme distress
ProPublica@propublica.org · 2mo agoNEW: Most Supreme Court Rulings Are Secretive Votes With Little Justification ProPublica conducted a new analysis that shows the court is deciding more consequential rulings than ever before in largely unsigned orders with little to no explanation.
It's Sunday evening, so we need a new announcement of a cease fire in time for the markets to open tomorrow morning. www.axios.com/2026/06/28/u...
U.S. and Iran agree to halt strikes and meet this week, U.S. official says
The ceasefire is barely 11 days old and already on shaky ground.
axios.com
The issue is that nonpartisan, independent, and fact-based (good goals for journalism) have been replaced by centrist and equally critical of both parties, neither of which are journalistic principles. So confronted with a radical wing of the GOP, legacy media invents equally radical Dems.
🎉 Gidgetwidget @gidgetwidget.bsky.social · 2mo agoI am so grateful to learn I am not alone in the excruciating pain of legacy "news" not doing news & "journalists" not doing journalism. This exchange was so painful to watch. & of course, fire all the news hounds & replace them with reality tv showrunners & performers, voila. 🤬🤮🔥
Great work of explanatory, visual, & public-interest journalism by Michael Keller, Eli Murray, Danielle Ivory, Irineo Cabreros of @nytimes.com, on thousands of needless deaths caused by monster-ization of US vehicles. (Image: Chevy Silverado 1998 vs 2021) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
