Dems are going to have 67 seats in the Senate after the election, and then they are going to pass the strongest worded censure resolution ever

Digital Ground Game@digitalgroundgame.org · 6d ago

NEW POLL 📊 Fox News Senate Polls (June/July) GEORGIA: 🔵 Ossoff 56% (+13) 🔴 Collins 43% NORTH CAROLINA: 🔵 Cooper 53% (+9) 🔴 Whatley 44% OHIO: 🔵 Brown 53% (+8) 🔴 Husted 45% IOWA: 🔵 Turek 50% (+4) 🔴 Hinson 46% (Fox News/Beacon Research/Shaw, A-rated, RV)

There's a crisis of masculinity in this country. Specifically, yelling at old men when you're mad at God, instead of getting together a bunch of guys, getting on an ill-fated ship, and having an ambiguously homoerotic time while hunting the physical embodiment of God's capriciousness toward creation

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Moreno to Fauci: "Who the fuck did you think you were?"

Ted Allen: Today contestants, we have a special challenge for you! You will need to cook all of your ingredients to 170 degrees or our judges will get painful diarrhea, but also because of the ongoing heat dome, you will be penalized if you raise the ambient temperature of the kitchen.

Upholding Jeffersonian values today by starting off every meeting with a list of grievances

or the New Pittburgh Platform Translation: "Yinz, no killin'."

Thinking about staging an intervention for a colleague who has started referring to Thursday as "baby Friday"

You know what? S56 is probably a cheater, but I respect that they had the humility to not overdo it like most of their classmates. Just the right amount of plausible deniability there

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li@sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 4w ago

absolutely insane story, and yeah, just looking at this chart... with the exception of maybe two people, this entire class was cheating like motherfuckers

If Andy Beshear would like to get my vote in the primary, pretty much all he would have to do is go to the hospital with a bouquet of flowers, a get-well card, and an absolute a determination to stay until he was able to give them to Mitch in person

Politico@politico.com · 4w ago

Senate GOP leaders say they’ve spoken with Mitch McConnell

Professions of love: 20 seconds Interpretive Touchdown dance: 2 minutes Singing her hit song "Wood" 7 times in a row: 17 minutes 30 seconds Exchange of rings: 10 seconds someone who is good at marriage please budget this. my wedding coordinator is dying

Kristi Yamaguccimane@wapplehouse.bsky.social · last mo.

Taylor and Travis’ wedding vows were supposedly 20 minutes each and as a wedding officiant that’s done hundreds and hundreds of weddings I don’t think you’re realizing how fucking long that is in wedding ceremony time.

So, the ref, who has been accused of corruption in the past, made a questionable call that FIFA (historically v. corrupt) overturned after being called by Trump (lol).

A long speech, coupled with weather conditions injurious to the health? That's William Henry Harrison-maxxing!

Bill Kuchman@billkuchman.bsky.social · last mo.

"The Park Service, in a separate document, similarly said that people should ‘wear an n95 mask when outdoors’ and ‘remain indoors as much as possible during and after the show.’” The guidance is to remain indoors ... during the fireworks. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Great Fire of Rome: Nero immediately using the cleared land to build his new residence, the Domus Aurea (Golden House):: The 250th Anniversary Fireworks Fiasco: ____________

amanda moore 🐢@noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · last mo.

Fireworks are always set off by the pool. The fencing happens every year. What is different is that last year was less than 8,000 fireworks and this year is supposed to be 851,000.

Imagine having the hubris to try to seize control of one of the world's great manifestations of human flourishing in a post-(Taylor's Version) world.

The US Supreme Court issued a 6-3 decision on a solution to the trolley problem

The reflecting pool is also one of the few things that is emotionally asymmetrical in our favor. While the pool is a mess, Trump clearly finds it distressing and it preoccupies him; if it were fixed tomorrow, most of us would just not think about it again.

Jacob T. Levy@jacobtlevy.bsky.social · last mo.

This is probably obvious, but: the Reflecting Pool is so much fun to talk about because on the one hand it's a perfect little synecdoche for the whole disastrous second Trump presidency but on the other hand the stakes are pretty low.

Self-promotion is cool and all, but did you know that many universities have folks on staff who will enthusiastically promote your work for free? Try emailing your advancement staff and say "hey, I published this thing and I'm going to be in [city] on these dates" and see what happens

NERV IRB Coordinator@professormusgrave.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Yes, self promotion sucks, academics, but if you don’t do it nobody will find out about your work. The point is to publish and be read, not publish and hope you are discovered by fate, lifted out of a humble and pure obscurity so that you may be both famous and retiring

Congratulations to Elias Thorne on his winning bid for the Middle Ground Lighthouse

The Associated Press@apnews.com · 2mo ago

Visa is embedding its payment network into ChatGPT, allowing the chatbot to shop and complete transactions for users.

Time to play my favorite game "Can I make it through this meeting about AI without opining that the people most dedicated to AI are mid-career folks trying to leverage short term improvements AI provides to get faster promotions while knowing they'll retire before the bad long term effects happen?"

[Captain Ahab voice]: Sink all coffins and all hearses to one common pool!

Nature@nature.com · 2mo ago

Nature research paper: A 5.3-million-year-old deep-sea whale necropolis in the Diamantina Zone go.nature.com/4v1yiFk

Seasonal reminder to fellow dads - if someone does this for your kid, you are morally obligated to buy him a beer at the next opportunity.

Ken Rhodes@knrhds.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Guy in my section just cleanly caught a foul ball while seated, took a second to laugh about it with his buddy, and handed the ball to the nearest kid. That’s how you do it

Come on! It's not like there's a strait important to oil and gas exports that Cuba has ideal geographic position to obstruct!

The Hill@thehill.com · 3mo ago

Senate Republicans are cautioning President Trump against ordering military strikes against the socialist regime in Cuba, arguing the U.S. military already has its hands full with Iran.

If someone is keeping a list of things to dismantle once that ol' arc of the moral universe finishes its barrel roll, I've got a candidate for their consideration.

The Chronicle of Philanthropy@chronphilanthropy.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Is a Great DAF Migration coming? After three of the biggest DAFS — with nearly $130 billion in combined assets — halted donations to the Southern Poverty Law Center, miffed donors will "vote with their feet," as they look for DAF sponsors who will follow their wishes. https://phlnthrp.com/3Rfuhhy

I keep thinking about the scene in Chernobyl where they keep ratcheting up the pressure and removing safeguards under the belief that they have a button that they can always press to shut everything down, which - in a twist of dramatic irony - is the thing that ultimately causes the explosion.

that the virginia supreme court allowed the referendum to go forward - they could have stopped it - and then ruled this way really gives up the game the only difference between now and then is that the we know the result and they didn't like it

This week, Donald Trump asked a child, "You think you could take me in a fight?" So we at @today.yougov.com obviously polled Americans on the topic. Our results:

Presidential fight club

Surveys about Donald Trump and fights, the 2010s, Spirit Airlines, abortion pills, and short-form video.

yougovamerica.substack.com

[Guy with an armadillo ranch in financial distress]: Can I also bet on leprosy outbreaks?

New Scientist@newscientist.com · 3mo ago

People are increasingly placing bets that predict measles outbreaks in the US, which could help researchers modelling the spread of the disease

Unpopular take, I know, but Comey and everyone else who uses "86" and who is not now or has not recently been employed in the hospitality industry should be prosecuted for stolen valor

You are going to look like a fool when Mr. Beast releases his latest hit video: “We Opened the Most Questionable Workplace Ever (DON'T TRY THIS)”

Joshua Erlich@joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 3mo ago

ok the Mr. Beast lawsuit, let’s go. step 1: don’t do this, or this, or this, or this