I picked more tomatoes this afternoon. Lots more will ripen during the coming week. #AmGardening 🌱

We had a human vaccine for Lyme disease in the 90's that was 80% effective. It got pulled after attacks by anti-vaccine pushback. But your dog can get one.

Ian Weissman, DO@drianweissman.bsky.social · 2mo ago

LymeAlert is the first at-home test for ticks that can detect whether the tick carries the bacterium that causes Lyme disease. time.com/article/2026...

It rules how much bowling green tries to claim JC and he’s always calling it the most evil place on earth

‘Everything I know about evil I learned in that small town’: John Carpenter on terrifying the world with Halloween, The Thing and The Fog

At 78, the king of horror and sci-fi movies is as much of a rebel as ever. He talks about creativity, compromise (he’s not a fan) and how he became addicted to moviemaking

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I've started my summertime nightly tomato plant patrol with my UV flashlight. The hornworms are so much easier to spot this way. 🌱 #AmGardening

I got a late start, but my tomatoes are coming along nicely. I've been busy pruning them, and clipping them to support lines. 🌱 #AmGardening

If you are weary of democratic socialists winning the elections All you have to do is beat them

The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 2mo ago

“Democrats appear slow to recognize that ideologues on the left are attempting a hostile takeover of the party,” James Kirchick writes. In looking for a way to reclaim control, he argues, they could find inspiration in British history:

the us war on iran: if you don't like what's happening, wait twenty minutes

Semafor@semafor.com · 3mo ago

President Donald Trump has abandoned his plan to charge a 20% toll in the Strait of Hormuz and restarted a naval blockade, a day after a White House official told Semafor he was "very serious" about the fee. www.semafor.com/article/07/1...

Our Members of Congress are being asked to deepen US-Israeli military entanglement and insulate the Netanyahu government from accountability. Email your elected officials and demand they reject right-wing plans to hand over any part of our military to Netanyahu.

Michael Fanone's take on Lindsey Graham is one of the most powerful I've read:

I really think it’s time for a massive re-write of how we handle the death of people. There’s no need nor should there be a requirement to shine only light of niceties on people who deliberately destroyed the lives of others. There is no grace period in death. Live as you wish to be remembered.

Oh shut the fuck up. The Bipartisanship & Decorum is nothing but an admission that they care more about the people they share donors and wealth status with rather than any of you They will weep for Lindsay Graham's family whilst they take cash to make sure yours is indefinitely worse off Eat shit

Elizabeth Warren@warren.senate.gov · 3mo ago

I got to know Senator Lindsey Graham traveling with him abroad in Afghanistan and Ukraine. We had just met to renew the fight for our Big Tech bill. Even though we disagreed on much, he was always willing to negotiate, with humor and wit. My heart goes out to his loved ones.

Fake is fake.

I'm lagging behind, as usual, but I have some blooms on my tomato plants. I'm much more organized this year. #AmGardening 🌱

Roses are red the reflecting pool is noxious

Jen Bendery@jbendery.bsky.social · 3mo ago

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...

“The bill also opens to the door for individuals to claim defense of a human life by killing or harming women who have terminated, or declare their intent to terminate a fertilized egg…the act of committing murder could be deemed justifiable” meidasnews.com/news/n-c-rep...

N.C. Republicans Introduce Bill Allowing Men to Kill Women For Using IUDs

Respect life, or they will kill you

meidasnews.com

Countries declaring readiness to arrest Netanyahu www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/co...

Satellite imagery shows erasure of southern Gaza as Israel expands control https://aje.news/ke1p75

1. London Underground station flooding has reportedly been reduced by around 90% thanks to a group of engineers: beavers. After conservationists reintroduced a family of beavers into a nearby city park, the animals built dams and restored wetlands that now absorb and slow floodwater naturally.

The reveal! At long last THE DISSIDENTS! An author only gets this moment so many times, especially when you don’t publish your first GN until you’re 50.

There’s a massive immigration operation in Memphis right now, but you may not have heard about it. Why? Community members face retaliation for trying to spread the word out, a lawsuit alleges.

Memphis is “under full-blown occupation” by ICE. Here’s why you may not know that.

Community members face retaliation for trying to spread the word out, a lawsuit alleges.

motherjones.com

Lot of people saying the rocket was expected and going to explode on landing, sure, and then saying "I hate to defend Musk, but..." Um, then don't? He didn't build or design the rocket anyway. My mockery is at the NYT using the "mostly successful" of the corporation unqualified.

Dr. SkySkull@drskyskull.bsky.social · 4mo ago

This headline is hilarious when you learn that the rocket toppled over in a fiery explosion on landing

in 2023 i pitched the atlantic on how then-emerging bud light backlash showed how the right was using gamergate-style coordinated outrage on social media platforms owned by fellow-traveling billionaires to launder transphobia into mainstream culture and produce irl policy victories (they passed lol)

Norm Charlatan@normcharlatan.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Not a huge fan of sharing screenshots from X but I had to check that this was real. This is absolutely the funniest shit I’ve read in a long time. Imagine having this little respect for yourself.

If they were interested in progress we would have progress full stop They just want to sanitize suffering for profit.

Marghoul@marghoul.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Its hilarious politicians cant seem to grasp that we cant be lied to about the ability of the govt to act unilaterally anymore. We've seen them do on TV for decades at this point and theyre still pretending like news travels by telegraph. By hilarious I mean I want to spontaneously combust.

Elon Musk and his hollow-eyed DOGE dogboys are mass murderers, and it should follow every one of them to their graves

David Roberts@volts.wtf · 5mo ago

Still feel like "Musk and his crew of incels destroyed a bunch of stuff they didn't understand and thereby hastened the deaths of millions of children" did not get the public attention it warranted.

This article is from last year. RFK expects us to forget about it. As with COVID we are watching attempts to rewrite history in front of us.

RFK Jr. says measles vaccine routinely causes deaths. That's not true

RFK Jr.'s claims on the safety of vaccine safety aren't backed by the data.

statnews.com

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5mo ago

BLUNT ROCHESTER: Does the president know there is a historic measles surge nationwide? RFK Jr: You just want to grandstand! I didn't cause the measles epidemic. It started before I came in

Here, I made this for my newsletter a few months back. Feel free to share with any Cabinet members you know.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5mo ago

RFK Jr: "President Trump has a different way of calculating percentages. If you have a $600 drug and you reduce it to $10, that's a 600% reduction."

Games like darts, billiards, bowling and chess completely give away what's going on. The ONLY reason to segregate these sports by sex in the first place is because men cannot emotionally handle losing to women. The ONLY reason to lock out trans people is bigotry.

Holly Baleen@hollybaleen.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Looks like they’ve banned trans women from playing darts now of all things. Comes to something too when BBC Sport are quoting Sex Matters, and the DRA has commissioned noted transphobe Emma Hilton to helm a report for them. It’s a stitch-up, and it’s disgusting.

For anyone unfamiliar with Paolo Zampoli, he was Bride of Shitler’s original pimp who brought her over on an Epstein Visa through his modeling ‘wink wink nod nod’ agency. Like Trump, this sleazy pimp failed upward and is now the U.S. Special Representative for Global Partnerships. #FirstTart