The US built the greatest talent magnet ever, attracting the smart, skilled, and striving. They’d come to study, then stay and build things here, or leave with positive impressions and fruitful connections. Helped make the US wealthy and powerful. Then America chose to throw it away. And for what?

Ben Allen@evodynamics.bsky.social · 3w ago

Congrats we just made it impossible to come here for a PhD www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/16/m...

LA ROJA

Imagine a country being so bigoted that nobody can safely eat lettuce

Well, 71 years is quite a long life for an invertebrate.

They tell me I’m uncultured, but I’ll always recognise a bit of Beethoven.

And there it is: With just hours remaining until deadline to release more Epstein Files under lawsuit filed by @KatiePhang — Justice Dept asks judge for two-month delay, claiming it risks revealing victims’ identities.. … (which the Trump Admin has already done)

His name is Jonathan Ross.

“Just as monstrous and mutant algae invade the lagoon of Venice … in the field of social ecology, men like Donald Trump are permitted to proliferate freely, like another species of algae, taking over entire districts of New York.” —Félix Guattari, 1989

i for one have full confidence in the trump administration's ability to adequately refit a plane donated by a foreign government into a highly secure mobile command center for the united states executive, following their unquestionably successful renovation of A Large Pool of Water

Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · 2mo ago

President Trump on Friday displayed the Boeing 747-8 that will serve as the new US presidential jet.

G7 at Bernie’s

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 2mo ago

Trump starts wandering off in the wrong direction after a G7 photo and world leaders have to step in and redirect him

Can't recall a recent video that better captures Trump's essence. Misogynist goon sweatily belches out egregious lies to a woman reporter, insults and berates her when she asks for evidence, then storms off in anger, all while his spray-tan slowly slides down his face.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo ago

WOW - Trump crashes out & cuts his interview w/ Welker short as she presses him on his lack of evidence for claiming elections are rigged "You're either crooked or you're stupid. I've had enough. Thank you darling," he tells her" "I traveled all the way to Wisconsin for this interview," she pleads

Wife opened the microwave to retrieve her newly warmed up coffee and FOUND A LIVE SPIDER in the microwave. This creature apparently just survived a 30-second nuke. So, you know, if you need us, we‘ll just be here, irradiating spiders. What could possibly go wrong.

This is the best video in the entire world

Imagine missing your own son’s wedding so you could go surrender to Iran

would be funny if Iran was like "sorry, we can't negotiate this weekend. we've got a wedding to go to"

My pet theory of Elbridge Colby has long been that he doesn't represent a coherent policy strategy so much as a seething mass of personal grudges and inferiority complexes towards Europeans because in 2013 some French analysts didn't laugh at his jokes at a conference in Garmisch

Egisto Ott, a former Austrian intelligence official has been convicted of spying for Russia in the largest espionage trial in Austria’s postwar history. A deputy head of Austrian counterintelligence, Ott played a central role in Russia's Wirecard corruption scheme with Jan Marsalek, a Russian asset.

Ex-BVT-Agent Ott erhielt Haftstrafe für Spionage und Amtsmissbrauch

Der Beamte wurde nicht rechtskräftig zu mehr als vier Jahren unbedingter Haft verurteilt. Schuldsprüche gab es etwa für Amtsmissbrauch, Bestechlichkeit und Spionage

derstandard.at

It's hard to imagine a purer combination of the abuse of executive power and naked corruption. In short, this is a quintessential impeachable offense.

Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · 3mo ago

And there it is, folks. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05...

Kind of the definition of corruption, here. Funnel public money to personal favorites. Absolutely spectacular its brazenness.

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This should be the headline story on every news publication and telecast including local news every day for several days. But it won’t. It will be shrugged off like so much else by so much of media. The most corrupt thing that has ever come out of the US govt.

This should be the headline story on every news publication and telecast including local news every day for several days. But it won’t. It will be shrugged off like so much else by so much of media. The most corrupt thing that has ever come out of the US govt.

It was another horrible night in Ukraine. I keep describing that sticky, disgusting feeling of dread of waiting for missiles that you know have been launched to fall somewhere and kill someone. Maybe, this time, not you. Or maybe...? ​

Trump called in as MAGA religious leaders dedicated the giant golden statue of himself at his Doral golf club

Ukraine's battlefields are heavily covered in fiber-optic cables as drones dominate the war.

Grapes of Irritation

Karl Jacoby@karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 3mo ago

War and Temporary Ceasefire

"I cried so much, I recited every prayer I knew." 77-year-old Mrs Antonina shares about her journey on the ground robot. The robot transported Mrs Antonina for two hours along a road under constant fire to the place where her daughter-in-law and son were waiting for her.

Anton Gerashchenko@antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Wow. Several years ago, it would be hard to imagine a story like this. Now, it's not routine, but not anyhing out of the ordinary. A ground robot evacuated a 77 year old Ukrainian lady from Lyman. Her home of 53 years was destroyed by Russians.

The most common path out of dictatorship isn't sudden collapse. It's slow, internal reform. The Iran war has taken most of those tools off the table.

Regime Change in Iran, Underpants Gnomes, and the Phase II Problem

U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu started the Iran war off with a bang — not just the bang of bombs and rockets,

warontherocks.com

“I love you, sir.” Not a cult. Totally not a cult.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4mo ago

Acting AG Todd Blanche: "I love working for President Trump. It's the greatest honor of a lifetime. And if President Trump chooses to nominate somebody else and asks me to go do something else, I'll say, 'Thank you very much, I love you, sir.'"

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.