*You're* sick of my bullshit? Imagine how *I* feel

What a trajectory.

J.J. @jjfromkansas.bsky.social · 5h ago

I think it's time to recognize that if you subscribe to The Athletic and share their stuff, you are supporting a larger framework that absolutely demands bigotry be treated with some level of decorum. It's not quite the Harry Potter fan dilemma, but it's not far off from it.

I think it's time to recognize that if you subscribe to The Athletic and share their stuff, you are supporting a larger framework that absolutely demands bigotry be treated with some level of decorum. It's not quite the Harry Potter fan dilemma, but it's not far off from it.

Just gonna leave this here.

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 5h ago

Jim Cramer just now on Elon Musk and why you should buy SpaceX: “Because our minds are small and his mind is big.”

I wrote up Whaley's race and my thoughts on her primary opponent's transphobic bag of tricks. xtramagazine.com/power/politi...

Michigan's election dispute reveals how name-change laws are weaponized against trans people | Xtra Magazine

Efforts to list a Michigan statehouse candidate's deadname—from within her own party—reveal the indignities baked into ID systems

xtramagazine.com

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 6h ago

In other Michigan news, the state looks set to elect it's first transgender lawmaker. Joanna Whaley won her Democratic primary and will compete in November for a state house seat, beating a primary opponent who tried and failed to disqualify her for not running under her deadname

For those of you needing good smoke forecasts, I have the details:

Dr. Jeff Masters@drjeffmasters.bsky.social · 3w ago

From my post last year, my 4 favorite sources of wildfire smoke forecasts: 1-3 day from NOAA: airquality.weather.gov?element=apm2... rapidrefresh.noaa.gov/hrrr/HRRRsmo... 3-day from Environment Canada: weather.gc.ca/firework/ 5-10-day from NASA: fluid.nccs.nasa.gov/wxmaps/chem2...

Just change the gravitational constant of the universe.

Mike Boylan-Kolchin@mbkplus.bsky.social · 4h ago

am I going to have to revise my Intro to Astronomy syllabus? I'm going to have to revise my syllabus.

Talarico’s argument is simple: Stop treating marijuana like a crime. Legalize it. Regulate it. Tax it. Stop wasting police resources on low-level marijuana offenses. Clear the records of people whose lives have been derailed by nonviolent marijuana convictions.

In 1986, the national poverty rate was 13.6%. As of 2024, it is down to 10.6%. In 1986, we had a clueless actor whose policies largely consisted of whatever the last person whispered in his ear, or whoever could make him the angriest. I regret that this has not changed.

In 1986, GRID/AIDS was a death sentence. The lucky ones died before their friends, family, or lovers abandoned them. I spent a lot of free time helping in tiny kitchens, where (mostly) women would prepare meals for people too sick to feed themselves. I made many friends, then. They're all gone now.

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 16h ago

Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.

⚠️ Democrats in array: Schumer, Gillibrand, and Whitmer coalesce behind El-Sayed

this is not at all clear and is a poisonous sentiment

Another Josh Smith@jcsmith55.bsky.social · 4h ago

It's pretty clear that, for centrist/establishment Dems, "Blue No Matter Who" applies only to progressive voters whose preferred candidate lost The establishment has cooked their brains into thinking winning over moderate GOP voters is a winning strategy

It's a common mistake to extrapolate what a Voters will do from the meltdowns of a few high-visibility social media accounts. Yeah there's a handful of people who seem to have, uhhh, some issues with Muslims who are going to PUMA this. So what. No one converts 100% of their primary opponents.

i think about this all the time

This is another way we live in rape culture; we live in a culture where we have to hear about monstrosity all the time. Sometimes I look at those top stories lists and wonder if I'm the only one who notices that two or three or four of the ten are about violence against women.

My ice-cold boring take that will definitely not go viral is that a primary result with a margin of victory of roughly 1 percent tells you precisely nothing about The Future Of The Party.

Florida had nearly $200 million to expand electric vehicle charging across the state. While other states used their share of the federal EV charging money to install plugs along highways, malls, etc., Florida didn't, since "the private market has already done enough to serve everyday vehicles.”

Florida wants to use cash meant for electric car chargers on flying cars instead

‘Money is being hijacked from what would have benefited a large population to go to the oligarch, ultra-wealthy'

miamiherald.com

I'm calling it: "Start smoking" is going to be mainstream MAHA / Republican health advice by 2028. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

blessed be the poop lab techs

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 4h ago

Samples—and a certain stink—are accumulating at Quest Diagnostics thanks to the cyclosporiasis outbreak. “You get used to it.” on.wsj.com/4fAqfu0

butts

This is such an great feature (Rebecca is great!), and I've been thinking about it for a few days. IMO, "Influencer" in the ten-years-ago sense was really a LOT of jobs (spokesmodel/copywriter/etc.) but now it's morphing, at least in part, into "intentionally annoying person" which feels worse.

The Influencer Recession

Once upon a time, lifestyle influencers could post cute photos and make millions. Now they are forced to pivot.

vulture.com

some specific democrats suck and they suck in ways that are detrimental to issues that you personally care about you know how you solve that once we are past the primaries? you elect even more democrats so that their votes are less important joe manchin couldn’t have done as much damage as vote 52

ranked choice voting in primaries doesn’t just transform the ballot, it transforms campaigns. you can have your coming-together moments *before* election day, and affirm the values you have in common while highlighting your different strengths for the general (see: brad lander & zohran mamdani)

Leah McElrath@leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 4h ago

⚠️ Democrats in array: Schumer, Gillibrand, and Whitmer coalesce behind El-Sayed

*squints* VIRGINIA?!

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 3h ago

Virginia health officials have confirmed the state’s first known case of locally acquired dengue fever

As I was saying

Ed Burmila@edburmila.bsky.social · 4w ago

At some point we are going to have to reckon with what percentage of the Thought Leadership we get from this class of people is just drug addiction. Either a lot of credulous reporters have never listened to someone tooted out of their mind go on a monologue or they're afraid to call it out.

A solid flow of ocean air should kick in by early evening across Seattle and Vancouver, putting an end to the smoke event. Portland won't see an end until Thursday afternoon. rapidrefresh.noaa.gov/RRFS-SD-CONU...

Crime rates have fallen *massively* in the past 40 years. The homicide rate in Canada was 40% lower in 2025 than in 1985.

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 16h ago

Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.

This absolute piece of shit claims that he's "taking out fraudsters" and "saving the American people money" when his boss is running about half a dozen pay-to-play schemes in public view, the deficit is at record highs, and Vance has us ferrying his 9 year old to golf lessons in a helicopter.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4h ago

JD Vance: "We don't want the next administration, whoever -- god forbid you're gonna have President El-Sayed in three years ... "

Whoever said the Minbari are like if a yoga class formed a cult and became a major world power... correct

Something I'm really excited for is Vance getting sucked down into oblivion, as if by a sinking ship, when Trump annihilates the extant Republican Party over the course of this administration.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4h ago

JD Vance: "We don't want the next administration, whoever -- god forbid you're gonna have President El-Sayed in three years ... "