🚨Lights Out Alert! Tomorrow night approximately 4.1 million birds will migrate through Oregon's skies. Help keep them safe on their journey by turning off your outside lights and drawing your blinds between 11p-6a. 📷: aeroecolab.com/oregon

Your periodic reminder: treason /trē′zən/ noun The offense of attempting to overthrow the government of the state to which the offender owes allegiance

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 3w ago

Breaking News: A whistle-blower at the U.S. Postal Service said Trump officials were defying court orders with a “secretive, rushed” effort affecting voting by mail.

Another casualty in the war on cars (this is not far from where I live)

The twist should be he can only cook animals he's killed: bear, dog, mice, raccoons and whale—or brain worms, of course. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Exclusive: RFK Jr. hosting a new cooking show with celebrity chefs

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., in an exclusive interview, says he will be 'reintroducing' Americans to cooking again in a new series.

usatoday.com

Lindsey Graham’s Sister, Darline Graham, Says She Will Run to Succeed Him "I'm not a lickspittle and I have a spine," she should have been quoted as saying.

Well. The World Cup third place game is properly bonkers. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇫🇷

I hate penalty kicks in football. Some cheesy foul in the box that would have never become a scoring opportunity becomes an easy goal instead

Heat pumps are about three times as efficient as gas furnaces. Induction cooktops are about twice as efficient as gas, and indoor air quality improves hugely too. 👍👍

Whoa 🤯 in Slow-Mo@0lsi.bsky.social · 3mo ago

@quittingcarbon.bsky.social California is spending nearly $500 million to help low-income families switch to cleaner electric appliances. That means things like #HeatPumps and #InductionStoves, cutting energy use and reducing #emissions one home at a time 🌱.

The communists are eating the cats. Got it.

Washington State Standard@washingtonstatestandard.com · 3mo ago

On the eve of the nation’s 250th birthday, President Donald Trump used his address Friday night at Mount Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota to allege that there is “a resurgence of the communist menace in our land.” washingtonstatestandard.com/2026/07/04/r...

This would be a bold, new direction for the Fast & Furious franchise, TBH. www.jalopnik.com/2207088/duel...

Dueling Popemobiles One Step Closer To Reality Thanks To Latest Catholic Schism - Jalopnik

It's hard to imagine an Italian automaker defying the Vatican to build an Antipopemobile for the heretics.

jalopnik.com

I was workshopping a piece in grad school and someone questioned “cabal” (all five letters) because they didn’t know what it meant.

Kate Heartfield@kateheartfield.com · 3mo ago

I've been getting direct correspondence from readers telling me I should not use unfamiliar-to-them words since my first novel came out in 2018. They usually act like they're doing me a favour by letting me know I've screwed up (by forcing a reader to the dictionary) so I can do better next time.

I would pay good money for the writing book teaching how to work on my novel while using my phone and in the presence of my in-laws.

If no one else writes a novel about her, I'm gonna

Stephen Gallagher@stephengallagher.co.uk · 3mo ago

Trop belle pour toi

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So it went from fine to "let's paint it blue" to we hired the buffoon criminal guy and it turned scummy and then they criminalized touching it and now it will be fenced off? There's an old saying that all analogies fail eventually, but the damn swamp pond just keeps going and going.

MS NOW@ms.now · 3mo ago

NOW: Workers appear to be erecting a fence around the Reflecting Pool in Washington, D.C. Watch LIVE: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gnge...

Just spitballing here, but in this case throwing paper towels at the problem might've been more useful. people.com/trumps-motor...

Trump's Motorcade Drives Over the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool amid Efforts to ‘Make D.C. Beautiful Again’

President Donald Trump inspected the renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on Thursday, May 7. White House communications director Steven Cheung shared a video on X of the presidential mo...

people.com

I would pay that protestor. Game that good gotta turn pro.

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 3mo ago

lol

What’s so baffling about this is there’s LGBTQ+ content on the homepage. Anyway, I used their contact us page to complain about the internal memo. I mean, FFS.

Cascadia(PNW)@cascadiarevolting.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This was anonymously leaked by several Timberland Regional Library employees. Includes: Grays Harbor, Lewis, Mason, Pacific, and Thurston Counties.

My three World Cup observations today: 1) Cabo Verde’s shutout vs. Spain looks even more impressive after what Spain did to Saudi Arabia today 2) The Spain coach looks like Stanley Tucci’s brother 3) You should read the Guardian piece Jessica recommended 👇

Jessica Luther@jessicawluther.com · 3mo ago

This is incredible. So satisfying. I was going to say it’s “cutting” but it’s more a knifing to the gut or maybe a beheading. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Good to see that the head referee and at least one of the assistant refs in the first World Cup game today are women.

TIL that Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams both starred in “The Notebook,” which was a lot of Hollywood star power to come out of modestly sized London, Ontario (where they were both born)

As a metaphor, “Trump project ends up covered in persistent scum” would be too on those nose if it weren’t actually true. www.wired.com/story/reflec...

Why the Reflecting Pool Is Full of Algae After Trump's Renovation

Warm weather has fueled a bloom that National Park Service workers are trying to kill using everything from hydrogen peroxide to nanobubbles ahead of July 4 celebrations.

wired.com

Serpentium. Recommended by four out of five bluegrass musicians named Doc.

Chris Steller@chrissteller.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Beginning to suspect not every bluegrass musician named Doc is a licensed physician.

I wonder if Switzerland’s cap-at-10-million boomers can root for their World Cup team without a crippling case of cognitive dissonance.

I re-upped Peacock after the Winter a Olympics because they offered a sweetheart deal. Fast forward to the World Cup, where I can watch games … in Spanish. #gooooooooal

If you’re going to die on a molehill, DIE ON A MOLEHILL. I sort of loved this column for that.

Elizabeth Lopatto@lopatto.bsky.social · 3mo ago

this is the ideal newspaper columnist. you may not like it but this is what peak performance looks like

What's happening to CBS News is what the tech oligarchs call "parallel" strategy. Buy an existing institution, gut it, and convert it into a right-wing zombie version of itself. They are doing this to media, government, education, biotech, defense tech, etc. Some call it the "Network State."

CLASSIC ROCK THAT ROCKS AND ROCKS AND ROCKS AND …

Alex Elizabeth Byrne McMillan@undeniablyalex.bsky.social · 4mo ago

YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK

Not sure what I find funnier, the joke or the helpful AI prompt below the joke

"For These Desperate Ice Bits, April is the Cruelest Month" — NYT headline (that I'd like to see)

Ian Austen@ianausten.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The last desperate bits of ice in the Rideau Canal in Ottawa when it was transforming from a gigantic "skateway" back into a waterway. (Leica M Monochrome, 75mm f1.4 Summilux)