This is horrific. The needs to stop

The Salt Lake Tribune@sltrib.com · 2w ago

Rudy Giuliani shared the Utah student’s info, as well as her father’s, and encouraged his followers to call her father’s employer and “find out if their CEO condones the murder of people you disagree with politically.”

That extra second in the Michigan - Western Michigan game was absolute bullshit

I don’t think anything posted by an account called Socialist Planning Beyond Capitalism is true

BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 4w ago

seeing this spread by well-meaning accounts. but I don't think this is actually happening and it also strikes me as extremely dangerous both for legal exposure (imitating officers is a fairly serious crime) and for physical safety.

This is how you tell a story

Roland@lettersfromthedead.bsky.social · 4w ago

When I was in elementary school the librarian was this tall weird guy who called us his "little eggheads" and stood outside of the library in the hallway and said things like, "Happy Tuesday!" or "It's Hump Day!" or "Thank God it's Friday!" as we passed by. He was great.

Inside the sun

Once again, the epic scale of the geopolitical failure of the 🇮🇷 War, despite the day-to-day coverage, is simply not being discussed in any way remotely close to the unbelievably exaggerated way in which BIDEN'S FAILURE IN 🇦🇫 & WITHDRAWAL FROM THE WORLD dominated the National Conversation™️ in 2021.

Leah McElrath@leahmcelrath.bsky.social · last mo.

⚠️ Retired four-star US Army General Barry McCaffrey says that the US has “probably permanently lost access to 15 Persian Gulf bases” as a result of the Iran War:

I revere Dolly Parton much as I do Fred Rogers. They’re people who made it their life goal just to be gentle and kind to everyone that they met. They are prime examples of how we all should behave and live our lives.

One quote that always makes me laugh: asked what her pet peeve in life was, she said, “Well, nobody realizes I got a great ass.”

Fun fact: Dolly Parton spent decades quietly funding band uniforms and instruments at Black high schools across the South - never once putting her name on it. No headlines, no fanfare — just help, given because it was needed. Wonderful Heart ♥️ RIP Dolly ❤️

There are going to be Democrats who say we shouldn’t rip it all out — it’s already built, we have other priorities — but removing the visible signs of Trumpism is absolutely necessary.

Andy Craig@andycraig.bsky.social · last mo.

The vandalism and desecration of the White House isn't just vanity and it's not trivial. It's caesarism, as in literally what Julius Caesar did to the symbolic architecture of civic republicanism. Our national iconography matters and allowing the disfiguring of it to persist is a substantive harm.

In 2026, there is no longer any lab leak hypothesis you can state consistently with the available evidence. Despite this, it has been the dominant media narrative for six years. Read my new data-driven investigation: www.protagonist-science.com/p/biased-med...

Biased media coverage and the lab leak theory

Gain-of-function fearmongering and blame gets the glitzy NYT visual treatment as Republicans weaponize the lab leak theory again in attacks on Dr. Anthony Fauci

protagonist-science.com

some kind of suspicious vehicle investigation has multiple blocks shut down by the capitol which, the weekend of a gigantic car race is at least a little ironic (Alanis sense)

IMAGINE HITTING A 449-FOOT HOME RUN ON THE VERY FIRST PITCH YOU FACED IN THE BIG LEAGUES

Seems like this likely has more to do with a Jem series getting greenlit at Amazon. But I'll steal some credit. www.giantfreakinrobot.com/ent/comedy/b...

How A Bad Movie Podcast Turned An 80s Cartoon Into An Amazon Streaming Hit

One episode of a 20-year old podcast and all of a sudden, an 80s classic is in the Amazon TV Shows Top Ten.

giantfreakinrobot.com

Popularism and populism both derive from the same essential impulse, which is to construct a synthetic version of The People that will cure democracy of the need to adjudicate between competing claims.

Sky Marchini@sky.skymarchini.net · 3mo ago

I’ve said before, many times, that basically every stripe of American politics believes that everyone else is just deluded or acting against their interest for some reason, instead of having genuinely held principles to the same degree as their own ones

i'm finally going through the dissents in the birthright citizenship case, each of which grafts some extremely broad unspoken exception onto the plain language of the constitution, and every single dissent can be rebutted by asking "if that is what the drafters meant then why didn't they say it?"

obviously this is all nutpicking but we very much do restrict who gets to be a citizen, and the overwhelmingly most common reason you get to be a citizen is: you were born here

Paul Graf@paulginva.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Quite the meltdown on the postliberal right today....

musk is *uniquely* dependent on the federal teat to a degree that’s unusual even by the tech billionaire class, which is why a democratic house should make him public enemy number one: he’s a very big target who is extremely vulnerable, and they should make an example out of him

Vituperative Erb@vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Right like they must merely exclude him from the next appropriations bill and he’s going to be walking around in a barrel and suspenders

The Obamas just unveiled their first-ever commissioned portrait together which is located in the lobby of the new Obama Presidential Library. Beautiful.

A two-month period in the summer of 1946 birthed Trump, W., Clinton — and the baby boom itself. A look at how the boom shaped U.S. politics and how it didn't. Gift link: shorturl.at/ermkQ

One summer in 1946 produced three future presidents

A 66-day stretch in 1946 produced Donald Trump, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton. The coincidence offers insight into the power of the baby boom generation.

shorturl.at

RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter

Last image from tonight (short film in the morning): this brother out here with his Singer sewing machine, gifting people a custom embroidery on their jerseys and hats with the name and the date, was more artistic than anything at Burning Man and ad gorgeous as a Caravaggio. Magic! Goodnight.

There were some really cool skies tonight that I missed because I was inside 😤

Phil Yabut@philliefan99.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Backlit mammatus, a red-backed rainbow, and a fiery sky to close out the day. #dc #dcwx @capitalweather.bsky.social @popville.bsky.social @thehillishome.com @hillragdc.bsky.social

👇🎯💯 Total 🦗 every day. University presidents, with ~3-5 exceptions, have been totally absent from the public square. An almost unparalleled failure of institutional leadership in the face of an existential assault on the entire funding structure & model of 🇺🇸 higher ed. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Brian Taylor@bdtaylor-su.bsky.social · 4mo ago

It's high time for university presidents to explain to the public and politicians that international students don't take seats from American students, they subsidize these students. At my university and many others.

they’re shooting crowd control munitions at crowds that include multiple members of congress, the governor, and a sitting united states senator. they fired pepper balls at the senator. they cannot and will not be reigned in by democracy, whatever’s left of it.

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 4mo ago

ICE agents pepper-sprayed Senator Andy Kim of New Jersey.

My favorite mother’s day cartoon from the stupendous @rosemarymosco.com

Pierre Bourdieu once argued that the question of whether something is art isn't answered by the artist's intention or even the object itself. Instead, the quality of being "art" is conferred by a community — curators, dealers, auction houses, audiences, etc. 🧵