『時計館の殺人』の時計塔

“The Clock House Murders” Clock Tower

America’s regional planning boards are stacked against transit riders.

New research from Urban Institute. And here is
@cayimby.bsky.social's summary:

cayimby.org/blog/how-ame...

About 1 in 3 US Nobel prize winners are immigrants.
About 1 in 4 were government employees at some point.
About 44% of all Nobel prize winners were educated in US higher education.
As Trump demands a Nobel prize, he is destroying the means by which America came to dominate the prizes.

Sources below

Screenshot from the cowardly clowns at the nyt. Headline and sub read Trump Administration Wields Its Full Toolbox to Bring Media to Heel ABC’s decision to “indefinitely” suspend Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night talk show illuminates the administration’s efficacy so far.

Pour one out for the @nytpitchbot.bsky.social. Satire is dead in a world where the real "reporting" looks like this

kirk was killed by a dropout engineering student afflicted by brainrot but to the free press that is no reason not to slander the nation’s institutions of higher education

New short story announcement!
"The Last Stage of Agave's Dance"
In which five knights of a secret order gather in an empty castle and wait for their missing master, only for a series of brutal locked room murders to begin. Check it out:
genmajou.com/works/agave

Trump: "The line is that I'm a dictator, but I stop crime. So a lot of people say, 'You know, if that's the case, I'd rather have a dictator.'"

🚨MAJOR BREAKING: DOJ Deputy Chief Joseph Schnitt was caught on a hidden camera saying the government will “redact every Republican” from the Epstein files and leave only the Democrats.

He also revealed that Ghislaine Maxwell was transferred to a minimum security “to keep her mouth shut.”

Seven Mysteries for Alice Arisugawa In 1989, Alice Arisugawa made his literary debut with Moonlight Game: The Tragedy of Y '88 , an Ellery Queen-inspired story about dying me...

Seven Mysteries for Alice Arisugawa, a short story collection released for 35th years of the founder of the Honkaku Mystery Writers Club of Japan.
Participating authors: Yugo Aosaki, Michi Ichiho, Kyoya Origami, Tomoyuki Shirai, Haruo Yuki, Tatsumi Atsukawa, Masahiro Imamura.
#Mystery #Translation

Tucker Carlson agrees with a guest on his show who says, “It turns out I think the story we got about World War II is all wrong… one can make the argument that we should have sided with Hitler.”

Not even trying to hide it.

This won't be the first time they defied a court order.

India bans books and police raid bookstores in Kashmir crackdown Authorities threaten people with prison time for selling or owning works by authors like Booker winner Arundhati Roy and historian Victoria Schofield

India bans books and police raid bookstores in crackdown on ‘false narrative’ in Kashmir

Authorities threaten people with prison time for selling or owning works by authors like Booker winner Arundhati Roy and historian Victoria Schofield

www.independent.co.uk/asia/india/k...

Today, Secretary Duffy said he wouldn't fund high-speed rail projects due to them "not having the means to go the distance".

Hours later, he announced plans to build a nuclear reactor on the moon.

JD Vance’s team had water level of Ohio river raised for family’s boating trip Exclusive: Incident raises questions of exploitation of public services, but Secret Service says it was requested for ‘safe navigation’

JD Vance’s team had water level of Ohio river raised for family’s boating trip www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

NPR obtained bodycam footage showing Jared Wise beating police officers on Jan. 6 and yelling “kill ’em” as rioters attacked.
He now works as a senior adviser in Trump’s DOJ.

“Back the blue,” right?

This is so perfect. "Dead Center" and he's so far to the right that he's half off the cover

I just want a world where pedestrians’ bones+organs are protected like property values

‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens ISLA VISTA, CA—In the days following a violent rampage in southern California in which a lone attacker killed seven individuals, including himself, and seriously injured over a dozen others, citizens ...

12 years earlier.

Newsmax's Greg Kelly on Ghislaine Maxwell: "There's something else going on here. It's an injustice ... people are horrified when I say that this individual just might be innocent. But think about it. Who told us about her? The most reviled institutions in America. The media and the Biden DOJ."

🚨 Trump is demanding the firing of the Commissioner of Labor Statistics, Erika McEntarfer, because the jobs report was bad.

When you can’t rig the numbers, fire the messenger. Classic authoritarian move.

In 2025 Q2, US fully electric cars were 7.4% of the market, down from 8% in 2024 caredge.com/guides/elect...

In Europe in Q2 2025, they were 15.6%, up from 12.5% in 2024 www.acea.auto/pc-registrat...

In China, fully electric cars had 31% of the market in May 2025 cleantechnica.com/2025/06/20/5...

Oklahoma’s schools chief Ryan Walters, once on Trump’s shortlist for education secretary, who fought to keep Bibles in classrooms, and claimed schoolbooks contained p*rn, is now under investigation after images of nude women appeared on his office TV during a state education meeting

🍿WOW. Trump slams “second-tier Senator” Josh Hawley for pushing a widely popular bill to ban stock trading by members of Congress, the president, and the VP

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At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine.

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When they complain about DEI ask why they hate America.

Diversity - America is the melting pot of the world.

Equity - "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."

Inclusion - e pluribus unum, out of many, one; not out of some, one.

screenshot of a Facebook post by Corey Robin, which says: "By the way, did you all notice how Zohran made affordability a central issue of his campaign without selling out trans kids or shitting on immigrants? Might be some lessons there. Just a thought."

he's right and he's right to say it

One of our “green new scam” research grants that USDOT terminated focused on making transit infrastructure more resilient to more frequent and severe weather events. But “climate change adaptation” was too woke, obviously, and doing this research is clearly unnecessary

Look at this official White House web page: it's like an ad for a reality TV show.

Ostensibly, it's about COVID, but of course Trump is right at the center, striding forth as if HE is the lab leak.

Pure conspiracy propaganda. It's what Stalin would've produced if he'd been alive for the pandemic.

17-year-old Stephen Miller: “Torture is the way to go…Torture is a celebration of life and human dignity.”

Of course he said that. Why am I not surprised?

Socialism is what they called public power.

Socialism is what they called social security. 
 
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
 
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.

—Harry Truman, 1952