they noshed the squash

"We have seven minutes of Progressive Insurance stoppage time still to play." Why does the stoppage time need a corporate sponsor?

Katy Perry Releases New Single About Superiority Of Canadian Manufacturing MONTECITO, CA—Signaling a new chapter in her career, pop star Katy Perry released a new single Monday about the superiority of Canadian manufacturing. “When I learned about the strength of Canadian au...

Katy Perry Releases New Single About Superiority Of Canadian Manufacturing

We’re not dealing with brilliant strategists cleverly laying traps, we’re dealing with impulsive whiners whose advantage is contempt for laws, norms, and morality.

They’re not pulling some elaborate trick, they’re just willing—even eager—to do things regular, principled people consider off limits.

If you're looking for the last possible excuse to procrastinate, this v nerdy Wordle-spinoff is here for you! Featuring lots of good poems and some author birthdays that may surprise you.

(The social image got messed up, so sharing again 😄.)

Game here: melaniewalsh.github.io/versedle/

Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), top Dem on the Senate health committee, on this evening's chaos at CDC:

“We cannot let RFK Jr. burn what’s left of the CDC and our other critical health agencies to the ground—he must be fired."

iambic pentameter!

Manhattan On Alert Following Sunrise Unaccompanied By Languid Clarinet Music

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🧵Introducing the Trump Action Tracker website!

Today I’m launching www.trumpactiontracker.info - a live, searchable list of authoritarian‑style actions from Trump’s second term (over 740 actions so far). 1/14

All I see here is top notch ball security, elite contact balance, a willingness to grind out tough yards btwn the tackles, and surprising burst after he finds daylight

RIP Helen De Cruz (1978-2025) 💔

Helen De Cruz @helendecruz.net), professor of philosophy at Saint Louis University, has died. dailynous.com/2025/06/20/h...

When a cabinet member announces "We are using the military to liberate an American city from its elected leaders," where do you go from there. What is left to say. The idea of that being anything short of a near-universal "Wait, what the fuck is going on" moment proves how far we've backslid.

This is fascism—there are no checks & balances if legislators are arrested for questioning a member of the executive branch.

I struggle to understand how to best operate in this reality. I'm making incredible progress in my state, but uprooting this kind of evil feels beyond the scope of my office.

I'd *like* to be extremely concerned about the marines being deployed to an American city and the scientific committee that determines vaccine schedules being disbanded, but I'm gonna hold off until the Distraction Knowers give the okay

About 700 Marines being mobilized in response to LA protests | CNN Politics More than 700 Marines based out of the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in California have been mobilized to respond to the protests in Los Angeles, and the troops will join the thousands of Nati...

Sending Marines to face off against citizens on U.S. soil is fundamentally un-American, a MASSIVE waste of taxpayer dollars, and an insult to our servicemembers.
 
A dangerous and needless escalation by a wannabe dictator.
 
Everyone must speak out against this abuse of power.

Advanced AI suffers ‘complete accuracy collapse’ in face of complex problems, study finds ‘Pretty devastating’ Apple paper raises doubts about race to reach stage of AI at which it matches human intelligence

Recent reasoning paper from Apple is an interesting study, & getting much attention (e.g., article below), but.... (1/2)

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Saw the cutest thing at Yellowstone after Bozeman Pride. Baby bears 50 feet up in a tree playing while mama munched on leaves nearby.

"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."

She’s out!! They have released Ozturk from ICE custody!

Call it something fancy like "malfeasance" or something simple like "incompetence" but either way there should be articles of impeachment to remove the HHS secretary for being a shameless liar who is working relentlessly to make people sick.

First, Trump ignored the Supreme Court. Now, his FBI arrested a judge.

This administration is threatening our country’s judicial system. This rings serious alarm bells.

Image 1: Banning Homosexuals and Shutting Down Mosques Title: Public Policy Polling - Republican Primary Voter Views Date: February 14–15, 2016 Content Summary: This table displays Republican primary voters' views on two issues: Banning homosexuals from entering the United States 20% overall support, with highest support among Trump voters (31%) and lowest among Carson (7%) and Kasich (7%) voters. 63% overall oppose, with strongest opposition from Kasich (81%) and Carson (80%) voters. 17% overall are unsure. Shutting down mosques in the United States 29% overall support, with highest among Trump voters (40%) and Cruz voters (32%). 47% overall oppose, led by Kasich (69%) and Carson (64%) voters. 24% overall are unsure.

Image 2: Confederate Flag, Civil War, and Racial Superiority Title: Public Policy Polling - Republican Primary Voter Views Date: February 14–15, 2016 Content Summary: Three topics are covered: Support for Confederate flag on capitol grounds 54% support overall, led by Trump voters (70%) and Cruz voters (62%). 31% oppose, with highest opposition among Kasich (60%) and Carson (45%) voters. Civil War sentiment 36% are glad the North won, 30% wish the South had won, 34% unsure. Trump voters most likely to wish the South had won (38%). Belief in white racial superiority 10% overall say whites are a superior race, highest among Trump voters (16%). 78% say whites are not superior, nearly universal rejection from Cruz voters (99%). 11% are unsure.

Image 3: Muslims, Islam, and Japanese Internment Title: Public Policy Polling - Republican Primary Voter Views Date: February 14–15, 2016 Content Summary: Four issues are polled: Support for a national Muslim database 47% support, especially Trump voters (62%). 36% oppose, highest among Kasich (65%) and Bush (52%) voters. Whether Islam should be legal in the U.S. 53% say Islam should be legal; strongest support from Kasich (71%). 25% say it should be illegal, with Trump voters leading (33%). 22% are unsure. Support for Japanese internment policy 23% support, with Trump voters highest (32%). 42% oppose, especially Bush (61%) and Kasich (63%) voters. 35% are unsure, particularly among undecided voters (72%).

Amid Trump’s call for more prisons in El Salvador to jail Americans, am reminded of this 2016 South Carolina GOP primary poll where Trump was the top pick for supporters of Confederate Flag, banning Muslim & gay immigrants, wishing the South had won, and *Japanese internment*.

When you are one hundred percent committed to battling anti-semitism:

Resign. You're not fit to lead in this moment.

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I say this every time de-extinction comes up: it makes no sense to devote science to bringing back extinct animals when we can’t be bothered to keep extant ones alive in the first place.

can't normalize without normies. make your peace with this now

thinking about the amount of context necessary to explain to someone from 2010 what people are protesting with signs reading "cheap eggs not measles" or "tax the rich, not the penguins"

In a functioning political system the past week would kill the Republican party. Nobody with an R next to their name would be able to win a national election for decades.

Others have tried to capture the economic effects of the tariff bomb. Here’s another: Trump has destroyed US diplomacy. Forget the liberal international order. US diplomacy as we knew it is over. Thread: 1/

Bissau 10% Palau 10% Avalon (UK) 10% Fiji 32% Tyree (UK) 10% Isles of Ebony (UK) 10% Peru 10% Cebu (Philippines) 17% Babylon (Iraq) 39% Bali (Indonesia) 32% Cali (Colombia) 10% Beneath the Coral Sea (Australia) 10% Ebudæ (UK) 10% Khartoum (Sudan) 10% Deep Sea of Clouds 10% Island of the Moon (Madagascar) 47% The Ross Dependency (Antarctica) 10% Tripoli (Libya) 31%

Here are the US reciprocal tariffs against all the territories mentioned in Enya’s Orinoco Flow