⚡️UK and Germany to sign historic mutual defense pact amid Russian aggression, Bloomberg reports.
The agreement reflects growing concerns across Europe over Russian military aggression and doubts about U.S. commitment to NATO under President Donald Trump.
Solzhenitsyn wrote repeatedly about the use of mosquito torture in early Soviet concentration camp detention on the Solovetsky Islands. If you use the same nasty ingredients, you're going to bake the same cake.
NEW: Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”
Stop asking billionaires questions, recording their answers and sharing their uninformed and/or racist and/or otherwise bigoted and nonsense ideas as journalism. It’s ridiculous. They are the most boring people. Oh wah I am a white man who has more money than I can spend and I’m so mad about it!
Close up of a brownish red fruit fly with bar-patterned eyes, multiple bristles and wings that are brown with transparent edges and circles. It is sitting on a sunflower leaf.
Good morning bright eyes.
Paracantha genera, a tephritid fruit fly. The larvae live inside sunflowers and adults hang around. From the Pollinator Garden just now.
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New York Times headline: "Is it Time to Stop Snubbing Your Right-Wing Family?" Above the headline a photo of the vampires from Sinners, asking to be let in. The photo has been modified with a downward-facing word balloon to create the effect that the vampires are speaking the headline.
So they took away state Medicaid expansion and replaced it with state concentration camp expansion.
Omfg shut up. My parents live in that neighborhood, they voted for Mamdani and their view at night is filled with empty dark apartments owned as investments by those with properties elsewhere, these are not concerns of “residents” they are issues for financial holding companies
💛🤍💜🖤 Happy International Non-binary People's Day!
My first realizing that actually applies to me, rather than being just a queer ally 😅
Eternally grateful for my fellow enby fiancé @maxxmorningstar.bsky.social, who has taught me to give myself the same freedoms & grace that I grant to others 😘
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The Republican Party elected officials have grown very accustomed to simply overriding election results they don’t agree with.
there it is: we must protect our pedos to maintain control of the country.
🚨 DON’T LOOK AWAY 🚨
U.S. Professor KIDNAPPED and DISAPPEARED by ICE!
He still remains detained.
Yesterday a California Faculty Association union leader, Professor Jonathan Caravello, was dragged away by four masked ICE agents while lawfully observing a raid.
This is NOT normal.
“Dr. Caravello, a beloved faculty member at CSU, should be home with his loved ones. Instead, he was brutally attacked, dragged away, and his whereabouts are unknown. We join his colleagues and loved ones in grave concern for his health and well-being." - SEIU Local 2015 President Arnulfo De La Cruz
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Okay right I am in a cafe feeding both of us so let’s talk about this. It’s one of those things where it almost seems reasonable, at first: why *shouldn’t* breastfeeding be discreet? Let’s unpack that because it’s not actually reasonable.
www.npr.org/2025/07/10/n...
Kerr County's funding application was turned down by Texas officials in charge of administering the federal FEMA funds.
Kerr County looked into a Texas state grant program for flood projects, but gave up when they learned it would cover only a small portion of the cost.
BREAKING: Emails given to Congress by DOJ whistleblower reveal new details about the Abrego Garcia fiasco. They show how Trump officials searched for ways to paint him as a dangerous criminal and gang "leader" and couldn't find any. But smears continued.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/1977...
I’ve said it dozens of times before and I’ll say it again:
92% of Medicaid beneficiaries are working or would be exempt. The people they’re depicting are figments of their imagination, meant to undercut support for the safety net as the racist “welfare queen” tropes did.
Harvard has removed the websites for the Harvard women's center and office for BGLTQ+ life. These absolute cowards waited till summer when students are gone and now won't say if they're dismantling these offices entirely.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
New in PN: The worst chief justice of all time
"American history has no shortage of legendarily bad chief justices and disgraceful decisions. But John Roberts has overseen the wholesale corruption and capture of the Supreme Court, and history should look back on his tenure with revulsion."
Stop pretending. The so-called ICE agents creeping around LA aren’t chasing violent criminals.
If you don’t see the racial profiling, you’re either in denial or fine with it. And since they’re incognito, no one can give a straight answer on how we’re supposed to know they’re even legit.
"There was a boy who entered the [off-limits] zone. He didn't do anything. [Other soldiers] claimed to have seen him standing and talking to people. That's it — they dropped a grenade from a drone."
13 (c) SPECIFIED GENDER TRANSITION PROCEDURES 14 DEFINED.—Section 1905 of the Social Security Act (42 15 U.S.C. 1396d) is amended by adding at the end the fol16 lowing new subsection: 17 ‘‘(ll) SPECIFIED GENDER TRANSITION PROCE18 DURES.— 19 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—For purposes of section 20 1903(i)(28), except as provided in paragraph (2) , 21 the term ‘specified gender transition procedure’ 22 means, with respect to an individual, any of the fol23 lowing when performed for the purpose of inten24 tionally changing the body of such individual (in25 cluding by disrupting the body’s development, inhib
18 ‘‘(4) FEMALE.—For purposes of paragraph (3), 19 the term ‘female’ means an individual who naturally 20 has, had, will have, or would have, but for a develop21 mental or genetic anomaly or historical accident, the 22 reproductive system that at some point produces, 23 transports, and utilizes eggs for fertilization. 24 ‘‘(5) MALE.—For purposes of paragraph (3), 25 the term ‘male’ means an individual who naturally 660 BAI25300 V7T S.L.C. 1 has, had, will have, or would have, but for a develop2 mental or genetic anomaly or historical accident, the 3 reproductive system that at some point produces, 4 transports, and utilizes sperm for fertilization.’’
H/T @sharonk.bsky.social: Republicans decided to keep the Medicaid and CHIP ban on gender-affirming care for transgender people in the bill as well as the legal characterization of "male" and "female."
New-to-me nugget on work requirements implementation in here:
Pinging Equifax's The Work Number — which states are likely to rely on to get recent-enough employment data — "sometimes costs over $20 per person per query"
I’ve heard Mamdani give versions of this line before but it’s worth repeating that his winning strategy was talking to actual human beings who might vote for him, versus some mythical voter democrats are trying to swing from the right who does not exist.
Most of the ideas mentioned in this article—higher minimum wage, free tuition at public colleges, higher taxes on the rich—are not only popular now but were realities in the past, including in NYC, during the booming postwar years, when America was “great.”/1
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/u...
Appalling to see Austria, Czechia, Germany, Hungary and Italy *still* on Israel’s side, despite firm evidence from the EU’s OWN review that Israel is in breach of Article 2 of the Association Agreement.
Even over the last 24 hrs, 79 Palestinians killed.
www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
A spike of flowers growing from a succulent. Each flower is wider at the base and opens at the end of the tube to five petals, the inside of which are yellow, as are the stamens. The outside of the tubular flowers are a reddy pink. They are growing alternatively to the left and right along the spike.
Succulent flower spike. Three of these tiny blooms fit on my thumb nail. #gardening
Trump, who said last year that he had “saved” historically Black colleges, has canceled $140 million in grants to them since March.
Agencies told HBCUs “to change the language in grant applications that explicitly focus on Black people — or lose federal funding.”
www.chronicle.com/article/hbcu...
Inflatible crocodiles? I tip my hat to you, citizens of Venice...
www.thejournal.ie/jeff-bezos-w...
