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I am convinced that the Knicks winning the NBA championship put us into the right timeline because since then? Progressive wins, African countries upsetting European countries in the World Cup, and a genuine shift in the atmosphere.

A 32-year-old Democratic socialist who once said "Fuck Kamala Harris" has just beat the Chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus — who was backed by the entire party establishment and millions of dollars. There is not even a doubt. The Democratic Tea Party is here.

Living in the 1760s in London, you may have asked yourself: Why not buy a "Remarkable Tame Panther" that you "may play with it as they may with a Dog"? Or a "SEA-MONSTER"? Or both? What could possibly go wrong with a panther and a sea-monster in your house? I have so many questions.

Because the Tea Party was opposing a qualified and reasonable Black Man, while Dem Socialists are challenging centrism--the dominant political ideology of the well-educated and well-compensated.

An absolutely stunning photo! The 35m-long #Roman shipwreck, along with its cargo of 6,000 (!) amphorae was discovered in 2019 off the coast of the Greek Island of Kefalonia. It’s one of the largest Roman shipwrecks found in the Mediterranean. 📷 Ionian Aquarium

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We’re about to find out exactly how pro-democracy the Democratic Party actually is now that the centrists are being thrown out. How many will caucus with the GOP to prevent Speaker of the House AOC?

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Yo, quick question: What is WRONG with you?

Sort of spurred by this: I still think that part of the whole Post Pandemic Social Settlement should have been a huge (inter)national effort to properly ventilate our spaces and that should have included ACs and heat pumps for places in Europe, and it's just a shame we generally didn't do this.

If you asked me, off the top of my head, to name a non-Oxbridge university in England synonymous with excellence in the Humanities - I would probably think of Exeter first. This feels like a very deliberate, targeted and ideological Bonfire of the Humanities

Really, really, really, REALLY need establishment Democrats to find their actual consciences & desires for positive change and to realize where the people Actually Are right now, and meet them there. This primary season needs to be a burning bush and buddha under the bodhi tree kind of moment y'all.

your dog might, however, follow you around the house being profoundly Disappointed

Regardless of what your dog will try to tell you, no dog has ever died of missing a walk two days in a row!!! But a whole lot of dogs have died of heatstroke, SIT DOWN AND STAY INSIDE

Wow. All the trains have stopped across all of Germany because of a nationwide rail communications failure. I'm on one of them. I am fascinated by what could possibly cause this. And... I guess I'm going to have the whole night on a train to ponder it. apnews.com/article/germ...

The violence continued even after Israel agreed to a ceasefire last October. The report also found Israeli forces are carrying out war crimes in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, with a sharp rise in violence perpetrated by Israeli settlers against Palestinian children.

For it is St. John’s feast and all our shadows are given permission to walk abroad independently. We can only hope that they get up to the right sort of mischief.

"The Two Towers" is probably the greatest title in the history of books, because no one even knows what the two towers are. There are like five towers in the book and none of them particularly stand out as central plot points. More books should be named like that.

This is a very important distinction.

Politically we live in an increasingly dangerous & confusing jungle of disinformation but it will forever be a universal truth that you can’t fake the funk when it comes to Having The Juice & Making Shit Better

Your Brutalist Sandcastle Summer Challenge? This one built by Calvin Seibert #sculpture #art #architecture #brutalist #beach

Goodnight from Jan Foxcroft, regretting putting up the sign WE DON’T SERVE CHANGELINGS in the village shop. Goodnight from the Long Maidens parade band, feeling the moment their music summons the Bone Horse to dance the cobbles of Church Street. Goodnight from Hookland.

Good time to contemplate why, right now, on the backdrop of naked corruption, kidnapping & caging as domestic policy & crimes against humanity as international policy, why the establishment wing of the oppo party is so mad that voters are trying to aggressively steer their machinery away from that.

The quietest people on social media … Happily married couples

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I can almost hear the producer telling the interviewer: ‘make sure to end on a positive note, yes, sure, elderly and vulnerable disabled and poor people might literally die, but silver linings!’

I did an HVAC feasibility plan for the church this photo is from last year and the costing, both for the outright work and the arch and LBC considerations, was over £700k. You gonna pay that?

The primary season is not over yet. And already, the number of Democratic socialists in Congress is set to double. Claire Valdez, Darializa Avila Chevalier, and Chris Rabb will join Bernie Sanders, Rashida Tlaib, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. And there may yet be more to come.

One of the most significant days in modern US politics. Two Zohran-backed Democratic socialists just beat: —The Brooklyn borough president (backed by the well-liked outgoing Rep. Nydia Velázquez & AG Tish James) —The Congressional Hispanic Caucus Chair (backed by Kathy Hochul & James)

Israeli soldiers occupying southern Lebanon have opened fire on the town of Nabatieh al-Fawqa, killing two people and wounding another. It’s the latest of Israel’s many ceasefire violations and comes after Iran previously warned it would “respond” to further attacks by Israeli troops on Lebanon.

I kept seeing the logo on the left and thought it was someone’s way of mocking AI. But no, the Claude icon is actually the same as Vonnegut’s famous asshole drawing??? 🤨

I have a diabolical plan to stop the rise of the Democratic Socialists! It's foolproof and guaranteed to work! It has no known defense! Step 1: Be a Democratic politician already in power. Step 2: Do all of the good things that DSA mayors do once they're elected, that 80% of your own voters want.

In Michigan, members of the United Auto Workers have voted to prohibit investments in Israeli bonds, becoming the first major U.S. labor union to divest from the state of Israel.

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This has got to be the weirdest human evolution story I've ever covered. I'm still baffled -- yes, baffled -- by these results. 🏺🧪

Corbyn’s response to Starmer saying he had to rescue the Labour party from "political, financial, and moral bankruptcy” after Corbyn’s leadership.

Former Human Rights Watch executive director Ken Roth commented on social media, “The summary execution of two more in an alleged drug boat brings the number of murders ordered by Trump to more than 210. There will come a day when he faces prosecution for these crimes.”

Given the millions of dollars it has now repeatedly thwarted from all sorts of interests — pro-Israel and real estate lobbies, billionaires, and the Democratic party establishment — New York City Democratic Socialists of America could be the nation's most powerful organization

“Fall from grace” Mike Vrabel clock in everyday he still ain’t fell from grace www.nytimes.com/2026/06/24/n...

Israel is still committing a genocide in Gaza. A UN inquiry found that the IDF is deliberately targeting Palestinian children. The genocidal army remains obsessively focused on making sure as many Palestinian children as possible suffer. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

I’m still not sure why you said this on two different platforms This is not well thought out

Wait, so we're not voting blue no matter who anymore?

Not all churches are cold right now, folks! Signed, all of us currently dealing with roof leadwork melting

If you want any hope of finding the hidden Black Library of Weychester Cathedral, the first thing you must do is lose your tour guide. - #MattAdams

British surgeon Nizam Mamode tells BBC the evidence from Gaza is overwhelming, and blamed public ignorance on mainstream media failing to convey the reality of Israel’s systematic and deliberate killing of Palestinian children, citing latest UN report.

Repatriation story time! Aka, how a stolen goddess of dance went from the photo on the left (on display for worship at a Nepali monastery in 1969) to the photo on the right (patiently posing with a dorky admirer in the Nepali consulate in NYC in 2026).

Another way I sometimes feel like a more orthodox Marxist than a lot of people who would share the label with me is I always thought something like this was the default stance among our tribe: clearly unions have some good features within our system, but they are not straightforwardly pro-progress.

I have some serious questions about how this ended up languishing in a USA archive for almost 80 years. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...

Lots of people know that having diabetes increases your risk of severe reactions to viral infections like Covid and the flu. Fewer people know that getting severe viral infections like the flu, can cause the onset of diabetes. 🙂🙃 pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... Yes, seriously.

Between the Fetterman stuff & the response to DSA victories & the stuff being said about Lander I wonder what it says about where the so-called center has shifted that basically no one who advocates for our current or recent status quo can express themselves without appearing super racist anymore

The Polite Kind Of Racism The acceptable type of racism is the kind which considers it fine and normal to drop bombs on Muslim families overseas. The kind which sees starvation sanctions as a minor issue. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-polite...

🎥 Jeremy Scahill: Iran won’t help Trump rewrite outcome of war Scahill says Iran won’t participate in Trump’s face-saving lies aimed at helping him craft a false victory narrative. Iranian officials, who had been flexible before the war, told Scahill that regional mediators, during the MOU...

where’s that algae eating fish from Finding Nemo. I have an idea

This is one of my fave hot weather cold pasta salads: small pasta, cucumber, feta, and a simple dressing of olive oil, lemon juice and zest, parsley, garlic powder, salt and pepper. make it early in the am so you aren’t boiling pasta when it’s hot. So refreshing

It’s St. John’s Day and I know many of you know that means certain gates to St. Martin’s Land become visible for a few hours. Please consider this version of a traditional Hookland song by the wonderful @lunatraktors.bsky.social as a Public Information Film. m.youtube.com/watch?v=reT0...

Imagine thinking “ we gotta make one of them the first trillionaire” and this the mf’er that you choose…

Worst thing about LLMs? I keep trying to betray humanity to our robot masters, but they don't have a persistent sense of self and continual learning remains an unsolved problem. Every time I fire up a new instance they forget that I'm a quisling :/

Oh they are BROKE broke www.semafor.com/article/06/2...

Which you ignored when I worked for you, and you enabled in letting news steal local stories They did not Hijack the public square . You helped seed it to them at the price of others and you’re mad they cut you out newrepublic.com/article/2120...

Pressure is mounting to remove the Israeli Medical Association from the World Medical Association due to its silence and complicity with the Gaza genocide.

Israel’s new separation wall will sever Jordan Valley from rest of West Bank The army is issuing evacuation orders and seizing land to prepare a massive barrier — part of a wider project to annex the Palestinian ‘breadbasket.’ @mekomit.bsky.social www.972mag.com/jordan-valle...

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I'm the only one brave enough to admit that the sheer strength of Eartha Kitt's performance in The Emperor's New Groove should actually put her character in contention for best Disney villain.

lol. So, the people on the internet discovered that (the Catholic) mapmaker Monte’s 1587 Planisphere map has an ark on Ararat—as noted in Genesis (www.davidrumsey.com/blog/2017/11...) & want to use it to prove the existence of the Ark? Mapmakers knew Asia Minor & inserted biblical refs a lot, folks.

But some oil executives have made a lot of money, so it is impossible to say whether this is good or bad.

This was absolutely the right choice. Solidarity must go in multiple directions, and holding the event during extreme weather would have endangered everyone, especially medically vulnerable folks. The weather isn’t permanent; there will be a better time to do this.

Enjoy this incredible feeling of joy seeing amazing humans win in NY and oust the power brokers and moneyed candidates... it's only just beginning. A new day is coming.

Israel is continuing to attack Gaza despite the so-called ceasefire. Israeli strikes killed Ahmed Wishah, a cameraman with Al Jazeera, and at least six people, including two children, on Saturday.

Ursula Le Guin on the French.

A note that today is the anniversary of the passing of Title IX in 1972. I am thankful for it as a former high school athlete, but also because it opened up huge doors to prosecuting sexual misconduct.

I said the party who said this all out loud would get my vote and there we go.

🇸🇩🇬🇧THREAD: Nathaniel Raymond, executive director of the Humanitarian Research Lab at Yale School of Public Health, testifying before the UK Parliament’s Internat'l Dev't Committee on the gov't's failure to act on intelligence & genocide warnings in Sudan: 1/🎥 Raymond is asked whether the FCDO did...

I couldn’t be prouder of @darializaforny.bsky.social who fought & won against the most vile smears, of organizers who pounded doors across our city, of the New Yorkers who voted for dignity over capital, for freedom over establishment politics. Good morning on this new dawn for American socialism.

Free air conditioning: M&S is always reliably freezing but all supermarkets have AC. Cinemas, department stores. Not AC but your local stone-built church will be much cooler than elsewhere, and opento the public. Home: Curtains closed. Windows open until it’s hotter outside than in, then closed.

this is the only way I will be handling heatwaves in future. punt, shade, cool beverage, good friends ( @nikitagill.bsky.social)

lol seeing the England team be so frustrated that they couldn't score against Ghana did something to me spiritually. #fifa #soccer

One of the weirdest parts about being from NYC especially pre 9/11 Is everyone forgets how much America HATED this city And how specifically the hate was about four things - too immigrant - too Black - too Latin - too Jewish

The Wall Street Journal confirms Jeremy Scahill’s reporting on Iran enlisting psychologists to analyze US Pres. Trump. In a new report, WSJ writes: “Iranian negotiators have told mediators that they consulted a team of psychologists to help them understand the president’s mindset, some mediators...

But it’s the Just Stop Oil folks that get demonised

Whatever he says, is news. No lie big or small enough. The burden is on others to prove him wrong. This failure of journalism over any other propelled this man to power, and our country to ruin and fascism. I will never get over it.

On days like today we wish we were Nick or Peter with/with access to a swimming pool 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums Peter getting out of Nick's Pool, 1966, David Hockney, @walkerartgallery.bsky.social 😁 This artwork pops up in "Hotties in Art", which you can preorder here: geni.us/HottiesInArt 💙🩷

We fucking won. @darializaforny.bsky.social fucking won.

Trump said Monday that Iran would use the funds exclusively to buy food from U.S. farmers, including corn and soybeans. The governor of Iran’s central bank quickly countered Trump’s claim, saying Iran was under no obligation to purchase from the U.S.

It's Wednesday, and you deserve a nice map. So here: this is John Norden's "Civitas Londini", a panoramic view of the city from 1600. Lovely, no? "But SEH!" I hear you say. "What's this to do with eels?" Well. This is the first image of the city to show the Dutch eel ships! Can you find them? 🗃️🧪

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Today is the start of @replamonica.bsky.social trial . She faces 17 years for trying to inspect the conditions of the Delaney Hall everyone is now protesting.

Primary all of them!

The most centered parents of autistic people do not blame "autism" for making their lives harder than they should be. They know that society has failed them and their autistic child. They want better understanding, accommodations, education, and supports.