The Columbine massacre was on this date in 1999. Instead of energizing our country to get gun violence under control, it kicked off a new normal. One of the best explanations ever of journalism's destructive impact on mass shootings came from Roger Ebert in his review of Gus Van Sant’s “Elephant.”
Outside Merriam Webster's HQ. 🤣 @merriam-webster.com
Terrorism
Iran: What if we abandon our nuclear weapons program and later come under attack.
U.S.: We’ll give you security assurances as part of the deal.
Iran: But…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapes...
“It’s amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.”
- Harry Truman
As Trump proves often, the reverse of this is also true.
It’s amazing how much you can fuck things up when the only thing you care about is getting the credit.
If you think the nuclear-powered supercarrier USS Gerald R. Ford is the most powerful ship in the world, you are wrong. It's actually the German cruise ship Mein Schiff 4 (pictured), which successfully transited the Strait of Hormuz over the weekend
In a nutshell. 😊
So did Iran just pawn the insiders who literally bet on falling oil prices?
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
I do not want to create an account or open a subscription I just want to buy a thing and never hear from you again why is this so hard.
AI is profoundly unpopular. A recent NBC News poll found that among 18-34 year-olds, AI's net favorability rating is -44. *Negative 44*. Those are basically serial killer numbers. It's not much better among women 18-49. (Men over 50 and upper class are the only ones who like AI, and just barely.)
Just curious how Trump's promise to Hungary's Orban qualifies as "America first" as people at home are suffering due to inflation?
"My Administration stands ready to use the full Economic Might of the United States to strengthen Hungary's Economy, as we have done for our Great Allies in the past."
Hopefully we get some sort of “Iran Deal” 🤷🏼
Remind us: who tore up the last one again?
Denmark didn’t “transition” its grid—it replaced it.
~15% → 92% renewable electricity in 25 years.
Wind did the heavy lifting. Solar is scaling. Interconnection balanced. Flexibility solved variability.
Wind built it. Solar is scaling. Fossil lost it.
This IS system replacement. ⚡#Bettrification
Putin must be busy.
A WHOLE CIVILIZATION WILL DIE TONIGHT My son needs lunch, and I have to put his backpack together, but a whole civilization will die tonight, so I'm wondering if they've closed their schools. Like, a snow day, maybe, except instead of snow it's "keep your children home so if you die, you die together" — instead of "well open back up once the plows have cleared" it's "we don't know if we'll be here tomorrow, hold your babies tight." It's just "talk" I'm told, which I've been told before. "It's how the president makes his deals." But I've never heard anyone talk about other human beings this way, and I'm not certain I can look my son in the eyes if we all agree to stomach it one more time. A civilization will die tonight, but as I zip up his backpack and kiss him off to school I think: if this is what we call leadership then I'm not entirely sure ours isn't already dead. @michaelfdubois Mukad A QuBoy @michacifdubois
Brutal.
Soon you too will be screaming “JavaScript!”
While Trump's assertion that "a whole civilization will die tonight" represents a discrete threat of genocide against Iran, the fact that it comes from a U.S. president, while Congress does nothing, actually represents a broader civilizational collapse — whether he follows through or not.
Rich white grifters.
Voters approved Medicaid expansion in 2020. Now lawmakers want to put it back on the ballot in August, when far fewer people vote.
https://ow.ly/qUJN50YCNOs
I don’t want to commit to a 20 minute video, so I spend 30 minutes watching shorts.
Russians love tacos.
@warren.senate.gov
"We forced Ukraine to give up nuclear weapons, cruise missiles, and strategic bombers..
We promised to protect Ukraine from Russia.
We made Ukraine vulnerable.
So yes,this is our war."
- Bill Clinton.
Just found yet another way-too-old race condition in my radar file reader. Thank God for slow file systems (MacOS).
"Back when the science community used to deny climate change... Human caused climate change was looked skeptically for decades.... then the fact driven data forced all honest science literate skeptics to concede ..."
www.facebook.com/groups/96164...
via The Climate Realism Community
How can this go on for another 3 years?
Kids in High School: “I don’t understand why I have to take basic science classes. When I am ever going to use this stuff in my life?!” As adults: “Vaccines cause autism, GMOs are unsafe, climate change is a lie, and the earth is flat. I’ve done my research. If you disagree with me, you’re sheep!”
@simonmaechling.bsky.social
#medsky
Monday - Send more troops
Tuesday - Say we’re ending war
Wednesday - Send more troops
Thursday - Say ending war
Friday - Send more troops
Saturday - Golf
Sunday - Golf
Leaders of the WORLD. Why do you still insist on coming to the WH to meet with TRump. The PM of japan was insulted today by an angry dememented fool. Every time you show up you validate him. STOP
FROM EVERY AMERIcaN