TK

Hoping that something does fundamentally change.

[scary lawyerguy @scarylawyerguy]

"Lies" ... the word you're looking for is "lies"

[they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza]

The problem with the Democratic Party is people are increasingly seeking real solutions to our worsening problems and our politicians are incapable of offering any beyond rhetoric because they themselves are the causes and beneficiaries of these problems. There’s no “saving” it.

[Jessica Tarlov @JessicaTarlov]

I can’t keep up - is the issue that he’s gay or he sleeps with too many attractive women?

[Black Hole @konstructivizm]

Scientists have pushed the boundaries of our cosmic home farther than ever before, uncovering what may be the most distant stars yet detected in the Milky Way—and revealing that our galaxy stretches dramatically beyond anything astronomers once imagined.For generations, pinning down the Milky Way’s true “edge” has been like trying to measure where the ocean ends while standing in thickening fog. Galaxies don’t simply stop; their stars thin out gradually, fading into the darkness. Now, cutting-edge observations have spotted individual stars hundreds of thousands of light-years from the galactic center—regions so remote they were long hidden from view. These stellar pioneers are forcing scientists to redraw the map of our galaxy on an epic scale.Imagine our home galaxy as a colossal, spinning city of stars: hundreds of billions of suns, vast glowing nebulae, rivers of gas and dust, and invisible oceans of dark matter, all orbiting a shared center. Our Solar System orbits quietly in a suburban lane about 26,000 light-years from downtown. Yet these newly discovered outposts lie many times farther out—deep in the galactic halo, where the lights grow sparse and ancient history https://t.co/HZK8biTYew carefully tracking the motions, chemistry, and distances of these far-flung stars, astronomers are reading the Milky Way’s autobiography. These outer sentinels carry clues about how our galaxy assembled itself over more than 13 billion years, swallowing smaller galaxies and weaving their stars into its own vast https://t.co/jTfLHWsLhb of the most thrilling lessons from modern astronomy is this: what we see in dazzling telescope photos is only the bright core of something far grander. Invisible halos of stars and dark matter balloon outward, often doubling or tripling a galaxy’s known size. The Milky Way, it turns out, is no exception—it’s a giant that’s been quietly hiding its true scale in the cosmic shadows.These discoveries don’t just expand our galactic map; they remind us how much more of the universe remains to be explored, right in our own cosmic backyard. The Milky Way is bigger, older, and more mysterious than we thought—and the story is still being written among the stars.

[Brahm Resnik @brahmresnik]

LEGAL BEAT Maricopa County Board attorney: Stephen Miller's law firm America First Legal has effectively taken over Maricopa County Recorder's Office in "unprecedented power grab" - and that's illegal. https://t.co/2i11W51kHv

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🇱🇧🇮🇷 Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam announced that Israel carried out 3,491 airstrikes on Lebanon during the nominal, U.S.-brokered ceasefire from April 17 to June 7.

His office also said Israel carried out 407 controlled demolitions and 6 "razing" operations, which the Prime Minister's office said have entirely flattened several villages in southern Lebanon.

When explicitly asked by Sky News whether the United States would back Israel if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reopens the war with Iran, Trump stated, "I don't think it'll happen. It's all working out very well. Iran is doing what they have to do; I don't think that's going to happen, ok?"

When the Sky News reporter pressed further, asking what exactly he would do if Netanyahu went against his explicit wishes and attacked anyway, Trump reportedly hung up the phone.

Credit: Sky News

[Amber Woods @AmberWoods100]

This should be a major story. 🚩

While Americans are debating who controls genetic data after the transfer of 23andMe’s DNA database through bankruptcy, watchdog groups are now seeking records about how ICE collects, stores, retains, and disposes of DNA samples.

These may be separate issues, but they point to the same question: who owns your genetic information, who can access it, and what safeguards exist once it enters a database?

Those questions deserve far more public scrutiny than they’re receiving.

[A Left-Wing Account ™️ @PushDemsLeft]

First Kamala, now this - stop it!

People vote blue because they DON'T want Republicans in office. Right-wingers will still just vote for the Republican.

This doesn't win you any votes, it's just an admission you stand for nothing.

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

The details about the Tate brothers in this @newyorker profile are as sick as anything you will ever read. They are rapists, pornographers, traffickers - and heroes to the "conservative" MAGA movement
https://t.co/Zv2l52b9Id

[Joseph O'Neill @JosephONeillx]

Remember: In 2016, the apex of this person's long influence as a top Dem consiglieri, Rs not only won a federal trifecta but, incredibly, R state government trifectas held sway over almost half of all Americans.
This is the least successful Dem political strategist ever.

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

Mexico cuts workweek, bans after-hours contact, and guarantees no worker will take a pay cut in the most sweeping labor reform in a generation.
https://t.co/tEW6hFrKLP

[Matt Stoller @matthewstoller]

Billionaires hostile to Mamdani have reserved $23 million in ad space against Graham Platner. What unifies Mamdani and Platner? They are hostile to an American strategy based on making the world safe for capital. And the capitalists know it. https://t.co/GJF7GCO6hv

[The Lever @LeverNews]

BREAKING: The Supreme Court just let stand a bankruptcy tactic known as the “Texas two-step” — a corporate escape hatch for companies facing massive lawsuits.

Instead of facing victims in court, companies can move those claims into a separate shell company, send it into bankruptcy, and leave victims fighting for years while the real money stays protected.

[Wesley @WesleyLowery]

FL police use A.I. to identify a vehicle theft suspect from surveillance video. Based on an "85% match" they arrest and charge Jalil Richardson. He spends 3 months in jail. He loses his job, his home, and custody of his kids.

Richardson lives in N.C.
He's never been to Florida. And his timesheet shows him at work at the time of the crime. No one checked before charging him. https://t.co/2AcQYwq30f

[Fifty Shades of Whey @davenewworld_2]

Pregnant girls as young as 13 are being held in a remote Texas immigration facility while a member of Congress (Rep. Maxine Dexter) says she was blocked from speaking to them. Some of these pregnancies are the result of rape.

This is one of the most horrifying immigration stories right now in the USA.

How many pregnant children are there? Where are these girls coming from? Where are they being sent? Are they getting real prenatal care? Do they have access to proper legal representation? Are newborn babies being ripped out of their mother's arms? Why are members of Congress being blocked from speaking with them?

No agency should be able to hide where vulnerable kids are being sent. We need to free these children and give them healthcare, lawyers, family reunification, and safety.

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

I never thought I’d see the day David Frum started tweeting out the playbook he used to lie America into the Iraq War

[Fifty Shades of Whey @davenewworld_2]

People in the Bay Area who use public transit lost access to key fare functions for 27 hours because the private contractor running the fare system missed an AT&T bill.

Cartoonish-levels of incompetence.

This is what happens when we give control of our public infrastructure to private contractors.

They'll do dumb shit like miss a payment to AT&T, and then it's the public that suffers.

[Hugh Laurie @hughlaurie]

Thanks for your critique, Janet. We actually tried a couple of episodes where House (Hugh Laurie) (please put the brackets in the right place) gets it right first time, but they were only 6 minutes long. NBC weren’t happy. Then we tried some where House never gets it right and the patient dies. The audience wasn’t happy.

One could apply your trenchant analysis to other art forms: JS Bach wrote 30 Goldberg variations on the same chord structure; Frida Kahlo painted 50 portraits of herself; Henry Moore, what??

The point is, or was, variations on a theme; if all you see is hospital, medical blah blah, then it wasn’t meant for you.

Nonetheless, I look forward to your first novel!

[Matt Stoller @matthewstoller]

Authored by the speechwriter who coined the term ‘Axis of Evil.’

Let’s send young men to an immoral war and smear them when they come home.