First 6 Days of Iran War Cost U.S. $11.3 Billion, Pentagon Says

The 2026 National Science Foundation budget is $8.75 Billion.

Maybe it’s a bad idea to put people in charge of government who are eager for the rapture.

I like this man and his food looks amazing and even more so because he knows American history, knows the USA is being led by a fool, and that being deported is a crime on top of a crime for refugees.

The number of children killed has risen to 85 Iranian children. Heartbreaking
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Allies encouraged to send letters to trans community in powerful campaign Cisgender allies are being encouraged to send letters of love to members of the trans community as part of a touching new campaign.

🧵 Here’s a great opportunity to show your love as a non-trans woman; a collective women’s group called Not In Our Name have set up a form [link in attached]

This counters the far right lie that trans ppl are a ‘threat’ to women. Many trans ppl feel v isolated so a letter of support helps [1]

cover of NOT POUNDED BY THIS T-REX ON THE USA MEN’S HOCKEY TEAM BECAUSE IT TURNS OUT HE’S A MAGA DORK featuring a t-rex in a red USA hockey uniform on the right he has a stick in his hand. on the left is a ladybuck giving a thumbs down with a frown. they are in a hockey rink

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This guy gets it.

And definitely not the only university or institution censoring terms like “trans” and “gender.” The preemptive political censoring has been wild.

STOP THE SAVE ACT (Updated) All Eyes on the Senate

STOP THE SAVE ACT (Updated)
My new piece is up with lots of info about the SAVE America Act - the version of the SAVE Act that passed the House and is before the Senate this week. This is a MUST READ and then ACT.
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Alysa Liu celebrating figure skating gold

ICONIC

U of North Texas Cancels Exhibit With Anti-ICE Art The University of North Texas College of Visual Arts and Design removed an art exhibit that includes anti-ICE artwork, the artist told The Denton Record-Chronicle.

today in "campus free speech":

Mark Rothko canvas, red on red

Happy year of the fire horse

[Mark Rothko, Red on Red, 1969]

Temporary house guest has some complaints about the service here

Grateful and excited to join Ki Agency and work with Miriam!

These lil AI commercials reek of desperation.

Sports people: it’s ok to text your gay friend when it’s almost half time so they don’t miss Bad Bunny

Can’t wait to read! The bookseller wanted me to tell you congrats! I bragged that it made the bestseller list. ☺️

Coming at you from NoVa @austinmccoy.bsky.social

Wow! What sounded like the entire AEW Dynamite audience in Las Vegas tonight chanted "Fuck ICE! Fuck ICE!" in unison before the main event

We’re all exhausted too, buddy.

Today is publication day! Wow. Thanks to everyone who preordered the book. I really appreciate it. If you have not preordered, then you can go to your local bookstore and pick up a copy.

Please send me a pic if you already have a copy or when you go pick it up! I'd love to see it!

New CBS contributors announced: Grand Moff Tarkin, Lex Luthor, Norman Osborn, Cruella De Ville, Javert, Titus Andronicus, Killmonger, and the Beastfly from Silksong.

Yes! Thank you! Wikipedia is a much more grassroots and less sanitized collection of information than most mediums.

They recruited the comments section and gave them weapons and sovereign immunity.

One of my favorite fantasy novels. ✨

Evening in Alexandria

My plans for this weekend, and people better stay out of my way.

Woodblock snowscene of Tokyo about a century ago. Kawase Hasui, Evening Snow at Terashima Village, 1920, from Twelve Scenes of Tokyo (Tôkyô jûnidai)]

All this impending snow.
Reminds me that now we enter into the 24th of 24 micro-seasons: “Greater Cold” #大寒 - the coldest period of the year. Yet also, a period anticipating the beginning of spring and the warmth of the coming lunar new year.

[Kawase Hasui, Evening Snow at Terashima Village, 1920]

Alabama uses Japanese American Internment era law to charge immigrants who don’t self-register Alabama is finding new ways to criminally charge undocumented immigrants

Wtf are we doing, Alabama? Whenever I have a sliver of hope for my home state, it goes and does this type of racist shit. Look, there are good folks in AL but some people are never going to change.

“Readers can see what they want in this book, as if it is a textual Rorschach test…equal parts memoir, journalist prose and history. It offers insights into elite Chinese politics, Communist history and the economic boom years of the 1980s and 1990s. It is also a book of enduring filial love.”