It's pretty wild that an entire industry's pitch for itself was predicated on its executives forgetting the connection between employment and access to the means of survival that exists for most working people. They really thought "you'll lose your job and have more free time!" was a slam dunk.

".. Through its operation and maintenance of the Data Center, Defendant has emitted, and continues to emit, unreasonable and excessive noise onto Plaintiffs’ properties, thereby causing property damages through private nuisance and negligence." #$MSFT www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

After I wrote last week's column, I learnt that a neighbour with severe disabilities, an extremely tough & resourceful woman who lived to the full, died in the heatwave. Everyone here is devastated. I can scarcely express my anger towards a mindset that treats people like her as collateral damage. 🧵

Birmingham 1963. Racist Bull Connor set attack dogs and water cannons against nonviolent black protesters seeking justice in Mississippi. The dignified dissenters, after being thrown into the air by blasts of water, kneeled and prayed and resumed marching.

Signed into law on July 4 last year, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act will make SNAP substantially and detrimentally less responsive to economic downturns, @laurenhlb.bsky.social and Diane Schanzenbach warn. Read more:

This is going to be America. Mothers searching for years for their children the govt stole, and may have killed. How many dead at alligator Auschwitz?

Sharing my piece from Friday, in case you were wisely away from the internet over the holiday and missed it

The military is shooting people in the American cities they’re occupying.

"Reactions to Mallory McMorrow's exit showed most know Abdul El-Sayed is a stronger candidate than Haley Stevens. Meanwhile, in DC, the madman in the White House was ranting about crowd sizes again." Read here by @martinpengelly.bsky.social: zeteo.com/p/in-michigan-the-war-for-the-democratic

I have a feeling this won’t result in any anti white riots

"A court in Albania’... has freed 19 protesters detained during a violent protest against a resort linked to Jared Kushner. The protesters released on Sunday were held on suspicion of “refusing to obey police orders, [and] organizing illegal demonstrations and disturbing public order.”

This is how the world is viewing Trump's corruption with the World Cup. This is from the BBC www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

This alone should be a decade-defining political scandal resulting in prison sentences.

Blatant corruption. He should voluntarily sit the next game out.

Grassroots canvassers are hitting the streets to urge voters to defend abortion rights in their states this November. It'll be on the ballot in Idaho, Nevada, and Virginia. I covered how we got here 👇

Heat waves. Thanks to @climateadam.bsky.social's most recent video, which helped inform this comic and gave me the kick I needed to make it.

Data center opponents have blocked or delayed projects worth nearly $130 billion in 2026, a new study finds.

Man who hates paying taxes loves government handouts boingboing.net/2026/06/15/m...

The Coast Guard just removed the Clearwater from the tall ship parade in NYC for having "Save the Clean Water Act" and "Indigenous Rights, Racial Justice, Climate Solutions” banners. They were escorted out by the Coast Guard, US Navy, and NYPD. www.instagram.com/p/DaYOP8OlIq...

Deconstruction and contemplation 11x14 pen and paper #surreal #macabre #PenAndPaper #TraditionalArt #DarkSurrealism #DarkArt #Art #InkSky #GrimDark

🚨 WE NEED YOU 🚨 As a new Prime Minister comes into power, we want to show that an overwhelming number of people support trans people, and want the government to take serious action to protect their rights. Will you say you stand with trans people? And share with everyone you know?

Cargo vessel attacked near Yemen's Hodeidah, UK maritime agency says - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/cargo-vessel-attacked-near-yemens-hodeidah-uk-maritime-agency-says

#OtD 5 Jul 1934 in San Francisco was Bloody Thursday, when police killed two longshoreman strikers and a bystander and hospitalised 115 people. The strike was against casual hiring methods. Within 2 weeks the strike was general. More info here: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1052...

BBC headline: Farage denies rules broken after reports benefits from ally were not declared Fix: Farage lies about criminal corruption Seriously, 'benefits' and 'support' show professional wordsmiths at the BBC cannot even choose the appropriate lexicon! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The billionaire press salivate over stories about serial killers & mass murderers yet totally ignore the fossil fuel billionaires and their paid climate denying lackeys whose death toll grows every day meme via Science & Nature

OMG! #Ireland🇮🇪 I'm SO PROUD of you!☘️💪 For kicking out the"sinister,secretive,sadistic, plutocratic, #ghouls"-who are DESTROYING lives across the globe! Well done you FABULOUS activists! People power works: evil #Thiel’s Ireland retreat cancelled after campaign. www.thecanary.co/global/world...

We wanted to understand the significance of Denver voters nominating a Democratic Socialist. So we talked to a man in an Uncle Sam costume pacing around the National Mall.

An example: Wes Streeting was heir apparent because he was *adored* by politics journalists and Conservative MPs. The latter couldn’t stop praising him to his face on TV, to the point it became an embarrassment. Where is he now? Nowhere, because it’s only journalists and Tory MPs thst liked him.

This link comes with a WARNING: archivegenocide.com

Always remember the Parable of the Three Blind Elephants: Once, there were three blind elephants pondering the nature of man. The first blind elephant approached the man, and touched his head. "Man is flat as a pancake and squishy" he declared. The other two elephants felt the man and agreed.

the june 2026 european heatwave caused over 20,000 deaths, 5x the 2003 toll. imagine an entire sports arena filled to capacity... that many lives. it's a stark illustration of escalating climate impact. 😔

Whoa, they found an ancient Maya city, Minanbé, hidden deep in the Calakmul Reserve! It's 15 hectares, with a 43-foot pyramid & 14 monuments, untouched for thousands of years. This incredible preservation offers unprecedented insights into the Classic Maya era.

Basilisk lizard are native to tropical rainforest and humid lowlands of central and northwest South America almost exclusively found in dense vegetation near freshwater they can run it amazing speeds!

New Federal Reserve Chairman Warsh abolished forward guidance as soon as he took office, and Wall Street is now like a blind man without a cane, only able to price in the most hawkish direction.

Ban Ai, scrap the data centers for parts, seize these criminals assets, and put them in jail for poisoning whole towns and cities and stealing all our data.

In 2024, Trump and Vance turned Haitian immigrants in Springfield into political targets. Now TPS protections are being stripped from Haitians and Syrians, putting communities at risk of deportation. The opposite of independence and freedom.

#CorruptionInPlainSight #TrumpCrimeFamily

Now it’s your turn! Take this reader survey and tell us what you think the right answers are—and see where yours stack up compared to our experts and to other readers. newrepublic.com/article/2126...

For our special print issue on the country’s 250th anniversary, we asked about 100 historians and other public intellectuals to make some lists for us that summarize the nation’s high and low points:

Your reminder that you would have to be batshit crazy to put money in a Trump account. If you have the money, put it in a 529 instead. You can pull that money out, if you need it. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Here's, Mr. Jones reading the speech. youtu.be/xX-AlsQcZgs?...

“There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices, more shocking and bloody, than are the people of these United States, at this very hour.” 17/

“Your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade, and solemnity, are, to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy — a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages…” 16/

Douglass: “What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim…” 14/

“They were peace men; but they preferred revolution to peaceful submission to bondage. They were quiet men; but they did not shrink from agitating against oppression.” 7/

In July of 1852, Frederick Douglass delivered one of the greatest speeches in US history. Today it’s often presented in abridged form, though, and skips what seems like a long-winded introduction. If you read the intro closely, however, there’s an ingenious structure. THREAD👇🏽

should be lots of great news stories of homeless families with kids who have $1k in their Trump account that they can't use to pay the rent.

Tirana Albania/ Day 34: protesters again march down the Boulevard of the Nation's Martyrs toward Edi Rama's office, chanting for his resignation. Over a month in, Rama insists there's 'no crisis of trust.' Tell that to the riot police and pepper spray.

Ah, *this* kind of fascist hellscape bsky.app/profile/john...