Congratulations to everyone who said it would get this bad. Your prize is watching everyone who disagreed now claim no one could have predicted it would get this bad.

🧵🧊 SAN DIEGO: A source tells me that after a court ordered an ICE prison to allow local health officials access, many of the migrants there were transferred north to facilities near Bakersfield... (continued)

An overview of ICE Air flights Wednesday, June 3

“if my team had come to me and said, ‘Some of our NGO partners are seeing clusters of unexplained viral hemorrhagic fever in eastern Congo,’ that would be a hair-on-fire type of moment,”… “Now many of those programs are gone, and there’s no one on the other end of the line in the US government.”

No joke, it would be cheaper to pay every coal miner $5m every year to not mine coal. There are only 40,000 coal miners, while the coal industry produces >$500 billion in external costs every year, including by routinely burning coal just to burn it despite it costing more ("uneconomic dispatch").

In his new column, @jamellebouie.net urges Democrats to think beyond policy tweaks and move toward “a broad new conception of the nation’s political order—one that will guide the way a future Democratic-led government might wield power.” Here’s a gift link. 🗃️ www.nytimes.com/2026/06/03/o...

The first years of the physics Nobel are full of famous names, but also two names that I, a veteran physics journalist, had never heard of. I thought there might be an interesting story behind how these guys got the Nobel nod, and, well, here it is: physicsworld.com/a/the-physic...

😬😬😬😬😬😬😬😬😬 The signals are signaling

"Marjane Satrapi, the Iranian-French author whose graphic novel series “Persepolis” introduced millions of readers to the struggles of ordinary Iranians during the turbulent years around the Islamic Revolution, has died at 56." www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/w...

“‘They can do whatever they want and you have to forgive them.’” Stunning story on generational abuse, stretching across borders, by Andy Mannix + @jeremykohler.bsky.social in @propublica.org

According to Germany, the lesson of the Holocaust is not that genocide is wrong but that Germany must help Israel to commit genocide.

On Tuesday, queer Houstonians mourned Persia Conway, a trans woman found dead last week. After grief, there was rage. Rage at Houston PD. Rage at rumors that Persia was someone she wasn't. But most of all, rage over another trans woman of color taken too soon: www.chron.com/culture/arti...

Marjane Satrapi 1969-2026

NEW: Alpha School is rapidly expanding across the U.S., promising AI-enabled education that teaches kids in two hours a day. Turns out, its $65,000-a-year location in NYC isn't even a *school* because New York State denied its application. One of several insane revelations in this A+ story:

the lying is obviously enraging, but the biggest problem is that they're all focused on shifting blame rather than addressing the problems.

So over on Meta platforms, people who should absolutely know better are pushing Kalshi gambling odds as polling equivalents for elections 🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴 (If you don’t use Meta platforms, congrats, here’s your 🍪)

The eternal rallying cry of the Democrats: BETTER 👏 THINGS 👏 AREN'T 👏 POSSIBLE 👏!

People are in motion, everywhere.

A spectre is haunting the coasts

REAGAN WORE IT BETTER 🤷🏽‍♀️

Here are the CDC positions they are saying are in the excepted service as policy roles — including "Epidemiologist," "Research Epidemiologist," and "Health Scientist."

Good to see some solid proposals to address this obvious corruption (so obvious that safeguards should not be necessary!)

1/If you read NPR’s article, the reporter failed to call anyone who is an expert on administrative law—I don’t know, someone who wrote a whole article on this exact topic, called Infrostructure, which is pinned to this page—and I would note be happy to note the rule’s many, many failings.

I’m already really sick of paying for militarism that primarily just lines the pockets of defence industries and transfers the money to the US military industrial complex, while other Canadian services get their budgets slashed. #cdnpoli

NEW: The Carney government has confirmed it is spending $2.6 billion on a missile system that the US has used extensively in its war of aggression against Iran. The deal signals Canada’s continued military integration with the US. www.readthemaple.com/canada-spend...

Striking to me how little reporting there is on this rule proposal, which is maybe the biggest change to American governance in almost a century. And this reporting is … weak. www.npr.org/2026/06/03/n...

The New School chapter of the American Association of University Professors condemned what it described as “a major gutting of our full-time faculty body”… saying that no explanation had been provided for why certain jobs were cut. www.chronicle.com/article/its-...

‘“I no longer consider Columbia University a safe place to work for Jews who dare to dissent from the political agenda of its most ardently pro-Israel and anti-Palestinian donors and trustees,” wrote Joseph Howley, a classics professor, in his claim.’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Idk about Maine, but if you got time to debate people online about an election you're not participating in then you got time to pay attention to your local shit before shit gets weird-er

I love sneaking pride flags into figure colour schemes and seeing who notices 👀 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Only 34% of Black Mainers are able to make ends meet, in case you’re interested in understanding what kinds of calculations people are having to do about voting. wgme.com/news/local/r...

WHAT IF DARK MATTER IS MADE OF TWO PARTICLE TYPES?? New paper! My latest to get through peer review: Congrats to @cosmolooney.bsky.social @markneyrinck.bsky.social and our crew for getting this paper across the finish line! We show that two axion scenarios have 3 distinct ground states. ⚛️🧪🔭

Occasionally amazing people on the internet exist and @leftistlawyer.com is one of them!!

I’ve literally never listened to a whole Paul McCartney solo album and so I surprise myself when I say this new one ROCKS

many of the faculty that have been fired were critics of the administration - a chilling and shameful episode we should be following, especially those of us in higher ed

this is happening in northern MI, where hundreds of folks went on a hunger strike at the end of April.

I fucking hate the term “content” because it presupposes my intellectual work exists to feed into some machine.

While yes, we should make political hay out of this, I think the practical thing that Dems should also be focusing on is almost-certain-to-happen destruction of evidence useful to future prosecutions. They're lighting things on fire, perhaps literally, the moment they feel the office slipping away.

I absolutely refuse to participate in this bullshit. I am an intellectual and a writer who works with ideas and that’s what I do! I’m not making content. I’m talking about ideas — to and with people.

There was a striking moment in the Summer House reunion last night where KJ essentially explained that being with a Black woman comes with the responsibility of *not* being part of what’s wrong with the world for her. This rarely gets said out loud, anywhere, much less Bravo. Anyway West is an ass

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“I’m not sure that the best way to show you’re a tough journalist is to fire the first person who hurt your feelings”

No major headlines to report for today [Jun 2]. Check the quoted post below for the latest. #KeepEyesOnSudan

New lead: CBS News fired veteran “60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley on Tuesday, hours after a contentious meeting with management in response to his criticism of the newsmagazine’s new leadership. www.cnn.com/2026/06/02/m...

What's happening to CBS News is what the tech oligarchs call "parallel" strategy. Buy an existing institution, gut it, and convert it into a right-wing zombie version of itself. They are doing this to media, government, education, biotech, defense tech, etc. Some call it the "Network State."

This is also an excellent reminder that your library card gives you access to so much more than books. My library system includes access to The New Scientist and hundreds of other magazines & they notify me when a new issue is available.

BREAKING: By a 6-3 vote, #SCOTUS will allow Alabama to use its never-implemented 2023 districts in this year's elections. They're likely to result in a 6-1, R-D split and the loss of 1 of 2 majority Black AL districts. www.documentcloud.org/documents/28... Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2026/05...