Think we can get 20 new paid subscribers by midnight 👀

Thanks to whoever recommended the book The Poison Squad by Deborah Blum. It focuses on this pioneering physician and food chemist named Harvey Wiley, who used his power within the USDA to expose and crack down on all the horrors that food used to be adulterated with. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_...

7 months ago.

I waited a while to write this one. The time finally felt right.

I would really like for outlets to, after stating the government’s allegations, at least mention the fact that the car ran into us. An ICE agent drove into a crowd. Of people. Who were peacefully protesting. And then the government tried to paint us as a lawless mob.

Petition for a formal review of Hoekstra behaviour with the possibility of removal. “We, the undersigned, Residents of Canada, call upon the House of Commons to formally review the conduct of U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra.” 1/2

talk about a chef's kiss situation and he would definitely squirm visibly while the votes were being tallied

THE HARE KRISHNA GUYS IN DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN ARE WEARING ORANGE KNICKS T-SHIRTS WITH THEIR ROBES!!!!

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An excellent point. I’ll add that there is no member of The Regime’s cabinet that can be trusted to provide factual information to the people of the United States. Every single one of them is not just incompetent but also ready and willing to lie us with abandon.

I would love for one (1) Democratic candidate to respond to this kind of bullshit by saying "My opponent is a panty-sniffing creep who wants to inspect your children's genitals."

the fish rots from the head

NEW: Lawsuit filed challenging DOD's effort to control Stars and Stripes. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Two odd phrasings from The Hill, which is very much not a mass-market publication and is written for an audience who can reasonably be presumed to know what a discharge petition is.

Hey Portland, if you see the 1986 Toyota MR2 with silly red/yellow wheels and the license plate VCP 230 it's mine and it's stolen, please call it in! It is noticeable and I would be thrilled to get it back.

How is taking the best, most accomplished pastry chef in our area, grabbing him on vacation, and throwing him in an ICE jail making America great, exactly? It’s not, of course. FreeChefLeo

I guess we'll find out what kind of lifting the word "credible" is doing here

"and said he would be ‘completely transparent’"

Can hardly believe it but there it is!!

A reminder that I’ll be back home in Pittsburgh, staying with my grandma, and doing a big event about Copaganda at the Carnegie library tomorrow night. We are at over 500 RSVPs but there’s still space left. Join us! pittsburghlectures.org/lectures/ale...

@brockm.bsky.social's moment of truth

This is so good and so important.

o how the mighty have fallen

It isn’t hyperbolic to say that SCOTUS is at war with the Reconstruction Amendments and multiracial democracy more broadly. We’re a liberal democracy and an apartheid planter society stitched together and it’s clear where the SCOTUS majority’s sympathies lie.

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name a more mouth-watering concept I dare you

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every once in a while I wonder what's going through Susie Wiles's mind these days

‘“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...

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never ever give an inch because they will not stop

Keep your eye on Iowa

This news gutted me. I don’t won’t go into details, but Raul was publicly, bravely KIND to me at a very low point in my professional life when so others were cowardly, weak, and mean. He owed me nothing. He gave because he wanted to. A rare occurrence in my life. jovanevery.co.uk/in-memoriam-...

“Content” also insidiously shifts significance and validity to the platform, not the substance — content is contained, what defines content is the existence and form of the container

I'll save everyone the trouble of doing the arithmetic - 2010 days is just over 5.5 years

btw, what was the "terrible situation" created by the leak? Every other president has made their tax returns public and Trump promised to do so as well. He was lying of course, but what terrible thing happened because the returns were made public?

Absolutely. As I've said before, FDR's court-packing plan failed because most Americans didn't recognize the conservative majority there was acting in a partisan fashion. But the Roberts Six are deeply corrupt, nakedly partisan, and barely bothering to hide their contempt for precedent. Let's go.

Rep. Terri Sewell’s statement on last night’s Supreme Court shadow docket ruling on Alabama’s congressional map.

to my mind the most important biographical fact to know about samuel alito is that he was a member of a group that opposed the admission of women and minorities to princeton www.nytimes.com/2005/11/27/p...

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ProPublica’s reporting “reveals a staggering level of corruption and influence peddling that superseded this process, enriching the President Trump’s son at the expense of U.S. national security and taxpayer dollars,” lawmakers wrote. www.propublica.org/article/dona...

I've been lucky to get to know Ariadna over my visits to Delaney Hall. ICE ripped this girl from her family and put her in a dirty facility. I’m glad to have played a part in her release and I’m working with her school and family to restore the normal teenage life she deserves.

It is no longer news when the President of the United States offers paranoid conspiracy theories to "explain" a coup attempt carried out by his own followers.

Ho lee shit

This Day in Labor History: June 3, 1900. The International Ladies Garment Workers Union formed when delegates from 11 local unions of garment workers from New York, Newark, Baltimore, and Philadelphia met to form a larger union. Let's talk about the ILG!

also how can you have more than 4 grandparents

"It is an assault on the constitutional order.” -Judge Joseph R. Goodwin of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia. @hcrichardson.bsky.social writes:

Frankly, I want to divest SCOTUS of jurisdiction to enter *any* orders reversing a lower court without a complete elaboration of the reasons why. They are the least busy judges in America with a self-selected workload. If they can't bother to explain it, they should not do it.

I said it, meant it, and then got to work to explain why: www.lawdork.com/p/scotus-ala...