It feels like it's still winter, doesn't it? To trees, it is not. Tree dormancy is not caused by weather but by internal chemical signals which protect trees from cold. Now, most trees are ready to grow as soon as it warms a bit. This photo shows the tremendous flow of sap. Read more at Our Trees.

they tried to upsell me on donkey

Don't give anything an Emmy until it's as good as this.

A fascinating - and in places heartbreaking - long read on Mayan cultures, past and present. Archaeology, languages, politics, & identity in medieval and modern Guatemala. #MedievalSky www.theguardian.com/news/2026/fe...

Progressive messaging about homelessness should always at least mention the most important root cause—housing cost! Failing to do so is such a missed layup on leading the public toward durable and popular solutions.

What we’re doing to expand shelter, address homelessness, and keep public space accessible. Read the full statement:

So close to setting up a chess board correctly, but the black king is on the wrong square

Security theater undermining activism is a real thing that happens all the time. People need to sit down and actually learn how to think through threat models.

This is a great start. Would help to make sure SPD gets annual training on WA’s excellent statute concerning ICE cooperation: www.atg.wa.gov/keep-washing...

We are not the first people, or the first country, to suffer under a tyrannical government that does not respect our lives, or our rights. There is a method for how to effectively resist, and eventually topple, such a regime. We can learn from others who came before us. This is my favorite guide.

You there! Boy! Did it happen?

A good sign that something is amiss in how you think about politics is that you find internal contradiction among these positions

once again: the civil rights movement is worth studying not just because they were right, but because they won www.liberalcurrents.com/how-to-win-a...

Convinced this cover exists just to ragebait chess players. I get the basic visual metaphor. But why nine pawns? Why is the board rotated 90°? Why is the king moving into check?!

WASHINGTON (AP) — Claudette Colvin, whose refusal to move seats on a segregated bus helped spark the civil rights movement, dies at 86.

I’m running for Colorado Attorney General to stand up for the people of Colorado—including holding ICE officers accountable when they break the law. Thankful to join so many others outside the ICE Denver Field Office today.

We're going to need a bigger Hague.

i’m not crying you’re crying xkcd: Fifteen Years

May she rest in peace and rise in glory.

One of the few things the Abundance people are straightforwardly right about is that progressives need to stand up for their values and demonstrate their worth. Wilson should be *extremely* aggressive in making the city better. Win the next election on outcomes, not process.

Brennan Lee Mulligan with Josh on Mythical Kitchen, eating his perfect last meal and being interviewed for more than an hour, is so wholesome and life-affirming: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLVd...

Queen.

1/ A woman with dementia moves into an apartment in Colorado. A few months later she passes away unexpectedly. The family gets a bill for $4140. By dying, she “broke her lease early” A landlord gone rogue? No. It was a billionaire property management company called Greystar.

Why Civil Resistance Works is worth a read for anyone struggling with this concept.

Alright, so I've been afraid to say this out loud, but I think after today, I can say it: In the first Battle of Los Angeles, the good people of LA County have prevailed. We beat ICE back. 1/

NEW: Seattle has a rare Republican in office, its city attorney. She championed a policy rolled out last year — when you’re so much as charged (not convicted) of a drug offense, a judge can ban you from setting foot in select areas, like downtown. She’s also up for reelection in a few weeks:

Seattle has its own Zohran v Cuomo mayoral race going on: A young charismatic upstart who actually wants to make the city cooler vs an establishment dinosaur who once pulled a gun on a pregnant woman in a road rage incident. www.theurbanist.org/2025/06/29/o...

This is Yasir. He’s 21 yo. He fled Sudan after he was kidnapped & tortured by the RSF. Thx to his legal team @Door_NYC he walked out of his ICE check-in today (unlike too many others). The best of birthday presents to have been there to meet him. Amazing what a New Yorker he’s already becoming.

ICE is now changing tactics and arresting people who have been granted asylum hearings.   This is both a violation of US & international law that demands immediate attention from all New York elected officials & underscores the urgent need for legal service providers to be at all of these cases.

Standing up against Donald Trump and Stephen Miller is essential to our freedom and safety and to the effort to hold corporate lawbreakers accountable.

The Sounders playing PSG is my kind of sports. I want games where if the underdog wins it is international news.

Please read and share this statement from Sophie and Colin Hortman, children of Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark. (via WCCO reporter Caroline Cummings on X)

Farewell to NASA mechanical engineer Ed Smylie, whose lifesaving ingenuity was immortalized in a memorable sequence in the 1995 film “Apollo 13.”

~45% of US corn production is now used to make ethanol, mostly for mixing into gasoline. That's ~13% of all US crop land already used for energy production. Using some of the same land for solar panels would capture 50-100 times more energy per acre.

Sir David Attenborough's latest film is "the biggest message he's ever told", its directors have said - with one telling Sky News the broadcaster's final words on saving the world's oceans brought him to tears. #SaveOurOceans news.sky.com/story/david-...

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

OTD in 1871, Grant signed the KKK Act—now 42 U.S.C. § 1983—still one of our sharpest tools against local fascists. But there’s no equivalent statute for federal officials who violate rights. I'll bet a Dem Senator introducing one now would get some Sunday time to talk about ICE (and Musk).

Can anyone recommend a history of Civil Rights Movement music? I know some and there's some coverage in Taylor Branch's trilogy. But I want to learn more. I was just reading about 'Mississippi Goddam' and didn't know it was first performed live at Carnegie Hall. What a legend Nina Simone was.

Hot take: Focusing AI criticism on bad outputs or forced adoption misses the point—those are temporary, moving targets. The real and persistent issue is the social and political fallout, and the deep category errors baked into how AI is framed and deployed.

Just to be clear, I'm advocating for due process for Kilmar Abrego Garcia

BREAKING: Days after a Louisiana judge ruled that the deportation of Mahmoud Khalil can proceed, thousands are holding an emergency Passover Seder at the ICE headquarters in New York City, saying: If you come for one, you face us all.

There are times—rare, one hopes—when the government acts so evasively/irregularly that courts must break out of their routines in response. This happened during the civil rights era, in cases like Terry v. Adams, Bell v. Md, Shelley v. Kraemer, Griffin v. Prince Edward Cty. Time to get creative.

NEW: For months, @juliaangwin.com and I have been interviewing foreign dissidents and opposition leaders. Today The New Yorker published our practical guide to courage in Trump's age of fear. If you want to oppose authoritarianism, but fear for your job, freedom, or way of life, this is for you 🧵:

An eighth grader is showing more courage than many elected Democrats right now.

As Mark says, don't read too much into the stay. But this is sort of it. If SCOTUS agrees the government can disappear you to a Salvadorian labor camp, and there's no legal recourse even if you're innocent because of Article II, then none of your other rights mean a damn thing.

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