"Some people awaiting their hearings at 26 Federal Plaza told The City Reporter they scrambled to make plans to get to the Lower Manhattan building after learning of their new court dates only days in advance. www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/07/21/d...

It is baffling frankly

I'm starting to believe in hell. My god how depraved do you have to be to participate in this.

"what Trump and the Republican Party have settled on to spearhead their campaign against the Democratic Party is the threat of communism."

I can't even read these stories anymore. Everything he says about this war is off the cuff bullshit.

He reported accurately about material in the Epstein files. Really should not be a "free-speech flash point."

"as a scholar of genocide, I believe this was a concerted attempt to destroy the Palestinians in Gaza, in whole or in part, and that the operation therefore reached the high bar of the 1948 Genocide Convention’s definition of this crime." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/o...

How can we make the feed less of a doomscroll and more like a stoop or porch? @rude1.blacksky.team considers @blackskyweb.xyz, the largest Black community on the open social web, as a true third space where folks can chat, hang, and see what’s going on. conference.publicspaces.net/en/session/k...

"Getting It Wrong Is Human; Staying Wrong Is a Choice." willdobud.substack.com/p/the-anxiou...

lol this is the thing that kills me in academic calls for “intellectual diversity” too. You can’t bring MAGA into academic settings without throwing out all fact-based standards in many cases

Oh man I had just graduated from college. What a time.

Trump claimed his tariffs would bring about a golden age of American manufacturing. Yet since his re-election, we've lost 75,000 manufacturing jobs. Over the same time period, Biden had created 625,000.

"New Jersey ranks 50th, dead last in the nation, in urban traffic congestion"

That the chair of the EEOC calls Clarence Thomas “the very finest living American" tells you quite a lot about her and her agenda www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/u...

The person who anchors New Jersey's nightly public television newscast: that job is open. @njpbs.org is looking for someone to write and deliver the news, run live interviews, and help shape what gets covered. $95,000-$110,000, full time in Montclair.

Backyard flora

this story is absolute next-level bonkers — basically the guy sacrificed his wellbeing, a dream job with espn, and his ARM just to scam $100k from fantasy football and bogus charities (gift link) www.nytimes.com/athletic/744...

As a UC student journalist, Lucas Griffith was arrested and charged for covering a downtown protest. Now he shares his story. “Ensuring that students can perform their jobs to the fullest extent possible is vital,” he said. Read Griffith’s full story here: https://loom.ly/kuW1L3Q

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO #worldcup

If you hated it, you just need to relax that was so funny

lol the sheer chaos of this halftime show is great it’s just a mess but so is MERICA

I don’t care I like the Muppet band lol

I’m sorry but Madonna and The Muppets turned around my eye rolling about this half time show MERICA FUCK YEAH 😆

Reminder: I’m guest editing a Special Issue on “Creator Futures: Reorganizing Media and Journalism Work” for Journalism and Media. Papers based on work presented at #ICA26, #IAMCR26, #SMSociety or new papers welcome. Submissions reviewed on a rolling basis until 31 Aug 2026. www.mdpi.com/si/265192

"he had threatened to kill her as recently as November after she disciplined their daughter by taking away her cellphone. “I have said to people, ‘If I end up dead, it’s him,’” Ms. Brouillette said. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/18/u...

"The review, the most comprehensive to date, suggests that the administration’s use of the law has often been less about protecting federal agents than about providing legal cover to cow protesters and immigrants into submission." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/18/u...

Demonstrators are taking to the street, marching through La Villita down 26th Street - a busy corridor at the heart of one Chicago's largest Latine and immigrant communities.

“Everyone say cheese!” “Cheese!” “Cheese!” “Cheese!” “Cheese!” “Fuck you, Theresa.”

Oh boy

Every time they make it harder for foreign students to study here, they're just jacking up the tuition costs for American students and robbing America of incredible new talent too.

"Through our art, we are rediscovering community." May this hopeful vision be true www.nytimes.com/2026/07/17/o...

Good historical context from @jelaniya.bsky.social from January www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

I am once again saying, gonna be another fucking wild semester in law and ethics, eh

Health benefit premiums for NJ school workers expected to rise by 34% newjerseymonitor.com/briefs/healt...

Photo from @jamditis.bsky.social It’s looking eerie from the Montclair State campus

"In 20 years covering policing, I’ve never seen a government agency thumb its nose at the very concept of justice, rights and the rule of law the way D.H.S. and ICE have over the last 18 months."

Dick Hotel, baby

This is the most insane shit I think I have ever seen. I thought at first this was just some AI BS www.nytimes.com/athletic/561...

My 16-year-old nieces have gotten me downloading Snapchat again because they respond more there than text, what a ride we are on

Once again, how is this reality

Have we reckoned with the fact that calling it soccer makes you feel like a rube and calling it football makes you feel like a poser or confused

Okay, I get it, I get the soccer now, I get it.

Soccer noob: uh, yeah so this Messi guy, he uh, yeah is really, really something else, isn’t he? (One of my favorite former students wrote a book about him, I knew but didn’t KNOW, know)

Contemplating on a deeper level what it would be like to be 39 competing against 21 year olds…no thank you

Okay I’m getting more down with the whole low scoring nature of the soccer but it is very annoying when you get up to pee and THAT is when they score

This whole day has been especially Onion/SNL is real, actually energy

I can’t…what???

Why am I reading batshit stuff today? “restorative reproductive medicine" - based on idea that “natural” fertility has been impaired by untreated health problems or poor lifestyle choices and needs to be repaired and restored - instead of IVF? What in the actual fuck? www.nytimes.com/2026/07/08/u...

New Jersey is such a nanny state. Who cares if people drink in movie theaters or not? Sheesh. newjerseymonitor.com/2026/07/15/m...

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