How much do I have to pay @actblueorg.bsky.social to stop sending me texts? I made one donation 36 hours ago and now get hourly texts soliciting donations from other candidates. Can I just pay a one time fee each election cycle to not get texts?

www.npr.org/2026/06/18/g.... Elon Musk and Marco Rubio Rubio have a lot to answer for.

Just insane own goals. Generational errors. Trump Administration to Pay $765 Million to Cancel 4 More Wind Projects www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/c...

The world's first trillionaire did this

Can you Spot the Game Trump attended... 🕵️‍♀️

I don’t even follow basketball and I am not from and have never lived in NYC but this thread is genuinely lovely.

Seen outside a church on 5th Avenue tonight #GoKnicks

Look, I get it, a lot of you aren't enthusiastic this week because it's the Men's World Cup, not the actual World Cup -- but give it a chance. Boys play soccer, too!

A small office within HHS with keeping research participants safe has been chronically underfunded and understaffed Then, the Trump administration "just squashed us like a bug" a former staffer told @mmolteni.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2026/06/05/h...

👀 on Roybal campus To whoever posted this: thank you for making my day. 10/10. No notes.

These are Trump (and Vance and Rubio and Project 2025 and Congressional Republicans) cuts too.

Minnesota Republicans Hold Moment of Silence for Ex-Officer Convicted of Murder www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/u... A moment of silence for Derek Chauvin but not for George Floyd. I expected more from Minnesotans.

As horrifying as this campaign of premeditated murder is, what might be even more disturbing is the utter indifference of Congress, the public and our allies to such a shocking and unapologetic obliteration of the many laws and norms against targeting civilians. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/w...

impartial scientific research is the enemy of despotism and so naturally vought wants to destroy it

The Trump administration plans to send U.S. citizens exposed to the Ebola virus to Kenya rather than bring them home for observation and treatment, according to three people with knowledge of the plans. The approach is a stark contrast to the way previous administrations responded to outbreaks.

The same could be said about my love life

We feel so validated: empiric proof about the gaslighting of "there's no hiring freeze" Thank you to the citizen who scraped USAJobs job postings Now we can see posting trends for the entire U.S. gov, all of HHS, and CDC Guess who has hardly posted any jobs despite being vastly understaffed...

This smells like blatant & criminal insider trading. Even worse, Trump is profiting off of his illegal deportation dragnet. Since we know Republicans will pretend like they never saw this & won’t do a thing, anyone involved in these trades should preserve records for my investigation in Jan 2027.

Leading cause of death among children and adolescents in the United States? Firearms (gun violence) Truly incredible, beyond tragic and totally avoidable! www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

🚨During lunch at his golf course with tobacco executives on May 2, Pres. Trump called Robert F. Kennedy and Dr. Oz, furious. He wanted action on flavored vapes. And he soon got it, prompting the FDA commissioner to resign. w/ the amazing @kenvogel.bsky.social --> 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/u...

In the paradoxical standard set forward by the Supreme Court, the only way to tell if districts were drawn for racism is if the people drawing them say so. But if the districts are drawn so that Black voters in the South get almost no representatives, that's not racism.

Internet rules dictate that whenever you see the Tom Holland Umbrella video, you have to share it. I'm just following the rules.

The office investigates detainee deaths and access to medical care, among other issues. It's being wound down, even as the number of detention deaths and length of detention stays has grown. n.pr/4wfsKrR

Here's a modified version of a classic example of gerrymandering which is more representative of what the Alabama GOP is doing here (yes, I know AL has 7 House districts, not 5)

Today, our #SCIMaP team released an impact analysis of the White House proposed FY 2027 NIH and NSF budgets. Bottom-line: if enacted, cuts to science and medical research would lead to $35B in economic losses and 150,000 lost jobs in communities all across the US. scienceimpacts.org 🧵

The deaths caused by the Trump administration are in the millions and will echo into the future

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Imagine how we would feel when f Putin said this about Ukraine or Hitler about the UK? There would be uproar. But Trump about Iran? Crickets from Republicans. Their hypocrisy regarding their orange toddler leader is deafening.

This is definitely a sustainable system and will certainly not collapse pyrotechnically within the decade

This has been the GOP's "starve-the-beast" scheme for nearly 50 years. Meanwhile, millions suffer and struggle to get ahead as the rich get richer. See the problem here?

Remember: It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.

This is the context that RFK Jr and his political appointees need to understand.

The is the federal government telling news stations to provide favorable coverage of the war or their licenses will be pulled. A truly extraordinary moment. We aren't on the verge of a totalitarian takeover. WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF IT. Act like it.

DOGE said it was cutting government waste. So they gutted USAID — the agency that feeds starving people around the world. Meanwhile the Pentagon spent millions on lobster, ribeye, and even a $98,000 piano. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

Maria Anna Mozart composed masterpieces. Wolfgang Amadeus’ name survived, hers vanished. Janet Sobel pioneered drip painting. Jackson Pollock was the genius. This International Women’s Day, let’s restore their stories and give them the credit they deserve!

THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

“the thinker of tender thoughts” by shel silverstein

Good Lord. Just watch how an elected member of the Senate conducts himself. Against a member of the military in uniform. Who - and let’s be very, very clear - most certainly has a First Amendment right to protest. Since he’s the guy you’d be sending to war.

We've been tracking nearly 200 lawsuits against the Trump administration over its attempts to leverage federal funding to impose the president's agenda. The most startling pattern: The administration seems entirely undeterred when it loses in court. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The more you learn about butterflies, the more your brain explodes in a good way, I am totally serious. You know how Moby Dick is basically one dude losing his shit about Whale Facts? That's me with butterflies. They do all this ⬇️ THEN FLY THOUSANDS OF MILES TO THE RIGHT PLACE FOR BREEDING WTAF

Sydney Peterson is among the U.S. athletes heading to the 2026 Winter Paralympics. A neuroscientist in training, Peterson is studying movement disorders, similar to her own condition. n.pr/3P0q28t

So billions will be spent and lives will be lost for nothing?

CNN put together a montage of the regime's incoherent talking points about Trump's war on Iran

I just want a world in which I can say wow these dill-flavored Triscuits hit the spot without feeling like I'm stealing time from absolutely necessary screaming from absolutely everyone including me

"Imagine a year from now" -- the new administration line, being pushed here by Marco Rubio, is that Iran was developing conventional weapons "as a shield" for nukes. That story is much weaker than claiming Iran was an imminent threat.