THREAD: The boy is called a liar. He’s told not to defend himself. Then the private school owner encourages all of his peers to attack him, one by one. She hits him, repeatedly, with a plastic pipe-like object. How does this school still exist — and receive state funds? 🧵

Tillis prodded a rape survivor to go public with allegations against Hegseth, promising her that it would sink the nomination of a dangerous man to a powerful position. She did, at significant risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote in favor of Hegseth. He has always been a coward.

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One of the most shocking data center developments in the country is families increasingly being pushed to sell their property for data center power lines, under threat of eminent domain.

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

#PPOD: This image is quite extraordinary, and it's not the big disk that's attracting the most attention. Although the large planet-forming disk around the star PDS 70 is clearly imaged and quite interesting in its own right. 🧪 🔭

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was murdered by ICE. His three sons called him “El mundo entero” — the whole world. They watched as their whole world died in a video posted on Facebook. Lorenzo was our neighbor and fellow Texan. He deserves justice.

The Beasts of Never (1968) “We will never find answers which are true in the same way the answers to mathematical problems are true.” Read the full post: https://www.vintagerpg.com/2026/07/the-beasts-of-never-1968/ #TTRPG #VintageRPG #RPG

U.S. troops aren’t supposed to be policing an American city just because the president thinks it’s enemy territory. There’s no reason for this guard deployment to Memphis and definitely no reason for them to be shooting or killing ANYONE there Out

Unbelievable gall. Abolish this gang of murderers.

Come for the cover depicting a cowboy firing a six-shooter at a red mist, stay for the ghost of a labor organizer who won't rest until workers form a union. Vintage RPG doesn't miss. Unless it were to fire a gun at a red mist. That's just a silly thing to do.

While I'm hyping things, check out Vintage RPG! Over a million word and thousands of pictures charting the history of RPGs and their many intersections with pop culture, toys, monsters, horror and more. Like the best weird local bookshop, but as a website: vintagerpg.com

Fraudster steals millions, murders a rival, cuts Trump (and Byron Donalds) in on the take, joins Perv-A-Lago, gets a pardon.

My reflection on hitting Unwinnable's 200 issue milestone on the site. Go read it and learn the secret significance of vultures and pie for @unwinnable.com. I'll be back a little later to run you through all the stories in the issue! unwinnable.com/2026/07/02/r...

During his two decades in the New Jersey Senate, Tom Kean Jr. consistently opposed paid sick leave for his constituents.

Four days ago: www.aol.com/articles/tru...

Two days ago: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/28/w...

There’s a story like this approximately every other day now. www.cnbc.com/2026/06/29/t...

"Took my disabilities packed them in a trunk Rock 'n roll's alright by me I turned out a punk" #HappyBirthday to #MickJones lead guitarist, co-lead vocalist, co-founder and songwriter for #TheClash until 1983. In 1984, he formed #BigAudioDynamite

Pretty great to have this dipshit vaguely talking about seeing frightening images while Fox can only put up photos of the dem socialists smiling and looking like nice people.

When I opened Q in 2012 the min. wage in Washington was $9. We opened paying $15hr knowing Seattle was gonna bump it to 15 in 2014. All my fellow bar owners were PISSED at me....because all their employees wanted to work for me & I only needed to charge 25 cents extra a drink to offset that $6.

The NYT has not reported on this yet but within 24 hours of game 3 they had a story up about what Mamdani paid for his Knicks ticket (a mere phone thousand dollars)

I made a short film about losing my wallet while legally homeless in the US—& the bureaucratic, Kafka-like terror which followed to prove I existed. This is threat facing millions of USians who are legally homeless and/or unsheltered. (With @propublica.org & @brian-goldstone.bsky.social cameos)

I love this. Unmute.

Everyone just standing around, looking at each other and thinking, "someone should really do something about this unbelievable corruption."

"insane levels of corruption is okay for this one guy" is literally the GOP platform

An absolute masterpiece. Guy spent years making this and uploading dozens of videos on how, getting zero to 8 views each. I hope he can rack up more.

they are literally all corrupt, criminal psychopaths. every single one.

Ms. Rachel: As the American Academy of Pediatrics says, there is no safe amount of time for a child to be in detention. The Dilley immigration detention center must be shut down. We need to end the cruel policies of family detention and family separation.

The Bengali Knicks poet and the Sikh dholi guys combined forces for a follow-up! Now we just need the sewing machine guy and the ride a bike with stuff on his head guy to meet.

Your 2025-26 NBA Champions... The Knicks 🏆

NYT visual investigative journalist Christiaan Triebert with a vital fact check of Palantir CEO Alex Karp:

Teenagers, toddlers, & babies have been abducted & taken to Dilley. And Republican & their private prison corporation friends are profiting from the pain of child abuse, child neglect, & childhood trauma. We must close Dilley & end this state-inflicted trauma.

Literally all the referees, including the American ones, should boycott. But nobody will because most people excuse racism unless it's happening to them personally.

Totally fucking outrageous conditions at Delaney Hall, whose owner is trying to claim qualified immunity in court. prospect.org/2026/06/08/i...

The fact that health inspectors weren’t allowed in gives cause to shut it down. Force the confrontation. Private security is running the joint. Arrest them.

Christ, you're the governor of the entire state. Shut the building down. It's not sovereign territory like a foreign embassy. Pull the certificate of occupancy. Cut the power. Back it up with state police. Stop coddling fascists and groveling every time they order you around. Act like an American.

Wrote about the new BBC adaptation of Lord of the Flies in this issue, because I love "entertainment" that makes me feel awful and haunts me for days. A+ material, would recommend.

The U.S. government handed a 3-year-old to an abuser to torture him to death, and then his mother was allotted one hour for his funeral.

if you just went by media coverage you would think that trangender kids playing sports are a much more immediate threat to the public well-being than a billionaire becoming a trillionaire by pumping $2 trillion worth of fraud into every single 401k

The U.S. has officially killed more than 200 people in Latin American waters since Sept. 2, with next to no evidence presented to the public to justify the strikes.

Mikie Sherrill campaigned on "I'm a tough military pilot who isn't afraid of Trump and will stand up to Trump!" The first time she's tested, she works with ICE to beat up her own citizens. And her backers explain "she's working with Trump STRATEGICALLY, because she's scared of Trump." OK, got it.

This man was playing his cello in the tear gas New Jersey State Police deployed at Delaney Hall last night. “Like the titanic!” protesters said.

Among the other atrocities at Delaney Hall last night, state police in riot gear attacked and arrested an elderly man playing a cello through the tear gas and mounted police assault. Well done, Mikie Sherrill. He was so dangerous.

Remember when Bernie Sanders unveiled his plan for free college for all Americans, and everyone said we can't afford it? We just spent more than that amount on Trump's war in Iran.

ICE is thug scum.

What's happening at Delaney Hall should be major news with 24/7 coverage. People have been linking arms and protesting for 6 days straight. Don't let the regime bury this story. ALL EYES ON DELANEY.

Immigrant detainees at Delaney Hall ICE prison in Newark, NJ have been forced to cook, clean, & repair the facility for as little as $1/day and sometimes for free. They are on a hunger & labor strike; protesters outside have been tear-gassed. Here's our report, including a quote from a detainee:

This happened today at Delaney Hall.

your regular reminder that the national shoplifting crisis was a manufactured moral panic largely engineered by corporations in order to cover up their own mismanagement — and that wage theft is the largest category of theft in the U.S.