Trump administration sought the phone records of several NYT journalists and their relatives — including one reporter’s mother www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/b...

Google Is Censoring Reviews of ICE Detention Centers: In the past year, Google Maps was deleting all the reviews for dozens of ICE jails, a new study found. Reporting by @sambiddle.com theintercept.com/2026/07/20/g...

I’m over this Argentina referee industrial complex

Israel’s $50 Million Experiment to Change U.S. Public Opinion: The Israeli government is trying to shore up its U.S. reputation with help from influencers, Trump insiders and millions of AI-driven texts 🎁Gift article: www.wsj.com/politics/isr...

If you have time this weekend, please check out the doc (~30 min.) my team & I released this week on Musk’s push into Greater Memphis with xAI and its noisy, methane gas burning turbines, data centers, broken promises & impacts on majority Black communities next door. www.cnbc.com/2026/07/16/e...

#OpenAccess from @poppublicsphere.bsky.social#OpenAccess- Silencing Dissent: Academic Freedom and Transnational Suppression of Palestinian Solidarity - https://cup.org/4gJl4sC - Sevgi Doğan, Donatella Della Porta & Federico Alagna #FirstView

A father in Idaho, speaking to police after his child died by suicide: “There is a huge amount of animosity, every single day, thrown at trans kids. The whole fucking country. The whole fucking administration, every single fucking day.” Please read this important story by @joyurcaba.bsky.social

yeah we’re gonna have to ban prediction markets

Reminder... Any political party trying to make it harder to vote is sending a clear message — they can't win on their ideas alone.

“Democracy is not a state. It is an act, and each generation must do its part to help build what we called the Beloved Community, a nation and world society at peace with itself." -John Lewis

Antifascism looks like Pedro Pascal. It looks like Alex Pretti and AOC. It looks like 600 priests, imams, and rabbis in the cold streets of winter Minneapolis. Antifascism is gorgeous.

The real tragedy of the commons is that we let capitalists convince us that no one cares about the common good.

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court DISMISSES lawsuit to compel Connecticut to provide the DOJ its complete statewide voter registration database. DOJ is now 0-16 in cases to gain access to state voter files. Elias Law Group remains undefeated. www.democracydocket.com/cases/connec...

The revelations came out in a federal court case brought by Democratic states challenging ICE's access to Medicaid data to aid in deportation efforts. n.pr/4f9OdMn

This summer, we kept the lights on all night, every night, at five soccer fields across New York City.

This was the scene at Calvert Vaux Park in Gravesend, Brooklyn Tuesday night.

I find it literally insane that people don’t respond to the experience living in this smoke by demanding a transition away from fossil fuels.

Gift link with no paywall because everybody needs to read this one after the June we just had slate.com/news-and-pol...

oh no, but how else will we get to mars?!

For those who don’t have access to JREP through their institution, Christian Lamour’s, “Normalizing and Mainstreaming the French Radical Right” will be open access until the end of the month. Please feel free to share with your networks! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Forgot this one. I’m curious why NYT thinks this kind of vile racism isn’t disqualifying for an op-ed writer. I imagine that if an author said something similarly vitriolic about, say, Lutherans, the NYT would face massive blowback for publishing them.

We are all going to have so many kinds of diarrhea

What a graphic. @cnn.com #$NVDA #$TSLA #$AEO

They are going to utterly destroy our university system by the end of his term.

Here in Calgary I show people this graph and if I get any further guff I ask if they know what a graph is. #yyc #yyccc #ClimateChange #Wildfires #smoke #cdnpoli #abpoli

This keeps happening, the conflation of people disapproving of Dems being too weak and unprincipled with disapproving of Dems for being too leftwing. This is part of how a lot of Gen Z distrust for Dems gets recast into Gen Z being rightwing

We are working with mutual aid groups to help distribute donated masks and air purifiers. Ultimately every employer has a responsibility to provide PPE, safe working conditions and safe migrant labor housing. (Not all of them seem to realize the urgency.)

Because of course

I am not a climate scientist but when I was a kid the number of times we couldn’t go outside because of Canadian wildfire smoke was zero times

Democrats who voted with Massie to end aid to Israel Some surprising names here Auchincloss Crockett Deluzio Goodlander Houlahan McBride Menefee Pettersen Min in #CA47 Derek Tran in #CA45

The Islamophobic attack ads against Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan right now are *wild* you guys. Every other ad is full of tropes of terrorism and misogyny.

A White House report has defended the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, pushing back against its characterization by a Smithsonian Institution exhibit that the law was racially motivated. www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

A guaranteed tuition offer shifted low-income students into a top university. The students graduated sooner and earned more selective degrees, narrowing the gap with higher-income peers, from Burland, Delaney, Dynarski, Leu, Libassi, Michelmore, Owen, Quiroga, and Salinas www.nber.org/papers/w35434

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Horrible day. ICE is preparing a deportation flight to Laos so some of my former, current, and were-to-be clients are being brought to the Whipple Building and shipped off to Louisiana for final removal. Lots of calls from them, their families, and friends. So much pain visited on our community

something important imo that isn't mentioned in the Reuters piece is the fact that, in response to the NAACP suing xAI, Trump's DOJ is trying to *take over the lawsuit as plaintiff* and "voluntarily dismiss" the case ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

stuff like this is why one important avenue for court reform is just nixing the shadow docket altogether and forcing these people to explain themselves to the public when they issue orders. also, making their records property of the united states and subject to publication when they leave the bench.

Amy Coney Barrett just told Congress that it would be inappropriate to explain the reasoning behind the Court’s unreasoned shadow docket orders. As if unreasoned judicial orders are a thing. They are not. The reasoning is the whole point.

Happening right in front of us. The world's richest man.

New public pre-print with @aarslew.bsky.social and Martin Bisgaard 🧵 We introduce a perspective on democratic erosion that focuses on quiet anticipation among political elites: what do they think happens to those who cross a strongman that challenges democracy? www.researchgate.net/publication/...

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A total violation of international law. Eswatini is imprisoning people from multiple countries no crime, based on no violation of law in that country, and with the direct knowledge and acquiescence of the United States.

🚨New paper out in JEPP @jeppjournal.bsky.social 🎉 Women are underrepresented in local politics, and the problem isn't only their election but retention. In a survey experiment with 500+ English councillors, we find that family-friendly council policies increase women's static ambition. 🧵

Cheer up, USA. One of your soccer teams has won 4 World Cups.

Interested in doing a postdoc with me in Auckland, New Zealand? 🇳🇿 See info below on a competitive award opportunity, and please spread the word!

BREAKING: in June 2026, *every single one* of the 1,062 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 7,727 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.

Trump’s World Cup intervention has ruined the game | Robert Reich

I don't think it should be legal to hide whether an elected official is conscious and or alive.

1/ I looked at 20 years of Supreme Court decisions and found that for the first time, all nine justices decided more cases by secret ballot — aka the “shadow docket” — than it did for cases argued in open court last term. 🧵:

Exhibit 5324329048 on why the Democratic leadership has to go.

The embarrassment of celebrating Trump’s corruption and cheating at the World Cup. Jeffries telling the world the Democratic Party also supports corruption at the world stage. Pathetic.