The police told Trey Reed's family that he'd been found dead in his dorm room. They found out from the media that he'd actually been found hanging from a tree in the middle of campus. www.mississippifreepress.org/trey-reeds-f...

A normal country would regulate guns.

My God. The images in this AP photo essay of starving children in Gaza are going to haunt me forever. 🔗 apnews.com/photo-essay/...

Photo of the Day. Israel threatened reprisals if the press filmed Gaza from above during airdrops. This is why. A scene of destroyed & burnt out buildings in what is left of Gaza City, the pre-war home to 800,000 people. Credit to Post photographer Heidi Levine who defied the ban & took this.

Gaza: Israeli Killings of Palestinians Seeking Food Are War Crimes Abandon US-Backed ‘Death Trap’ Scheme, Press Israel to End Mass Starvation @hrw.org www.hrw.org/news/2025/08...

"At least 15 Florida universities have quietly signed agreements to voluntarily cooperate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) — but how those partnerships are being implemented remains largely hidden from view."

NEW: 18,500 children have been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza. The Washington Post has just published every single known name. A seminal moment.

Stop what you're doing and read this extraordinary essay by Rümeysa Öztürk: "I am free, but my true freedom is interlinked with the freedom of many women I lived alongside in ICE prison."

If there is a Hell, the people responsible for this will burn for eternity on fires stoked with biscuits.

this EPI primer on loss of federal funding for school districts across the country includes a map, and if I'm reading it right, some of the largest Native reservations (Navajo, Hopi, Standing Rock/Cheyenne River, Pine Ridge) will lose most of their education funding.

Great to hear

Jefferson enslaved his own children. Two of his sons were only freed, along with their mother, after his death.

Job Post: Executive Director of the West Virginia Council of Churches wvcc.org/2025/07/01/s...

Adana, Adiyaman, Antalya—these are not small cities at all

56m meals since May 19th for 2.3m people in Gaza. One meal per person every two days for 44 days. Starvation rations….

If there is one lesson to draw from the history of fascism in the interwar period in Europe, it is this: Democracy falls if and when mainstream conservatives and centrist/center-right elites decide to make common cause with extremists because they consider the “radical Left” the more acute threat.

I wonder if anyone has ever looked into what happens when elected leaders with authoritarian tendencies create massive law enforcement divisions accountable only to them that are comparably funded to the military but specifically designed to be used domestically.

Nobody has covered this, but this #GradPLUS cap is going to cause some #medicalschool to close, including some that just opened. I'm thinking schools in more rural areas, like satellite campuses of Michigan State and Medical College of Wisconsin in northern MI or central WI

BIG: In a landmark announcement, the WCC’s Central Committee calls for targeted sanctions, divestment, and arms embargoes on Israel. Palestinian Christians are calling it "a turning point in the moral and theological witness of the global church.” mondoweiss.net/2025/06/worl...

Top diplomat slams EU for inaction against 'US mercenaries' killing starving Palestinians - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/top-european-diplomat-josep-borrell-slams-eu-inaction-against-us-mercenaries-killing-starving

The British brought these revolt-suppression techniques to mandate Palestine in the 1930s after first developing them in Ireland, the first British colony, around 1920. Irish support for Palestine comes out of the direct links of a common experience of colonization.

"he witnessed colleagues opening fire several times on hungry Palestinians who had posed no threat" www.bbc.com/news/article...

billions and billions of our tax dollars are going to a regime that is shooting starving people waiting to get flour.

Still time to get a last call in on this. Dial 1-833-STOP-WAR (1-833-786-7927) to be connected, or find scripts here:

nazar na lege

higher ed institutions are cutting programs in favor of career-focused training and this is happening at the same time that employers are praising the analytical skills and interpretive acumen of humanities students.

a chance to recommend @judithweisenfeld.com’s excellent New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity During the Great Migration nyupress.org/978147988880...

academia is often - not always - a wealth replication structure. so much of being able to make it through doctoral training depends on generational wealth/family support networks. it is not easy to if you come from a poor or working class family to make it through your doctoral training.

A director of an immigrant rights group said that his organization had received around 4,000 calls regarding disappearances since June 6th. “Some we just don’t know where they’re at,” he said. “We keep getting reports that folks are missing.”

The divides among Republicans on this sick budget bill are so deep, & the cuts so politically toxic, that we have a real shot at flipping 4 R votes! Can you volunteer 2 hours June 23-26 to connect at-risk Medicaid recipients directly to their GOP senators? 🔥🔥💙 www.mobilize.us/moveon/event...

“demise unfolded”

Anyone trying to extract a scrap of geopolitical logic from Trump’s attack on Iran should be asked to explain how Trump signed a deal with the Taliban, and walked away from a whole generation of Afghan allies without a backward glance, condemning a whole society to grinding oppression.

This overview of border-immigration spending in the Republicans' big giant "fund the Trump agenda" bill will be in tomorrow's Border Update. I think I got the items right—but if you're following this, let me know if I missed anything. It's _so much money_ for border lockdowns and ICE on steroids.

"This is not a diplomatic failure. It is the calculated foreclosure of diplomacy. Not a deviation... but the logical culmination of a decades-long consensus in Washington and Tel Aviv: that no independent power in the Middle East should be able to escape the architecture of subordination."

🚨 There’s a lot of horrific news out of Washington right now—but you might have missed this: Senate Republicans just introduced a plan to sell off 120 million acres of our public lands. Let me break down what’s in the bill and why it’s a full-scale land grab. 🧵

UN rights chief says Israel’s warfare methods ‘inflicting horrifying, unconscionable suffering on Palestinians’.

total heartbreak

A fascist state looks like a duly elected Senator being manhandled by police for questioning executive abuse of power. Not surprising considering the instigation and escalation of violence we’ve seen from ICE and DHS in Los Angeles. The people deserve better.

read this thread. it's a satisfying read.

"If you saw all this in any other country — soldiers sent to crush dissent, union leaders arrested, opposition politicians threatened — it would be clear that autocracy had arrived."

this, like the trans panic, show billionaires can sway public opinion significantly by hiring fake experts and inundating the population with their desired messaging. it’s a huge problem and one i’m not sure how to contend with as of yet

"We really are just lost for words at this point. The suffering is intolerable." UNRWA Louise Wateridge tells @cnn.com. After months of war and siege, #Gaza humanitarian crisis is overwhelming. People are starving, deeply traumatized, and have nowhere safe to go. The siege must be lifted.

This is happening right now. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

you can say they are trying to kill people or that they're shrinking government services or whatever you wan to say but they are creating conditions that lead to death, and doing so in a way that disproportionately affects the Black population

Effectively eliminating Medicaid would be catastrophic in a myriad of ways that many people are blissfully unaware of because they don’t how deeply Medicaid is woven into our society. If you care about public health, jobs, hospitals, the economy, or just people being alive: Call your reps.