A bit of James Baldwin today: "I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain"

Not only do we routinely see kids dying in ICE custody, now they’re missing nearly 1000 people who were being held in Alligator Alcatraz? HOW THE HELL is this not a stop the presses moment? We can only hope it’s not a Brubaker moment.

Governor Gavin Newsom has signed the nation’s first bill banning officers from wearing masks. Now let’s work to bring this change nationwide, reach out to your governors and help unmask ICE!

It’s time to check the USAID cut death toll. It’s over half a million now.

the trouble is that we're trying to use facts against fanatics, and that just seems impossible

The @washingtonpost.com story on Tylenol & autism leaves out a MAJOR 2.5M sibling-controlled study of children in Denmark, which "found no evidence that acetaminophen use during pregnancy was associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD or intellectual disability." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

"history is also going to remember the cowards who definitely knew better but still let things happen—whether it was for money, convenience, or just comfort. Use ... the only phrase that can genuinely make a weak bully go away: F**k you. Make me.”" www.pajiba.com/news/john-ol...

According to three sources familiar with the situation, several senior officials at the Justice Department, and also at the White House, were blindsided by Trump’s message. Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Here you go

📽️ WATCH: Epidemiologist Erin McCanlies spent much of the past 20 years studying how parents’ exposure to toxic chemicals affects the chances that they will have an autistic child. RFK Jr. cut her entire division — yet promises to identify the causes of autism by September: https://propub.li/4nhXQua

Where the Gulls Are. eBird: how many? Me: A multitude.

Waffle bless 🤎🐾

📢Dear beloved authors all. Please include the ISBNs for your titles on your websites. I regularly request that our library system buy your books & it's a real pain in the backside to have to track down the metadata info for your stuff. Thx! 📚💙 #SupportYourLibrary #IndependentBookstores

so maybe having empathy is like being bilingual, and these monsters can only speak hate

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Rep. Don Bacon: "There have been some wrong statements made, to say the least — when the attorney general said she was going to go after hate speech...is wrong...The president doing threats against media is also wrong. We don't threaten the media."

Now that's a campaign video. 👇🏽

Here's an iron clad law of the universe: Any necessary correction will always include elements of overcorrection. Because people aren't precision instruments. Reactionaries will always cherry pick isolated examples of overcorrection to try and discredit any attempts to correct injustice.

NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable. This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed. From me for @rollingstone.com: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

15 years ago the Supreme Court decided corporations are people under the First Amendment. Today, sold-out politicians block progress on all fronts to appease their corporate donors. Citizens United is among the worst decisions in history. It corrupts our system every day.

Sen. Tim Kaine: "Brian Kilmeade 10 days ago suggested that homeless, mentally ill people should be lethally injected. He apologized...He didn't get pulled off the air."

You guys want to know what happens when you choose fascism over freedom of speech? You lose 4 billion dollars within 24 hours. tribune.com.pk/story/256798...

Jimmy Kimmel and other late-night comedians have certainly said things about me that I found offensive, even outrageous. It never crossed my mind to call up the networks and say, "Hey, get rid of this guy." Because that's not how America works. play.prx.org/listen?ge=pr...

The thing is, yes we are in the worst timeline with the worst administration, but the US was the most carceral state in the world previous to Drumpf's reign of stupid. I think we house something like 25% of the world's prisoners. Here's some data. #prison #jail www.prisonpolicy.org/factsheets.h...

Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban. Here’s how we did our analysis. (Published Feb. 2025)

Attended Stardew Valley: Symphony of Seasons tonight. Absolutely delightful, as you might expect. Still flabbergasting that one guy did everything for this game, including the music.

PSA: Thinking this is wrong doesn’t make you a “radical” — thinking it isn’t does.

BREAKING: Luigi Mangione's lawyers have filed a motion to dismiss his case on constitutional grounds. Some arguments are specific to his case, involving AG Bondi's actions, while others are more generally applicable. Law Dork earlier covered the underlying conduct: www.lawdork.com/p/luigi-mang...

Release the files!

He barely won the popular vote, and he would lose if he ran today. The counties he won are much smaller in average population, so this stat is meaningless. And he gets terrible press because he’s a terrible leader.

The problem with the Ezra Klein view of the world is it's based on the existence of a centre-right and centre-left willing to find common ground. Authoritarians aren't interested in common ground, just power.

I blame Bob Iger. I blame Trump. I blame the whole Fox News admin. I loathe the Evil Administration bc they made Bob Iger even more terrible than he was. I am heartbroken bc most of my life has involved Disney in some way. Fuck fascism.

I’m worried it can still get stupider

Leavitt on the TikTok deal: "There will be seven seats on the board that controls the app in the US and six of those seats will be Americans. The data and privacy will be led by one of America's greatest tech companies, Oracle, and the algorithm will also be controlled by America as well."

Cancel this, cancel that… but funny how he can’t seem to cancel his own name off the Epstein list. Release the files!!!

That’s me in the video. And a Fox News host just celebrated me being assaulted by ICE. If ICE will do this to a congressional candidate with a big platform, just imagine what they’re doing to the people they’re kidnapping.

Stephen Miller: "Children will be taught to love America … As we close the Dept of Education and provide funding to states, we're going to make sure these funds are not being used to promote communist ideology."

🚨 FCC Chief Brendan Carr authored the chapter about the FCC for The Heritage Foundation's Project 2025. Does Carr agree with his Heritage Foundation colleagues? Posted July 3, 2024: "The Second American Revolution will remain bloodless if the Left allows it to be."