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.

Only now noticing that these guys appear to be commuting to an Invisible Man cosplay convention.

lol Threads banned the new Infowars. Silenced for TRUTH. Everybody go yell at them.

I’m persuaded.

In a speech today, NJ Rep. Tom Kean revealed the mystery condition that kept him off the job for more than three months: Depression. Kean deserves sympathy, but also accountability. He should explain why he hid the diagnosis until now. Is depression too shameful to admit to your constituents?

"US One Supreme Court Vote Away From Stripping Basic Constitutional Rights" should be the headline for every news outlet in the country.

I'm in.

I used to walk up to the reflecting pool without even thinking about it. I could not imagine an authoritarian regime that would take that away from other Americans.

I know 1199 very well, and they are truly the best of what America can show the world.

I don’t mean this as a criticism of Sagal. But Trump didn’t honor subpoenas in his first admin. The only surprising thing Trump could do next year would be to honor congressional subpoenas, and nothing I’ve seen so far suggests he has a capacity to startle us with his cunning flexibility.

Yes, Trump saying “prosecute the governor of Minnesota because he pisses me off” does indeed cause him trouble, in the same sense that John Gotti bragging about his latest murder on Meet The Press might be somewhat problematic.

Nice summary of how Iran smoked the US from beginning to end of this disastrous conflict.

IMPORTANT: More Than 770,000 Children Are No Longer Receiving SNAP Benefits After Trump Changes Federal Food Program @nicolesantacruz.bsky.social

Always lovely to hear from the Quincy Institute for Danegeld Optimization.

Look I'm not going after you personally, you might have a sincere interest in learning more. There's a video of him speaking up for trans kids before a local school board meeting. There's a video of him in the fight against the Norwegian salmon farm & he testified before the legislature.

Sequel to “Guys and Dolls” just dropped.

Racist is also the worst thing you can be in New Jersey, and in Nevada, and in Georgia, and...well, I could go on. But the point is that the guy who runs Medicare and Medicaid is now publicly complaining that people don't like his open racial bigotry.

Sad thing is that Auburn is where I learned about postmodernism years ago.

House Republicans joined by 4 Democrats vote to literally take food away from pregnant women and children

So many good ideas in this essay for returning the Supreme Court to its roots. What if justices were expected to take charge of a circuit and publicly justify their votes? www.inquirer.com/politics/nat...

Scott Pelley is a giant.

My colleague Leo Cuello on a recently released CMS proposed rule that goes well beyond just implementing the requirements of H.R. 1 in further restricting state-directed payments to hospitals and other providers (1/x): ccf.georgetown.edu/2026/05/28/c...

“Platner sexting scandal poses new hurdle to 2028 prez campaign.” Attn @nytpitchbot.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/platner-2028

If the KenCen renaming vote had been unanimous, board member @repbeatty.bsky.social would not have filed suit to reverse it. www.npr.org/2025/12/24/n...

Someone tell Governor DeSantis that the far right wants to reboot gender studies.

Basically re-enacting Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, only with zero riz.

Incredible. I would say it’s bananas, but I am so late to this party that would shame me.

I have to say, this is more than I was expecting. It’s a deep dive into the construction of the Department of national intelligence after 9/11.

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

One of the amazing things about the Threads platform is that all the Ken Martin stans are there. Amazingly, many people spend time posting on Martin's titanic achievements and the vile hypocrisies of certain podcasters who criticize him. You would think his DNC tenure had been a victory lap!

Is that, umm, legal?

What’s the best search engine not made by Google? Asking for a friend.

The biggest ad campaign on @linkedin.com right now? Philip Morris explaining that nicotine is fine actually and all that stuff about addiction and lung cancer is just misinformation. I believe the point is to hype nicotine-based vaping, but I would have to click the link to find out.

Pretty well sums it up.

I have turned to @scotusblog.com many times over the years. So I was genuinely shocked, listening to an NYT podcast, to discover that SCOTUSblog's current editor-in-chief, Sarah Isgur, is a right-wing hack unable to even provide serviceable legal analysis.

I remember the original series. It was comic gold, the perfect spoof of true crime podcasts. theonion.com/episode-1-a-...

I really can’t get over President Trump selling out his country to a foreign dictator for a morsel of cheap flattery.

For years, people in higher education had to treat right-wing lunatic Virginia Foxx like a serious thinker because she chaired the House Education & Labor Committee. Now that she's yelling at 10-year-olds about indoctrination we can safely call her a nutter.

Great piece that considers counter-arguments to court-packing and emerges on the other side.

Heroes💪.Democratic members of the TN House have covered themselves in glory and set the bar for other elected officials.

SNL UK is so awesome. We should all demand further international expansions: how about SNL France? What could be more hilarious than SNL Hungary? Make it happen.

Glad to have another reason to reject the “democracy is over” attitude.

May I suggest a commemorative turkey drop?

🧵just adding: after the '93 WTC attack they were told to put the command center underground in Brooklyn. When Giuliani became mayor, he insisted it be at WTC. After 9/11 it was moved to a location underground in Brooklyn.

As a zealot devoted to the destruction of our nation, I am chagrined to learn about strategies I should have been using all along, chiefly the fabrication of stories. I thought that this is how one gets published in The New Yorker (which filled me with disgust obv) but now I begin to see my error.

Having worked in NYC politics during Giuliani's second mayoral term, I can attest that he has never felt the slightest hesitancy about dishing out "knowing falsehoods".

There’s a moment when he kisses his finger in an instinctive way, and I think “he’s definitely not American.” You could say it’s obvious, but I like to be concrete: identify the gestures that tell us where you’re from and who you are.

The fact that RFK Jr 1) thinks that all black children are being medicated; 2) sees this fact is a kind of tell-me-why story to explain why they’re so violent; and 3) proposes taking black children from their parents and handing them over to, I dunno, white parents…should be more widely known.

Gotta say, I’m warming to Graham Platner.