Oh, did Trump threaten to wipe Iran off the face of the earth again? Wild. He says peace talks happened? You don't say. Iran says the peace talks didn't happen? Shocking. Oh, did Trump threaten to wipe Iran off the face of the earth again? Wild...

The opposite of gout is gin and I know which I would prefer.

I'm on this new diet where I cut out carbs and sugar and yearn for the sweet release of death

my kind of Jubilee, the Japanese national team vs. 100 kids

NEW: A spokesperson for U.S. Health and Human Services confirmed to Stateline on Friday that the agency is canceling 53 out of 67 grants, worth about $68 million, under the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program, affecting grantees in more than two dozen states.

"Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a Colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglifying them, and will never adopt our Language or Customs, any more than they can acquire our Complexion." - Ben Franklin on Emmers' German ancestors

Look at the fucking racist

the fundamental double standard in American politics is that any given Democrat is supposed to have an opinion on Darializa Chevalier but no Republican will ever be pressed on Randy Fine, Brandon Gill, or Andy Ogles

SCOTUS Republicans are unabashedly pro-cancer, pro-gun violence, anti-humanity oh, and the fucking racist, xenophobic, nasty president according to them, isn't racist expand this fucking corrupt court. every single Dem needs to be banging that drum. If you don't, retire or don't run

Congress has approved billions in new funding for ICE despite the agency’s infliction of serious harm on children in its custody.

"6-3 written by Alito" could be shorthand for explaining why you're having a bad day. Hey, you okay? Something seems off. It's a 6-3 written by Alito day, my friend.

These are the actions of an authoritarian regime, where their agents come to intimidate you if you share public information about how they have killed American citizens

Kagan points out in the dissent here that Alito is too much of a coward to even put Trump’s supposedly non-racist statements in his opinion.

The last immigration opinion in particular is awful and instead of yelling about it at length I'm just going to observe that the equal protection analysis is almost entirely unsupported by citations to relevant authority. There's a cursory cite to one leading opinion and then a bunch of handwaving.

The upshot of this decision is that once it goes into effect, hundreds of thousands of people who have been living and working legally in the United States, some for many years, and many who entered completely legally, will lose their work permits and deportation protections.

America cannot have a multiracial, multicultural democracy if the United States Supreme Court is allowed to continue to exist in its current form

This is good to see: Pennsylvania will NOT be participating in Trump's 250 gala on the National Mall. Tellingly, virtually no businesses in Pennsylvania want any part of it. This is in a state Trump won twice. That's how toxic he and his efforts to turn the 250th into a Trump rally have become.

Two ICE agents tracked down a woman *inside a polling place* yesterday. Why? They demanded that she take down an Instagram post in which she named Jonathan Ross as the man who shot & killed Renee Good (after the Star Tribune identified Ross). www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...

Today's SCOTUS decision means that the Trump administration may prematurely terminate TPS for Haiti, Syria, and any other country it wishes, without bothering to offer any legitimate justification or following the procedures required by Congress, because courts cannot review the decision.

The Democratic establishment crash-out is a wonderous thing to see. A bunch of people, their organization named after democracy, unable to handle the results of just a few popular elections, appealing to the unspoken rules of a club they thought belonged exclusively to them. Let's do it everywhere.

Here is Sotomayor, in dissent, explaining the dire consequences of today's decision in Otro Lado. The government may now circumvent a vast range of laws protecting asylum-seekers by simply blocking their entry at the border. An insane loophole to open up. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

The Supreme Court's third decision is Mullin v. Otro Lado. Another 6–3 decision, this time allowing the government to "meter" asylum-seekers by forcing them to remain on the Mexican side of the border. All three liberals dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Why I am I not surprised

An Orlando green card applicant was given permission to travel to Egypt after his father’s death. When he returned, ICE sent him to a PA concentration camp for six months. During which he suffered vision loss and lost 45 pounds. He wasn’t informed of kidney disease diagnosis for 2 months.

For 25 years, the roadless rule kept 58.5 million acres of wild forest off-limits to bulldozers. Trump wants to end that — before the end of 2026. What's at stake, and why it matters for every American who's ever set foot in a national forest.

"if you introduce a tertiary character, you must either justify their usage or consolidate them with other tertiary characters" - most books on narrative craft

Whenever he tries to explain something it's exactly the same way a toddler tries to relay information. Except he is 80 years old and evil

ICE ABUSE. In 2023, a 17-year-old got "special immigrant juvenile status" and had his removal case dismissed, as he was on a path to a green card. On March 18, ICE arrested him and coerced him into signing a removal order he didn't understand, then hid him from lawyers for 10 days and deported him.

I am BEGGING people - think tanks, governments, random organisations - to DATE YOUR REPORTS WHEN YOU DO THE PDFS. It should not be THIS HARD to find a BLOODY PUBLICATION DATE. You might think everyone will remember the magical day you published it years later. But you are delusional.

EXCLUSIVE: Eli Lilly gave compassionate use access to retatrutide, their unapproved powerful obesity drug, to a 79-year-old man in April. The application was arranged by a top doctor at NIH, and cleared by the FDA. www.statnews.com/2026/06/23/e...

I have been doing a lot of critical reevaluation of Roman and medieval historians recently because I am living through the kind of end to an autocratic regime that very sober, serious modern historians have footnoted with phrases like "an unreliable account from a hostile chronicler."

Yeah hold on, did Rasputin do things any more out-there than a love for raw milk, and enjoying steam rooms in denim shorts?

They arrested a mariachi band, bear sprayed an observer, and ditched an injured citizen at a hospital in the next town. “The ICE agents allegedly then performed donuts with their vehicles under the freeway overpass for about 15 minutes.”

American Academy of Pediatrics’ Council on Immigrant Child and Family Health co-founder Marsha Griffin called the period of infancy and toddlerhood “probably the most harmful time of their lives to have them in detention.” “Our immigration system is breaking children,” she said.

Santiago, a 2-year old, is finally reunited w/his father after 307 in govt custody. No toddler should be separated from their parent by punitive policies designed to advance a mass‑deportation agenda. Help us defend kids like Santiago: immdef.org/donate

We're all rooting for Cape Verde, right?

I was trying to find an old tweet about Hamlet and Ophelia. Google AI thought I was accusing it of killing my dad, and also screwed up the most famous line in The Princess Bride.

If Trump stuck two french fries in his nose and said he's going to tell Westeros to invade Narnia, Fox would devote 10 hours a day to the Narnian threat and the New York Times would run articles headlined "President Considers Expanding Conflict Zone; Critics Raise Questions"

I just accidentally learned that Inspector Gadget ended 40 years ago

The Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence, by Jean-Baptiste de Champaigne, 1660, 📸 by @sizqui

The movies lied to us: from the goose-stepping ultracompetent Nazis and gimlet-eyed Soviets to Darth Vader and glamorized absolute monarchs Fascism isn't cool and edgy. Authoritarianism isn't ruthlessly efficient. They're both too dumb for words Only Death of Stalin truly gets it right

The American Library Association is auctioning off a bunch of the classic celebrity “READ” posters along with a bunch of other full sized literacy posters. This is going to fix so many of my problems, I just know it. movieposters.ha.com/c/search/res...

Over 200,000 children, including 145,000 US citizens, have likely had a parent detained since January, per Brookings. Therapists describe kids too anxious to leave home. Careful reporting from KFF Health News: www.cbsnews.com/news/arrests...

These are not isolated investigations into organizations or individuals, they are maneuvers designed to brand democratic organizing as criminal in a plot to steal the power of working people.

It kinda got lost in the madness, but the federal conspiracy case against anti-ICE activists in Minnesota - the Minneapolis 15 - is a big deal It's not just the 1st Amendment abuse. It's part of their plan to crush dissent ahead of a stolen election My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump are re-segregating the American military by race and sex Secret Vetting and Blocked Promotions: Inside Hegseth’s War on Diversity www.nytimes.com/2026/06/19/u...

In Louisiana, which has more ICE lockups than almost any state, a crisis of prolonged detention is accelerating. Data suggests that the number of immigrants in ICE custody for more than a year has spiked five-fold since 2024. Our story with The Lens Nola: boltsmag.org/louisia...

every article on modern academia reads like "i know the far-right is in the midst of total ideological capture of state-run universities, but these goofy kids DO need to be forced to read the Federalist papers"

The news you probably missed was the Trump Admin issuing a memo that they don't have to enforce Olmstead rights. Not that they won't, but that they don't have to. A first move. More to come.

This is a really great quick reaction piece to the OLC opinion today saying there's no integration mandate under the ADA and the Rehabilitation Act. A brief thread with a few things I'd add.