yeah unfortunately the point at which security agents started manufacturing crimes to so they could arrest people to support the delusions of a single personalist ruler was the point at which the story stopped being silly heavy-handed metaphor and started being of real concern

I've had something like this happen during a production I stage managed and even though no one was injured, and it was a pure accident, we were evicted from the theater space and had to cancel the production because insurance companies take "something fell on the occupied stage" VERY seriously.

The stage is falling apart at the rehearsal for Freedom 250's July 4th celebration.

Statement from Counsel for Olympian Davey Hearn:

every one of these you're going to have to check what happened at the grand jury level since grand jury misconduct is endemic in the trump doj

Mauritania still practices a slavery remarkably similar to what we had in the US--lifelong, race-based, inherited, chattel slavery. I've tracked 8 deportation flights to Mauritania under Trump. Plus at least 3 Mauritanians subjected to third-country removal. gillianbrockell.com/tracking-all...

Mic drop. This is it. This is all that needs to be said. 🔥🔥🔥🔥

This is some serious bullshit. I want to see the transcript of the grand jury proceedings. www.cnn.com/2026/07/02/p...

President Trump’s Freedom250 project and the Great American State Fair is really a corruption story. And, in true MAGA fashion, there’s no real effort to hide the graft here: it’s all playing out in front of you.

Elon Musk is a white supremacist huckster whose business practices routinely leave poor, minority communities stuck squarely under his bootheel:

It's faster to just say you hate Jews jewishinsider.com/2026/07/fran...

The AP, like so much of the American press, gets this wrong. The sect that Leo's attacking here isn't "traditionalist". These are fascists, and Leo is acting to break the power of fascists within the Church.

I had a message this morning from the CEO of the Tank Museum to inform me the below product has now been removed from sale. He has advised me to ‘reflect carefully on whether it is responsible to make claims publicly‘ about the Tank Museum having a reputation for pandering to Wehraboos.…

At least 50 people have died in immigration detention since Trump returned to office, the deadliest period in ICE’s history. Yet Congress continues to give immigration enforcement agencies billions of dollars without requiring reform. bit.ly/4v1sMBH

Telling girls to quit birth control and telling boys to quit masturbation? Pretty obvious that the goal is to increase teen births. jessica.substack.com/p/trumps-sex...

"The verdict finding Trump sexually abused & defamed Carroll is now final. He's out of courts to shop this to, & he’ll get no more appeals. And since he had to prepay the judgment & deposit it w/the court — along w/interest! — she won’t have to wait for him to cut the check." — @lizdye.bsky.social

“80% of people on Louisiana death row have been exonerated” EIGHTY PERCENT OF PEOPLE ON LOUISIANA DEATH ROW HAVE BEEN EXONERATED!?!?!!????!? 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

In the think tank and nonprofit world, there's a lot of talk about "mainstreaming' white nationalist rhetoric without fully elaborating on how it happened. A lot of it, as this piece does a good job of showing, comes down to how the younger generation—particular men—have moved the Overton window.

You either truly believe He Really Is That Bad or you don’t

I don’t think these incumbents realize how brain-breaking it is to be flooded with five-alarm “fascism!!!” fundraiser texts on a daily basis, and then see the sender smiling and posing for Seersucker Day with “my friends across the aisle”.

Very disturbing report but also very illustrative. I keep hearing people say that with the revocation of special protected status for hundreds of thousands of people we're likely to see surges like we saw last year in Chicago, LA and Minneapolis. But this suggests ... www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/u...

Many of the babies’ autopsy reports were clear: Vitamin K deficiency was the immediate cause of death, or contributed to it. The reports also included details about parents refusing the vitamin K shot, a long-standard injection, for their newborns. (Published May)

Also, it's long past time to retire vulgar Marxist arguments about how racism and nativism are just a tool that the capitalist class is using to divide the working class. This stuff is not a distraction. It is a central motivating and binding force in politics, both in the US and elsewhere.

If there was any doubt that Gov Jared Polis’ legacy is freeing Tina Peters, the NYT reports Polis just fired the clemency board members who revealed he overruled their unanimous wishes www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/u...

genuinely curious about the worms in this guy’s brains. seriously beginning to wonder if he is entertaining election denialism.

Another entry in "the groupchats are making rich Democrats literally crazy"

Trump take tree.

Toxic Sports Parents don’t deserve nuance, they deserve a cold bucket of water to the face, maybe three or four

Yes, but underlying that because a criminal accusation gets you that whole process and rights, trial by jury, etc. The Fugitive Slave Act was a civil procedure designed to be a streamlined rubber stamp. Trying to insist on juries was a point of Northern resistance.

NEW: Kenya has never had an Ebola case. However, a planned quarantine facility exclusively serving Americans exposed to the virus in Africa has sparked massive protests, leading to a deadly police crackdown. “Why can’t the facility be in America?” asked Lucy Kagure, mother of a killed protester.

The Supreme Court just weakened the rights of all women to police the activities of TEN TOTAL trans women playing on teams in the NCAA. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Again, and I've said this before: Instagram is serving up a massive unmeasured dose of antisemitism into everyone's feeds, and Zuck doesn't care because $$$. The Brooklyn Can't Wait candidate was sharing and defending International Jew shit she got straight from her reels.

Everyone's like "oh think of the rural hospitals closing" and ya that really does suck but also: you know what place has shitty hospitals too? New York City! They could use some hospitals subsidies too! bsky.app/profile/emce...

The "Voters should never be blamed for their vote because I'm sure they're just poor beautiful souls who wanted the best" mindset is genuinely incompatible with democracy. Living in a democracy demands voters be responsible and educate themselves, they have all the power.

Hasan & Mike from PA are both actually ignorant people is the thing. Yes, politicians have to associate with ignorant people to win elections but let’s not pretend it’s more noble than that

a) there are, like, single digit trans girls in sports in most states (sometimes literally one!), this entire thing is made up so that one girl who wants to play sports with her friends can't do it b) do not, under any circumstances, make policy based on angry sports parents

People are just intentionally refusing to see what’s happening.

Francesca Hong doing a stream with notorious antisemite and Republican supporter “Mike From PA” is absolutely disqualifying. not to mention, nominating her in a swing state like Wisconsin will almost certainly hand the election to the MAGA Republican

Need to pretend that something has drastically changed, rather than stayed the same, in order to justify the campaign of violent repression they are desperate to accelerate.

JD Vance Says the Midterms Will Determine the Future of Birthright Citizenship talkingpointsmemo.com/news/jd-vanc...

Birthright citizenship is going to be the new Roe v Wade in the sense that Democrats need to win more elections than they lose in perpetuity to protect it, because Republicans are not making the mistake of appointing another Justice who will uphold it, ever

Sister Leticia “Letty” Ugboaja, originally from Nigeria, “lives just about a block from the church … Federal immigration agents detained her before she could arrive.” “The detained nun also needed medication, which Pimentel said federal agents didn’t allow her to get.”

The language of ethnic cleansing sounds shocking but it is a simple and honest description of MAGA goals. The administration is very open about this.

You can’t trust these guys. They want to impress the other racists so much

Ships are again going through the Strait of Hormuz by a route that hugs Oman without registering with Iran, Al Jazeera reports. That prompted Iranian fire at a ship last week, and set off another round of US-Iran shooting. If this shipping corridor continues, then the IRGC doesn't control Hormuz.

MAGA really is a movement for ethnic cleansing. Lying about law and history to overturn birthright citizenship makes it plain. As do calls for "remigration." The counterargument is that these voters didn't want what their signs called for, and don't feel about it what their facial expressions show.

One of the most striking things here is how absolutely mutable conservatives’ specific views are. Trump emerged on the scene ten years ago and within that time, it has become dogma that the previous 160 years of birthright citizenship are incompatible with even *being* a nation.

Again, we've endured years of legacy media reporters chasing after Donald Trump supporters to find out what they want, and somehow "They want an ethnic cleansing" was never the takeaway, even though it's literally the correct answer.

Too cheap to meter. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...