ICE caught routinely evading Court orders, shipping detainees away and even deporting them before habeas hearings. This was routine and secret. Judge is Not Happy. www.wlrn.org/government-p...

NEWS: The Trump administration has activated a secretive and never-before-used legal process to quickly deport foreign nationals deemed to be “alien terrorists” or their immediate family members. w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2026/07...

The same Harlan Crow who has a mansion full of Nazi memorabilia?🙄

When journalists asked me "where we will see the effects of DOGE on outcomes?" one of my responses was "during crises...as long as media connect the dots." Well, dots connected: www.wired.com/story/cdc-cy...

Join us next weekend to celebrate our newest local icon Jimothy as we present a proclamation in his honor to commemorate Jimothy Summer. We invite all local artists to bring their Jimothy-themed art for a friendly art competition. Long live, Jimothy!

Saturday, July 18th is the Los Angeles premiere of the horror film I've been working on for almost 3 years. After a long time of living and working in LA, it's amazing to finally see this film on the big screen in weird ol' Hollywood. To celebrate, here's the official trailer.

This, 10000%. This statistic (TW: SA) is so important to keep in mind. And to remember that whoever's pushing forgiveness, assuming it's not coming organically from the harmed party, almost always wants to maintain the status quo / existing power structure. By definition.

…I think everybody needs to continue not to let this administration scapegoat restaurants, no matter how the media tries to frame it. Why is every report about fucking Taco Bell and not DOGE? I mean, I know why, but I see folks on here falling for this shit.

This month, we published another article revealing that MSG kept a database of VIP event attendees, labeling some of them as LGBTQIA and assigning a “risk score” to others. This is also now free to read:

In April, we reported on the MSG surveillance machine–an operation that allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more. You can now read it for free.

Yesterday, WIRED learned that Madison Square Garden was suing us for our accurate reporting. We stand by our work. That’s why we’re removing the paywall from two of the MSG stories they don’t want you to read, making them free for everyone.

Seattleites: if you, like me, have relied on @thestranger.com for election recommendations in the past, please be aware that those recommendations have been enshittified, likely due to changes in the paper's ownership. Use the Urbanist recommendations instead:

Taylor Farms, which supplies major fast food and grocery chains, was identified as the possible source of the cyclosporiasis outbreak Thursday.

The Republican War On Integrity The Republican War On Competence The Republican War On State Capacity The Republican War On Democracy

DROP SITE: “The Iranians warned Vance Trump’s Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner undermine the chance of an enduring deal… more interested in exploiting insider knowledge of the negotiations to profit in financial markets…” www.dropsitenews.com/p/iran-jd-va...

“Defendant knew that they were false”

this is the kind of shit that needs to break Senate Collegiality you simply cannot be friends and exchange grandkid pictures with people who turn around and go on national television to lie about how you only won because you cheated

AGAIN: the #1 predictor of a mass shooter is violence against women. Cops perpetrate VAW at higher % (though exact # unknown ofc) than the gen population. At some point our culture must take seriously the fact that this is a real red flag. It requires hating women less, though.

Tuberville voted in Florida after tax records say he moved back to Alabama www.al.com/news/2026/06...

Agree 💯 and emphasize “spectacular” Proportional to Bannon’s shock and awe tactic of flooding the zone with bullshit… A torrential cavalcade of accountability. A devastating supercell of mesocyclonic justice. This is the way!

See what you made me do, on a war crimes scale.

It sounds stupid, it is stupid, but its deadly serious because they are trying to blame an impoverished .5% of the population for EVERYTHING, no matter how ridiculous. Very much the same as how Germany blamed .5% of the population for everything, and you know what came next.

California is debating legislation right now that would ban all ICE employees from ever being hired by a public agency for life. This is good and next year's Democratic House needs to provide a full roster of ICE employees to help facilitate state efforts like this one.

Feels bad that a director of a major studio film is perfectly comfortable saying that casting non-white actors is just something you do to look woke and otherwise isn't remotely necessary

Politely asking my waiter if I can have a Caesar salad with no feces.

Rax is right and also: these are the same projects. these people are so interested in reinforcing gender expectations to the point where they're medicating people in support of that. if one's experience of gender diverges from expected masculine norms, there are forcing functions. this is one.

BREAKING: A record 104 Members of Congress - 103 Democrats and one Republican - just voted to cut $3.3 billion in weapons funding to Israel.

It's true. Trans rights means one semiconductor factory per trans person.

Scoop: The AI music generator Suno was hacked. Hacker shared source code that shows how the tool was made and part of the music and podcasts that were scraped to create it. Decades worth of music, lyrics, and podcasts from YouTube, Deezer, Genius & more www.404media.co/hack-reveals...

Today’s discovery: vehicles with the Google OS system can just stop playing ALL audio, including alert sensors/alarms. The solution is to hard reset the entire console system, much like power cycling a PC. But a vehicle. Wretched.

Republican budget reconciliation instructions are simple: - $12B bailout for farmers hurt by Trump's tariffs - $60B Iran war funding (DoD) - $13B Iran war funding (Intel👀) - $12B for voter suppression + Text exempting them from requirements to pay for it docs.house.gov/meetings/BU/...

Ossoff makes an important point here that accurately frames Trump’s election fraud lies as racist. Trump’s 2020 election lies and efforts to overturn its results always target Black voters as illegitimate. The localities Trump challenged were disproportionately majority-Black.

NEVER FORGET the debt we all owe to the Miccosukee Tribe, without whom it would still be open. And never forget that Indigenous sovereignty and all our safety and flourishing are forever intertwined.

ICE killed another person.

Fuck it up, NYC. He hated you.

The entire credibility of judicial review rests on the fact that there's a reasoning behind orders that can be applied going forward. Otherwise it's just arbitrary rule by ayatollahs, which happens to be what the Supreme Court is right now.

Key point with this piece is that Mandami is pushing back against the McKinsey approach to governing. Alondra Nelson actually put this best: "How a City interacts with its people shouldn’t be outsourced. It should be local and accountable."

ICE has fatally shot 11 people since Donald Trump's second term began. These are not isolated incidents. They are the predictable result of a cruel, violent system. Abolish ICE.

Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.

I have been expressing desire for an app that alerts me to the presence of pervert glasses in my vicinity. It exists and it's called Nearby Glasses! Immediate download.

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

L.A.! My friend @josephscrimshaw.bsky.social’s movie is premiering in L.A. this Saturday evening. My other friend @jamesurbaniak.bsky.social stars! (Yes I have two friends.) I am also in the movie. Ticket info in poster!

They just keep killing people and lying about it. Everybody involved in this criminal organization needs to be prosecuted.

This isn't tenable. Should be a prereq for Democrats: Create a way to hold federal law enforcement officers civilly liable. Make it retroactive. Do the same for policymakers like Noem, Mullin, and Miller, whose unconstitutional directives are predictably ruining lives and wreaking destruction.

They're continuing to kill people because this administration has told them that the people they're apprehending -- and those who defend them -- deserve violence, that no amount of violence is too much, and that no matter how egregious the abuse, they'll never be held accountable.

Folks, could it be stove touchin’ time?

BREAKING: Federal judge finds that Trump's IRS suit was improper because Trump controlled both sides of the litigation. Judge Kathleen Williams also sanctions Trump's lawyers, issues monetary sanctions, and harshly criticizes DOJ's "untenable" conduct. More to come at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com

Our local newspaper, The Portland Press Herald, has lifted their paywall on coverage of the ICE shooting of a man in Biddeford, Maine this morning. They have excellent reporters and will have much more accurate information than natl news as we learn more: www.pressherald.com/2026/07/13/s...

when you tell us that the people who murdered comity and civility—who are trying to kill and rob and enslave us—are actually your dear friends, you don’t create civility, but despair; we see you don’t actually believe the danger is real, can’t be trusted to fight the battle that needs to be fought.

Uncertainty surrounding Mitch McConnell is frustrating to establishment Democrats. They have all these anecdotes about what a collegial guy he is to work with and how fun he is to be around, but you need an official death for that shit to really land.