Elon Musk's incitement of pogroms in Belfast reveals he'll use his immense wealth and influence to foment untold fascist violence in the future. Only a global movement can break his power. New piece from @polphilpod.bsky.social and me. Threading highlights below. 1/ newrepublic.com/article/2119...

Stop calling Neville Trump’s contemptible DocuSign two-pager a deal. It’s not a deal. It’s literally just a memo (an MOU). For that matter, stop calling the memo “bad.” It’s not merely bad—it’s a surrender, by the United States, to the Islamic Republic of Iran. It’s a *historic disaster*.

AMERICA 250: A step-by-step guide to Indigenous erasure. The missing and crucial truths not in America’s history books that redefined tribal nations and Native peoples 250 years after the founding of the US occupying settler state. ictnews.org/news/america...

while it’s true that the feds now have shit lawyers (and few of them remaining), the process is the punishment. being a federal criminal defendant is not a good time

ICE is ending a policy that provides public reports and investigations into deaths of formerly detained people that occurred within 30 days of their release from ICE custody. Daphy Michel's death was an avoidable tragedy, but it isn’t the first. Congress must hold ICE accountable.

“The Trump administration has abandoned its effort to halt wind energy projects across the United States and dropped its challenge to the court ruling that tossed Trump’s order freezing federal permitting and leasing for wind projects.“

US Marshals brutally attack protesters outside St. Paul federal courthouse.

This Minnesota indictment, unsealed today, is the next post-Prairieland step in criminalizing protests against ICE and in accordance with NSPM-7. One of the "overt acts" of this alleged conspiracy is... writing for @crimethinc.com about a confrontation between protesters & ICE. Read the indictment:

I just learned that the term "carbon footprint" was developed by BP to offload responsibility for climate change onto individuals. Something like that's happening in higher ed with AI. Institutions capitulate or dodge; students are submitting; & they believe it's their individual failing. 7/

Absolutely brutal thread. "A.i." in education is a fucking plague and anyone who pushes it on professors and students is betraying education itself. An act of abuse and betrayal to push this fucking cheating, lying, bullshit machine on anyone, ESPECIALLY in an educational environment.

You should just put this on repeat for a week, or at least as long as it takes you to read up on the genius and cultural & political importance of this South African jazz giant. Rest in Power Abdullah Ibrahim youtu.be/kClTIH9uNsY

Abdullah Ibrahim, Eminent South African Jazz Pianist, Dies at 91 His song “Mannenberg” became the unofficial anthem of the country’s fight against apartheid, with Nelson Mandela calling him “our Mozart.” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/a...

Zohran, who last lived in Uganda when he was 7 = Responsible for the Anti-Homosexuality Act. US institutions and Christian orgs actively manipulating politics in Uganda and pushed for the implementation of the Anti-Homosexuality Act = Not mentioned in this piece... The @washingtonpost.com y'all.

Be as irritable and quarrelsome as possible without getting yourself into trouble.

“The cost of solar has fallen by about 85%, and annual global investment in the energy transition is now over $2 trillion. Actual global emissions have tracked far more closely to what you’d expect from a world trying to reduce them than from one doing nothing at all.”

Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman Died in a Shocking Act of Political Violence. This Is the Story of Her Life. Published in "Rolling Stone" & written by Stephen Rodrick @stephenrodrick.bsky.social

The best part of this drenched, godforsaken, physically dangerous, bug-swarmed atrocity is that all his loyalists had to buy tickets and go. And can't leave

Last image from tonight (short film in the morning): this brother out here with his Singer sewing machine, gifting people a custom embroidery on their jerseys and hats with the name and the date, was more artistic than anything at Burning Man and ad gorgeous as a Caravaggio. Magic! Goodnight.

FBI agents on Thursday raided the Cleveland offices of the Ohio Organizing Collaborative, a pro-democracy organization that helps register voters in that state, according to three people briefed on the search.

In the pre-surveillance capitalism era, you just did not have to worry about if playing a Pokémon game on your GameBoy was actually supporting the development of deadly military tech psychologically, I don’t think it’s good you now absolutely do have to worry about this with most any tech device.

Elon Musk knows that as he and other billionaires continue to accumulate more and more of the total wealth of humanity, there are bound to be riots. That's why he is using his resources to ensure that anger is directed at the most vulnerable ones, not at the ones who are hoarding wealth and power.

NEW: Our visual analysis suggests the U.S. hit two drinking-water facilities overnight in southern Iran with precision-guided munitions. Deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure could constitute a war crime. w/ @ckoettl.bsky.social @johnismay.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/w...

"A Boston Globe article from 20 years ago shows the same dispute playing out almost verbatim: of seven prisoner suicides across the prison system in 2006, two had occurred in segregated cells or units. Today, BAUs can also be described as segregated units." #mapoli #bospoli

In a Capitol Hill briefing, a high-ranking officer on the Pentagon’s Joint Staff stated that some of the people killed by the U.S. military may have been the victims of human trafficking. interc.pt/4xgem3f

all that ICE money is buying new slaves ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

The US has now withdrawn Iran’s ticket allocation for the World Cup.

FCC is trying to kill burner phones: www.404media.co/fcc-wants-to...

prediction markets doing press and paying people to make society trust they’re accurate, then giving someone the trump admin has hailed as a “journalist” a paid sponsorship post to cast doubt on elections is horrifying. prediction markets need to be made illegal immediately

My colleague @hannahalothman.bsky.social is in Belfast tonight. This is what she’s seen. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

5/ Experts point to several factors for why it came back: 1️⃣Cattle smuggling outside control zones 2️⃣In early 2025, roughly 15,000 USDA positions were eliminated, and a USAID-funded monitoring project was terminated 3️⃣ The loss of specialized expertise as generations of entomologists retire

Happy Tuesday! Who's ready to hear about 1. Flesh-eating maggots (mostly go after cattle) 2. They're native to the US 3. The USDA has kept them out of the US since the 1960s 4. But the flesh-eating maggots are making a 21st century comeback. And believe it or not it may be thanks to MAGA.

I hear people on Twitter are slamming the Mayor for backtracking on his promise to hold the police headcount flat. Here not so much. This too says something about who is on here.

There is something brutally psychically injurious to being constantly told "just do good work and you'll be successful" while watching people who do the most dogshit work possible do all the succeeding.

This is a helpful guide! If you haven’t made a comment yet, please do! Even—especially—if you’re not a scientist!

My god, Octavia Butler, just miss ONCE

Nearly 147,000 US-born kids have had a parent abducted under the regime’s mass deportation obsessions. 22,000+ have seen both parents detained. The new family separation crisis is here. “Families are also now being split up in ways that are more dispersed, more hidden and harder to track.”

• Submit a comment opposing the destruction of 🇺🇸 science; • Pressure every org, professional body, association, uni, etc. you are affiliated with to submit the strongest possible comment opposing this calamity (highest ROI move for most of us) • Make sure your electeds see those comments 🧪

Note to media: police arresting peaceful protesters singing “give peace a chance” is not protesters “clashing” with police. It’s the state violating the First Amendment rights of people upset that human beings who did nothing illegal are being held without due process and being fed maggots.

The hunger strike that detainees at Delaney Hall Detention Center are maintaining despite violent repression from ICE is only one of several hunger strikes taking place in detention centers around the country. Do you live near one of them? If you do, you could help spread resistance on the outside.

The climate has ALREADY changed. This is no longer about climate change. It's about climate crisis.

This lawyer represents New Jersey Democrats and national Democratic Party. He cheers using militarized state troopers to crush protesters as a *strategic move* to protect residents from being brutalized by different cops. The Democratic establishment will walk us off a cliff.

You skipped Amazon. You supported an independent maker. Except… Amazon may have still packed, stored and delivered your order. A new analysis explains how Amazon’s logistics network has quietly become the invisible backbone for Etsy shops, Shopify brands and other “small business” purchases:

Seth is talking about the rich paying their fair share. But he didn’t support the Fair Share Amendment. He trashed it in the press.

Just 15 years ago Aaron Swartz died as a result of MIT's overzealous regard for the sanctity of their libraries. He'd be turning 40 this year.

EPB: “.. Real personal income per capita is falling apart. .. It's now $3,842 below the 2009-2020 trend and accelerating lower.”

A Black teenager was accused of stealing a backpack and ended up dying by suicide because he was kept in solitary confinement at Rikers for years. His name is Kalief Browder. He spent over 700 days in solitary confinement AWAITING TRIAL. I guess in racist America that’s worse than this.

NEW: The city of Dayton, Ohio has covered its Flock automated license plate reader cameras with black trash bags in part because police there are unsure whether the cameras are still active and the city also doesn’t seem to know whether it is allowed to take the cameras down.

SCOOP: The Trump administration is paying millions to quickly cover four enormous bronze horses with extra-thick 23.75 karat gold leaf. The money for the rush job is coming from National Park Service funds. In total, I found ~$100 mil spent on new DC beautification projects.