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“The Leonard Cohen Estate has learned that the song ‘Hallelujah’ is to be performed at a Donald Trump rally on June 24,” says a posting on the late singer’s social media. “This use is not authorized, and the Estate does not support or approve of this or any similar usage” variety.com/2026/music/n...

Okay, this is effing insane. Wanted to buy a fruit salad while out on the road. Was near a Whole Foods and was like “Okay, it’ll be a couple bucks more…” EIGHTEEN DOLLARS. I took a pass but seriously WTAF.

🍿Fights over gasoline have begun in Russia.

The number of people enrolled in Medicaid and Affordable Care Act plans fell by more than 5 million in the last 12 months. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Eddie Glaude: “We are in the midst of a second Lost Cause, and that is an assault on what we know and how we see.” Alex Witt’s great interview with Professor Glaude. @esglaude.bsky.social @alexwittreports.bsky.social

Sums it up nicely

21 June 1933 | Czech Jewish girl Věra Picková was born in Prague. She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt Ghetto on 15 May 1944. She did not survive. --- Children at Auschwitz 📖 Lesson: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/dzieci_EN/ 🎧 Podcast: https://youtu.be/aYKx_zpLSqA

Trump and Rubio announce they will entirely cut HIV/AIDS assistance to the country with the highest number of people living with HIV in the world: www.politico.com/news/2026/06...

Police standing around guarding the algae.

Over 770,000 Kids No Longer Receiving SNAP Benefits After Trump Changes Food Program www.propublica.org/article/snap...

Author Jane Yolen (b.1939) died on June 11. She wrote books and novels for all ages, including Briar Rose, How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight?, and The Devil’s Arithmetic. Yolen won 2 Nebulas, a World Fantasy and was named Grand Master by SFPA, SFWA and World Fantasy. She served as SFWA President.

Algaefa 🥁

"Two websites restrict reviews of JD Vance’s book after savage critiques" www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

Folks at @commonwealmagazine.org created discussion questions for my February article on Bernard Lonergan’s philosophy & theology of history. If you want to use it in your classroom or elsewhere, reach out & I’d be glad to join yr crew virtually if I can: www.commonwealmagazine.org/sites/defaul...

A major flu outbreak has sickened nearly 160 troops at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas less than two months after Hegseth announced that US troops would no longer be required to be vaccinated for the flu. @gregjaffe.bsky.social Maggie Haberman www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/u...

Michelle Obama: You were doing the people's work, rescuing our economy, expanding health care, ending a war, ordering the bin laden raid, saving an auto industry, winning a peace prize.

Answering "what's Christian about what you're doing" with "the economy" is textbook Mammon idolatry (Matt. 6:24), like could not be more literal.

Vance is a particular type professional Catholic convert. Calculating every move and distorting the faith beyond recognition for status and profit while promoting evil as good. The whitewashed tombs Jesus spoke of. The Domincans should be ashamed of inflicting this person on the Church and nation.

3 minutes ago these guys were telling us Iran’s missiles were an existential threat to America and cheerleading an insane, illegal, and destined-to-fail war to get rid of all their missiles.

Not today, Satan.

I love this. The Obamas honoring Nancy Pelosi with a garden in her name is so well deserved. Without Nancy Pelosi, there would be no Affordable Care Act.

The Trump administration is further gutting the Department of Education and undermining special education and civil rights. Every student deserves a quality education, not chaos and uncertainty. This is a reckless decision that could hurt some of the most underserved students.

Say his name… Kohen Wiley

Trumponomics

BREAKING: Gov. Gavin Newsom's office is seeking communications involving top Trump Justice Department officials — including emails, texts, memoranda, and Signal messages — containing references to Newsom or his wife from Jan. 20, 2025 to the present.

The wealthiest one percent are now responsible for more deaths than all geological hazards combined...

The Supreme Court just ruled in favor of racist electoral maps. A federal court found intentional racial discrimination, and SCOTUS said Alabama could use the map anyway. This is not a one-off. It’s a coordinated effort to steal power from the people and hand it to those at the top.

Something we really have to grapple with: the Biden administration and Democratic congress worked pretty hard to drive real investment into rural communities, and many of them responded by spitting in the Democrats' face. This isn't an insurmountable problem, but it can't be papered over either

As much as we like to pretend otherwise, professional sports are largely controlled violence that incites actual violence. The readon DV is highest on superbowl Sunday.

DACA Marks 14 Years Under a Cloud of Detention, Deportation Fears #CLINICDaily: mailchi.mp/cliniclegal/...

Disclosure Day's most bizarre premise is that humans, especially in the US, would be horrified and moved to empathy by the televised torture of aliens.

This is the “nice family man” who delusional conservative Catholics tell themselves gives hope for a post-Trump conservatism.

Journalists have a duty to tell the public that the president and his aides are seriously considering suspending habeas corpus *when it is happening* rather than saving it for a book rollout over a year later

De Niro: Loving our country is starting to sound like an abused spouse saying they love their abuser. I can’t love a country that starts stupid and inhumane wars, killing thousands of innocents… I can’t love a country that’s led by a xenophobic tyrant. I can’t love a country that’s led by Trump

GW never said this and neither did anybody else. The only official symbolism in the Flag Resolution is the stars are "representing a new constellation." The rest is just an iteration on the Red Ensign, and likely the East India Company's white stripes on it. The colors have no particular meaning.

Just think when it happens the whole country will look like nyc tonight

If anything, what this story teaches us is that ultimately — hard work & right intentions win. And that the talking heads — in politics or sports, are, in fact, talking heads. Results > noise. Remember that going into midterms.

Jesus didn’t build a grand arena to hold gladiator fights for his own amusement. That was Caesar.

Pope Leo: “The poor’s cry for justice is silenced by a multitude of increasingly subtle tactics, to the point of rendering voiceless their every effort to make their demands heard. The digital world exacerbates prejudice against them and reinforces the veil of indifference surrounding their plight.”

The Republicans just gave these men another $70 billion. >>> ‘Who’s going to arrest me?’ ICE agents defy Connecticut law on mask ban www.ctpost.com/news/article...

Pope: “God looks at humanity: he sees the oppression that burdens, the violence that causes strength to fade. He sees the wounds of war and the emptiness of consumerism. He sees faces reduced to masks, families torn apart by evil, young people misled by false ideals.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

😪 Never forget. Never again.

Nothing says ‘freedom’ like burning taxpayer money on dirt bikes at the White House for a billionaire’s birthday party. Bread’s expensive, rent’s worse, but sure, let’s fund a midlife crisis with fireworks and motocross. Peak empire decay. America is not a serious country.

The last time we had cockfighting at the White House was under Andrew Jackson in the 1820s.

What the Ellison family would own if Paramount buys Warner Bros: Paramount+ CBS CNN Showtime HBO Warner Bros TNT TBS MTV DC Studios Nickelodeon Comedy Central Cartoon Network And more... This is a rotten deal that the Trump regime has rubber stamped. State AGs must step in and block it.

"The UFC event captures something about this moment in our history. After all, it’s vulgar, it’s violent, it’s commercial, it’s grandiose, it’s tacky, and it dishonors a place once thought worthy of care and respect. In other words, it’s Donald Trump." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Another report from Trump's death camps. This one in Pittsburgh.

It was 91° in Richgrove CA as workers pruned blueberry bushes. They focused on 3 main steps: removing dead/diseased wood, clearing out crossing branches to create an open center (like a wine glass) & cutting away 20% of the oldest canes to stimulate new growth. #WeFeedYou