Sterilization of visiting foreigners is Davis's creepiest suggestion, but dissolving the Union is his wildest. Davis says we don't have a country anymore. The Supreme Court upheld the status quo since 1868.

Something that I find most shocking between all the birthright citizen opinions is that Alito comes dangerously close to saying that the 14A doesn’t mean what it says because Dred Scott was correctly decided as a matter of law. As I explained here, Somerset demonstrated something important.

a lot of the structure of the Texas and Florida re-maps of earlier this year is premised on the idea that 2024 represented a permanent change and not an anomalous high-water mark and that assumption is gonna get tested good and hard

😂🤣😂 Sound up #Texas #txlege #Talarico

BREAKING: More than 100 Venezuelans who were deported from the U.S. hours before the earthquakes are missing after their hotel collapsed.

TMZ DC with perhaps the most brutal video from Trump's Great American State Fair, showing Dr. Oz on stage bragging to Dean Cain about how big the crowd is, only for the reporter to pan around and show absolutely nobody is there. Original post: x.com/i/status/207...

Someone called in a bogus child abuse claim against Pete Buttigieg, briefly separating him from his 4yo twins. Michigan State Police and CPS determined it was a false political hoax and are now treating it as a crime. Targeting little kids for politics is beyond disgusting.

@isabelwilkerson.bsky.social joins @velshi.com to discuss her book on the Great Migration, the historic movement of six million Black Americans out of the South for Northern and Western cities

Large chunks of the Mall are now effectively an armed encampment surrounded by tall fencing. In some areas, crowds are herded through security lines to get to features that used to be easily accessible in previous years.

To the extent this gets tangled up in litigation, it’s wild that parental substantive due process and Free Exercise claims rather than the Establishment Clause will likely carry the day.

Opening day of the Great American State Fair drew light crowds, long walks, and mixed reactions from visitors. Here's what it was like inside the America 250 event. washingtonian.com/2026/06/26/i...

“your blue eyes will not faze me” needs to become a thing #TheBear

I love S5 E7 of #TheBear. Love. People depending on each other. People figuring shit out as they go, figuring out how to right the ship, keep it afloat so they don’t drown. People seeing what people they care about need, figuring out how to help. Even when it’s hard. Especially when it’s hard.

a reminder that watergate was legitimately bad. nixon weaponized presidential power to cover up crimes committed by his subordinates, illegally spying on americans and using agencies like the IRS to harass political opponents.

@petedominick.bsky.social Out there loud & proud. SMDH

Actual doctor here: this is not remotely how this works. Hospice is medical care. Your insurance works for it just like it does for any care (which in the US means there will be some denials, a request for forms, lots of waiting on hold, and a large chunk left for you and your family to pay 🤦🏻‍♂️)

Disability rights are civil rights.   We will not allow decades of progress toward inclusion, independence, and empowerment for people with disabilities to be undermined.   Illinois will continue building on that progress, not retreating from it.

Scoop with @mercohn.bsky.social: Johns Hopkins University is laying off more than 100 employees in the Bloomberg School of Public Health, the Carey Business School and central administration. Hopkins is suffering "debilitating" decreases in federal research funding www.thebanner.com/education/hi...

#Lunch BLT, tomatoes & lettuce (spinach this time) from our #ContainerGarden. Homemade fries #EatingFromTheGarden 🌱🍽️

also even if it were a low-turnout primary, that's an indictment of your ability to encourage turnout for your candidate, so it doesn't even work on its own terms

The Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to end temporary protections for Haitian and Syrian immigrants who have fled violence and natural disaster.

Wow. Dems +12 on generic House ballot matchup in Pennsylvania, says Harry Enten. Trump is absolutely toxic there.

"While the Violence Against Women Act prohibits states from directly charging for a rape kit, they are allowed to charge for anything not directly related to the exam—like STI testing or pregnancy testing ... 86% of women with private insurance will pay out of pocket for their sexual assault care."

lol does this article really not mention that Clarence Thomas was in house counsel for Monsanto, the Roundup manufacturer?

I wrote about the irony of Trump going to war with the Reflecting Pool algal bloom as his administration tries (again) to defund the institutions that keep people, pets and economies safe from harmful algal blooms newrepublic.com/article/2122...

How are moms juggling the planning and costs of summer break as everything gets more expensive? Join our economy and child care reporter @chabeli.bsky.social for a Reddit AMA at 1 p.m. ET! https://bit.ly/4uWRByY

Here’s some background on one of those papers, retracted more than 20 years later. Internal documents reveal their own scientists wrote the paper and then gave to others to publish. retractionwatch.com/2025/12/04/g...

@petedominick.bsky.social ICYMI Would be good guest/topic for your show

Everybody needs to go hear Naomi Oreskes explain how Monsanto manipulated the science to obscure health concerns about Roundup — including ghost-writing papers that became touchstones in their denialism.

I think Brad Lander made a smart distinction between unity and solidarity, and offered a good marching order for Democrats all across the spectrum, in his victory speech last night: "Unity means we already agree. Solidarity means we do the work to build bridges even across significant differences."

A family friend had to ask Mom for money yesterday because her benefits dropped from $350 a month to $100 a month. She’s 79, and on disability.

NEW: Hours after heated exchange with Trump, Sen Bill Cassidy (R-LA) joins Sen Cory Booker (D-NJ) in memo to Todd Blanche seeking answers about Trump’s sweetheart immunity deal with IRS

"Tensions were already running high when President Donald Trump arrived at the Senate GOP’s closed-door lunch on Wednesday. Within minutes, he was in a shouting match." Is this the "path to a not-terrible GOP midterm" I've heard so much about?

Maternal healthcare ‘deserts’ leave thousands of Texas women to their own devices. Cash-strapped rural hospitals in East Texas and beyond are closing their labor-and-delivery units.

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

The Texas Education Agency signed the contract in May to cover the replacement and disposal of books, worksheets, teacher guides and other materials after identifying more than 4,200 errors, ranging from missing commas to incorrect answer keys and factual errors. bit.ly/4vuinjl

Actually, we *should* be able to expect the president of the United States to be able to restrain himself from personally threatening to kill the negotiators from another country. It's not that unreasonable at all, you pathetic toady.

Starmer’s resignation follows a string of electoral losses for his party and controversy over his appointment of Epstein-linked Peter Mandelson as Ambassador to the U.S.

BREAKING: Former Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham confirms he will run to succeed Keir Starmer as Labour leader and U.K. prime minister.

This is a bad thing.

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#Dinner: Sesame Seared Ahi Tuna Rice Bowl 🍽️

His toughest opponent yet turned out to be photosynthesis. #AlgaeGate

Hummingbirds in the rain 🪶

Every time you peel back a layer, you find another rotting layer beneath.

My latest recycle project (saw it online last year), about to start blooming! Took broken beach umbrella frame, planted morning glories & trained vines up the frame. Saw bloom buds yesterday, was so excited for blooms today & it’s raining 😔 But we NEED the rain so all good! #FlowerReport 🌱

BREAKING: Iranian officials said they have closed the Strait of Hormuz — citing what they said was the U.S. failure to stop the fighting in Lebanon as required under the agreement signed by Trump.

Today is Juneteenth and we are also potentially days away from a public charge reg that aims to stop non-white immigrants from existing in the U.S. So I recommend reading my colleague Kat Lundie's new piece on how slavery and public charge are historically intertwined www.nilc.org/articles/the...

I curated a (mostly) exhaustive list of Juneteenth celebrations across the country. Chances are there’s one near you!