A cemetery conservation project revealed the gravestone of Boston, a well-known free (formerly enslaved) Black man who lived and worked in Boston, MA, in the early 18th century. 🏺🧪

"There’s simply no way any of us could have predicted a Nazi SS guy with his eyeballs dangling out of his sockets and the Staff of Ra broiled into his flesh like grill marks on a meat slab would be such a terrible candidate for Senate."

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MAGA? The number of students admitted to Ph.D. programs this fall dropped 15% from the previous year, according to data from over 50 top research universities, raising fears that the nation’s capacity to produce new science could be diminished. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/06/u...

Who could have seen this coming? Besides every liberal arts faculty member in the country, I mean.

Ignominy is forever, folks.

It's so obvious the second he goes off script, because everything he says in these asides is either incoherent or self-aggrandizing or dramatically offensive to his audience or the entire country or factually incorrect or hyperbolic to the point of a grave disrespect for language

Have a Super 4th.

That picture…

Half of the Declaration of Independence is a list of 27 specific grievances lodged against King George III and his regime. 250 years later, many of these grievances apply to the reign of Trump.

Australian officials ask fans to respect the privacy of Neil, a 1-ton seal who respects nothing apnews.com/article/neil...

CNN aired a devastating montage of all the times that Trump accused others of using their public office to make money. Trump's net worth has almost tripled since he took office. Everything he accuses others of is an open admission. #cdnpoli

He's not running the country. He's looting it.

Ironic that with all of the 250 hullabaloo, the Regime has effectively destroyed the rule of law, enshittified the country, broken longstanding alliances, and committed most of the grievances outlined in the Declaration of Independence. Not winning. America is moribund.

The Declaration of Independence specifies 27 grievances with King George III and Britain. Donald Trump and his regime have committed at least 20 of those same offenses highlighted in yellow. Happy 250, America!

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Good news. It’s absurd that NAACP and Public Citizen even had to fight for this. The post office must deliver your ballot, regardless of what Trump says. Period. www.reuters.com/world/judge-...

just as jesus said, "i don't like low wage foreigners." READ the bible bsky.app/profile/atru...

“Palantir later confirmed that it had laid off every member of the U.S. armed forces after the acquisition created thousands of redundancies within the company’s civilian casualties and genocide divisions.” theonion.com/palantir-acq...

👇🎯 Either everyone has rights or no one has rights

people got mad at me yesterday when i said the dems were not ready to take court reform seriously. 5-4 for non-racial citizenship is not a win, it's a reprieve bsky.app/profile/schu...

With this ruling, the birthright issue is not going away. The right hasn't really begun *organizing* around getting rid of the citizenship clause. Like Roe, this will be their fight for a generation. And if the Democrats just say "we won" and ignore it, like Roe, the Republicans will eventually win.

SCOTUS strikes down Trump's executive order banning birthright citizenship.

Live updates: Supreme Court upholds broad conception of birthright citizenship, rejecting Trump’s restrictions apnews.com/live/birthri...

I do not think there is sufficient appreciation for how catastrophic yesterday’s decision in Slaughter is for this country. As Justice Sotomayor said in her dissent and she intoned from the bench yesterday, “today the majority reshapes our Govt.”

Italy displays paintings from an ancient Etruscan tomb, its latest cultural acquisition apnews.com/article/ital...

Students pursuing graduate degrees in nursing, physical therapy and several other fields will be eligible for higher student loan limits after a federal judge blocked part of a Trump administration rule that held them to lower caps.

A beacon of hope tor 250 years

The Supreme Court’s 6-3 ruling that increases Trump's power to fire independent regulators and gain control over independent govt agencies? Another step in the march toward dictatorship and a plot to destroy liberal democracy that's been underway for years. www.americaamerica.news/p/all-accord...

The Roberts court continues to reshape the American Republic into a governing system dominated by an Imperial Presidency.

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We’re all just looking under our own rocks. #CalvinandHobbes #DeepThoughts

A 57-year-old North Carolina mother is in knots over student loan repayment changes adopted in Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” and going into effect this week. She estimates her monthly student loan payments could jump from $150 to $713. www.nbcnews.com/news/educati...

"The door, locked. Its windows boarded up. The only indicator of what might have been is a green sign at the top of the entryway: 'African-American History'. "The would-be exhibit is one of dozens that were scrubbed from federal land by the Trump administration..." www.npr.org/2026/06/26/n...

Unprecedented corruption, every day, right in front of us. Again, it all should have ended immediately in January 2017, when he started monetizing the presidency at his hotels in broad daylight.

Temperature records tumble across Europe as heatwave moves east

Mike Luckovich

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Jimmy Carter called for "a government as good as its people." Trump insists on a government as bad as he is.

The same people who build, improve and breathe life into our country are the ones we are always trying to keep out. A nation of immigrants filled with fear, hate and ultimately, self-loathing.

OPINION | Trump seeks to commemorate the 250th Anniversary of the birth of our country by effectively ending the democracy that was the entire reason our founders fought to establish a new nation in the first place, writes David Rothkopf.

Big Brother frowns on reflection.

Ring the bell! Go Phils !

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TPS protects those who'd face danger if they're forced to return to their countries of origin. Many have been here for decades. They're regularly vetted & are part of our communities.   Now, SCOTUS is letting Trump send law-abiding TPS holders back into harm’s way. Shameful.