Like a magic ring, it draws an energy out of people, amplifying our capacity for the demonic as well as the prophetic insofar as it serves the ends of public dramatization, escalating and heating things (or our perception of things) up. daviddark.substack.com/p/nobodys-an...

Every accusation is a confession. Literally.

If you owe a woman $5 million for sexual assault, you also owe the country your resignation.

Klein's description of the Dayton video is also surreal. To support the lie that Haitians were eating dogs in Springfield, Rufo pushed a video of Congolese men "grilling cats" in Dayton. (It was likely chicken.) That was close enough for Rufo. It was always about dehumanizing Black immigrants.

At least 50 people have died in immigration detention since Trump returned to office, the deadliest period in ICE’s history. Yet Congress continues to give immigration enforcement agencies billions of dollars without requiring reform. bit.ly/4v1sMBH

Jesus, Ezra. That isn't what happened at all. Rufo did not "try to figure out if" it's true." He gleefully amplified the lie, then offered a bounty to anyone who could retroactively "prove" it. It spurred death threats. Thousands will soon be deported because of it. Many of them will die.

Chris Rufo is doing Radio Rwanda the right way: By Ezra Klein

Difficult optics for TPUSA & its hirelings. azmirror.com/briefs/turni...

Difficult optics for TPUSA & its hirelings. azmirror.com/briefs/turni...

Today is International Asteroid Day! ☄️ Why does the UN recognise this day on June 30? Anniversary of the 1908 Tunguska Event: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tungusk... Russia is no stranger to airburst events - in 2013, there was also the well-documented Chelyabinsk event en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelyab...

"Oja Kodar, the American film-maker’s partner and collaborator, has given her blessing to the project led by archives in France, Spain and Italy, along with the Munich film museum, to produce a coherent film out of 30 hours of footage scattered among them."

Perhaps Mike Johnson promising a protection program is meant to calm the panic over this: www.courthousenews.com/chinese-diss...

Hurray for judges who refuse to debase themselves. Civic courage, y’all.

“Structuring a monthslong, large-scale project that appears designed to systematically break...rules, via dummy accounts masquerading as children, is outside what is usually described as ‘industry standard’ evaluation." @ruchowdh.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/meta-c...

Wow. Magistrate Judge Scott Varholak ordered a bond hearing w/this note: "If the Court is wrong, let another court declare that a noncitizen with no criminal history, no history of flight, & an adjudicated right to asylum may be detained indefinitely without running afoul of the Due Process Clause."

Once readers have seen ideas like heavenly invasion and language differentiation, it is difficult to un-see them. We perceive them in earlier versions of the tradition whether they are there or not. We continue to write the Bible when we read it. (Genesis 22 next time!) 16/16

Consider.

also it’s June 29, the anniversary of this ADF nonsense

This idea is not present in the Genesis form of the story, but once readers have it in mind they see it there anyway. It is difficult to say exactly what Jubilees is. We might call it another expression of some of the traditions found in Genesis and Exodus. 11/11

My opening example is the tradition represented by what people often call “The Tower of Babel” in the place we label Genesis 11:1-9 in the Bible. The admittedly odd nature of the previous sentence may reveal that the ways we typically talk about the Bible and its components is saturated 8/8

Examination of specific traditions will reveal that the attempt to identify particular fixed points in the process are often attempts to grant authority to one particular way of understanding them, an authority that provides political power to those who use it in that form. 7/7

One of the challenges of this approach is whether we can name it adequately. At the outset I will call this “the ongoing churn of traditions.” 6/6

The field of biblical studies has long functioned with the assumption that there are fairly clear lines between activities like writing, copying, rewriting, editing, translating, interpreting, commenting, etc. In recent years these lines have begun to look artificial. 1/1

That's my theory, anyway: www.businessinsider.com/meta-layoffs... 39/

former homeschooler here and this is nonsense. homeschoolers, like many other conservative communities, are taught to hate the vast majority of americans and huge swaths of the constitution. this hatred gets coded as “patriotic” while other critiques of america can literally get you deported.

US religious homeschoolers are indoctrinated in hatred of the Constitution & democracy itself, thanks to the work of Rushdoony & the Christian Recontructionists whose ideology has spread far & wide throughout US homeschooling. They believe demonic humanism has corrupted US society.

Something we just found with a lot more details: thedreydossier.substack.com/p/i-found-a-...

Spot-on by Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA08): "Trump spent $16 million on an unnecessary and botched project...taxpayers were left with a Reflecting Pool covered in peeling paint & algae blooms. That's the corruption, waste, & incompetence that defines Trump's Administration." bluevirginia.us/2026/06/sund...

After federal agents shot Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, a New Yorker sent ICE's director an email in January comparing him to a Nazi. This week, DHS agents stalked him across New York. His home. A hotel. They gave his wife a letter warning of criminal prosecution. www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...

But both Lukashenka and Zuckerberg are willing to be thought a thin-skinned bully, so long as that means the people they oppress the most are too terrified to ever challenge their authority. eof/

Lukashenka knew that arresting children for eating ice cream would make him a laughingstock abroad. Zuckerberg knows that threatening Wynn-Williams for standing in wooden silence on a stage makes him look like history's most guillotineable billionaire. 40/

The whistleblower in question is, of course, Sarah Wynn-Williams, author of the internationally bestselling memoir *Careless People*, which details the criminality she witnesses during her years as the head of Facebook's international relations team: pluralistic.net/2025/04/23/z... 12/

Speaking of thin-skinned, paranoid, wildly corrupt buffoons who stop at nothing to silence their enemies, how about that Mark Zuckerberg, huh? Sure, all the headlines these days are about Zuck's intention to transform Facebook into a sports betting site: www.businessinsider.com/metas-zucker... 10/

More than a decade ago, a group of young, internet-connected Belarusian dissidents launched a series of increasingly high-stakes, increasingly surreal confrontations with the corrupt, authoritarian government of Alexander Lukashenka, a man who is often called "the last Soviet dictator." 1/

1/“Many recalled that he frequently waived consultation fees, supplied medicines to families unable to afford them and distributed donated prescriptions to vulnerable patients.> www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Art thou in Cambridge (UK) or capable of getting there this Sunday at 11:45AM? Come see me at St. Paul’s. It’s free.

Folks are catching up with the news of how many people Elon had killed.

In his decision for SCOTUS published this morning, Justice Alito dismissed the idea that the Trump administration would halt all asylum seekers as a mere "hypothetical" not even worth considering.

'A decisive moment': UK MPs back new 2040 climate target, despite Tory and Reform opposition. Seventh Carbon Budget secures comfortable majority in House of Commons, as Labour, Lib Dems and Greens back new emissions target. www.businessgreen.com/news/4531772...

In my opinion hardwood Democrats who don't want to be replaced shouldn't have sucked shit for so long without listening to everyone screaming at them about it. We need to see so many of them replaced in so many primaries. Every time it happens is cause for hope and should cheer people everywhere.

Senator Susan Collins continues to claim that Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson—whom she confirmed—voted to uphold Roe v. Wade. But KBJ wasn't yet on the court for that case. Incredible stuff www.wmtw.com/article/sen-...

Art thou in Cambridge (UK) or capable of getting there this Sunday at 11:45AM? Come see me at St. Paul’s. It’s free.

While there can be useful partnerships between academic science and industry, this is also why I’m so vocal about protecting public science funding and have been dismayed by NSF’s shift to funneling money to industry needs. Independence from special interests is a cornerstone of trust.

I don’t enjoy having to wonder how much of my colleague’s work on forest carbon sinks was shaped in some way by BP money. I don’t enjoy even having to ask that question. Because even if the answer is “none,” it’s going to be a question I carry every time a read a paper or decide whether to cite it.

Fantastic and important work that sheds light on how the fossil fuel industry has put its thumb on the scales of climate solutions research. What kills me is that I expect this from them. I expect better from academic researchers. Collusion just undermines trust and makes it harder to do our jobs.

"I blinked twice, rubbed my eyes, and then began digging around on the internet to understand." @reproutopia.bsky.social theintercept.com/2026/03/13/m...

“The conditions that she’s in in jail are causing her excruciating pain." My latest for @truthout.org on first ever antifa terrorism charges in the US. truthout.org/articles/the...

“and so it’s almost like a confession – as though the words on the pamphlet are: 'We worship the devil, signed, antifa’.” @reproutopia.bsky.social quoted in @lexmcmenamin.com's incredible new story