There's something so particularly maddening about this kind of thing, when immigration violations are also merely "administrative violations" and they're sadistically punished worse than most violent crimes (because of racism, etc)

Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org can do a theme issue:

The artist's name is Virgil Ortiz (Cochiti Pueblo)

Rebecca Solnit reviews the spectacular new exhibition Continuum: Blindfall, First Strike at the Vladem in Santa Fe, which reminds us that the Hispanic and Indigenous cultures of the American Southwest is considerably older and more deeply rooted than the Anglo-Saxon culture of the US East Coast.

"To be like Jesus— Christlike—requires a certain ruthlessness; manhood does also." How evangelical leaders transformed Jesus Christ into a ripped ultimate fighting machine

This fucker is a punk and @maragay.bsky.social showed far more grace than I could ever muster. I would have punched him in his smug botoxed face. The entire segment was unbelievable.

New in PN: Mitch McConnell's legacy of destruction "Almost everything about how the modern GOP operates — its aversion to solving problems, its destruction of norms that used to allow the institution to operate, its embrace of chaos and dysfunction — can be at least partly attributed to McConnell."

What do you bet the FBI was dispatched to Lindsey Graham's house, not because they are interested in his death, but because they have been instructed to search of make sure Graham didn't have any evidence that could embarrass Donald Trump?

Oklahoma approved oil field wastewater injection within a half-mile of a public water well, without making the company prove this would not pollute the city’s water. The site has repeatedly failed tests since, indicating a potential wastewater leak. with @readfrontier.bsky.social

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE Truth: No cars rammed ICE Claim: She boxed ICE in Truth: ICE boxed her in Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE Truth: She did not have a rifle Claim: ICE returned fire Truth: Only ICE fired Claim: She drove herself to the hospital Truth: Paramedics found her

HAPPY PRIDE! FUCK ICE! FIX YOUR HEARTS OR DIE!

Lindsey Graham's hatreds and bigotries were bog-standard for his party, and they were legion.

Today’s executive action is another chapter in Trump’s War on the West. Bears Ears and Grand Staircase belong to the American people, not billionaires looking to profit off public lands. It's a slap in the face to Tribes, local communities, & future generations. Now is the time to raise your voice.

The thing with these people is that they fear their own mortality in a pathological way that fools them into thinking they are actually immortal.

A question that would have never needed to be asked in the pre-Trump era.

The media has been full of headlines congratulating Big Bend residents for defeating Donald Trump's border wall. But the truth is far uglier and more complicated, and victory is far from secure.

It's not arrogance if you're actually doing what you said you'd do. Big talk is only obnoxious when actions fall short

The Bureau of Land Management is rewriting rules for ranching on public lands to allow more livestock grazing in the West. Overgrazing has degraded public lands, and the overhaul would expand the practice, rangeland experts say. w/ @highcountrynews.org

Our Delegation is demanding a Congressional investigation and hearings into allegations that the federal DEA allowed hundreds of thousands of deadly fentanyl pills to flood into NM streets. I won’t stop until those responsible are held accountable. @fernandez.house.gov @repgabevasquez.bsky.social

The face of Modern Diarrhea www.huffpost.com/entry/cdc-st...

I used to give away different flavors of Japanese KitKats at political science conferences. Was it weird for an academic conference? Yes. But I was never normal.

As hundreds march in Houston and Lorenzo Salgado Araujo's family demands an impartial investigation, the Department of Homeland Security is using a familiar playbook: Officials are blaming Salgado for his own death by asserting he “weaponized his vehicle.”

one of the few joys of living through the second trump administration is the arms race between flunkies to determine who can demean themselves in the most humiliating fashion for the approval of an old man who falls asleep when they talk to him

Me: AI sucks, it’s hilarious how much it sucks! The World: Here’s an AI poster for your event...

If you were lucky enough to finish most of your cognitive development before widespread GPS adoption ? Try to use a paper map now as often as you can so that you keep that ability. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

ICE lied because they always do. newrepublic.com/post/212915/...

“CalMatters used annual reports to create a mass inventory of the equipment found at California higher education institutions, which includes hundreds of semi-automatic rifles, thousands of munitions containing the same chemical as chili peppers, and hundreds of thousands of rifle munitions.”

"New Mexicans deserve a public comment process that is fair and open, not one that is tainted with fraud.” - Rep. Cristina Parajón The Justice Dept received multiple complaints alleging comments regarding Project Jupiter were "submitted in their names without their knowledge or consent"

He's the Batman of wanting dinner kind of early

Amazing how DeSantis' Stop WOKE Act was the center of our political universe for a time (and we were told the right had won the argument) yet now that it's suffered a crushing defeat, everybody has moved on. Good writeup of DeSantis' loss from @victorerikray.bsky.social: www.ms.now/opinion/flor...

"But the extent to which Madison Square Garden labeled many of the Knicks’ most visible, loyal fans with a risk score hasn’t been previously revealed, nor has the rationale MSG used to do so."

The idea that David Brooks has anything useful to say to anyone, let alone Democrats and the left, is so beyond comedy that I am actually in pain.

American reporters watching this, shaking their heads in horror, no, no, you can’t ask this, no

WAIT FOR IT WAIT. FOR. IT! 🪶 🐣

I don’t understand how people can run for office knowing they have insane baggage and/or crimes. Like I spent the entire campaign expecting AIPAC to somehow dig up my middle school livejournal fanfic account. I prepared my family for it. I’m still amazed it didn’t happen.

What’s new? This dude is filth.

Some Florida students put on a short, silent, completely nonviolent protest during a panel featuring the college president, and now, in the Free Republic of DeSantisLand, they’re being ordered to do Stalin-era confessions

This is essential, superior war reporting. bsky.app/profile/bell...

For the fourth time, the Trump administration has called off a scheduled meeting of one of the nation’s most influential public health advisory panels. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, which normally meets three times a year, has not held an in-person meeting since March 2025.

There is a children’s book about this: On Our Way to Oyster Bay

Four states are standing in the way of a water rights deal that tribes say would help them build more housing, grow sustainable economies and better protect public health. “It’s a fundamental human rights issue,” said one law professor. w/ @kjzz.org

In theory, the GOP can pass legislation restricting birthright citizenship. As of now four SCOTUS justices would probably uphold it. So you can see them passing something that might fail, similar to how Roe's foes chipped away for many years before succeeding. 3/ newrepublic.com/article/2127...

New in PN: Trump vs. algae is the feud we deserve "We are living under the personalist dictatorship of a hateful clown obsessed with the news cycle and owning the libs. And unfortunately, since he has the whole federal govt at his back, his ridiculous tantrums can in fact ruin people’s lives."

Historian of Reconstruction here, Greg gets it right. National citizenship by birthright or naturalization of the 14th amendment is the cornerstone of our modern democracy. Vance and Johnson lie outside those parameters. Also thanks for the shout out to #theriseandfallofthesecondamericanrepublic !

if he complains to FIFA again will they discover new footage showing that we won

this is what happens when you get rid of the Department of Defense

There's a part in the book "Careless People" where the author beats Zuck at Settlers of Catan, and he is absolutely wrecked by it. Someone pulls her aside to explain everyone else has been letting him win for years. I think about this a lot re: why tech bros think everyone will love AI chatbots.

They’re calling it the curse of the fifa peace prize

I'm so disillusioned, I almost don't even care who gets the FIFA Peace Prize next year