"Commissioners to the 227th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) voted overwhelmingly to declare White Christian nationalism and similar ideologies 'a theological error' incompatible with the teachings of Jesus Christ, advancing a proposed constitutional amendment that would add […]

I wonder if this is going to work out the way Chuck is hoping. The progressive winning in a two person race is a MUCH louder signal. https://apnews.com/article/michigan-senate-democratic-primary-mcmorrow-stevens-elsayed-2f99c6e065402f730fc8925b5a43c788

No special election in Kentucky if Mitch stays "not dead or incapacitated" through the 2nd Tuesday in August. (Given what is going on with "not demented" Trump, that shouldn't be too much of a stretch.) Purpose? Deny the seat to Thomas Massie .... ooooh, that's a good rumor! […]

Uncle Scam bot by @davidaugust This is satire, not sedition: let's not make entertainment lead to internment. #satire #potus45 #funny #uspol

“What kind of man would cheat at this golf?” 😂

A groundbreaking Harvard study suggests that the gut microbiome can take more than a decade to recover after the removal of precancerous polyps potentially explaining persistent elevated risks for colorectal cancer. Researchers at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health…

The wide-eyed Ezo flying squirrel, endemic to Hokkaido, Japan.

A New Poll Just Named the Worst American in History The Worst American in History: The Numbers Trump topped the list of the worst Americans in history according to the YouGov poll, with a total of 34 percent of respondents selecting him. That’s more than double the share who chose the […]

This July 4th reminds me that I only learned a few years ago that the Statue of Liberty is an anti-slavery monument created by a French abolitionist back in 1865 to celebrate emancipation, so I tell my little cousins about the broken chains at her feet any chance I get […]

RE: https://oldbytes.space/@Kroc/116855628444343133 I distinctly remember that my edition of Encarta (they released a new one every year for a while) would play a recording of Martin Luther King Jr saying “I have a dream” at bootup. The ability to browse hundreds of such historically […]

We didn't have to cancel the 4th of July when Obama or Biden were President.

Nine years ago today when NPR tweeted the entire Declaration of Independence, Trump supporters angrily thought it was criticizing him

RE: https://mastodon.social/@luckytran/116863488282016628 Okay this is fucking wild. If white people rich enough to own a fucking racing sailboat can't fly a flag with words on it without some government boat with a fucking machine gun coming over to escort them back to land, nobody in your […]

i don't think there's ever any positive news about meta https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/meta-paid-hundreds-contractors-pretend-130200038.html

What a picture from cheney orr of @reuters.com — a Black woman on a train surrounded by masked white supremacists, emboldened in Trump’s America. One for the history books.

"in a big tent, unpatriotic antifascists and patriotic antifascists, and ambivalently patriotic antifascists can all work together towards crushing the fucking fascists. "

Don't want to speak ill of the dead, so getting this Mitch McConnell take out now. He saw Trump with complete clarity, as a danger to America, but protected him anyway. Perhaps more than anyone, he had the power to end Trumpism, but chose party over country. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/jan-6-and-...

[Religion; the judgy kind that's not doing me any favors] https://www.rawstory.com/peter-thiel-2677155691/ "Indeed, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the Kingdom of God." -Jesus at Luke 18.25 (also Mark 10.25) (See also: Matthew […]

Dear Media. Vatican II wasn’t just about praying or not in Latin. *Vatican II decided to be less antisemitic. By a lot. * And now Pope Leo (like Francis) is reading the Bible HARD, all that “love immigrants” & “care for others” “🖕 Empire” stuff?! This story is not complicated.

Wow

#russia likely used shadow ships to launch drones over #europe that repeatedly disrupted civilian aviation, as it monitored #military sites & tested the air #defenses of #nato nations, acc/to a report published Thursday by the #iiss think tank. The report, which was shared before publication […]

#us #economy added just 57,000 #jobs in June — far below expectations — amid elevated #inflation, global turmoil US employers pulled back on hiring last month & added only 57,000 jobs, less than half the previous month’s total & a sign companies still have a cautious economic outlook. #labor […]

Trump’s personal army/police detained a nun walking to mass, dressed in her habit. They held her in custody until public outcry led to her release. Don’t forget: we live in a county whose federal government, and many states’ governments, are controlled by Republican Fascism […]

🔥JOHN C. REILLY to Elon Musk: “Empathy isn't a weakness, it's a superpower and the cornerstone of civilization.” (H/T @podfather3000.bsky.social)

Here’s the real deal…👇 Real patriots don’t spend millions on a week-long yard party to feed their bruised ego… Instead… They actually use that money to rebuild infrastructure, create jobs, and improve people's lives. We need someone with American values back in the White House. WHO AGREES?! 🤚

As @ruwaromman.bsky.social reminds us, they act like Democratic Socialists are the extremists— meanwhile it was corporate Dems like Manchin & Sinema who helped Republicans gut Biden’s agenda. Not Bernie & AOC, who were on board. So who are the real “radicals”, exactly?

#whitehouse officials last year secretly awarded a #nobid contract worth up to $500 million for the construction of the #eastwing #ballroom in an unusual arrangement that sidestepped typical contracting procedures designed to control costs, acc/to a copy of the agreement obtained by WaPo. #trump […]

The three branches of the United States government, as delineated in the Constitution, are the God Emperor, The High Council of the Six Ayatollahs, and the Federal Reserve

The treatment plan for early pregnancy loss in Texas, a state with one of the most extreme abortion bans in the country, is to send patients home and let the miscarriage run its course. www.huffpost.com/entry/texas-...

PSA: We are all Democratic Socialists, we’re just in various stages of admitting it.

“I’m thrilled to be one of the tens of people out here today…” 😂😂

Yes! Another win for the #people of the #unitedstates! #scotus rules #states can count late-arriving mailed #ballots, rejecting #trump-led challenge #law #constitution #electionlaw #votingrights #access […]

A state legislative hearing tomorrow will determine whether California can bolster its antitrust laws this year, a suddenly critical task given the pay-to-play corruption at the federal level. I wrote about a bill called the COMPETE Act, now in the hands of a few undecided Dem legislators.

If you were born after 1985, you just have to the word of oldies…

Did you know that Microsoft applied for a permit for a warehouse in southern Sweden - and once they had built the "warehouse" they declared they were going to host a datacenter there with diesel backup generators? I mean, we hear this happening all the time and so let's hate on data centers […]

it's also just shocking because...the whole centrist argument has been poll centered. "we may not like it, but we have to meet people where they are." meeting people where they are would mean ending military aid to Israel & taxing the fuck out of billionaires! those are extremely popular policies!

Attorney General Bonta, County of Santa Clara File Motion for Preliminary Injunction to Block Illegal Development of ICE Facility Near Gilroy https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-county-santa-clara-file-motion-preliminary-injunction

Nothing says "freedom" like fenced-off public spaces and National Guard troops.

Ron Wright: "Elon Musk once jokingly offered to end World Hunger, asking how much it would cost as if it would be some incalculable number. When the United Nations replied saying $6.6 Billion would be enough to immediately end famine for the year, Musk never responded, and a few months later […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@eff/116811658436523675 Time to trot this cartoon out again.

I do agree that Chevalier has said a bunch of things that are bad. Hopefully she won't do that going forward. This piece talks about some of the problems (and other issues) It's quite good. www.liberalcurrents.com/the-dirtbags...

Kanew: “They said the same things about Zohran, now he’s like the most popular guy in NYC. They even said it about Biden. Progressives want you to have health care, good schools, stop dropping 💣 on kids… they’ll call everyone a communist. Don’t buy the fearmongering.”

ZOHRAN: *parachutes in to help wildly unpopular congressional Dems get more popular* 🦸🏻‍♂️ ESTABLISHMENT DEMS: “wHY iS He TRyiNg tO KiLL tHe PArTy?”

MAGA 2026

A central promise of the second Trump administration has been the mass deportation of immigrants who are deemed to be in the country illegally. But less publicized is the administration’s efforts also to strip thousands of immigrants of their legal status in the US – and in particular what that […]

US's climate.gov site, taken down by Trump, relaunched by nonprofit - Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/06/uss-climate-gov-site-taken-down-by-trump-relaunched-by-nonprofit/

The #senate for the first time approved a #warpowers resolution Tuesday seeking to block #US #military action against #iran, as lawmakers warily watch #trump’s “efforts” to “resolve” a conflict that the admin launched on its own & now needs #congress to #fund. It was the TENTH time the Senate […]

A #covid #vaccine study that the CDC’s chief halted this spring over methodological concerns was published Tuesday in JAMA Network Open, a leading peer-reviewed #medical journal. The analysis used the same methodology that CDC’s interim director had criticized when the paper was not allowed to […]