The only way you can argue that gutting USAID didn't kill anyone is if you think USAID never saved anyone.

The Federal Writers Project was a signature program of the New Deal. It gave early support to Ralph Ellison, Zora Neale Hurston, Jim Thompson, Steinbeck, Bellow, Cheever, Algren, et al. Now Rep. Lieu is working to revive it. Please write your Congressperson in support!

Islamophobia is obviously very real and basically a mainstream idea in the US but it is very under discussed how prolific this specifically absurd anti *Shia* sentiment is

Trump’s Moneymaking Run: Unrivaled in Presidential History www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/u...

Trump Pulled In at Least $2 Billion After Returning to the White House www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/u... Where all you Biden Crime Family bitches at now?

This chyron sent me

You will not BELIEVE who this guy supported for president www.advocate.com/news/crime/h...

"And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him. But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt." Leviticus 19:33-34

Obligatory oh-so-concerned JD Vance holding an egg carton in September 2024. #cspan #cspanwj

Looking forward to all the schoolchildren in Texas, being taught the Bible under Texas's new Christian nationalist law, finding out that Ken Paxton and his mistress should be stoned to death for committing adultery. Glory!

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On Birthright Citizenship: “The Reconstruction Amendments were an anticaste, antisubordination reset for the Nation, not a mere spot treatment for the dark stain of slavery.” -Justice Ketanji Brown 💅💕

Another day, another round of headlines about Trump's unprecedented corruption. And this is just the stuff there's reporting about.

The real headline from the birthright‑citizenship case isn’t the outcome. It’s that four Supreme Court justices signaled they believe a president can effectively rewrite the Constitution through executive order.

Rep. Tom Kean took leave to get help for depression. But as a member of Congress, due to voting for Medicaid work reqs, and as part of the New Jersey state leg, he hasn't made it easy for others to do the same. New w/ @hurwitz.bsky.social at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

According to my wife just now, sitting on my yoga mat while watching World Cup is not the same as taking a yoga class

one thing i find funny is that the founding generation would likely have been very enthusiastic about, say, muslim immigrants and intensely skeptical of all the catholics

If you see this, post your mentor

They're plundering the national treasury.

Transness is eternal. There will be happy, fulfilled trans people that exist long after each and every one of these fuckers has long since passed. We will fight like hell for each and every one of our living and we will proceed in spiteful joy because unlike them we are building the future.

Unlike Pedro, this US Army combat Veteran knows better than to vote for Nazis. Pedro has forgotten his oath.

This is only an R+6 district. Democrats should definitely be donating to @leelagray.bsky.social. The road to a House majority goes through districts like this. You can donate to her here. cc: @shannonrwatts.bsky.social www.leelagray.com

Do Not Vote With Pedro

"Algae Zeera." I'm dying.

We are actually incredibly fortunate that China lacks fossil fuel resources and has been highly motivated to pursue renewable alternatives. Their dogged pursuit has given the world a potential way out of the oil trap.

🤡's corruption rolls right along. Feb 10, 🤡 bought shares in Axon valued between $1M & $5M. 2 weeks later, ICE causes the company's shares to ⬆️ But nothing to see here. WH: "[🤡] only acts in the best interests of the American public.” -- Where's the falling down laughing emoji when you need it???

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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Andreessen, Andreessen, Andreessen. (He’s very close with Peter Thiel.) 1/

Quick take a break from the horrors and feast your eyes on what’s in this grandma‘s binder www.tiktok.com/t/ZTSMW6r4S/

The zoom out is *chef’s kiss*

There is some small comfort in how Trump absolutely, positively refuses to give his enablers the smallest fig leaf of dignity.

Most attention on last Thursday’s #SCOTUS ruling in the TPS cases has been (understandably) focused on Justice Alito’s whitewashing of the Trump administration’s racism. But as today’s “One First” explains, it also includes an alarming power grab for appellate courts in *all* “interim relief” cases:

I bet whoever came up with the word “lugubrious” was pretty pleased with themselves Spent the rest of the day in the garden reflecting on a job well done

Super interesting paper. Open access. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

In which you are a refugee desperately fleeing for your life but also don’t want to ride a bus

youtube.com/watch?v=Tm5R... My wife and i were talking about last nights movie and she found this interview w one of the stars She rightly guessed that the host was the inspiration for Jiminy Glick Really worth a watch

♥️ heatwave🌡 let's help strays and wildlife 🌿💛🔆♥️🔆💛🍀

Justice Sotomayor's dissent in today's Trump v Slaughter ruling 👇 Wherein SCOTUS overruled the 1935 precedent Humphrey’s Executor, holding that the President must have broad authority to remove principal officers heading executive agencies like the FTC This is devastating:

OMFG. I cannot begin to describe my gasp at how Roberts & co decided to go all in on LOST CAUSE theory & insist that the Reconstruction Congress did Confederate sympathizer President Andrew Johnson wrong by attempting to keep him from destroying Reconstruction www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Humphrey's Executor is dead and the president can fire anyone in the executive branch at will but NOT Federal Reserve governors is really a parody of the difference between the money power and everything else in America

Ancient 'curse' burial in Spain reveals violent ritual of social exclusion www.heritagedaily.com/2026/06/anci...

Friends across the aisle!

Signs you might be a far right authoritarian party (#3385):

Don't threaten me with a good time

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confess... Classic Sunday so we watched this thinking it might be sort of campy b movie fun but it was actually kind of terrifying as the script really went into how propaganda was used here to divide us and make us question democratic w the slogan “America for Americans”