Officials identified the man shot and killed by an ICE agent as Joan Sebastian Guerrero, 26. Guerrero had immigrated from Colombia and settled in southern Maine, where he worked as a food delivery driver to help support his wife and young daughter. Read more about Guerrero here. trib.al/gFooyWl

CARTOON OF THE DAY #AbolishICE (From @dennisgoris.bsky.social )

Susan Collins voted to give ICE and CBP $70 billion. She owns the consequences of that vote.

Don’t know who to credit for this. But it is how I feel.

Lindsey Graham died and was reincarnated as Ben Shapiro's new baby.

Kissinger, Reagan, McConnell, and Graham are sharing a pit of despair in hell rn.

Two more confirmed deaths before I personally re-adopt religion.

Not complaining about the heat in DR for the rest of my trip because I know Lindsey Graham is somewhere hotter.

The grim reaper gave us the BOGO special with Lindsey and Mitch

Colombia fighting for a win on the world’s biggest stage while ICE rips through Colombian neighborhoods in Chicago all day. Same people, same flag, totally different realities. It’s hard to watch one without thinking about the other 🇨🇴

Springfield, OH hate crime. Haitian father shot driving his kids to church. "They said he was going to give someone a ride and 'they just shot him. I don’t know why.'" Consequences of hate from our gov't. www.springfieldnewssun.com/local/crime/... @gregsargent.bsky.social @jimswift.bsky.social

Flying from Amsterdam to Santo Domingo with the Dutch Dominicans was a time.

Had a delicious meal at A Beautiful Mess in Amsterdam, a restaurant and community space that employs and supports refugees and those displaced by the numerous current genocides. It was a beautiful space.

ICE just announced the death of the 21st person in immigration prison, Adrian Andreas Florian, an 85-year-old man from Germany. He died June 24. There's very little information in the press release but it sounds like he may have had dementia. Absolutely horrific.

Nothing short of the modern day Plessy v. Ferguson. www.npr.org/2026/06/30/n...

In addition to helping the billionaire class, this will make it easier for the Democrats to throw more money against Mamdani, AOC, and any other progressive who dares to challenge the establishment.

See, people always want to make this just about "sports," but the real upshot here is that, 6-3, trans women can't make a claim under the Equal Protection Clause. And if they can't do that, it's hard to see how they have constitutional rights.

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Ruling against TPS for Haitians, the Trump justices on the Supreme Court have set a new impossible standard for proving discrimination against non-whites: if there is any other reason *in addition* to the racism, the racism doesn’t count www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

BREAKING: More than 100 Venezuelans who were deported from the U.S. hours before the earthquakes are missing after their hotel collapsed.

The Supreme Court ruled that late arriving mail-in ballots can be counted in Mississippi, in a win for voting access

Awful: After SCOTUS ruling, Trump is free to deport thousands of Haitians from deep red Clark County, Ohio. It may now take a big economic hit. Oh, well. If you vote for the guys that lied in your faces so viciously about immigrants, this is what you get. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2124...

BREAKING: Alligator Alcatraz has officially closed. A lot of outlets won’t report on this, but the Miccosukee Tribe played a key role in the fight.

My two cents on the primary election in New York's 13th Congressional District and Darializa Avila Chevalier's victory over Adriano Espaillat, who gambled on anti-Blackness as a political strategy and lost. pamelazabalaortiz.substack.com/p/racism-as-...

Out today: "Black Identities and Media in the Twenty-First Century"! This innovative collection, edited by Sheryl Kennedy Haydel and David Stamps, explores Black representations in mass media, with a focus on intersectionality and the role of Black media creators. 📘 https://bit.ly/bim21century

Decision Desk HQ projects Darializa Chevalier wins the NY US House 13 Democratic Primary #DecisionMade: 9:49 PM EDT

The Scots made it to BU

I got to perform in a bookstore last night. Not only was it super fun, but I also exhibited extreme self-control and only left with one new book!

The Justice Department is offering grants to cities and police departments across the country, but recipients must cooperate with federal immigration enforcement. n.pr/4acgpeJ

But I was told it was inevitable.

AI has started blocking the Wayback Machine from chronicling the web. Considering that nearly 40% of websites disappear after 10 years, this will enforce a giant loss in collective memory.

Read this, super interesting and timely about what’s at stake in these big international sports competitions especially in the current climate.

To the “AI is useful” crowd, it might certainly be in theory, but we can’t ignore that it is being shaped by right wing extractive logics mired in cultural hierarchal commitments, that have very little interest in a utility that serves a broader social good.

New essay: some thoughts on FIFA demanding that Team Haiti change their jersey and how the World Cup is a micro-stage for the continued negotiation of colonial and imperialist power relations. substack.com/home/post/p-...

There’s a saying passed down from earlier generations of Black Texans who were there for the first Juneteenth: “It was not a piece of paper that freed the slaves, but the men with the guns.”

LATEST: Police tear-gassed protesters who gathered outside the Senatobia Walmart where a police officer shot and killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley on Sunday. Read more: buff.ly/oMSukfJ

These pictures from Team Curaçao are art. Love seeing natural hair represented so beautifully.

Making theatrics out of genocide is not a good look, FIFA. www.nytimes.com/athletic/736...

FIFA has prohibited Haitian World Cup jerseys with a depiction of the Nov. 18, 1803, Bataille de Vertières aka the triumph of the Haitian Revolution against slavery. Depraved. amp.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

It's hard to be excited about the Artemis III mission announcements when the CEO of the company making one of the mission's rockets has spent his week inciting racial violence via his personal social media platform.

The change comes as ICE has faced pressure after the death of 18 detainees so far this year. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Most importantly, where does this go on my CV?

Megan thee Stallion just liked and reposted my TikTok video. Is this what it feels like to ascend? 😭

Concentration camp: a state facility where large groups of people are held under armed guard without trial or due process because of their membership in a group facing discrimination rather than anything they did.

Academia is under full assault (probably in many places but definitely in the US) and keeping your head down ain't gonna end up nice in the end.

Back in the U.S. (derogatory)

"Immigration enforcement is an ever-expanding architecture that collapses the local and global, seamlessly merging with both policing and military power." How Not to Abolish ICE: What have we learned from the past two decades of struggle? | Harsha Walia www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

The special thing about the Louvre is that in addition to seeing all the spectacular art, you also get to witness thousands of people’s first day on earth.

This quote in particular, from Fahrenheit 451, has been haunting me for months, especially with all these attacks on higher ed and rise in anti-intellectualism.