Decision Desk HQ projects Nithya Raman wins the second of two spots in the CA Los Angeles Mayor Nonpartisan Primary #DecisionMade: 7:57 PM EDT

NEW: A vote update in the LA mayor's race puts Nithya Raman ahead of Spencer Pratt by 3,000 votes. Karen Bass has already advanced to the general election. There's not enough vote yet to declare which other candidate will advance. This is a normal process. There is nothing wrong with this process.

How is it even possible that there was a major war in my region in June 1986 when I was born and now there is a major war in my region in June 2026 when I'm turning 40? Like I refuse to accept that the past 40 years have been my life. I do deserve much, much better than what I've been offered.

There are currently more bills attacking trans youth’s right to play sports across the U.S. than there are trans youth in school sports.

Neighbor who I thought was on his way to stable biked up earlier. Said his RV got swept and he lost everything again. The last time he came close to standing on his feet, a wine bar owner with a deus vult sticker on his truck called the cops and got him locked up

I feel it is important to also note that it didn't need to be this way, Iran need not have been the only country which is willing to escalate on the issue of Beirut or Lebanon. Europe and especially France make a big show of being Lebanon's sister but have done nothing, less than zero, for it.

Ayman Hussein's father was murdered by Al Qaeda in Iraq when Ayman was a kid and his brother was also disappeared by ISIS.

This is terrible, and I think it’s likely far from the worst thing that will happen in this World Cup. I think it clearly puts the team at a competitive disadvantage, especially for the match they have in Seattle. FIFA should have moved their matches to Mexico.

country singer brad paisley has joined the data center resistance

"Iran launched missiles at Israel on Sunday in retaliation for the Israeli strike in Beirut earlier in the day" "Israel will likely respond to the Iranian attack." Downward spiral speeding up again.

good on him for not agreeing to lie about Renee Good, but the line they’re fighting over is already to the right of the truth. Throwing snowballs and kicking taillights does not make protesters “half” of the story about extrajudicial killings by paramilitary troops sent on a mission to terrorize.

"The impact of these scams goes beyond financial losses. According to the attorney, some victims end up with deportation orders without having filed any real paperwork, believing their case was in progress"

There was a really weird article in Wired last week that accused people suffering with long covid of being anti science bc they warn against too much exercise. It did not one time mention post exertional malaise.

I think that Israel is invested in maintaining conflict and seizing as much land as possible while the Trump administration is in power.

It is bizarre to watch American Jewish political organizations call for Israel to punish "rogue", "violent", "extreme" settlers when the video evidence of these pogroms showcase Israeli occupation soldiers standing right alongside the settlers. It is like asking the tsar to constrain his Cossacks.

When a politician stays on the case like this, especially when the political press keeps trying to “move on” to new sensations, I’ll boost them.

So here’s the full crew. They’re going in for their kitten-fixing next week and are fully adoptable a couple of days later. If you’re in the market for a robust and super-sweet kitten, now’s the time to apply through Northwest Animal Companions and/or come meet and greet. DM for details

From the U.S. National Security Strategy for 2026: “prevent an adversarial power from dominating the Middle East, its oil and gas supplies, and the chokepoints through which they pass while avoiding the "forever wars" that bogged us down in that region” www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

After consulting with my attorney I’ve been advised that what I actually want to say about this would be ill-advised so I’ll just say that he couldn’t possibly be clearer about which side of D-Day he’s identifying with

“Newly released” should be in quotes here, or not stenographed at all. Most of these people “leave” ICE custody in an ambulance. They are not free to go if they recover.

can't quote OP, but this made me think of the girl from the grade above me in high school, who, when she caught wind of my university acceptances, added me on facebook and dm-ed me to welcome me to the Ivies. when i opted not to go to one, SHE UNFRIENDED ME

Thomas Massie becomes the first Republican to co-sponsor the Block the Bombs Act. Now 71 total co-sponsors.

Hillsboro's city council took nearly two hours of public testimony tonight on data centers -- residents were furious about tax breaks, resource consumption and a perceived lack of transparency. Rather than resume meeting tonight, the council will reconvene Tuesday for a work session on next steps.

A somewhat tangential but important piece of this story: claims of PCEF’s “surplus” seems to be based on a misunderstanding that when voters adopted PCEF in 2018, they were told the program would only raise a certain amount of money for climate projects. This isn’t true. PCEF ballot text:

We wasted 25+ years of potential human and societal development on techno-capitalism that everyone with a brain in the late 90’s / early 2000’s foresaw would turn into a surveillance and robot-murder dystopia

🚨Ian Austin, 6-tour combat veteran, shows us his injury after NJ state police struck him with a projectile outside Delaney Hall ICE prison. "We're willing to f*cking die here!" he shouts at police. WE'RE LIVE ⬇️

my gf works corporate and is on a training about AI and there's a word cloud for "what do you use AI for." the largest word by far is "Nothing" and the trainer is PISSED

1/ Cuba is out of fuel, strangled by the US fuel chokehold. People are dying, systems are breaking down. This is collective punishment against a people who have done absolutely nothing except live their lives under hard conditions imposed by the US blockade for decades.

With Friday strike, over 200 people killed by US military in alleged drug boat strikes. Overwhelming consensus of experts, myself included, assess these to be murder because no armed conflict (and war crime if it were armed conflict). 200 killed also raises serious question: crime against humanity

Delaney Hall is an absolute war zone right now, thanks to Mikie Sherrill sending in the state police to work with ICE. The feeds are really hard to watch. ICE is shooting pepper balls while the state police shoot gas and flash bangs.

It’s telling how many of the large news organizations who are flush with money aren’t sending journalists to cover ICE (and now state trooper) violence overnight outside Delaney Hall and the independent outlets with far less financial and insurance coverage are braving it.

an under-discussed issue in our politics today is how worried the average democratic lawmaker is about their own/their family's safety, and whether they can trust state/local security

Absolutely shocking how easy this is.

It's on, Bitches

And it was opposed by Obama's vice president, a certain senator who is now the minority leader, almost half of his own party in Congress overall, the entire Israel lobby, the entire Gulf lobby, every "serious person" think tank, the Center for American Progress, and more.

I'm watching today's Oregon Data Center Advisory Committee meeting on Energy and will no doubt have thoughts... 🧵

It does feel like a serious percentage of the business-as-usual crowd is in the Wyle E Coyote-has-run-off-of-the-cliff-but-not-yet-realized-it stage of things with this one

I am telling you right now that the public $ to Moda proposal is an 80/20 issue in our city (80% against) and whoever uses political capital to protect Tom Dundon's interests will not only lose badly but risk their office.

Leqaa Kordia to the women she met in ICE detention: "Stay strong. ... You didn't do anything wrong. All what you did is just dreaming. And dreaming shouldn't be a crime." www.youtube.com/watch?v=h80y...

There are a lot of good texts that unpack these dynamics in more detail, but Hegemony How-To by Jonathan Smucker does a good job separating "activism" (understood as limited action that tends more toward assuaging personal guilt) from deep organizing and campaigns that win lasting change.

The difference between media stunts that fail to change material conditions and campaigns that do is a function of (1) organization, (2) strategy, & (3) a realizable theory of change. We are showing that the left can win political power & make material change so we should do that all the time.

“I can only describe it as a full-blown adult mantrum.” 💀😭 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

The owner of Le Pigeon is suggesting (without outright saying it) that customers book there "from around the world" specifically for foie gras. Councilor Zimmerman says he thinks banning force-feeding animals feels like "the City punching down" and "punishing businesses."

Anti-war Donald Trump explaining why he likes his secretary: "He loves war"

The City of Hillsboro has denied my request for media access to the executive city council session tonight on the data centers issue. Of note: -I am a credentialed member of the National Writers Union and National Press Photographers Association. -I have bylines in Mother Jones…

In addition, literal stacks of M4000 chemical bombs, used by the Assad regime to drop sarin on civilians in 3 recorded incidents, were found and photographed. Yet more evidence everything we published at Bellingcat based on our open source investigations of chemical attacks was accurate.

Love a “novel” ruling. Would love to know the number of far-right v. far-left rulings called “novel.” Then, compare that to the number on each side referred to as “radical,” “reactionary,” or “activist” rulings

This week at Portland City Council, Loretta Smith and other the Portland Metro Chamber aligned city councilors are going to try to drain the newly established social housing fund. www.portland.gov/council/docu...

sign me up.