Thank you 💜

FIFA's own rules dictate that if a government tries to intervene in a disciplinary matter - that team is disqualified. Not happening to the USA though, despite trump making that phone call. Wonder why. 🤔 Fuck Trump. Fuck Infantino. Post anything here: interactink.vercel.app

Trump's interference in FIFA's decision making shows that the US under Trump is unable to host a major international competition. Trump does not respect any rule of law. The rest of the world needs to figure out the consequences.

Every state has to remove ineligible voters from its voter rolls. But routine maintenance can turn into something else: a tool for kicking eligible voters off the rolls entirely. Republicans are increasingly using voter purges to do just that. Here’s how:

Thank you @tayari.bsky.social for Kin. There were moments when I felt the characters were sitting next to me, holding my hand, and whispering confidences in my ear. There were other times when it felt like a song. Lyrical, wise prose. What a gift to a reader.

Wouldn't it just be easier and more dignified not to repeat Donald Trump's preposterous, delusional lies?

"Kennedy’s health department added several new members to a panel that will review some peptides next month. At least seven of the members have ties to peptide-related businesses and clinics..." www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

Trump's fireworks show gave DC the worst air quality on the planet. A shakeup in the Michigan senate race. A Supreme Court crisis in Israel. And much more. Your midday recap is here.

I liked reading a lot of newspaper comics as a kid and not all of them held up but honestly I think Calvin and Hobbes has gotten better as I’ve aged truly a masterpiece, and endless props to Watterson for ending it on his own terms

Hey @chicagotribune.com Editorial Board: Why did you describe me as a “bomb-throwing influencer”? This is wrong, inflammatory, and racist. Change it. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/07/05/e...

"The democracy challenges of the present and the history of the youth advocacy for the 26th Amendment demonstrate that a Second Founding is both necessary and possible. July 5th should be America’s first day of a bold Second Founding agenda." www.democracydocket.com/opinion/we-n...

AP: Trump will not seek new bids to repair the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. This is what happens when you lie, cheat, and bully your way into a job you're not qualified for and everything you touch turns to shit. #ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed #ETTD

Looking at the week ahead, Elias Law Group is litigating 80 voting and election cases in 40 states (plus DC). This is a lot of work for a small firm of 60+ lawyers. When we fight we can win!⚖️🗳️💪

this is why we can't have nice things. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/05/u...

Newsom: All of this happening—this open sewage system. You talk about draining the swamp. He gave it a presidential suite with gold leaf. This is stuff I don’t even imagine exists at this scale in a year and a half, even in Putin’s Russia or Kim Jong-un’s North Korea.

Finally a bit of good news! We’re holding one final live free watchalong of THE LAST CLASS film about my final semester of teaching. Let’s all join together on Wednesday, July 8! Plus we'll share a special sneak peak of our next film! Sign up below.

I think about this quote every single day and I think about how much potential we, as humans and as a country, have lost because of hate. Our Constitution and institutions would be so much stronger right now if they were also built with Natives, Black people, and women as equals.

PASTOR LORAN LIVINGSTON (@CentralChurchNC): “There has never been a Christian nation, and never will be. You don’t live in one now. A Christian nation wouldn’t have killed and displaced 20 million Native Americans, or thought owning slaves was pleasing to God.”

Hazardous smog hovering over Washington D.C. - Residents are urged to stay inside today. Interesting that the White House was warned about this but as usual, they do what they want.

[THREAD] For the 250th, some recent pieces from RogerEbert.com. 1. I wrote about the state of the USA in this momentous year, compared it to my experience of the 200th, and encouraged indie filmmakers to use new tech to tell their stories by any means necessary. www.rogerebert.com/features/fif...

2. The indefatigable @honorszombie.bsky.social also did a piece about contemporary, mostly YouTube-based indie cinema, how hard it is to get it made, and why it's important to keep plugging away: www.rogerebert.com/features/ret...

3. Here's @faroukk.bsky.social's great piece about two recent and unexpected (by Hollywood, anyway) smash hits, "Backrooms" and "Obsession"—and how, in a sense, they're about AI and how "the omnipresence of this technology has been imprinted onto our unconscious." www.rogerebert.com/features/obs...

4. My dear friend & colleague @jenchaney.bsky.social on the TV prequel to Legally Blonde, Elle, on AppleTV+. "It's light, cheerful to look at, and unchallenging to binge in a weekend." www.rogerebert.com/streaming/el...

5. Here's @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social talking to Olivia Wilde about her latest (& best, IMO) movie The Invite, "a Rorschach test" that has viewers "projecting themselves all over it, and there’s nothing you can ask for as a filmmaker that’s more exciting." www.rogerebert.com/interviews/o...

6. Here’s @briantallerico.bsky.social with "10 memorable times that foreign directors looked at America, and sometimes even liked what they saw." I agree that "foreigner coming to the US" films have to be excluded here because they are their own subgenre. www.rogerebert.com/features/thr...

7. Here’s @nellminow.bsky.social with a wonderful lineup of 10 of Roger Ebert's favorite movies that somehow spoke to the heart and soul of America. www.rogerebert.com/roger-ebert/...

#CheneyOrr #DCMetro #BLM #DV1 #ProudBlue #DOOR Surrounded, outnumbered, and completely unfazed. She dropped her crown for NO ONE. 👑

Sad to watch this regime purge anyone who puts the country before this president. (And make Us all Less Safe in the Process)

glad congress isn’t alive to see this

An absolute banger of an exclusive from the Sunday Times. It's devastating. For the first time, I'm uncertain if Farage can actually survive this www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Don’t miss this episode where I refute all of the lies, absurdities, and excuses by Todd Blanche as to why he refuses to provide unredacted Epstein Files:

The Norwegians taken over Times Square. 🇳🇴#FIFA #WorldCup

Mamdani: "Therein lies the work of America -- a striving, a bettering, the reaching toward perfection. What a privilege each of us has to live in a nation that every one of its inhabitants can shape. What a responsibility each of us possesses to prove ourselves worthy of all those who came before."

👀 FOX (!) On Trump’s Obscene $2 BILLION+ Self-Dealing: “We’re seeing a lot of the MAGA base turning on the president with this. They’re saying ‘Look— he really doesn’t care about us. He’s getting richer, I’m getting poorer.”

aaaahhhhHHHHHHHHHH www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...

-A living wage -Guaranteed healthcare -The right to join a union -The right to vote -The right to choose when, how, and with whom you start a family -The right for you and your family to live free from gun violence Remember: These are the foundations of real freedom.

Todd Blanche has been ordered to produce Epstein files by July 3. Records subject the order include notes of FBI interviews with a woman who has alleged that in the 1980s, when she was about 13, Epstein introduced her to Trump, who in turn assaulted her. #ProudBlue www.politico.com/news/2026/06...

The original No Kings day. Credit: chappatte.com

Trump ruined America's 250th in D.C., but that doesn't mean it has to suck! Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and even Milwaukee have fun events with stars like Christina Aguilera, Chris Stapleton and Jelly Roll. Liberals keep winning the culture war! www.salon.com/2026/07/03/t...

With all the pressure from the UK to add Nuclear in Scotland, the latest figures for renewable generation in the first quarter shows just how little Scotland needs it. They want it here to help power England, because Scotland won't use it.. www.thenational.scot/news/2624071...

I cracks me up when people are like "You couldn't make THIS movie or show today because people are so politically correct and sensitive!" Sir. There was an entire board in Hollywood dedicated to sniffing out any onscreen hint of married people having sex. Lucy couldn't say "pregnant." Sit down.

Protecting free and fair elections is the fight of our generation. I do my part not only in the courtroom but since 2020 also by growing Democracy Docket. Subscribe today. bit.ly/4qmEiFz

Site's getting hammered because of this but: web.archive.org/web/*/https:... Of course we saved it.

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

FREE ebook for the 4th of July weekend! A French Officer in the American Revolution is the thrilling story of a dashing and courageous French soldier who joined the Marquis de Lafayette and George Washington to fight in the American Revolutionary War. moviemom.com/free-for-ind...

FREEDOM ✊🏾 #ONEV1 #Pinks 🌸 #Voices4Victory

The United States Constitution is such an inconvenience for racists.

It takes a special kinda stupid to think folks who are vehemently against climate change control the weather. Talk about Trump Derangement Syndrome!

Queue the locusts.