Belarus has surrendered to Ukraine. Lukashenko does not want Ukraine to blow up all their oil refineries.

i think the acceptability of gutter racism in elite spaces is very cool

Open the damn bridge. bsky.app/profile/mall...

EPA To Monarch Butterflies: ‘Count Your Fucking Days’ https://theonion.com/epa-to-monarch-butterflies-count-your-fucking-days/

Judge blocks Trump’s mail-in voting restrictions ahead of midterm elections - Courthouse News Service #courts#national#elections#politics

Move comes after Hegseth made shot optional for military in April and Texas outbreak has sickened nearly 300 people

Good point. Nixon's corruption was infinitesimal compared to Trump's.

"Zohran Mamdani Is the Democrats’ New Kingmaker" Unlike more cautious elected Dems, the socialist mayor of New York City is spending his political capital – and can’t seem to stop winning. Democratic voters are behind him, writes Ryan Cooper for Zeteo:

Illinois expanded vote-by-mail because we believe voting should be easier, not harder. Now, Trump’s handpicked Postmaster General is threatening to withhold mail ballots unless states turn over voter rolls. That's not election security. It’s voter suppression.

Over 1,000 hospitals and other medical providers are now at risk of cuts or closures, thanks to Trump and Republicans’ big, ugly bill. All to pay for tax cuts for the super-rich. Never forget who they really govern for.

The theoretically nonpartisan postal service won’t deliver ballots if states don’t hand over their absentee/mail-in ballot voter lists to Trump. “This is basically a back-door way for the federal government to get voting information that states control under the U.S. Constitution.” trib.al/yrhMiYG

BREAKING: @aoc.bsky.social just introduced the AI Data Center Moratorium Act in the House. The bill would ban the construction of data centers until Congress addresses the economic, environmental, and safety impacts of AI.

In Cote D’Ivoire, 70% of HIV medication was provided by USAID via PEPFAR. Over 2,000 health clinics have closed globally due to USAID cuts. In Somalia, child malnutrition has risen 73%

For the first time in 30 years, child deaths are now rising, in large part due to USAID cuts Lancet modelling shows USAID cuts will cause 14 million deaths including 4.5m children, by 2030. Independent CGDev research backs this up

Wäre schön, wenn das 10% medialer Aufmerksamkeit bekäme von der Berichterstattung, ob Musk nun Billionär ist oder nicht.

One of the more bizarre aspects of American politics for a European or Canadian observer is how what in Ottawa, Brussels or Rome comes across as boring milquetoast Social Democracy will be inevitably portrayed in the United States as harbingers of the next Leninist Red Terror

as a committed centrist, it saddens me that both parties are falling captive to their extremes - the right to insurrectionist cultists who want to invade american cities, and the left to socialists who want better bus service

This story is horrible, though unsurprising. They had warning troops were in danger and ignored them, then played down and even lied about their injuries to both their families and the public. They didn't even have the appropriate supplies on hand to treat the predictable injuries. Families are mad.

Lift.👏 The.👏 Cap.👏

The government has a formula that decides whether safety rules are worth passing. And that formula was rewritten to put a new price on your life: zero dollars. #PublicHealth #EPA #News #Trump #climatechange

Tulsi Gabbard dumped a pile of docs & claimed they were evidence of a vast plot by Fauci to manipulate intelligence, cover up the lab leak, & conceal his role in creating Covid. They weren’t. In reality, Gabbard’s documents undermine her. Here’s what they say… www.lawfaremedia.org/article/tuls...

The terror spreading across the country this a.m. because in some more progressive corners of the US progressives won elections is telling. The reason the reaction is so over-large is because progressives unlike centrists and the right, are the only group who pose a real threat to established power.

“The finance industry now controls significant parts of the UK economy. It extracts wealth, destroys jobs and weakens economic resilience. Governments…promote and protect the finance industry, whilst neglecting other productive areas, such as manufacturing.” leftfootforward.org/2026/06/the-...

Has anyone asked the Gulf Arab countries how much money they are going to put into Trump's $300b reconstruction fund for Iran? www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

TBH I feel like Mamdani has bent over backwards to demonstrate that he's not remotely antisemitic, and guys like Frum who will call him an antisemite anyway on the basis of his religion and anti-Zionism are doing the work of bona fide antisemites

Mamdani is close to going 3 for 3 in his Dem congressional primary endorsements, unseating two incumbents and one incumbent's chosen successor. This is a huge moment that confirms that progressive populism is not a fluke among the Democratic base, and Mamdani is the party's legit star and kingmaker.

No matter how loudly the dumbest people shout it, criticism of the state of Israel is not, in fact, "anti-Jewish messaging"

We have a new message for Democrats: attack attack attack. Trump is corrupt, he’s butchered the economy, and his DOJ operates like mob lawyers. And every voter knows it. So stop looking backward. Stop with the endless focus groups. This isn't complicated. He’s weak. Finish him.

JFC

Elon is threatening to sue Ro Khanna because an article said USAID’s elimination killed kids.

Palestinian children ‘unprotected’ as NGOs forced out of Gaza and West Bank https://aje.news/gk1gde

These are the actions of a traitor not an American President......

These OMB proposed rules will destroy science in the US. Make your voice heard! We have until July 13!! Otherwise, our science will be controlled by partisan politics, not peer review! fight2win.standupforscience.net

💯% this

R.I.P. Alan Greenspan: You were charming, thoughtful, powerful, and wrong. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/rip-alan-greenspan

We used to be a nation of shared experience and politeness and empathy. Now we’re a nation profiteering off a madman and absolutely uninterested in the dead future we are building /3

SUSAN COLLINS: The people of Maine want independence FOX NEWS: You've voted with President Trump about 94% of the time

Trump wants to increase the US military budget by ~$500B/yr, even though the current one is bigger than the next 7 countries combined. That's roughly enough $$$ to plug the looming Social Security shortfall. Or just cut a bunch of tax breaks for the rich. Behold the possibilities...

I suspect this is something they brag about in private. Elon, too. The white South Africans are invited to move here, and the rest of them can hurry up and die.

Scoop: The Trump administration is backing off its plan to dismantle a $368 million ocean monitoring system crucial to understanding climate change, after a bipartisan backlash in Congress. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/c...

Reuters reports that for "Tehran's adversaries across the Middle East" the MoU "looks more like the curse of the century" than the "deal of the century". www.aol.com/articles/ana...

pete hegseth is engaged in open racial discrimination against black officers. the clear message is that there is no place for black or women leadership in his military

Elon Musk spent $290 million getting Trump elected. During this midterm cycle, he's spent $85 million. In total, that’s 0.0375% of his $1 trillion net worth. Oligarchs can rig the system at the expense of everyone else, and only spend pennies doing so. We must get Big Money out of politics.

Science! 🙋🏻‍♂️

‘Heinous crime’: Al Jazeera camera operator Ahmed Wishah has been killed in an Israeli air strike on a house in Gaza’s Bureij refugee camp.

FREE SPEECH UNDER ATTACK: Marco Rubio just had a man arrested and jailed, and is seeking to deport him, because he publicly supported Petro and opposed a presidential candidate in Colombia that Donald Trump would prefer to be elected. He committed no crimes and had an asylum application pending.

Someone asked me, quite reasonably, why I've been so interested in the 250th anniversary celebrations, in Juneteenth, in the Arch, etc. My answer's pretty simple. Orwell: "Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Better diagnosis doesn't "create" autistic individuals. It just means we are diagnosed. I didn't magically become autistic when I got my diagnosis. I always had been. Too many see the increase in people being diagnosed as a reason to restrict diagnosis rather than actually provide genuine support.

He only exited because his lizard brain knows we're on the edge of a global economic catastrophe of his own making.

And ameriKKKan KKKristians are silent....