This is the sort of structural constitutional overhaul type stuff democratic socialists should be championing and injecting back into the conversation, of course though I'm happy to see it brought up by anyone and it bodes well that Buttigieg feels like he can push it.

Get in motherfuckers, we’re reconstructing

embarrassing and also not even really true! japanese and brazillian guys invented this shit and americans just co-opted it!

That's easy. Blame Trump and his incompetent, grifter appointees.

"A big factor in the decline in students is...the demographic cliff. In 2008, there was a steep drop off in the number of babies being born that never recovered. That generation is now reaching college age, meaning there are fewer traditional students enrolling..." www.syracuse.com/syracuse-uni...

Traffic to far-right websites has crashed over the past year as Donald Trump has grown increasingly unpopular, a new report revealed. TheRighting, a news outlet focusing on conservative media, found that the 20 most popular right-wing news websites—(cont.) 🧵 www.thedailybeast.com/far-right-ne...

Hamawy himself is also a combat veteran, but he's widely regarded as a sweetie by everyone he meets and is soft spoken and practices medicine so this for some reason is not masculine. El Sayed is a weightlifter and talks about men's mental health, but he is not white so that doesn't count either.

I know Calvin’s dad is already having a moment, but every terrible “outsource precious and fleeting moments with your children to tech so that you can spend more time on your work” pitch makes me think of that one strip I never really cared about as a kid, but care a lot about as an adult.

EXCLUSIVE: Despite insisting that a $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization” fund has been scrapped, the Trump administration is quietly looking for ways to make payouts to allies, Sarah Fitzpatrick reports.

“This has nothing to do with Joe Biden,” one senator said, “but Trump and DOGE definitely screwed our cattle industry.”

this might be the best headline i’ve ever read

Melon Kuma, a terrifying hybrid of a melon and a bear, is a character from Yubari City in Hokkaido, and was inspired by wild brown bears destroying melon patches in the area. He visited the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building today.

/2 Also: this APPEARS to be a high government official endorsing mass racial violence - a pogrom. If you are one of those people inclined to minimize it and explain it away, I ask: why? Why now? What, exactly, supports any charitable reading?

All other things aside though this is literally expressing sympathy for a terrorist organisation

My biggest "then perish" ever to any studios who might actually be negatively impacted by this

Every single person involved in these murders must be tried, prosecuted and jailed. A pardon should be no object, as the pardon itself would be obstruction of justice in furtherance of the administration's crimes.

Always great to talk to the amazing @philinvestigates.com about the violent white nationalists who join Active Clubs and what they are planning for our communities. Members of Active Clubs want more race riots in our world and they're learning that GOP officials want them too.

I really think people aren't focused on how hard it's going to be for JD Vance (or Marco Rubio?) to defend Trump's Medicaid cuts when they really start hitting in the next cycle.

They came here fleeing persecution; rather than give them refuge, Marco Rubio’s state department will send them to die in countries they’ve never been to. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/w...

I think contextually it is important that Niantic Games was sold off and acquired by Scopely who are owned by Savvy Games which is an investment branch of the Saudi Arabian government. This was a strategic investment to get access to the data by a foreign government with no ethical concerns.

Here's the full article for those interested. Insanely bleak stuff, I don't think I'll ever be able to look at the Pokemon franchise the same way again dronexl.co/2026/06/09/p...

But read Valenti's whole piece: "Leaving aside for a moment that the public does not have “concerns about the right to life”—81% of Americans don’t want the government involved in abortion at all—let’s consider what the “freedom” of a 12- or 15-week ban looks like for women."

NYT is always "progressives should abandon their principles! Sell out! Sell out! SELL OUT!" This is something you will constantly find at the NYT, a piece dressed up as a news article that is editorializing frantically for a political position, not neutrally presenting the facts.

JG Ballard crumpling up a manuscript in agony

More people know Erika Kirk from being the butt of a Druski joke than they do from her being married to Charlie Kirk

At a moment when politicians in Washington are targeting trans people, rolling back rights, and trying to divide us, Pride this year is a reminder that we must always stand together and fight for one another. Happy Pride, New York City.

We celebrated Pride with the Mayor's Office of LGBTQIA+ Affairs to honor the queer and trans New Yorkers who help make this the greatest city on earth.

Different avenue of lying, but I wholeheartily endorse the 99% wealth tax on billionaires and then just lie to them. "Yes sir, you still have all your money, sir. 0% tax for you, sir" They'd never know.

This is absolutely correct and Elrod's description of Dilettantism sums up why as a foreign observer the whole Platner thing seemed a little doomed from the start.

Breaking: Israeli firm BlackCore suspected of interfering in NYC vote, French officials say www.reuters.com/world/israel...

Reminder: Early COVID-era deaths reduced Social Security liabilities by $156 billion. I keep telling people, Republicans noted those savings and have sought to cull the old and "weak" ever since.

I don’t know how to explain how this is bigger than culture war and informs policy if our current Administration doesn’t demonstrate that enough for you.

My latest reprinted in @truthout.org. "What we need now is something that carries the insurgent spirit of Occupy, but with greater precision: a movement that understands the heist state as a historic redistribution of wealth upward, and organizes to force that transfer into reverse."

The press punished Biden for foolishly releasing his visitor's logs with rampant negative speculation about his health. By contrast they fill in gaps in Trump's largely opaque health records by giving him the benefit of the doubt and taking best-possible interpretations of the evidence.

Michigan Governor caught on hot mic with Oracle CEO Clay Magouyrk, discussing citizen opposition to AI data centers, bragging how she ignores their concerns: “We’re used to people saying 'f*ck no,' & doing it anyway.”🇺🇸

The horn of Africa is grieving because their -Their farms are no longer yielding -Advancement of desert is alarming -Our major rivers are drying -Proliferation of pest and pathogens -Development of tropical diseases. -Our crop are dieing out. Climate change is a reality.

This is true, but also two key points: * it's nobody's fucking business what's in some kid's pants * they made up this entire bullshit fake panic to demonize innocent people, and the people responsible for the panic are actual child sexual predators Free healthcare for all, all the goddamn time.

There's no living with these people.

Anyone who argues that Democrats should move to the right on their most popular political issue either has no understanding of abortion politics, or is anti-abortion themselves. In the case of yesterday's NYT op-ed—it appears to be both jessica.substack.com/p/new-york-t...

This graph from Australia shows how quickly the tide is turning.

The violence in Belfast is a reminder of something I don’t want to take for granted: The fascists here hoped the response to the depredations of ICE would be similar, with people turning in or attacking their neighbors. That it was the very opposite is worth remembering in this season of despair

Man’s home ‘destroyed, top to bottom’ by fire in Belfast violence

don’t think i have ever seen a politician as feckless and cowardly as starmer

Happy Pride to this Caravaggio self-portrait that made one man so gay he had to go to the hospital

Lilly Wachowski (@lillywachowski.bsky.social) at Tribeca for the 30th anniversary of #Bound. Explore more 📸 from Daniel Dickerman in The Film Stage's Tribeca Festival 2026 portrait gallery: thefilmstage.com/the-film-sta...

"Dozens of women continue the relay of the labor and hunger strike saying, 'We are mothers, daughters, sisters. We are people and we demand justice.'"

really funny that Bill Gates will have to testify for Epstein connects but congress can't do anything about Donald Trump for the same shit

27 people were made homeless after Tuesday night's violence in Belfast, including children.

outside the CDC main entrance today