The United States is behaving like a rogue state. The President has carried out an illegal act of war, kidnapped a foreign head of state, and is now threatening military action against NATO allies. This is a constitutional crisis. Impeachment must be on the table.

Samuel Alito flew two flags used by insurrectionists. Clarence Thomas' wife plotted to overturn the 2020 election. Both justices refused to recuse themselves from SCOTUS cases related to the January 6th plot. It's a stain on our nation that this has effectively been forgotten.

We cannot forget who was complicit on January 6th. Ted Cruz fanned the flames of insurrection. Ken Paxton provoked the rioters before the assault. John Cornyn refused to investigate the attack. They have forfeited their right to represent us in our nation’s Capitol.

I am pleased to announce that I have commandeered my neighbor's home. This home will be sold at its Market Price, and that money will be controlled by me, to ensure it is used to benefit my neighbor and me! Thank you for your attention to this matter!

The New York Public Library's excellent research library and archive on Black culture is named for Arturo Schomburg, whose Qur'an Zohran Mamdani will be sworn in on.

Zohran Mamdani will be sworn in as NYC's first Muslim mayor on a Qur'an from the personal collection of the great Afro-Boricua intellectual Arturo Schomburg—as well as Qur'ans owned by Mamdani's grandparents. www.nypl.org/press/schomb...

I kept seeing people use the word samizdat to refer to the Canadian sourcing of the 60 Minutes report on CECOT pulled by Bari Weiss. Here's the definition from Merriam-Webster:

Ok. Now had a chance to check and, well, at least some docs do appear to be straight up classic redaction fail. And there are some *interesting* bits here. www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...

This has always been a Bluesky-first campaign. But as of today, we will no longer be using Twitter. At all. And I'm calling on other candidates to follow suit.

DOJ briefly uploaded this letter from Jeff Epstein to serial child molester Larry Nassar: "Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."

BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported? NOEM: We haven't deported veterans MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea

Birders Against Fascism. Makes me think of @joshbartok.bsky.social and @lizroemer.bsky.social

Trump now losing gerrymandering war he started: -federal court blocks Texas gerrymander -California passes prop 50 -Utah court creates new Dem district -VA begins new map process -Indiana, Kansas scrap redistricting effort www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

@joshbartok.bsky.social and I wrote about how the #Buddhist practice of mudita can decrease envy and enhance our sense of connectedness. #mindfulness #psychology www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mind...

'The event is about 50% social and 50% people actually wanting to play chess … It’s a nice way to decompress, which doesn’t involve going to a club to see other people my age'

#Chess it’s cool, trendy and fun Cafe Chess www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/n...

REV. BLACK (who was shot in the head with a pepper ball): “If this is what they’re doing to pastors, journalists, teachers, mothers, and the elderly gathered to sing and pray outside ICE facilities… what might they be doing to our neighbors who are behind those walls?”

Thank you to everyone who’s supported us. And a special thank you to Illinois elected officials — including many of my opponents — who have condemned this political prosecution by the Trump administration:

Those #ICE fuckers abducted another of my neighbors in #SomervilleMA this morning. People from #LUCE were going door to door asking for info about him so they could let his family know and maybe get him a lawyer. This is just getting worse and worse

We got the Lucha contingency out here

😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings

#MedfordChessClub has added a new weekly meeting time and place! Drop by Mrs. Murphy's pub near Medford Square Wednesday at 7pm for "Pawns and Pints" #chess #chessClub #MedfordMA www.medfordchessclub.com www.mrsmurphs.com

See you on Mastodon! mastodon.online/@BenGleason

The Pete Principle. Newsday.com/matt

When governments have cowed the press and flooded social platforms with viral propaganda, Wikipedia has become the next target, and a more stubborn one. Read more: www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

So, I noticed a new evolution in the way comics are displayed in book stores today. I found a shop that placed comics in the comics section, but also on a single shelf at the end of each genre section. So if you are browsing fantasy, the books beyond Z are all fantasy comics.

I admire @lichess.org's commitment to offering all features to all users for free, but also I'm grateful they came up with something to offer to those of us who are paying, to feed our smug sense of superiority. lichess.org/@/Lichess/bl...

Here's an interview on the #PathsOfPractice podcast with the charming and erudite Howard Lazzarini, who translated THE SOUND THAT PERCEIVES THE WORLD by the great Zen master Kosho Uchiyama Roshi, published by wisdom.org #buddhism #zen #WisdomPublications youtube.com/watch?v=PX_w...

To celebrate Andor's third anniversary, my nerdy long article on spaceships is open to everyone. With everything I've learned since then, I should take the time to update it. 🤫

#Hulu and #Disney who own #ABC have gone the way of #WashingtonPost - canceled due to their coddling of #fascism. How many more of our media outlets will become #propaganda for the #Trump regime?

I could say I was boycotting ABC but the fact of the matter is I literally cannot remember the last time I actually watched an ABC show over the air

Allow me to address the elephant in the room: If Charlie Kirk wasn’t a right-wing extremist, right-wing extremist groups wouldn’t be marching to honor him.

Hannah Einbinder at the Emmys backstage: "It is my obligation as a Jewish person to distinguish Jews from the state of Israel. Our religion and our culture is such an important and long-standing institution that is really separate to this sort of ethnonationalist state."

korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in

Important reminder

- you clean up that banksy? - sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked

I’m so impressed by the survivors and I’m behind their efforts to get validation, conviction for those involved ! Enough is enough! #jeffreyEpstein

Google developer #1: "That's it. Our search engine is simple, efficient, and reliable. It's perfect. We're done." Google developer #2, presumably: "But wouldn't it be *more* perfect if the first search result was always a robot who mansplained your search results to you incorrectly?"

An upcoming news conference with victims of Jeffrey Epstein could be “explosive,” one of the congressmen pushing for full release of the files on Epstein predicts. Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna said the victims’ accounts will force lawmakers to vote on a bill requiring DOJ to release its files.

He's pissin his pants about this...

California stepping up.

Urban walls, sidewalks, and even utility meters are the unlikely canvases behind this clever collection of genius street art. From an illusion of a zebra being striped to a sidewalk creature with a real rock for a head, these eight works turn... 👇