Historians will be shocked by America's 250th birthday - and what didn't happen Trump pretended in a killer heat wave that climate change wasn't real. They pardoned polluters, censored protests, and killed windmills. Nobody fought back Denial Day: My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

Leftists make a huge mistake when they allow science policy to be run entirely by centrists and the right. You’re ceding a place of power over technology development and the direction that scientific research goes in, including how it is taken up by the military-industrial complex.

That's 98° F

Incredible moment where Fox News puts up a graphic with all the reasons it opposes the DSA and why people should be afraid of them

From Senator Tartaglione: “We often say a budget is a reflection of values. If that’s true, then a budget that leaves behind minimum wage workers is a statement that their work does not count at the same level as everyone else’s. I do not accept that." penncapital-star.com/government-p...

Not a great economy alert! Wall Street Bets users think Palantir spiked today because The Onion story titled “Palantir Acquires Pentagon for $800 Billion” hit their front page. They’re guessing trading bots indexed the top post on the subreddit reddit not understanding source.

Trump had signed an order to end birthright citizenship for children born in the US to undocumented immigrants.

Whew...

An iPad inside Independence Hall tells visitors that a second floor room was used in the 1850s to hold individuals “accused of crimes of the period.” Originally, the screen read “accused fugitives of slavery.” @fallonroth.bsky.social and I discover more retelling of history by Trump’s admin. 🎁 🔗

Proposals are due TODAY!

"People are betting on wildfires." Really feels like banning these betting markets is a minimum necessary condition for civilisation.

At caucus, they asked us, the party faithful, if we should add "abolish ICE" language to the Colorado Democratic Party platform. It passed with 98% approval. 98 fucking percent. That's why we're mad. Because y'all don't match our energy.

Share your work with the CNAIR community! Proposals are due June 29.

This is the correct framing. It sounds hyperbolic at first, but when we break the spell, it will seem like the most obvious point you could make.

This is the World Cup for haters

"We’re publishing this blog post to explain our decision to refer to Delaney Hall as a “concentration camp” and clarify the term’s meaning." This is incredibly important. jerseybee.org/2026/06/11/w...

Share your work with the CNAIR community! Proposals are due June 29.

A heat wave may be the most obvious health threat. But infectious diseases can spread in a crowd, and experts are set to scrutinize wastewater, hospital visits, even social media for any signs that an outbreak might be brewing. www.audacy.com/kywnewsradio...

I’m very excited for this! On a summer evening in 1972, a pivotal generation of Harlem Renaissance legends gathered at Duke Ellington’s townhouse. The trailer for “Once Upon a Time in Harlem” is out:

Philly folks: I'm looking for recommendations for Spanish/English interpreters for an in-person event this summer. Ideally they'd have a background in anthropology, linguistics, or library sciences.

An extra special example of one of my favorite insects.

31% of Democrats polled said being transgender is "morally wrong". Five years ago it would have been a fraction of that. The propaganda is working, the silence from Democrats is deafening, & all of this is why every step backward can't go ignored for even a moment. news.gallup.com/poll/710810/...

Absolutely furious about this and have no way to stop it. So this guy seriously has just bullshitted his way into forcing all of us to give him money for absolutely nothing? Fuck all of this.

Sen. Katie Muth (D-Chester) published a memorandum Thursday seeking cosponsors for a bill that would amend the Public Utility Code to prohibit data centers from obtaining a Certificate of Public Convenience and becoming utilities. From @petehallpa.bsky.social

This was always the best part of WaPo, and what I missed most when I cancelled my subscription ~10 years ago. I'm glad to see they've gone independent!

“Fund the police,” they said.

Just cross posting this horrific intel from an independent journalist who has been on the ground in NJ for the last few days: www.threads.com/@hereswhykev...

🚨BREAKING: Our video journalist Jon Farina falls down as he is nearly shot by flash bang grenade as NJ state police continue firing a BLITZ of flash bang grenades and tear gas at unarmed anti-ICE protesters outside Delaney Hall ICE Prison. WE'RE LIVE ⬇️

This is an ominous precedent.

RIGHT NOW: NJ state troopers with riot gear are forcing protesters supporting the hunger strikers of Delaney Hall and media ppl down the street. They’re firing flashbang grenades at the ground to force people to disperse, per the @statuscoupnews.bsky.social livestream www.youtube.com/live/yTlpCYk...

This is a great photo of a cat sitting in a bowl. "No way she could top that" you're thinking. WELL GUESS WHAT...

Want to share your work with the CNAIR community? The Indigenous Learning Forum CFP is open! Se aceptarán propuestas en inglés o español, y se ofrecerá interpretación en español/inglés para todas las presentaciones. Proposals are due June 29! www.amphilsoc.org/indigenous-l...

I'd love to see a comparison of Sherrill's and Shapiro's data center proposals. Has anyone done this?

Miskitu leader Brooklyn Rivera has been a political prisoner of the Ortega-Murillo regime in Nicaragua for three years. His daughter Tininiska has no contact with him during that time and has been demanding proof-of-life. Today the regime released these devastating photos.

The absolute bare minimum effort we *should* be seeing from electeds anywhere. “I ran up and put myself between the ICE officers and the crowd, and that’s when they started to shoot at us with the pepper balls — as well as using the pepper spray — and were tackling people."

I am not a religious person by any means, but if I saw this in person I'd assume the gods are speaking to me directly

Philly utterly rejects wayfinding signage. If you don't already know, you don't belong here. Also, what little signage does exist is merely a suggestion. It's 'you do you' driving.

Gift 🎁 link: what sort of person is complicit in killing democracy? "It turns out...the kinds of career pressures familiar to employees everywhere — the desire to revive a stalled career or obtain a minor promotion — can be enough to incentivize lower- and... 1/2 www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/w...

Nothing is inevitable

Great thread

I really wanted to share this with ya'll because for a lot of non-Natives, Landback is scary because the only framework they know about Natives and the acquisition of land is through the violence of colonization, forced removal, theft, dishonesty, and cruelty. There is a fear of vengeance.

Landback often gets talked about in dramatic terms. In practice, it's much quieter and involves tribal leaders, landowners, lawyers, conservation groups, non-profits and individuals having conversations and collaborating to build bridges. It takes time, because it requires a great deal of trust.

If you want to know how long Chris Rabb has been doing progressive activism, I took this picture last fall in the basement of what is no longer John Calhoun College at Yale. (It's now named for Grace Hopper.)

Decision Desk HQ projects Christopher Rabb wins the PA US House 3 Democratic Primary #DecisionMade: 10:20 PM EDT

VoteHub projects Chris Rabb to win the Democratic primary for Pennsylvania U.S. House District 3.

Wild. Chris Rabb wins.

I spent today - from 6:30 am to 8 pm - outside my polling location in South Philly talking to voters about Rabb. I'm not surprised he's taken this lead, I estimate 50% of folks I talked with supported him. And yes, it was brutally hot!

big PA-3 vote drop on the City website showing Rabb taking a considerable lead. I haven't been doing public advocacy on this race because while I've worked with one candidate whom I think is great, I've also worked with and respect the other two quite a bit.

Check out Reclaim's ballot guide, which includes many of the Wards that Work candidates - and Rabb, of course! www.reclaimphiladelphia.org/blog/2026/5/...