@MTA needs to offer deodorant and headphones to passengers for $1 or even free, especially during the summer months.

The mainstream media is a club of mostly straight white men who protect each other, minimize issues relating to women and ethnic minorities and who come from privileged backgrounds that blind them to low/middle income issues. It’s a disaster.

Dan Kleban, brewery owner in Maine and a candidate that a lot of Dems like, says he's ready to make the run in Platner's place:

This woman has been the subject of three NYT pieces in 2025-26

We always seem to have billions for war, bombs, and endless militarization. But when it comes to healthcare, Social Security, housing, or feeding kids, suddenly we're told there's no money. That's a political choice.

At least 16 residents who lived closest to the concrete plant have sold their land to the company since 2019. An ex-resident who took the company to court said that dust from the plant was so pervasive there was "no peace to be had at [his] house.” with @bridgedet313.bsky.social

NEW: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections in the past two years — despite warning voters that “it is illegal to misrepresent your residence on election records.” with @texastribune.org

NEW: Detroit's Cadillac Heights used to be a quiet neighborhood. After a historic land swap facilitated by city officials, a billionaire-owned concrete plant moved in. Now residents say they are battling air pollution so thick they can “taste the dust.” with @bridgedet313.bsky.social

Wayne State acquires Casey Kasem and American Top 40 collection from radio historian 📚📻 library.wayne.edu/blog/2026/06...

Why Metro Times endorsed Abdul El-Sayed to take on Trump, billionaires, and the status quo @abdulelsayed.bsky.social www.metrotimes.com/news/metro-t...

Hey @nolanfinleydn.bsky.social, per your “U.S. Supreme Court Justices forgot for a few critical moments last week that they're in President Donald Trump's pocket” piece. Cc @chadlivengood.bsky.social

You've heard a lot about the Moroun-owned Ambassador Bridge in Detroit, and the efforts to block the opening of the new bridge to Canada. Here's what's going on with another Moroun-owned company ... It decided that the best place to plunk a concrete plant right in a residential neighborhood.

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 U.S. military shot and killed an American on U.S. soil this morning

UNREAL. This actually happened ▶️ "President Trump called Gianni Infantino, the president of FIFA, on Wednesday and asked him to review the suspension of the United States’ top goal scorer, Folarin Balogun,"

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.”

@mgoblog.bsky.social #ThomasGordon

@phillewis.bsky.social #Michigan

"Centrists like Demsas and Favreau are constantly looking for ways to both sides the left, which means that they end up being suckers for right-wing framing."

We found a 1980 police report labeled “NO PRESS.” A former city detective testified this designation was not unusual. It meant Syracuse University had “put their foot down and said no press for any kind of rape, robbery, burglary” near the school.

My column from Monday on the 1901 lynching of Robin White — halfway between the Revolution and today — and the toxic belief that some Americans are more legitimate than others, leading to state-condoned violence and away from democracy.

Never change, Staten Island. Never change.

Boogie Down Productions released ‘Ghetto Music: The Blueprint of Hip-Hop’ 37 years ago on July 4, 1989 | Listen to the album + revisit our tribute here: album.ink/BDPghettomusic

Booker T Washington (center) George Washington Carver (third from right) Charles Walter Greene (standing second row right) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles...

TODAY IN AFRO HISTORY ! TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE FOUNDED IN 1881 ! NEW YORK STATE ABOLISHES SLAVERY IN 1827 !

Don't want to speak ill of the dead, so getting this Mitch McConnell take out now. He saw Trump with complete clarity, as a danger to America, but protected him anyway. Perhaps more than anyone, he had the power to end Trumpism, but chose party over country. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/jan-6-and-...

For America250, don't forget to follow all of these amazing Indigenous folks from the Nations that already existed here, from the Nations OLDER than America. go.bsky.app/MEaiVa9

New Music Friday with an addendum to Black Milk's new album that dropped in May. Check out Ceremonial #NMF open.spotify.com/track/57CPoW...

what sets Do the Right Thing apart is it’s not just shots of people sweating, or doing the things they only do when it’s hot and there’s no AC. It *looks* hot: the bulging lenses, drifting camera, and above all, the colors. It makes your eyeballs sweat.

Another fun read: @nellminow.bsky.social put together links to 10 movie reviews by the late, great Roger Ebert that he thought captured the essence of the United States of America. www.rogerebert.com/roger-ebert/...

James Earl Jones reads Douglass: To the Black man, "your celebration is a sham; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless. There is not a nation of the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of these United States." www.democracynow.org/2020/7/3/wha...

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

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. 🎁 🔗

Some donors who intended to give to the bipartisan, congressionally chartered America250 initiative were instead steered to the partisan, Trump-backed Freedom 250, according to a report from House Dems. The report says that could amount to "potential wire fraud and charitable solicitation fraud."

Today's NYT jobs report coverage (left) compared to exactly 2 years ago under Biden (right). Notice the numbers.

Happy 55th anniversary to Shaft

I’m sure @repespaillat.bsky.social @ericdinowitznyc.bsky.social are working the phones as we speak.

Hey @markgongloff.bsky.social wtf bsky.app/profile/navi...

The Air Force has acknowledged that the recent death of a recruit in basic training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland was caused by a flu virus that has swept the base, according to U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro. bit.ly/4vGghg4

Happy Birthday To The One And Only Debbie Harry!

🚨SCOOP: Republican Rep. Tom Kean repeatedly voted against legislation to give Americans paid family/medical leave, before Kean took 4 months of paid medical leave from Congress for depression - all while somehow finding the time to raise himself $160,000 worth of campaign cash.

This birthright ruling is why I just refuse to tolerate all the Democrat garment rending over NY voters choosing progressive candidates. They are incapable of governing in this moment. The politics of appeasement and centrism gets us to a 5-4 decision on the constitutional question.

grilled by Rep. Pocan, Russell Vought refuses to acknowledge that people have died as a result to cuts to USAID. Pocan then reads the names of various people who have died because of the cuts.

"Until leftists collectively try to use judicial and then violent means to overturn an election that they clearly lost, as MAGA Republicans did in 2020, I don’t want to hear any bullshit false equivalences between leftists and MAGA conservatives."

Read @perrybaconjr.bsky.social on the false equivalence of democratic centrists who conflate fascism with folks who want education and healthcare.

This is "enshittification". www.wsj.com/personal-fin...

@amyklobuchar.com @sencortezmasto.govpeeps.us They aren’t there to work with you. Do you get it yet?

I know the list is endless but I genuinely think trashing the legitimate congressionally chartered org for celebrating the 250th to instead hijack our national assets and taxpayer funds for his personality cult grifter crap should, in and of itself, be fully sufficient to merit removal from office.