They keep screaming at us that they intend to steal the election. I know lots of folks on the Dem side are working against that goal, and I think the countermeasures will be effective, but we all need to be in this fight. Literally nothing is more urgent for our democracy.

Asheville, North Carolina right now.

NEW: Across Africa, the State Department has demanded access to health data for millions of people as a condition of giving countries billions of dollars in aid needed to address HIV, malaria, tuberculosis and other illnesses.

It seems somewhat bad that the richest man in the world can use his money to bankrupt individuals or organizations -- including officials who are tasked with holding him accountable -- that accurately point out that his actions plausibly facilitated the deaths of millions.

Archaeologists: D.C. Capitol May Have Once Been Used For Legislating

“If you take the deal, you’re going to be exploited. If you don’t take it, you’re going to die,” said attorney Frank Ssekamwa about the U.S. demand to access the health data of millions of Ugandans. “It’s the essence of digital colonialism.”

Mona Khalil died Friday after an Israeli airstrike hit her beachside home two weeks ago. She's credited with creating a conservation movement in southern Lebanon to protect sea turtle nesting grounds. n.pr/4oJ4Npy

So according to Marco Rubio, whose enduring hobby is criticizing Cuban leaders, a person legally in the US seeking asylum is not allowed to criticize the person persecuting him because Trump has endorsed him? It's ridiculous. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/19/u...

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.” ― James Baldwin

School Voucher Advocate is Largest Single Donor in Tennessee Gov's Race open.substack.com/pub/theeduca...

On Juneteenth it’s important to remember that Brazil has a long history of resisting enslavement. Here’s a review of Marcelo D’Salete’s wonderful Angola Janga.

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

Stop calling it a “deal.” No progress and no specifics.

"Vance got to the point. They needed to invoke the Insurrection Act, swiftly, to crush the unrest in Minnesota. It would be painful in the short term, he said, but the message it would send — that paid agitators can't get away with disrupting ICE operations — would make sure no one tried it again."

Anti abortion activists said “leaving abortion to the states” would alleviate partisan rancor and get the justices out of the “abortion umpire business.” Now they’re demanding the courts force pro choice states to help enforce abortion bans. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The death of a woman from Haiti seeking asylum in the U.S. who died from hypothermia days after her release from federal custody was ruled a homicide by a Pennsylvania county medical examiner's office.

The world's first trillionaire did this

Boost your productivity with invasive, distracting, mostly incorrect summaries of emails you didn't want to read!

Doing god’s work. Great NYT pic of the rainbow at the Kennedy Center last night for the “Great Unnaming”

Todd Blanche cannot be Attorney General. The Senate must oppose his nomination. If you’re with me on this, please contact your senator’s office and tell them to vote NO on confirming Blanche. The Senate switchboard is (202) 224-3121.

Props to CNN’s chyron writer:

The largest Evangelical denomination which was rocked by allegations of sexual abuse by pastors and youth pastors has voted to formally ban women pastors. That's Evangelical Christianity in a nutshell. www.wsmv.com/2026/06/11/s...

One thing the NY Times article makes clear: Trump lead a massive, government wide effort to cover up the Epstein files because he knew he would be heavily implicated by them.

Trump has invested in the UFC’s parent company. That’s why this “cage fights for diplomacy” deal happened. trib.al/15nb1NO

Borg behavior. "We are your future." "Your technology will be added to our own." apnews.com/article/anth...

A year ago, nearly four in 10 students applied to college only in a single country. Today, 78 percent of students are considering two or more destinations, according to an IDP Education survey

The irony that a "state of scholarship" report that charges scholars and departments with poor quality scholarship is itself so motivated and so poorly done... www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

The callous brutality of it all is stunning

Your regular reminder that this clearly-it's-a-war is neither approved by Congress nor the UN Security Council & it is an egregious violation of the US Constitution, international law, & our signed, ratified treaty commitments, & if we were a serious country, we would care about these things

NEW: Our visual analysis suggests the U.S. hit two drinking-water facilities overnight in southern Iran with precision-guided munitions. Deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure could constitute a war crime. w/ @ckoettl.bsky.social @johnismay.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/w...

In Germany, Google is liable for false answers in its AI "overviews" that pop up at the top of search results. I wish we had this in the States. Make them pay for misleading users. the-decoder.com/landmark-ger...

Release the Trump Epstein files. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/m...

We either decide that pedophilia does not matter, or we release the Epstein files. It’s not complicated.

Israeli use of white phosphorus in populated areas is a war crime. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/06/w...

“The Auburn University Board of Trustees on Friday gave itself complete control over course offerings, curriculum, degree requirements and academic credentials while eliminating shared governance at the Alabama land-grant university… The policy leaves many questions unanswered”

Politics is all about priorities - and the Trump regime's priorities do not reflect our values as a country. #ResistTrump

Louise V Durham, stained glass and driftwood sculpture, Shoreham by Sea, UK #WomensArt

Here is a woman running against Graham Platner in next week’s primary. Maine has options.

House bill rolls back food aid for pregnant women, children www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

NEW: No state has taken over as many public school districts as Texas. Since 2020, the Texas Education Agency has installed its own hand-picked leaders in eight districts. Four of those came just this spring. At least another 10 are at risk of takeover. w/ @texasobserver.org

NEWS: A @lawfaremedia.org report finds that *97* Jan. 6ers who received clemency for their role in the attack were arrested, charged, or convicted of subsequent crimes—a number much higher than previously reported. Incredible work by @katherinepomps.bsky.social www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

I think EVERY member of Congress should be in the SCIF reading the unredacted versions of the Epstein Files. It should be mandated. And then they should have to go on record, one by one. America deserves to know who is part of the cover-up, and who are guilty of other crimes....ON RECORD.

The U.S. designation of two Brazilian crime groups as terrorist organizations scrambles already tense bilateral relations.

The heart of our constitutional crisis in one exchange between me and Sec. Mullin. When asked a simple question - if he will obey court orders - he says he will not because some court orders are "politicized". That's not how democracy works. And that's why we are in a crisis.

NEW: Rep. Jamie Raskin is calling on Todd Blanche to resign. "[W]e must demand that Todd Blanche resign. An Attorney General who has disgraced himself by settling a bogus lawsuit with a $1.8 billion taxpayer-funded bonanza payout to convicted cop beaters."

We would never hear the end of it. NEVER.

New Jersey State Police push past barricades outside the Delaney Hall Detention Facility

As horrifying as this campaign of premeditated murder is, what might be even more disturbing is the utter indifference of Congress, the public and our allies to such a shocking and unapologetic obliteration of the many laws and norms against targeting civilians. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/w...

If I hear another f--ng interview about how the long run learning loss which started pre-covid (esp in reading) is probably caused by social media and failure to implement Science of Reading, while totally ignoring the post-recession great disinvestment - for which we already have causal evidence...