This is the best of Bluesky right here. Click through to enjoy the whole thread. God bless @laurajedeed.bsky.social and God bless America! 🇺🇸🎇

"The Democratic base is angry. Democratic politicians can channel that anger against Trump—or it will be channeled against them."

"The Declaration is not content to justify tearing a bad govt down. It assigns a second, harder task: to build a better one. Overthrowing the old is the easy part, building something new is the real difficulty. Building a lasting govt took 13 more years." We need a new constitutional convention.

Great piece from 2021 by @hofrench.bsky.social outlining the significance of Haiti's revolution to world history & US westward expansion. The world should treat the cause of Haiti's collapse & "poorest nation" status w/ economic support, not just refugee status. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

"Trump v. Barbara should thus have been an extraordinarily easy case; it should not have taken so long or been so difficult for the Court to affirm the constitutional foundation of multiracial democracy in the United States." Indeed, SCOTUS should never have taken the case at all.

"Sixty years ago, despite his reservations about FOIA, President Johnson said, “I signed this measure with a deep sense of pride that the United States is an open society in which the people’s right to know is cherished and guarded.” " Another silent murder of Johnsons Great Society.

"The truth is in the ground, in the archive, in the oral histories collected beginning in 1993. What the attack cost was the institution’s willingness to stand in front of that truth without flinching. That is a real cost. It is not the same as losing the truth." Excellent read for #America250.

This is a fantastic, digestible explainer of the contradictory, incoherent "reasoning" of the 4 justices who voted against birthright citizenship and propped open the door for another swing at nullifying the citizenship clause of the 14th amendment.

"But midnight is the beginning of a new day. It’s the darkest of hours, but it’s also the beginning of a new period. We have an opportunity, if we're mature enough, to actually build a country in the aftermath of the ruins left behind by Trump & his people." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️ 🧵, Dec. 9, 1864: On the march to Savannah, hundreds or thousands of African American families who had just escaped from slavery were left to drown by Sherman’s Army. This is referred to as the Massacre at Ebenezer Creek.(cont) #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

@onthemedia.bsky.social cranked out a double-barreled award winner ahead of #America250. Opening with a sober look at the #Prairieland #Antifa #FirstAmendment case & finishing with a survey of the shadow race casts on the nation's anniversaries w/ @esglaude.bsky.social. Light a sparkler and reflect.

F'in great, SCOTUS. Morons.

These reports showing apartment complexes blown to bits have become so commonplace that anyone would think that war = destruction of civilian infra. I guess it always has--think the Blitz, Dresden, Hiroshima & Nagasaki-- but post WWII treaties were supposed to make it illegal. Now Gaza & Ukraine.

"The agentic web will force us to verify that there's a morally and legally accountable person somewhere in the chain. “Proof of personhood” technology is emerging as the fix. It's constitutional infrastructure that will shape who can act, speak, transact, delegate authority—and be trusted online."

I'm saddened but also encouraged by this serviceman's bravery and call of duty to protest peacefully on the steps of our Capitol. I'm sure his presence there is largely in response to the #GeneralDonahue forced retirement and degradation and lawless misuse of our military. An SOS of extreme concern.

@democracydocket.com interviewed @justinjpearson.bsky.social a couple of weeks ago. Pearson is bright and motivated and an amazing representative of his constituents. TN just raked the playing field for his re-election to a 90° angle. We all need to fight back. youtu.be/JibIFmJArI8?...

This is a gut-punch to read. The toxicity of the political climate right now is so bad. @petebuttigieg.bsky.social is remarkable for remaining steadfast after something like this. This kind of ugliness to dissuade someone from public service is like burning a cross on the lawn. Glad all are safe.

"Even if Ukraine’s drone strikes don't immediately end Putin’s rule, they've dispelled the idea that Putin can defend Moscow, protect the Russian economy, & look after the Russian military, revealing the limits of Putin’s power." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

First-class rant about #ElonMusk: "The worst human being to have ever existed." substack.com/@politicsusa...

Long day. Decisions in five big cases. Summarized here so you can stay up to speed: open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

The White House Considers Granting 250 Pardons for the Nation’s Birthday. The idea has set off a frenzy of appeals for clemency. The pardons will go for $1 mn each, payable in Trump crypto coins. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

BREAKING: More than 100 Venezuelans who were deported from the U.S. hours before the earthquakes are missing after their hotel collapsed.

Trump is punking us, right? Who the f*ck is letting that man do this to the White House?

😵🤯☠️ Just when you think things couldn't possibly get worse with the firings of all the real grown-ups on the military, you get the Egg Man himself. KuKuKachoo. Anthropic gets black listed, and it's the network state poised to take over with surveillance and autonomous drones for all. F'in #Skynet.

Just finished Alito's dissent in the mail-in voting case and... it's so stupid. Even for him. THERE'S NO LEGAL ARGUMENT. It just rests on a fundamental misunderstanding of the word "choice." It's not surprising that the man who overturned Roe doesn't understand what the word choice means, but Jesus.

"The people who are going to make a difference are not those who seek relaxation & passively use AI to work less. They're those who seek improvement & actively wrestle with AI to develop their own mental capabilities & accomplish more." What could David Brooks possibly have to say about AI? A lot.

"It's difficult to overstate how much [politics over merit] will cripple a democracy's military. The allied armies in WW I were “lions led by donkeys.” Place the donkeys in charge long enough, & you'll see exactly what happens when the lions are forced to leave." 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/06/28/o...

"The decisions SCOTUS issued today are losses for the authority of Congress to have its laws fully executed by a prez who doesn’t agree with them. What happened to the Refugee Act of 1980? SCOTUS ignored it. This is a systemic effort to shrink congress' authority & enlarge the executive branch."

"Judaism divorced from Zionism is now a winning political stance." Great moment for American Jews. Finally. Great piece explaining why.

Please speak up. Record your objection. This is crucially important.

"The defendants were loosely affiliated thru a local leftwing book club & gun group. Prosecutors said some zines the book club read were evidence of the conspiracy& ideology that linked them. Legal observers said it amounted to criminalizing freedom of speech." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Check this out. AI data centers could end up tilting the midterms. Voters are paying attention. Some have already switched political parties over this issue, and more are asking who’s putting Big Tech ahead of their communities. Candidates ignore this at their own risk.

This is not good news.

"All this raises the probability that the Versailles Surrender was a scam—and that Mr. Trump knows it. It makes far more sense to think he had no intention of obligating Israel to the MOU’s terms than that he didn’t understand he had no means to do so." Everything Trump does is a scam. Guaranteed.

SpaceX shareholders are already being diluted, as the company registers another $60 billion worth of equity to pay for its acquisition of the vibe coding startup Cursor www.wsj.com/business/spa...

New: Trump’s family crypto business expected to soon be allowed to operate like a bank Decision will be made by Trump-appointed regulation Charter approval would allow US companies to complete transactions - like Venmo - on Trump platform, with cut for the firm www.notus.org/economy/trum...

The AI race is a gigantic risk to humanity. But the Trump administration at the helm punishing the only AI leader with the thinnest figleaf of ethics is a next-level danger. Taking a bellows to the flames of hell.

The dangerous and inhumane ICE deportation of third country nationals landed in Bangui, Central African Republic in the dangerous dark hours, as a thief in the night so as to hide the atrocity. But it was all captured 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾

This is the shameful news that will persist in the history books and through the ages even as Bluesky revels in tarp livestreaming tonight as crews remove trump's name from the Kennedy center. Some things are reversible. But for others, there's no turning back.

This is the number one thing people should understand. The damage is easy. The cleanup is hard. The nation is about to learn a lesson.

I worry that this will have really bad effects on the world economy. And that people with retirement funds have no way to avoid supporting what might be a catalyst to their own undoing.

Fellow Americans: 15 Celsius is 59 Fahrenheit. 59 degrees. In Antarctica. In June. Oh. Another conversion: in the southern hemisphere, June is December.

These are the kinds of headlines and leads we need to see in journalism right now.

Award-winning Somali referee, Omar Abdulkadir Artan, has been removed from the World Cup roster after being denied entry to the US despite holding a valid visa.

This is not just citizens defying the law. It's the courts defying the law. An intra-state civil war. An intensified microcosm of national trend markers. When rule of law has broken down at the national level, all hell breaks loose downstream of it. And vice versa.

"the bill would reduce monthly fruit and vegetable benefits from $52 to $13 for breastfeeding mothers and from $26 to $10 for young children."

Looking America's colonial violence in pursuit of global capitalist control straight in the face is the only way forward. There's no reforming this monstrosity. There's only dismantling it and working hand in hand with the people we exploited to create something better.

With its recent rulings, the Roberts Court has now entirely perverted the purpose of the 15th Amendment, turning an outright ban on racial discrimination in voting into a right to discriminate against black voters. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

There’s been a lot of talk in this race about what makes a "real man." A man does what’s right when no one is watching. He upholds his commitments to his family and neighbors. He doesn’t lie, cheat, & steal his way through life. Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.

This is really sweet.