I hear Cybertrucks are the most dangerous. Thank you for your service.🫡

News — University of Central Florida (UCF) abruptly shut down two of its three libraries today, plus an important resource desk within the main library. Staff were given no warning. UCF is the 2nd largest public university in the country w/ ~70k students. Library hours page confirming closures:

Writers/researchers of all kinds: when hammering out a first draft, what time(s) of day work best for you? Why do you think that is?

"The Leonard Cohen Estate has learned that the song 'Hallelujah' is to be performed at a Donald Trump rally on June 24. This use is not authorized, and the Estate does not support or approve of this or any similar usage. Thank you for your attention to this matter." www.rawstory.com/trump-rally-...

“and so it’s almost like a confession – as though the words on the pamphlet are: 'We worship the devil, signed, antifa’.” @reproutopia.bsky.social quoted in @lexmcmenamin.com's incredible new story

shortcut for emailing comments- Email comments, containing the NAME and ADDRESS of the commenter, may be sent to: [email protected] with a subject line of “Ballot Mail.”

here is a link to an easy way to make a comment. thanks to the League of Women Voters www.lwv.org/take-action/...

Sen. Peters: "Yes or no, if a state refuses to turn their absentee voter list over to the federal government, will the Postal Service still mail their ballots under this proposed rule?" Postmaster General David Steiner: "Under our proposed regulation, no."

The platonic ideal of “can it be both?”

NEW — I spoke briefly to plaintiff's attorney @chasestrangio.bsky.social about the judge's decision this morning to grant a TRO and to certify the class. I'll share some quotes in the thread below:

I'm not yet seeing any reports of confirmed abductions at or near the Will County court today; however, ICE has recently targeted the court in Joliet, and other courthouses in the Chicago area, despite an IL law granting people privilege from civil arrest while attending state court proceedings.

HEY CHICAGO! The city wants to sell your parking meter company to the same private-equity firm that owns Omni Air International, the worst of the worst of ICE's charter airlines. The city council's finance committee is meeting about it TOMORROW. 1/

telling starving children they can’t eat because we traded their SNAP benefits for daddy’s pool surveillance

If the travesty & grotesquery of the trial hasn't galvanized you enough, please think of these words from his statement:

In honor of his apparent victory: @bradlander.bsky.social eats a hot dog on the Cyclone

This amazing book discusses Boston’s role in the Jazz world, especially amongst Jazz musicians who practiced traditional Islam and also members of the Nation Of Islam via recruitment by Malcolm X and Louis X (Farrakhan). The meetings were in Chicken Lane and Lloyd X’s apartment at 5 Wellington

They'll throw a Black mom in jail for buying a candy bar on SNAP.

Climate.us is officially live! After NOAA ended Climate.gov’s day-to-day operations in 2025, former team members built Climate.us to carry that work forward. Their explanations and graphics have always stood out to me as clear, accessible, and transparent. I’m really looking forward to this reboot.

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HELL YEA, BRAD!!!!

BREAKING: The Senate has joined the House in voting to end the U.S. military campaign against Iran and block Trump's authority to wage this war. Four Republicans broke ranks in the bipartisan 50-48 vote.

Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through 6/26, enjoy free standard shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

All of this!

Since he's returned to office Trump has attacked the Smithsonian as "out of control" where everything discussed "is how horrible our country is, how bad slavery was." Lonnie Bunch has been the person who has put himself between Trump and the Smithsonian. This is the story of his work to protect it.

We also have to throw away the drive for efficiency. LEARNING IS INHERENTLY INEFFICIENT. So is the growth of a beautiful tree. Running education "like a business" only means squeezing money out of it by squeezing people.

Amazing news: Thanh Tuan Phan, one of the people ICE sent to South Sudan last year, has been released. Source familiar tells me he has arrived in Vietnam, a place he left as a child in 1991. www.eyeradio.org/joyful-to-re...

Over the past 13 years police in the United States have killed approximately 16,000 people. Over the same period in the UK, the figure is 34

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Police crashed into a man’s van twice on purpose, fired 27 shots at him, and while the vehicle lay on its side, burning, at least eight cops watched as 34-year old Navy veteran John Andrew Jenuwine bled out and died inside. It turned out police chased the wrong man. interc.pt/3QSa0Pg

“The left has abandoned patriotism.” Delaney Hall, today, right before she was hit by a car driven by ICE.

We just spent years watching Trump treat the DOJ like his personal legal shield. Now he wants to hand the top job to the guy who ran that shield. Tell your Senators to say NO to Todd Blanche.

I've expanded the graph. Personally, mine veers a little towards Coach Dad, but remains firmly in The Lawn Zone™

Watching the inaugural speeches at the First Peoples’ Assembly of Victoria. This is so inspiring. gellungwarl.org/live/

The American Library Association is auctioning off a bunch of the classic celebrity “READ” posters along with a bunch of other full sized literacy posters. This is going to fix so many of my problems, I just know it. movieposters.ha.com/c/search/res...

Trans Summer School turns 10 this June! This series has been updated to reflect our changing times, and with the solstice tomorrow, @sesmith.lol’s refreshed series feels like the perfect welcome to your (queer) summer! www.scarleteen.com/read/ident...

the “practice having no fear” mural of alex pretti on nicollet ave in minneapolis is finished, just a few blocks north of where he was killed by border patrol during operation metro surge. the inclusion of a medicine wheel makes me wonder if a native artist did this, couldn’t find a signature

Thread. “When Congress interferes, people die.”

Facts matter. Trump is trying to restrict mail in voting by taking control of who is eligible. That’s up to the states, but Trump has decided the states can’t mail ballots to anyone who isn’t on his list. Read here to understand the EO & lawsuits challenging it: open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

I talked to the officers. They said they were deputized by the US Marshals and went through an orientation yesterday. They’re here for 30 days as part of the America 250 celebrations.

O HAI DID YOU SEE THIS SERIES HAPPENING THREAD OF DIRECT LINKS TO REGISTER and get the whole scoop here: www.lifeisasacredtext.com/learntodo/

90 GBP left to raise and 30 minutes. Let’s go!

Please help Hammam look after his family and especially his disabled brother Abood.

MUPPET - THE TEMPEST Patrick Stewart or Ian Mckellen (or both) - Prospero Miss Piggy -Miranda Gonzo - Caliban Fozzy - Ariel Kermit - Ferdinand Scooter - as William Shakespeare trying to produce the play

Strap in for a long thread about the relationship of American military spectacles, sporting events, and what makes the Trump administration’s World Cup displays — such as DHS messaging and Apache / Blackhawk stadium flyovers — so much more disgusting than ever before. This actually matters. 1/14

It’s not an average “oh cool jet flyover” here - these are completely different aircraft: Apache and Blackhawk helicopters that a lot of the international teams (and supporters) recognize — FROM BEING ATTACKED BY THE HOST COUNTRY.

Folks, if you saw someone steal a pack of diapers for their baby, no you didn’t.

Happy Pride we love u and we hate feudal lords

What happened this week with Trump’s mail voting executive order? 📬 States will have access to citizenship data by June 30 📬 USPS is creating a mail ballot participation list despite legal challenges 📬 Bid moved forward to allow states to block EO before midterms Don't miss the latest updates:

The house that the IDF attacked was run as a bed and breakfast by Mona and her partner Habiba Fayed since 2000 to fund their research and conservation project Happy Pride. You deserved better, Mona.

For the second year in a row, the Trump administration’s National Park Service has closed Dupont Circle (the historic heart of DC’s queer community) on Pride Weekend. What a coincidence! Fucking Nazis.