"The funniest possible outcome of the AI mandate era is about to be HR departments discovering that 'sincerely held religious belief' under Title VII has a much lower bar than they assumed, and Pope Leo handed every Catholic employee a written excuse" www.businessinsider.com/worker-got-r...

"By nationality, I'm Venezuelan," Andry Hernandez Romero told me. "But in my heart, I'm American." He is the gay makeup artist Trump sent to the CECOT torture prison in El Salvador. Andry is in Spain now, rebuilding his life and haunted by his experience. www.advocate.com/news/andry-h...

To Fund Pell, House Appropriators Suggest Ending Subsidized Loans The legislation would also slash funding for Work-Study and other programs, but wouldn’t implement President Trump’s call to cut the NIH. https://bit.ly/49E8DtR #EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky

The EEOC has scrapped its nationwide enforcement plan two years early and replaced it with a set of priorities mirroring President Trump's agenda, including a crackdown on workplace diversity policies and curbing accommodations for transgender people reut.rs/4ujpIAC

2/ These absurdities are simply the degenerate spawn of the Court's corrupt "unitary executive" theory of presidential power. Corrupt theory in, degenerate spawn out.

Reframe the question and it becomes very clear. If you hire a manager to run your estate can that manager burn down the buildings on your estate or chop it and sell it off in parcels? Pretty obviously not. The president doesn't own the country. He's hired to administer it for four years.

There are concentration camps in the United States in the year 2026. There are CONCENTRATION CAMPS in the United States in the year 2026. THERE ARE CONCENTRATION CAMPS IN THE UNITED STATES IN THE YEAR 2026.

5 June 1936 | A French Jewish girl, Gina Goldstein, was born in Paris. She arrived at #Auschwitz on 13 September 1942 in a transport of 1,000 Jews deported from Drancy. She was murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.

This is the inflection point for the political momentum shift in the US

They’re so happy about it. Destroying Black political power is all they ever wanted.

We are disgusted that Boulder SJP chose to celebrate the firebombing attack on a peaceful march. They dress up the language to make murder sound like liberation. The reality is they are celebrating the horrific killing of an 82-year-old woman who came out to march. Nothing excuses this.

They’re not even pretending the Confederate redistricting isn’t about race. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/o...

This legislation prohibits providing a chatbot to a minor if the output, among other things, implies that it is alive, has a personal relationship with or a position of authority over the minor, is framed as "personal opinions" or "emotional appeals" from the chatbot . . .

“If the government decides, very quickly, to bulldoze the Statue of Liberty... nothing can be done?” asked Judge Patricia Millett. “I think that’s right, yes,” responded DOJ attorney Yaakov Roth www.politico.com/news/2026/06...

Grocery prices are rising faster than wages, so we’re launching 5 municipal grocery stores with lower prices. But people can't benefit from resources they don't know about. These stores need expert branding to properly serve New Yorkers.   Submit a design proposal before June 30! grocery.nyc/brand

The One Fair Price Act passed the legislature in New York!   This is a big victory in our fight to ban surveillance pricing and help make life more affordable in New York.   Thank you, Senator Rachel May and Assemblymember Emerita Torres for your work on this bill. Let's get it over the finish line!

CFPB to publish a "statement" that lenders must consider immigration status as part of "ability-to-repay" evaluations for certain types of loans. www.federalregister.gov/public-inspe...

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.

For many years, there were allegations that ICE would “release” critically ill people in hospitals so that their deaths wouldn’t be recorded as in ICE custody. To fix this, in 2021 the Biden admin required ICE to report deaths occurring up to 30 days after release. Now that rule has been dropped.

BREAKING 🚨 🚨 🚨 More than a dozen GOP lawmakers defied their own leadership, and President Donald Trump, by voting with Democrats to approve a major bill to deliver billions of dollars in aid to Ukraine while imposing steep sanctions on Russia. www.cnn.com/2026/06/04/p...

“Ohio State University has reached a preliminary agreement to pay $100 million to 279 former students who said they were sexually abused by a former athletic team doctor [Richard Strauss], the latest group to strike a deal with the college in the long running case.”

S&P500 marked safe from SpaceX (for now), in case you're trying to position yourself around the biggest, messiest IPO of all time

Yea, it's pretty apparently the Bloomberg editors aren't buying what the oil markets are selling either

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince says agentic traffic is "growing so fast that bots have now passed human traffic online for the first time" (Mark Tyson/Tom's Hardware) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Platner very much is a discernible type, but it’s not “flawed but basically decent working class joe.” It’s “prep school creep with a sadistic streak and an ironclad confidence that it will never catch up to him.“

FCC To Investigate TV Shows Where The Mom Has Job https://theonion.com/fcc-to-investigate-tv-shows-where-the-mom-has-job/

Here's Rep Jamie Raskin's bill nixing Trump's corrupt protection against IRS audits. Chef's kiss: It's called the "Block Lawless Agreements and Nullify Corrupt Handouts and Emoluments Act” or the “BLANCHE Act." Backstory below.

“The six law enforcement officers convicted for attacking Parker and Jenkins admitted that they broke into the home without a warrant to torture Jenkins and Parker after a white neighbor complained that two Black men were staying there with a white woman.”

Not beating the “sinister panopticon” allegations

@gregdoucette.bsky.social wanna do the honors?

With all the... you know, everything over the past few years, I somehow missed the fact that we sold off the strategic helium reserve entirely. I thought I was fairly inured to governmental malpractice, but this is just breathtakingly stupid.

🚨BREAKING: A lawyer who was active in lawsuits seeking to overturn Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory, and later represented the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of killing George Floyd, is the latest attorney to be hired by the DOJ’s Voting Section. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

A report by the city comptroller found neighborhoods in Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan with high numbers of vacant storefronts six years after the COVID-19 pandemic hammered New York’s economy.

World's highest-grossing law firm Kirkland & Ellis agrees to a multiyear deal with Palantir to develop an AI tool to help advise PE firms on raising capital (Financial Times) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

The classic ‘tank man’ photo is a close up but when you zoom out, the image - and what it represents- is even more poignant.

well ok but they have a point that you don’t really need to know WHICH dairy is selling the dangerous raw milk because it’s any one selling raw milk

ladies and gentlemen, the president of the United States. And his Sharpie. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/03/u...

Breaking—New York Democrats have passed the first stage of a constitutional amendment that would let them redraw the congressional map in 2028 and target 4 seats Republicans currently hold. Dems must pass it again next year and win a November 2027 referendum for it to take effect. Details below ⬇️

I have cancer. mRNA technology is already being used to develop some of the next cancer cures. He’s condemning some current and many, many, many future cancer patients to early, preventable deaths.

Can’t imagine why people pasteurize milk. Such a mystery.

Simply put: Work til you die, and if you can’t work, die quickly.

NEWS The SPLC demans a hearing to determine whether a judge should sanction prosecutors for allegedly violating grand jury secrecy by sending a draft of the superseding indictment to the press before it was docketed. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

So you’re saying there’s a chance to force Vance to destroy his career by casting the tie breaking vote to continue the Iran War?

Great article, but one small nit: users control their data in the sense that they can take it if they leave a particular service, but most (but not all) of user data is public and literally cannot be kept private.

Based on how thin the bench we're seeing is, firing these positions would actually just break government.

🚨 The FBI says Kash Patel was in Milan during the Winter Olympics for work. I filed a FOIA for @publiccitizen.bsky.social asking for proof. The FBI said that’ll take 2,000 days. Today PC sued the FBI to speed it up.

My office won another victory in our case against Wayne LaPierre and the NRA. LaPierre and other NRA leaders broke the law by funneling millions of dollars into their pockets. We're holding them accountable for their rampant corruption.

10/10 headline, no notes.