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The first line in this NY Times story is: “It is a confusing moment to be a voter in the South.” No, it’s not. It’s the clearest it’s been in a long time. Republicans are stealing the political power of Black voters through outrageous gerrymandering endorsed by a right-wing Supreme Court. 2/4🧵

The NY Times, based on Neutrality Island, uses metaphor to avoid harsh realities that might annoy the people attacking democracy. That’s why, when NYT should write a headline about the wholesale theft of Black political power in the South, it prefers to refer vaguely to “political earthquakes.” 1/4🧵

DOJ Launches Criminal Investigation Into All Women

I am trying to come up with a Bastille Day joke, but I have got nothing.

This and other scientific breakthroughs against cancer are more reasons to support and #StandUpForScience ‼️

NEW: Trump's pick for governor in South Carolina, Pamela Evette, has an elaborate plan to restrict voting rights if she wins. She's also attacked several election-deniers that she's running against for not working more aggressively to overturn 2020's election results for Trump.

Silly Cat (and dog) Cartoon Sunday open.substack.com/pub/lizadonn...

FFS, even Tiresias has noticed it.

Top marks for "wahh-mbulance."

democratic governors doing stuff like this is worse for voter turnout than anything the american left has said or done

Jose Siri may have saved 4 runs ... but more importantly, he saved the buffet 🤤

nephrologists be like:

Apricots are in season. This Ottolenghi apricot, walnut, almond, lavender cake is from summer 2025. Recipe: www.itsalwaysbutter.com/recipes-1/20...

“They’re compromising academic freedom and integrity in the hope of avoiding the wrath of this tyrant.”

“The mainstream right is crawling into the sewer of neo-Nazi ideology but you probably wouldn't know it unless you were a right-wing extremist yourself. Even news outlets that dedicate significant resources to covering the scourge of antisemitism generally ignore it, at least in the United States”

‘A site it hasn’t held for 26 years’ - as if it is Israel’s to ‘hold.’ Israel's military presence in #Lebanon is an invasion, its holding of territory is an occupation. Call things by their name

Bhattacharya is at NIH (and CDC) to be a mouthpiece for the administration. He does the bidding of Russell Vought, who aims to destroy science - as we just saw in the 800 page tirade he called a proposed OMB rule.

Gov. Mikie Sherrill's mishandling of protests outside the Newark ICE detention center, with violent state troopers running amok, is a national embarrassment To make it worse, Sherrill invoked the vile "outside agitator" trope of 1960s segregationists My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/miki...

JUST IN: a rally is being planned by Indivisible in front of Mikie Sherrill’s office in Trenton NJ tomorrow at 2 pm to demand answers concerning her deplorable actions at Delaney Hall. Get there if you can. www.mobilize.us/cooperriveri...

The combo of tomatoes + stone fruit is summer. I bought the tomatoes a week ago, let them ripen on my counter. Took as much of the seeds out as possible, drained in colander beforehand, only EVOO salt/pepper skipped dressing. Recipe for the whipped goat cheese: cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1020...

NEW: The Trump administration's DOJ has been systematically removing materials from its websites regarding the many indictments and convictions related to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. In response, @lawfaremedia.org has been systematically restoring them:

The most strategic fumble I’ve witnessed among dem leaders is letting their cops beat up their constituents. And it’s been going on for years and weakening us all. It leaves people with few options but to lose faith in the entire system. And faith is all you got because there isn’t very much proof

The SpaceX IPO filing is a joke, but the joke is on anyone with a retirement account linked to the stock market. It’s specially designed to offload the company’s liabilities onto the public. After pilfering the public by taking NASA IP, repackaging it as their own, and undermining real space faring.

“I’ve been eating BBQ since before Ken Paxton’s first indictment” is a great joke. I’d love to see Talarico swap out the punchline each time he tells it. “…since before Ken Paxton cheated on his wife” “…since before Ken Paxton was impeached by his own party” There are hundreds of options.

Water Lilies - 1904 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/10935

Republicans say James Talarico ordered a vegan taco. Democrats say that it wasn't vegan because it had both egg and cheese—doubling down on the cultural elitism that has cost them so dearly in recent elections.

these are truly awful people. i wish them the worst. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/u...

Mikie Sherrill has been governor for four months and it's already time to resign. If you are a Democratic governor and this takes place at your direction, then there should be no place for you in the party.

Judge Cannon has done everything possible to keep Volume II of the Jack Smith report buried. The 11th Circuit just stepped in. I've been tracking this one for months — here's where things stand. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Second night of Jersey cops attacking protesters who are there supporting hunger strikers inside a sadistic immigrant jail

Any felonies taking place at Delaney Hall are the crimes against humanity by ICE and the GEO Group, who kidnap and abuse human beings who've done nothing wrong and brutalize anyone who protests Gov. Mikie Sherrill's goons are attacking people trying to stop this injustice. She is an utter disgrace

Henri Matisse, Interior with a Young Girl (Girl Reading), Paris 1905-06 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134763

In the EU, you belong – exactly as you are. As Diversity Month comes to a close, we reaffirm a simple principle: you deserve to be safe, respected, and free to be yourself. Discover how we are making this a reality: link.europa.eu/Nrrgvw

Trump goes after the wife of the judge who ruled against his renaming of the Kennedy Center. The president of the United States is a mob boss.

This is the message. Any Democrat willing to sacrifice trans folks—especially kids—will sacrifice anything.

For sale: Magician's cat assistant. Lightly used.

Meowie Antoinette

In this Ohio town, it was tradition: Latin mass, eggs and bacon at Bob Evans, and then down to the old performing arts center to rename it after Donald Trump and shut it down. But now the woke mob wants to take that all away.

There is no world in which this is okay.     Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito did not recuse himself from cases involving Trump’s Treasury Department while his own son was secretly working there as a political appointee and attorney. 🧵

Immigrant detainees accuse the federal government of 'inhumane' abuse and treatment at Camp East Montana in El Paso, Texas. n.pr/4u8fqDt

The California Raisins have announced that they’re pulling out of the Freedom 250 concert.

Rep. Pallone reports a woman detained at Delaney Hall suffered a miscarriage before being transferred out.

The next time you pull up to a national park and pay the entrance fee, know this: Our parks have $23 billion in repairs that have never been made. But instead of prioritizing that our national parks are clean, maintained, and ready for your next visit, the President is…

Murder.

New York City is the media capital of the country. Delaney Hall is nine miles from Manhattan. There is zero reason to not have wall to wall coverage of the hunger strike, the horrific conditions and ICE violence. The indie journalists need strength in numbers, and not just during business hours.

With Friday strike, over 200 people killed by US military in alleged drug boat strikes. Overwhelming consensus of experts, myself included, assess these to be murder because no armed conflict (and war crime if it were armed conflict). 200 killed also raises serious question: crime against humanity

Art requires courage, originality and independence--all things MAGA lacks. Of course they can't make art.