did a read-aloud of my latest column, set to the backdrop of a drive through central virginia youtu.be/pq8TUlk4BxQ

PLEASE read this one. Kinda required reading. If you agree, which I hope you do, print in color and magnetically attach to your refrigerator. It is marvelous and very clear to all who visit: this is what we stand for. PERIOD.

I wish I had hope for gun control and that I could believe “political violence has no place in this country”. But we live in a country that accepts white children being massacred by gun violence. Not just accepts, but worships violence.

The conservative majority has severely curtailed Humphrey's Executor in recent months, ceding to Trump’s repeated requests to dismiss ideological foes. Will they effectively overturn the ruling on the shadow docket? For now, yes? @courthousenews.bsky.social www.courthousenews.com/roberts-lets...

Lot of in the Epstein/JP Morgan piece to cause revulsion. I’m stuck here: “even during his jail sentence, JPMorgan continued wiring money from his accounts to banks in Russia and Eastern Europe, where young women were being drawn into his sex-trafficking network, according to sealed court records”

I just read all volumes of the Epstein birthday book. If you're blocking the Epstein files from coming out in any way, you are an absolute monster. Covering for monsters.

Extraordinarily important piece by @hcrichardson.bsky.social! We all need to be very familiar with - and afraid of - the disgraced theorist Carl Schmitt.

"The death toll from the next pandemic could be even higher than it was in COVID-19—for reasons that have far more to do with Kennedy than with the CDC."

In a new filing, DOJ appears to back off that claim. It says that the request for the children’s return came from the Guatemalan government. Conveniently, the filing doesn’t address whether the parents (or the children) requested repatriation. 2/ storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

"The Supreme Court's ruling doesn't only apply to Latinos," Harvard Law School Professor Noah Feldman writes. "If you are in the US and you're reading this, you, too, could be arrested and required to prove your citizenship at any moment if you look or sound like you fit some hypothetical profile."

Yes!

This is fantastic!

A new mural by elusive street artist Banksy showing a judge beating an unarmed protester with a gavel will be removed from a wall outside one of London’s most iconic courts /AP

When both the right to shelter become mere commodities …. open.substack.com/pub/videogam...

In the aftermath of the tragedy in Minneapolis, right-wing commentators have made bigoted statements about the shooter. Mass shooters are not disproportionately transgender, contrary to claims www.snopes.com/fact-check/t...

there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Trump whitewashing slavery is the ultimate act of white privilege from a nepo baby who is the apotheosis of white privilege,” our columnist Maureen Dowd writes.

James Baldwin’s message was simple: we’re afraid of love, because we’re afraid of exposing our true selves.

The Pentagon is blocking Ukraine from using long-range missiles to hit Russian military targets. No wonder Putin still thinks he can win the war www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

‘Dr. Korczak and the Children’ — the discipline of conscience warwickonline.com/stories/dr-k...

Cata "Xochitl" Santiago, a longtime immigrant rights organizer, was detained while boarding a domestic flight for El Paso, despite presenting a valid DACA work authorization card. US Border Patrol detained her unjustly without cause. Sign this petition: FreeCata.com and #FreeXochitl now!

Very interesting! Glad to follow.

I’m going live with California governor Gavin Newsom at 5:00 p.m. ET. Link is here:

OMG BAAAAHAHA

On the side of both Israel and Gaza. On the side of humanity!

Help for Gaza!

Earlier this month, I decided that a monthly donation - though modest - was at least something I could do! WCK is a blessing!

August 6, 2025

Awdah Hathaleen was shot dead by an extremist settler. His community had to fight just to bury him in their own village. His killer walks free. May Awdah’s memory move us – from silence to action, from occupation to justice.

www.propublica.org/article/trum... Officials in the U.S. seek to impose #transphobia across the globe.

⚡️Over 70% of Ukrainians reject Russian peace plan, support for US proposal remains divisive, poll shows.

Fact check: mRNA vaccines for respiratory viruses are meant to prevent severe illness (bad Pneumonia). This means beefing up our immunity in the *lower* respiratory tract, eg the lungs. Kennedy talks about the *upper* respiratory tract and vaccine efficacy in nonsensical gibberish.

www.propublica.org/article/isra... A detailed description of Israeli intelligence - and the extent of its sheer genius.

Gov. JB Pritzker is fighting fire with fire, supporting the Texas Democratic lawmakers after they left the state for Illinois to prevent a quorum — derailing the Republicans' plans to rig the midterm elections. Now, he's speaking out in a new interview with MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas.

Over 90 pages of "Alligator Alcatraz" files disappeared as I was looking at them and reporting on the situation. Our public records requests are getting stonewalled. A slew of experts told me this all seems to be illegal. talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/th...

Florida, unlike the federal government, can be sued for civil rights violations and punished with monetary damages.

Twice this year, @anneapplebaum.bsky.social visited the front lines of Sudan’s brutal war. No international organizations, diplomats, or Americans are coming to fill the void that years of violence have created, she reports. Read The Atlantic’s September cover story: https://theatln.tc/KmMlZX6H

#standforwolves #wolfconservation

To LGBTQ+ youth: You are not alone. We encourage you to connect with The Trevor Project if you need support right now. We also urge allies to take action by sharing The Trevor Project’s resources with young people in your life and supporting their work. thetrevorproject.org/emergencycampaign/

substack.com/@robertreich... “Ignorance is the handmaiden of tyranny.” Oscar the Grump knows! @rbreich.bsky.social

In this case, self-promotion is warranted, though the moral humility of @billmckibben.bsky.social is admirable and appreciated. I plan on pre-ordering what looks like a very thoughtful book and look forward to reading it.

When will the Wall Street Journal stop pushing its far left lunatic agenda?

A State Department employee shared with PBS News an image from inside the department. The image includes a piece of paper taped to a mirror with the words, "Colleagues, if you remain: RESIST FASCISM. Remember the oath you vowed to uphold."

NEW: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants to overhaul an obscure but vital program that underpins the nation’s childhood immunization system. Depending on what he does, the results could be catastrophic. By @sheinvestigates.bsky.social

The White House's war on disabled Americans continues, going above and beyond Project 2025—now with attacks on a popular hiring program no one even lobbied against.

Stephen Colbert is a profoundly good and deeply talented man with a great staff and an excellent show. They all deserve better.

July 12, 2025

July 9, 2025

A video about the Declaration of Independence. I'm proud of this one.