The USA in 2026, celebrating traitors and mass murderers. www.wsj.com/us-news/conf...

A focus group is not an opinion poll but this confirms Starmer’s Labour created a trap for itself: by emphasising immigration so much (& doing so little & slowly about anything else) it ensured that if it was reduced the relevant voters would not believe it. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

Time to impose tariffs on the USA ...

At Global Refuge, we are once again saying enough is enough. What’s happening at Delaney Hall is abhorrent and we simply cannot stand by and allow this treatment of immigrants to continue. And if the budget reconciliation is passed, this kind of detention will receive even more funding.

What's happening to CBS News is what the tech oligarchs call "parallel" strategy. Buy an existing institution, gut it, and convert it into a right-wing zombie version of itself. They are doing this to media, government, education, biotech, defense tech, etc. Some call it the "Network State."

it is very simple folks. "unqualified DEI hire" is when you're not a white male, "merit-based promotion" is when you are a white male and also pete hegseth's personal assistant. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/u...

...Packets Only Rise Once a Generation for a Half-Decade Span: CHART OF THE DAY** < braddelong.substack.com/p/when-media... > 2026-06-01 2/END

We have built an economic régime where GDP climbs, markets soar, and the typical worker stands still unless the labor market is white‑hot. And if inflation fears keep us from ever running the economy hot again, real median wages may be stuck on pause indefinitely: **When Median Take-Home pay... 1/

A new report shows that nearly half of U.S. households did not earn enough to cover their necessities in 2024.

Gift link: share.inquirer.com/kfpAhf @willbunch.bsky.social on Delaney Hall and @mikiesherrill.bsky.social

a lot (most?) people understand racism as “being a meanie” and if you aren’t a meanie then you can’t be racist, even if you believe in, say, the biological inferiority of entire groups of people based on phenotype

ICE crackdowns have not delivered measurable economic gains for US-born workers. Scholars of labor markets, immigration and public environmental policy explain:

If you received the AHA Exec's email to the entire membership and wondered, how would HPAD respond if they had the ability, here you go: www.historiansforpeace.org/2026/05/29/h...

"This latest...suit against UCLA succumbs to the Trumpian instinct to alter the facts to fit one’s political proclivities. In this worldview, every instance of support for Palestinians or criticism of Israel is cast as antisemitic," writes UCLA professor and Nexus Task Force member David N. Myers.

Particularly remarkable because the threat itself violates the UN Charter—a "supreme Law of the Land" under the Supremacy Clause.

@jonatomic.bsky.social It’s not an official text, bur this is what Fars News Agency had to say.

The US and Iran may be closer to an agreement but it is far from a done deal and it likely will defer or not address the most difficult issues--including nuclear program, control over Hormuz, Lebanon, Hamas. @alihashem.bsky.social has some good reporting on it. amwaj.media/en/article/i...

Memory holes en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_...

The only people fired from Trump's cabinet have been women. Their hair styles couldn't save them...

Just more evidence that it was never just about illegal immigration: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/u...

Abrego García should apply for the “Anti-Weaponization Fund.” How many other people have a district court ruling actually *finding* vindictive prosecution?

Personally I can’t get over SpaceX claiming it has a total addressable market nearly as large as US GDP — with nearly all of that attributed to “enterprise applications” of AI. xAI’s own employees wouldn’t use Grok coding products! techcrunch.com/2026/05/20/t...

Bezos proposes a natural experiment. Let's test his hypothesis by doubling the highest marginal tax rate, making sure to fund public goods with the increased revenue.

For instance: www.wired.com/story/how-tr...

Elon Musk and Donald Trump are responsible for this disaster which has already killed hundreds of people and may spread out of control because they dismantled USAID and withdrew the US from WHO. Their actions are a crime against humanity as much as targeting civilians in a war.

Elon Musk and Donald Trump are responsible for this disaster which has already killed hundreds of people and may spread out of control because they dismantled USAID and withdrew the US from WHO. Their actions are a crime against humanity as much as targeting civilians in a war.

‘Perfect Storm’: How Trump's Aid Cuts Are Fueling the Ebola Outbreak. One health provider who works on the ground says that basic medical equipment like masks and hand sanitizers are in short supply due to funding cuts. | WIRED www.wired.com/story/how-tr...

DURBIN: Could you explain to the American people why with the vast investment we've made in national defense and military, how Iran after they are attacked by us is still capable of stopping the traffic in the Strait of Hormuz? CAINE: It's a complex situation

"However, when we allow one community’s trauma to be played off against another’s, we weaken the foundation of safety for everyone. To me, that should not be a controversial position to hold.”

The current noise and distraction surrounding @misanharriman.bsky.social’s questioning of recent media reporting is straight out of the authoritarian playbook.

Sailors marooned by an insane war. Excellent reporting i on sailors in the Gulf running out of food and medicine from @drewhinshaw.bsky.social, Milan Czerny, Joe Parkinson @wsj.com www.wsj.com/world/middle...

Blocking profitable development to protect his fossil fuel donors.

Corrupt AF Fossil fuel company owners see that they can't compete with clean energy. They gave POTUS $1B to protect their profits. He's doing it, abusing public power to drive their competition out of business & force Americans to choke down their high prices & pollution. bsky.app/profile/just...

This has the making of the largest scandal in US, perhaps in world history. Who needs to sell, say, Trump steaks or golf courses when you can manipulate global markets at will? www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

"We're all boomers or millennials at this table ... We have no idea what's really happening on ⁠the ground ​because we're not even down into what's happening with AI." www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

The suppression of speech on campus in the US has become normalized. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

"Maritime Freedom Construct" -- Freedom Fries for a new era" Trump and US disparages allies but then wants them to help fix the disaster they created... www.wsj.com/world/as-hor...

Set in 1966, but speaking directly to 2026 — that’s the power of The Compton's Cafeteria Riot. Donna Personna and Mary Vice joined Jeneé Darden on @kalwradio.bsky.social’s Sight + Sound to talk about the play & its timely message of fighting for trans rights. 🎧 LISTEN: www.kalw.org/show/sights-...

Leaders of the civil rights movement put their lives on the line to secure the passage of the Voting Rights Act. For generations now, it's been a critical protection for voters of color, especially Black voters, to have our voices heard in our democracy.

These people secured voting rights for all races in the Constitution and put its enforcement into law through the Voting Rights Act, which is explicitly authorized by Section 2 of the 15th Amendment. Either we are a democratic republic, where the people are sovereign, or we are not.

My New One at Slate: “The Supreme Court’s Conservatives Just Issued the Worst Ruling in a Century; This evisceration of the Voting Rights Act requires us to take SCOTUS reform more seriously.” @slate.com slate.com/news-and-pol...

In case you missed it, here's my most recent article about Sam Altman's PRO-EXTINCTIONIST vision of the future. He literally says that either we fully merge with AI, or we go extinct--which totally misses that merging with machines WOULD BE a version of extinction. 👇

A guy once posted that then-President Obama "will have a 50 cal in the head soon," and "shoot the nig." 9th Cir.: " It is difficult to see how a rational trier of fact could reasonably have found that either statement, on its face or taken in context, expresses a threat." 652 F. 3d 1113 (2011)

Here's a transcript of this portion of Trump's speech. Startling to see such unabashed, settler colonial blood and soil stuff being spoken from a WH podium in the 21st century. FWIW, roughly 20% of the population of the colonies in 1776 was comprised of enslaved people of African descent.

when you're not reading the room

Donald Trump on Unite the Right: "It turned out to be a total fake. It basically was a rigged election. This was a part of the rigging of the election.” www.hatecomestomainstreet.com/p/we-saw-cha...

Cesar Sayoc, a Trump super fan & obsessive Fox viewer, sent pipe bombs in 2018 to Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, & many other top Dems. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison. In the wake of the attacks, Trump said about his rhetoric: "Tone down, no. Could tone up."

This is a horrifying story about American fascism. I hope these kids will one day be ok.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “To say that President Trump is corrupt is to somehow understate the size, scope and magnitude of his corruption,” our columnist Jamelle Bouie writes.

Trump's Iran war has cemented China's position as #1, it's very MAGA cepr.net/publications...