NEW: A trove of internal records from Dialog, the secret society cofounded by Peter Thiel, was left exposed online. WIRED obtained a second cache of records that reveal who's really attending, how they're screened, and what personal details they were promised would stay private.

NO is one of the most critical words every decent human being needs to use in this age of fascism, "A.i.," ICE, anti-trans bigotry, eugenics, and billionaire propaganda. NO. Refuse to participate. Refuse to buy. Refuse to agree. Refuse to even smile and nod politely. Say NO. All the time.

The president is grabbing more than $300 million in taxpayer money for the project. www.vox.com/the-logoff-n...

For some levity. A portal to 1776 that doesn't involve Trump: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/16/t...

At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/

THIS is what so many advocates of "tech reform" miss: "for many users, digital systems did not begin in service and then decay into domination; domination was the design premise." @tarakiyee.bsky.social tarakiyee.com/on-the-enshi...

Here's some of Candice's reporting on the data center boom:

"Let’s talk through how we’re privatizing gains for Musk and socializing the costs for the rest of us." Whether we like it or not, even know it. On how you might be making Elon Musk even richer:

If you’re looking for a different way to honor America250 than cage matches and hateful words spoken at political rallies, check out this poem I wrote. It’s part of the inspiration for my new book On Mindful Democracy. Would love to connect with you on Substack!

The anti-trans rhetoric pushed by the US government isn’t necessarily about Trans+ people. It’s part of a wider politics of division that threatens us all.

My piece for @thebulwark.com on far right podcaster Auron MacIntyre. www.thebulwark.com/p/far-right-...

Hey, friends in NYC! Early voting in the D primaries has begun! Find a polling site and view your sample ballot here: vote.nyc/page/find-yo... And read on for some suggestions of folks I'd highly recommending voting for!

I am so so inspired by South Carolina right now, and our incredible Dems like Courtney Waters, who i had the absolute honor to interview the day after South Carolina Dems had this historic turnout! Comment with 💙 once you watch the video and know our marching orders! youtu.be/17_BNNiTMoU 2/2

If you missed it, South Carolina was going to gerrymander before their primary last week. But thanks to progressive orgs, voter turnout was SO high on the first day of early voting that they scrapped their plan. 1/2

This week's Building Bridges Radio goes out at 7:00 PM Eastern on @wbai.org 99.5 FM in #NYC. Tune in at www.wbai.org/ #NYC #1u #UnionStrong #LaborRadioPod

New: Researchers have quantified how easy AI search is to manipulate. Just 13 words buried in a random Reddit comment can poison AI search results. They suggest this is not easy to stop: "The way you can attack these systems is so much dumber than you think it is" www.404media.co/it-is-trivia...

This Day in Labor History: June 15, 1990. 400 striking janitors organized with Service Employees International Union held a rally in Los Angeles. The LAPD proceeded to beat the shit out of them in front of office workers wondering what the hell was going on. Let's talk about Justice for Janitors!

A racist, ketamine fueled, empathetically bereft kind of Tinkerbell.

Dig more into CDT’s analysis of how House bills H.R. 8312 and H.R. 8464 threaten personal privacy from the federal government:

“Walkinshaw [] referenced objections to the bill from nonprofits like CDT, which argued that the data sharing provisions would result in [] ‘significantly greater amounts of sensitive info from [fed govt] agencies, functionally creating a master database on all Americans.’”

Our 2026 #voter guide, the #billionaires who donated to #reelect Sen. Susan Collins, and renewable #energy projects in Northern Maine are this week's top stories. Read these and more for free at the link below. themainemonitor.org

"Taken together, they narrow almost every channel by which research findings may be shared: the conference, the learned society, the journal and the press release." @rschrobuk.bsky.social

Social Security funds are expected to be cut by 22% for EVERY retiree by 2032. The government’s own social security trustees blamed Trump’s tax cuts & immigration policies. But hey, at least the billionaires can hoard a little more.

As I discussed after passage of the "Big Beautiful Bill, the Trump Regime is building an anti-democracy infrastructure: As the nation learned before and following the 2020 election, Trumpists are more than willing to use force and other extra-legal actions to attempt to cling to power.

Hey #fellas 👇 what do you say? #nafo

Call our State AG's and ask them to band together and stop this! @5calls.org has scripts and direct connection to your AG's office. 5calls.org/issue/paramo...

The State of Oregon will not be participating in Trump's Freedom 250 Great American State Fair, featuring Trump Rally on June 24, due to "growing concerns that the event in Washington D.C. is shaping up to be a more partisan affair than originally presented." edition.cnn.com/2026/06/11/p...

10/ Take comfort, then take action. Share this thread. Tell someone who’s losing hope. The guardrails are not gone, they are being defended, every single day, by people who refuse to quit. Neither should we.

9/ So if you’ve been feeling alone in this fight, hear this: you are not alone. Judges are fighting. Lawyers are fighting. Public servants are fighting. People inside the system are holding the line so the rest of us can hold ours.

8/ This is what defending democracy actually looks like. Not one hero. Hundreds of experienced hands, each doing the thing they know how to do, in the place where they can do it best.

1/ There’s a quiet army you probably haven’t heard about. Hundreds of retired federal judges, appointed by presidents of both parties, are coming off the sidelines to defend our courts and our democracy. What they’re doing should give you real hope. 🧵 #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy

A new collaborative roadmap on how to end poverty and reduce inequalities without treating GDP growth as the primary condition for progress. Yet another, hopeful, initiative recalling historic efforts to develop a New International Economic Order. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This is the kind of thing we don't hear about when we're told what the public (supposedly) thinks and wants. Fascism depends on keeping people - all people - in a state of fear, and making them feel isolated and helpless. In reality, there are always good people helping each other.

Russell Vought has a plan for science, but so do we. Join the fight by taking action against the latest OMB grant funding proposal at the link in our bio, or go here 👉 zurl.co/m6icR #StandUpForScience #Science #OMB #Vought #SaveScience

But nearly 40 years later, those same newspapers can't bring themselves to print the story of what that asset became. The Kremlin well understood the value of the American press. Maybe we should, too.

1/ In September 1987, just two months after he returned from his first trip to Moscow, Trump took out full-page ads in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Boston Globe attacking the very alliances the Kremlin wanted weakened. craigunger.substack.com/p/the-anatom...

Trump installed a hand-picked board who turned around & illegally put his name on the Kennedy Center We sued and won—only Congress can rename the Center They can try to delay the inevitable, but they can’t change the law -TN

“…the influential white nationalist group associated with the Active Club network and headed by self-proclaimed fascist Robert Rundo—published an article Wednesday on operational security (“for educational purposes only”) that described how members of the Belfast mob have avoided arrest”

What's up, chat! Group chats are rolling out today in the new v1.124 update. This is our first feature built for communities, and there's more to come.

You have 4 days to comment on the proposed giant Arch. Click through, there's a form. It's easy.

OB-GYNs release their own vaccine schedule, rejecting RFK Jr.'s meddling arstechnica.com/health/2026/...

We've been living with insurance schemes for 125 years and counting. The industry is incredibly lucrative and it uses that economic power to keep politicians at bay. I wrote about a new report on a quarter-century of campaign donations from one part of the industry: health insurance.

Don't put up with election deniers and liars. ☎️ 202 224 3121 call Congress resist.bot/petitions/PC... @resist.bot #resistbot #KurtOlsen #Elections #pinks #SheShed #DOJ

To mark the 250th birthday of the United States, Democrats Abroad and Global Events are putting together a series of events called “Freedom Weeks”! Kick off was on June 2, but the events will keep going through the 4th of July. Keep an eye out for our next […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Egregious constitutional violations without meaningful accountability are a hallmark of this Trump administration but, of course, are nothing new. Fred Smith & I wrote about civil rights deserts in Mississippi & strategies to address them wherever they exist. harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-13...

Watched this piece on CBC The National, twice tonight on my TV. How Katie Simpson reported on this without her head exploding on camera, I will never know. It's real. I have a university friend (with a BA & MA) in Missouri living this life. Home schooled her 7 kids. 1/ youtu.be/TSz1txJEyv8?...

🚨 Palantir brought in new lobbying help as Congress scrutinizes its surveillance and data contracts. 👉 $795 million contract with the DOD. 👉 Deployment of Palantir’s Foundry software across DHS, HHS, the FDA, the CDC, the NIH. 👉 Palantir execs have joined an Army Reserve innovation corps.

Homan and Mullins rely on the fact that most people simply don't know how jail operations work AND they act as though everyone in a jail is somehow wildly dangerous. The system is very porous. People move in and out of jail regularly. The NYPD alone arrests around 700 people a day.

Homan makes this claim repeatedly, but it is not factual. Local jails have a list of people detained in them publicly available on the internet. ICE agents can literally look it up. (So can you!)

More on ICE enforcement trends and what the data actually shows at austinkocher.substack.com Full article: www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...