July 4th is this weekend, the USMNT is onto the Round of 16, and even though #PrideMonth ended, LGBTQIA+ Pride is year round! There's lots happening this summer, and these kids' books are right on topic! #indiebookstore #shoplocal #tucson #bookworm #booklover #kidsbook #worldcup #nonfiction #yalit

Mail-in voting is safe, secure, and essential to ensuring participation in our democracy. That’s why we’re opposing USPS’ new proposal to help the President limit mail-in voting. The U.S. Constitution assigns primary election responsibility to states, not the federal govt.

The air conditioning at the Delaney Hall concentration camp failed today, so now people are roasting inside as temperatures rise above 100 degrees. It's so hot they can't breathe.

The Allen Parish Public Safety Complex has the longest average stay of any immigration detention facility in Louisiana. The center has faced allegations of mistreatment and racist abuse and is “where people go to disappear,” says an immigration advocate.

This cat has been predicting the winners of World Cup matches, and to the surprise of both his owners and the internet, he's gotten almost every outcome right.

#OTD in 2014, Michelle Howard became the first woman in the US Navy's (then) 236-year history to be promoted to 4-star admiral & Vice Chief of Naval Operations, the 2nd-highest position in the Navy. As of February 2025, there are no longer any women serving as 4-star officers in the US military. 👀

“The surge was so much worse than most people realize...Our town was just inundated...It was really just like night and day. One day things were normal, and the very next we were practically an underground militia.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Back in the second century, someone in ancient Nubia thought life is better with a frog mug. ❤️

One brave American!

to mark the 250th i wrote about the ways that black americans did vital work to invest the declaration of independence with the universalism and egalitarianism that we now see as its core promise. (gift link)

Gift link! Immigrant Arrests Surge to 10,000 in 5 Days as ICE Clamps Down By Hamed Aleaziz The agency has doubled its daily arrest numbers without the fanfare of last year’s large urban operations, sowing fear in immigrant communities.

Another U.S. citizen was reportedly investigated by federal authorities for criticizing ICE after the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. If you saw this happening in another country, what would you call it? https://www.npr.org/2026/07/01/nx-s1-5874124/dhs-tracks-ice-critic

Expect to hear more about this in the coming days, if they keep up this pace.

Check this out! Lexicography and the Law: Historical Dictionaries, Originalism, and the Emoluments Clause of the United States Constitution

“The use of the language of the Declaration and of the Revolution was not merely rhetorical: The point of these petitions was to push legislators to treat the opening words of their Constitutions and laws as more than preambulatory; to treat them as pregnant with real meaning and live consequence.”

This arrest IS wildly disturbing. And JD Vance is somehow able to square his Catholic faith with this arbitrary, racist pattern of detainments

Oleksandra Povoroznyk, film critic & translator of food-related texts before the invasion, & since then a thoughtful & incisive commentator (on x) on the war in Ukraine, now has a podcast! & it is, predictably, wonderful. open.spotify.com/episode/1ocF...

Justice Brown Jackson's argument for birthright citizenship is very moving. I recommend reading it in full. An excerpt with alt-text below. “The Reconstruction Amendments were an anticaste, antisubordination reset for the Nation, not a mere spot treatment for the dark stain of slavery.” — KBJ

The folks outside Chase Center in San Francisco are ready for Mexico-Ecuador.

When we toured the National Weather Center the guide said these trucks had not been out since last spring because of funding cuts

Thank you so much for all of your happy birthday wishes. Honestly, I don’t really feel 100. I feel pretty good. I feel like I’m only 98!

Obviously this is a dipshit opinion. But since I sometimes see people on the left rolling their eyes about those signs, I just want you all to know that the other night some lost Black teens came to our house after taking the wrong bus and we were able to get them home. Why’d they pick us? Signs.

An extraordinary cancer stat recently just dropped: zero. That’s how many UK women in their early 20s died from cervical cancer between 2020-24. My latest @opinion.bloomberg.com is on 20 years of HPV vaccines--& how the US could better maximize the potential of this critical public health tool (🎁):

we should never and shall never forget the Fourteenth Amendment was paid for in blood and tears very few Amendments have this purple-heart level of legitimacy

Deadline today at 5:00pm: If you are on the NY Essential Plan and have a health vulnerability in extreme heat, you are eligible for a free air conditioner, installation included. Info and to apply:

My birthday is coming up in July, and I only want One Thing. Okay, I want a Lot of Things (for myself, for all of us) but for now I will settle for that One Thing

This argument from Thomas and Alito was also made against gay marriage. It's dumb. Neither my marriage nor my citizenship is devalued by yours. It's a status, not a prize.

If you really want to protect LGBTQ+ kids, abandon your internet censorship bill. By kicking them off the internet you are denying these kids the community they desperately need.

To any trans kids out there: You're fine. It's all of them who are messed up. You are who you are, you deserve to live an authentic, happy life, and fuck everyone who thinks otherwise.

One of my favorite quotes of all time is from Rev. Shuttlesworth who dryly stated in an “Eyes on the Prize” episode: “You cannot ‘shame’ segregation. Rattlesnakes don’t commit suicide.” 🗃️

I need y'all to understand that I teach high school and there are teenagers already planning to leave the U.S. to because they will be studying science or medicine. They are SO serious about it - saving money, learning extra languages, and looking to see if there are familial connections abroad.

This @msnowreports.bsky.social piece from @susanrinkunas.com is a must-read if you follow abortion politics. I've followed the anti-abortion "abolitionist" movement for 12+ years, and the fact that these dudes (it's 99% dudes) are forcing this conversation into the mainstream is urgently horrifying

(RNS) — Faith leaders say they would welcome migrants deported from the United States but question the decision to send vulnerable people without ties to a nation still healing from years of sectarian violence.

Pluto Press sale is on again. One day left.

We got a big bump in traffic yesterday when people learned about us on NPR. Thank you to @npr.org for covering our launch and bringing our story to people's attention! And thank you to all our new followers. We can do this together! 🌍️🧪💪 #ClimateAction #ClimateForUs #ProtectScience

🖼️ Sam Toft, Kindness goes with everything Auf in die neue Woche ... ☕☕☕.

Jared Kushner wants Albania's protected wetlands. The government obliged. Protesters said no. 29 days later, they're still saying no — with flamingo cutouts and flags, in the streets, every single night. Europe is watching. Is anyone else?

Saving this for the appropriate long-awaited Day

Getting a swim in this morning, witnessed a San Francisco Pride day miracle? Suddenly a rainbow appeared, as cast from the skylight atop the women's changing room

This place can be so freaking cool if we let it Credit @andre-carlisle.bsky.social

Please call as many Senators as possible and ask them to pass a bill to extend TPS for the 350,000 Haitians living in our country – –often for years, as beloved members of our community. Congress has the chance to fix the catastrophic decision the Supreme Court just made. We must push them to do so.

Tens of thousands celebrated Budapest Pride, the first since Viktor Orbán’s ousting.

No photos please

This article by the New York Times has some of the best illustrations of blind zones and the dangers following car bloat I have ever seen.

I don't always "like" the trophies for awards (not that I'd complain about receiving one!) but I COVET the Shirley Jackson award

If you go along with people being kidnapped....tortured and murdered by ice then you don't deserve to hold office....you should be protecting your people not going along with a kill squad.

I did not realize there was anything we could do! Call your senators to get them to protect our Haitian neighbors! I am calling and leaving messages tomorrow and then will call Monday.

Dublin Dyke March 2026 A thing of absolute beauty and not a corporate to be seen ♥️ 🧡 🤍 🩷 🏳️‍⚧️

PSA!! pots havers

The United Nations demands an independent investigations into dozens of deaths in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody since last year -- and swift action to prevent more people from dying. u.afp.com/SKZw