The three branches of the United States government, as delineated in the Constitution, are the God Emperor, The High Council of the Six Ayatollahs, and the Federal Reserve

At the human level, the World Cup is beautiful snackstack.net/2026/06/29/t...

The Constitutional Crisis started in 2000. You've been living through it your entire adult life. The reason politics feels hopeless is by design — conservatives broke our democratic form of government to guarantee that the people cannot act against them and are continuing to break it.

yes. you cannot win calvinball by taking advantage of the new rules. you have to fire the refs

The oligarch Marc Andreessen now sits on the Defense Policy Board, per the Pentagon in an email to reporters. So does the "Flight 93 Election" fash polemicist Michael Anton; and the Arizona losing candidate Blake Masters, a protege of the oligarch Peter Thiel.

The Supreme Court turning a big dial labeled Hitler particles and turning back to the audience for approval

alito 100% thinks that the “blue shift” in vote counting represents a dynamic change in the outcome. to borrow from @kalimurray.bsky.social this is not a smart man

They put the Irish flag next to Belfast while trying to appeal to the anti-Irish Belfast loyalists Because that’s the sort of brains we’re dealing with

The podcast in question if you haven't listened and would like to pod.link/1449762156/e...

Everything is like this now One of the battles of our generation will be to destroy all efforts to dismiss truth as a central ingredient for how we process the world I remember when JD Vance said he doesn’t regret lying about Haitians because ‘it started a conversation’ It’s why I hate GenAI too.

After federal agents shot Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, a New Yorker sent ICE's director an email in January comparing him to a Nazi. This week, DHS agents stalked him across New York. His home. A hotel. They gave his wife a letter warning of criminal prosecution. www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...

30 years ago on this day, Ukraine's Constution was adopted. As everything real, it's imperfect and requires regular amendments. The ones adopted in 2004 have made the Consitution even more imperfect. And yet Ukraine is a genuine democracy, much freer than it was under Soviet occupation. 1/2

it’s refreshing to hear honest descriptions of these reprobates from the Democratic elected officials who serve with them

If you are wealthy, I think you should spend more money on clothes. There's no pride in buying clothes for the lowest possible price, as this puts downward pressure on garment worker wages and increases the likelihood of exploitation.

TIL that the first guy Diego Maradona went to and celebrated with after the Hand of God goal was the kit man at Napoli whose other more important job was peeing for Maradona whenever there was a drug test

“How much is a magical world worth?” A beautiful thread about Cabo Verde, the Peace Corps, and the World Cup:

The woman who did this should be prosecuted and shunned by decent people for the rest of her life.

next journalist who interviews vance about his faith should ask him about his role in ethnically cleansing his co religionists

JD Vance made up a horrific and racist lie about a group of people, and now those people will be deported because the Supreme Court refuses to acknowledge, let along regard as disqualifying, the clear racial bias of this administration.

NEW — The sentencing of the Prairieland demonstrators shows the brutality of Trump's war on dissent, but it's not without precedent, @kimkelly.bsky.social writes. History shows us the government has always punished anti-fascism. But this time we can change the narrative in real time. Read here:

"Trump's 13-Year-Old Accuser"

Time to re-up my favorite excerpt from Douthat's 2005 book Privilege.

Two ICE agents tracked down a woman *inside a polling place* yesterday. Why? They demanded that she take down an Instagram post in which she named Jonathan Ross as the man who shot & killed Renee Good (after the Star Tribune identified Ross). www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...

There is a pernicious and sustained effort to distort the historical record and do violence to the public’s memory.

Blistering rebuke of Harmeet Dhillon's nationwide voter-data grab from the Sixth Circuit—with an opinion opening that it turns the Civil Rights Act on its head "to ensure that some people have not voted." Uninterrupted record of defeat for Trump's ex-election lawyer turned AAG. buff.ly/ql5mXBb

Fuck you Peter Thiel

suboptimal to me that the richest man on the planet believes this

It's also war against the federal constitution. the president can't do with extortion what the constitution expressly forbids him to do legally. flatly unconstitutional and war on the constitution and the freedoms of the American people.

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

The Regime is taking research money from the NSF to funnel it to places other than Universities, such as venture capital firms. That’s your tax money. I would not be at all surprised if Elon Musk or other people with no understanding of science get to grift off of this. Absolute corruption.

If you’ve never seen this monologue or “the life and death of Colonel Blimp”, you should immediately remedy that deficit.

Wow. Prairieland defendants being handed sentences between 40 and 100 years. For background on this case: www.ms.now/news/antifa-...

It’s great how this administration has hired people to create explicitly white nationalist propaganda for them, and then simply mentioning this fact in a classroom can get you fired.

Scientific American is being sold to LabX Media, publisher of Discover: group.springernature.com/gp/group/med... They've fired me and other union staff, ahead of June 26 vote ratification. My rates are suddenly more reasonable, if you need editing or reporting - [email protected]

We probably don't talk enough about how the 1920's Klan was a progenitor of later multi-level marketing scams and the connection to far-right politics in that

given the pattern of "every accusation is a confession" it makes you wonder about the financial statements of the companies he controls!

30 years for moving a box of zines. Des Sanchez Estrada was not even at the noise demo that led to this. The state is attempting to make an example of these anti-fascist political prisoners. We can expect the crackdowns to continue & escalate. Take this seriously. Don't back down

'Raise Doubts'??? C'mon, @nytimes.com How about: - 'Show Otherwise' - 'Counter His Claim' - 'Tell Different Story' - 'Prove Claim False' - 'Don't Match Claims' - 'Show Another Lie' [ok, too far.] Etc. Headline gives him 100% underserved benefit of the doubt.

We don’t need moderates; we need antifascists. The DSA is leading the way because the establishment can’t defeat the fascists

i think it is great that conservative students functionally work as a volunteer stasi for republican politicians and conservative media

You rarely see a perfect headline in the wild like this

The silly little ritual of Supreme Court opinion days is a perfect illustration of the justices’ self-absorption. “We’re gonna decide cases but it’s a SURPRISE which ones, so just keep refreshing this browser tab to find out who still has civil rights!” Profoundly stupid institution. I loathe it.

I think it’s cool that, unlike Claudine Gay, Monica Crowley actually plagiarized swaths of her Columbia dissertation, but because she’s white and a Republican she faced no consequences and has only thrived in GOP politics. Sort of gives away the game on that stuff, no?

The fact that the Belfast establishment covered for this guy every step of the way until it was untenable to do so should be a moment of reflection www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...

As we see the end of the Starmer years, I am reflecting on my favourite things about him. Personally, it was when he told a newspaper that he didn’t dream or have any internal thoughts

Heads up: Trump White House officials have — for months — delayed the release of a U.S. government report that outlines what it describes as significant vulnerabilities in the nation's voting machines ahead of the midterms, according to three sources familiar with the matter.

It appears Grok killed the schoolchildren in Iran, in tandem with a US military under Pete Hegseth who DGAF. Remember when Anthropic said 'No' to Hegseth's demand that they allow the DoD to use Claude to kill autonomously, with no human oversight? Check out this timeline:

national guard deployed to keep people from touching the reflecting pool