1/ I'm starting the holiday weekend off with some good vibes. I’m not giving bad news any headspace right now, so let's pause and celebrate some public health wins that have happened recently!

BREAKING: The Supreme Court upholds birthright citizenship, rejecting Trump’s proposed limits.

Ossoff: "You've got the American govt controlled by Donald Trump backing a Trump family tungsten mine in Kazakhstan w/ a billion plus dollars of federal commitments at the very same time that they are cutting healthcare, defunding hospitals, & nursing homes, & doubling health insurance premiums."

Obama is in a league of his own. H/t @gelliottmorris.com

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...

This #worldcup is all about the goalkeepers.

TIL that all clownfish are born male. One develops into a female once the matriarch dies.

Lukaku comes on and immediately scores!!!

Marco looks so bored.

🚨Trump is going to deport Iranian women who PROVED to an immigration court that they would be persecuted in Iran to the Central African Republic, a country so dangerous to others the U.S. recommends no American travel there. Trump is destroying this country's legacy of freedom!

Polymarket ends its sponsorship of election misinformation thanks to reporting from @popular.info and the public outcry. popular.info/p/update-pol...

New: Asylum appeal backlog rises to 87,450 cases — by Colin Yeo

I call it propaganda because these numbers aren’t legit, and Track AIPAC doesn’t show their math. They’re anti-Jewish. They want you to believe this number is from AIPAC donations, but it isn’t. www.fec.gov/data/candida...

It can’t be emphasized enough how problematic it is that a self-proclaimed Marxist, living in Germany is trying to influence an American election with antisemitic propaganda. The optics of this are absolutely insane. Corey Archibald is the cofounder of Track AIPAC.

“Congress's top bathroom sheriff Nancy Mace is on the ballot, and while not all of the votes have been counted yet, she is in a respectful fifth place,” Sarah McBride just said. “I don't like punching down and I believe in the politics of grace. So all I will say is happy Pride, Nancy.”

Not at all a fan of this Brazil women’s soccer team. All they do is foul and flop. They have the skills and athleticism. They should play soccer.

Been listening to Brandi Carlile lately. This line from her beautiful song The Mother, encapsulates one of my favorite parts of parenthood: Oh, but all the wonders I have seen, I will see a second time From inside of the ages through your eyes

So much shithousery from this Brazil team.

I am not into purity tests and I think Dems need to learn to build coalitions; but the Platner stuff suggests to me that Dems have learned the wrong lessons from the MAGA cult.

Are we sure this is not from The Onion?

🚨🚨 #Switzerland’s star striker Breel Embolo has been barred from entering #US ahead of #WorldCup following a last-minute decision by US authorities to review his #clearance to travel. 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/swit...

That’s it??

I just want everyone to know that there were more than 60 candidates for California governor, and two of those were named Barack D. Obama Shaw and LivingForGodAndCountry DeMott.

RIP Raúl. May your memory be a blessing.

More than 2 million voted in the Dem TX Senate primary. 1.4 million voted in the Rep TX Senate primary runoff. Should we make something out of this? Or was yesterday’s runoff unusually low turnout?

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Yesterday’s elections confirmed that today’s GOP is very much Trump’s party, still. Let’s hope the November elections confirm that today’s GOP is entirely out of step with the rest of America.

So when folks say they want to see Dems stand up to Trump, I think what they mean is don't succumb to Trump's pressure and grant clemency to an election denier who breached her county's election equipment.

A powerful tribute to Jason Collins, who died this week. by @charlotteclymer.bsky.social

Leonardo Garcia Venegas, a U.S. citizen whose prior detentions went viral and were detailed by ProPublica, was recently detained for a third time — and shackled. “I just want to live in peace,” he says. @nicolefoy.bsky.social

RESULT: Democrats tonight have defended a swing district in Michigan's state Senate. This means they also defended their majority in the chamber. (The GOP could have erased it by winning.) SD35 voted by Harris by just 1% in 2024, but Dem Chedrick Greene appears to have won easily today.

Polls have now closed in the Michigan special election: Democrats are defending a state Senate seat, while the GOP is looking to flip it — and if they do they erase Dems' majority in the chamber. Stay tuned.

Will Democrats' over-performance in special elections strike again today in Michigan's 35th? We'll know tonight! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

NEW: Now that the Supreme Court has rendered the last remaining pillar of the VRA toothless, Republicans in eight states are free to gerrymander more than a dozen congressional districts that had been designed to remedy discrimination against Black and Latino voters. We catalog them all here -->

A few weeks ago, Christopher Rufo, of all people, publicly vented his frustration with the increasingly deranged state of today’s Right, bemoaning that its “collective brain is getting melted in a vat of slop, conspiracy, and algorithm-chasing.” He’s right! But also: He bears responsibility.

The Makoka brothers were waiting on the curb of their street to get on their school bus in Diamondhead, Mississippi, last Tuesday. But when their bus arrived to pick them up, 10 unmarked cars suddenly surrounded them, and ICE agents rushed to zip tie them and take them away.

I know we’re all numb to this now but… this is so unhinged.

"women are less likely than men to receive CPR from a bystander (a nonmedical professional who is nearby) in public, and they are less likely to receive defibrillation (shocks that can restart the heart)." via @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social

Happy Tax Day! Last year, Tesla reported $5.7 billion in U.S. profits. It paid $0 in federal taxes. As did Citigroup, CVS, Palantir, PayPal, and many others. via @juddlegum.bsky.social

"Coachella is run by... a subsidiary of The Anschutz Corporation, which is owned by right-wing billionaire Philip Anschutz" who donates to the Republican Governors Association, the Republican AGs Association, the Senate Leadership Fund, & the Congressional Leadership Fund. @juddlegum.bsky.social

This week, Brexit finally killed our family business. We cleared out our warehouse, handed back the keys, paid the final bills and said goodbye to our last employee. What was once a thriving firm died a slow, sad death, all thanks to Farage, Johnson and the gullible idiots they conned. 1/18

The share of Americans who identify as Republican or leaning Republican hit its lowest level since 2015. Via @gelliottmorris.com

Trump poop bags just arrived!

13% of Trump voters regret their vote; 6% of Harris voters regret their vote. Here's how they would vote today. via @gelliottmorris.com

This is an absolute scandal; the United States government is deliberately consolidating all deportation cases of an ethnic minority that the President has called "garbage" in front of a handpicked group of judges and with dramatically accelerated timeline. A lawsuit was filed yesterday against it.

Adding to my podcast library!

For the second year in a row, the gender pay gap has widened. Women working full-time, year-round, now earn 81 cents for every dollar men earn. That's down from 83 cents a year ago, and 84 cents the year prior. We can and must end the gender pay gap & ensure equal pay for equal work. #EqualPayDay

ICE isn’t just the least favorite Federal law enforcement agency, per @gelliottmorris.com , it’s in a category of its own.

Special election flips have offered some hope this year.