Bluesky is a wonderful website if you want more good book recommendations than you could possibly handle

Enzo is so trash that Real Madrid had to issue public communication that they didn’t want to touch this 🗑️

Kind of ironic for Argentina to complain about a hand ball

Vozinha stops the quick Messi free kick

I don’t know how you stop this; and yet

"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.” —FDR, 1944

Tiny forests popping up across Sydney as part of effort to restore urban tree canopy

Asking how people can partake in joyful acts during a period of immense suffering leads me to believe this is your first time at the suffering rodeo.

When I explain to peeps how much we do in research labs for how few $$, they simply don’t believe me. I once explained it to a famous person from Pixar, he looked me square in the eye and said “You mean all the cancer, vision, and Alzheimer’s grants work that way? You’ve gotta be %#ing kidding me!”

If you really want to heal this nation let the kids keep their phones and impose screentime limits for billionaires

Rocchio 🫂 Vogt

people in the US have mostly forgotten this ever happened I can promise you that people in Iran have not

My debut article for @theguardian.com: I wrote about the 250th anniversary and the modern resistance that Black Americans are taking by withholding reactions to this country’s racism instead of our anger becoming spectacle: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“The Trump family’s earnings, experts said, have moved him into an echelon of enrichment more associated with strongmen in Russia and Turkey” {gift link} www.nytimes.com/2026/07/02/w...

Turns out the Profa Republican Party international crime syndicate were the snowflakes cancelling culture for safe spaces all along

Monticello spent decades working to tell a more full and honest story about Jefferson and slavery. Then the right wing trolls came for them, and the institutional response was…not great. prospect.org/2026/07/02/w...

it's super depressing how much this story reads like a microcosm of how and why reconstruction failed.

Worth noting that the tiered access is for the Conversation Focus” feature. So Meta is essentially imposing a tax on disabled people who might use the glasses for this purpose. There are no tiers for perv functions AFAIK.

There it is. From disability dongle to disability diversion to disability tax. Embrace extend extinguish.

I appreciate this all having the heavy-handed symbolism that I would expect out of a Great American Novel. www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

As an American history professor, I regularly read new books, articles, and dissertations, and also evaluate unpublished manuscripts for journals and book publishers. I would not categorize the recent and emerging historiography in the binary way that Ezra Klein does.

When you say the quiet part extremely loudly, and yet somehow it isn't a massive scandal but Hunter Biden www.realitytea.com/2026/07/03/d...

The people terrified of Democratic Socialism always seem to be huge fans of Fascist Capitalism.

Love the insights, citation, and Open Access "Ann Cvetkovich asks, ‘what happens if we don't think about depression as bio-medical but .. as the cumulative result of histories of racism, capitalism, colonialism, sexism, ableism, and more that we carry with us in our bodies, minds, and spirits’.."

1. I will spare you the details of the rightwing reaction to the Supreme Court's decision this week to uphold birthright citizenship. I will spare you because they are disgusting, especially on America's 250th anniversary.

Turns out the Profa Republican Crime Syndicate were the snowflakes cancelling culture all along

US history – not just nature – is at the heart of the visitor experience at most of the NPS 433 sites ‘"A sanitized view of America’: inside Trump’s campaign to erase US history from national parks." Stories & data visualization in @theguardian.com by @amyqin.bsky.social & Flávio Pessoa Read ⬇️

The network of community health workers who track cases and distribute medicines for trachoma and other diseases has been disrupted. “Without them receiving salaries anymore, years of thorough field tracking are going to waste in months,” says Mozambique’s former deputy minister of health.

Air conditioning fails at Delaney Hall as heat wave leaves detainees struggling to breathe

This is fascism

Need Heterodox Academy to explain how the right wing in a one party state restricting non-disruptive speech is the fault of the left.

260. Two hundred. And sixty. This is an indefensible misuse of government resources and, in any other administration, an impeachable offense. Even if Trump's claim wasn't complete fiction, the statute of limitations has run and the FBI has no business wasting time investigating this.

Two years ago, my colleagues and I were sued by Stephen Miller's America First Legal. The Hines v Stamos case — built atop a number of false allegations — was a central element of the "censorship industrial complex" myth. Today, that case was dismissed (by a Trump judge in LA). We won.

AOC has changed the trajectory of American politics and inspired a generation to believe that government really can work for working people. I am deeply honored to earn her endorsement for US Senate. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/02/u...

Meanwhile, Trump paid millions to cancel green energy projects. This is an obnoxious lie.

When government and big business are the same thing, your democracy will be dead.

We limit the speed of ebikes "for public safety", yet this study shows we'd need to limit SUVs to 5.7 km/h for them to pose the same risk to other people #motonormativity findingspress.org/article/1587...

it's so cool these guys bought the presidency to give themselves a few more years of runway so they could finally build a product that makes money then failed to build a product that makes money

if I were an elected representative and my constituents were coming up and saying "our daughter can't go to college unless she gets an athletic scholarship" I would be like "this is why we need universal free college" not "we'll pretend to solve this by being cruel to trans people." crazy right

BREAKING MS NOW: The FBI is surging resources into what it calls a "priority" investigation related to the 2020 election in Georgia — an extraordinary effort to find nonexistent evidence to support Trump's election lies.

The 2021 coup is still in progress and everyone who voted for Trump helped advance it

Just insane levels of corruption, threats, and intimidation going on right now.

Bizarre story: Two journalists were removed by police from a corporate-sponsored Freedom 250 event in Brussels after they asked US Ambassador to Belgium Bill White about his threat against an American citizen/Belgian resident who had emailed Zac Brown Band urging them not to perform at the event.

on second thought maybe paywalling workers’ ability to think wasn’t a great business strategy

I was at a cookout a few weeks ago and a guy who works at the Pentagon basically said no one would be able to afford AI within two months. I thought he was exaggerating.

This is my lane. I went through the 194 Trump v Barbara opinion from yesterday section by section, noting what they got right about US migration and citizenship history, and what the dissents get wrong. Please share if you think it is helpful to others.

"But the craft of history involves years of reading and immersing oneself in the secondary and primary literature, which a law degree doesn’t train for and the haste of writing an opinion does not allow." Agreed; I'd go further and say the various hist & trad tests are just rw judicial power grabs.

THIS IS THE WAY‼️✊ "The Spanish government has blacklisted U.S. data analytics giant Palantir Technologies from public and private state-controlled companies due to growing concerns over the potential misuse of classified national security information."

Palantir CEO Alex Karp couldn’t stay seated in his chair as he proudly stated: 'We kill people sometimes', while speaking to shareholders. (Feb 2026)

'A Jewish human rights lawyer has been labelled a traitor and "Hitler's Jew" in what she describes as an online harassment campaign by pro-Israel and neo-Nazi groups because of her advocacy for Palestinian people.' www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...