"The Court’s behavior in the Louisiana and Alabama cases over the past six weeks can’t be reconciled with or explained by any coherent understanding of what Purcell supposedly stands for. ... The overall pattern reveals justices behaving in a way that has no obvious explanation other than politics."

It's been almost a week since I reported that the Texas Republican party is publicly supporting a group that wants to execute abortion patients. There hasn't been one bit of media coverage since jessica.substack.com/p/texas-gop-...

Trump's name is now gone from the Kennedy Center website (at least the top of the homepage). Next up: the building itself, dammit.

Art.

Of course.

"I first left legacy media when a new, disturbing consensus emerged in the press: that I was bad at my job. So I did what any rational journalism-averse person would do. I blamed everything on woke. On cancel. On not listening enough to diverse voices, like fascists."

"Something remarkable happened in April. For the first time in history, wind and solar generated more electricity than gas across the entire planet. Not in a country. Not in a region. Globally." Tons of great news here from Danny Kennedy (via @billmckibben.bsky.social's newsletter, which rules).

One of my favorites. From The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara: bookshop.org/a/862/9780520201668 #poem #booksky #writing

I mean, I was led to believe trying to overthrow the U.S. government is a heinous crime.

I've just ordered my copy!

Like 15 years ago at a conference in Istanbul I was chatting with an academic over drinks who said he taught media studies. I asked what the curriculum was like and hazarded a few authors and titles I figured would be standard. “Oh no, I can’t assign readings. Nobody would do them. It’s all videos.”

Sit still in the forest and listen to the creatures, wild folk, and monsters shambling in the shadows. Breathe quietly and know you are among friends.

Roblox is pure evil. They know exactly what it is used for. Shady shit, top to bottom. The Kik of video games.

DHS Secretary Mullin says “only a handful” of detainees at Delaney Hall are refusing to eat bc they want “ethnic” food In reality, hundreds of detainees at Delaney & elsewhere are refusing to eat, in part bc the food they're given is rotten and riddled with worms ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

BREAKING: A 43-year-old has died in ICE custody, marking the 19th death in immigration detention this year and at a pace on track to exceed last year’s deaths in detention.

The details about the Tate brothers in this incredible @newyorker.com profile of them are as sick as anything you will ever read. They are rapists, pornographers, traffickers - and are also protected by the "conservative" MAGA movement www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

FDA Recalls 40,000 Gallons Of RFK Jr. Milk https://theonion.com/fda-recalls-40000-gallons-of-rfk-jr-milk/

"The death penalty is only on the table for those deemed people who are actually people. For those deemed people under the law who are corporations, it's a rare option. For billionaires, levying the death penalty is as impossible an outcome as colonizing Mars." www.the-reframe.com/the-cost-of-...

During Pride or anytime, when things get tough, reach out. You are not alone. #pride #mentalhealth

GEO Group, the company that runs Delaney Hall and other prisons, is testing out a new delay tactic to evade legal fallout for its inhumane practices. Attorneys are arguing that the company has qualified immunity.

This is from March 2025. Incredible time to lower your shields.🙄 “The stop work orders went out just days before the US ended a temporary suspension of cattle imports from Mexico and as officials were working to implement protocols to prevent the spread of New World Screwworm to US herds.”

a glaring omission from much of the convo about the Delaney Hall labor and hunger strike imo is the fact that *these people shouldn't be laboring in the first place* this is slavery, & even the 13th Amendment's 'punishment for a crime' exception doesn't apply! ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Forcing immigrant detainees to work for their captors isn’t just exploitative It’s unconstitutional Trump's policies are dramatically expanding both the immigration detention population and the nation’s Thirteenth Amendment crisis ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

my colleague José Olivares has been doing amazing work interviewing Delaney Hall detainees' loved ones. "We needed their voices to be heard, which is why the protest started in the first place," Gabriela Soto, wife of Martín—a hunger and labor striker whose sudden transfer sparked protests—told him

Being booed to death at Madison Square Garden on live TV would really cap off this circus show of a presidency, is all I'm saying

That is an extraordinary claim of executive power. Under the administration’s own legal theory, a president could destroy some of America’s most iconic landmarks and then argue that the courts are unable to undo the damage once it has been done.

Many people suspected this was the strategy, and now it is being argued in court. The Trump admin’s position is that if it moves quickly enough to dismantle or alter public assets, courts may be unable to stop it after the fact. In effect, “move fast and break things” is becoming a legal defense.

It also violates the Trafficking Victims Protection Act. A case about similar GEO Group practices in Colorado is finally going to trial this year (was filed in 2014!). I wrote a bunch about GEO's forced labor policies and the litigation against them here scholar.law.colorado.edu/faculty-arti...

This country still has slavery on the brain and never really let go of it but they’ve modified it with weasel words

No op-eds in major newspapers that he has major cognitive health issues. No cable news panels exploring whether he has major cognitive health issues. No political reporters in legacy media talking about his cognitive health. They're all too scared to question the naked emperor.

It is sort of odd to see people act triumphant about how Trump can’t bring Netanyahu or Israel to heel and how this vindicates Biden when neither of them have done the thing that people propose, which is cut off US support?

Abolish ICE and free them all is the only righteous position.

We are enslaving people. Again. Yes, even though we abolished slavery. “[H]istory did not end in 1965.” Shelby County v. Holder. 570 U.S. 529, 552 (2013) (Roberts, C.J.).

When I read this article a couple of weeks ago, on how the anti-trans backlash in the UK is likely be repeated against other minorities, I thought this example was a little far-fetched. But two weeks is a long time in British bigotry, isn’t it? www.liberalcurrents.com/the-end-of-t...

What we have here is people who are being detained for being immigrants, usually having committed no crime. They are detained for an indefinite period with no indication of when or under what circumstances they’ll be released. They are then forced to work in the facility that is detaining them.

I don't think it's hyperbolic to say that if dozens of people don't spend the rest of their lives in jail for their actions during Trump's presidency, we should expect that the exact same thing will happen sometime in the 2030s.

Sending people without papers to slave camps should really not be the US in 2026

literally all the time bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

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This is correct. They are arguing that because trans people have now had so many rights taken away (thanks to them) no-one should be allowed to transition because they'd then have fewer rights.

lol dude just said Talarico worships Moloch. Now he wants Pete Hegseth to be politically correct and use the proper religious proper nouns for his religion.

Albania is erupting for the second consecutive day in angry mass protests against the Kushner land seizure deal worth $4 billion.

I think every politician who proposes to ban anything on the internet for teens should be required to propose, as an alternate, a free and accessible and all weather space for teens to hang out in their own hometown

"What the Wounds Tell" just won this year’s European Press Prize. "Doctors in Gaza observed a disturbing pattern: children with a single gunshot wound to the head or chest, a sign that they had been deliberately targeted." www.volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v...

Spotted in NYC

Receipts btw: sex-matters.org/wp-content/u... They're quite explicit about curtailing rights in order to "no longer make transition a desirable goal" and thus eliminate trans people from public life.

You'll all be shocked to learn that reorienting the whole economy around cramming AI into everything has not produced any economic benefit outside of the AI companies. www.apollo.com/wealth/the-d...

I’m so frustrated that I have to argue 20th century philosophy about whether machines are people and 18th century science about whether germs are real and fucking 15th century colonial bullshit about whether people are human beings.