The same day Mamuka died, ICE's acting director signed a memo ending the requirement to report deaths that occur within 30 days of a person's release from custody. Mamuka died inside, so he's counted but going forward, others might not be.

Mamuka Artmeladze was 43, from the Republic of Georgia, was arrested and held for 119 days. He died in ICE custody on June 4. He is the 19th person to die in ICE detention in 2026.

The discourse is a manufactured distraction. We just need to do two things: aid, and action. Every week, civil organizations in Gaza are issuing warnings about looming famine, escalating bombing, and more. Click "weekly/monthly" to help 21 families eat... but then act for their lives. TODAY.

We may need a new definition for "ceasefire" www.bloomberg.com/news/live-bl...

As far as I can tell, @hurwitz.bsky.social and I are some of the only reporters who have pointed out that people inside Delaney Hall are on a labor strike. Forcing prisoners to work is one way GEO keeps its overhead low and its profits high. Staffing is its single-largest expense.

stress makes those automatic processes feel impossible. you forget a few simple steps and the enormously complex choreography of existence goes haywire. drop the pen, freeze on the call, miss your stop. forget cumin.

much of the act of being a person is just a series of procedural memory loops. find the bus stop, make an appointment, buy eggplant, fill out forms, sign, tolerate uncertainty, enter the code, sign, remember the sequence, navigate a building, offer condolences.

We are living in the bipartisan backlash to MeToo because it identified a pervasive problem that, if properly and systemically addressed, would have far-reaching ramifications.

“Talwar told the Guardian in an exclusive interview that she was ‘stunned’ by a suspension that appeared to be motivated by ‘the mere mention of the word Palestine’.”

"He said it was still daylight and that the soldier who opened fire could clearly see the occupants were a family. “The soldier signalled me to stop. I brought the car to a complete halt and raised my hands on the steering wheel. Immediately afterwards, they opened fire on the vehicle,”

Here's the article. diabetesjournals.org/care/article...

The criticism of Trump, Kennedy, and Bhattacharya that was so subversive that the ADA had to eject the Editor-in-Chief of their flagship journal from their annual meeting for sharing it? Prior today it had fewer than 1000 views. Do your thing.

Almost a decade ago, I was very Special Interested in mushrooms and developed an organizing training framework based on mycelium. The core teaching was, people think the above-ground part (the mushroom) is the body of the organism, but that isn't the case. So too with movement. (cont)

This entire thread is really worth reading.

Wow. The discipline deconstructs itself: www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...

“The code of conduct ‘ensures that the meeting remains…centered on advancing diabetes science,’ according to the media team.” This makes sense if you ignore that professional organizations’ annual meetings are exactly the place to discuss being under attack, as well as complicity in other harms.

remembering abdullah al-arian's timeline with 70 years of the nyt predicting saudi arabian liberalization

It's testament to what US political culture is all about that being proven repeatedly "wrong" about the Middle East (and wrong is generous) is basically treated as completely divorced from your overall credibility. For all the jerking off about Kristol's redemption, he was pro war on Iran last year.

Something I find very interesting is that the New York Times played a role in boosting Platner before playing a role in whatever is happening now. Yes, some of us saw clearly he was a gift to centrist Dems who prefer losing at the head of the party to stepping aside. And yes, I meant oysters.

Hey. So, question. When Schumer and Jeffries say they can’t support a war powers resolution because (allegedly) only Israeli soldiers (including citizens of many countries, likely including the US) are killing kids in Lebanon, do the “Israel merely does what the US says” people speak up?

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Accountability is a thing that happens in other countries

I never thought there would be a reason to do this, but invoking ex-Catholic status: It is not even remotely bigoted to criticize the church institution or the Vatican state. It runs a large healthcare network in the US that denies standard of care on the basis of identity. That’s an objective fact.

This is truly one of the worst things the court has done — both in terms of legitimacy and in terms of the law — since I have been covering the court.

Happy Pride Month!

All of this could've been avoided by a commitment to a democratic process. I'll never get over how many folks would prefer to torch their careers, their organizations, in defense of a genocide.

This should be the end of Schumer and Hochul’s political careers. But marching with genocidaires and war criminals is par for the course for the travesty that is the Democratic Party. Eternal shame.

‘Spoiled insulin’: #Sudan war disrupts drug supplies, fuelling smuggling www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/...

Listened to Schumer's remarks. Incredible to hear someone rightly speak about the horrors of people being 'violently displaced from their homes' in the past without commenting on efforts to do exactly that now by prominent fellow attendees whose arrest is sought by the International Criminal Court.

Simply imagine the response if these people stood with someone who called for a nuke to be dropped on Israel.

Strong message going into the midterms, Dems.

US media outlets are willing to butcher the English language — along with common sense and human decency — to avoid stating a basic fact: Israel is expanding its occupation of southern Lebanon

Elissa Slotkin, Abigail Spanberger, Chrissy Houlahan, Mikie Sherrill, and Elaine Luria:

You mean they'll register for a webinar on June 2nd to find out more about calling their congressional delegation, right?

“‘My political camp is that I don’t want people bleeding out because they don’t have access to equipment that we have the luxury of having access to,’ Barton told Truthout.”

So are we ever going to have a conversation about how vast swathes of liberal influencers and personalities are just ex GOP strategists, guys who used to crime for Trump but have “reformed,” and people who used to work for the FBI and CIA? Because it kind of feels…important?

If this pisses you off…get in. Register for our Emergency Science Meeting, yell at your Congress critters, and leave a public comment all in one place: fight2win.standupforscience.net

tl,dr; Scientists no longer allowed to use federal funding to publish, attend meetings, or talk to the public. They cannot collaborate internationally. Grants can be cancelled for any reason, at any time, political appointees have a final say over what gets funded, and who gets funded.

I know that someone out there cares about saving the life of a teenage girl with a bullet wound in her brain. The doctors can't remove the shrapnel because of the medical siege on Gaza. We did this. So let’s show up with unbridled hope for her. 20/220 by Monday tiny.cc/HelpRetaj

Every single time I mention on here that the Democratic party has not told its voters what it actually will DO if given power, there are ALWAYS people who lose their shit in my mentions. Then I ask them what the party has told them they will do? and it's either silence, platitudes or "oversight"

This is an actual Thirteenth Amendment violation, because they have not been convicted of any crime.

Everything has to change. Everything. Do not settle for politicians who want to go back to "normal." "Normal" was the garbage state of existence that allowed all of this evil to take root and thrive. Everything has to change.

This is nicely put. The machine that subordinates all life to its own algorithm of self-expansion is already operating: It’s called capital. www.newyorker.com/science/anna...

In a world destroying itself to consume as much oil as possible, what happens when oil runs out? Guess we'll see.

🚨Important note: Signal says it will "never reach out" to users first. That means any unsolicited message coming from "Signal Support" is a phishing attempt. techcrunch.com/2026/05/28/h...

I wrote about @tressiemcphd.bsky.social's recent comments on liberal/left pro-natalism: "Anytime someone wants to have a conversation about pro-natalism, they really want to have a conversation with you about white supremacy." badfaithtimes.com/the-bad-fait...

Well done everyone mocking the White House lawn cage fight with jokes about trailer parks and rednecks. How better to comment on the trashiness of the American ruling class than... er... patronising and insulting the American poor?