what Trump is doing to rural hospitals is going to ensure that people who would ordinarily receive life-saving treatment from a doctor will die instead

The Supreme Court just made it easier for ICE to stop you … for being brown. The Court sided with ICE, letting them continue targeting people based on race, language, where they are, or the kind of work they do. This ruling is a setback, but it’s not the end.

Get you a man who can do both: 1) singlehandedly hauling 242-lbs. of glassed-in bookshelves up a flight of stairs while 2) belting out Kym Mazelle's cover of "Young Hearts Run Free," as performed by Mercutio at the Capulets' masked ball in Baz Luhrman's Romeo + Juliet

Fox News Reporter Jacqui Heinrich: The way that it felt in the room was not good. It did not seem like things went well. And it seemed like Putin came in and steam rolled, got right into what he wanted to say and got his photo next to the president and then left

I love everything about this.

I hate it here.

a sharp review of the chatterton book that notes the author’s total refusal to engage with history and his insistence that a “serious” or “good faith” discussion requires participants to exist in an eternal present where individuals exist free of context www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...

what if wizard of oz looked like shit but also you had to go to vegas and spend way more money to watch it

I can’t tell if my body hurts from core day yesterday at the gym or from inhaling a bunch of particulate matter today on my walk home through the Canadian wildfire smoke

Thanks @publisherswkly.bsky.social for the birthday wishes! 💯 www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

"While the wildfires were raging in California, Ben and Ted Cruz had a podcast where they just attacked Governor Newsom and Karen Bass—that was while the fires were still raging. So spare us the grandstanding and virtue signaling about how this stuff shouldn't be partisan."

i think that if you are an upper income writer living in a major urban area complaining about “the laptop class” — really, if you are a knowledge worker of any kind complaining about the “laptop class — you have an obligation to quit your job and go work in a factory for a year

It’s a terrible bill. It will literally kill people. The most vulnerable among us will suffer as the wealthiest benefit. It’s perverse. I wish there were something I could do. But alas, I am only a U.S. Senator from Alaska whose “no” vote would kill the bill. So I voted yes. You get it.

Clearly for me 2002 was a high water mark in terms of cinematic achievement for this century.

Fortunato (coughing): You’re certain the Criterion Closet is down here Montresor (picking up a trowel): Definitely. Have you thought about your picks yet

Trump bombing Iran because he was jealous of all the praise Fox News was giving Benjamin Netanyahu for strikes on Iran shows how stupid/petty/dangerous these times we are living in are.

This is not a budget bill, it is a debt and deportation bill—and one built on the fascist foundation laid by the Heritage Foundation’s now-notorious Project 2025. https://trib.al/jw7Y71q

What's the strangest—or one of the strangest—books you've ever read? And what made it so?

Huh—I guess he tweeted about it so often back when Obama was President because he actually thought it would be a good political strategy.

Sen. Chris Murphy: "I was briefed on the intelligence last week. Iran posed no imminent threat of attack to the United States."

AOC: “It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.”

Why are no headlines focusing on the unconstitutional and dictatorial nature of this action?

There's no declaration of war, and no AUMF that covers this. Entering this war is wrong on the merits; we had a perfectly peaceful way to address Iran's nuclear program. It's also unlawful. A democratic republic should not be able to enter a war of choice on one man's say-so.

Watching Errol Morris's THE FOG OF WAR & thinking with horror—now that Trump has made this terrible choice—about the prospect of Pete Hegseth being this generation's Robert McNamara. I mean, they do share a penchant for mendacity. But I can't imagine that ol' Pete even knows what "fallacy" means.

Harvard Univ is reportedly in talks with Trump to make a deal. Harvard should look at how Columbia Univ making a deal with Trump destroyed the school's reputation. Plus even after Columbia's surrender, Trump regime just announced a new investigation into Columbia: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Just a reminder that generative AI is theft of labor and intellectual property, uses vast amounts of energy/ water, provides at best mediocre results (if not outright lies or misinformation), actually affects your ability to think over time (mind duh), and is in general a really fucking bad idea.

If you use chatgpt you're stupid. It's confirmed

When ICE agents look like this, it is ENTIRELY APPROPRIATE for state and local law enforcement to step in and demand they identify themselves and show judicial warrants before detaining anyone from an immigration court. Democratic mayor and governors can take action on this.

Twenty years ago the Republican party stood for huge tax cuts for the rich and wars of choice in the middle east, but then Donald Trump totally remade the party and realigned American poltiics, and now the Republica party stands for...huge tax cuts for the rich and wars of choice in the middle east.

I signed the final bills Melissa Hortman shepherded through the most narrowly divided legislature in the county. All of them bipartisan. We debated, we found common ground, and we compromised. That’s how democracy should function.

Not an original point but worth saying again - there is not a single element in this picture that identifies any of these folks as law enforcement agents. No badges, no uniforms, no vests. Out of context it just looks like a bunch of random guys are kidnapping a mayoral candidate.

Zohran Mamdani and Brad Lander, the leading progressive candidates in the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City, will cross-endorse each other, creating a late-stage partnership designed to help one of them surpass Andrew Cuomo in ranked-choice balloting. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/n...

This just happened to Sen. Alex Padilla, the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, and Border Safety. Totally abhorrent, thuggish behavior.

It is RIF separation day at NEH. More than 100 of us lose our jobs today. Our hearts are heavy and broken. None of this had to happen. Fellow NEHers, we cross this threshold together. One we hoped would never appear. We will continue to stand as tall as we can. 🤍 #NEH #Resist

“Trump is using military forces to stop a protest — I want y'all to consider what kind of government it appears to be when every time we exercise our democratic right to protest, the military is deployed against us.” Doechii at the #BETAwards

This is a pretty important point!

Alice Notley passed away yesterday evening in Paris. She said a few years ago, “What can we learn from the fact that we don’t die?” I’m heartbroken, & heartbroken for everyone who knew & loved her, her work.

We need something like a Fair Trade or EnergyStar logo for outlets that promise zero slop. Rigorously audited, zero tolerance enforcement. Then let consumers decide what that's worth.

500K Mexican-Americans served in the U.S. armed forces in WWII, as did millions of 1st and 2nd-gen immigrants, and 109K noncitizens. Mexican immigrant Macario Garcia won the Medal of Honor in Normandy. When he returned to the US, he was was arrested for trying to eat at a segregated restaurant.

Will never understand those who look at the homeless and understand *themselves* as victims—of inconvenience.

Imagine that. #SwampForceOne ✈️

The president has covered the Oval Office in gold, is planning a massive military parade for his birthday, and is now accepting $400,000,000 luxury planes from foreign powers as personal presents. What the fuck are we doing here?

lol. she thinks it's a town lending library?

staffers are still cleaning up the Kristi Noem mess after she got gutted/filleted by @chrismurphyct.bsky.social this is A MOMENT. #MustWatch 🧢 @trumpfile.org

Okay just one more. Fresh fruit slices on a panel by Margaret Fabrizio. Seen at her gallery in San Francisco. #quilt #art

You know that if the New York Times is reporting this, then the situation is extremely dire. Palestinians have been saying for months that famine is happening due to Israel’s siege. That is a war crime, Israel is the agent, the US is the sponsor, and American taxpayers are rendered complicit.

Is Vegas taking bets on which job Little Marco will be *most* incompetent at?