Trump may already be deporting newborn Americans while the Supreme Court dawdles on birthright citizenship: pregnant teenagers in immigration detention having been giving birth to U.S. citizens but those girls and their babies are now missing ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/birth...

Walkings.

Not enough people know that the DOJ is keeping the part of Trump's IRS settlement in place that shields Trump and his family from IRS audits. That's *extraordinarily* corrupt. Don't let it fly under the radar.

I would like to take this moment to brag on Minnesota, as we were the first to reject such an amendment to our constitution and therefore do not need to remove one from it now. Anyway, godspeed, VA.

Can one of our esteemed centrist Dems chime in to explain how compromise is the answer to whatever this is? Just super excited to hear how persuasion can address a US House Speaker actively undermining a free and fair election. Or is this something we ignore because it's not a kitchen table issue?

If I can make one thing clear to my fellow Americans: you are not equipped for war. Your God is convenience. War is the God of inconvenience. A people who find a 10-minute wait for coffee unbearable, who have no money for retirement but all the money for a Roomba and a daily DoorDash habit... 1/

When a man gets Nazi tattoos, sexts multiple women while married, and makes problematic statements over many years, you can decide these things don't matter to *you* but what you are not going to do is hold other people responsible for the fact that his choices are impacting his campaign.

Interesting way to avoid saying that an Israeli occupation soldier shot a 7 month old baby

www.theguardian.com/football/202.... This is bullshit. Country's should pull out of the WC if this is how players get treated #News

Credit to these farmers. I will leave it at that.

On Tuesday, North Dakotans will vote on a measure to restrict ballot initiatives by forcing them to cover only one subject. A similar rule in South Dakota recently led state courts to invalidate a ballot initiative legalizing marijuana.

BREAKING: in May 2026, *every single one* of the 599 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 6,665 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November 2025), and nobody else. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.

This, this, this. Bending the knee, by sacrificing the most vulnerable, only protects you for a short while, and robs you of agency and self-worth. We may all be dragged under eventually. But you can make it easy and drown without a fuss, or you can make it so costly they lose even by winning.

38 people were loaded at onto today's ICE Air flight at MSP, the highest number we've seen since the end of Metro Surge. All of today's detainees were men, mostly Hispanic, quite a few were construction workers. Stats for ICE Air operations in Minnesota: ottergoose.net/ice-flights-msp/stats

This mother stood up for her daughter by getting he child outside help after learning she was abused by her father. And she is staying in the church that tried to cover up that abuse, and the abuse of so many others. It's gutting how hard it is to get people to walk away from toxic institutions.

All of it. 💕💕💕

are you just going to do this for every generation

Black people make up about 38 percent of Mississippi, but only four Black justices have ever been on the supreme court. That was central to a federal judge’s decision last year that the state’s judicial map is violating the VRA—but then came Callais.

ICE vehicles have been seen this morning in the Corcoran and Powderhorn neighborhoods/ South Minneapolis. It would be great to get extra support from community today. Please help out in your local area. 1/

Not all books are meant to survive their generation. Times change, social attitudes change; aesthetics change. Editing and re-editing a book to keep it palatable for modern readers is like trying to keep a person alive long after their body has given up. Let books die when their time is over.

I have many critical things to say about the Strib, but we are lucky to still have local media - both mainatream and independent - and this is sad news.

roberts and alito have concocted a jurisprudence in which constitutional amendments explicitly ratified to secure the right of black americans to vote now restrain congress from securing the right of black americans to vote.

california is gonna have so many mail in ballots that don’t get counted because people don’t know the new USPS rules that are impacting mail in voting. tl;dr don’t put your ballot in the mail today, find a ballot drop box. www.kqed.org/news/1208537...

For those talking about the lack of food in ICE facilities, you should know that jails and prisons regularly starve people to death. This is not a rare occurrance. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

I mean, if they want their party to be forever synonymous with abusive state power and racist violence -- and they clearly do -- let 'em at it. It saves me from having to give even 2 seconds to the GOP voters who pretend they are voting on the price of eggs.

My thrice-annual post about not-politics. Happy June! 🌱 #nativeplants #Minnesota #prairieplanting

Imagine being so unable to love your child that you set fire to the whole damn world instead.

“.. No female officers were included on the new one-star list, .. despite the fact that women make up about 21 percent of the active-duty Navy. The list appears to include only two nonwhite officers, even though .. minorities make up about 38 percent ..” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/u...

Sen. Andy Kim: "It's a choice. Delaney Hall is run by GEO Group. GEO Group is getting a nearly $1 billion contract to run Delaney Hall. They tell me there is one full-time doctor for 800 detainees. They could have more doctors if they wanted to, but that's cutting into their profits."

Thiiiiiiissss.

I had a high school social studies teacher who would not show images of Nazi soldiers because he felt that too many people were actually drawn to, and not repulsed by, images of authoritarian power. And this article shows how right he was. People committing atrocities thinking they are movie stars.

Citations related to homelessness in Albuquerque surged in 2025. As a result, more people were missing court dates, which can lead to an arrest warrant. Following ProPublica’s reporting on the issue, the courts are adjusting their system to help.

Towns retaining their European culture, foods, and languages - of which MN has many, by the by - are cast as quaint and lovely. And non-white communities retaining their culture (like, say, the Somalis or Mexicans), are castigated for not assimilating. www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2026/...

Palestinian refugees forced to flee the southern Lebanon: 'All my life, I have only known displacement'

This should haunt us.

Great news: the courts will have a chance to rein in the abuses at Camp East Montana, the infamous tent camp built on Fort Bliss in El Paso. I have known seasoned veterans of this field who visited the camp and came away saying it was one of the worst ICE detention centers they’d ever been to.

Dear America …

Privilege and power allow you to decide when something is "unacceptable" and when it is merely a setback, a growing pain, or an unfortunate but forgivable offense. This is how so much dissent in the workplace is silenced. This is how bias works in hiring and promotions. This is how "isms" survive.

Real question.

Look at the pure joy!!

so, this is deeply, deeply horrifying thedreydossier.substack.com/p/i-found-a-...

One reason I have low hopes for where this train is headed is that I see no signs that anyone has learned anything from the recent past. Not Never Trump. Not centrists. Not liberals. Not progressives. Not leftists. Everyone just thinks the issue is that everyone else refuses to do it their way.

one might ask why a free speech org is scrutinizing the small dollar political donations of private citizens

Resource worth a bookmark.

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This is bad. Bad for researchers. Bad for science. Bad for universities. Bad for professional associations. For example: 1. Every award would be vetted by political appointees, who could overrule peer reviewers and deny the award if it doesn't advance the president's priorities. 1/🧵

Don Lemon just shared that the DOJ filed for a search warrant and demanded the list of his paid YouTube subscribers. For now, the judge denied the request. When I was telling you why I got off Substack and moved ONEST to EU servers, I wasn’t kidding. Pay attention. Pls.

I want people to remember that the treatment of immigrant detainees -- the abuse, poor nutrition, overcrowding, exploitative wages -- is inhumane, but not unique. It is reflective of our entire prison system. The transformation we need should extend well beyond immigration reform.