If the Republicans ever succeed in repealing Obamacare’s protections for preexisting conditions, your smartwatch & health monitors could be the snitch that documents all of your preexisting conditions and costs you your health insurance coverage & possibly your life! Much worse than Luigi imagined.

Nope! Never. We just collect them in our basements: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

One insurance denial for Teressa’s husband stated, “your newborn does not meet the criteria for coverage.” “This is when I really start to think they’re just denying,” she recalled. “They’re not even looking. They’re just ‘deny, deny, deny.’” (Published Sept. 2025)

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Sad day for Dodgers fans www.latimes.com/sports/dodge...

Fascism is harder to pull off when everyone is running around with little video cameras in their pockets, and can easily share the footage of bad deeds with the world. newrepublic.com/post/212915/...

"“A masked agent in an unmarked car killed Lorenzo in his own neighborhood where he lived for 35 years working and raising a family...This is what unaccountable, unrepentant, unconstitutional enforcement looks like.”

Boston lost transportation planner Louisa Gag. bsky.app/profile/bost...

Two individuals dedicated their lives to fighting for safer streets. Chicago lost CDOT Planner Riley O'Neil.

CLARKSVILLE: “No one should enter a jail cell and leave in a body bag… a mother in our community doesn’t know her son’s last words.” Darrius Chappell died in custody after a K9 bit him. His family asked for help before he died. The community wants answers.

These white men aren't defending another white man. They are defending themselves.

American women won the World Cup 4 times....

When You Hear ‘Remigration,’ Know That It Means Ethnic Cleansing talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/when-yo...

“Show me the video,” Evaniel Johnson told The Associated Press. “Please show me that — and then I’m OK. Until you show me that, I’m gonna fight and advocate for my grandson until there’s no breath in me.”

The first-ever first public memorial in the U.S. dedicated to the honest remembrance of state violence at the hands of police.

This is a big fuck you to anyone working with digital archives and preservation.

When I said JD Vance’s racist lies about Haitians in Springfield, Ohio sounded like inciting a pogrom, that isn’t a word I use lightly.

Ahem...what could possibly go wrong??? dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

Arlington Memorial Bridge remains closed to vehicles until 10 p.m. on July 5 following July 4th festivities. Pedestrian access across the bridge has reopened.

Nor will anyone who has actually read the Declaration of Independence.

Good thread and video on how the Administration hijacked America's birthday ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Sarah Keys Evans’ story is one of thousands about women and people of color to be removed since Trump’s return to office.

What the fuck, this is horrifying

So the official propaganda response is that the Patriot Front is actually ANTIFA or leftists….

There are good reasons, of all the cities in the world, I chose to live in Utrecht. This @bicycledutch.bsky.social video explains many of them. Streets are our shared public space. A welcoming public space translates, overall, to a welcoming city.

If 4 out of 9 supposedly expert mathematicians says that a triangle has four sides, it isn't a 'win for geometry'. @joshtpm.bsky.social #BirthrightCitizenship

SCOTUS had a one question open book test and managed only partial credit.

Say it with me: Opposing birthright citizenship is an impeachable offense.

See that skyrocketing blue line? That’s the number of times that SCOTUS has been issuing unsigned, unexplained rulings.

WaPo: ICE removed detainee protections after private outreach from private prison company GEO Group. GEO group appears to be running labor camps. Do not profit from ICE labor camps. #DIVEST from #$GEO wapo.st/4fcYVBE

anyone wanna help this legend ⬇️

"The extraction of time from people who are detained, captured, disappeared, incarcerated is the annihilation of space by time." Ruth Wilson Gilmore

In 1939, Eleanor Roosevelt famously resigned from DAR when it barred singer Marian Anderson, an African American woman, from performing at its Constitution Hall in Washington, DC. www.archives.gov/exhibits/ame...

the Supreme Court is gonna release its last opinions of the term today and tomorrow, I'm gonna talk about this horror show w @elienyc.bsky.social, @leahlitman.bsky.social, & good folks at @courtacctability.bsky.social including @mikesacks.bsky.social you don't wanna miss it! bit.ly/courtstream2026

If the Supreme Court can reverse a 95 year-old ruling for a country that is only 250 years old, I need you to UNDERSTAND this country still has no idea what it is or what it stands for other than it’s constant push-and-pull to oppress Black people and eliminate Native people.

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On this day in 1829, officials in Cincinnati enforced laws to drive out Black residents—forcing hundreds of Black people to seek asylum in Canada.

Our Civil Service Strong team, @protectdemocracy.org, and a coalition of nonprofits are joining together to stand up for federal workers against this proposed NDA requirement. The rule would violate federal workers' First Amendment rights and create a culture of fear. Read our comment below ⬇️

Help emissions by running *more* buses, any way you can, to get *more* people out of cars. Running fewer buses but they're electric just sends people into cars.

Found this last night after I was surprised to learn how great they’ve been. www.spokesman.com/stories/2026...

Another reason we shouldn't be trusted to host big intrn'l sporting events anymore: “I’m just glad they’re done, & they’re not coming back. I was so happy when we were able to pull their visas & said they could leave the US soil, & I might’ve sung a song or two or maybe even danced a happy dance”

Trump to visit Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library tomorrow. "The event will highlight Roosevelt’s profound impact on conservation, the creation of America’s national parks and public lands" Trump admin has dropped "cyanide bombs' on public lands. #Conservation gizmodo.com/trump-admini...

I do not think there is sufficient appreciation for how catastrophic yesterday’s decision in Slaughter is for this country. As Justice Sotomayor said in her dissent and she intoned from the bench yesterday, “today the majority reshapes our Govt.”

I live close to a royal park - even at 8am the birds are so much more subdued than usual. Genuinely eerie.

Again, I'm sorry if I sound sentimental about this, but the New School is (or was) a special place. A distinct intellectual environment worth saving, if the management believed in it.

A university that called the cops on its own peaceful students is now set to be represented by one of them in Congress

I was sick of seeing JD Vance's memoir get all of the book coverage. So I asked a bunch of writers I know and love what recent books they think should get more attention. These are books for people who actually like to read. Please check them out! lithub.com/40-great-new...

People calling leftist candidates radical are acting like abolishing ICE, taking on corruption, and stopping genocide are a bad thing

Well, this is bad. There goes the water for tens of millions of people, let alone the rest of the ecosystem.