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"The study found that resettled refugees contribute $6 billion more to the U.S. economy than they take out. Per year. The Trump administration did exactly what you’d expect: They suppressed the study, and then they lied about it."

The reason why Becerra is now the presumptive next governor is that the parties who were promoting Swalwell switched to his campaign once the ship started sinking.

RE:Platner, there’s already amnesia about who in CA Dems recruited Eric Swalwell to be the presumptive next governor of California when he also had zero qualifications without doing any kind of background check. Like the entire impact fell on him w/out his backers catching heat for malpractice.

I named my cat after Daniel Striped Tiger, so will be watching every episode with him.

New OBW: Genius comedian Ali Siddiq on the surprising--or not--times he used to blast Willie Nelson's cover of "Midnight Rider" in his old Monte Carlo, plus America's enduring fascination with Outlaws & how he knows from seeing one photo that Paul English was a real Outlaw Hear here: bit.ly/4uiamfU

The nicest thing that happened today was seeing my coworker’s wedding photos. FiL was in hospice so the staff there set up an impromptu wedding chapel & got the cake/catering donated so that the family could be together w/him to celebrate the wedding before he passed.

James Talarico controversy: Commented "Christ is in the slums and the refugee camps, not the palaces, happy birthday btw" on an OnlyFans girl's post Graham Platner controversy: Rock-climbing selfie with the Eagle's Nest clearly visible in the background

🧵 This month on AskHistorians, we're hosting a few AMAs to mark the U.S. 250th with better content than a UFC Fight! We have a fantastic lineup over the next few weeks. Starting Monday we have Marc Stein for Bicentennial: A Revolutionary History of the 1970s, new from @uchicagopress.bsky.social!

Every time I see him I think about how they were the future of the country, the brightest and bravest people. What we could've had, were they not slaughtered by the state.

I am obsessed with this finalist in this year's Michigan “I voted” sticker design contest

RIP Marjane Satrapi

The classic ‘tank man’ photo is a close up but when you zoom out, the image - and what it represents- is even more poignant.

I love San Antonio and NYC, both important cities in my family. a delivery of HEB tortillas fresh from the tortilla machine is a top tier gift.

Not even a criticism of Becerra in particular, but in general, the total collapse of ambition in American politics remains one of the bleakest ongoing trends. It's just a competition between gangsterism and pensionary politics. Nobody believes in the future anymore.

Saw this last night & as someone who spends time in San Francisco for work, the overwhelming amount of anti-human and anti worker tech feels like Kaufman’s vision of a community being drained of its soul.

“The examples of the Corcoran and the Mapplethorpe show, or the lawsuits against Ivy League schools today, all show that once you give a little ground, they’re going to see you as vulnerable and keep taking more. It’s like a bully with your lunch money.” www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/06/02/m...

Frankie Chan & Roel A. García - Night Snack [Hong Kong, Ambient] (1994) Very cheeky post, thought someone might enjoy a piece from Wong Kar-Wai's Chungking Express. https://redd.it/gzu6fh https://youtu.be/AEjZupA1Qkw

Shocking the illiterate Trump guy is firmly ahead of the person I voted for who could have ever predicted this

And then there's me, reminiscing to anyone who will listen (a vanishingly small number) how the 2009 budget deal between Karen Bass, Darrell Steinberg, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Abel Maldonado led directly to this mess of a primary, a deal that was triggered by the 2003 recall, which itself...

I am not going to take anybody seriously if their complaining about how billionaires are bad for California is limited to governor's race discourse & not demanding that we go after anybody & anything affiliated with the Ellison and Bowles families.

It's Prop 187/209 being enforced on the entire country. Absolutely shameful, these people are owed so much for the sacrifices they made for our military www.abridged.org/news/afghan-...

HBO Max is debuting a bunch of film noir selections today, and for @crooked-marquee.bsky.social I highlighted 1949's bleak but empathetic postwar thriller 'Act of Violence.'

Worth noting that Scott Pelley was the presenter of this award to HS student journalist Santiago Campos, worth $10,000. Pelley can be seen clapping during Campos' very gutsy speech.

The goats are back at work, removing brush to create defensible space.

Craig Ferguson working with Anthony Bourdain’s team should be getting more promotion than just the LA Times. Guessing it’s not because its premise and Craig’s comments about immigration & national identity would piss off the xenophobes and nativists backing America250.

Para Lennon E McCartney - Milton Nascimento [Psychedelic Rock] (Brazil, 1971) https://redd.it/y85exx https://youtu.be/f1y0ZZlOigc

As horrifying as this campaign of premeditated murder is, what might be even more disturbing is the utter indifference of Congress, the public and our allies to such a shocking and unapologetic obliteration of the many laws and norms against targeting civilians. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/w...

Favorite fact is that the Cosmic Cowboy who’s first introduced as visiting his daughter at Hokti’s prison & later haunting it as a ghost is named Tupelo & played by iconic cinematographer/gaffer, Steve Mathis.

Jane Fisher (American Artist, born 1961) "Untitled (Woman on Underwater Steps)", 1989. Oil on Canvas, 48 × 62 inches. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Meowie Antoinette

The image above is an actual photo of the total solar #eclipse of May 29, 1919. It's an event that caused a revolution in human thought. It even tested #AlbertEinstein's theory of general #relativity. Read more at: buff.ly/CmkrsCW 📸 Wikimedia Commons.

Aaron Swartz was facing prison for something the LLM companies are investing trillions in (downloading other people's data) and educational instutions like MIT absolutely cannot wait to throw money at them while simultaneously reducing services and staff amid budget crises. grody

💯. Courtney is total chaos but she’s up there with Dolly Parton, Grace Jones, & Debbie Harry for my personal music heroines. Bonus opinion, Nirvana was a much tighter band when Chad Channing was the drummer.

Vermeer’s Girl With The Pearl Earring will be shown in Osaka, later this year, and the press conference was as Japanese as you’d expect #Vermeer

I am no longer friends w/someone who thought they were being awfully clever in shittalking the South & Misssissippi in particular. No great loss & you know who have been far better people in my life? A former boss & close family friend who both have roots in the Mississippi Delta.

MIT closing three of its four libraries is shocking and appalling and underscores that the source of so much of the crisis in higher education comes not from attacks from the far right or the collapse of public trust, but rather from the university administrative class itself.

IIRC Leslie Jordan has a story in the memoir he wrote before his death about being on a road trip where he stayed here & Marta Becket performed for him.

Today's inspiration is Anna May Wong photographed for The Honorable Mr. Buggs (1927).

Talarico v. Paxton is going to be a straight up religious argument between Christianity as a religion of love for neighbor and Christian authoritarianism. There's not been a public theological contest like this since the Scopes Monkey trail.

Moira Shearer between takes on the set of The Red Shoes (1948)

Good luck to James Talarico’s campaign. Ted Cruz got re-elected after abandoning his constituents during a crisis & one of my cousins is very proud of the fact that he attends the same church as Ted. And Paxton is like every good ol boy shithead who was in management at my job at the TX capital.

"Good thing we've still got politics in Texas -- finest form of free entertainment ever invented" - the late, great Molly Ivins

your regular reminder that the national shoplifting crisis was a manufactured moral panic largely engineered by corporations in order to cover up their own mismanagement — and that wage theft is the largest category of theft in the U.S.

California wildfire (mis) management & response. Especially how 300+ years of Spanish/Mexican/American control of the territory led us to a problems which didn’t exist during the 10,000 years of indigenous stewardship.

"That the familiar world is often unsatisfactory cannot be denied, but it is not, for all that, one that we need abandon. We need not be seduced into evasion of it any more than we need be appalled by it into silence." Dorothea Lange, born 26 May 1895.

Photo by Dorothea Lange (1895–1965), “Arranging flowers for altar on last day of services at Japanese Independent Congregational Church, prior to evacuation,” from War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement, 1942-1945. More in ALT. #photography #worldwarII