I'm not an "illegal alien" but I might not be able to afford health care insurance next year without the ACA extension.

@musaalgharbi.bsky.social providing essential reading for anyone interested in actually moving forward.

"By the end of the 57-minute speech, nearly quadruple his official time slot, Trump was drifting farther from his prepared remarks and often from factual reality."

Long term thinking about indirect consequences...

"This is what it looks like when a society’s elite rolls over in the face of authoritarianism. It never ends well."

this is appropriately blistering. the Koreans are fucking pissed and they are entirely right to be english.hani.co.kr/arti/english...

Free Speech Martyrdom

"Martyrdom certainly honors the person, but it has a terrible track record, and that's why I suggest it's dangerous for our country because in our country right now there are divides all over the place."

It's not about racism “But America does not belong to them. It belongs to us. It’s our home. It’s a heritage entrusted to us by our ancestors. It’s a way of life that is ours, and only ours, and if we disappear, then America, too, will cease to exist.”

Xi may be having a moment, but it's time for a reality check for Putin...

VIDEO: How The Media Fell For The “Migrant Crime” Scam youtu.be/KrAfbd77eao?...

Thiel 'will offer his thoughts on "how his Christian faith informs his understanding of the world," including the areas of theology, history, literature and "politics of the Antichrist" as part of a four-part lecture series at The Commonwealth Club in San Francisco.'

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One of Syria’s most aggressive disinformation campaigns followed the Sweida violence. In this piece, I try to cut through the noise to separate real local grievances from the louder, destructive foreign propaganda. In @newlinesmag.bsky.social newlinesmag.com/argument/how...

"Netanyahu issued a statement that Israel must provide “minimal assistance” to prevent “images” of starvation or famine from circulating in Washington, as they might threaten U.S. support for Israel’s military campaign."

If you are ever confronted with Zionist genocide apologism of any kind, don’t waste your time debating. Just send them this headline. www.972mag.com/gaza-starvin...

"Very nice phone calls" with the Russian president are often followed by devastating air strikes on Ukraine - "After that happens three or four times you say: the talk doesn't mean anything," Trump said.

"Mixed among the detainees accused and convicted of crimes are more than 250 people who are listed as having only immigration violations."

“We get a lot of bullshit thrown at us by Putin, if you want to know the truth. He’s very nice all the time but it turns out to be meaningless.” "I told you I was very unhappy with my call with President Putin. He wants to go all the way, just keep killing people, it’s no good.”

I've obtained a trove of leaked documents about today's federal crackdown on Los Angeles' MacArthur Park. One revelation is its codename: "Operation Excalibur"

A video about the Declaration of Independence. I'm proud of this one.

this is nuts lol. Zohran's got that Bernie touch where he is really good at handling a hostile audience bsky.app/profile/dave...

"It's not an issue of funding cuts, - There are cybersecurity concerns. That's what we're being told."

Let’s be clear: Iran’s regime is brutal. Israel’s security is real. This isn’t about moral equivalence. It’s about strategic collapse. You don’t bomb your way back into credibility after you’ve walked out of the room. open.substack.com/pub/trygveol...

This seems like a good summary, from @aljazeera.com. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/...

A single person — Donald Trump — has released the dogs of war and done it without the consent of Congress, our allies, or even a clear explanation to the American people. Anyone who has doubted Trump’s intention to replace our democracy with a dictatorship should now be fully disabused.

"Today, the Senate Parliamentarian advised that the following provisions in the Republican “One Big, Beautiful Bill” violate the Senate’s Byrd Rule and would be subject to a 60-vote threshold if included in the bill."

ICE is using racial profiling and it was completely predictable. ICE (basically): “If they’re brown…we’ll hunt them down!”

I'm always leery of election tampering allegations, but this makes some interesting connections.

This time-lapse video of protesters marching down Broadway in Oakland for No Kings Day gives an idea of how many people turned out today @sfchronicle.com

“The sentiment across the board right now is that deploying military force against our own communities isn’t the kind of national security we signed up for.”

"Reducing US military aid to Ukraine will neither lead to a sustainable peace in Ukraine nor compel Russian President Vladimir Putin to reassess his theory of victory" understandingwar.org/backgrounder...

NEW: California files an emergency motion for a temporary restraining order to stop the Trump admin from using "the federalized California National Guard and active duty Marines for law enforcement purposes on the streets of a civilian city." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

"Living in a police state doesn't always mean soldiers in the street. It can mean living under a government where the rules change without warning, where truth is manipulated and where institutions meant to protect are turned into tools of control."

ICE crossed a line in LA

I can't tell you HOW PISSED Los Angeles is right now. Every single person I know and every group chat (no matter the original topic) is 100% focused on what's happening, and the solidarity is universal across the city. Reminds me of 2020. Here's a cop car with a come wedged on top for fun.

"The allegations [are] serious enough to warrant discovery. The lawsuit, SMART Legislation et al. v. Rockland County Board of Elections, moves forward, with a hearing scheduled for September 22, 2025."

The Chief of the Criminal Division at the US Attorney’s Office/Middle District of Tennessee RESIGNED the same day the Acting US Attorney signed the indictment of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. He writes: “do the right thing, in the right way, for the right reasons.” There are no coincidences.

A "coalition of about 70 law professors, attorneys and former Florida Supreme Court justices is attacking Bondi’s record in an ethics complaint — saying she has committed 'serious professional misconduct that threatens the rule of law and the administration of justice.'”

We’re not history professors but it just kinda seems like the founders were pretty intentional about setting up our system so our fate wouldn’t be decided entirely by the moods of billionaires with the fragilest egos imaginable. 🇺🇸

Fugate performed "various activities around every department of the store, fulfilling key duties contributing to store operations.”

"It strikes me as doubly offensive not only to cause unnecessary deaths of such children but also to deny these deaths and call them lies. The denials erase these children and dodge all responsibility."

Just a reminder for any member of Congress who seems to have forgotten...

“The documents reveal the Trump administration has authorized every single law enforcement officer in the country, including traffic cops, to engage in immigrant roundups explicitly outside due process.”

ICE arrested & held a US-born citizen even 𝗔𝗙𝗧𝗘𝗥 a judge accepted his birth certificate as evidence of citizenship. They will do this to ANYONE. They don't need a reason. This is why we're all watching what happens with the people who were trafficked to El Salvador. 𝘞𝘦'𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘹𝘵.

Excellent, but deeply disturbing reporting on the sabotage of Social Security, on people’s lives, on what can only be described as the total destruction of a person’s vital social standing. This comes close to murder: ideologically erasing people from the system. www.latimes.com/business/sto...

"At this time, the war serves primarily political and personal interests, not security interests."

“The fear is the U.S. is losing its standing as the safe haven.”