Zohran pioneered this it goes without saying.

Strand employees are a breed apart, always will be.

Gift link with no paywall because everybody needs to read this one after the June we just had slate.com/news-and-pol...

Reading. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/17/o...

wish i'd had this stunning essay as a reference when writing my new book; i have a chapter analyzing Zionist certainties through Charles Mills' concept of "white ignorance", to account for the limits of witnessing... would have loved to cite this too! www.equator.org/articles/mor...

For nine days, Fatima Abu Khammash searched for her missing son across Gaza's Israeli-controlled zone. When they refused to hand over his body, she crossed the line herself, finding a mother's uneasy peace in what she carried back. mondoweiss.net/2026/07/she-...

Sen. Alsobrooks tells Vought "I have been waiting for the opportunity to come face to face with you" and repeatedly calls his actions "depraved" and "evil"

This essay is the reason Equator has to exist.

Excellent thread about the kind of men who become the foot soldiers of fascism. Fits the Trump regime rather well, not surprisingly.

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

I’m grateful for folks who wrote pieces like this after Kirk’s murder. It’s still a struggle to adequately convey the contempt I have for democrats who don’t act with urgency against the fucking existential threats that republicans pose. But the dem response to Kirk’s murder was a real wakeup.

"This is our land. Israel has no right to lease it to the United States." The U.S. is planning a new embassy in Jerusalem, at a site that was appropriated from Palestinian families, including Columbia University scholar Rashid Khalidi's, during the Nakba.

'The deranged idea—as Amitav Ghosh describes it—that we are safe, that things are under control, that bad things only happen to people who are far away, persists. Anticipating future ruin, we fail to act in the here and now.' The future [ruin] is now

I have never been a gamer. I missed that whole generational shift. But I am happy for a lot of you that you finally have some gamer representation in politics.

This is an incredible read. It's the haunting kind of speculative fiction that feels like a mirror being held up to the world, the reflection looks warped and impossible to understand but you know somehow that it's showing you the truth and it's your vision that's wrong.

Biden sent Blinken to beg the British not to suspend a few dozen arms export licenses and the British asked in return for the right of Palestinians detainees to be visited by the Red Cross and America gave up and let the British do it rather than pressure Israel to accept this modest ask

Democrats should keep all options on the table when it comes to reining in the MAGA scotus.

This should be a lesson learnt, it doesn't matter who the victim is, red flags shouldn't be ignored, & winning at all cost isn't winning. I'm disgusted by the commentators who decided that victims don't matter, we see you. Thank you Watson for watching the vile commentary.

one side's voters care about sexual assault and one side's voters don't and while I understand that "impossible to say whether this is good or bad" is the standard for the paper of record I think it's clear which side has the moral high ground here

I’m a historian who stands with Lonnie Bunch. Let’s hear from more of us!

New, for @talkingpointsmemo.com, my look at the history of the term "remigration," a euphemism for ethnic cleansing (a euphemism in of itself); & how Thomas Rousseau, leader of Patriot Front, used it in private Nazi chat 8 years ago. Now it's official US policy. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/when-yo...

"Members of the group Patriot Front ride the metro as a commuter looks on, during the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 4, 2026. REUTERS/Cheney Orr"

The Declaration of Independence "is most powerful when the people it was never meant to represent grab hold of its language and toss it back like an undetonated grenade, whether those hands belong to Denmark Vesey, Nat Turner, Maria Stewart, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., or Ho Chi Minh of Vietnam."

Four years ago, a coordinated right-wing smear campaign condemned Monticello for "going woke." Bridget Gillespie was working there at the time, and she gives this revelatory inside account of the harassment staff endured and ultimately how the institution buckled. Amazing piece.

CLARKSVILLE — UPDATE: Darrius Chappell, the unarmed man seen below being attacked by a police dog, has DIED in custody at a Montgomery County jail. TBI is investigating. The officer who put the dog on him has been placed on leave. More: www.wsmv.com/2026/07/03/t...

As an American history professor, I regularly read new books, articles, and dissertations, and also evaluate unpublished manuscripts for journals and book publishers. I would not categorize the recent and emerging historiography in the binary way that Ezra Klein does.

PLEASE stop putting Americans on tv to have opinions on "socialism" they consistently have no idea what they're talking about

Why don't our schools get the funding they need? Because there's not a lobby for public schools. Kids don't have a corporate PAC. We must be willing to take on the political system that always puts corporations over people.

new video, fresh off the presses. i discuss justice jackson's concurrence and sam alito's disturbing dissent.

For America's 250th, I read Frederick Douglass’ speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” on the House floor—for the first time in history. His speech endures as a mirror & mandate for us all—to confront our inequities while fighting for an America as good as its promise.

sometimes i’m just out & about enjoying myself & i think, this is what they’re trying to take from us. this beautiful moment, having a traditional ethiopian coffee service at a tiny restaurant in a strip mall in a little appalachian town, this is what those reactionary freaks want to take from us!!

Mamdani: "Those who led through exclusion & isolation have tried to win power & enrich themselves by turning us against one another ... today, too many of our leaders do not believe in a vision of this nation as an asylum for the persecuted, but rather as one that persecutes those seeking asylum"

Mamdani: "As we mark 250 years ... we see the wealthiest country -- one where children go to sleep hungry while the world's first trillionaire hungers for more ... we see masked agents terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by undocumented neighbors before spiriting them away in unmarked vans"

“How small they are. How weak. How unoriginal… division is the oldest trick in politics.” Zohran rings in America’s birthday by reminding us our story is one of welcoming immigrants, not excluding everyone who doesn’t look like us. 🇺🇸 Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DaVzyL0...

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my essay this week was, icymi, on the people who wielded the declaration as a weapon against bondage (gift link)

Sure sure

Today, our friend Jay USAF Major Jason Watson read his oath to the Constitution and demanded that Congress do its job to IMPEACH this President and cabinet. He was arrested on the Capitol steps. #DOOR @defendersofourrepublic.org @removalcoalition.bsky.social @citizensimpeachment.com

If you haven't seen Supergirl, I have never related to a scene in a movie more right now than when she flies to space so that she can scream into the nothingness of the universe.

people got mad at me yesterday when i said the dems were not ready to take court reform seriously. 5-4 for non-racial citizenship is not a win, it's a reprieve bsky.app/profile/schu...

So @jamellebouie.net is absolutely correct, and there are tons of examples of both parties absolutely flipping - and even more of something going from low priority to high - as a result of regular people activating themselves, showing up, and pushing their party to change. Of course...

Rep. Tom Kean (R-NJ) on his months-long absence from Congress: "I am a private person by nature…But I believe that I owe an explanation to the people…I was given the diagnosis of depression…The doctors recommended that I remain in the hospital to address my illness."

I’m just a shitlib, but until the dems are willing to take on the concentrated power of capital and the mechanisms that led to it they’re just painting the titanic a different color. bsky.app/profile/mjsd...

"They were this close to undoing the civil war entirely" These are the stakes.

This is a long article & it is absolutely terrifying. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

www.npr.org/2026/06/26/n... Awesome job, folks. We don't deserve these National Park rangers who refuse to let the regime shit them down! #USDemocracy

You are cordially invited to celebrate July 4th with us. July4.events.nyc

If this is what happens when you blow up the Democratic Party keep it coming www.nytimes.com/2026/06/25/n...