After noting that the majority seemed oddly reluctant to include any examples of Trump's "repellent and racially inflected" statements about Haiti in its TPS ruling that soft-pedaled them, Justice Kagan provided some receipts:

Tomorrow marks the start of the major annual conference for tropical biologists and those of us based at Florida’s public universities can’t attend because doing so would violate state law. www.atbc2026.org

“Fleeing gang violence and what has become a civil war, thousands of Haitians have helped reverse decades of decline in Springfield.They filled factory jobs, opened businesses, started churches, and helped stabilize the city’s population after years of shrinkage.” www.thebulwark.com/p/after-supr...

mad how the defining cultural image of Steamboat Willie is Mickey whistling and driving the boat, and not the bit where he plays a pig's nipples as a musical instrument while it shrieks in pain

142 indictments under Nixon, Reagan, and Trump. 2 under Carter, Clinton, and Obama. JD Vance isn’t defending Nixon, he’s defending the business model.

"By claiming that these attacks are legal while refusing to provide any evidence or rationale, President Trump shows once again his disdain for basic transparency, human rights, and the rule of law."

"The Extreme Sentences Handed to Anti-ICE Protesters Should Terrify Us All" 30-100 years! Perhaps the most important and scary story you'll read all week:

one of the things a democratic house majority should do in 2027 is a deep audit into exactly how much trump has spent on renovations, who authorized the spending, what budgets it was allocated from, and whether any of it was even legal

Giving racists free rein to be their worst selves This is bad

I Disagree ‼️ "Moderate/Establishment" Democrats don't merely FAIL to fight FOR #HumanRightsForALL, "Less bad than MAGA" Democrats ACTIVELY OPPOSE #HumanRightsForALL ‼️ Healthcare for All ABOLISH ICE / Welcome Immigrants NO Weapons to Israel / NO Wars of Agression END Warrantless Survalence

“Mom, why aren’t there any kids like me in my class?” “Mommy deported them, dear. Now go eat your mayonnaise sandwich.”

The October 2024 cover of The Economist:

The news coming out of Venezuela is fucking horrifying. Over five hundred confirmed dead, with fifty thousand missing. I sent some money to WCK and Direct Relief since those were the orgs with concrete response plans yesterday.

NY GOP gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman: "Even though he's Jewish, [Brad Lander] would be a camp guard in the concentration camp if he could" This is a truly vile, antisemitic attack on a Jewish candidate, his many Jewish supporters, and the memory of the Holocaust.

Megyn Kelly posted another racist rant. It’s remarkable how openly racist MAGA influencers can be while complaining about “woke” cancel culture.

Lunacy. Here's Emmer 10 years ago.

Immigrants pulling up the ladder after them is a tradition older than the United States has been a nation, but we need to keep reminding the Emmers of the world that their own ancestors were once in these same crosshairs.

Phang: I have standing to be able to get Todd Blanche to comply with Judge Sullivan’s order, which is now telling him that on or before July 2nd, he either has to put up or shut up. He either has to bring forth unredacted files or show cause as to why he should not or cannot do so.

The Supreme Court is letting Trump ignore laws set by Congress and send hardworking, legal immigrants into imminent danger in Haiti, Syria, and other violent countries. It’s horrific. This decision is a disaster for the rule of law and a disaster for thousands of families.

Yikes, catastrophically low turnout for Trump's "rally" last night kicking off the 250 festivities...

The six conservative Supreme Court justices are the most violent people in the world right now, the Republican party is the most violent entity in the world, and those facts need to be the start and end of any discussion in this country about violence.

Catharsis for today’s timeline. bsky.app/profile/dean...

Clearly, such small-press publishing overlaps with the output of cartoonists & we are dismayed to see one of the defendants, who merely moved a box containing personal property, nothing that was deemed of relevance to the investigation, sentenced to 30 years. 2/3 theintercept.com/2026/06/23/p...

Drop someone SAD 😢💔😭🖤

As violent crime in America falls, especially in urban areas of the Northeast and Midwest, homicides perpetrated by police officers skyrocket and American police establish themselves as the most violent part of US society. It seems to be a function of the legal doctrine of impunity.

I wrote about the Prairieland defendants and the urgency of opposing the extreme sentences handed down on Tuesday. And they likely will not be the last.

The sudden flip-flop comes after Trump yelled at Republican senators behind closed doors. trib.al/pnqbK8Q This vote symbolizes something we already knew: that even the Republicans who claim to have principles will gladly sacrifice them at the altar of Trump.

And Justice Sotomayor goes there in her Al Otro Lado dissent (where SCOTUS allows the Trump admin to nullify asylum guarantees if they stop people at/outside the border): "The current asylum system developed in response to the international moral reckoning that followed the Holocaust...."

💢 An Israeli drone dropped a grenade on a pickup truck in Bar’asheet, southern Lebanon, seriously wounding a child, who was taken to Bint Jbeil Hospital in life threatening condition, journalist Hadi Hoteit reports. He said hospitals in the area have been damaged or rendered inoperable by months...

"Drs told us many of the amputations they had to carry out on babies/very young children were without anaesthesia.. you can imagine the agony those children went through" The UN commission of inquiry has published a report on how Israel deliberately targets Palestinian children

“Dear migrants, before I say any other word to you, I want to bow before your dignity. “You are not numbers or case files. “You are people — with a family and a home left behind, with dreams that no one has the right to scorn.” — Pope Leo XIV

At least 12 states break down SNAP program participation by age, and of the 1,670,011 people who are no longer receiving benefits in those states, 776,134, or 46%, were children. Read our full investigation: https://propub.li/4eB1PPb

Clearest proof we've seen that he thinks refugees claiming political asylum were refugees from an actual insane asylum. The leader of the United States is dumber than dirt but there's an entire cult enabling him and a corporate media too cowardly to call them out.

Hunter speaks! Dems need to listen. 🙌🔥

“That’s a recipe not just for a politicized military, but an authoritarian military,” he said. “That’s the way militaries work in Russia and China and North Korea.” www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

Never beating the "JUST HERE FOR THE RETIREMENT PLAN" accusations...

"After the last month, Democratic leadership should be seriously taking stock of their position," writes Ben Davis. "The energy is on their left. The people are on their left."

This Day in Labor History: June 24, 1867. Chinese workers building the transcontinental railroad across Sierra Nevada went on strike over the horrific conditions of their work for the Central Pacific Railroad. Let's talk about their brave, if failed struggle and how awful the railroads were!!

Secret police secretly filming a regular citizen at a public space. This is what is looks like a totalitarian regime. This is not KGB action in Russia. This is USA on 23rd June 2026. Woman arrested for TOUCHING the water at Reflecting Pool.

A cartoonist named Daniel "Des" Rolando Sanchez Estrada was tried as a terrorist and sentenced to 30 years in prison for having anti-Trump comics in his car. Prosecutors connected him to a 2025 anti-ICE protest he didn't even attend because he was in the same book club as others who were.

'Raise Doubts'??? C'mon, @nytimes.com How about: - 'Show Otherwise' - 'Counter His Claim' - 'Tell Different Story' - 'Prove Claim False' - 'Don't Match Claims' - 'Show Another Lie' [ok, too far.] Etc. Headline gives him 100% underserved benefit of the doubt.

I just watched Mr. Nobody Against Putin, and highly recommend it. It’s a personal documentary of how Putin has turned elementary schools into indoctrinating children to be future soldiers. Coming to a school near you, perhaps.

"Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort." — AI quoting Dickens without self awareness

BREAKING NYT: Government documents raise new doubts about Trump's unsubstantiated claim that "vandals" sabotaged the Reflecting Pool. There's no indication the peeling blue coating and algae blooms were caused intentionally — and the Trump admin knew that.

among other things this tells me that Elon is heating the growing chorus awareness about the Elon death toll and not liking it at all

Cleaning out my studio and found this cardboard thing showing several designs of what we used to call "French Ticklers." I have no idea how it wound up in my studio. Tag yourself. "I am Dracula!" I say as I glide across the bedroom floor.