Crazy part about all of this is during quarantine we all literally saw nature bounce back and start healing just from mfs keeping they ass home, also found out we dont need to be living like this doing this extra shit working like we do, saw that and said yanno lets go back to killing the planet

HEY CHICAGO! The city wants to sell your parking meter company to the same private-equity firm that owns Omni Air International, the worst of the worst of ICE's charter airlines. The city council's finance committee is meeting about it TOMORROW. 1/

Today was an absolute blood bath at SCOTUS for the less powerful to enforce civil rights in the federal courts. TL;dr - SCOTUS rules 6-3 that only corporations have rights that are enforceable in federal court??

In one devastating ruling, the Republican justices disempowered ordinary citizens and their elected representatives.

"Constitutional lawyer" Johnson ignores the fact that birthright citizenship is not simply a "tradition", but rather was incorporated into the Constitution via the 14th Amendment.

The US does not give for free from its generous heart! It gives to get something it wants. And its imperialism created the conditions that even had people in such lack where they needed aid in the first place often. So yes it owed & was supporting people, but not out of its goodness.

The US was keeping millions alive with USAID & also using it as a tool to jerk lifesaving aid before the third world to manipulate according to its agenda, those things can both be true, the staggering loss of life DOGE caused can still be mourned.

In Ottawa, the police chief had to make a 7-minute video telling officers to stop using databases and surveillance tools to look up women they found attractive out in the world. This is a major problem *everywhere* and one that has only gotten worse as police have gotten access to more technology.

My concern is that even if a judge orders this asshole to mail our ballots, that trump will ignore the court and sabotage mail ballots anyhow. He’s got a judge on the 3rd circuit who told DoJ lawyers to tell the courts to fuck off, and he’s deploying more election deniers to the bench.

Pushing back against MAGA is the right thing to do, and usually a winner in court as well. www.npr.org/2026/06/23/n...

Anytime any respectable journalist mentions our two chief negotiators with Iran, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, they should note both receive sizeable paychecks from Middle Eastern nations with deep equities in these talks. It is a fundamental corruption.

Was I wrong?

John Pitney: cross referencing the conduct of Trump as president against the crimes and offenses the Founding Fathers ascribed to King George III in the Declaration of Independence, Trump gets a far higher tyranny score than the Hanoverian monarch did.

Anyone who supports the Republican Party, full stop.

Tor Top lost his mother Nyarietna, in South Sudan’s worst cholera outbreak, caused by $20m in USAID cuts She started vomiting, he put her in his canoe and paddled 8 hours to the nearest hospital. She died in his arms less than halfway www.propublica.org/article/usai...

Negar lives in Takhar province, Afghanistan. Her newborn twins died last year when she had to deliver them at home because the USAID maternity clinic closed edition.cnn.com/2025/07/22/a...

In Afghanistan, USAID cuts closed 400 pregnancy clinics, leaving at least 30 women dead. They each had names and families www.bbc.com/audio/play/w...

In 2025, USAID stopped funding clean water in Goma, DRC. Goma then suffered the worst cholera outbreak in 25 years, with 1,479 deaths, a 361% increase. Every one of those people had a name www.oxfamamerica.org/explore/issu...

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

Liz Soto and Savanna Batten are 2 of those sentenced to 50 years in prison for Prairieland. I visited them in a north Texas jail—11 months into their incarceration over a July 4 noise demo—to meet the Trump admin’s “Antifa terrorists”. from behind glass, Soto said, “They didn’t like my book club.”

Trump is setting up a situation in which Beijing can take Taiwan without a fight. Xi seems to have concluded that the surest path to securing control of Taiwan without a war runs through Trump, who has frequently criticized Taiwan and questioned the wisdom of defending the island. The objective of

Heard tonight that Claudia Sheinbaum is getting affordable EVs for her citizens.

Absolutely. Charlie Kirk was attempting to attribute gun violence to exclusively non-white gangs from liberal states when a white kid from a red state, the son of Trump supporters, ended his life. With a gun.

also not lost on me that as democratic socialists are winning some elections, a new red scare targeting anarchists, antifascists, and their allies is digging in hard, and today handed down 30, 50, and 100 year prison sentences to activists and organizers

NY-10, my district, is the most Jewish congressional district in the country, w/about 25% of voters identifying as Jewish. And yet tonight the district threw out pro-Israel Rep. Dan Goldman, and elected Brad Lander, who calls Gaza a genocide and favors an cut-off of weapons to Israel, by 30+ pts. 1/

I don’t want to hear another word from establishment Dems about cooperating with Republicans. Don’t want to see another stupid bipartisan photo about “seersucker suit day” on the Hill. Nine people who protested ICE at a detention camp were just sentenced to 50-100 years in prison. WAKE TF UP.

Well then it's Americans that are the real problem. Not all of them but WAAAAAY too many millions of them. When 70-75 million people condone that rapist & everything that's been going on, your country is pure poison.

WaPo just put out a great story exposing memos showing Tulsi Gabbard's guru and his group guided her positions and inflated her support. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio... TPM first reported on signs they were doing this in January 2025. talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/wh...

The internet was awash in effective public relations for YEARS but he wanted to show his true self to us and now we know what kind of person he is--we hear the ugliest most morally revolting ideas flowing from his mouth daily. We know he's a killer. But he didn't get there alone! Wall Street helped.

Nobody should have that much money or power. Fuck that Nazi!

By a vote of 50-48, the Senate adopted HConRes86-Directing the President, pursuant to section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution, Iran. GOP Senators voting aye: Cassidy, Collins, Murkowski, and Paul. Dem Senator voting no: Fetterman. Senators not voting: McConnell and McCormick.

In a new court filing, SPLC provided evidence that the prosecution into the org came directly out of a letter that extremist groups sent to Stephen Miller complaining that they had been included in SPLC's Hate Map. emptywheel.net/2026/06/23/h...

So the US National Science Foundation (NSF) is diverting a large amount of public money for basic science into areas of science that already well funded by investors and for profit companies. This will continue to undermine the pipeline of trained scientists and engineers from higher education. 🧪

Today is the birthday of African American science fiction author #OctaviaEButler. The winner of numerous Hugo and Nebula Awards, she was the first science fiction author to receive a MacArthur Fellowship. #💙📚 #Booksky Have you read her work? www.librarything.com/author/butle...

“You are not entitled to a response from us, or anyone, ever,” is what an Education Department spokesperson wrote to one of our reporters, @megomatz.bsky.social, after she repeatedly tried to get comment from the department and its officials. (Published Dec. 2025)

Susan Collins, who behaves throughout the interview like a droid on 15 second delay, explains why she loves AIPAC and craves their money and instructions.

I wish @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social would end its relationship with @cbsnews.com CBS is no longer get a trusted news source.

Just a mystery why Americans are so clueless: Newsstands with no news.

In a time of bonkers stories, this one may just take the cake. It turns out Tulsi Gabbard reportedly was little more than a puppet for a Hare Krishna sect’s guru this whole time. Read that sentence again, then read my write-up in the link in the comments.

Men who commit this kind of violence with this kind of rhetoric are not protecting women and girls; they are trying to legislate which men have the right to harm women and girls (and of course it's men like them and not those other men).

In case we had any doubt

Between 1984 and 2025, coverage of sports and entertainment received 36 times the coverage that climate change did. Learn more from a new report, “From Silence to Whisper: Climate Change in U.S. News Media, 1984–2025,” released this week: buff.ly/Rzf1jFf

The question I asked in 2019 was whether Chris Butler effectively owned a member of Congress. Eight months into her running USIC and one day into Swaine's reporting, the answer looks a lot closer to yes than it did when I was getting eye-rolls for raising it. www.patreon.com/joohn/posts/...

For about seven years, ever since a political operative in Hawaii put me onto it, I've been pointing at the cult that Tulsi Gabbard is in and catching the occasional accusation that I'm "doing a McCarthyism" or being anti-spiritual, so allow me one small victory lap. OK so here's the deal. 🧵

I would like a side-by-side account of the cost of: the Iran war, the reflecting pool, the ballroom, the Qatari plane, the WWE fight; DOJ settlement payoffs (like to Ashli Babbitt) and any other vanity projects I'm missing; compared with all of the "waste and fraud" supposedly saved by the DOGE cuts

It really is fucking wild that Trump is having people arrested for putting a finger in a pool when he pardoned the people who full out trashed the US Capitol

As the inevitable gravitational forces of truth, reason and mortality drag Trump to the ground, Solnit makes it make sense... "he found out you can seize a building but not an audience..." and in so doing strengthens us all for the fight ahead. www.meditationsinanemergency.com/winners-and-...

An astonishing expose of the secret directives Tulsi Gabbard received throughout her political career. They appear to have come from the leader of the cult to which she belonged.

Whose Fear Counts? By Tony Pentimalli A one-year-old boy is dead after police fired into a car outside a Walmart in Senatobia, Mississippi, and the country is once again being asked to begin with the fear of the officer rather than the life of the child.

It's insane that a failing president just so obviously making stuff up constantly isn't treated like a crisis in the press.