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Asheville friends! Hope to see you @firestorm.coop this Sunday to discuss my book and talk about historical contexts for the stormy present!

A prelude to the water wars: Data centers secretly use much more water than is reported. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-d...

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

The justices that upheld birthright citizenship in 1898 were racist men in a racist era who still could not avoid the plain text of the Constitution. What changed between is that the GOP now sees multiracial democracy as a threat rather than an ideal or aspiration www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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What's crazy is that this is obviously extremely racist but it's also still euphemism, what he means is if he ever has to see someone who isn't white he "doesn't have a country," it is not about rights or citizenship but race purity which even edgelords are still queasy about expressing directly

NEW: A/C is one of the great achievements of civilization. www.thebulwark.com/p/air-condit...

Dear Media. Vatican II wasn’t just about praying or not in Latin. *Vatican II decided to be less antisemitic. By a lot. * And now Pope Leo (like Francis) is reading the Bible HARD, all that “love immigrants” & “care for others” “🖕 Empire” stuff?! This story is not complicated.

It's therefore also a gendered and a care economy. And this is also why AI will not displace all or most work, though access to care may increasingly become a luxury available only to the few, if we fail to do the critical policy work around worker protections and employment strategy.

WSJ this evening posts its own story that's very similar to the premise of the one we from the NYT Washington bureau posted today. Trump scored a giant profit. His followers were taken for a ride. Evidence is unambiguous. www.wsj.com/finance/curr...

to mark the 250th i wrote about the ways that black americans did vital work to invest the declaration of independence with the universalism and egalitarianism that we now see as its core promise. (gift link)

Another big payout - this time to a professor fired for saying the world was “better off” without Charlie Kirk. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/u...

It’s fun to be at the Y.M.C.A. / RIP Victor Willis of the Village People www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/o...

just as jesus said, "i don't like low wage foreigners." READ the bible bsky.app/profile/atru...

Justice Jackson’s opinion in the birthright citizenship case is absolutely stellar.

Derick Bell was treated like a hysteric when he predicted during the 1990s that the Second Reconstruction would be nullified and that mass deportation would become routine.

Jackson.

About Trump v. Barbara: Do not give the Court and the CJ credit for reading and upholding the Constitution. It's a travesty that this is not a unanimous decision... it's also a travesty that the Court let this question percolate for a year, giving credence to a crank theory of citizenship.

Tierra Walker knew that abortion was illegal in Texas, but she thought that hospitals could make an exception for patients like her, whose health was clearly on the line. At 20 weeks pregnant, she died of preeclampsia. (Published January)

Japanese internment survivors and faith leaders completed a 45-mile a pilgrimage from World War II internment camp in Crystal City, TX to Dilley to protest what one internment survivor described as "inhumane and a tragic 'repetition of American history.'”

Terrifying www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

These soccer shoes come in slammin’ color combos.

MacFarlane: I feel like all of this was doomed to fail at the Great American State Fair the second Milli Vanilli canceled. Only bad things happen when Milli Vanilli cancels on you.

And nobody cares except us. I’m on like six unemployed black woman listservs, where everyone’s freaking out, and nobody’s like “I’m running on trying to get y’all jobs.” It’s like we’re being erased from American society.

Deeply convinced by the quality of his arguments that Alito spends a ton of time on X. bsky.app/profile/barb...

St. Rafa on the cross: how Nadal willingly embraced pain and suffering to become a tennis champion. www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...

Today the 55th annual Chicago Pride Parade kicks off at 11am

So painful. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

the feds have done more to harass americans angry over good and pretti’s killings than they have to investigate them

additionally, if there is ANY possible non racist motive for an explicitly racist action, Alito says you must accept it as the actual motivation. meanwhile, ANY use of race consciousness to prevent or alleviate discrimination is unconstitutional under “equal protection”

Trump ripped up the walkway between the West Wing and the mansion to replace it with polished African granite carved in Italy. "Paid for by me," he claimed. Except that's not true. Taxpayers paid $689,232, per documents obtained by @michaelscherer.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

“The Confederate flag at the North Carolina booth is a fitting symbol of how this whole enterprise has been managed. A symbol that the state itself never chose, attached to its flag without permission, displayed at an event meant to celebrate American unity…” open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

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The new racist double standard set up by Alito in the TPS ruling: if there’s any other motive in addition to the racism, the racism doesn’t count, but if the state wants to *prevent* discrimination against black people, that is racist and unconstitutional www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

I blogged about how the Reflecting Pool fiasco is a textbook example of the *precise 13-step process* that power every Trump debacle in the second administration. My proposed headline was 'Anatomy of a Mall' www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Atlanta having fun at World Cup … Look at that little baby 😊🥹

Derrick Bell foresaw it all

The extensive damage done to America’s sole naval base in the Middle East—along with hits to at least 20 U.S. sites across the region, including military installations and diplomatic facilities—has the U.S. re-evaluating its entire footprint in the region. www.wsj.com/world/middle...

Food stamp theft is surging… orchestrated by criminal rings working out of Eastern Europe who siphon about $1 billion/yr from poor Americans. Other states have implemented fraud detection systems & other security measures — but not NY. www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/06/25/s...

only baltimore's largest employer higher ed is the largest employer in 10 states, 60 cities, dozens and dozens of counties; destroying universities is economic sabotage

And make no mistake, when the Klan was ranting about unassimilable immigrants in the 1920s, they were very much talking about Italians whom they attacked as Catholic pawns of the pope, as a "criminal race" whose members were all tied to the mafia, and as a non-white threat to white women.

By Alito's reasoning, even lynching in the old South would not constitute racism, since vigilante violence was usually justified as a law enforcement measure.

Kagan makes sure that Trump’s gutter racism — and the majority hand-waiving it away — gets into the record.