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World Central Kitchen is en route to Venezuela to provide hot meals for those affected by the devastating twin earthquakes as well as first responders, a vital, life-saving service if you are able and funds allow, you can donate at the link below donate.wck.org/campaign/815...

9 years ago, NBC gave this woman $20 million a year to host a morning talk show and be one of the top faces of its news division.

70,492 is the announced attendance for #USMNT vs. Turkey. They're almost all here, it looks like.

He's not a 6, so Poch deserves real blame for putting him that position. But he's a professional soccer player not a labrador retriever, so he should be more disciplined. bsky.app/profile/tyle...

These guys are so bad.

To be clear - the biggest corporate money in politics isn't donated directly to candidates. It's filtered through super PACs, which can accept unlimited money from corporations or individuals (read: billionaires) & use it to attack or promote candidates. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

Specific killing of Ewing sarcoma by TCR-T cells targeting public neogene-encoded antigens https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.20.733160v1

That wouldn’t have happened if Roldan was playing.

News — University of Central Florida (UCF) abruptly shut down two of its three libraries today, plus an important resource desk within the main library. Staff were given no warning. UCF is the 2nd largest public university in the country w/ ~70k students. Library hours page confirming closures:

Actual doctor here: this is not remotely how this works. Hospice is medical care. Your insurance works for it just like it does for any care (which in the US means there will be some denials, a request for forms, lots of waiting on hold, and a large chunk left for you and your family to pay 🤦🏻‍♂️)

Seattle and Dallas reportedly had a deal for Jason Robertson but even after being offered $15m/yr for 8 years, he said “no thank you” What a gut punch. This city is amazing and people don’t realize it. Just oof. Seems like no amount of money will convince top talent to come here

The U.S. says Africans’ health data shared under humanitarian aid deals will be aggregated and anonymized, but the State Department’s demands have sparked an outcry in Africa and raised concerns that the data could be misused or exploited.

Boooo injuries.

Crystal Dunn has joined the U.S. Soccer Foundation's board. "I am honored to contribute to this mission and excited to help ensure that more young people have access to the game and the strong communities it helps build," she says in a statement.

A woman was approached by ICE at a polling station this week for a simple post she made on Instagram, but I guess I should actually be scared of "Chinese" cars (I type, on my made in China phone)

This is such a disturbing flex. He’s basically acknowledging that he and Trump have raised the bar on what scandals presidents can get away with so much that Watergate was nothing compared to them today. True. But yikes.

Sigh.

Perhaps no World Cup stadium has dazzled visitors more than Los Angeles’ modern marvel. @cboehm.bsky.social gives us another dispatch from SoCal. www.sounderatheart.com/2026/06/worl...

This is the Venezuela government website to report missing persons. There are thousands of people missing. 🙏 desaparecidosterremotovenezuela.com

Patio hamms ready for the USMNT match

Seattle Storm guard Jade Melbourne is available for today's game. She explained to me at shootaround that the missed game "was basically just a pissed off foot" bc she has tendonitis in her right foot that flares up, and it was decided four days off was best based on the severity of the flare.

The Supreme Court's decision in the Temporary Protected Status case proves the Supreme Court *is* racist. They don't merely affirm Trump's racism, they endorse it. And while that's not "news" for anyone paying attention, it's still outrageous. My latest in @thenation.com

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

A throughline of Sam Alito's jurisprudence is that the law protects conservatives from getting their feelings hurt. Here, he says Hawaii's gun licensing law is unconstitutional because it forces business owners who are fine with guns to risk "alienating other customers." Straight-up policy choice.

Buddy, the legal prohibitions prohibit doing this in the first place.

people who can’t do anything for anyone fear they’re on the verge of losing to people who can

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Once again, as I’ve noted multiple times before, Trump’s foreign policy isn’t really realist, or imperialist, or neoroyalist, or about spheres of influence, etc. Its sexual predation/abuse elevated the level of the state

John Roberts will want you to forget everything that happened this week at SCOTUS after he confirms that the first sentence of the 14th Amendment means what it says, please do not fall for it

BREAKING: The Supreme Court rules 6-3 in favor of the Trump admin on Temporary Protected Status, blocking the lawsuit on jurisdictional grounds, allowing DHS to strip over 350,000 people of legal status even though they utterly failed to follow the required legal procedures.

Agree with this. In the short-term, if Democrats regain power in Congress they need to hold hearings into Thomas and Alito's corruption. The fact that they both took bribes from billionaires should have been a moment to call for their resignations, but that just seems to have flitted away.

Dems have to run on this hard. Do not let the RFK types try to spin what his own party just signed off on here. Actual Monsanto, the comic book villain of Adbusters days, was shielded from liability over poisoning Americans. I don't care if it's slopulism: this Supreme Court wants you dead.

Congress has the power to do pretty much whatever it wants with the Supreme Court. It can expand the membership of the court, and it can punish it in several ways too. We simply need to fill that Congress with a Democratic majority that has the will to use that power.

Dangerous fire weather conditions expected in the Intermountain West through the middle of next week. Multiple days of exceptionally dry and breezy conditions will promote significant fire weather concerns for any new ignitions, lightning holdovers, and ongoing large fires across the western U.S.

We invited them here because their home countries are dangerous. Trump unilaterally decided they no longer are. The State Dept. still designates both as “do not travel.” The Haitian national soccer team had to play all its qualifying games on the road. Lots of the people they deport will die.

i wonder what race neutral policy stance trump was expressing when he accused haitian immigrants of eating the pets of their neighbors

The Supreme Court’s right-wing majority ruled Thursday that courts cannot review the Department of Homeland Security’s decision to terminate Temporary Protected Status for refugees fleeing particularly dangerous countries.

Compare Alito's description of Trump's racist statements (on the left) to Justice Kagan's anthology of Trump's racist statements (on the right). These are passages from this morning's opinions in Mullin v. Doe.

On Monday, the Trump administration scored a quiet win in court.

BREAKING: In a huge win, a federal court blocked parts of Trump's executive order targeting mail voting. The judge halted: ✔️A mandate to create lists of verified U.S. citizens eligible to vote in each state. ✔️ USPS' decision to only mail absentee ballots from certain individuals.

Fauci needs to sue this man into bankruptcy, if only to dissuade the other inveterate liars of this administration.

Two ICE agents tracked down a woman *inside a polling place* yesterday. Why? They demanded that she take down an Instagram post in which she named Jonathan Ross as the man who shot & killed Renee Good (after the Star Tribune identified Ross). www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...

Men didn't blow mixtures of mineral pigments, including iron compounds like iron oxide, hematite and goethite, as well as pigments containing manganese, clay and water, into tubes on the walls of Lascaux caves between 17,000 and 22,000 years ago so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

James Carville got so confused by democrats winning that he quit.

And our second World Cup measles case!

Just going to keep reiterating this, but Bass saying "no, the air is not dangerous" is just an extremely inappropriate thing to say. Better answer: YES, INHALING SMOKE IS VERY BAD FOR YOU NO MATTER WHAT ELSE IS IN IT AND YOU SHOULD DO EVERYTHING YOU CAN TO AVOID IT IF YOU CAN

On another topic of preparedness, LA human rights advocates are raising World Cup alarms. On Monday, I'm speaking with Stephanie Richard and Paloma Bustos of the Sunita Jain Anti-Trafficking Initiative about what they're seeing on the ground and what LA needs to have in place for future megaevents