June 2, 2026 Officials in the Trump administration have worked hard to restrict the access of members of Congress to the detention centers it has established across the country. Although lawmakers have a constitutional duty to oversee executive agencies and courts have reiterated their authority….

Busting one of the most pernicious lies about public libraries. (Yep, more people use libraries than attend major league sportsball games.) action.everylibrary.org/but_nobody_u...

Your Cherokee words for today. The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically. Guhgay-yoo-ee is guhgay-yoo-ee and you all are worthy of it. Always have been.

Attempt to end-run around unanimous local disapproval of using agricultural / nature preserve land to build a battery storage plant. www.fireengineering.com/news/major-b...

CA peeps - vote NOW! or else the only candidates for governor will be from the white-supremacist-party-formerly-known-as-GOP (or their wannabes, like Matt Mahon).

Did you know the 1st time terrorists used planes to attack Americans wasn't 9/11 or Pearl Harbor? It was the Tulsa Race Massacre when white supremacists flew planes to drop bombs on Black Americans. This week marks 105 yrs since one of the most underrecognized acts of racial violence in US history.

The money was always there for the good things.

San Francisco has a lot of issues that would be much easier to address if absolutely everybody voted in elections like the one today. Corporate slimeballs count on you not voting.

Welp there’s no unseeing this

Transphobia really just boils down to not being able to mind your own goddamn beeswax. Every year, tons of beeswax are going un-minded, and transphobes are disproportionately the ones not minding theirs. Won't someone please think of the beeswax?

this California amendment, broadly supported by Dems, would strip CPUC authority over broadband at a time CPUC is making inroads on affordability. It's being sold as a way to keep the CPUC focused on electricity affordability, but based on conversations I've had all week I suspect it's an AT&T op

The comments come in the wake of investigations by both The Inquirer and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that drew attention to how vulnerable children now are to measles.

Important piece @jamanetworkopen.com on causes of excess death in US compared to other high-income countries by @jacob-bor.bsky.social et al. US mortality is much higher, and cardiovascular, substance use, & mental health are big drivers. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... @popassocamerica.bsky.social

Especially for folks 13-26 who can’t get access to books by/about queer folx at their local libraries. Pass it on.

For those talking about the lack of food in ICE facilities, you should know that jails and prisons regularly starve people to death. This is not a rare occurrance. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Greg Bovino and the head of New York's Young Republicans were in Portugal this weekend for a neo-fascist summit on ethnic cleansing. So why didn't the press cover it? My latest for @theredoubt.net, on extremism, antisemitism and media double standards: www.theredoubt.net/why-did-the-...

How do you compete with a tech giant like Amazon? By rallying a community. Bookshop.org CEO and Founder Andy Hunter chatted with Forbes about our David vs. Goliath story and mission to help independent bookstores thrive.

“Burn rubber, not books”!

god has a valid point

Cautionary tale of just how badly it can go wrong using chatbot tech support. Any bets on whether Meta will fix this, & how?

SpaceX “we’re gonna destroy ourselves - the whole satellite network - if we don’t slow down. Invest in our expansion today!”

How many folks from Ireland have been subject to these atrocities? Or from Russia / former Soviet republics? Significant numbers of immigrants from both countries in NYC & other major U.S. cities.

Geomagnetic storms (per Wikipedia) can produce “disturbances that cause radio and radar scintillation, disruption of navigation by magnetic compass and auroral displays at much lower magnetic latitudes than normal” Also electrical discharges, starting fires (see Carrington event)

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“Effectively, that person has just disappeared while in the custody of the US government.” Immigrants are being sent all over the country, and often families and attorneys don’t know where they are.

CA folks: Reminder that the primary election is Tuesday (today!) and due to changes with how USPS postmarks — To be sure that your vote is counted you should return your ballot to a drop box or polling place.

CA AG’s office sues 23andMe over 2023 data breach: “it failed to take reasonable measures to protect its customers’ most sensitive data, ignored known vulnerabilities in its systems, and failed to properly investigate or respond” to warnings or follow-up. > 7 M accounts. oag.ca.gov/news/press-r...

🚨 FUNDS NEEDED FOR JAIL SUPPORT AT DELANEY HALL Over forty six Delaney Hall protesters were just kettled by the NJPD and arrested. Raising jail support funds for those impacted/injured. Venmo "!"@bronxjailsupport **Any extra funds will be used to cover legal fees in case of repression

Yup, just about encapsulates the experience of sussing out the CA governor jungle primary.

“CEOs don’t really understand processes well enough to know what really can and can’t be automated. But that lack of knowledge doesn’t stop them from acting on their beliefs.” techcrunch.com/2026/05/27/t...

Personally, I'd like my tax dollars to be spent on investigating industrial accidents, prosecuting the companies if their negligence lead to the accidents, and oversight to prevent future accidents.

Politicians and police pushing a line of "outside agitators" are following a playbook written by neo-Nazis and the KKK. Don't make us tap the interview with @transform6789.bsky.social. libcom.org/article/anti...

It took me a while to realise that when American friends spoke of the need for more walkable cities in certain parts of the US, they often didn't mean more and better footpaths so much as "You literally cannot move around on foot here. Please fix that."

Indigenous activists shut down intersection at ICE today. DHS FPS and PPB responded but no arrests. 5-31-26

Let’s not forget:

Hi, expert on far-right extremism here, a history of domestic violence and misogyny is one of the strongest predictive variables for violent extremism, especially on the right. We've been raising the alarm on this for DECADES but no one cares.

Lawyer for Kilmar Abrego Garcia: I don’t want it to be lost how courageous Kilmar has been and how he’s made some very hard decisions in the course of this litigation. He didn’t have to go down this path of fighting and exposing the administration for what they’re doing.

It’s the Second Time he has done this for our State! Thank You Stephen Colbert….

Note to media: police arresting peaceful protesters singing “give peace a chance” is not protesters “clashing” with police. It’s the state violating the First Amendment rights of people upset that human beings who did nothing illegal are being held without due process and being fed maggots.

“I’ve been eating BBQ since before Ken Paxton’s first indictment” is a great joke. I’d love to see Talarico swap out the punchline each time he tells it. “…since before Ken Paxton cheated on his wife” “…since before Ken Paxton was impeached by his own party” There are hundreds of options.

“All we’re asking for are adequate pay and adequate protections for all of our workers.” Sara Speller, Zoë Feder and Jacob Wolf of @@hgsuuaw.bsky.social talk with @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social about why Harvard grad student workers are on strike.

Meidas+ News quoting WaPo: “The Pentagon is moving to recruit hundreds of troops to appear as spectators at President Trump’s UFC cage-fighting event on the WH lawn, and requiring those who attend to pay their own way and meet height and weight requirements.” (No girlz or ugly soldiers are invited?)

Go local journalism! Seriously, find your local independent jpurnos to get local voices into legal decisions, state policies, etc. Cause we know legacy media fail us. (Autocorrect, that’s “cited”. Not “sighted”.)

How do you find favorite recipes on cookbooks? Look for the cracked spine or loose page, the dripped spot or food stains.

"joint statement released this week by 5 public library organizations renews calls for the Big Five publishers to negotiate with libraries in the digital library market. Amid surging usage and a spate of library ebook bills, it just might work this time." Me: 📚 www.wordsandmoney.com/with-a-simpl...

NEW: A group of activists have built an awesome new tool to help immigration attorneys and the general public know when an ICE flight is headed to their area. gillianbrockell.com/habeas-fligh...

Backstory: we originally wrote this paper in response to 2013–2016 Ebola outbreak, but by the time it worked its way through peer review that outbreak had largely subsided and the paper was rejected as no longer timely. We shelved it until the next relevant outbreak, which happened to be mpox.

ICE camps: Law enforccement is being driven by investors & shareholders in the private labor camps run by Geo Group and CoreCivic. They run on the labor of detainees. "The privatization has escalated the barbarity & indecent & inhumane treatment."

"No country can guarantee safety if it lacks functioning asylum laws, honest courts, impartial officials and the will to protect people from detention, coercion, disappearance or onward removal," write James A. Goldston and Natasha Arnpriester.

As one reply put it: “clear that the value for Flock isn't the money they are being paid by governments for the cameras, it's the data generated by the recordings that they can monetize elsewhere.”