Super cool that the grandfather I grew up in a house with,who wouldn't even talk about his time in France during WWII because of the horrors, fought for a country whose defense secretary is now IRL Hitlerposting from Normandy on the anniversary of D-Day.

Utterly shameful for the United States Secretary of Defense, the hinge in the chain of command that orders troops into battle, to say this out loud, much less at a commemoration of D-Day.

After Bruen established 2nd Amendment limits on criminal laws on gun possession, police observing a person in possession of a gun do not automatically have reasonable suspicion to stop them for illegal gun possession, Appellate Court of Maryland rules. mdcourts.gov/data/opinion...

Criminal defense and civil rights lawyers should be thinking about this question, especially in state courts: If possessing firearms is a constitutional right, then when, exactly, can the police stop and frisk people based on the suspicion that they possess firearms?

The United States government is occupied by an ignorant, bigoted, anti-American ideology of white nationalism. It will need to be scoured.

Herb’s older brother, my grandfather, is 102 and served our country in WWII as well (although he didn’t see combat). I know, because he’s told me, how furious he is about this admin’s rhetoric against refugees and immigrants. He remembers well the bigotry his own immigrant-origin family faced.

My great-uncle Herb Reichlin lost an eye fighting for this country in Europe and is buried in Arlington Cemetery. I am confident that he would have been furious to hear the plight of refugees crossing the Mediterranean described as an invasion in comparison to D-Day.

This story has been consistently reported, but seems not to have really broken though - it’s ASTONISHING. An asylum policy that caters specifically and essentially exclusively to white people from a country in which they’re safe.

"Players will get in with no problems," they said

AOC: This is what I want people to understand: this is our money. When you pay your taxes, that money is being stolen to pay for a vanity project like a ballroom or whatever it is that this guy wants to do, instead of what it should be used for…

exactly the right response

There’s been a lot of talk in this race about what makes a "real man." A man does what’s right when no one is watching. He upholds his commitments to his family and neighbors. He doesn’t lie, cheat, & steal his way through life. Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.

"While his bosses look (to varying degrees) like bumblers, cowards or corporate tools, Pelley will be remembered as a beacon of integrity & a symbol of righteous indignation–somebody willing to lose his job in order to speak truth to power." @sulliview.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The regulatory state is more important to the smooth operation of society to which we’ve become accustomed than anyone in this administration realizes, and in a lot of ways, we’ve already run off the cliff and are just starting to look down

i’m old enough to remember when comic book supervillains were fictional

Very much giving: the ball, representing soccer

Meet Bill Pulte, the guy Trump picked to replace Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intellegence. Here’s video of him in 2024 accepting what appears to be a pedo trophy.... enscribed with “Bill Pulte F*cks... Only the Young” 👀

An experienced, well-connected investigative reporter with a great reputation, personal loyalty, and nothing but time is a formidable enemy to assign yourself.

Absolutely. As I've said before, FDR's court-packing plan failed because most Americans didn't recognize the conservative majority there was acting in a partisan fashion. But the Roberts Six are deeply corrupt, nakedly partisan, and barely bothering to hide their contempt for precedent. Let's go.

The biohackers subreddit banned all posts about peptides and HRT because peptide companies were spamming + manipulating the sub in order to manipulate Google AI and ChatGPT answers. Very insidious industry that is drastically changing the internet www.404media.co/companies-ar...

for 2.5 years, whenever an international athlete has been denied entry to the United States to compete in an event, someone in the Trump admin has waved it away and said "don't worry, we'll make sure this doesn't happen with the World Cup or Olympics" well, the World Cup is here, and it's happening

black people electing black people to congress in districts where they form a plurality or majority? potentially invidious racial discrimination. the only way to escape constitutional scrutiny is to elect a white conservative, then we know dr. king's dream of colorblindness has been achieved

crazy that under the precedent set by callais, a lily-white congressional delegation formed by "partisan" gerrymandering in a plurality black state passes constitutional muster, while any majority-minority district is constitutionally suspect

The PFA perfectly encapsulated what is happening in the abduction and harassment of Palestinian national football team players, saying this is “not an isolated incident, it is part of a well-documented pattern of systematic targeting of Palestinian athletes, which continues without accountability”.

Israel has abducted 20-year-old Palestinian women's national football team player Rand Halawani, abducted former national teamer Natalie Abu Diyeh, and imposed a travel ban on Musab Abu Salem. This is another facet of the ongoing athleticide, likely emboldened by FIFA's refusal to apply sanctions.

FIFA and UEFA are directly responsible for this because they have granted Israel complete impunity by rejecting the case of the Palestinian Football Association against Israel. How is a state that literally abducts (and murders) members of its opposition allowed to participate in global sport?

The collaborative NSF grant I had w/ @karenmusalo.bsky.social in 2016-2020 was titled "How Do U.S. Immigration Courts Decide Gender-Based Asylum Claims?" NO WAY that would have been funded now. Our un-gated article from it based on 2 original data sets + a rare ~500 immigration court opinions. 👇

The incentives are perverse. The guys Anthony is referring to were rewarded w/ a NYT oped + more publicity--even if they were dead wrong. I, working at CUNY, don't have fancy networks or those platforms, only my professional scholarly reputation. There's no glory in the careful but right way.

In a statement to @benmullin.bsky.social, Scott Pelley disputes what Bari Weiss said in this morning's editorial meeting, claiming he was never offered "a way back" as she claimed. "These executives cannot gain the trust of the staff with lies. This is antithetical to everything we stand for..."

In one of the most extreme examples of these dreaded Kavanaugh stops, Alabama construction worker and US citizen Leonardo Garcia Venegas has now been targeted and harassed three times. THREE TIMES www.propublica.org/article/immi...

Can't help but feel that this whole program makes a mockery of both the Refugee Convention (1951) and the US Refugee Act (1980).

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Full statement of Scott Pelley after he's fired from CBS 60 Minutes, detailing the sort of corruption of journalism Bari Weiss has brought to CBS News:

As the United States pursues mass migration exclusion of international students, I think of Sanjay Mehrotra: Denied a student visa three times, barely made it into the country, co-founded SanDisk, now CEO of Micron—a $1 *trillion* company. www.ndtv.com/feature/micr... HT @mosenkis.bsky.social

A federal IT staffer filed a complaint about DOGE, then went public. Shortly after Elon Musk boosted a post calling his claims false, his brake lines were cut. Now he’s suing for defamation.

MAGA complains about DEI because they claim it elevates unqualified people to important positions, but these are the kind of people they elevate. It's absurd.

Trump is staffing the Pentagon with those who want to usher in authoritarianism. "The appointment of Elias Irizarry...has raised alarm internally among staff who question how anyone convicted in the assault on American democracy could be trusted for such a sensitive role..."

Blanche tells committee that DOJ has scrapped the Anti-Weaponization Fund. “We are not moving forward with the fund, period.” Now someone should ask him if DOJ plans to separately settle claims or lawsuits filed by people who attacked the Capitol on J6!

Gonna be a generational burden to recreate the norm that scamming other people is bad when our positions of leadership are being filled by proud scammers and people who previously only succeeded in the field of social media engagement bait

The US is now spending more on data center construction than on public transportation infrastructure

“If the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.” Justice Brett Kavanaugh www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

another day, another story about the administration's war on knowledge itself, all in service of allow its corporate patrons free rein to rob us blind and poison our world www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c...

“Texas’ $7.25 minimum wage has remained the same for the past 15 years, and yet Paxton fought in court to block a minimum wage increase for federal contractors. While Texans were actively being left behind, he was sticking taxpayers with a $5 million bill for his impeachment trial.”

this is such a good example of someone asserting that incivility lives in actions that hurt people, not in questioning those actions

"For the last few days, Gabriela Fuentes, 35, has protested outside Delaney Hall. She said her husband, who came to the U.S. from Guatemala on a work visa, told her recently that the guards had beaten and tear gassed him and other detainees.”

“’We’re all human, we’re all people, just because we’re Hispanic does not mean that we need to be treated like this,' Fuentes said."

We have evidence more harm is sometimes done by _intimidating people out of applying for green cards by telling them it will be harder_ than by people actually getting denied under the raised standard. So I'm pinning this post. Please make sure people know. documentedny.com/2026/05/29/u...

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...

Wish you were here @fooddatanerd.com ❤️ @washingtonspirit.com get one for Randy

Update: @washingtonspirit.com did get one for Randy 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉