The pretense that racism and general backwardness belong to poor/ rural/ blue-collar people exclusively is a colossal cover-up of all the racism, rape culture, etc. among the affluent, elite, and urban, including the Epstein class, who had penthouses, private jets, and idiotic eugenicist minds.

The @judiciarydems.senate.gov dems should be bringing more of this kind of fire against Todd Blanche. That hearing is not meeting the moment at all. This one ⤵️is more on point.

This morning, I was notified of another death in ICE custody. This is the 53th death on ICE’s watch during Trump’s second term. We must continue to fight for accountability for everyone who has lost a loved one. And it’s time to end the use of all for-profit detention centers.

The so-called "Sunshine Protection Act" is a school child endangerment act, and the Senate should block it.

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It absolutely tracks that Angie Craig voted with Minnesota Republicans to force school children to walk to school in the dark in winter. Thank you to McCollum, Omar and Morrison for voting nay. It's healthier for students to walk to school if they can, and we should be making their walk safer.

Elon Musk's xAI has installed more than double the number of gas turbines than it has publicly acknowledged to power its Colossus 2 data center project, without federal permits, and the pollution is hitting predominantly Black neighborhoods the hardest reut.rs/4bIghEm

What’s sad to me… is that Lindsay Graham probably thought he could outlast Trump and then reconcile his morality after that. There is no after that now. It’s a good reminder… always do what you know to be right, right NOW. And when you recognize you crossed a line, that’s ok, but come back.

His body lying on the hot pavement for hours has echoes of Michael Brown. All of it is intolerable.

Bernita Bowlding's brother: "They say that 'We love you, we got you,' but the reality is that this woman is homeless." The white supremacy in the frame and the homelessness outside it. A distinctly American story.

The windshield reminds me of Renee Good's vehicle in Minneapolis. She crashed after Jonathan Ross shot her in the head, and there was early footage of her slumped over her steering wheel while ICE agents prevented a doctor from checking on her. Don't take any ICE statements at face value, Maine.

i appreciate the @pressherald.com granting free access to their crucial live updates on the ICE shooting of a person in biddeford, maine this morning:

Ideally I don’t think politicians need to be emphasizing how masculine or feminine they are. This obsession with asserting traditional gender roles is a very clear conservative agenda and it’s a bunch of made up bullshit anyways

Some good news.

Once again, there is no such thing as "sex-based rights" in human rights law. There never has been. What exists is a right not to be discriminated against because of your sex. Trans people hold that exact same right. The whole framework is nobody gets to be discriminated against for what they are.

“I had no idea how bad it was until I went there… it is apartheid. It is inhumane. It is cruel.” MUST-WATCH — @rokhanna.bsky.social tells Hasan about his trip to the West Bank and horror stories he heard about treatment of Palestinians by 🇮🇱 settlers. Full: www.instagram.com/reel/Dat8gx_...

What has 99.9% less tire wear: bikes + trains

Lindsey Graham comes to a realization at the end of his 20-minute conversation with Mitch McConnell.

🧵This story is insane in so many ways that others are more qualified to analyze. Can only add that viz US foreign policy, Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, acting as viceroy of Venezuela is derelict, unconscionable, & impeachable. The SecState's time is scarce, valuable, and not outsourcable. 1/

Why is Trump still in office? Why was January 6 not the end? Because the institutional GOP discovered that not only would their voters not punish them for declining to feign decency, they would punish them if they DID feign decency.

Mamdani should declare a random Sunday Sacco and Vanzetti day just because.

saturday’s game set to be a great rematch

Republicans don’t give a damn about the national debt. Even in times when they say the economy is percolating, they pile on deficit spending to help their favorite donors get even richer. Republicans pretend to worry about the budget as an excuse for screwing over the poor.

Not the use of the word "detained" here to make it appear as though the settlers have some legal capacity to be doing this. If i ran up on a US Rep with a rifle and prevented them from leaving it would be, correctly, described as kidnapping; and doing so with political ends would be terrorism.

Chris Jones running for Secretary of Agriculture in Iowa is a big thing, but doesn't get too much notice outside of Iowa. Art Cullen is a longtime newspaper person from the state - this is really good. Corporate agriculture has wrecked the state artcullen.substack.com/p/our-outrag...

The Milky Way was brilliant last night!

I think about this entrance at least once a week.

Man, nobody could build a shithouse like the WPA.

This point needs to be made over and again: The main purpose of wealth taxes should not be to raise revenue. That's a small and secondary benefit. The main purpose should be to *reduce the fortunes of the ultrarich*. Why? Because those fortunes present a massive threat to democracy and public life.

What Rutte is doing is the equivalent of tossing a bunch of bananas in front of a rabid baboon.The bananas may distract him for a minute.But in the end you’ve still got a rabid baboon on your hands @djrothkopf.bsky.social hit the nail on the head-perfect summary www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-unhin...

"Mayo’s former director of research operations, claimed she was wrongfully terminated last year after raising concerns that lax safety standards could result in AI tools that make faulty medical decisions or fail to protect the privacy of medical records on which their decisions are based."

funny how the cutting edge of the far right is just regurgitated slaveholder agitprop from 1850.

Trump's brain in Spain strays mainly from the sane.

We already know that Platner doesn't necessarily listen to "no" for an answer, so will he do the appropriate thing at last?

luv too watch our political, economic, and media elite cook their brains on the internet in real time. Pretty clear our Savannah Ape brains are ill-suited for the modern world.

"this fight we're in to stop a cult of nihilistic rapists taking over the world, killing queer people, & making women reproductive slaves to fulfil a perverse fantasy of racial purity . . . yeah, my main problem is our side kinda has a girly feel to it"

America is such a deeply misogynist country that a whole decade of Trump still hasn't driven home the central lesson he offers: Misogyny & sexual assault aren't unfortunate private hobbies. They are the OG forms of oppression. When a man degrades women that's political & he's an oppressor, period.

Thinking of Anita Hill & Christine Blasey Ford & every woman who tried to warn the world.

omg I can’t believe I had remembered around that part

Oh fuck off. Platner has been coached and coordinated from the jump by out-of-state establishment operatives. “These allegations are very serious and Graham vigorously denies them. They are also coached and coordinated by out of state establishment operatives."

This is actually the perfect distillation of the fascist mindset of tech oligarchs—they want working people to blame immigrants and people of color, so we don’t unite against the oligarchs.

I think about this quote every single day and I think about how much potential we, as humans and as a country, have lost because of hate. Our Constitution and institutions would be so much stronger right now if they were also built with Natives, Black people, and women as equals.

Urban trees aren't just nice, scientists say — they're mandatory grist.org/cities/urban...

Trans rights are human rights always and forever.

Sorry to lib out but I guess my thought on the Fourth is that if it wasn’t possible for this country to really be an egalitarian multiracial democracy someday, the most disgusting people alive wouldn’t be trying so hard to foreclose that possibility

Dan Buettner of Blue Zones was a grand marshal of Albert Lea's 3rd of July parade, riding in the lead car with a woman wearing a red hat emblazoned with Trump's "America First Always" slogan. The local chamber of commerce posted this picture on its FB page. I swear, our town is bigger than this.

the people that built their heaven on your land are telling you yours is in the sky - Nina Simone

Happy July 4th! No queens but Liberace

Trump’s Huge Windfall Has Few Known Global Precedents www.nytimes.com/2026/07/02/w...

Jack Smith: "I think we are facing an attack on the rule of law that is different in kind and scope to anything I've seen in my lifetime"