Asked about ICE officers killing people and how they’ll be held accountable, Markwayne Mullin says “we’re turning up the heat on the streets”

In 2020 I wrote about wildfires and the desperation and anxiety a lot of people feel out west feel when the smoke settles in and smothers. Anyhow it led to me going on MSNBC to (animatedly, i guess) talk about it and my friend ended up taking what is the single funniest screen grab of me of all time

The beautiful game. The people’s game. Throughout this World Cup, we have been reminded of a simple truth: football belongs to everyone. So does the joy and community it creates. Yesterday, I joined New Yorkers on Rikers Island to watch England take on Argentina.

We experienced one of the tournament’s biggest moments side by side. Joy and connection should not be scarce resources. Every New Yorker deserves to have their dignity affirmed.

Washington Post Stops Short of Being a Real Newspaper

Wait, wait, you're telling me the guy who flattened a co-worker's tire and the guy who did a racist segment in Chinatown for Bill O'Reilly's show is threatening mass rapes against women in Asia? Huh.

In the extra bit, we discuss Ivanhoe and Robin of Sherwood. How Brian Bedford's dulcet tones hid a suprisingly subversive message in Disney's Robin Hood. And how that film was key to the rise of furry culture. Oh, and @oldenoughtosay.com sets fire to my house. Sub here: untitled-history.com /end

short version: the best version of Robin Hood ever put on screen is effectively a gay shakesperean proto-furry. oo-de-lally!

Ukraine hit 12 more Russian shadow fleet vessels overnight: nine cargo ships, one tanker, one LNG tanker and one tugboat, bringing the total to 159 vessels in 12 days. #explodey

I understand why people find Leslie Knope and Lin-Manuel Miranda really embarrassing now but I really do think it's worth pushing through that and remembering that what they stood for was straightforwardly good and politically useful: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/some-notes...

This administration, supposedly representing the “real” salt of the earth Americans, is filled with people like this who have no idea how Americans actually live. For context, each Taco Bell outlet serves about 900 people PER DAY and there are over 300 Taco Bells in Michigan.

The creator of Roger Rabbit (who is 85 years old by the way) is a good sort Crossposted with @openvibe.social

Canada emits about the same amount of CO2 per capita as the US It’s probably soothing to pretend this is strictly an American issue, but Mark Carrey is pushing more fossil fuels on your country as we speak

it's the biggest technological revolution of our lifetimes and you almost never hear about it (because it threatens to bankrupt many of the fossil fuel interests who currently run our society)

I don't think we've ever had a Republican with a public mistress? He is married! Must be all that T!

ProPublica: Trump's FCC Chairman Brendan Carr and fellow Republican commissioner Olivia Trusty received pricey gifts valued at tens of thousands of dollars from Paramount while the company had deals pending before the commission.

I have a piece in the NYT today arguing that the law should permit victims of ICE abuse to sue not just individual officers, but supervisors and policymakers like Stephen Miller and Gregory Bovino. A Democratic president and Congress could do this in 2029. And they could make it retroactive.

And since this is about ICE flights, we're indebted to the work of @gillianbrockell.com, who is responsible for much, if not most, of what we know about ICE's air travel. Support her! Keep her doing this work if she can! We need it. gillianbrockell.com

We have a chance to stop one of those historic horrors where people look back and say, "Why didn't anyone stop that?" The Trump regime has taken formal steps to build a global network of up to 1,000-bed concentration camps. The window to stop this will close soon. We must be the ones to stop it.

"Hi, I'm [blank], and I’m a constituent from [blank]. I'm calling to speak with the staffer who handles immigration policy and Department of Homeland Security oversight. I want to flag a highly concerning new DHS solicitation on Sam.gov regarding overseas detention facilities." Please call!

"Curtis Yarvin, a Schmitt-lover who is Thiel’s political guru, has been crying for Trump to take more extreme steps to consolidate power, warning that Republicans will face dire consequences if Democrats win."

HAPPY BOOKDAY TO ONE OF BLUESKYS BEST GO BUY THE BOOK BUY TWO BUY ONE FOR A FRIEND BY SEVEN FOR AN ENEMY AND THROW THEM AT THEIR HEAD!

This is going to be very interesting. With a one year data center moratorium in New York State, expect to see expanded pushes in Delaware and Virginia, and renewed pressure even as far south as North Carolina. Gonna shake some things up for sure in terms of both infrastructure and politics

I wrote about what looks very much like a formal US plan to institutionalize a global network of concentration camps.

once again saying: Nuremburg trials is the moderate position

The memo cites no legal authority, only a further secret DHS's General Counsel (replaced in the early days with a Trump loyalist) opinion saying administrative warrants filled out by an ICE officer are sufficient to break into homes of people ordered removed. Here's what such a warrant looks like.

Chillingly, the whistleblower says that ICE trainers were directed (no paper trail?) to train all of ICE's new recruits that these administrative warrants authorize breaking into peoples' homes, even though DHS's own training materials still make clear that's illegal!

ICE secretly told its officers that any time someone has been ordered removed, ICE can break down their door. It has been accepted for generations that the only thing which can authorize agents to break into your home is a warrant signed by a judge. No wonder ICE hid this memo!

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

We have free 3d modeling software, repositories of downloadable models, and 3d printers at home that can together print cheeseburgers modified to be a hiding place for a pet snake.

The cost of solar has dropped 99% so it is now cheaper to add new solar than run existing fossil assets in much of the world. Same change underway in heating, cooling, cars, ships, stoves...

Ukraine hit Russia’s Salavat refinery in Bashkortostan overnight. Another long distance strike - 1300km from the frontline. #explodey

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If people are truly concerned about 'gang violence' in the streets they might want to start by disarming American law enforcement agencies, our largest and most lethal gangs.

"If you are my enemy just go ahead and try to defeat me. Don’t tell me how to be more like you. You suck!"

live your life in such a way that when you go more people return to the things you did that mattered to them than the things you did that harmed them. a low bar rarely more dramatically expressed

The first time I went to the Hill was September 2008, when I attended a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on equal pay for equal work. Lindsey Graham was incensed that they were taking up this issue, and I remember thinking, “Who TF is this schmuck?” I was asking that for the ensuing 18 years.

Alfred got lucky, he got to see how he would be remembered without actually dying and that allowed him to sanitize his reputation. But if we sanitize the harm people have done "out of respect for loved ones" it doesn't affect the dead person. It affects those who might follow in their foosteps.

I don't think you'd want to have been married to Schulz. But I've always loved Peanuts for the way it shows kids (and animals, tbf) as whole humans. And that last line reveals a huge vein in post-WWII American masculinity that has been nearly destroyed.

I guess Lindsey went out doing what he loves most (losing forever wars).

In case you don't follow UFC (don't blame you), alleged rapist Conor McGregor was top billing tonight and came out swinging like a crackhead, only to instantaneously blow out his knee on the very first kick, get punched in the face approximately 11 times, and lose immediately

Greatest fight in history

Just never-ending Musk hearings once Dems have any power.

There really is no better name than this time period. Get it on a Time cover ASAP.

welcome to the Age of Diarrhea

Here Carl Zimmer's @carlzimmer.com story about Jay's @jjinsing.bsky.social work. Gift link.

My coauthor Jay Falk's postdoctoral fellowship was terminated by the Trump administration for documenting the hummingbird example in this paper.

99.99% of the time: "look, the Catholic Church past and present has done a LOT of terrible shit" .5 seconds after hearing Bob from Chicago is laying the smackdown on SSPX and/or Opus Dei and/or the current VP: "Wooooyeaaaaahhh!!! Get out the Bat!! Take'm Down!!!"

As I keep saying, nothing on earth will get the Catholic Church into the 21st century, but Leo is very effectively managing to drag them finally, kicking and screaming, into the 20th.