Another day, another obscenity from the mad king

"60 Minutes" reporter Sharyn Alfonsi, fired for standing up for editorial independence, doesn't want a CBS repeat at CNN. She's joined nearly 250 journalists in signing our letter speaking out against the Ellisons giving the gov. a seat at the news desk.

Dear media, You don't have to say "E Jean Carroll accused Trump of defamation and rape." You can say "Trump defamed and raped E Jean Carroll." It's been adjudicated. Thank you

VEGA: “.. my producing teams and I have experienced efforts to insert political bias into our stories. .. Let’s call this what it is: censorship, both imposed and self-driven. It is dangerous for the show and dangerous for democracy.” @variety.com variety.com/2026/tv/news...

"Kara Morillo, an organizer with the Eyes on ICE coalition, also told Gothamist she’d been told officers at Delaney Hall entered units containing men on an ongoing hunger strike, closed the vents, and began to assault and pepper spray detainees." gothamist.com/news/family-...

"They're cleaning up the blood because they know they messed up."

The reason the war doesn’t end and prices don’t come down and people are losing health insurance and the measles is spreading is that all the White House does is corruption 24/7.

After a Wisconsin town did this, the mayor said: “The fact that they didn’t take the cameras down shows that we are the product. They were never really selling to us in the first place. They're selling to much bigger agencies the ability to spy on a ton of people.” (via boltsmag.org/verona-wisco...)

Unrest within Delaney Hall is directly related to its rampant inhumane conditions and ICE’s refusal to dedicate appropriate resources for basic human needs like food and health care. We must end the Trump administration’s detention and deportation machine. Read our full statement ⬇️

"The Park Service had a backlog of deferred maintenance projects around the country that came to an estimated $23 billion at the end of 2024, the latest year for which data is available. The projects included repairs to bathrooms, campgrounds, roads, visitor centers and other aging infrastructure."

Just insane. New Jersey Gov Mikie Sherrill says DHS just denied state health inspectors full access to Delaney Hall. She's calling for it to be shut down.

My office has received multiple calls today alleging use of pepper spray and physical force against detainees inside Delaney Hall. If true, these actions must stop immediately and demand accountability. 1/3

60 Minutes' Sharyn Alfonsi pens a goodbye note slamming Bari Weiss' actions against her "as a deliberate choice to penalize a journalist for refusing to sanitize factually accurate reporting." Read the rest:

18 impeachable offenses a day

Miller lies. SNAP requires verification of household members' identities through birth certificates, school records or other documentary proof. It does not take just an applicant's word for it. Sheesh.

i write the old fashioned way, by agonizing

Politicization of science is a pathway to mediocrity, decline, and real-world failure. The White House and OMB might want more power to undermine America's once-leading R&D ecosystem, but doing so comes with costs: to careers, discovery, the economy, our health, and national security.

The top line outrage here is so astounding that it bears repeating: Trump is using the powers of his office to settle not just political but private scores against someone adjudged by juries to be a victim of his sexual abuse and defamatory attacks. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

NEW: The story unfolding in Alabama is not a technical map dispute — it's about whether the state can get away with treating Black voters like a political problem to be contained. And if the Supreme Court allows it to do so, the fight will reach far beyond the state, Anneshia Hardy writes.

Important milestone today - inflation-adjusted Personal Income for households is now lower, year-over-year, than it was last April. Households have 0.4% less income now. It's starker for my estimate of bottom 50% households - 1.6% less income.

DAMN!!! Springsteen looking and sounding 🔥 WAR - what is it good for? Here we go! Live from Washington DC. E Street. #musicsky @brucespringsteen.net Land of Hopes & Dreams American 🇺🇸 Tour

I wrote about Sonny Rollins - a huge influence on me as a saxophonist, and a man whose creative philosophies I'll forever be trying to understand and emulate.

A President ordering the Justice Department to criminally investigate a woman who won a sexual assault lawsuit against him makes Watergate look like an unpaid parking ticket.

Pope Leo got behind the wheel of Ferrari’s first all-electric car at his residence in Castel Gandolfo near Rome.

United States Representative Jamie Raskin is the ranking member of the House Committee on the Judiciary. Here, Representative Raskin shares how Thomas Paine’s Common Sense defined the stakes of the American revolution. #WeAreAmerica250

Per CNN this was referred to the us attorney’s office in Chicago. That is the same office currently being turned upside down by prosecutorial misconduct in the the Broadview 6 case. I’m sure judges in the Northern District of Illinois would look kindly on this kind of adventurism right now

NPR’s science correspondent @ngreenfieldboyce.bsky.social is among those who was laid off. 😒

Erin Brockovich has launched a website tracking all existing, under construction, and proposed AI data centers and residential complaints in the United States.

The dismissal of the vindictive charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia was an unqualified win for justice, the best thing to happen in a federal court since last January. Even better: the decision itself is a remarkably vindicating summary of everything that we thought we knew about the situation

The list just keeps growing, what the heck is wrong with these people

Young people are always told what not to do. But what should you do? Did you know that most public libraries have a Nintendo Switch to use? That parks show free movies at night? That there's a map of pickup basketball games?

Nyc.gov/summer is a map of free and affordable things to do this summer that we made just for you. Because public programs mean nothing if you don't know how to access them.

A bipartisan group of 35 former federal judges on Wednesday asked the judge who oversaw President Trump’s lawsuit against the IRS to reopen the case and conduct an inquiry into whether the hasty deal to resolve it could be challenged as an act of fraud.

Reporter: Ken Paxton has taken to calling you ‘Talafreako’ @JamesTalarico: If Ken Paxton is worried about freaks, he should stop giving Epstein-style sweetheart deals to pedophiles. This is the guy who just released Adam Hoffman from jail, an admitted child rapist.

It's not clear why NSF is blocking new funds to the four universities, but all have been targets of Trump administration investigations. And by freezing funding to Harvard in particular, the agency could be in violation of a judge's order last September.

Scoop: NSF has been quietly blocking new funds and grants to four top universities: Duke, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale. Dozens of proposals from PIs at these universities—and their collaborators—have been stuck at the Office of Award Management awaiting finalization for months.

NOW: I’m outside the Delaney Hall ICE prison in Newark, NJ where protesters are supporting detainees inside who are on a hunger and labor strike because of inhumane treatment. Follow this thread for updates.

It’s useful to remember that the cognitive tests he’s taking are aimed at detecting illness the way an STI test might look for venereal disease.

They are coming to drive your electricity prices through the roof, destroy your environment, pervert your politics, enrich billionaires, take your jobs, and make you pay for the privilege. What’s not to love? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

"Rule 60...allows the court to set aside the judgment and reopen the case." Judges don't have to let this happen! ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

They are laying off all the librarians of these three libraries, of course. Ironically, the Dome just went through a massive renovation a dozen years ago: news.mit.edu/2013/great-d...

“I write with dismay, grief and sorrow for the permanent closure of MIT Libraries Barker, Dewey and Rotch, and termination of library staff in those libraries. For MIT to be closing three of its four major libraries..." fnl.mit.edu/may-june-202...

The Squamish people of what is now Vancouver were illegally dispossessed of their land 100 years ago. They sued, got the land back, and used their sovereignty to ignore local zoning and build 6,000 new homes over the loud objections of nearby wealthy NIMBYs. Now other tribes are getting in the game.

this is incredible

In the 12 states with available data, the number of children receiving food stamps has fallen by more than 700,000 since the "One Big Beautiful Bill" passed last July www.cbpp.org/blog/sharp-d...

This sounds like an important job: "STAT is seeking an ambitious and intellectually curious reporter to cover one of the defining issues in medicine, science, and public health today: declining trust in science… This is a new role at STAT.”

Food insecurity affects more families now than during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new survey from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. n.pr/4nWXXfN

as much as i appreciate the democrats responding with vigor for once, the fact that republicans are using "transgender" as a slur for a political candidate is fucking horrifying and dems need to quickly figure out a way to address it head on. calling stephen miller ugly isn't a long-term fix.