Dem party: sorry, we have to ration policies that actually help people because they'll hurt the feelings of rich donors

[knock knock] Hello I'm with the Democratic Party. Just wanted to mark you down on whether or not you love the West and cops and rich people? Oh and Israel too.

Oh hey, want to know more about the weird Tulsi Gabbard Hari Krishna cult? I highly recommend this podcast, Mission Implausible with @johnsipher.bsky.social, in general, if you’re interested in U.S. foreign policy and spy stuff. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...

Yesterday, I submitted the final manuscript for Respectability Politics to the University of Chicago Press. Excited for this next phase and proud of the hard work that’s gone into this book. Endlessly grateful for all the support and assistance I’ve had throughout this process. Happy Pride! 🌈

yo I need everyone to notice this this guy just did a Zohran-style video that’s low-budget but super authentic, credible, and watchable. Proof it doesn’t take Zohran-level charisma! Sincere belief in what you talk about helps though.

Dolezal said he and “a number of friends” deliberately submitted mail-in ballot applications with altered signatures — including forms signed by children — and then used the fact that they received ballots to argue that Georgia’s system facilitates fraud. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Steve Hutkins, a retired New York University professor and a leading advocate for the USPS through savethepostoffice.com, told Democracy Docket that if the agency ultimately moves forward with the proposal, he believes “it will destroy the Postal Service.” www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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Classic #DoctorWho (1963-1989) All 26 seasons plus the 1996 film are now available on #BritBox. Okay, fine. I'll subscribe to #BritBox. 📺 😊

If you run people of color who are not openly contemptuous of Black people then Black voters will give you a fair hearing. The online so called dirtbag Left, however, will always repel most Black people but they aren't the ones running so...

It’s so funny to hear establishment Democrats say they need to “start taking the threat of the left seriously.” AIPAC, Crypto and AI billionaires have already been spending unprecedented amounts of money in primaries to stop the left. Voters want something different.

Aid efforts are intensifying after twin earthquakes killed nearly 1,000 in Venezuela, with international teams arriving but a slow government response hampering relief on the ground. n.pr/4evNx3I

The country is the first Central Asian nation to qualify for the World Cup, and Uzbek fans have reveled in showcasing their country and culture. The country's president calls the team a symbol of the "new Uzbekistan." n.pr/4vjT1DX

guys the IL-9 primary was three months ago, if you're obsessing about Kat Abu now it's getting a little weird tbh.

Makes me wonder how many people in high positions at Yale are in the Epstein files.

Fresh off of endorsing Chris Rufo —by name—and his vision to destroy higher education, Yale is rushing to help the Trump admin resegregate education. An absolute disgrace.

its literally this simple… with so much care, detail and genuine thought.

One of the big blind spots of a lot of the White D politicians is that they have integrated "trust the expert" into their worldview, and they treat Cops as experts in crime, whereas they should be treated like the industry lobbyists (IE. with ton of skepticism)

Someone once said that the key to communicating is to tell 'em what you're going to tell 'em, tell 'em, and tell 'em what you told 'em. The key to winning elections and governing in the next decade is going to be the same: Tell 'em you're gonna do good stuff, do it, and tell 'em you did it.

As someone who grew up eating government cheese and sometimes food my dad either hunted or had traded for deer he'd killed, few things give me irrational rage more than reading someone say something was "just a buck or two". I do my best to just not reply these days.

The new racist double standard set up by Alito in the TPS ruling: if there’s any other motive in addition to the racism, the racism doesn’t count, but if the state wants to *prevent* discrimination against black people, that is racist and unconstitutional www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

So funny, since I knew Van Jones when he was a leader in Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement (STORM)- a left cadre organization. That he is now playing role of ex-CP neocon advising corporate Dems on beating back DSA upsurge is sad/hilarious personal trajectory.

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“It’s a perverse twist of fate that at this milestone the American democratic project is facing the threat of its demise.” open.substack.com/pub/america/...

👉🏽 Mala Jin (“women’s houses”) opened in Rojava in 2011. Today, over 60 centers help women resolve domestic & family disputes through mediation & reconciliation. Built from years of underground organizing despite repression, they support freedom, collective self-determination, & community power.

I got nothing but love and appreciation for the 3 doctors in Nashville who are standing up to these fascists and suing them.

A judge in Tennessee blocked the state's health department from handing ICE sensitive data about roughly 400 seriously sick and disabled immigrant children who are enrolled in a healthcare assistance program. 🧵

I take heart that forcing children to read the Bible in school almost guarantees that they hate it.

After Oklahoma passed a remarkable new law, a group of women in prison called the "Survivor Sisters" thought their exodus was imminent. @pamelacolloff.bsky.social went to watch this all unfold... and found something way more complicated, she told us on Paper Trail: www.propublica.org/podcast/okla...

do i even need to say it

as a lifelong southerner, i am categorically pro-air conditioning. and with plug-in solar and batteries making it effectively clean, there is no excuse

My wife, an immigrant from Poland herself, worked as a psychologist in NYC nursing homes alongside Haitian nurses, nursing assistants and other staffers. She describes them as the hardest working and kindest people when it came to treating patients. SCOTUS' decision will devastate senior care.

Inflation has a new catalyst: America’s massive artificial-intelligence build-out is beginning to push up prices on everything from smartphones to electricity. www.wsj.com/economy/the-...

The conservative majority of SCOTUS mirrors those in the political far right. They can’t take any criticism. They are the most aggrieved, whiny, culturally insipid bayards that are dragging the world backwards into a less safe, less happy, less healthy time.

I will vote for a platform of de-Trumpification. It needs to be a scorched-earth removal of every hateful symbol.

State records show that Colorado jails put mentally ill and other vulnerable people in solitary confinement for more than 15 days at a time on at least 315 occasions between July 2023 and March 2025.

“Of course, she knows this. She’s just a liar.” 🔥

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MAGA: In Carcassonne, France, some leftists were protesting in front of the city hall, so the mayor decided to throw water at them. Reality: In fact there were 40 degrees Celsius there and the mayor was hydrating them. You can see he is careful how he sprays.

Very clear stance

But here's the thing: cops "raid" innocent Black people at 10x to 100x the rate that ICE raids immigrants.🤷🏿‍♂️ And cops shoot innocent Black people at ~100x the rate that ICE shoots innocent immigrants.🤷🏿‍♂️ And the murder solve rate in the US is very low. And it's lowest *where cop abuse is highest*.🤯

A filmmaking friend of mine swears by the original DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE (1954), directed by Ralph Thomas, which spawned a gazillion sequels and TV series. He also swears (IIRC) that at one point Dirk Bogarde does what amounts to a dry run for Hugo Barrett in THE SERVANT (1963).

So Mike Johnson thinks his job is not to help his constituents, but to protect Trump and the Epstein class and the Heritage Foundation and friends are funneling millions to help him get re-elected Please donate to the smart young farmer running against this trash! @conrad4congress.bsky.social

Today's threads (a thread) Inside: Zuckerberg's increasingly bizarre war on whistleblowers; and more! Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/06/27/z... #Pluralistic 1/

Hate against the LGBTQ+ community is still horrifically strong. In America, we are still targeted, shown vitriol at every turn, hated, hurt, ridiculed. Yesterday I was beyond angry & couldn’t get the words. These dads said exactly what I wanted to say. Let’s make change! #Pride #Pinks

It’s going to be really a thing to watch the same folks who sabotaged action on climate change start to connect to reality. It’s going to be even more of a thing to watch the folks who were right along be told that they have to be nice to the saboteurs while the climate takes its revenge.

Former U.S. Marine Corps reservist Benjamin Song, who was convicted of the shooting, received a hundred-year sentence. But Song says he only fired his rifle because he believed the officer was about to shoot another activist.

At the end of the day, this visualization shows what's driving the rising risk of these dangerous heat waves. It's the human-caused burning of fossil fuels and the resulting increase in greenhouse gases. That's it. More climate change indicators: zacklabe.com/climate-chan...