JD Vance made up a horrific and racist lie about a group of people, and now those people will be deported because the Supreme Court refuses to acknowledge, let along regard as disqualifying, the clear racial bias of this administration.

I was on a Zoom call with advocates from Springfield and elsewhere in Ohio yesterday afternoon, and it’s absolutely horrifying and inexcusable what this administration is doing to this community and the lie that Sam Alito told to OK this.

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Narcissists always lose to reflecting pools.

sometimes i am struck by the sheer wickedness of this man

'About 150 academic roles are set to go at the south-west institution, which said it was targeting areas that are “no longer sustainable” or have seen changes in student demand.' History and English are name-checked. 1/3

also not lost on me that as democratic socialists are winning some elections, a new red scare targeting anarchists, antifascists, and their allies is digging in hard, and today handed down 30, 50, and 100 year prison sentences to activists and organizers

in texas you'll go to prison longer for protesting ICE than raping children

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Breaking News: A federal judge in California barred immigration agents nationwide from making arrests inside immigration courts.

This part... "a juvenile child fleeing..." He was 1.

It seems somewhat bad that the richest man in the world can use his money to bankrupt individuals or organizations -- including officials who are tasked with holding him accountable -- that accurately point out that his actions plausibly facilitated the deaths of millions.

This really is something he will never be able to accept because a natural human response to accepting you have caused this much death for no reason involves a cyanide capsule

TRUMP: THE PINK ANTIFA FROG PUT ALGAE IN THE POOL AND CUT A LINE INTO IT every normal person: what in the fuck are you talking about every political pundit: the president today suggested that terrorism might be responsible for the algae problems plaguing the reflecting pool

Starmer saying the next PM will inherit a country that is 'fairer' than the one he inherited 2 years ago. In the one Starmer inherited, trans people could use public toilets.

Starmer's insistence that we can't have nice things is *bad* politics, because (and it's weird that this has to be said) a government that makes people's lives *worse* is less popular than a government that makes people's lives *better*: www.whatwelo.st/p/everyone-h... 17/

Over here on E Street, we mourn the death of the great record man and close friend Clive Davis...

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Heavy-handed censorship by the regime, banning particular talks at scientific conferences based on their topic. They are just getting started. Proposed OMB rules would push this kind of fine-grained political control into all aspects of US funded research. hechingerreport.org/proof-points...

THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US—the beautiful, Pulitzer Prize winning book by @brian-goldstone.bsky.social —should be available to everyone. And it’s available in libraries & rn as an ebook is on sale for $2.99 on Bookshop, Kindle, Barnes & Noble bookshop.org/p/books/ther...

Reminder that DHS should be abolished, as should many of the agencies within it. HSI describes their mission as "investigations into the illegal movement of people, goods, money, contraband, weapons and sensitive technology." But they're guarding a pool so people can't see that Trump ruined it.

GOP: It's intolerable for Iran to charge fees on the Strait of Hormuz. This is such a violation of freedom of navigation that all nations should band together to resist it by force. Also GOP: The US should charge fees on the Strait of Hormuz

At the University of Adelaide, you can apparently do a masters in mansplaining.

A shirtless white man, in the street with a knife in his hand, having attacked and wounded five people, allegedly shouting anti-Muslim slogans is the sixth story on the BBC UK news page. There is absolutely no doubt at all this would be the lead story if attacker and intended victims were reversed.

If you’re enjoying the Trump Administration’s energetic efforts to bring back - measles - whooping cough - screwworm flesh-eating maggots - and to give whole Air Force units the flu... then you’ll be super excited to see what they now have in mind for HIV/AIDS: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/h...

DHS would deport most of the team if they got their way

This is insane.

Shift drink: Reflecting Pool 1oz rum 1oz mezcal .75oz lime .75oz honey barspoon matcha muddled mint

Jalen Brunson: “You’re allowed to think about the worst possible scenario. But you gotta go out there and do something about it.” A good mantra for fighting fascism too.

Shorter: Inflation not too bad if you are dead.

saw the clickbait headline "most academic research should stop" from the chron in my inbox and my first thought was "um, it already has????"

“You’re talking about a long time ago.” The children are dead. And it was a few months ago. Trump still hasn’t gotten over the 2011 White House Correspondents Dinner.

I know we’ve grown used to this garbage, but this is just an astounding thing for a U.S. president to say at a summit with the leaders of the world’s most powerful countries.

this is a catastrophe and he will do harm, and only harm, to those living with disabilities

The Trump Regime is making yet another eugenicist move to destroy disabled Americans. The Office of Special Education is being moved out of ED to an HHS that is understaffed, overworked, and run by a crank who wants to kidnap Black disabled kids, and send them to work farms

As the government raids “antifa groups” in Minneapolis with the SAME charges levied against myself and the rest of the Broadview Six, we need to be asking how they got this indictment. And as charges (hopefully) get dropped, we must remember the process is the punishment.

This is just straightforward white nationalist great replacement rhetoric, the kind of thing that would have been confined to neo-Nazi forums a decade ago. Multiple mass shooters in recent years believed exactly this.

"Shut your eyes and see," – James Joyce, Ulysses Happy Bloomsday to those who celebrate and remember that the longest way round is the shortest way home

RIP to a brilliant and socially committed artist. He made beautiful music; African Magic is one of my all time favorite albums youtu.be/sHYAsY6p7zE?...

Biggest race on my ballot is NY-10. I voted for @bradlander.bsky.social over Dan Goldman. Yes, Goldman's done well with anti-ICE work. But he refused to endorse Mamdani, voted to censure Talib, and is AIPAC's candidate in this race. Lander represents solidarity, safety, joy, and the future.

I’m proud to be endorsed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani and I look forward to being a partner for him in Congress. Meanwhile, my opponent couldn’t bring himself to endorse Zohran as the Democratic nominee in the general election, even when the alternative was serial sexual harasser Andrew Cuomo.

Thinking white people are better is "being opposed to racial preferences" is more or less how Trump supporters see it. Unclear to me why the times editorial board sees it that way bsky.app/profile/jame...

This seems genuinely fascistic. Hot take, I guess, but I don't think that people should be arrested and charged with terrorism for holding cardboard signs that say "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action."

Always remember that the coup never ended. This un-American action, that would imprison everyone involved in a normal and functioning government, should disqualify all involved.

Kyiv monastery set on fire in night of Russian attacks across Ukraine

Absolutely brutal indictment of Trump's epic failure here, made even worse by his inability to grasp how monumentally he failed.

It’s worth mentioning in every news story that this deal is substantially worse for the US, and far more lucrative for Iran, than the Obama nuclear deal Trump blew up almost a decade ago.

So, under this memorandum of understanding, Iran will receive $324 billion in exchange for agreeing not to develop nuclear weapons. But please keep going on about the $400 million in cash that Obama authorized to Iran as part of the JCPOA.

Rowling makes more sense if you think of her, not as an author, but as just another hateful billionaire parasite. She has more in common with Musk and Bezos than with your average YA writer.

Remember this scene the next time a corporate reporter tries to insist that a rural diner full of white men in their 60s is somehow a more authentically "American" place, somehow more representative of who we are as a nation.