Pretty clear Stephen Miller, Noem, Hegseth and Trump are trying to provoke a Civil War at this point. What's interesting is they want to do it now, because even though they're unpopular, they seem to believe this is the most popular they'll be ever again. We can't let them win.

a significant reason this is happening is because out of a combination of partisanship and cowardice Congress has essentially abdicated its constitutional role in the republic

Authoritarian personality cult. Plain as day.

Wake up and vote for people with compassion, and empathy, not murder

The Supreme Court keeps yelling at the district courts for not understanding that the new rule is to decide in favor of the Trump administration and their allies in every case regardless of the facts or the substance of the law.

The Justice Department had once argued that Ghislaine Maxwell should be sentenced to at least 30 years in prison. Now its second-ranking official—and Donald Trump’s former lawyer—is aligned with a woman whose crimes the department had called “monstrous.”

The policy solutions to poverty are simple: redistribute capital ownership and expand the welfare state.

A technology that has helped accelerate the climate crisis could be part of slowing it down or even reversing it. Another smart column from @cltomlinson.bsky.social www.houstonchronicle.com/business/col...

Among many other things, I think it means that those of us interested in democracy need to call on our allies around the world to launch campaigns of boycott divestment and sanctions of the USA until we defeat fascism. It worked for apartheid.

What’s the goal? Why are these people destroying these institutions and is this what Americans wanted when they voted?

What this exclusive look I filmed, interviewed, and edited in collaboration with Andrew Duplessie.

“Stephen Miller unleashed a long, crazed, angry, shrill rant. It was classic authoritarian agitprop, best seen as an expression of weakness. Poll after poll has shown that the public is rebelling. Maybe that’s why Miller is panicking. The question is: Why won’t Democrats act like it?”

Wow

The spread of neoliberalism promised economic efficiency and freedom for the powerful while wreaking havoc for millions. In recent years, claims of a post-neoliberal era have emerged, but a book argues that these claims may be greatly exaggerated.

A months-long investigation estimates that the profits from the Trump family's ventures in private clubs, hotels, golf courses, crypto currencies, NFTs, and other businesses has raised President Trump’s net worth by billions of dollars.

“The deeper risk is cynicism, the quiet corrosion of faith in institutions. If we can’t believe the numbers, how do we believe anything?”

Start your morning with two minutes of the testimony of Samuel Garcia, an average American who drove 3 hours to speak truth to power to the Texas legislature. Let’s decide that we are all Samuel Garcia. Get in their faces and make them listen. Mr. Garcia is a great American.

The problem that so many Democrats face is that they want to focus group "What does a normal person sound like" when voters want to see candidates be authentic in talking about issues they and the candidate care about.

The President is trying to ransack the Constitution, and the Supreme Court often seems complacent. Class-action lawsuits may be one remedy, Amy Davidson Sorkin writes.

This statistic is awful. How many people stopped looking for work? How many of these claims expired and people aren’t eligible anymore? How many people collected the full amount and are now without any aid?

oligarchs are destroying what's left of U.S. journalism, replacing it with corporate-friendly infotainment and right wing propaganda, and blowing smoke up your ass about how they're restoring trust in journalism and protecting "diversity of viewpoints from across the ideological spectrum."

The GOP love making Americans unemployed

@democrats.org "...need to communicate clearly to the public that instances like these are part of a bigger story: Trump is corrupting the bureaucracy—corrupting the people’s government—by seeding it with loyalists at all levels who are willing to manipulate it to carry out his crazed vendettas."

Really good @cristianfarias.com report about one of the most important First Amendment cases of our age: www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

1/ Donald Trump's obsessive defensiveness about Jeffrey Epstein is causing a deep rupture within his far-right base. It's an echo of the last time this happened, when he tried to tell MAGA to get vaccinated. They didn't listen. Here's why. Click through or continue here...🧵

This just in, new poll reveals things sensible people understood from the very beginning

Adam's #Fantasia 2025 coverage continues with the enchanting I am Frankelda. A heady brew of stop-motion animation and layered storytelling. The film makes its North American premiere at the fest.

A new exhibition explores what Esther means to the Jewish tradition at large, the Sephardic community of Rembrandt’s Amsterdam, and to us now.

Where the cuts are going to be felt the most. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

WILD story. An 82-year-old from Chile lost his green card. In June, he went to pick up a new one at a USCIS office. While there, he was handcuffed and detained by ICE. An unknown caller claiming to be a lawyer told family she could help. Later, she said he’d died. Now he’s turned up — in Guatemala!

Normalize putting ingredients on menus

New (to me at least) #EnslavedHistory website: Locating Slavery's Legacies The Locating Slavery's Legacies database locates and documents these remnants of slavery’s legacies, yielding insight into their influence on American higher education. locatinglegacies.org/s/hub/page/h... #History 🗃️

BREAKING: JD Vance just gave a big speech in which he claimed that "for the first time in a very long time, workers' wages are rising faster than inflation.." The only problem? The Trump Labor Dept. reported exactly the opposite just yesterday, showing real wages falling in June. #EconSky

During the bail hearing before the magistrate judge, the government called one witness: Special Agent Joseph. For Lawfare, @rparloff.bsky.social detailed the evidence the government introduced via Joseph’s testimony: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what...

In capitalist America, millions of workers never get a vacation. But for the past century, bringing sunshine and leisure to the masses has been among the socialist movement’s greatest achievements.

To break this down: If, as Texas AG Ken Paxton says, Texas did not consider race in drawing TX-09, TX-18, TX-29 & TX-33, then the districts couldn't be racial gerrymanders as alleged by DOJ. A racial gerrymander requires that race predominate. No consideration of race, no predominance. #txlege

Unfortunately there is a practical purpose for this sadism; it lets them get around “recalcitrant countries” that limit cooperation with the US. Lot of Cubans and Southeast Asians, for example. Many people from those countries were ordered deported years ago but have been out of deletion for years.

ICE's actions in Los Angeles are reckless and unconstitutional. The ACLU of Southern California took DHS to court.

My latest for @rollingstone.com “If fascism scares you the way it does me, figuring out how to break the centralized power of the fossil fuel industry is a key form of resistance,” @billmckibben.bsky.social Here Comes the Sun We’ve got our work cut out for us. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Is there any progressive answer to right wing media on the am or shortwave radio.

Very troubling incidents. I implore people not to resort to violence like this. It is going to cause them to escalate and does not help immigrants.

In 24 years, they have found zero bombs in shoes.

New Yorkers have to be *so* excited to see you to stop and say hi when they’re on their way somewhere

Jon Stewart on Who Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill Really Helps — and Hurts youtu.be/jF8mNnuNvEA

This is so fucking funny holy shit

My colleagues documented how two Los Angeles protestors were hit with less than lethal munitions while they posed little threat to officers. This video follows their recovery and details how LAPD has contradicted its own stated policies around LLMs. www.nytimes.com/video/world/...

There will now be 10,000 new ICE agents & 100,000 new detention beds--and few safeguards protecting people from constitutional violations by the feds. Time for states to pass laws allowing people to sue fed agents. Read about it these "converse-1983" statutes here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Next up most of the effects of this bill will happen just before the 2028 election. Looking forward to seeing republicans blame this on the left

The big beautiful bill is a betrayal to all Americans.