well, I guess we’re learning a lot about people and how they see the world!

ah yes all those regular people mercenaries who by their own admission dream of killing people for a cause and yet can’t identify their Nazi tattoos they’re hiding in their shirtless mirror selfies to sext women in incidents unrelated to the alleged domestic violence of their pasts. Tough for them

I’m genuinely not happy that my private-to-the-group-chat inference about what examining this guy’s personal life was going to reveal turns out to be right, since now it’s bad if he ends up as a senator and worse if he doesn’t somehow

I've taught PERSEPOLIS (book & movie) more times than I can count. Two epic masterpieces, but, more than that, two texts that find their way to young people. I've never had a class that didn't *get* PERSEPOLIS, and that's a miracle of its own. Satrapi's voice and imagination are so alive. RIP.

WOW. The New Jersey AG has charged an Essex County Prosecutor’s Office sergeant for allegedly stealing a photojournalist’s camera equipment while the journo was at a hospital being treated for injuries she suffered outside Delaney Hall. The bag had an air tag and was tracked to the cop's house.

This week we cover UN races: London hustings featuring candidates for secretary general, & below the fold, races for elected seats on the Security Council & the General Assembly presidency. Germany lost, Bangladesh edged out Cyprus to lead the General Assembly, & I got annoyed with Rafael Grossi

As a reminder, the American Academy of Pediatrics called this “torture.”

What a staggering loss. RIP Marjane Satrapi.

I often think of how more people are employed by art museums than by coal mines now.

A new study has found that the National Guard's presence in Washington, D.C. had no effect on violent crime in the city. The Guard has been deployed since last August as part of a federal task force to fight crime, and their numbers are set to double in the coming weeks. n.pr/3PWDxqK

I think they got sick because they drank raw milk but go ahead & investigate

many of the faculty that have been fired were critics of the administration - a chilling and shameful episode we should be following, especially those of us in higher ed

well, now I'm at my mom's for the Knicks game and my stepdad keeps saying Wemby is built like a giraffe and you've got to run him so he gets tired out and then he keeps looking at me across the room like maybe I have some special knowledge of the situation

my jaw just actually dropped

🚨🚨 bun alert 🚨🚨

Severe medical neglect at ICE camps across the U.S. An @apnews.com investigation

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I am so heartsick to know someone so kind left this world in violence and fear

mutual respect is when I, a dilettante and a fake, tell you, a serious person and an expert, to snuffle around in the dirt for lies, and you say but of course, it would be my honor

A cyber-attack targeting the World Food Programme has exposed sensitive personal information belonging to some 600,000 households in Gaza in what may be the largest-known breach of humanitarian beneficiary data to date. www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news/2026/06...

I am taller than a lot of men, and I can smell the familiar insecurity of this kind of language radiating off the page—men like this aren’t concerned with authenticity, they just want you to be smaller than them

Wherever you are, here's a starter pack of sharp people on Bluesky who frequently post practical things we can do to push back. No matter how bleak things are, there is literally ALWAYS something we can do. These folks often have some good ideas. go.bsky.app/9H3C9Ty

This is truly one of the worst things the court has done — both in terms of legitimacy and in terms of the law — since I have been covering the court.

If you told me in college that the logical trajectory of Bari Weiss’s career would involve her dismantling 60 Minutes, my hesitation in believing you wouldn’t have been her willingness or capability, but rather whether there were enough noodle-spined people along the way to let it happen

I just saw a little girl sitting on a bench wearing a sequined backpack almost as big as her and covered in little furry labubu things, and from the back she looked like some mythical leviathan thing made of floofs and shine, not a little girl at all. A real coup of self-presentation.

I co-wrote a piece for @10fconsortium.bsky.social on the continuous global hardening of migration policy contemplating these conditions. 10fconsortium.substack.com/p/the-pricin...

A cool fact about Amb Zalabata according to Google - she is the first Indigenous person from the Americas to serve on the Security Council as she is an Arhuaco leader from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta as well as a defender of Human Rights, and strong proponent of WPS.

So apparently RFK Jr has been the one holding up funding for GAVI the vaccine alliance which among other things was trying to support testing for new Ebola vaccines for the variant that is now circulating in the DRC. Why RFK Jr is entrusted with influence on this is beyond me. Kick him to the curb.

This is sad and shocking news - Raúl always worked tirelessly to help early career researchers navigate the complexities of academia, and was a generous and selfless advocate for stronger standards in pedagogy and higher education access. We need more Raúls in academia. Sincere condolences

Happy Pride Month! Pauline Trigère’s c1970 evening dress is a welcoming rainbow, expansive and generous in construction for every shade and combination #museumatFIT #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡 #Pride2026

People have been asking me if I know of a resource like StandWithMinnesota for New Jersey, and I haven't found something comprehensive. So, for the moment, I have put together all the links to NJ orgs, crowdfunding links, events, and stuck them on a page of SWM. standwithminnesota.org/jersey

If you are a base-building org in NJ, or just a person with roots in the NJ organizing community and time to give to a project like this, I would love to hand off a website to you, along with the domains StandWithJersey.com/.org For free, of course.

happy pride

“My uncle is starving to death in there,” Karen Merino said about her uncle, who has been detained at the GEO Group-operated Delaney Hall since last August. “His molars have fallen out. It is chaotic in there. It is hell.” www.democracynow.org/2026/6/1/hea...

I was an anarchical little child who never went to sleep but I would still have loved this

yes yes I also they’re very happy together forever but also I would like to know why today i was told that her live cover of oye mi amor with Fher is no longer available in my region on apple music

I know this is serious but I'm losing it. I assume we're going to learn Pete Hegseth just like whatsapped some kid he thought was Hezbollah and was like, hey, I have the president for you

this is such a good example of someone asserting that incivility lives in actions that hurt people, not in questioning those actions

“The real criminals of Delaney Hall are the Trump regime flunkies and the GEO Group workers perpetrating this unholy cataclysm, yet Sherrill’s tin soldiers are not deployed against them, but against those who dare to speak out…”

crimes against humanity

The trees are coming into leaf Like something almost being said; The recent buds relax and spread, Their greenness is a kind of grief. —— Last year is dead, they seem to say, Begin afresh, afresh, afresh. -Philip Larkin, The Trees #everynightapoem As always, for the end of May.

Labor unions gathered for a solidarity rally outside Delaney Hall ice detention center today. People detained inside are on day 10 of a labor strike.

They kettled press as well as protestors. Now they're giving press "one opportunity" to leave. www.youtube.com/live/dhCEpox...

I know we’re not supposed to comment on these things and they’re also ultimately subjective but Ossoff’s rolled up shirtsleeves are a very good match for his rhetorical style

New York City, we have no excuse to be bored this summer. The map at Nyc.gov/summer is full of free and affordable stuff to do -- sports, music, arts, movies, video games and more -- in every borough.   The city is your backyard. Get out there and enjoy it.

“In at least one case (e.g. newstand vendor on p. 47), the animal could have been a young wolf, a fat mole, or a husky dog. There were very few such cases.”

it has come to my attention that busytown is anti pig

for context, here appears to be the subheader of this publication's obituary for Augusto Pinochet: "No ifs or buts. Whatever the general did for the economy, he was a bad man"

I didn’t know there were FIVE ICE detention hunger strikes going on all over the country.