Congress is getting ready to remove the requirement that shell companies register their real owners. The bill "will restore America’s status as the leading offshore haven"

Courts have recently held that police don’t need a warrant to obtain your search history, an expert on surveillance explains: “Police can essentially rummage through your most revealing Google search queries and find incriminating evidence against you.”

"Something just brushed past my leg!" — Luke Skywalker, #StarWars Image credit: tempestkc on Threads #LincolnMemorialReflectingPool #USA

In Paris today, tens of thousands attended an anti-racism rally that also protested the rise of the far right. It took place despite the fierce heatwave that's engulfing the country. The rally was called by Bally Bagayoko, the new Black socialist mayor of Saint-Denis, a large working-class suburb.

Happy Father's Day 🖤

Both totally unnecessary and extremely funny that the Guardian has an interactive graphic for you to change the color of the US flag's blue to the color of the Reflecting Pool from 8 to 19 June and counting

It seems that the italian prime minister is pissed off.

He may not be a household name, but Davey Hearn is an American whitewater legend. 2 time world champion, 3 time Olympian, whitewater hall of famer.

Orolua Eluonyechie has been held in immigration detention for more than two years. He filed a habeas petition to be released, but it sat for nine months without ever being reviewed. “It is a black hole. Nobody is paying attention to him,” his lawyer says.

Today’s episode of “you can’t make this up:” Trump set out to prove voter fraud in the voting machines. And found not a single instance of fraud, so they’re pretending the study never happened

The Trump administration just agreed to pay North Dakota $27.8M for suppressing Standing Rock. This settlement ends years of litigation over who bears costs of one of the largest Indigenous-led protest movements in U.S. history. nativenewsonline.net/currents/tru...

So far, Mamdani has seemed to be the most gifted natural politician of his generation. Good thing for GOP that he was (actually, no-BS unlike Obama) born in East Africa. And probably a good thing for people of NYC. He's joyously all-in, on his current role.

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1. Great response by Ossoff. 2. Trump's really losing his fastball when it comes to nicknames. He's trying too hard to work in parts of names into them. "OssJerkoff?" Just call him Senator Jerkoff.

A russian warship fired on a yacht in the English Channel. The Royal Navy did not capture or destroy the enemy vessel. Institutionalized cowardice is deeply rooted in the former Great Powers of old Europe. The United Kingdom waves the white flag as a matter of policy.

This is what we’re dealing with.

Frog put the cookies in a box. “There,” he said. “Now we will not eat any more cookies.” “But we can open the box,” said Toad. “That is true,” said Frog.

Signs you might be a far right authoritarian party (#3382):

Okay this is the kind of World Cup content I’ve been waiting for.

“I knew I wasn’t going to be the lead, which was totally fine, but are you telling me that after more than 40 years of friendship, he can’t pick up the phone and say he’d love to throw a few lines my way?” said the extraterrestrial

I know it's easy to go "leopard's eating faces" but it's very, very bad if the dominant party in a growing, increasingly diverse state is getting this openly fascist.

It is irrational to pretend the russian terrorist state is a normal country. Rational policy would be to sever diplomatic relations with the falsely-named Russian Federation and to formally recognize a state of war to exist due to russian aggression.

Listened to an NPR story this morning about mass child starvation in Senegal without a single mention of Elon Musk, the guy who gleefully created the conditions for the mass starvation

www.worldatlas.com/articles/lao... 270 million cluster bombs on Laos during Operation Barrel Roll More than 80,000,000 undetonated bombs remain Over 20,000 people have died or been injured by these remaining bombs since the end of the war Only 1% of Laos territory has been cleared of bombs

I still think my “Lazy Susan” themed ad would’ve been better.

Cuban immigrants like Rogelio Bolufe Izquierdo have recently been put on third-country removal flights not just to Ecuador but also Eswatini (Swaziland) and South Sudan. Thousands have been expelled to Mexico, including elderly people who lived in the US for decades. www.hrw.org/report/2026/...

Your regular reminder that this clearly-it's-a-war is neither approved by Congress nor the UN Security Council & it is an egregious violation of the US Constitution, international law, & our signed, ratified treaty commitments, & if we were a serious country, we would care about these things.

You don’t save your ass if Platner drops out. Even if he has a heart attack—I’m not wishing it on him—and decides to rest, you’ll get people saying it was the stress of dealing with regular Democrats that did it. You sink or swim with him.

We are so fucked (and by "we," I mean Democrats)

I've been rereading @johnmajoreason.bsky.social's outstanding Big House on the Prairie, which argues among other things that we oversell the "prisons are all in rural white places" claim. I wanted to get a sense of the numbers, so produced this. I'll explain, but tl;dr: he's absolutely right.

damn. Read the whole thing from @mskellymhayes.bsky.social organizingmythoughts.org/the-heist-st...

Yaakov Roth was a Harvard Law School grad, SCOTUS clerk, and longtime BigLaw partner. His resume, law students were always told, was a sign that he was among those at the top of the legal profession. Today, he said Trump could tear down the Statue of Liberty tonight and no one could stop him.

To prove racial gerrymandering, a plaintiff has to draw race-blind districts that are just as favorable to Republicans. But that's impossible to do because Republicans uniformly select racists as their candidates and Black voters won't vote for racists. So racial gerrymandering is always allowed.

It gets a little more wild each time they say it. So if every single Black person votes one way, and every single white person votes the opposite way, every election, that's not even RELEVANT to whether voting is "racially polarized"—as long as this durable disagreement is organized into 'parties.'

I can’t wait until I wake up. This dream is insane.

I love the smell of Russian refineries in the morning.

Something that has been really striking to me as an attorney representing detained immigrants is how even the detention center staff view these places as prisons. I’ve corrected guards numerous times who referred to my client as an “inmate,” only to realize that they thought I was wrong.

Can't unsee this!

The rule of law in America has deteriorated to its lowest level in at least a decade, according to the first joint survey of judges, lawyers, and law professors by Bright Line Watch—co-led by professors @johncarey.bsky.social and @brendannyhan.bsky.social—and UCLA's Safeguarding Democracy Project.

NEW — I wrote about my visit to Delaney Hall, the ICE facility in Newark, NJ where detainees are on a hunger and labor strike in protest of rotten food, unpaid work, and unjust detainment, and where protesters outside have spent the last week drawing ICE's ire while keeping strikers' demands alive.

Judge Mehta doesn’t want to quietly dismiss the seditious conspiracy conviction of Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes. He’s asking the Trump administration to justify its decision to try to erase the case.

Thank you, Rep. Goldman, for shining a light and keeping the pressure on. We must not give up on the people being held inside.

Militants of the russian terrorist state struck an apartment building in Galați, Romania, with an attack UAV. Civilians were injured.

This photo of Andy Kim in the moments before ICE gassed everyone at Delaney Hall is going into the history books. We need more of this from our electeds.