New headliner announced for the Freedom 250 concert

Let’s be clear about Delaney Hall. A private, for-profit detention center run by GEO Group. Their business model is making money off human beings. Their incentive isn’t dignity. It isn’t fairness. It isn’t even deportation. Their incentive is keeping beds full and keeping the money flowing.

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HA HA Trump Urges Canceling Freedom 250 Concerts After Artists Drop Out www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/a...

Not only is he personally pocketing our money, but he's also giving it away to his corporate cronies. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/b...

Worth reading for a bit of inspiration! This Is How to Defeat an Autocrat www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/o...

For the first time in human history, we have a technology that can generate words separately from the thoughts they represent. What 370,000 College Essays Tell Us About A.I.’s Effects on Creativity www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/o...

#DelaneyHall May 25 2026

By demanding absolute fealty, his bottomless self-dealing, his floundering economic nationalism, and his world-historical delusions about U.S. military might, Trump is shrinking MAGA down to its molten core. newrepublic.com/article/2108... via @newrepublic.com

Trump Is Setting His Sights on Restricting Legal Immigration while nearly 60 percent of Americans believe that legal immigrants are a major benefit to the economy. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/23/u...

Hell of a week for the opposition: 8 Senate Dems voted to confirm a Trump judge who wouldn’t admit Biden won. A Dem governor pardoned an election denier who orchestrated a breach of her county’s election system. 8 House Dems voted for a bill attacking trans rights in schools. Feel represented?

More, please! www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/u...

It pays to participate in treason. Prison to Pardons to Payouts: Jan. 6 Rioters Are Elated at Trump’s $1.8 Billion Fund www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/u...

Trump’s Deportations Are Costing Americans Jobs, Study Finds www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/r...

“the institutions that many other countries have for mediating … technological advances [like AI] don’t exist in the United States.” Why College Grads Are Booing Their Commencement Speakers www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/o...

Thick as thieves. Manager at Trump’s N.J. Golf Club Helped Plan Reflecting Pool Repairs www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/u...

This is an administration whose foundational ideology is the notion of “great replacement”: that black and brown people are replacing whites. Here’s that ideology made into policy. Trump Moves to Admit 10,000 More White South Africans as Refugees www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/u...

More, please! Judge Bars ICE From Making Immigration Arrests at Courts in New York www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/n...

Speaker at Trump endorsed Rededicate 250 ceremony claims that god made Trump president so Trump could build the White House ballroom. Stranger than fiction. If you believe this guy, he's also got a bridge to sell you. #momsky #sheshd #voterizer

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Interesting read. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/w...

Celebrating Christo-fascism in the nation's capital. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/u...

That well known socialist rag, <checks notes> the @economist.com makes the case for partial nationalisation of AI companies 👀 economist.com/leaders/2026...

‘Trump is trashing free-market principles treasured by traditional conservative Republicans. MAGA industrial policy is a deliberate effort to snuff out competing industries. www.nytimes.com/2026/ 05/12/opinion/trump-is-fighting-the-worlds-stupidest-culture-war.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

The Autocracy Index: Trump’s Disregard for Congress Has Reached a New Level www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Trump: What me, worry? Trump Says Americans’ Economic Pain Is Not a Consideration for the Iran War www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/u...

Just because not all anti-Zionism is antisemitic doesn’t mean none of it is. Democrats Can’t Let This Antisemitic Sex Therapist Win Her Runoff www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/o...

US Democratic Party could learn much from Spanish approach. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/o...

So great to be in discussion with @ces-uc.bsky.social and @anacristinasantos.bsky.social today. A truly remarkable intellectual community.

More, please! ABC Accuses Government of Violating First Amendment www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/b...

In Trumpworld, down is up and up is down. U.S. and Iran Exchange Fire Amid a Declared Truce www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05...

Boy, the #ACLU really got this one wrong. Look Inside the Case That Enshrined Political Power for Billionaires www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/u...

The latest assault on academic freedom and college governance. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/u...

This Is What’s Behind Trump’s Relentlessness www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/o...

Netanyahu and Trump are endangering world Jewry. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/w...

“I noticed a shift in the US political conversation: Americans were losing their sense of a common reality.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Tucker Carlson blames Israel’s crimes on its Jewishness so he can pretend that America and Christianity are morally pure. What Tucker Carlson Means When He Talks About Israel www.nytimes.com/2026/04/28/o...

Yes it does. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Billionaires stick together. Oprah Winfrey Moves Her Podcast (and Books and Products) to Amazon www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/b...

If you find yourself in Coimbra, Portugal on May 11, I’ll be speaking about why Americans know so little about the history of our own fascist movements.

Proud of my union. @AAUP @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/04/24/u...

Far right activists disrupt Indigenous Speakers During Commemorations of Australia’s War Dead. Shameful. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/w...

Disillusioned, some former Trump acolytes are defaulting to an older conspiracy theory: The ones in control are the Jews. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/24/o...

So happy to be at the University of Coimbra as visiting researcher, hosted by @anacristinasantos.bsky.Today is the anniversary of Portugal’s Carnation Revolution, reclaiming democracy from dictatorship. May we in the US do the same!

Well, that’s going to do hell if a lot of good. Iran War Live Updates: Kushner and Witkoff to Talk With Iranian Officials in Pakistan www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...

And yet his party continues to march in lockstep, refusing to go against him. Recipe for political suicide? Let’s hope so. Disapproval of Trump Hits Highest Level of His Second Term www.nytimes.com/2026/04/23/u...

Advancing organized ignorance in Texas. open.substack.com/pub/erininth...

Why not, “How Conservatives Came to Target the Southern Poverty Center”? www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...