Today's court ruling has thoughts on masked ICE agents: "This Court has listened carefully to the reasons given by Öztürk’s captors for masking-up... It rejects this testimony as disingenuous, squalid and dishonorable. ICE goes masked for a single reason -- to terrorize Americans into quiescence."

Part of ICE’s efforts will be setting up random traffic stops and checkpoints throughout the city and making educated guesses about who to detain and who not to detain. These 'Guess Stops' will be staffed by special agents known as Guess Stop Officers, or 'Guess-Stop-O for short.

People of Illinois, we need your help. Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.

Say it often, say it loud: "Overall, research has not supported the common-sense presumption that digital approaches to schooling are better than non-digital alternatives. At the broadest level, widespread computer use in education has been found to be associated with lower student achievement."

Almost nobody my age or younger has a real shot at owning a home. We need to ban hedge funds and private equity from buying homes, restore federal support for building housing, and expand VA-style home loans so working people can actually afford to own where they live.

Just saw The Springsteen movie trailer and realized we may be leaving in the time of PEAK SERIOUS INTENSE JEREMY - not sure a screen can contain both Jeremy Alan White & Jeremy Strong and am scared to find out. #springsteen #runallnight

so @chatterton.bsky.social turned off replies and quote posts so i can't reply to him, but eagle eyes will notice that all of the posts he says are about bluesky's reaction to today's interview were posted between 16 and 120 hours ago

DEMOCRATS: Any government funding deal must extend health coverage for 20 MILLION AMERICANS. WHITE HOUSE: “GO FUCK YOURSELF” (actual quote)

Good for you, Peanut! #Bears

Folks, some incredible news: A couple of weeks ago, a national theatre chain axed our release of Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile because it mentioned Donald Trump. Now, because of you, Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile will now run on over 25 screens throughout the world. theonion.com/badpedophile

a sniveling coward who makes up for his deep-seated feelings of inadequacy by worshipping death, violence and the domination of others — many such cases

From denying Somalia had a president to making up a story, President Trump is a lying buffoon. No one should take this embarrassing fool seriously

It’s outrageous that Jimmy Kimmel is still censored on millions of Maryland TVs because Sinclair won’t stand up to Trump and his FCC’s threats to free speech. Their shameful bowing to the Dear Leader comes at the expense of viewers and the principle of freedom of expression.

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

I don’t think I’ve ever loved anything as much as ICE loves violently attacking women.

"The libidinal pleasure of ‘owning the libs’ that now passes for modern conservatism is going to become more costly for them as time wears on." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-left-is-...

What do you say, @delong.social? Want to come on Tides and talk about economic history?

Out today: Students went on strike, and 8,000 of them marched in a mock funeral procession carrying a coffin with a banner that read “academic freedom” from campus to the Capitol and the governor’s mansion.

How it started // How it’s going

Kirk’s ‘memorial’ getting a live coverage on The Guardian is a great example of how the right gets automatically framed as the default political movement to be ‘understood’ while the victims of that same movement never will never get the same amount of coverage

You might think Donald's DM to Pam Bondi was bad but you haven't seen what sends me.

NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable. This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed. From me for @rollingstone.com: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Gotta love this sport! Women's 4x100m medalists celebrating together ❤️ #WorldAthleticsChamps

🇺🇸Noah Lyles anchors USA to 5th-fastest 4x100m in WORLD HISTORY and championship record in the rain to defend world title! 😤#WorldAthleticsChamps

🇺🇸Melissa Jefferson-Wooden joins 🇯🇲Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce as the only women in HISTORY to sweep 100m/200m/4x100m gold at the same world championships! 🧹🥇 #WorldAthleticsChamps

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

Make sure you buy the new Canyonero Searchlight Edition!

This is TOMORROW! See you there, Brooklyn! #booksky #bkbf @bkbookfest.bsky.social

300 paywall jumps for Robin's MainFT lunch with Jean-Philippe Bouchaud. Get one before someone else does. on.ft.com/3K7Or9T

fwiw, I'm also a lefty independent journalist/writer type person who's scrambling as mainstream media has decided to mostly stop commissioning people on the left. I have a newsletter sale today if you want to help me keep scribbling. It's 40% off, $30/mo. www.everythingishorrible.net/subscribe

🚨NEW: "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" just dropped its first response to ABC, FCC chair, and Disney firing Jimmy Kimmel. Trump ain't sleeping tonight. 🤣 This is a must-watch. 🔥

Disney learned nothing from Andor.

Timeline cleanse: Folks, it's kind of embarrassing being American these days, but here's something we can be proud of, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone is one of the greatest athletes of all time, just incredibly dominant in whatever event she chooses. A joy to watch. m.youtube.com/watch?v=QQ5_...

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

I like to imagine this iteration Democratic politics like showing everyone "Aliens" and the audience says they think Ripley, or Hicks, or Vasquez, or whoever seem cool and then a bunch of multimillionaires pay consultants to be like the people have spoken and they want Paul Reiser.

/4 It’s more likely to do things that are stupid, showy, overtly thuggish and swaggering, and flattering to Trump, and that promote his narratives in a loud and dumb way. So saying, “eh, I don’t think they’d try that” is not saying “they are too noble and law-abiding to do that.”

New evidence-based op-ed in the Philadelphia @inquirer.com with @judalicious.bsky.social: Third Way’s banned words memo is odious, corporate capitulation is real, and word choice doesn’t win or lose votes—but it does affect marginalized people. (Written before the Kirk news.) “Enjoy” (?) and share!

"We want to change the perception of journalists away from the elitist East Coast Democrat of yesteryear to the rabid logical fallacy machine of tomorrow. And at the Times, that dream isn’t too far in the future."

Imagine telling young Black students they should come to college to better themselves and share their views with diverse people only to arrest them and expel them when their views don't align with yours. Texas Tech is a public university and she was in the "free speech" area of campus.

When I was placed on the Professor Watchlist in 2021, people sent death threats about my children. I had security officers monitor my 8yo at school. Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families? My own colleagues are silent.

CHAMPIONSHIP RECORD Melissa Jefferson-Wooden breaks the world championship and wins gold in Tokyo. She posts a scorching time of 10.61 A dominant end to dominant season.

What the fuck man. Arsenal score that goal every week doing far worse.

Jeffrey Epstein was a pedophile. It is unfathomable Senator Susan Collins voted in lockstep with her Republican colleagues to block the release of the Epstein files. Not one Mainer—regardless of their party—has told me they want the files to remain sealed.

NEW: We got access to Jeffrey Epstein’s personal Yahoo inbox — more than 18,000 emails. It shows Epstein’s world in his own words: an unfiltered look at how his operation worked, who enabled it, and how Ghislaine Maxwell stayed at the center of it all.

Rest in Peace, Minnesota State Rep. Melissa Hortman. She was targeted and assassinated on June 14, 2025 between 2 am and 3:35 am CDT in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota. Vance Boelter was targeting 70+ Democrats at the time of the incident.

Milan 2025. 📸: Pam Springsteen