African, can confirm: every moment of your life has been spent during an atrocity somewhere, perpetuated or exacerbated by a larger number of countries and corporations than many care to admit.

Abbott Labs gave $500K to Trump's inauguration. Now the criminal investigation into whether their formula sickened and killed babies has been shut down.

I've been tracking the DOJ's death penalty authorizations since Trump retook office. There are more than people might realize. (How many actually lead to new death sentences is too soon to say.) New from me @theintercept.com

a hot holiday is a great time too explore how your state fits here!

📣 BREAKING (GOOD) NEWS!‼️ The 2024 lawsuit against Rutgers AAUP-AFT, Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union, AAUP-BHSNJ, AFTNJ, and AFT over the 2023 faculty strike was dismissed with prejudice—affirming public sector unions’ rights to free speech & collective action. Press release: https://loom.ly/xVmkrVA

This is the most purely anti-American thing I've ever heard a politician say, but the media is too obsessed with 3 DSA candidates winning local elections in NY to pay any attention I guess.

Great to see the NYT front page at least this story: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/03/c...

Describe the economy in a single sentence

The air conditioning at the Delaney Hall concentration camp failed today, so now people are roasting inside as temperatures rise above 100 degrees. It's so hot they can't breathe.

"'Today remains a victory,' public defender Nuha Abusamra said, following the verdict. 'We do not fight solely to win. We fight for the resistance.'"

An ethics complaint filed by over 100 former judges alleges that Acting AG Blanche engaged in professional misconduct & conflicts of interest in his handling of Trump’s controversial lawsuit against the IRS, abuse of authority to target Trump’s political enemies, & mishandling of the Epstein files.

www.scmp.com/news/asia/so... don't start none, won't be none, etc, etc

“Polarization is actually something that’s perhaps necessary in a society,” Moreton said. “No one really believes that somehow we’d have the Voting Rights Act if Martin Luther King had just sat down with the wizard of the KKK and they had hashed out their disagreements.”

"In speaking directing the purchase of Israel Bonds and speaking at SFOF-linked events, DiNapoli has aligned himself with Republicans who demonize diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives and socially responsible investing, said David Armiak, a research director and an investigative journalist"

Nearly every child across the globe is exposed to at least one climate hazard that is impacting their health, safety, and well-being. From extreme heat to droughts to floods, the consequences of climate change are hurting kids' ability to learn and grow. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

We should make room in our definition of "scandal" for the things that the Founding Fathers wrote in the constitution prohibiting because they believed it to be so scandalous: self-dealing, self-enrichment, and corruption. prospect.org/2026/07/02/p...

Minnesota's labor movement really sees the federal indictment as retaliation for mass participation in the Jan 23 day of "no work, no school, no shopping" against ICE. And labor and community members have had a pretty unified message of solidarity. Read Amie Stager's report from the courthouse today

The account tracking Donald Trump's stock trades has been suspended by Twitter. Funny how Elon Musk is a "free speech" absolutist until the speech is inconvenient for the politicians he supports.

The bet was made by an anonymous user with a Ukrainian flag as his display photo and it comes amid concerns about insider betting on major geopolitical events.

"My husband, Martin Soto, took part in the hunger strike at Delaney Hall. I led a rally. The retaliation was immediate."

This new report finds that the US government and journalists fail to accurately capture the true level of military spending, and it's much higher than publicly known--between $1.7 trillion and $2.3 trillion per year when counting interest payments on debt.

“Affordable rent should be an essential demand of the labor movement as a whole,” says New York Taxi Workers Alliance President Bhairavi Desai. Great reporting by @rebeccaburns.bsky.social

From the archive - check out this conversation between Isabela Escalona and @jeffschuhrke.bsky.social Labor’s Reckoning: What We Can Learn From the Cold War History of the AFL-CIO

We are only seeing the beginnings of how a generation of workers has been transformed by witnessing a genocide against Palestinians, and then facing retaliation and firing for speaking out. theintercept.com/2026/07/01/c...

Proud to have co-edited this book with Amie Stager + May Day Strong. It’s about the Jan 2026 Minn shutdown, how it helped break ICE’s terror regime, what lessons we can learn from it & how we can build off the momentum towards a general strike. Preorder now!

8 "Antifa" members just got a combined 450 years in federal prison. The prosecution leaned heavily on an "expert" witness who never spent a day in government or academia - but who spent years at pro-Israel advocacy orgs: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/450-years-...

Rep. Tom Kean took leave to get help for depression. But as a member of Congress, due to voting for Medicaid work reqs, and as part of the New Jersey state leg, he hasn't made it easy for others to do the same. New w/ @hurwitz.bsky.social at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

This book opens with Minnesota's January 2026 economic shutdown, when unions and community orgs united to force ICE to retreat. It zooms out to the global history of general strikes that have opposed colonialism and occupation, toppled dictators, and won workers the eight-hour day.

Very proud to have co-edited this book with Amie Stager, in partnership with May Day Strong. This tells the story of how, by striking, refusing, and SHUTTING IT DOWN, workers can resist an ICE invasion and go toe to toe with the most powerful people on earth. www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2966-t...

In support of his initiative, Recovery Road, Lennox has been walking through rural areas in the U.S., where some of the communities most impacted by suicide and addiction are also the most underserved.

The Alaska Supreme Court ruled this afternoon that Dan Sullivan can stay on the ballot to challenge Senator Dan Sullivan. www.adn.com/politics/202...

Humphrey's Executor is dead and the president can fire anyone in the executive branch at will but NOT Federal Reserve governors is really a parody of the difference between the money power and everything else in America

The especially fun thing about this is that the mainstream papers of record will continue to run stories about how some random thing a Democrat said is "raising the temperature" and inciting violence while not writing about this at all

🚨NEW: @abdulelsayed.bsky.social responds to Dem powerbrokers saying it’s too dangerous for him to be Dems’ Senate nominee: “If you’re Schumer, I’m dangerous. If you’re AIPAC, I’m dangerous. If you’re a corporate PAC, I’m dangerous. If you’re Blue Cross Blue Shield’s CEO, I’m pretty damn dangerous.”

Minnesota trade unionists are among 15 people federally indicted after months of organizing against ICE and Border Patrol. @sarahlazare.bsky.social & @radicalamy.bsky.social report the indictment cites worker assemblies at the United Labor Centre in Minneapolis as evidence of a criminal conspiracy.

Darializa is a decent person who does good things. Her contituents will benefit from her representing them in Washington. Also she's a brilliant Black Latina Muslim so these people aren't going to be normal, lol.

🇸🇩 US Sudan Sanctions Land Lopsidedly on the Army, Analyst Says The US Treasury sanctioned 8 individuals and entities tied to the warring sides in Sudan’s civil war, but the action falls heavily on the Sudanese army (SAF) while only glancing at its paramilitary rival, the RSF. 🔸 The bulk of the...

AOC: These are two young, talented, intelligent women who got elected against all odds, against millions of dollars. Perhaps there is something we can learn from them.

New: The Trump administration quietly granted dairy farmers a new legal pathway to bring migrant laborers to the US in response to an aggressive lobbying effort from ag. Labor unions & immigration hawks are furious, saying it will drive down wages wapo.st/4oZk0mE

A response to Lavender's closing statement from LGBTQ+ leaders.

The 32-year-old claims to have depleted personal loans, credit cards, a 401(k) and his wedding fund for his betting.

“Monopolies in rental housing have the same effect as any other monopoly—only in this case, it’s monopolization of something that’s a human right.” @rebeccaburns.bsky.social reports, tenants are organizing as they face junk fees, rent debt & opaque utility charges.

Extremely funny a bunch of raving moderates spent the entire NYC mayoral election looking down on people with their snide “You know Zohran won’t actually freeze rent, it’s just hollow promises.” Then he does it in 6 months. The “Better Things Aren’t Possible” era ends now.

NEW on LA cold storage fire capitalandmain.com/as-cold-stor... -Homes awash in carcinogenic fumes -People stuck inside with no A/C in heat -Company responsible, Lineage, hired PR crisis firm -Lobbied on rooftop solar safety devices, int’l tax proposals -Cofounders are billionaires w Robin Urevich

A study of 140 laughter sequences found the same rhythmic timing pattern in humans, chimps, gorillas, bonobos and orangutans.

I wrote about the Prairieland defendants and the urgency of opposing the extreme sentences handed down on Tuesday. And they likely will not be the last.

A teen holding a white flag shot down from a quadcopter in his own home. A newborn baby shot in the head while breastfeeding inside a tent. These are some of the horrific accounts of Israel’s targeting of Palestinian children from the UN’s latest report. @mehdirhasan.bsky.social youtu.be/LF_w-e3wpEI

If you're one of the defense attorneys for the Prairieland 9, I'm doing a big story on the case and need to talk to you. Pls text me at 202-510-1268

How would you feel about Google building a $2 billion data center in your small town? Now… hear us out… would your answer change if Google offered you a cookie?

Nearly 400 local newspapers sue OpenAI, Microsoft over alleged copyright theft. newjerseyglobe.com/media/nearly...