The Fun Shortage Is Real, and It’s Making America Miserable. “With fewer places to relax and socialize, and steeper prices for entry, having fun is quantifiably harder than it used to be.” [bloomberg.com]

NEW: Cities all over Arizona are aiding ICE—but local activists are pressuring city leaders to change their policies. And now, with local elections coming up in July, collaboration with ICE has become a major issue in a bunch of races. Learn all about it! boltsmag.org/arizona-muni...

My latest @thenation.com: "The World Cup of Racism." The Trump administration has a message for every soccer fan on the planet: The US government is unapologetically bigoted. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Consumer electronics getting significantly more expensive due to the AI industry may accelerate the backlash even faster than the data center buildout www.theverge.com/tech/952162/...

bitch you can't be serious the fragility and pettiness of these people, who aren't content just to strip away people's rights they want to pretend they're Good and Just Doing Law, too, and are deeply offended when people acknowledge otherwise

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.

There is a pernicious and sustained effort to distort the historical record and do violence to the public’s memory.

A very real, very scary thing

The theoretically nonpartisan postal service won’t deliver ballots if states don’t hand over their absentee/mail-in ballot voter lists to Trump. “This is basically a back-door way for the federal government to get voting information that states control under the U.S. Constitution.” trib.al/yrhMiYG

The idea that a British citizen would deliberately choose to have a baby here because the United States of America is "the most benevolent nation in the world" with the best "social welfare system" is stupid even by the incredibly low standards of Mike Johnson.

Shouldn’t be lost on anyone that the world’s richest man is stoking public health conspiracies after getting called out for gutting USAID—a move that killed hundreds of thousands of people.

The Supreme Court has spent years expanding "religious freedom" for conservative Christians. But when a Rastafarian prisoner had his hair forcibly shaved in violation of federal law, SCOTUS ruled he has no meaningful remedy. Funny how that works. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/scotus-say...

do yourself a favor and scroll through the quote posts

really bad

Trump is attempting to undo the republic to retain personal power. No one in DOJ or FBI should be assisting him in this essentially criminal and anti-American undertaking. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

President Donald Trump’s family crypto business is expected to soon be allowed to operate like a bank — a decision that would give U.S. companies a new route to steer money to the president. www.notus.org/economy/trum...

Quintessential Trump: In 2025, Trump axed the program to combat New World Screwworm, stating that they had "saved" $1.5 million a year. In 2026, the Trump announces a $1 billion emergency program to combat the Screwworm outbreak. $1 billion would have funded the old program for 667 years.

New: We've been tracking reports of ICE activity across Chicagoland for five weeks. In that time, rapid responders have seen an escalation as feds have abducted dozens, caused at least two car crashes, threatened community members with weapons and flouted state courthouse protections. Read more:

Let's Leave It Up To The States To Decide vs You Guys Always Say That Right Before Starting A Civil War About It

A thing about JD Vance Is that extremism researchers can tell he hangs out in Nazi forums because he repeats popular Nazi talking points from those forums pretty much verbatim. Like Jesus he doesn't even dress it up or change it around to sound original he's just a channer

Literally all the referees, including the American ones, should boycott. But nobody will because most people excuse racism unless it's happening to them personally.

Musk functionally ran the US government for 6 months last year and managed to: increase spending, slash services, kill 100,000s, and help nurture both Ebola & Screwworms. Yet somehow no one mentions this when they talk about the company he is going to take public this week.

It's easy to shrug off the idiots claiming that the incredibly accomplished politician Spencer Pratt was cheated out of a rightful win in Los Angeles. But they're going to make these same claims in November, so we need to carpet bomb this conspiracy out of existence right now.

"What the Wounds Tell" just won this year’s European Press Prize. "Doctors in Gaza observed a disturbing pattern: children with a single gunshot wound to the head or chest, a sign that they had been deliberately targeted." www.volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v...

Disgraceful. Utterly disgraceful

“If the government decides, very quickly, to bulldoze the Statue of Liberty... nothing can be done?” asked Judge Patricia Millett. “I think that’s right, yes,” responded DOJ attorney Yaakov Roth www.politico.com/news/2026/06...

best part is when private citizens track the bag to the cops house, and THEN see that the bag had been MOVED TO A SECOND LOCATION w/o its contents later that day

Roberts Court wants to create world where Dems have no legitimate chance to ever take control of Congress, there are no Black members of Congress from the South & no voting rights violations can ever be proven. Their end goal is permanent white GOP minority rule www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

A DOJ report now frames LGBTQ+ protections and abortion clinic access laws as examples of “anti-Christian bias.” The document reads less like a civil rights investigation and more like an effort to institutionalize Christian nationalist ideology inside the federal government. Read more:

Next week Senate Republicans are poised to give ICE and CBP tens of billions of dollars to funnel right to private, well-connected companies like GEO Group. What’s are they offering to help you? Nothing. For them, Delaney Hall is just the start. Their corrupt & cruel agenda will be up for a vote.

A Mr. Reinhold, who was detained in several camps, here describes his daily meals given in Auschwitz-Birkenau. Three meals a day! ‘Food: early ¼ coffee, midday ½ water gruel, evenings 200 grams bread with 20 grams margarine, or a slice of sausage’

We are going to savor this one. Our client, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, is freed of these outrageous, vindictive charges. It’s a good day.

hard to exaggerate how heroic these men were. they likely saved dozens of children's lives. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Even by Trump standards, reading his “settlement” with the IRS made me feel insane. Every lever of this thing is controlled by Trump, or some lackey he controls. A diabolicial little Rube Goldberg machine of corruption, to the tune of $1.8 billion in public resources. Vile stuff.

Well, well, well. In 2025, Brendan Carr’s wife “joined billionaire Peter Thiel’s data analytics firm, Palantir Technologies, as its head of global policy.” 4/28/25 … 1/ www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

For all the talk of how Democrats aren't close enough to the mainstream, only Republicans act—consistently, through all of their members in every branch, federal and state—as if they know there is no chance they could hold power in anything resembling a free and fair election.

This is absolutely outrageous. SCOTUS reinstated Texas gerrymander 15 weeks before primary because they claimed it was too close to election to block it but now allowing Alabama to gerrymander one week before primary after trial court found map was intentionally discriminatory against Black voters

They're not going to stop with trans. They've realized that they can get away with just about anything if they claim to be protecting "the children." If they roll back gay marriage, they won't stop there either. There is no fucking accommodating these people, they must be defeated & marginalized.

People who don’t have kids in public school subsidize people who do. People who don’t drive on city-maintained streets subsidize people who do. We are all the subsidized and the subsidizers when things are operating normally; let’s not do this silliness.

Do you want the Tank Girl future? Because this is how we get the Tank Girl future and last time I checked none of you are sentient mutant kangaroos.

Breaking news: Indiana University plant microbiologist Roger Innes has been locked out of his laboratory by the school in response to a request by one of his federal funders. The move comes after Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs. https://scim.ag/4tsDqRr

The new Trump administration counterterrorism strategy document is not getting nearly enough attention. The document explicitly lists “left-wing extremists,” people with “radically pro-transgender” ideologies, and “anti-fascists” alongside ISIS and cartels as top national security threats. 1/

The single most defining thing Elon Musk has ever done is killing untold numbers of people by having DOGE illegally raid and disband USAID. Not rickets, not cars, not even the CSAMbot on X. It’s this, and so many media pundits just choose to unsee it.

Maybe it’s a bad time to eliminate epidemiology in the United States.

“For my friends everything; for my enemies the law.” DOJ has become an instrument of authoritarianism. No more laments for what it was; or talk of “abuses”; or wishful thinking about how they can’t get away with it. They can, if not confronted across the board. www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-l...

Explosive & really outrageous revelations in here about a billionaire's private surveillance network completely run amok. If we can't stop Dolan from spying on us at MSG, let's at least cancel his sweetheart tax break. (1/2)

In the months leading up to the midterm elections, hundreds of accounts have emerged on social media featuring A.I.-generated pro-Trump influencers posting at a rapid pace. Several accounts have already amassed thousands followers. Some of the posts have more than half a million views.

Dr. Cerina Fairfax is remembered as a mentor and community leader as officials call attention to the broader impact of domestic gun violence toward Black women