Happy Pride, everyone!

What Ivanka & Jared are doing is worse than I thought they are destroying natural wetlands of Albania. The corruption is unpalatable. Ariel Brunner is fighting them tooth & nail and boy oh boy is he angry. As he should be. Ariel Brunner is Europe & Central Asia Director of BirdLife International.

BREAKING: The judge in the $1.7B slush fund suit has dismissed the case, but she says THERE IS NO SETTLEMENT OF RECORD. As I said earlier, the media must stop reporting that this slush fund is a settlement. It's just plain THEFT. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

in a way, isn’t causing men to crash out before she’s even done anything just proof that Lupita is perfect for Helen of Troy

EXCLUSIVE: We obtained dozens of hours of never-before-seen audio and video recordings from the investigative file in the Fulton County election interference case against Trump. Read, listen, or watch: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/new-...

this week i learned exactly why linguists are obsessed with the turkey - a bird of SO many names it boggles the mind, nearly all of which are geographical errors: buttondown.com/theswordandt...

Rep. Lauren Boebert weighs in on the government's release of UFO files, saying aliens are actually "fallen angels and Nephilim" from the Old Testament: "I do believe that this is more spiritual and, if you really want to go there, demonic."

After a trough of relatively less activity, that is fewer people calling me for help, I'm back up to 10 active habeas cases. I do not want to cause anyone undue alarm, but ICE has changed tactics and seems more likely to detain people when they go in for routine appointments with ICE.

We are working through an outage.

The headline says so much... The article outlines so much more. It's a history everyone will benefit by knowing

Sharing, without comment, British newspapers’ depictions of the only Jewish person currently leading a UK political party . Times. Mail. Telegraph. Sun.

Aligning with the political left means that the odds are against you because you choose to side with those historically deprived of power. By definition, that means that defeatism is never an option. The fight continues as it must, across generations. It is good to be part of the fight.

I get that part of the Hasan Piker discourse is “would it hurt Democrats to go on his stream, etc.” Look, I’ve no knowledge or opinion about his content but the Sunday shows are 1000% more cancerous than anything a Twitch streamer has concocted so hold them accountable for that.

men can’t understand what it’s like for women to see story after story after story of women being victims of sexual violence in a culture where it’s routine; what it’s like to live in a world that is fundamentally hostile to our existence. it’s a wonder we leave the fucking house, let alone thrive.

Now any white man promoted has to be considered suspect because he may well have taken the place of a more qualified black or female officer personally removed from the promotion list by Hegseth.

A number of Jewish organizations are shrilly insisting that any criticism of Israeli genocide and warmongering is an illegitimate attack on Jews. At the same time, an increasing number of non-Jewish people are insisting that any attack on Jews is a legitimate attack on Israel. This sucks, man

In a normal world, we'd be able to enjoy jokes about RFK Jr. working out in jeans for weeks.

"The men implicated in the Epstein files reinforces that I spend half my life explaining to men that their simplified, optimistic view of other men doesn’t line up with the experience of women and girls trying to dodge sexual harassment, assault and abuse attempts." - Leslie Morgan Steiner

“Earth is a pleasure cruise for 1000 people and we're all just the staff.”

i don't particularly disagree with a lot of the critiques of anarchist activism by liberals but I bristle when they act as if their best practices are any wiser. we're here because none of us figured out how to avoid being here. everyone should have some goddamn humility.

Reminder if you are not neurodivergent do not say Thoughts and Prayers

And lots of times when two people disagree, both of them are wrong (though one is perhaps less wrong), and the truth lies considerably further out on the ideological spectrum than most people involved in the discourse have yet managed to imagine.

i saw a tiktok about how causing a schism in the Church in childhood is a sign of Italophobia and i can't stop thinking about it

One of my favorite fantasy tropes is when it's exposed that a public official/figure has committed a crime and a bunch of cops swoop in and immediately arrest them.

pretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things

My cartoon in this weeks @newyorker.com

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ive seen more articles this week about how the phrase “abolish ice” could hurt dems in the midterms than ive seen articles about how paramilitary death squads terrorizing cities will hurt republicans in the midterms

If this person who burned a synagogue had cited the Quran in defending their antisemitic attack, we'd be reading dozens of news stories about Islamic extremism. Since he cited the Book of Revelation, the media really needs to connect this to extremist forms of white Christianity.

“And it was not Hitler who arrested me, not Goering, not Goebbels. The grocer, the janitor, the tailor, the shoemaker, the baker, they suddenly got a uniform, a swastika armband, and there they were, the master race...” -Karl Stojka, Auschwitz survivor

The Trump Gadsden flag.

This is a cartoon about housing.

“We can’t be a country with a paramilitary secret police because then we would be a nation with a paramilitary secret police” is something my brain genuinely says to me. I need my brain to change as fast as my world and that’s not easy.

This is so cool! 🧵

Profoundly disturbing that Trump Regime released a video of a murderer: circling his victim who is exuding calm kindness to him, killing the victim as she tries to get away, calling her F*cking B*tch after he shoots her, and then Trump Regime loudly proclaiming how this exonerates murderer.

/8 A huge part of what makes it very hard to convict Jonathan Ross for murder was baked into America generations before Trump was President. That’s the primary factor that lets law enforcement kill with impunity, not Trump. Dick Wolf has killed more black men than Leopold II.

Political cartoonists are not fuckin’ around this week. (thread) 1. Pat Bagley

just a reminder of the initial, in the moment, right wing reaction to jan 6 my favorite is greg gutfeld saying republican condemnation of the jan 6 rioters is an example of their moral superiority over the left www.mediamatters.org/media/4018641

one takeaway from the grok noncon porn thing is that much of the media just isn't interested in an issue they can't pretend has two sides or that doesn't give them an opportunity to shit on the left. Also it would be uncomfortable to justify remaining on twitter after acknowledging it

"...the Frederick Douglass, Ruby Bridges and suffragette quarters had been scrapped, replaced by coins featuring pilgrims, the Revolutionary War and the Gettysburg Address." New redesigned coins marking nation's 250th birthday begin circulating today : NPR share.google/1HW7PSZexdPz...

Trump's hand is fake. His real hand was removed. The insiders all know it. Signatures with a fake hand aren't constitutional.

Hopefully people start to make the connection that this is why there is so much discussion about the violence of racist, transphobic, and sexist rhetoric in campus lectures, classrooms, dorms, etc. You give these fucks an inch and they will take your whole world.

Trump Writes Netanyahu Strongly Worded Check

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

2016 Vance: Trump is America's Hitler. 2026 Vance: I could be America's Hitler.

Peppermint season is so much better than pumpkin-spice season.

Is "grieft" a word?

"Get the principals on camera" is such a telling phrase here, because it tells us that for Weiss there's no world in which the victims of these horrific actions can actually be seen as the subjects of the story: They're background noise, and the people who matter are the ones sending them.

Who is breaking these people?! "In a piece for the website Quillette in May, Avishai said that she had been drawn to UATX initially because she experienced "ideological tribalism" while at Harvard. But Avishai said instead that she never expected to also find "ideological litmus tests" at UATX."