You may have heard about the OMB rule change that will put politics over federal grants. However bad you think it is? It's probably worse. Thanks to @theverge.com for letting me report this one out. There is still time to comment. bit.ly/4v2X4nQ

"[T]his place is hell on Earth. ... [E]verything here is designed to break you, to make you sign your own deportation order and give up on your case."

L’Humanité du 29 juin - Climat : « L'inaction, c'est trier qui survivra et qui mourra. » 📰 humanite.fr

Wow. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) floor speech on Trump Admin. corruption has now received 1 million views He opens the remarks by arguing that Trump has turned the White House into a 24/7 corruption operation www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaQ_...

“I was being told outright that I wasn’t worth protecting," Flint Del Sol told me. The investigator wrote, “We are not permitted to conduct/continue any investigation regarding transgender cases, and that is coming from the chain of command.” www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

From Sonya Funna Evelyn, the CEO of the Center for Victims of Torture: Our clients are primarily asylum seekers who fled torture. The summer of 2025, they warned us that what they were seeing with federal immigration enforcement were conditions they had seen in the countries they fled.

NEW — The sentencing of the Prairieland demonstrators shows the brutality of Trump's war on dissent, but it's not without precedent, @kimkelly.bsky.social writes. History shows us the government has always punished anti-fascism. But this time we can change the narrative in real time. Read here:

the racism, the white nationalism, the xenophobia is out of control

1) democratic socialists exist... within capitalism? Even if they have a researched critique of it & a prescient take on what, unchecked, it leads to (aka this). 2) Suozzi pictured, lives at the right wing Christian Nationalist house and pals around with ppl who pass kill the gays legislation so...

And make no mistake, when the Klan was ranting about unassimilable immigrants in the 1920s, they were very much talking about Italians whom they attacked as Catholic pawns of the pope, as a "criminal race" whose members were all tied to the mafia, and as a non-white threat to white women.

These are the actions of an authoritarian regime, where their agents come to intimidate you if you share public information about how they have killed American citizens

L'influenceur masculiniste néonazi Clavicular était à Paris pour la Fête de la musique afin de valider sa théorie des « mâles alpha ». Mais l'expérience ne s'est pas passée comme prévu.

Left: Justice Alito's description of the record in the TPS case Right: Former Secretary Noem

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 group of Texas ICE demonstrators was hit with extraordinary sentences. This is dark news not just for them, but for anyone who may want to register political dissent. trib.al/24dfcCl

My book refers to Musk’s USAID cuts as a Silicon Valley genocide. The richest man in the world took a chainsaw to the poorest people in the world. Laughing. So much money, so much death. Remember their names when billionaires preach “abundance.” 👇 In their AI dreams, we are all the future poor.

Liz Soto and Savanna Batten are 2 of those sentenced to 50 years in prison for Prairieland. I visited them in a north Texas jail—11 months into their incarceration over a July 4 noise demo—to meet the Trump admin’s “Antifa terrorists”. from behind glass, Soto said, “They didn’t like my book club.”

Two ICE agents tracked down a woman *inside a polling place* yesterday. Why? They demanded that she take down an Instagram post in which she named Jonathan Ross as the man who shot & killed Renee Good (after the Star Tribune identified Ross). www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...

It takes serious guts to be this vulnerable, and I hope in exchange for her honesty, my friend Rocio and ALL our friends and colleagues at ProPublica can get the fair contract we need, especially when it comes to wages:

also not lost on me that as democratic socialists are winning some elections, a new red scare targeting anarchists, antifascists, and their allies is digging in hard, and today handed down 30, 50, and 100 year prison sentences to activists and organizers

Two defendants who received 50 years each, Savanna Batten and Elizabeth Soto, were never accused of helping plan the demonstration here. They arrived separately, left the protest when guards asked them to, and were not accused of any act of violence talkingpointsmemo.com/news/prairie...

Advocates sound alarm after zines were used as evidence to convict protesters of terrorism charges tied to 2025 protest at Texas ICE facility

The point of "material support" and similar terrorism laws is to prosecute people BEFORE they do anything. Sounds like pre-crime, you might think. Everything was justified for the Global War on Terror. Few lawyers and politicians listened to the few people who said it was a bad idea.

It’s been three years since we formed our union. We still don’t have a contract. Over the next few weeks, you’ll be hearing from us — the workers of @propublica.org — on why this contract is so important and the issues about which we care deeply.

It kinda got lost in the madness, but the federal conspiracy case against anti-ICE activists in Minnesota - the Minneapolis 15 - is a big deal It's not just the 1st Amendment abuse. It's part of their plan to crush dissent ahead of a stolen election My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

”Juneteenth Has Always Been About Black Liberation” by Kaitlyn Greenidge for Harper’s Bazaar. An oral history, as told by members of the Winston-Salem Chapter of The Black Panther Party. www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/feat...

This is bombshell stuff.

Americans "no longer believe the U.S. economy is working for them. A few people are getting fabulously, unimaginably wealthy at the same time that entire generations of families worry they will never be able to afford to buy a house, raise children..." Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/13/b...

Our politicians and media have whipped up racist violence. We have a choice: We either face down the hatred Or our country will descend into the abyss

RFK Jr and HHS claim puberty blockers and hormone therapy for trans youth - treatments that have been known, used, and studied for decades - need to be banned because the evidence base isn't strong enough. But sedating babies with ketamine to inject them with stem cells? Perfectly acceptable.

Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil died after being trapped in a building hit by Israeli airstrikes. A Post reconstruction of Khalil’s final hours found that Israel denied rescuers access to her during a key period when she was still alive. https://wapo.st/43omgty

GEO Group, a private prison company, signed a contract to give ICE use of Delaney Hall and “support services” like security, maintenance, food services, etc. in exchange for over $60 mil/yr But it is the detainees—not GEO Group—who actually do that work, for free ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Former Trump administration adviser and intelligence official Amaryllis Fox Kennedy previously helped her father secure at least $12M from a Russian investment bank that cooperated with the Kremlin, leaked documents show. Read the story:

“Any fascist attempt to gain power in America would…work under the guise of ‘super-patriotism’ & ‘super-Americanism.’ Fascist leaders are neither stupid nor naive. They know that they must hand out a line that ‘sells.’”-U.S. Army orientation, 1945 archive.org/details/Army... What’s past is prologue.

Read this whole piece.

Only some people get to defend themselves slate.com/news-and-pol...

New for @talkingpointsmemo.com: My look at how a recently-retired top immigration official getting celebrity treatment at a conference of outright fascists, and admitting to a friendship with a Nazi like Martin Sellner, should be a giant giant giant scandal talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/greg-bo...

SCOOP: I got exclusive internal documents from the white supremacist group Patriot Front, showing the group is in 49 states and has grown fast. The docs outline strict rules on propaganda and show the group’s expansion into racist “active clubs”: www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

You sound unhinged if you say it out loud, but the acting Attorney General directed the IRS to stop all ongoing audits of Trump, but we know from leaked tax returns that Trump owes more than $100 million in unpaid taxes, so Trump is basically just giving himself a free hundred plus million dollars.

Here's a clip of Bovino praising Martin Sellner, the neo-Nazi activist who organized the conference. His associations include a man who went on to be a white supremacist terrorist. Of Sellner, Bovino said: "Your ideas. We talked a lot on that. Those ideas mirror each other" bsky.app/profile/sulc...

"Eventually, though, what's left of the free press will have to reckon with the fact that the far-right fringe is now the modern world's governing elite — and openly declaring an intent to repeat the 1930s. That's a story."

I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline. “Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming. Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”

The person organizing this conference that Greg Bovino is speaking at is Martin Sellner, a neo-Nazi activist. Sellner, among other things, corresponded and agreed to meet with the man who went on to murder 51 worshippers at two mosques in Christchurch, NZ in 2019 www.theguardian.com/world/2019/m...

JUST NOW from @statuscoupnews.bsky.social livestream — ICE agents outside Delaney Hall in Newark, NJ pushed a protester into an 18-wheeler causing the truck to run over his leg. They then pinned him on the ground and carried him away.

The incidence and prevalence of #LongCovid worse than anticipated in the US, with 1 of 6 persons affected, and of these 89% had at least 1 chronic condition requiring management. From 58 hospitals, 4 regions, 457,950 patients. Prevalence increased thru mid 2024. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

1. Lead Left, a super PAC created on 4/24, purports to stand "against MAGA extremists." It has spent $3M+ in Democratic primaries. But it's funders and motivations have been secret. Until now. It's a GOP dirty tricks operation. 🧵

Just one outrageous anecdote after another. Excellent reporting via @delaneynolan.bsky.social : / @thelensnola.bsky.social