Dutch newspaper won the European Press Prize for their investigation into 114 Palestinian kids shot in the head & chest. 114 children deliberately shot in the head & chest, & not a single media reported on it. www.europeanpressprize.com/article/what... substack.com/@mirandavida...

A good way to spend some of your weekend: Thinking about how we don't just have to accept the worst people on earth turning everything to shit for shits and trillions.

It often feels like freelance writers and artists’ only real means of support is the same $5 everybody spends ten minutes with each month before paying it to their friend who’s really talented and having a tough year financially despite working all the time

The policy is even more radical than the headline says. The Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program is being canceled to redirect the funds towards Republican groups. news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-a...

MEL BROOKS IS ALIVE PLEASE BEAR THAT IN MIND WHEN YOU SEE BIRTHDAY POSTS ABOUT HIM TODAY I REPEAT MEL BROOKS IS VERY MUCH ALIVE

you can tell AI is the future because it makes everyone miserable

Ossoff is making a very strong play for the "I stand at the center of the Democratic Party ideologically, but I long to bathe in the blood of my enemies" lane in the 2028 primaries. And that's gonna be a good lane to have.

I think about gay men during the AIDS crisis, in the face of what often seemed like utter hopelessness, using everything in the arsenal--rage, resolve, defiance, humor, sexual energy, imagination, and art--to prevent despair from ruling the day. Even Larry Kramer didn't simply say, "We're doomed."

In Trump America, Kennedys kill you.

Love it. Escape the bullshit and let this warm your soul for a while.

To be fair, people like Krugman have been making comments like this for a year. Elon rebutting them made them an actual news story because the richest human ever to live sentenced up to 14 million of the poorest Black and brown alive to their deaths needs a celebrity news peg to matter in America.

One thing I think gets overlooked about the X platform is the constant stream of radicalized violence. Video after video of white people fighting Black people, sometimes brutally, sometimes until you wonder if someone died. This shit changes the brain.

Notably, very few white incels make a living in party planning

The Knicks celebration + progressive primary wins + rent freeze seems to be hitting anti-NYCers hard on social media. It's a reminder to me that for many people, my city's function is to reassure them by serving as a semi-abstract idea of hell, and when we don't deliver that, the force is disturbed.

The entire economy is a bet on two things: AI, in general; Trump being able to resolve his war of aggression before an energy shock potentially crashes the global economy. Hard to say which is the worst bad bet!

Three days after Springer Nature sold Scientific American without warning, the NLRB conducted our scheduled union vote count, despite Springer Nature’s attempt to stop it. And guess what? WE WON. What’s more, it was nearly unanimous, with 31 out of 32 voters checking YES.

Anyone who wastes any time trying to put anyone or anything in the closet is too horny in the weird, bad ways to be allowed to write his own checks. Yes he still uses checks.

Tens of thousands celebrated Budapest Pride, the first since Viktor Orbán’s ousting.

Moved to learn that Jeff loved This Mortal Coil’s “Sonf to the Siren.” And even formed a relationship with Elizabeth Fraser, wanting to tell her how her interpretation had led him to his father’s music

If the point of America is capitalism, the story of the 250th is that this experiment succeeded beyond all comprehension. And a preposterous share of that wealth had been captured by divorced men consumed with accumulation. SO, YAY! If it's about freedom for all to succeed, that's a horrific twist.

Track the trilionaire, or the closest thing there is. stopthetrillionaires.com/trillionaire...

"Washington, D.C., served as the capital of the Union during the Civil War, becoming a constant target for the Confederate military." No, it served as the capital of the United States of America. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

If Todd Blanche gets rewarded for the last 18 months, life will get worse precipitously.

I'd really like to hear lawyers who care about rights and freedom comment on the Prarieland sentences and the Minnesota conspiracy charges. People need to have a solid grasp of their rights and not just give in, in advance.

I write things mostly to cheer my ass up: We Could Still Save Millions of the Kids Musk Condemned to Death

If you want to turn anger into hope. This may help!

Ossoff: "Citizens United was the most destructive court decision in modern history. It's unleashed a flood of secret money, corporate money, billionaire money. Trump's rise is a symptom of this deeper disease. Our task is not just to contain his wickedness, but to cure the rot that gave rise to it."

Mullin claims OK had the “highest number of 287g apprehensions” (except for maybe Florida) but idk if accurate.

Is he trying to grind up any Russian who might fight against him?

The average life expectancy of a new Russian recruit—from arrival at a training ground to death in a combat zone—lies somewhere between 10 days and three weeks. Once sent onto the battlefield, they survive an average of 20 to 35 minutes. @peterfrankopan.bsky.social foreignpolicy.com/2026/06/25/r...

Katie Phang Just Made Jeffrey Epstein Central to Todd Blanche's Bid for Confirmation emptywheel.net/2026/06/27/k...

At Next Comes What, we ask and answer the big questions.

Every one of these would have been opposed by the GOP of the last 60 years. And still is if it costs MAGA-allied capital anything. I remain convinced the only reason Trump won the popular vote, beyond Musk and billionaire capture, is the fuckery around Bobby Jr.

“this fetid little episode, not yet fully resolved, provides a shorthand of everything cloudy and foul-smelling about his so-far terrible second term, especially his unwillingness to own his failures”

This is the only DSA “critique” worth your time. But I don’t follow the Mayor Pete part tbh.

(He is the most powerful human who ever lived, unfortunately. Thanks to John Roberts. Any US president with our modern nuclear arsenal is. But he’s unleashed. And don’t trust me, I’ve never caddied.)

Needy Amin is like a honey bee. Blowing smoke up his ass will lull him to sleep.

Don't buy into the moral panic pushing safety laws worldwide. This legislation does nothing to keep kids safe or hold platforms accountable. This is about monitoring internet activity. Do you trust the government or tech industry with data right now? Reject this bs. www.wired.com/story/kids-o...

Drudge ran a year of Segway headlines in the midst of his least nuanced right-wing era. And I could never tell if he was for it or against it. I think the hype was just that huge.

It’s Lottery Day! Great read on the story’s reaction, both from readers and Shirley Jackson, via @bcdreyer.social Be careful out there, everyone.

🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING: It's worse than I thought! The Trump regime just published a new report officially stating that #ACA enrollment had ALREADY plummeted by over 2.6 million people as of FEBRUARY. This is worse than the prior assumption of 3.0M losing coverage thru April. acasignups.net/26/06/26/bre...

The one decent point Vance has is that the derelict Republicans on the Supreme Court have done everything they can to prevent a president from being held to any standard by giving Trump the go-ahead to thoroughly corrupt the DOJ and get away with vast crimes under the guise of official acts.

hey gretch why the fuck is your CPS spending michigan tax dollars investigating anonymous tips against known political targets instead of doing *literally anything else*

If centrists want to do a thing that isn't about destroying the Dem party brand, they could be demanding Hegseth's resignation from the right and demanding hearings into How The Department of "War" Lost Its First War?

Hegseth invited Iran to launch a mini-Pearl Harbor, and he's still got a job while he's firing career professionals because they made the mistake of being Black or a woman or both.

Happy #PrideMonth! Enjoy a Tesla getting smashed by a light rail train with a pride flag.

The new centrist Democrat group boosting Polymarket is really just the icing on the cake here.

I’m not a doomer but it feels like we’re pretty far to the right side already.

In exchange for now living in gas lines, Russians continue to enjoy the luxury of killing Ukrainian civilians for sport.

Now think about what this means if all federal grant making is under political control as per new OMB rule. Crony capitalism at its worst: do you want these people fixing your bridges, making sure your water supply is safe? @donmoyn.bsky.social