Great nations invest in education. Great men aren’t threatened by brilliant women.

Gregg gets it correct here. “New OMB grant rule” sounds nerdy. But this is a huge and insane plan. This is the Trump admin writing down their goal of fundamentally changing the relationship between government and society. Funding for everything will be taken over. 1/

This! This is how you write a fkn HEADLINE...

Anti-LGBTQ politicians won’t win. President Trump and his allies won’t erase us — because we will always be true to ourselves, fighting and living freely. 📸 Jordana Bermúdez

This line from Ketanji Brown Jackson—that the Court's "objective is protecting guns"—is clearly right, but it's pretty unusual for justices to put sentiments like this in writing ballsandstrikes.org/ethics-accou...

Brilliant 🔥

"If Alito was ever subtle — and, for the past 16 years that I’ve been covering the court in person, he hasn’t been — all subtlety was out the window on Thursday."

Yes, please. Act! Thank you @ivey.house.gov @alsobrooks.senate.gov @vanhollen.senate.gov @raskin.house.gov

JUDGE SCHILTZ: “.. Initiating a criminal investigation in order to harass political opponents or to coerce them into taking official action .. is a blatantly unlawful and unethical use the grand-jury process.” @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2026/06...

Breaking off https://botfrens.com/collections/69/contents/19441

Frida: The Making of an Icon review – forget her iconic status, just show us more of her art

#Poetry #Painting #Morning It happened in that little town near the Ohio. At the Blue Bird Cafe many years ago. - Cheryl Davis Miller 🎨 Anne Keenan Higgins

If Alaska's Mary Peltola "is a little boring, that’s exactly why she’s the Democrat most likely to flip a red-state Senate seat this year," Marc Novicoff writes:

Please please follow these simple instructions and submit your comments to prevent the terrible ICE complex in Washington County!

"Sexism is, metaphorically speaking, the bad science of patriarchy. Meanwhile, misogyny is the law enforcement branch of patriarchy." katemanne.substack.com/p/whats-stil...

Harold Barling Town, Optical Number 9, 1964 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135559

Did DoD just admit in a court filing that it used xAI's Grok Gov Model to hit the girls' school on the first day of the Iran war? Based on some passages flagged by @rgoodlaw.bsky.social in DoD's recent filing in NAACP's case against X, it looks like it did 1/

No declaration of war. No due process. No congressional authorization. The UN’s top expert on counter-terrorism & human rights says the U.S. is committing extrajudicial killings at sea. 211 dead and counting. Where is Congress?

The Supreme Court’s opinion dismantling the Voting Rights Act conveniently uses the 2008 and 2012 elections to show that Black and white voters turn out at equal rates — the years that Barack Obama ran for president. But since then, the turnout gap has grown. bit.ly/3QIYd5B

The most important paragraph by @juliaazari.bsky.social that you will read on the difference in reaction to Trump’s age and Biden’s age. Biden had to earn legitimacy. Therefore his age was an obstacle. Trump was given legitimacy. Age doesn’t matter.

Paul Klee, Pastorale (Rhythms), 1927 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134968

‘AI is one of the few issues that unite opposite ends of the political spectrum, a worrying sign for tech leaders as we head into the midterm elections. That environment is quickly turning toxic for Anthropic and OpenAI just as they are trying for public-market debuts.’ www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-...

Local news outlets are disappearing, and less reliable sources are filling the void. These expanding news deserts are affecting voters’ access to information about election issues. bit.ly/3SeG8gp

To win a war means changing the politics of the enemy such that they must surrender. That is what Iran just did to the United States. See my latest essay: "Capitulation Day: The dimensions of defeat, and the chance for recovery." snyder.substack.com/p/capitulati...

this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to show up in full combat gear on a hot summer day to the pool he filled with algae because he gave a paint job to one of his cigar puffing cronies. you are ordered to stop tourists from touching the green water. good luck soldier

Heading into election judging this Tuesday in Baltimore. Hoping for a peaceful day of democratic power.

Most concerning is that a full 15% of voters would leave without voting if they witnessed or experienced harassment or intimidation at the polls, write @wendyvia.bsky.social and @heidibeirich.bsky.social of @globalextremism.bsky.social.

Our Director of Social Justice, Noelle Damico, is featured in this article by @richlusc.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... #AlligatorAlcatraz #ImmigrantRights #WorkersCircle #FreedomVigils

Full NPR article here: www.npr.org/2026/06/18/n...

Organizing works. And we're just getting started. #FreedomVigils

A Jewish led org has shut down Alligator Alcatraz. This is outstanding and inspiring and a reminder that we can stop fascism if we organize effectively and work together. #CourageNow

This man pardoned the J6 rioters, freed a major drug trafficker from Honduras. People grabbing paint chips on the other hand, deserves a Supermax prison stay.

looking forward to ignoring the discourse on this but it IS objectively very funny that the king of England is going to release his taxes before the president of the USA www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

💗 NO PRIDE IN WAR 💗 NOW: We're at Pride in DC bringing our message that queer liberation means demilitarization!

Make the bad guys pay: A Democratic message that the white working class will hear. They respond to gestures of power. A THREAD.

The democratic socialist introduced a bill to require AI firms making < $200M annually to pay a one-time tax of 50% of stock, creating a sovereign wealth fund for taxpayers. “The principle is simple: When a public resource generates wealth, the public should share in that wealth.” trib.al/DLdaszR

The Trump DOJ is now arguing in federal court that Elon Musk’s AI company should be allowed to run dozens of unpermitted gas turbines polluting a Black community in Mississippi. They also argued the federal government should have the power to shut down citizen lawsuits like this one entirely.

"Maria" sent the pic sharing, "The 2026 tomato harvest has begun. My hope is that they raise the price per bucket. I've heard that this year, they are going to start going to start paying us 89 cents a bucket where I’m working." #WeFeedYou

Outrageous.   Dr. Justin Ryder, a pediatric surgeon and expert at Northwestern, was booted from a conference for sharing an article on federal cuts to biomedical research.   This is the impact of Trump's administration.

Fact check: April McClain Delaney is a reproductive freedom champion. @mintimm.bsky.social Timmaraju watched this ad so you don’t have to.

Sing and dance to freedom! www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtYh...

Love liberates. It doesn’t just hold — that’s ego — love liberates! MAYA ANGELOU

'Eclipse' by British environmental artist Liz McGowan, artwork created using Norfolk Razor shells  #womensart

This doesn't smell good for the people of Maryland!

👇🎯 Once again, behold the unparalleled parsimony & explanatory power of the Dennis Green Unified Theory Of American Politics

Something something Every Day is Jan. 6 now something from a movement that is openly contemptuous of democracy something no self governing society something can survive by denying that it exists something something The NYT Editorial Board told you this, but they clearly did not believe it.

Jenny Holzer, THE CHAIRMAN, JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF WHITE, 2006 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1137758

something tells me that nothing short of bringing back apartheid would satisfy the administration

When you see Vance do that fake laugh, it's the signal that he's thinking "Oh jeez, I really should have had an answer prepared for that question. Looks like I'm going to have to wing it. Well, here goes..."