Gosh, the ghosts of the White Soxs rise in confusion. The joy of a sports team winning through grit, excellence and sometimes luck sucked away by a corrupt leader and his cronies.

In the well-over 100,000 documents written by founders included in the Founders Online database from the National Archives, no one uses the phrase "God's noble experiment." No one.

Cameras all over for security. They lie. They only serve dear leader and not the American people.

The original No Kings day. Credit: chappatte.com

Also, WGBH Boston did a really nice write up of my research last month: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

Today is the 250th anniversary of Boston’s mass inoculation against smallpox on July 3, 1776. The city was effectively closed to commerce from July through September 1776. The mass immunization effort was cheered as evidence of true independence. Here's how I described it in my book:

I have decided to just pretend that Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's concurring opinion on birthright citizenship is the official 250th anniversary speech for the United States. Happy 250th anniversary, USA 🎉! And here is part of Justice Jackson's conclusion - as the rest of this text, it is fire. 🗃️

And speaking of the CCC, DC folks will know their work and especially the Black folks who contributed, as having built us and the rest of the country our National Arboretum.

Texas, supported by Paxton, wants to ban in vitro fertilization in Texas. How is this even real?

PAXIS.app confirms… ICE using unmarked vehicles: Legal ICE deliberately hiding a plate: Illegal YOU documenting ICE’s illegal activity: Legal Know your rights. PAXIS is free. Help get it into the hands of every immigrant and ally: gofundme.com/f/PAXIS

I think they must need eye exams. That has to be it, right?;)

It’s all awful, but I do appreciate that their general incompetence, aggressive overpolicing, and fascistic tech use are now literally running into one another and facing off against each other.

There are some uncomfortably eugenicist vibes in Trump’s latest disability policy, which authorizes states to institutionalize more Americans. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

The reflecting pool is ours. Not his. Another excuse for intimidating Americans and cowing opposition.

Why do Canadians increasingly distrust Trump and the US? www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...

This write-up defines middle age as being in your 60s and boy howdy is that an optimistic take on actuarial tables for Americans

They warned me that if I voted for Kamala Harris we’d get a new deal with the Iranian regime worse than the JCPOA. I voted for Kamala, and they were right.

The message about the danger to those in communities & those nearby needs to be shared to be understood by Americans. Our government needs to be held to account for those in leadership and under their command who attacked and endangered numerous people often for no tactical or fear of harm reasons.

No one should give a shit about risky politics—I certainly don't. Donald Trump is demented and psychopathic, and he has control of a stockpile of 3700 nuclear weapons. *That* is the risk we should be talking about.

I generally don't like cross-posting from Twitter, but Mike Young absolutely nails how the US wound up with a resurgence of the flesh-eating screwworm decades after it had been eliminated.

Anyone “mystified” about Trump dragging his feet on a Ukrainian drone deal isn’t much of an expert. A deal would affect his sons’ massive self-dealing in the DoD drone space- billions in contracts. He can’t let legitimate US needs stop his family’s open corruption. thehill.com/policy/defen...

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Trump: conspiracy claim Welker: do you have evidence to support your claim? Trump: CLAIM Welker: evidence? Trump: ad hominem attack Welker: evidence? Trump: either/or fallacy as ad hominem attack Trump: more ad hominem attacks, storms off Trump: grumble, mumble, snort, stomp

sign at mt. kisco, new york anti-trump protest this past week:

What could the U.S. do with the nearly $70 billion Senate Republicans just voted to give to ICE and Border Patrol (in addition to the $140 billion from last year): www.warnock.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...

Awful.

These are some of the wonderful qualities of a strong, real man. It's the type of man I'm glad I married,ones I count as friends and the type of men I look to hire. Why would I wish to elect someone to serve in government who didn't possess those qualities Talarico outlines here.

The usual bullshit: starting with the assumption that fraud rates are high, then working backwards to find someone to blame for the data not backing that up. In this case, the states must be giving the feds bad data, it couldn't simply be that Rollins' assumptions are wrong.

With Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social & Deuel Ross @legaldefensefund.bsky.social on SCOTUS’s brazenly lawlesss decision to let AL use discriminatory maps - and more broadly to invite states to intentionally discriminate on the basis of race m.youtube.com/watch?v=6GM6...

Thank you @tedlieu.bsky.social.👇

Hard to claim they're making a great nation when they endanger, hurt, and leave hungry the nation's children.

RIP Marcia Lucas, whose skill as a film editor and storyteller made a clunky independent film called STAR WARS greater than the sum of its parts. Rightly referred to as "Lucas's secret weapon," Marcia had an uncanny talent to see a film from the perspective of an audience--and won an Oscar for it.

175 years ago today-May 29, 1851-Sojourner Truth delivered her famous “Ain’t I a Woman?” speech in Akron, Ohio. Many different recollections & versions of the speech exist, but all agree Truth questioned & contrasted the unfair treatment of Black women compared to white women. Image: Public domain.

It's like map reading or remembering how to drive to places one infrequently travels to. If one grew up with maps and had to travel by car or walk to places without a phone telling one how, one has different skills when a phone dies or no cell service. I approach a trip in different ways to my kids.

Tommy Tuberville says he goes back to Auburn for ball games three or four times a year — then remembers he “lives” there.

Talarico: I’m an eighth-generation Texan. I’ve been eating barbecue since before Ken Paxton’s first indictment. And if all they have on me is lying about me being a vegan, I feel pretty good about our chances this November.

My heart broke to see Americans fighting Americans in our streets yesterday. As I saw ICE agents tackling civilians and firing pepper balls into the crowd, I was overwhelmed by how broken we’ve become. We cannot normalize this violence. Here’s what happened at Delaney Hall: THREAD

I saw chaos inside and outside of the ICE detention center Delaney Hall today. Detainees protesting the lack of due process, the disgusting food and poor treatment while their families and advocates stood outside calling for help. 1/4

ICE agents pepper-sprayed Senator Andy Kim of New Jersey.

Kim doing what's right to protect our country vs those who violate our Constitution and laws of the land.

In normal times, the fact that government officials at HHS blatantly lied to the public and got caught would be a scandal of unusual size. Everyone involved in this disinformation scheme against the people of the United States should be held accountable.

What a thoughtful, important question to consider and ask. I know my step grandpa who fought in Africa and then in Italy wouldn't have accepted it.

The University of Michigan's consumer sentiment index fell sharply to a new all-time low in May, at 44.8, from 49.8 in April. It plunged to levels not seen in data collected consistently since the late 1970s.

Colbert guest hosted a public access TV show in Monroe, Michigan a day after the Late Show ended. Guest star: Jeff Daniels Special appearance by: Eminem Musical director: Jack White Genius. youtu.be/jJTXB5uT_C4?...

My comments with @cidrap.bsky.social www.cidrap.umn.edu/ebola/people...

File claims - blue states that had lawful aid withheld, the people and city plus suburban governments of Chicago and burbs dealing with ICE, with harassment, brutalization, etc, same with Minneapolis and other states.

Our health, freedom, safety, wealth, etc. are for sale in the pursuit of increasing wealth for the 'king.'

Ari Melber on MS NOW is referring to Trump's theft of your tax money to reward his fellow insurrectionists as his THUG FUND. That's good framing. Trump is stealing your money to create a thug fund. #ThugFund