As of this week, around 150 people are still being kept inside cages at Alligator Alcatraz, including people with serious medical conditions like diabetes and high blood pressure. From Adelanto to Delaney Hall — FREE THEM ALL.

Brave people inside ‘Alligator Alcatraz,’ a concentration camp in the Florida Everglades, reported guards withholding food and water unless they sign documents in English that they don’t understand. They also said the water they do get is putrid, and medicine has been taken away or delivered late.

Is this why negotiations are suddenly moving along again? Maybe? Maybe not? Who knows? Nothing ever happens?

I can’t tell if this is just Vice-signaling to the WH to try and move negotiations along because it seems like oil execs have been saying this for months

"It's a republic, not a democracy" say the people cheering for gladiatorial combat in the capital city in a mixture of patriotic fervor and celebration of the ruler's birthday.

These are being passed out outside the main hall at the Texas GOP Convention

In the same week that he became the world's first trillionaire, he spent hours on X whipping up a racist mob in Belfast, a week after doing the same in Southampton. In effect, he's sending a message to lawmakers and regulators who may want to rein in his companies.

the game plan is to lie their way through it until everything either magically works itself out on its own or we just run out of oil

I've reported on Musk for around 8 years. I've co-authored a book on him. I don't think folks understand the rate of his wealth accumulation. Shortly after he helped elect Donald Trump in Nov 2024, his net worth was around $350 billion. That net worth has nearly tripled in less than two years.

a little on the nose for capitalism that the world’s first trillionaire is a nazi conman

"We have a term for enterprises that look successful because they keep drawing in new investors and keep drawing in new investors because they look successful. They’re called Ponzi schemes." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/elon-musk-...

Our colleagues at @minnesotareformer.com — one @statesnewsroom.com’s crown jewels — have several stories today about last year’s political assassinations in Minnesota. Sunday will mark one year since Melissa Hortman and her husband were shot and killed.

is that good

“If he would do that to me, he would do that to anybody” cornyn had a front row seat to trump treating other people exactly the same way for years and only now has come to this startling realization if u were wondering how fuckin self deluded these guys are

i fear that far too few people are seriously considering and planning for what the right will be willing to do to stay in power

contrary to popular belief, what candidates say they want to do during a campaign does actually have a pretty strong correlation with what they try to do in office even if you suspect they don’t really mean it if Mayor Pete can get even more centrist types on board with this stuff, it’s very good

I think it’s extremely helpful to have Mayor Pete out there setting these markers for what the debate is going to look like I do not think he wins but he’ll have a presence in the race and to have someone outside the left lane pushing for SC expansion and DC statehood is important

Hope to see more potential candidates taking a stand on needed structural reforms as a priority.

America’s Royal King. Congress just letting it all happen. www.wsj.com/politics/ele...

The New York Times’s bombshell reporting confirmed what we already knew: Todd Blanche, JD Vance, and other top Administration officials are more focused on protecting the President than getting justice for survivors—even using convicted sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell to do it.

The former, top elected Republican in Tarrant County (Texas’ largest red county) is putting out on an ad urging Republicans not to vote for Ken Paxton. Ad will air tomorrow on the radio in Houston, where the Texas GOP is holding is convention.

Before y'all tell me Europe doesn't need ac: in pure numbers heat kills more people in Europe annually than guns do in the US. No one sane would argue we don't have a gun problem in the US. Europe has a serious heat issue they don't admit bc enduring heat is seen as morally virtuous.

Props to CNN’s chyron writer:

gotta admit, talking about adding seats to scotus and the house and getting rid of the electoral college will get my attention

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Good and shame on the 7 Democrats who voted for it. www.politico.com/news/2026/06...

My gf has roped a load of churches into getting their members to collect a load of food that can then be distributed to those who need it across Belfast. Many are afraid to leave their houses, even to get food. People have been delivering food to strangers since this started.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) is shutting down after more than five decades, and U.S. Sen. Susan Collins had the chance to stop it. mainebeacon.com/collins-cave...

If Pete is saying this then we're winning. LFG

The US and Israel have destroyed Iran's largest water dams and backup water tanks, including EVERY backup water tank in ALL of Southern Iran. The people who die of thirst and hunger (Iran's agriculture relies on water tanks) as a result of these war crimes will never be mentioned in the death toll.

Just another day in New York City, greatest and most insane metropolis on earth:

you know that old trope about how jews can't be trusted because of our dual loyalties? i wonder what happens when it's non-jews expressing dual loyalties on our behalf. wonder what kind of cool stuff will come of that

turns out every writer who imagined a dystopian future where authoritarians openly lied to you through the television vastly overestimated the intelligence and commitment of their fictional antagonists

Last year after Mamdani's primary victory I wrote in my article for the Nation that a really under-discussed phenomenon when talking about litmus tests in politics is that there's in fact a real top-to-bottom litmus test that demands you be very weird about Israel, but it's in a pro Israel way lol

Way too many Democrats have taken Graham Platner's candidacy as a cue to show that they are just as white supremacist and misogynist as their Republican counterparts.

Well, I guess that answers why Ryan Grim shared a rumor from a nazi that Platner’s wife is Jewish and refused to take it down, provide any source for it (so folks tracked it down for him), or explain why he was doing it. Congrats Ryan Grim fans who yelled at me to leave him alone, I guess.

YOU CAN'T STOP SCREW WORM WITHOUT COLLECTIVE BARGAINING

Art of the Concept of a Deal

My Mayor is Muslim My Bagel is Jewish My Christian Dior NY State Dems can gerrymander 4

Like @emilylhauser.bsky.social notes, there are lots of Christians who talk about their faith in the Democratic Party. But if someone "celebrates" an extreme, fundamentalist form of Christianity, that's going to get some odd looks... just like "celebrations" of other fundamentalist religions would.

As usual, Weigel is being disingenuous. Also, it's only a very narrow, very moderate version of "Islam, Hinduism; any faith brought to US via later immigration" that people have no problem "celebrating." Obviously, people would reject like... a Salafist Muslim in mainstream US politics.

lots of good little asides in here "While rare among humans, about half of the roughly seven plague infections among Americans each year occur in New Mexico" "In the mid-14th century, about 500 years before antibiotics were invented," It's eminently treatable now. Medicine good!

I hate being right about stuff like this. I’m sure you do too, @bcfinucane.bsky.social. Been saying this for months — the boat strikes are based on shady and awful information. So you get this, in the pretext of “dominance.”

Timothée Chalamet is doing Kalshi ads now

dave you should meet one (1) black person

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If I were a betting man, and I haven't been in some time, I would put some money behind the idea that Schumer's endorsement is probably a millstone in Michigan among Democrats.