Let's talk about these new Progressive Dems. Are Americans ready for Progressive Dems? Are they electable? Shouldn't we play it safe? FULL STOP: We've had Prog. Dems since the 60s. But we've gone in the opposite direction. And we know why: power, money & control. See more 👇 #Pinks #DoBetter

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BBC: “It sounds like you’re saying 1 Jewish life is worth hundreds of Palestinians.” 🇮🇱 SETTLER: “Ten Million.” BBC: “That just sounds racist.” 🇮🇱 SETTLER: “Yes.” Full: www.bbc.com/news/article... (he’s a *lawyer* who thinks the only laws are the Bible & God gave them the land)

This is awful on so many levels. #Haitians #GoodPeople wapo.st/4vVpIb3

Airports, nursing homes and schools brace for disruption without Haitian workers

The Trump administration and courts are at odds over whether 350,000 Haitians have officially lost humanitarian protections, but employers are already letting workers go.

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Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com · 6d ago

I was wondering if anyone was keeping a running total on Trump’s waste and abuse. You have to check out this video. And there’s so much, I bet you forgot about some of it: 💰Ballroom: $1 billion project, taxpayers already on the hook for $300 mill 💰 J6 Slush Fund: $1.776 billion for his rioters 🧵

Wow! ICE’s airport arrests of people seemingly waiting in government immigration backlogs caught up a Fulbright scholar and public health researcher working at Johns Hopkins in their public health department. Not exactly the “worst of the worst”! Yet they threw her in detention anyway.

Baltimore Banner@thebaltimorebanner.com · 6d ago

ICE detains Hopkins public health researcher as agency expands airport arrests

"A concentration camp, in its most basic definition, is a place where a targeted civilian population, not necessarily accused of a crime, is detained and at least some of their basic rights are suspended," writes @jwashing.bsky.social. "That’s precisely what’s happening in the United States today."

Don’t call them ICE detention centers. Call them camps | John Washington

I’ve spent a decade reporting on immigration enforcement. The word ‘camp’ best captures the political function of these facilities

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The press’s responsible handling of Trump’s incoherent speech about US election integrity contrasted starkly with Friday’s farcical WHCA dinner. www.cjr.org/the_media_to...

A tale of two speeches.

The press’s responsible handling of Trump’s incoherent speech about US election integrity contrasted starkly with Friday’s farcical WHCA dinner.

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When you have secret police, things like this happen. Which is why democratic societies don't have secret police. www.oregonlive.com/clackamascou...

Armed men posing as ICE agents detained, assaulted woman after fake traffic stop, police say

Oregon State Police officials are seeking information after a woman was detained and assault by three men posing as federal agents.

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The world is a big place with big problems. Look around! #hunger #war

"What we once thought was to be defined primarily through marriage and biology is now defined by models that center partnership and shared caregiving." #family

Black Catholic Messenger@blackcatholicmessenger.org · 2w ago

As the meaning of family shifts rapidly, the traditional model is increasingly controversial or, to many, markedly obsolete. Efran Menny writes that while cultural differences must be respected, Catholics can present a meaningful vision that stands the test of time. buff.ly/uCwxUyk

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Mystic Monk 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦@grumpy-bloke.bsky.social · 3w ago

US bases in the Middle East are taking an enormous battering courtesy of Iran yet no casualty figures are released. The best that the US govt has come up with relates to an attack on a US airbase in Kuwait. "Some soldiers were injured", implying they were Kuwaiti soldiers. They were American.

Join us Sunday for #GoodTrouble in Woodbridge. Postponed due to weather concerns and air quality. #votingrights

When you need to check the facts .... open.substack.com/pub/factchec...

FactCheck.org Wins Sigma Delta Chi Award for Fact-Checking

FactCheck.org has won the 2025 Sigma Delta Chi award for fact-checking from the Society of Professional Journalists.

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Are you in Northern Virginia? Join us next Saturday for some #GoodTrouble. Voting rights are human rights!

Folks, if there are reports that ICE is in your area and you have the ability to be there, please consider going But if you do, be exceedingly careful. You know what these monsters can do If we can ever hope to reclaim our country, we must have the courage to face Trump’s fascists

Dave Byrnes@djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 4w ago

Heavy ICE activity in Chicagoland continued today (if recent trends hold, it's likely to continue for the foreseeable future). Rapid response reports and photos/videos shared online indicate detainments today in Chicago's heavily Latine Albany Park, Humboldt Park, Gage Park and Pilsen communities.

No other crime gets reported and people do not believe it happened. If the crime did not happen, let the courts decide. But women don't make up this 💩. #BelieveWomen

Jess Piper@piperformissouri.bsky.social · 4w ago

We can choose to believe women or we can make exceptions for candidates we like…

Colombia fighting for a win on the world’s biggest stage while ICE rips through Colombian neighborhoods in Chicago all day. Same people, same flag, totally different realities. It’s hard to watch one without thinking about the other 🇨🇴

#Infographic shows where in your mouth different letters (in the English language) are formed. I had never seen something like his before. Really cool stuff! Source: buff.ly/2wqhnDs

And the radar looks bad.

Asha Rangappa@asharangappa.bsky.social · last mo.

This is Trump’s Fyre Festival. All they need are soggy cheese sandwiches in styrofoam containers

"A nation can be considered great when it defends liberty...when it fosters a culture that enables people to dream of full rights for all their brothers and sisters...[and] when it strives for justice and the cause of the oppressed (2015)." #PopeFrancis #America250 #PrayForAmerica

Good read, especially in light of the need for voting rights protection. #GoodTroubleLivesOn

Democracy Docket@democracydocket.com · last mo.

🗳️ In the U.S., only citizens can vote. As of 2020, 13.7% of the people living in the U.S. were immigrants. On this July 4th holiday, we’re examining how barriers to becoming a citizen limit who is eligible to vote — and what that means for the democratic process.

Important thread ⬇️ #USAID

Lauren Dobson-Hughes@ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · last mo.

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

This is what a police state does.

Taniel@taniel.bsky.social · last mo.

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...

That's more than 109 degrees. Not unusual for a place like Phoenix but not the norm in Newcastle.

David Blanchflower BSc@davidbflower.bsky.social · last mo.

A tale of two Newcastle upon Tyne heatwave temperatures today. Indoors 28.1C. Outdoors surface 42.8C. 🧪

Ancient DNA reveals a 13th-century mass migration in Peru. Genome data from 21 individuals in Chincha Valley show links 700 km north. Traces of the ancient Chincha Kingdom. PMID:42173833, Nat Commun 2026, @NatureComms https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-72216-y #Medsky #Pharmsky #RNA #ASHG #ESHG 🧪

Ancient DNA reveals a family ossuary and long-distance migration on the Pacific coast before the Inca Empire | Nature Communications

This paper tracks long-distance migration on the Pacific coast that began no later than the thirteenth century AD. Genome-wide data for 21 sampled individuals from the lower and middle Chincha Valley of southern Peru show shared ancestry with groups 700 km to the north. A large-scale polity known as the Chincha Kingdom controlled the Chincha Valley from the thirteenth century until the fifteenth century, when it fell to the Inca Empire. The earliest migrants have unadmixed ancestry, whereas in subsequent generations, intermarriage resulted in admixtures from neighboring coastal areas. Relatives buried together in a family ossuary practiced consanguineous endogamy. We build a generation-scale Bayesian model informed by an aDNA-based family tree and individual calibration curves for estimated proportions of marine diet, addressing long-standing difficulties with temporal precision on the Pacific coast due to the marine reservoir effect and uncertainty inherent in estimating marine consum

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“We’ve only had 114 years to do something, let our kids sort it out!”

#ICYMI “All of the full-time employees in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Vessel Sanitation Program are now off the job,… The epidemiologist tasked with leading the agency's outbreak response on cruise ships was included in the layoffs” #CDC www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-cru...

CDC's cruise ship inspectors laid off amid bad year for outbreaks

The steep cuts to the cruise ship inspection team baffled officials in the program, which is not paid for by taxpayer dollars.

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Forbes@forbes.com · 3mo ago

Only one strand of the hantavirus—the Andes subtype—is known to spread from person to person, and it has a 40% mortality rate.

Greatest. Correction. Ever.

Drew it. Experiments with colored pencil (& sharpie for some black). 🔭🐡