The Odyssey is about the 10-year harrowing journey to get back to Ithaca, which feels like every time I’ve traveled home from the west coast and miss a layover.

A 6-year-old at Sandy Hook in 2012 could be a sophomore at Brown in 2025, and it’s horrific that Congress has done nothing in the 13 years of that kid’s life.

Did Bernie say that or the pope?

Rich Raho@richraho.bsky.social · 12mo ago

“We must continue, then, to denounce the ‘dictatorship of an economy that kills,’ and to recognize that while the earnings of a minority are growing exponentially, so too is the gap separating the majority from the prosperity enjoyed by those happy few.” - Pope Leo in Dilexi te

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

We should recruit former sprinters and wide receivers to throw more subs at Trump’s paramilitary troops in cities.

Thomas [DARK MODE], DO@tom.medsky.social · last yr.

In honor of sandwich guy getting out of his legal pickle, here is the original video synced with Freedom - George Michael 1990.

I broke down on Friday at 2am when my newborn was 2 days old & was screaming at my boob, refusing to eat. After feeding him formula at 5am, I calmed down. Every mom deserves this calm. Israel’s formula blockade is criminal. Tell Marco Rubio to stop the blockade act.ayannapressley.com/sign/pt-gaza...

Julian Bloesch-Huang entered the world on Wednesday. He looks pretty concerned about the spread of authoritarianism but otherwise is sleepy, squishy, and healthy.

This day in history, an abuser resigned in disgrace. He will never hold such power again. We won’t let him.

Your Prime Day reminder that half of Amazon warehouse workers struggle with food & housing costs. A third have had to rely on government assistance like SNAP — which is about to get cut. If Bezos can spend $50M on a wedding, Amazon can afford to treat its workers with dignity.

rare W for COINTELPRO from a legendary conversation between Bhakti Shringarpure and Mahmood Mamdani (h/t Silke-Marie Weineck)

This photo says: I’ve been visited by the devil, and I said yes.

Steven T. Dennis@steventdennis.bsky.social · last yr.

Lisa Murkowski talks to the press shortly after she voted, quietly, “aye” on Trump’s tax bill. She said she hopes the House and Senate go to conference to improve it and called her vote “agonizing.”

BREAKING: Supreme Court limits lower courts' power to block Trump

Supreme Court limits lower courts' power to block Trump

The rising number of nationwide injunctions has exploded under Trump.

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MVP partners just helped put NY State Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani on track to win New York City’s mayoral primary — offering a blueprint for winning elections and rejuvenating the Democratic Party. Read the full story: movement.vote/blog/2025-06...

Shout out to @lindseyboylan.bsky.social who put it all on the line four and a half years ago and then was hitting the pavement hard since Cuomo got in the race and through today. A portrait in bravery.

People immediately pivoting to slot Lander into a progressive primary challenge are missing the implicit deal in the cross-endorsement: he's going to be deputy mayor, essentially COO of New York City. He's going to use his experience with the inner workings of government to help Mamdani deliver.

There are a lot of Dems—electeds and staffers—out there who want to win elections, a lot who want to stand up to Trump more aggressively than the national party leadership, and a lot who want to run progressive issue-based campaigns. All three (overlapping!) groups got a powerful boost last night.

Zohran’s victory is an earthquake. The left everywhere must dedicate itself to an insurgency against Dem incumbents. The Dem establishment has lost credibility w/ its base in the face of fascist threat. The base is looking leftward for new leadership. We are the opposition party.

Zohran ran the most joyful, authentic campaign. And it’s sadly ironic that the only people who can viably run as independents are the most establishment sycophantic Democrats.

Bill McKay@mckay4senate.bsky.social · last yr.

- focused like a laser on cost of living issues - spoke with “problematic” podcasters - refused to language police when media elites asked him to It’s really funny that Mamdani ran the perfect centrist campaign as a Democratic Socialist

Let's go @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social! Six months ago, I couldn't have imagined that Zohran would be in striking distance of winning the NYC primary by running the most joyful, big-hearted campaign. Join @demsocialists.bsky.social to make more runs like Zohran's possible! dsausa.org/join

Five things to remember about war:

What happened to congressional approval of going to war?

Because what Rosa Parks was doing—and what Brad Lander was doing—was refusing to accede to unjust state action. That's not a stunt, that's exercising your moral rights as a human being.

I want to say a little more about this. If we call what Lander did a "stunt," it seems to me that we have to call what Rosa Parks did a stunt too, and that seems to me to be patently ridiculous.

And honestly, the fact that so many high-ranking elected Dems don't know that there's a difference between a "stunt" and throwing your body on the gears with the cameras rolling—and that the latter is what our moment calls for—is a big part of the problem in the party right now.

I don't think it's useful to call a politician putting himself in the path of getting arrested by Trump's ICE agents a "stunt." Putting your body on the line isn't simply a stunt. Confronting the agents of the state in order to protect an undocumented New Yorker isn't simply a stunt.

Cooper Lund@cooperlund.online · last yr.

There's a debate about if Lander getting arrested was a stunt? Of course it was a stunt, and it was a good one. He's got the race's best photo op, he raised awareness that they will arrest anyone without a warrant, and most importantly he put his body on the line to do good. Nothing wrong there.

A Trump supporter attempted to murder two Democrats and their families to tip the Minnesota state legislature—and it’s somehow not an enormous scandal for Trump. The both-sidesing of fascist violence is a massive failure of both parties, and the national political media.

The Fair Share Amendment in Mass generating more revenue than expected is my favorite genre of news article. www.nbcboston.com/news/local/w...

Wealth surtax may generate $3 billion in Mass.

Massachusetts’ 4% surtax on household income greater than $1 million, approved by voters in 2022, is on track to bring in nearly $3 billion in this fiscal year.

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One might have thought that last November, when Missourians voted to enshrine “reproductive freedom" in the state constitution, that would have been the end of the conversation. Alas, the Missouri Supreme Court doesn’t seem to be inclined to listen. This week, the court halted abortions.

Missouri Supreme Court defies voters, halts abortions in the state

Despite passage of a constitutional amendment last fall, the ping-pong battle over "reproductive freedom" continues.

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incredibly, wildly funny the new Pope has a VAN record (that has since been removed)

Our national nightmare, aka the 2024 election, is finally over. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

North Carolina GOP judge finally concedes after six-month effort to steal the election Fails

Democrat Allison Riggs wins the North Carolina Supreme Court race, but the GOP scheme to overturn the election will do lasting damage to democracy.

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