This is the best of who we are and what we represent. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
In the United States, Every World Cup Team Is a Home Team (Gift Article)
At block parties, backyards and beer halls, an expanded tournament gave immigrant diasporas large and small the chance to revel in support of their home countries.
nytimes.com
I’m going to start teaching my kids about Geoffrey Wednesday, the magic fairy who leaves full size snickers bars in the shoes of every pleasant child on Wednesdays. oh, Geoffrey Wednesday didn’t leave candy in your shoes this week? I guess it’s because you’re going to hell
they went to an emergency room seeking help for their 7 year old child. ICE arrested the 7 year old and her parents. the family is here legally. www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
ICE detains family seeking emergency care for child at Portland hospital
The Venezuelan parents and their 7-year-old daughter entered the U.S. legally.
oregonlive.com
Oops, I started a new project: Skyreader, an RSS reader on the AT Protocol. Share cool articles like it's 2010 and Google Reader would never die. skyreader.app www.disnetdev.com/blog/2026-01...
Skyreader: A RSS Reader on the AT Protocol
Introducing a RSS reader for the AT Protocol where you feeds and article sharing are portable
disnetdev.com
This article is wild. The video is wild. The goal is fear and they're mad they're not getting it.
Pastor: ICE Let Me Free Because I’m White and It Wouldn’t Be “Fun”
A Minneapolis pastor made a shocking confession about what an ICE agent told him after detaining him.
newrepublic.com
Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell
YouTube video by Federal Reserve
youtube.com
"This was a family that could've been like mine" -- Philip Bump breaks down crying on MS NOW when talking about the stuffed animals in Renee Good's car when she was killed
"Homan…indicated he would facilitate securing contracts for them in exchange for money once he was in office.…On Sept. 20, 2024, with hidden cameras recording the scene at a meeting spot in Texas, Homan accepted $50,000 in bills" Reporting by @carolleonnig.bsky.social & @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social
Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down.
The FBI and Justice officials closed the investigation, which a Justice Department appointee had called a “deep state” probe in early 2025.
msnbc.com
EXCLUSIVE: Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down.
Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down.
The FBI and Justice officials closed the investigation, which a Justice Department appointee had called a “deep state” probe in early 2025.
msnbc.com
Along the same lines, we need language for verbal political conflict other than just "disagreement." Kirk did not "disagree" with queer people, Black people and Jews, he explicitly argued that they should be suppressed and deprived of their rights through state power.
Another way to handle this would be, “The spokeswoman for DHS declined to go on the record. Our news organization does not provide anonymity to government spokespeople and thus we are unable to provide DHS’s response. We will be happy to update this story should DHS change its policy.”
Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · last yr.You know something has gone bad when the government spokesperson says, please don’t use my name … “Asked for comment, a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security who declined to be identified…” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...
And yet it turns out that to get a semantic engine geared toward coherence to produce output they otherwise find acceptable… you have to make it a Nazi.
"Many cities in the U.S. and Canada are developing bike networks. Expanding their scope to specifically include the needs of delivery workers and their bikes will result in more bike deliveries." Another reason Downtown Detroit needs a bike network & more bike parking. nacto.org/publication/...
I keep thinking about that video that @jamellebouie.net made right after the election about how people, particularly on the right, engage with politics through so many levels of irony that they don’t view it as real - that the idea of real policy and the consequences do not exist to them
Sharon 🪳🌹@sharonk.bsky.social · last yr.:(
the thing that periods of immense prosperity and growth have in common in the US and Europe is that they follow periods in which racist political factions were massacred and crushed
Average Democratic politician: Zohran Mamdani must answer for the Suez Crisis Average Democratic voter: <goes to a rally in the pouring rain and holds up a picture of the Nuremberg gallows with various Trump administration figures' faces glued on>
broke: LGBT is just liberal imperialism imposed on the unwashed masses woke: no it fucking isn’t bespoke: but maybe it should be
Faine Greenwood@faineg.com · last yr.It’s NATO pride flag season again
They’re all flash frozen at when they got rich which is why Bezos the perpetual second year hedge hire, Zuck is on his 30th junior year, and Elon Is Five
Gore winning 2000 means no Alito or Roberts. Clinton winning 2016 means no Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, or Barrett. A few thousand votes' difference means misery and terror for millions.
Mark Joseph Stern@mjsdc.bsky.social · last yr.🚨By a 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court UPHOLDS Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming care for minors, concluding that it does NOT discriminate on the basis of sex, is not subject to heightened scrutiny, and survives rational basis review. All three liberals dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
Remarkable. MSNC: "I want to reiterate this has been 100% peaceful." Seconds later, LA County sheriffs start firing on the crowd. Yet again, "law enforcement" deliberately escalated.
From Rabbi @marisaelana.bsky.social: May Iranians, who mostly hate their leaders, be safe. May Palestinians, who mostly hate their leaders, be safe. May Israelis, who mostly hate their leaders, be safe. May all the war-mongering authoritarians be deposed & may they [yet] experience real justice..
