Claire Adida
@claireadida.bsky.social
Senior Fellow and Professor of Political Science (by courtesy) at Stanford University. Would rather be spending time outdoors with my family and friends.
It has been criminally underreported but Kelsey Pfendler has just rowed solo across the Pacific Ocean from the US coast to Hawaii in record time. A 2,400-mile unsupported journey in 43 days, 17 hours, and 55 minutes. Notably beating the Men’s record by 9 whole days.
1/ I'm starting the holiday weekend off with some good vibes. I’m not giving bad news any headspace right now, so let's pause and celebrate some public health wins that have happened recently!
BREAKING: The Supreme Court upholds birthright citizenship, rejecting Trump’s proposed limits.
Live updates: Supreme Court is set to rule on Trump’s challenge to birthright citizenship
The Supreme Court will rule on President Donald Trump’s birthright citizenship order declaring that children born to parents who are in the U.S. illegally aren't citizens.
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Ossoff: "You've got the American govt controlled by Donald Trump backing a Trump family tungsten mine in Kazakhstan w/ a billion plus dollars of federal commitments at the very same time that they are cutting healthcare, defunding hospitals, & nursing homes, & doubling health insurance premiums."
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...
Federal agents track down Syracuse woman, demand she remove Instagram post about ICE
She believes the warning was related to a post about the ICE agent who shot Renee Good in Minneapolis.
syracuse.com
TIL that all clownfish are born male. One develops into a female once the matriarch dies.
All clownfish are born male.
There’s a good reason why both main characters in Finding Nemo are male, at least initially. All clownfish are born that way, and it’s only when a group’s dominant female dies or disappears that a mal...
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🚨Trump is going to deport Iranian women who PROVED to an immigration court that they would be persecuted in Iran to the Central African Republic, a country so dangerous to others the U.S. recommends no American travel there. Trump is destroying this country's legacy of freedom!
Jameel Jaffer@jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 2mo agoThey came here fleeing persecution; rather than give them refuge, Marco Rubio’s state department will send them to die in countries they’ve never been to. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/w...
Polymarket ends its sponsorship of election misinformation thanks to reporting from @popular.info and the public outcry. popular.info/p/update-pol...
UPDATE: Polymarket ends sponsorship of election misinformation
On Monday, Popular Information revealed that a network of at least 16 online influencers was pushing election misinformation in posts on X sponsored by Polymarket, a popular online prediction market.
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New: Asylum appeal backlog rises to 87,450 cases — by Colin Yeo
Asylum appeal backlog rises to 87,450 cases - Free Movement
The latest quarterly tribunal statistics show that the backlog of asylum appeals has continued to rise. The statistics cover the period January to March 2026.
freemovement.org.uk
I call it propaganda because these numbers aren’t legit, and Track AIPAC doesn’t show their math. They’re anti-Jewish. They want you to believe this number is from AIPAC donations, but it isn’t. www.fec.gov/data/candida...
It can’t be emphasized enough how problematic it is that a self-proclaimed Marxist, living in Germany is trying to influence an American election with antisemitic propaganda. The optics of this are absolutely insane. Corey Archibald is the cofounder of Track AIPAC.
“Congress's top bathroom sheriff Nancy Mace is on the ballot, and while not all of the votes have been counted yet, she is in a respectful fifth place,” Sarah McBride just said. “I don't like punching down and I believe in the politics of grace. So all I will say is happy Pride, Nancy.”
Not at all a fan of this Brazil women’s soccer team. All they do is foul and flop. They have the skills and athleticism. They should play soccer.
Been listening to Brandi Carlile lately. This line from her beautiful song The Mother, encapsulates one of my favorite parts of parenthood: Oh, but all the wonders I have seen, I will see a second time From inside of the ages through your eyes
I am not into purity tests and I think Dems need to learn to build coalitions; but the Platner stuff suggests to me that Dems have learned the wrong lessons from the MAGA cult.
Are we sure this is not from The Onion?
Kyle Pfannenstiel@pfannyyy.bsky.social · 2mo agoIdaho health officials are investigating how nearly 60 people got sick after drinking raw milk in the past two weeks. The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare says they didn't name two dairies potentially linked to the outbreak “because this is a potential risk for any raw milk producer.”
🚨🚨 #Switzerland’s star striker Breel Embolo has been barred from entering #US ahead of #WorldCup following a last-minute decision by US authorities to review his #clearance to travel. 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/swit...
Switzerland’s star striker barred from entering US ahead of World Cup
Breel Embolo has hasn’t traveled to the U.S. yet, but his team is saving his seat for him.
politico.eu
I just want everyone to know that there were more than 60 candidates for California governor, and two of those were named Barack D. Obama Shaw and LivingForGodAndCountry DeMott.
More than 2 million voted in the Dem TX Senate primary. 1.4 million voted in the Rep TX Senate primary runoff. Should we make something out of this? Or was yesterday’s runoff unusually low turnout?