I have to say it does seem like, "the president and his wife are separated because of his very public adultery and now he's sleeping with an aid who is fifty years his junior" would be a bigger story in most admins.

“We're here today because our neighbors are being kidnapped, our loved ones are being abducted off of the streets because of the color of their skin…” Today, Queens New Yorkers are standing together to defend our neighbors, and say loud and clear: ❌🧊ICE is not welcome in our communities!

The WNBA Player’s Association issued an excellent (imo) statement yesterday, stressing the league’s values and stating that they won’t be used as political pawns. The league and its individual teams might want to reach out to whoever is doing comms for the WNBPA. Just sayin.

A mother gave the government her fingerprints, tax records, and DNA to get her 6-year-old daughter back. She did everything officials asked. ICE used that information to find and arrest her. A child welfare system became a deportation tool. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

ICE Turned Family Reunification Into A Deportation List

A program created to place migrant children with relatives has become a pipeline for deportation arrests.

open.substack.com

Dead or alive, Mitch McConnell is on extended medical leave — on your dime. This is the same Mitch McConnell who voted against: paid family and medical leave for everyone else.

Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.

bloomberg has a fun article today arguing that the Cybertruck is the biggest flop in automotive history. it includes this glorious graph.

Lemme tell you about the angel of history being blown backwards into the future: The shackles these people have been put in are Hiatt brand, same company founded in 1780 to mass produce shackles for slaver ships.

Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The use of extremely online memetic aesthetics to support far-right political goals is like something out of Walter Benjamin’s nightmares.

Plz just say "Elect me, and there will be trials"

Governor JB Pritzker@govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2mo ago

We cannot build a more just future if we are unwilling to confront the injustices of our past. Mamie Till-Mobley understood that — and it is that outrage and moral conviction that inspires us. We must build a state and nation that lives up to its highest ideals.

Solidarity and sorrow with those in Berlin, from the home of Christopher Street. 💔

One dead and several injured during Berlin’s LGBTQ+ parade after car drives into crowd

Berlin’s Pride parade, known in Germany as Christopher Street Day, is one of Europe’s largest LGBTQ+ celebrations.

nbcnews.com

My favorite version of this song is still and always by the Muppets. m.youtube.com/watch?v=jIYS...

Muppet Songs: For What It's Worth

YouTube video by Muppet Songs

m.youtube.com

Luca@lucagalletti.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Here we are in 2026 and this song is just as relevant now as it was when it was created. ‘Stop, Hey What's That Sound’ Buffalo Springfield Released December, 1966

an unhoused man was recently arrested for "felony camping" & it's telling imo that, once he was released from custody, he went right back to the park where he sleeps turns out when you put a homeless person in jail, they're *still homeless* when they leave jail! ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Unhoused People Are Paying the Price For the Supreme Court’s Cruelty

The Grants Pass decision allowed more cities and states to impose criminal penalties for the offense of being poor in public.

ballsandstrikes.org

PSA on the Victoria Line tube in London. Phillipson and every other GC weirdo needs to take note.

“The Guardian wins the ‘Caption of the Year’ competition: - William Merrin @theguardian.com

I took a hard look at the financial donors to ICE’s biggest supporters in Congress. These are people who want to significantly expand ICE’s power and have sponsored or co-sponsored legislation to do so. Here are the top 25 consumer brands bankrolling the biggest ICE supporters in Congress:

Imagine if a woman president spent most her time raving and crying about an election she lost 6 years ago. Emotional. Unstable. Hysterical. Unfit to lead.

Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”

AQI in Lower Manhattan, New York is at 297. Over 300 means air quality is at hazardous levels. Stay inside if you can, and please wear a high quality mask if you have to go outside.

Yeah. Y'ever watch movies from the 80s that depicted city skylines obscured by a brown, opaque haze? That wasn't artistic license.

Mike Austin@reymiguel.bsky.social · 3mo ago

A reminder that cities used to have terrible air quality like we have today on a regular basis and the current administration continues to actively dismantle the protections and regulations that cleaned that up.

hey, remember: don't eat anything and don't breathe

The creator of Roger Rabbit (who is 85 years old by the way) is a good sort Crossposted with @openvibe.social

OSSOFF: If there's one person who committed election fraud in Georgia, it's Donald Trump—when he dialed up our state's senior most election official, and tried to bully him in a recorded phone call to “find” the exact number of votes Donald Trump needed to win in a state

You know what doesn't cause apocalyptic skylines and wildfires? Solar panels. Can we stop burning fossil fuels and just start massively investing more in renewables and battery tech, please?

PabloReports: What do you think of DHS suspending vehicular stops? AOC: A lot of the stuff they’re doing, they shouldn’t be doing in the first place. They should be facing consequences for killing innocent people in the streets, and they’re just trying to escape those consequences.

Hochul: But why were they there in the first place? Is it just unsafe for people in this country to even be in their vehicles anymore—that you could get gunned down by rogue ICE agents? People have had enough.

Living Colour releases “Cult of Personality” today in 1988. “.. It was musings on the amoral nature of leadership,” said songwriter and guitarist Vernon Reid. “Whether these people are good or bad, why are we drawn to larger-than-life personalities?” 🎸

There are no jobs for teens, they’re not allowed to hang out anywhere in public, time to criminalize being bored

The Charlotte Observer@charlotteobserver.com · 3mo ago

Charlotte joins major cities across the U.S. in grappling with the rise in disruptive “teen takeover” activities.

Horrible day. ICE is preparing a deportation flight to Laos so some of my former, current, and were-to-be clients are being brought to the Whipple Building and shipped off to Louisiana for final removal. Lots of calls from them, their families, and friends. So much pain visited on our community

NYC, high heat is back. Today the city will feel like nearly 100 degrees.  This heat wave will not be as long or intense as the last one, but it can be dangerous without the right precautions. Stay cool, stay hydrated, and check on your neighbors — especially older adults and people without AC.

NYC Cool Options

Find childcare providers in NYC

finder.nyc.gov

Houston Protest Against ICE Killings. #houston #Maine #USDemocracy