My heart is with the Haitian community today, and every day. My advocacy will be too. I join you in working towards a day where you are safe and welcomed in the United States.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · last wk.

AWFUL. Ordering ICE to target an ethnic group the president has repeatedly attacked is bigotry as official government policy. TPS recipients are the most vetted immigrants here. They have to pass background checks every 18 months. Most Haitians with TPS entered legally also!

“[Landry’s] chief of staff passed around a stack of N.D.A.s and freshly baked peanut butter cookies.” These are public officials! Elected representatives of the people—signing NDAs and eating cookies. WTF.

How Meta Got Everything It Wanted in a Secret Louisiana Data Center Deal (Gift Article)

A Times examination details how the Silicon Valley giant used private talks with local officials to start a project big enough to cover nearly six square miles.

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TPS for Haitians officially expires tomorrow. ICE is planning big operations, with Springfield, Ohio among the targets www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-hai...

ICE plans to target Haitians as Temporary Protected Status is set to end, sources say

The plans include arresting migrants in Ohio and quickly putting them on deportation flights to crisis-stricken Haiti, the internal documents indicate.

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World on fire and the billionaires want all of the water.

Wu released a letter pledging the city will install more permanent “cast-in-place” concrete barriers along bike lanes, consult with outside advisors, develop truck safety legislation and evaluate the intersection where cycling advocate Louisa Gag was killed.

Wu delivers promised street safety plan, as outcry over cyclist death keeps up

Wu released a letter pledging the city will install more permanent “cast-in-place” concrete barriers along bike lanes, consult with outside advisors, develop truck safety legislation and evaluate the ...

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Canada turning red is the geopolitical version of your golden retriever biting you.

Financial disclosures show that Susan Collins was taking checks from some of the men named in Epstein Files.

More Donations from Epstein Contacts to Susan Collins Uncovered

Collins took money from men on the Epstein list before voting against releasing the files

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Pay my EdTech company to help you "validate edtech effectiveness." My face is melting.

Matt Seybold@mattseybold.bsky.social · 2w ago

I don't have anything left to say at the moment except: No.

Tom, of course, has no sympathy for the immigrant families who won't even go to the grocery store because they're scared of being kidnapped by the secret police

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

"It's pathetic and disgusting" -- big tough guy Tom Homan crashes out and huffs away from reporters after complaining about having to have security at the grocery store

I had to go back to work when my first baby was 14 days old, but I’m glad to know Mitch McConnell has unlimited medical leave…

They lost the 4th of July, Lindsey, the Tate brothers, likely Mitch, and control of public opinion about classical world representations... and there's 2 weeks left in this month. So much more could happen. Enjoy their frothing at the mouth anger. It will get worse. Die mad 😘

Excellent response to Vanderbilt report on literary studies: “The actual epistemological crisis we are entering now is one better exemplified by the Vanderbilt report’s AI-generated analyses: automated data collection, sloppy analysis, and a growing sprawl of LLM-generated pseudo-evidence.”

Gabriel Hankins@gabrielh.bsky.social · 3w ago

My response to Appiah's "field report" is up: please repost www.chronicle.com/article/kwam...

I wish I could tell you that I have consumed any other culture/thought about anything else in six months but I haven’t, and here’s a little bit about why. Thanks to @publicbooks.bsky.social and anyone who has allowed me to talk at them about HR and MD: www.publicbooks.org/heated-rival...

“Heated Rivalry” Is the “Moby-Dick” of Canadian Gay Hockey Shows - Public Books

The literary genre of contemporary MM romance realizes an imagined world that Melville was trying to write into being.

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Massachusetts is the only blue state in the country with a 287(g) agreement that deputizes state officers to do ICE's work, and Governor Healey and many legislators have defended it.

Today in “Is it research or is it Jenga?”

Credit to Lindsay Graham’s staff, for you know, actually reporting his death.

I wrote about Kerri Greenidge because the vague-accusation-to-career-ending-punishment math isn’t mathing. Show us the work. substack.com/home/post/p-...

The Scandal and the Scale

I was bleary-eyed on a delayed flight when I spotted a New York Times article about Kerri Greenidge, a historian of Black political life and memory.

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The NYT piece on Greenidge skips the elephant in the room: her real argument wasn't about the Grimke sisters as founding feminist heroines — it was against that hagiography, told instead through their Black nephews. That's the intervention the article never engages. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/b...

Juneteenth Has Always Been About Black Liberation” by Kaitlyn Greenidge for Harper’s Bazaar. An oral history, as told by members of the Winston-Salem Chapter of The Black Panther Party. www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/feat..

Facebook’s own researchers found that “64% of all extremist group joins are due to our recommendation tools”, an internal report in 2016 found. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

'It let white supremacists organize': the toxic legacy of Facebook's Groups

Facebook has said it will no longer algorithmically recommend political groups to users, but experts warn that isn’t enough

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Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social · 4w ago

One of the first things Facebook’s algorithm showed me today was this propaganda post by Patriot Front. It’s not just that FB is platforming fascists. They are algorithmically PROMOTING and amplifying them.

Serious red flags are being raised after it was uncovered that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton voted in six elections while registered at an address where he doesn’t live. trib.al/Fgc8IYa The voter fraud call was coming from inside the house, it seems.

The bot armies are working overtime attacking any mention of that Reuter photo of patriot front on the metro. Usually these things indicate where the regime thinks they’re vulnerable. Something about that photo has made them cagey.

Commentary: ‘Thousands of people are now going to die violent deaths,’ says attorney for Ohio Haitian community ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/07/02/t...

'Thousands of people are now going to die violent deaths,' says attorney for Ohio Haitian community • Ohio Capital Journal

Ohio native Geoff Pipoly represented Haitian TPS holders before the Supreme Court. The court ruled to allow the Trump administration to strip them of legal status for mass deportation. “Thousands of…

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President Obama once delivered a speech in an open field for four hours during a thunderstorm while leaning against a very tall, pointy metal pole. President Trump should do the same, but for six hours, to demonstrate his strength.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.

Lol

Eye-opening piece on the path of destruction the orange man has tried to inflict on history. Happy Commemorating!

Whose 250th? - Commonplace

As students of early American life preparing to commemorate America’s 250th year of independence, what should we know and what might we do?

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"What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July?" Frederick Douglass, 1852. Still waiting for an answer. See more: https://bit.ly/3QOH6Qf  #FrederickDouglass #July4 #UnfinishedBusiness

You don't need more fertilizer. You need more biology.

Having these three luminaries blurb my book is an honor beyond words. New World Calculation would not exist if not for their fascinating scholarship.

hey Medford/Somerville pals, reminder that if you have an AC lying around that you’re not using, especially one that can cool a bigger space like a kitchen, @mutualaidmamas.bsky.social can redistribute it to a neighbor who needs one

WEATHER IS HAPPENING@weatherishappening.com · last mo.

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