The best way to get to the bottom of the McConnell question is for the governor to appoint a replacement. The GOP legislature passed a law stripping him of that power, but it goes against the state constitution. If they refuse to seat the replacement, take them to court. There’s zero downside.

For National Preparedness Month, the NYU Journal of Public History and Disasters (NYU JPHD) is launching a special issue: The Art of Survival. Submit here: wp.nyu.edu/schoolofglob... #DisasterStudies #CallForPapers #ArtAndScience #AcademicSky

Call for Submissions: Summer 2026 – NYU GPH Journal of Public Health Disasters

NYU GPH Journal of Public Health Disasters

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"This is the last time you will see me. They brought me here to kill me. I don't see myself surviving. This is the end." -Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya Tell Congress: Act NOW to save Dr. Abu Safiya's life: www.imeupolicyproject.org/free-dr-abu-...

Tell Congress: Act NOW to Save Dr. Abu Safiya's Life — IMEU Policy Project

Dr. Abu Safiya should be free. Doctors should not be tortured for saving lives. Tell Congress to act now and secure Dr. Abu Safiya's freedom and save his life.

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Today is a very important day for those of us who fought for reparations for Chicago police torture survivors. We were told not to use the word 'reparations' because it would "alienate" people. We were told that the City of Chicago would never admit fault or apologize for the torture. Many people+

Doesn’t matter if US lose on the pitch to Bosnia. The Supreme Court will reverse the result.

The criminal trial against Palestine Action activists who raided a UK drone factory brought about an unexpected revelation: proof that the Brooklyn-based drone company Easy Aerial is supplying Israel with drones. https://bit.ly/44CEVSV

Drones Manufactured in Brooklyn Are Being Used to Bomb Gazans

Newly uncovered documents have provided the first definitive proof that Israel's largest weapons supplier is purchasing drones built in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

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"For many, the bells of freedom don’t ring. They clang shut with the sound of prison doors." The 'land of the free' turns 250 this week. Incarcerated people reflect on what that means to them 👇

Incarcerated Americans on the 250th Birthday of the United States — In Their Own Voices

The land of the free is also the land of mass incarceration. Hear from people inside on what this milestone means to them.

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“History should fear Morocco.” And going into overtime! 👏🏽 Watching the Arab World play these nights of the World Cup has been so needed. I’m bummed about Tunisia, but Algeria and Morocco are throwing down. Hoping Morocco advances to the next round tonight, as Algeria did last night! 🇲🇦🇩🇿

What are the politics of queerness? It’s an ability to look past the restrictions of gender & sexuality. It changes what equality really means: Is participation in the military actually a good thing? Questions on Pride. Listen to Karma Chávez’s Resistant Communiqués episode: bit.ly/rc2026karmac...

Urgent appeal from om jameel I feel overwhelming despair&deep hopelessness.My heart aches with pain as I suffer from a weakened heart,&my husband is injured.My kids cry in pain from hunger their bodies$hearts are so exhausted that they can barely speak Give in to hunger😭 chuffed.org/project/1839...

A fantastic Resistant Communiqués Podcast Pride and the resistance on the attack on gender and ethnic studies episode with a dear comrade and longtime collaborator, Karma Chávez. Listen to the full discussion and don’t miss the multimedia syllabus Karma collaborated on: bit.ly/rc2026karmachavez

"Resistant Communiqués: Karma R. Chávez on Radical Queer Politics, the Struggle for Gender and Ethnic Studies, & Transnational Solidarity"

Resistant Communiqués Podcast, S2, E4 | Karma R. Chávez joins the Resistant Communiqués Podcast on Queer Politics, Gender and Ethnic Studies, and Pride amid Conservative Backlash

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Pride is hollowed out, under attack, & part of a wider conservative assault on what they mockingly call “grievance studies”: gender, ethnic, & queer studies all combined in this coordinated siege. But there is resistance. Listen to Karma Chávez’s Resistant Communiqués episode: bit.ly/rc2026karmac...

Although I need injections for my injured shoulder, suffer from a heart valve prolapse,&have 5 kids who are suffering from hunger, my husband was injured in the war,&his wounds have become severely infected after surgery.Urgent $250 for his treatment before it is too late chuffed.org/project/1839...

Hammam received his nursing qualification a year before the war a year before everything changed, and he and his family lost everything: home, security, food. Donating is not just about the money they desperately need, but also about providing moral support PLEASE SHARE chuffed.org/project/1844...

Are socialists truly the concerns of our times, libs?

This narrative during Pride month was absolutely intentional. The corporate media is fully in for fascism and desperate for you to agree.

Denzil Laing - Beware of the Pepper [Jamaica, Reggae] (1969) https://redd.it/1310o7e https://youtu.be/Qlqb4WBbBro

Denzil Laing - Beware of the Pepper [Jamaica, Reggae] (1969)

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Great news for the American people 💯🎯

I can’t be the only one who thinks it’s INSANE that we are simultaneously hosting the World Cup and bombing one of the nations playing in said World Cup.

Alana Lentin explains how labeling fascism as an “exceptional” historical experience is a way of diluting critiques of the U.S., Europe, Australia, and other nation-states that are founded on racialized hierarchies. Listen to Alana Lentin’s Resistant Communiqués episode: bit.ly/rc2026alanalentin

Zohran Mamdani is a 34-year-old man of color and New York City's youngest mayor in over a century. It’s not surprising that he dresses in suits every day. But it’s a costume for respectability in an environment that seeks to discredit and disrespect Black, Indigenous, and racially minoritized folks.

Rory Blank@roryblank.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Zohran Mamdani never taking off the suit is really funny and also I think genuinely a really good bit of personal branding. He is to some degree making himself a character by always having the same costume on, with occasional modifiers

That was an intense! BUT ALGERIA ADVANCES TO THE NEXT ROUND OF THE WORLD CUP 🇩🇿

On June 13th 1954, the US backed a coup against Jacobo Árbenz, the progressive, democratically elected leader of Guatemala, because he sought to restore land to small farmers and Indigenous communities that had been dispossessed by US fruit companies.

The do nothing *moderates* in the Democratic party do not mind fascism.

In the latest Resistant Communiqués, Alana Lentin discusses the Imperial Boomerang: violence carried out in settler colonies returns to Europe & North America, but it falls most heavily on the subjects of colonialism. Listen to our interview with Alana Lentin: bit.ly/rc2026alanalentin

Dr Walter Rodney was assassinated on June 13, 1980, by a bomb planted in a walkie talkie. He was 38. His key work, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, exposed the roots of global inequality and the violence of colonial underdevelopment.

Trump's DOJ released a dubious legal memo this morning that signals the Trump admin wants to force more people into psychiatric institutions via bad faith and incorrect interpretations of ADA, Section 504, and Olmstead. New from me at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Trump DOJ outlines dubious path to force people into psychiatric institutions

"This administration is trying to take away one of the most fundamental rights that people with disabilities have fought for."

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It is truly infuriating to hear Barack Obama say a damned thing about ICE and the people who resisted and died. Obama, the “Deporter-in-Chief", made all of what we’re experiencing possible. It is long past time they stop bringing him out to appease the liberals of this hell-scape of a country.

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Obama shouts out "those ordinary people in the Twin Cities who braved frigid temperatures, risked their own safety, standing shoulder to shoulder to look our for their neighbors and sometimes for strangers because they knew that was the right thing to do"

National data on hunger is limited since the Trump administration terminated the annual Household Food Security report last year. But other measures indicate that more people are missing regular meals.

More Americans are hungry in the face of federal cuts, rising grocery prices • Idaho Capital Sun

More than 4 million Americans lost SNAP benefits between February 2025 and this February, according to the most recent federal data.

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Huge about-face. After buying warehouses with tax dollars, at inflated prices, ICE will now try to dump them. Documents obtained by @haleaziz.bsky.social show that a NJ warehouse slated to become a 1,500-bed detention center is on the offload list. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/u...

ICE Spent $700 Million on 7 Warehouses. Now It Wants to Get Rid of Them.

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On slavery: reparations, no. revisionism, absolutely.

Abraham Gutman@abgutman.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🚨 BREAKING: 3rd Circuit allows Trump to replace slavery exhibits it removed from George Washington's Philadelphia mansion ahead of July 4. The new panels say Washington's slaves had more "autonomy" and "even attend the theater, with Washington buying the tickets." w/ @fallonroth.bsky.social 🎁🔗