Stopping the war crimes prosecutions of Netanyahu and Putin has emerged as a top-three priority for the State Department under Marco Rubio. No coherent explanation is offered for this campaign.

ABUNDANCE! Except the abundance people don’t actually give a shit about this stuff

Helen Kennedy@helenkennedy.com · 2w ago

not really surprised to learn that terminal stupidity and racism is the reason i can’t walk into a CVS and just buy a toothbrush without flagging down the one person who might be in the store dannykatch.substack.com/p/we-used-to...

We used to be able to buy things in this country

Locking up toothpaste was a warning sign that our executive class was crazy

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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.

Interesting bit from the new AP-NORC poll: Favorability among Jewish Americans: D. Trump: -41 J. Shapiro: +20 Z. Mamdani: +5 B. Netanyahu: -27 apnorc.org/projects/dem...

Is Graham Platner’s alleged inability to hear “no” a personal failing, or a symptom of how late-stage capitalism has hardened the hearts of our economically anxious oyster-farming veterans? by Matt Stoller

This shit should be illegal. The NY Post specifically is a propaganda rag.

And make no mistake, when the Klan was ranting about unassimilable immigrants in the 1920s, they were very much talking about Italians whom they attacked as Catholic pawns of the pope, as a "criminal race" whose members were all tied to the mafia, and as a non-white threat to white women.

m@keptsimple.bsky.social · last mo.

Samuel Alito's dad was born in Calabria, Italy in 1914, which was a completely failed state shithole at the time. You either spent your life farming dirt or got killed at 16 working for an Ndrangheta underboss. Now his son spends all day panicking about uncivilized Haitians.

One stat that should be a headline one for Dems is that deportations and arrests are job-killers. We talked about a study on today’s Slate Money that found that for every arrest, 6 Americans lose jobs and 4 undocumented immigrants do. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/06/u...

As Trump Pushes Deportations, a Skyrocketing Caseload Strains Immigration Courts

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The Fourteenth Amendment, written in the blood of the Civil War, says in Section 4 that this is blatantly illegal: “[N]either the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States.”

SCOTUS in 2022: Five months before Election Day is too late for Louisiana to redraw its GOP House map that harms Black voters. It must wait until 2024. SCOTUS in 2026: Louisiana may cancel its imminent primary—where >40,000 already voted—to enact basically the same old map that harms Black voters

Lawrence Hurley@lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 3mo ago

NEW: The Supreme Court has frequently admonished lower courts for intervening too close to elections but is now facing accusations that it is doing exactly that in a way that helps Republicans draw new districts at breakneck speed: www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

When white supremacists described the first black politicians winning elections in the South during Reconstruction, they too called it a "reign of terror" that innocent white people had to suffer under. Black leaders! Elected to federal office! Can you imagine the indignity?!

Ashton Pittman@ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 3mo ago

NEW: U.S. House Rep. Bennie Thompson's "reign of terror" in Mississippi "is over," Gov. Tate Reeves says, urging the ousting of the state's only Black member of Congress through redistricting before the end of 2027. He made that pronouncement even as he canceled a special session on redistricting.

As a principled libertarian, I mostly ignore it when Trump sics the FBI on his critics, threatens broadcasting licenses, and celebrates the murders of protesters. But when a few kids at NYU criticize Jon Haidt, well, that's where I draw the line.

Note to other billionaires: do not call out these two women. Attacking them is as imprudent as agreeing to be interviewed by Isaac Chotiner.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This is amazing - @kevinolearytv 🤡 is fearmongering about Chinese agents opposing his giant Utah data center… but it’s 2 young local girls in Utah who hilariously call him (and his “dumbass hat”) out👇🏽 Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DYU074V...

This is absolutely outrageous. SCOTUS reinstated Texas gerrymander 15 weeks before primary because they claimed it was too close to election to block it but now allowing Alabama to gerrymander one week before primary after trial court found map was intentionally discriminatory against Black voters

Steve Vladeck@stevevladeck.bsky.social · 3mo ago

#BREAKING: Over dissents from the three Democratic appointees, #SCOTUS issues “GVRs” in the Alabama cases—vacating district court injunctions & remanding for further proceedings in light of Callais. In practice, this means Alabama can now redraw its congressional districts in time for the midterms:

A Kamala Harris presidency would have been relatively boring and you wouldn't be awake scrolling right now.

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Here's a proposal. If we replaced all the crops being used for ethanol production with solar farms it would give us 3 X the total energy usage the US currently has. So doing the whole thing at once is a bit much. So how about 5% a year. Replace 5% of the crops with solar farms.

A new paper in The Lancet, one of the world’s foremost peer reviewed medical journals, estimates that USAID prevented 91 million deaths across 133 countries over 20 years. The paper estimates that Elon Musk’s DOGE funding cuts to USAID will lead to 14 million deaths by 2030 (4.5 million children).

Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis

USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...

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Justice Elena Kagan Isn't Mincing Words, About The Voting Rights Act........

Congress is given the power to enforce the 15th Amendment’s ban on racial discrimination in voting through “appropriate legislation.” Today 6 Justices took that power away from Congress based purely on their desire to help the GOP. Everything else is beside the point. SCOTUS is not a court of law.

Pretending that CVS is an immersive experience about extending carceral logics to toothpaste

In February 1777, General George Washington ordered the first mass immunization campaign in American history by mandating that his troops be inoculated against smallpox. He protected the Continental Army from an epidemic that was deadlier than British forces. 249 years later, we have this idiot.

Oh sorry, so religion and politics should be separate? Is that what you're saying? bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4mo ago

Mike Johnson on the Pope: "If you wade into political waters, you should expect some political response & the Pope has received some. Frankly I was taken a bit aback by him saying something about 'those who engage in war, Jesus doesn't hear their prayers' or something. There's 'just war' doctrine.'"

TikTok, Twitter, Facebook, Fox News, The Wall Street Journal, CBS, and CNN all have Trump-aligned owners. Here’s why US media has a liberal bias problem.

Is it too early to call Péter Magyar's prime ministership a disappointing failure?

Not once in this story does @politico.com mention that US factories employ ~89,000 fewer employees than a year ago. @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2026/04...