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“At least six babies in Pennsylvania have been born infected with measles, with two so sick they had to be admitted to intensive care.” H/t @ameshaa.bsky.social

#BREAKING: #SCOTUS once again freezes the lower federal courts’ rulings in the Missouri redistricting case—and affirms that, as the Missouri Supreme Court held earlier this month, Missouri will use the 2022 map in the November elections. There were no public dissents.

ICE Detention Claims 25th Life Since the Start of the Year Carlos Josué Marchena at Louisiana and Lianyong Wei in Saipan are the 25th and 24th people to die in ICE custody. Story by Spanish-language media, slow to hit English-language media. austinkocher.substack.com/p/ice-detent...

A point made in this piece is that Trump has destroyed an entire community. For people outside of DC, I can understand why you may not understand. But for those of us from here, its the culture he is destroying that hurts so much. The building is secondary. www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...

Texas is delaying the release of the state’s maternal mortality statistics until after the midterms. www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/tex...

Prisoners paying off kids' school lunch debts speaks to the US's failures at so many levels.

Reposting - Dolly has left the world a better place for her having been part of it. 💔

Do you know what China's been doing while we've been dropping bombs and allocating more money for new weapons? Beating us on alternative energy, manufacturing, high speed rail, technology, microchips, and infrastructure.

Damn

ICE: "so we murdered another person in broad daylight with total impunity. in our defense we were scared in an abstract way"

Sickening and un-American. Watch authoritarianism work.

May Trump and everyone associated with ICE rot in hell

Politicizing EVERYTHING- making bribery great again? (and necessary)

It’s been two weeks.

ICE fatally shot a man in Houston yesterday. Agents arrested a nun on her way to mass. An Afghan who helped the U.S. military died in ICE detention, one of at least 21 people to die in detention this year. The headlines have moved on, but Trump is still waging his reign of terror.

My dog is more patriotic than the Embarrassment-in-Chief

This year’s Fourth of July, in a nutshell

Nice to see people catching on. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

In English: Arizona's 20,000 DACA recipients are our neighbors, teachers, nurses, and small business owners. They’re doing everything right, but DHS is deliberately slow-walking renewals anyway, putting them at risk for deportation. (1/2)

Happy 250th, America! My gift to you, as is the tradition of course, is all the phenomenal public scholarly writing, podcasts, & books in my 283rd #ScholarSunday thread. Add more below, please share as widely as was the Declaration, & enjoy the intellectual fireworks, all! 🗃️ +

This is our everyday reality. It has been this way for years. Russia is a terrorist state #UkrainianView

Sure glad we elected the guy who can stop this Russian war of aggression on “Day One.” 🙄😡 My hear is with Kiev. Fuck Putin and his lackey in the Oval Office e #SlavaUkraina

Survival tips for the Apocalypse: Notice the precious and beautiful moments all around us #findingthegood

He is so corrupt, incompetent, selfish, and vile. I’m so tired of him dominating our government and attention. )And there is no one in the world who doesn’t know exactly who I’m talking about - even though I never mentioned his repulsive name)

Why put solar panels on green space when we could put them over car parks? www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

In case you haven't seen this today.

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce have donated $26 million to at least 20 charities ahead of their wedding — ranging from food banks, animal cruelty organization, educational programs and children’s hospitals. (variety.com/2026/music/n...)

The American legal system is being abused in order to pander to the president's fantasies and make them seem real www.nytimes.com/2026/07/02/u...

Corruption in full view. @hcrichardson.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

Here’s some straight talk from someone who knows some things.

SpaceX = white tech bro hype Nvidia = white tech bro hype Anthropic= white tech bro hype Crypto currencies = white tech bro hype Data Centers = white tech bro hype Tesla =white tech bro hype All of this nonsense is going to implode, and likely at the same time.

After he made the speech, he stood on the steps holding a sign that said impeach convict remove. Then he was arrested and taken away in handcuffs. This is America today

This!!

We are at North Korea levels of corruption. We are no longer a functional democracy.

This is a pretty clear cut principle:

"The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government – lest it come to dominate our lives and interests." – Patrick Henry

He probably doesn't even realize how awful he shows himself t be....

Three big stories this week. Trump canceled the signing ceremony of a bipartisan housing bill to push voter suppression. A judge blocked his mail-in voting scheme. And three Supreme Court decisions expanded gun rights and stripped immigrant protections.

Trumpy is terrified what will happen when he loses the mid-terms.. So his last best scam is the SAVE MY ASS ACT. In the most basic terms, this is a work around to end the 19th Amendment and to prevent millions of women from being able to vote. Even the GOP isn't interested. That's how bad it is.

My Sanity Tips for the Apocalypse Tip #8: stop & smell the flowers

This fucking guy!

My Sanity Tips for the Apocalypse Tip #7: Reflect (meditate and/or gaze at the sky as reflected in water)