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Only one person can get enough consensus to form a government with the broad spectrum of Arabs and Jews in the change bloc. It is time to fly in Liz Cheney to be Israel's second woman Prime Minister

If she wins a full term in November, Fire Thunder would join a growing number of Indigenous women successfully seeking higher office across the country. In Montana, the success of these candidates is a result of decades of women-led organizing on the ground.

EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Delia Ramirez is bringing a bill to eliminate DHS a day after the raid on Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home.

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Honestly, "big-name studios can't agree on the premise of the Muppet Show" sounds like the premise of the Muppet Show

Nearly two miles underground in South Africa, scientists have found oxygen that has never seen sunlight. In March 2026 tapped brine that geochemical dating shows has been sealed off from the surface for at least 1.2 billion years. buff.ly/UnsdmoH #ShareGoodNewsToo

Philadelphia nun gives immigrants hope when they’re due in court. “On Tuesday, she is scheduled to help a 12-year-old girl who came to the border without an adult and is scheduled to go before a judge at the Harlingen immigration court.” www.wavy.com/news/nationa...

Zitron gets the @vanityfair.com treatment. @edzitron.com www.vanityfair.com/story/ed-zit...

the year is 2027. gas costs $83 and lettuce is at war with us. however every location on every map now says AMERICA

We’re not changing it.

ICE just arrested a 5-year-old on his way to a soccer game in Austin. His name is Liam, just like the little boy from Minnesota. He should be in kindergarten this week. Instead he's in a trailer prison in the desert. Release Liam. Release these kids. Close the Dilley children’s prison.

When your government says it’s planning to open multiple prisons that will house up to 3,000 children, it’s time to demand a new government. There is no context in which this is legitimate or acceptable.

“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...

Dr. Abdul El Sayed, Melat Kiros and Darializa Avila Chevalier (the latter two are PhD candidates) examples of academics who successfully went out of the ivory tower and talked to regular people and resonated with them. but you'll never hear of this as an example of higher ed being engaged.

Police in Wisconsin used Flock to track a man who traveled to Michigan, where marijuana is legal, then back to Wisc., where it is illegal They then used his travel as part of the probable cause justification to search his car for weed and he eventually was arrested

If there was any doubt before, today’s spate of new polls makes clear Hong is the leader. The question is whether Dems endorse her or coordinate around Barnes or Crowley instead. Absentee voting is already underway. “Early” voting starts Tues — same day as the only debate.

State Department explicitly mentions "blacklists" and "McCarthy-era investigations" as effective tools at destroying the radical left. Full story: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/after-poli...

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:

Playbook | Tension simmers among McConnell and Graham staffers after the latter breaks the bro code by publicly admitting their boss has died.

We're so starving for consequences we're reading Vatican press releases

"The Park Service, in a separate document, similarly said that people should ‘wear an n95 mask when outdoors’ and ‘remain indoors as much as possible during and after the show.’” The guidance is to remain indoors ... during the fireworks. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

A local church in McAllen announced on social media that one of its religious sisters has been detained by ICE while on her way to Sunday Mass. www.valleycentral.com/news/local-n...

The Extreme Sentences Handed to Anti-ICE Protesters Should Terrify Us All "The sentences, ranging from 30-100 years, are part of an increasingly disturbing pattern of the Trump administration criminalizing speech and assembly." READ: zeteo.com/p/prairielan...

Former NOAA staffers have launched a new website that provides climate information. It replaces a government site that was shut down when the Trump administration took office. n.pr/4aWVKvt

A lot of intra-Dem fighting is b/c factions are forced into competing in a single primary electorate. It'd be much healthier if it was openly a matter of each going out and winning its share of seats in accordance w/ its general election votes and then having an inter-party coalition shaped by that.

BREAKING: Alligator Alcatraz has officially closed. A lot of outlets won’t report on this, but the Miccosukee Tribe played a key role in the fight.

IF YOU SEE THIS CLOSE THE TAB IMMEDIATELY this is a trick to install malware on your machine. it is not a real captcha system.

👇 HUGE NEWS: At 12:00 AM EST, Section 702 will expire. Here's what that means. Thread: 👇

I have a new story out today at Technology Review, and they gave me a gift link to share! www.technologyreview.com/2026/06/12/1... It's about thoughtcriminal archivists, word-fame, and how to get through a dark age without losing your soul. Much.

Fom Ross Greer X 👇 French authorities have confirmed Israeli interference in May's Scottish elections Will Yvette Cooper MP follow France's lead and summon the Israeli ambassador Or will she continue Labour's tradition of letting them away with absolutely anything www.reuters.com/world/israel...

"Opposed to using AI for her software-engineering job, Erin Maus secured something of a miracle from her employer: a religious exemption." A lot of folks are about to find God.

NEW: Our visual analysis suggests the U.S. hit two drinking-water facilities overnight in southern Iran with precision-guided munitions. Deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure could constitute a war crime. w/ @ckoettl.bsky.social @johnismay.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/w...

"Eight years after President Donald Trump’s forcible border separations came to an official halt following global outrage, an Associated Press investigation has found that the government has re-separated dozens of children from their families." apnews.com/article/immi...

My fellow cis folks, The FCC is asking Americans to submit comments about whether the TV Oversight Management Board (TVOMB) should create new TV ratings to alert viewers to trans/gender content. Time to be an ally and tell the FCC absolutely the fuck not. It takes five minutes to do.

“Any fascist attempt to gain power in America would…work under the guise of ‘super-patriotism’ & ‘super-Americanism.’ Fascist leaders are neither stupid nor naive. They know that they must hand out a line that ‘sells.’”-U.S. Army orientation, 1945 archive.org/details/Army... What’s past is prologue.

A karaoke bar but for acting. You and your friends get up on stage to perform movie scenes for strangers. Actually this might be the worst idea I've ever had. I'm putting myself under arrest.

Trump has tapped David Venturella, a former ICE official and executive at the prison company GEO Group, to replace Todd Lyons as head of ICE. “It’s really hard to see where the interests of ICE end and those of private prison companies begin,” says Setareh Ghandehari of Detention Watch Network.

BREAKING UPDATE: The Kevin O’Leary-backed Stratos data center project in Utah has hit big obstacles: the state agency that controls the project has demanded its footprint be reduced by 75% and has imposed other major conditions. The power of the people to fight back: youtu.be/nWTrmnkHVCc?...

My Go Big or Go Home thoughts for this Saturday: I make the case for why we should consider amending the Constitution to create a fourth branch open.substack.com/pub/asharang...

This is a really interesting idea. And we should 100% think big going forward.

ICE flights. Friday, May 29, 2026. At least 88 flights on 30 planes, the most I've recorded. At least nine removal stops.