Six String Samurai

“The only way that we’re able to win against a company that has as much power and influence as Palantir, is if as many people get involved as possible."

Mike Johnson said this kind of rhetoric is highly inflammatory and incites people.

Chat, is cancer research woke? The Trump administration seems to think so, having erased hundreds of millions of dollars being used for cancer research in a move that seems to be part of its anti-DEI, anti-trans, and anti-vaccine agendas.

$4 trillion.

America’s animal shelter system is a disaster. We need a well-funded, fully public system that no longer treats animals as expendable commodities — and empowers the workers who staff public shelters.

The problem isn’t just data centers—it’s what’s powering them, and that dirty power is costly in so many ways, says Maria Chavez of @ucs.org. www.commondreams.org/opinion/cost...

Same scare tactics, different century.

Breaking news: Ozzy Osbourne, the howling singer, madcap showman and self-anointed “prince of darkness” who helped pioneer heavy metal’s thunderous, earsplitting sound as the front man for Black Sabbath, has died. He was 76.

The Grateful Dead's 1975 album 'Blues For Allah' is next up for a 50th anniversary deluxe reissue. Read about all the extras studio and live + listen to a newly remastered recording of the 1st single from the original LP ...

Ozzy Osbourne, the singular metal legend whose Black Sabbath virtually invented heavy metal and in later years became a reality TV pioneer, has died at the age of 76. Access the free article here: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Timeline cleanse

The GOP-led House Rules Committee has halted activity in the House this week to avoid having to take a vote on the Epstein files. "They'd rather shut down Congress than vote to release the files," said Rep. Teresa Leger Fernandez. www.commondreams.org/news/congres...

He's so talented 🤩

Raise your hand if you agree. ✋✋

A federal judge in Los Angeles has ordered federal agents to stop "indiscriminately rounding up" immigrants, citing a "mountain of evidence" that they have engaged in unconstitutional racial profiling. www.commondreams.org/news/la-cour...

No matter where you live, there’s likely an Indivisible group near you that’s organizing the pro-democracy majority to reclaim its power. Find your local group: indivisible.org/groups Or let us help connect you with your nearest organizers: indivisibleproject.formstack.com/forms/organi...

Can’t make this up.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Protecting his stock portfolio while ripping away health care from 17 million Americans. This is Washington at its worst. We need to ban Congressional stock trading.

Do you want your electricity bill to go up? Do you want kids to lose their school lunches? Do you want to throw millions of Americans off health care? The GOP budget bill will do all of that & more. The House must vote NO on this bill.

BREAKING: A federal judge in Tennessee ruled that Kilmar Abrego Garcia will stay in jail for now over concerns that he could be deported if he’s released.

It’s a shame that so many Republicans vote for something they know will hurt their constituents & the country simply because they are afraid that Trump will threaten them if they don’t go along with it, & they are more concerned about his vindictiveness than they are about them.

UPDATE: Senate Republicans made Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill even worse. Now, this bill rips health care coverage away from 17 MILLION people—that’s an additional 1 MILLION people. Health care cuts now total over $1 TRILLION.

EXCLUSIVE: The Department of Homeland Security, with help from DOGE, has rolled out a tool that purports to be able to check the citizenship status of almost all Americans.

40 years ago today, Dire Straits released “Money for Nothing” as the second single from Brothers in Arms. The track became a landmark moment in music video history—later becoming the first video aired on MTV Europe in 1987.

More than 100,000 people marched in Hungary’s annual Pride parade in Budapest on Saturday after Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s ban on the event backfired, turning what is usually a low-key parade into a mass rally against his government. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/w...

David Hogg is cooking lately

BREAKING: We're filing a new class-action lawsuit to challenge President Trump's lawsuit restricting birthright citizenship. The 14th Amendment is clear: Every child born on U.S. soil is a citizen, whether the president likes it or not.

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security.    Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.   Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

The Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit in Maryland, naming every federal judge within that court as a defendant in its complaint. The lawsuit centers on a court order issued last month by a judge in that federal district, which attempted to slow down deportations without due process.

Mamdani Shows Us How to Defeat Trump's MAGA Vision www.commondreams.org/opinion/mamd...

A divided Supreme Court on Thursday ruled patients cannot sue to get non-abortion care from Planned Parenthood in states that cut Medicaid funding.

There is a hunger for bold, transformative politics in the United States right now. Zohran Mamdani shows how the Left can run on a principled, disciplined message that speaks to voters’ lived concerns — and win.

Trump's America. They literally just zip-tied the hands of disabled Medicaid activists in wheelchairs before Capitol police arrested them at the Russel Senate Office building. How about we arrest the people scamming Americans, like the president?

#ArtistFave90s #ThisWasThe90s #MusicChallenge (unranked) 5

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Vinyl NYC is a love letter to indie record shops, capturing their soul through stunning photos and rich stories. From punk to reggae, this book is for crate-diggers and music lovers everywhere. zurl.co/zkmtU

If you need a mask to enforce the law, you don’t deserve a badge. Federal agents are snatching people off the streets—faces covered, names hidden. This isn’t safety. It’s secrecy. It’s not America. adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/why-are-fe...

NYC Mayoral Primary Day: Zohran Mamdani on Building a Movement & Campaigning for an Affordable City

"I've been briefed on the intelligence—there is no evidence Iran posed an imminent threat to the United States," U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy says of Trump's strikes. www.commondreams.org/news/trump-s...

Maybe So… ✨🎥 “Stash” from last night’s show in Manchester. Phish’s YouTube channel has the 17 minute “Stash” playing in its entirety → youtu.be/r7HtDZc5X6c?...

The Roberts court will be considered the most shameful in American history.

Mick Ralphs, founding member of Mott the Hoople and Bad Company, dies aged 81