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The same people who insist on policing public bathrooms in order to protect girls from sexual predators are now calling a child rape victim, whose mother lost custody due to that abuse, a liar. loathsome

This in turn highlights the degree to which Trump II's entire agenda has been a series of crusades against invented crises: ICE rounding up criminal undocumented immigrants who don't exist, DOGE rooting out fraud and waste that's not there, DHS finding voter fraud that hasn't happened, ...

Like, by the time you are on week 6 and doing Bessent and treasury related bribery impeachment, you want John Q. Voter to be screaming "is *anyone* in this administration not a scumbag?" because the answer is 'no' and that's the lesson you want to impart, one impeachment at a time.

From 2022 to spring 2025, American PhD-granting universities posted an average of 289 openings in departments of chemistry and biochemistry. Starting in the fall of 2025, that number fell to 185 openings.

And here's the kicker: turning America's trillions into Canada's billions, moving fast and breaking America's tech-kings, fixing the defects in America's extractive tech exports? It's all *good for Americans*. 66/

And really, lied in a way that I've not seen in my lifetime. Not a case of, "Bush really, truly thought there were WMDs, even though there weren't" or a case of smudging something over. They knew this was insane, knew this guy was nuts, knew the danger and lied about it anyway.

This is how the CDC honored Officer David Rose, killed a year ago in the domestic terror attack by a shooter who believed he'd been injured by a vaccine. Truly one of the most appalling things I have ever seen.

I can’t bring myself to be too celebratory. This should have been a 9-0 slam dunk. My main takeaway is that there are currently 4 votes to undo a longstanding constitutional guarantee that 15 years ago seemed beyond any serious question.

Also worth sharing the top comment because this is 🎯

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump are re-segregating the American military by race and sex Secret Vetting and Blocked Promotions: Inside Hegseth’s War on Diversity www.nytimes.com/2026/06/19/u...

God damn it if the handedness weren't wrong I would buy this duncraft.com/collections/...

The Secretary of Defense is… A - afraid of answering questions B - incompetent and unqualified C - a blowhard and an empty suit D - deeply damaging to this democracy Choose 4

A fellow of the Royal Society slashed funding for disease prevention, leading directly to the deaths of uncounted children. He promotes white supremacy and is actively encouraging racist violence in the UK. But he's Elon Musk, a billionaire. So the Royal Society does nothing. @royalsociety.org

The US will almost certainly lose its measles-elimination status this year or next www.wired.com/story/anguis...

Dozens of children torn from their parents at the border have now been separated from their families a second time despite legal protections, an AP investigation finds.

2 million fewer children were enrolled in Medicaid and CHIP as of April 2026, as compared to January 2025 when President Trump took office. ccf.georgetown.edu/2026/05/28/t...

One element to this I think is worth mentioning - and the one that has caused me the most general anger toward my colleagues at the DoD - is that this dishonor of women and servicemembers of color may have started with Hegseth, but it is maintained principally by active duty and civil servants. /

The chair of US Commission of Fine Arts, in approving the proposed triumphal arch in DC, claimed that opposition to it was "due to a lack of understand<ing> about the history of such triumphal arches" Bit of an insult to those of us who really do know about triumphal arches!

It is straight up miserable that the Miles Davis centennial, which should be a national holiday, occurs during an administration where I could imagine it possible that not a single high ranking official gives a crap.

The contrast between the number of media requests I got when rich people on a cruise were facing a deadly, but contained outbreak versus now that some of the poorest people in the world are facing a deadly and devastating epidemic is just so so stark and it just really annoys the hell out of me.

VA conducted internal investigations into employees who attended vigil for Alex Pretti www.cnn.com/2026/05/05/p...

Extraordinary, instantly canonical new albums of previously unreleased live recordings by Cecil Taylor, Ahmad Jamal, and Joe Henderson, now available thanks to Zev Feldman, Resonance Records, and Elemental Music: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

This is real It’s being done in our name Congressional Republicans are okay with this

SO, here's a screenshot of the Washington Post online right now and under the "politcs" section -- WTF? three of the featured stories are ssentially the same article, and then two of the remaining stories are also the same? Even stupid basic stuff is going to hell.

Strange situation where we await a statement from Iran to check whether there's any truth to what US president is saying.

Sorry what? They won’t deport US citizens is a concession? What the actual F

Pretty staggering that the FT Trump interview opens with ‘if NATO doesn’t help us sort this mess, there’ll be problems’ and ends with ‘Russia might be helping target American soldiers, but really that’s sort of fair enough - we started it’. www.ft.com/content/1ca6...

Preparing for a Maryland blitz? ICE has been stockpiling vehicles and detention meals in Baltimore

DHS was taking criticism yesterday for holding a sick two-month-old baby. Today (after plenty of time to check into it), the dept is responding (multiple times, identical to the one below) not denying any of the facts, but just blaming the mother.

On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast. The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me. But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.

The federal government is just disappearing children.

www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0... Oh, smooth fucking move, Mr. Rubio.

The guy genuinely gave a shit. And the empathy vampires murdered him for it.

That tech oligarchs are noisy and incensed about the remote possibility of a wealth tax and utterly silent about the murder of a man who was only using the phone they invented to chronicle the thuggish government goon squads should tell you everything about these desiccated souls.

Imagine how much they’d be lying about what happened without all the videos showing it from multiple angles.

This is courage. Looking a masked, government fascist dead in the eye, face to face, knowing full well that your life is on the line. If elected officials had 1/10th of Alex Pretti's resolve, we would have far fewer troubles.

As JD Vance starts trying to play "nice Gestapo" to Steven Miller's "mean Gestapo," it's worth emphasizing that what's happening in Minnesota is a direct descendant of Vance's knowingly false racist demagoguery during the campaign. "Somalis are low-IQ thieves" is "Haitians are eating your pets." 1/

Just staggered by the complete moral void of not even *pretending* to wait for more information before pivoting to “the opponent of the state deserved it.” It is so insanely depraved. Soulless.

www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0... Refrigerator clipping article

He means white kids.

Where are Obama, Bush, Biden, Clinton, the CEOs of the companies that helped talked Trump down from Greenland, ANYONE with authority or market power who can command a microphone and back up the brave citizens of Minneapolis, and say this is morally wrong and an existential threat to the republic?

A five-year-old boy seized on his way home in Minnesota and now locked up in Texas. His family didn't know where he was for 24 hours.

Danish Parliament Deputy Speaker Lars-Christian Brask: "If I could come with some advice, it would be for the Senate & House to start to take control of political power in America because with this erratic & mad behaviour, you have to ask the question, is the President capable of running the US?"

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Yes, JD. Let’s ask them if they think a stay at home mom, avowed Christian, and widow of a veteran deserved to be shot in the face and left to bleed out in her own car after dropping her 6-year-old off at school, for the crime of looking out for her neighbors. Let’s ask everyone running for office.

Kennedy Center Christmas Eve jazz concert canceled after Trump's name added reut.rs/3NfgBky

This is an amazingly thoughtful, information-rich thread. By a sitting member of Congress! How about that.