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Documentary about the experience of two British surgeons in Gaza. Never seen anything that bad. news.sky.com/story/amputa...

y'know it's kind of a tell that they think celebrating the end of slavery is DEI

NEW: Judge Farbiarz, now in writing, orders the release of Mahmoud Khalil on bail TODAY. AND—happy surprise—he reconsiders and adds a line forbidding electronic monitoring, as Judge Sessions did for Rümeysa Öztürk. He also forbids monetary bond due today. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Somehow this is not surprising. Treating children as if they are magically immune was always a bad idea. Schools need proper ventilation and vaccination schemes. Mask up, get vaccinated. boingboing.net/2025/06/19/n...

Andrew Cuomo is part of the legal team put together by Alan Dershowitz to defend Benjamin Netanyahu against war crimes charges. nypost.com/2024/11/25/u...

NEW: Gov. Hochul announces that the state is dedicating $50 million for legal assistance for immigrants like those who may be targeted by ICE when leaving the federal courthouse

Beyond parody.

SCOOP: Trump’s tax bill includes a little-noticed line that spends $200 billion on a tax break that rewards private equity firms for taking over small businesses and then loading them up with debt, slashing employee pay, mass firing workers, and driving them into bankruptcy.

Bombing hospitals is a red line - unless Israel is doing it - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/bombing-hospitals-red-line-unless-israel-doing-it

Just some creepy armed Mad Max guys trying to gain entry to Dodgers Stadium. ICE says it wasn’t them. DHS says they were Border Patrol. But honestly who the hell knows? They’ve given permission for any psycho to put on a ski mask, point a gun, grab people & throw them into an unmarked vehicle.

The three-judge appeals court panel overturned a lower court order that gave control of the National Guard back to Gavin Newsom.

call me crazy but I don't think we should.

"Human society depends economically & socially on resilient forests. As a result, pushing forests toward collapse threatens human well-being globally, not just in communities that are in or near forests." -- Amazing that we need IUCN reports to make this point. 🌏 news.mongabay.com/2025/06/resi...

Ethnonationalism always means the othering and persecution of citizens who don’t fit the bigots’ idea of nationality.

The first batch of Byrd bath guidance from the parliamentarian has been released! HUGE victory for Dems and for consumers everywhere: Republicans cannot defund CFPB.

🗃️ The Euro-centric version of history says the horses escaping from the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 populated the plains. Native American oral traditions state they had the horse much earlier. Archeological evidence is agreeing with the oral traditions. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGki...

Five players, and thirteen staff members from the Senegalese basketball team have been denied visas to the US. The team is here to prepare for the upcoming Afrobasket tournament.

Sayed Naser served as a U.S. military interpreter in Afghanistan. Now he’s being deported. The Taliban assassinated his brother and kidnapped his father. All because he helped us. Why are the feds trying to deport him, even though his asylum case is still pending? Not justice, it’s a betrayal.

Trump's ICE raids mean Washington farmers cannot harvest this year's cherry crop, and that many will now go out of business. www.spokesman.com/stories/2025...

idea: New Muppet Babies Star Trek edition: "The Wrath of Mom"

This is the Sculptor Galaxy as you've never seen it before. Taken with the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument on the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope, this false colour view shows the central part of the galaxy, aka NGC 253, which is 11 million lightyears away.

John seemed fairly disappointed to learn that the linguini was not - as he had assumed - snakes.

i still haven't seen anybody specifically screaming about this horrifying footnote from thomas's concurrence so here it is extracted and ready for screaming

Shouldn’t the NY Times headline note that this new policy breaks the law?

This is going to kill people. You don't have to go too far into the backcountry to get in a life or death situation.

ICE and the DHS have claimed multiple times an increase in assaults against their agents to justify officers wearing masks and refusing to identify themselves. The data states otherwise. https://trib.al/xRANYpj

Fox News reports that Trump hasn't ruled out dropping a tactical nuke on Iran

Workers famously hate paid days off work.

ICE agent points gun directly at the head of innocent civilian—just for taking picture of his license plate. He drew his gun with one hand—while fumbling to open the car door with the other. The "agent" did not seem to be aware someone else was already recording his vehicle. Pasadena, California.

The global aid sector is quite literally on the brink of death right now and the human fallout globally is already obscene and will keep getting much, much worse. People in the U.S. need to be far more aware of this - and angry - than they currently are.

When ICE agents look like this, it is ENTIRELY APPROPRIATE for state and local law enforcement to step in and demand they identify themselves and show judicial warrants before detaining anyone from an immigration court. Democratic mayor and governors can take action on this.

Three dead, dozens sick from Listeria in premade chicken meals sold at Walmart & Kroger. In normal times, CDC would issue a HAN. Instead, we’re wasting energy revisiting thimerosal myths while real threats go unchecked.

MSNBC dug up the clip of former Trump Sec Def Mark Esper saying that Trump asked him in 2020 to shoot protesters -- an order Pete Hegseth wouldn't rule out following if Trump asked him to do it today

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/w...

A new study from MIT’s Media Lab (not yet peer-reviewed & small sample size): ChatGPT May Be Eroding Critical Thinking Skills. [time.com]

www.denverpost.com/2025/06/17/c...

"True alternatives to policing require significant investment." "Without the expansion of services that actually aid in public safety, advocates say that reforms in the shape of unarmed response teams are just the latest ruse to hide inflated police budgets." #Oregon #USA #Policing #Healthcare