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NYC, WTA dubs, technocrat believing in incremental change to improve lives.
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I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. Don’t comply with plain clothes, masked, tennis shoe-wearing wannabe MAGA fake-ass ICE agents. Make them show their faces, make them show a warrant signed by an actual verified judge. Video everything. RESIST!

"They know it's wrong, and we should never let them forget what they're doing because if they want to say they're pro-life we're gonna make them prove it." @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social delivered this message in front of the Supreme Court as we rallied to free Andry. Join the fight: freeandry.org

Bluesky upload speeds gotta improve: we desperately need this platform to be a good place for this kind of on-the-ground coverage work.

I loathe Musk as much as anyone else but for a sitting president to openly threaten a private citizen over what political donations he or she chooses to make is a reminder of how authoritarian this country is becoming by the day - by the hour even!

The speed in which we have decayed into an open oligarchic kleptocracy is astounding

when I see Pam Bondi I think of the defense attorney from her state who told me that people in his office would high five every time they saw her listed as prosecutor because she was so bad at her job she would routinely screw up cases that any other prosecutor would have nailed in minutes

In stupid but easy to see coming internet irony news: the people who made up that they were victims of shadowbanning in a conspiracy to silence their speech, so they had to take over Twitter to eliminate the victimization they imagined, have instituted shadowbanning of speech they don’t like.

Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin on Monday said he could not certify a proposed constitutional amendment related to direct democracy because it violates a new state law that prohibits ballot titles from being written above an eighth-grade reading level. #arpx #arleg

ICE will do this repeatedly. The fascist bigots want to incite a violent reaction. Stay peaceful and stand your ground.

New graph from me: The boom and bust cycle of political employment. It may not be obvious if you don't work in politics, but jobs in campaigns, Party committees, and other electoral orgs spikes and craters after Election Day, resulting in vast gaps of unemployment for people who do this work.

The police don’t protect people. The police protect power. That’s why we didn’t want to militarize them.

The way to win a tennis match is to be the better player _on the day_. Other days and other matches don’t matter. (That’s literally the point of playing the match) Congratulations to Coco. #TennisSky

It's been a decade since an American has won the French Open. (Last was Serena Williams). That's the biggest international victory by an American athlete in 2025. @barackobama.bsky.social has recognized #CocoGauff 's achievement. Any word yet from the current president? No? Wonder why...

ICE waited until a woman’s lawyer went to the restroom then dragged her away. She fainted from stress and they dragged her unconscious body into the elevator, refusing medical attention.

NEW: In the case over Trump's unconstitutional order targeting the WilmerHale law firm, WilmerHale's lawyers at Clement & Murphy had to go back to court, asking the court to amend its judgment because DOJ is being appallingly intransigent. DOJ's Richard Lawson is really skating on thin ice here.

Thinking of a hero I knew and admired.

This is ~unhinged~ The head of the ADL basically saying that real Americans go to work for Goldman Sachs and terrorists join teachers unions is just not doing the work he thinks it’s doing but also I’m not even sure what he wants it to do

John Fund, a very conservative @nationalreview.bsky.social columnist, slams Hegseth’s decision to remove Harvey Milk’s name from a Navy ship. www.nationalreview.com/2025/06/harv...

We don’t need to back off the American Gestapo and we don’t need to respect its agents. People exercising state violence are not entitled to anonymity. Nor are the people directing the state violence.

Just rewatched the retirement. How classy of Carlos to take a muted celebration when his opponent retires and to applaud him off the court. Such a good egg. #TennisSky

This Senate proposal advanced by Sen Cruz would cancel new and existing State laws on any aspect of tech use including civil rights, consumer protection, privacy, fraud, safety for kids, accessibility, and more. In short, we’d lose the few laws we have that ensure responsible AI use. #killthebill

In amongst all the excitement I fear many have missed this outstanding bit of trolling by Friedrich Merz. The Chancellor gifted Trump a gilded framed copy of his grandfather’s German birth certificate... reminding Americans that Trump is both the child and grandchild of migrants.

This article is rather strong evidence of what many of us have feared: They broke the agencies and need to rehire. (Some don't even have people to process payroll.) But a significant number of former employees have found new jobs or refuse to return. For those who return, morale is terrible.

I regret to inform you that ackman is at it again

New: A DOGE staffer developed an AI tool to review Veterans Affairs contracts. But there was a slight hitch. It hallucinated the size of those deals. For example, it concluded that more than a thousand contracts were each worth $34M, when in fact some were for as little as $35,000.

BREAKING: Judge Burroughs grants a temporary restraining order blocking Trump’s effort to block foreign students from attending Harvard. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

In every photo of Macron, he is physically seducing a head of state. Men, women? He's ecumenical on diplomacy as seduction.