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With summer camps ready to begin, I now estimate that about 87% of US labor productivity is expended on creating camp forms and sending update emails about new counselors, camp medications, and how to drop your child off on the first day. (I've read dissertations shorter than some camp emails.)

I see the Senate continues to be the butane torch to the House's trash fire, as our founders so wisely intended.

"Far from being broken, New York is fundamentally a miracle, offering daily testimony to our ability to overcome the worst impulses of human nature and live together in something that reasonably approximates harmony."

This is powerful. There are good, caring people in this country. Many of them are in public service! (I bet that's why Mike Lee got into public service.) This sickness must stop.

Great analysis here. Really smart and specific.

Trying to articulate some of the tragedy of this moment for myself. Maybe something like this: We were, as a species, unbelievably close to a major step forward in our social evolution. The world is incredibly interconnected, and the US— 1/n

Terrific news and a powerful commentary from the bench by Judge Young (of which I hope we get a transcript soon). This regime discriminates against citizens because of race, gender, and sexuality. That's the Court's finding.

The Times Editorial Board have lost their fucking minds. Cuomo proved himself to be a terrible person, with terrible judgment. No more leaders like that! I'll take a young, ambitious, intelligent, brave, other-focused candidate over a "law-and-order" misogynist every day.

Good for her. She gets it!

Hi everyone I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing

Welcome to SF, Devers! Happy to have you on the team!!

This is what democracy looks like.

Bryant Park is hopping. Come on down!!

We just got into a cab. Vir Rawal , if you see this, we have your diploma

You guys still in business? Fuck off and tend your own garden. Looking a little swampy.

leftists: that thing you teach us in school to be terrified of is happening historians: that thing is definitely happening star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it news outlets: these protesters are out of control

Katy Perry gets it. Kim Kardashian gets it.

Eat shit, you fucking fascist!

The #1 thing Ds must do is defeat Trump and Trumpism. #2 is stop texting me.

With all due respect to the many lawyers out there who have pointed out how fast the courts are dealing with many of these things: it's not even remotely fast enough. Of course, if any Rs in Congress weren't psycopaths ...

Trump's use of the military in LA is illegal—he said so himself. He wants violence and escalation, and doesn't care who gets hurt. He loves to emulate authoritarians, and the way he's doing that now is very dangerous. Everyone who cares about the rule of law should oppose it.

We are so thoroughly fucked.

"America cannot afford for Harvard to fail" (Yes, I know how that sounds, but at this moment, it is true. You may resume hating Harvard after we have defeated the fascists.) www.spiegel.de/internationa...

Cops-- pathetic. Fuck off. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/youre-a-bu...

Eat shit, you fucking fascists.

I know there's a lot going on but: I want to like this Red Sox team, but Cora is an unethical dude. I have trouble getting over that. Oh, and they've treated Devers like shit.

If you're a Marine or other service member being mobilized to Los Angeles and you'd like to apply for conscientious objector status, call the GI Rights Hotline to get some guidance on your options: 1-877-447-4487

I hesitate to even says this aloud, but with things moving so rapidly in LA ... I anticipate troops on campuses in the fall.

Unprecedented crimes & constitutional violations happening right in front us, on an hourly basis.

Four Things I Know. For fellow Jews in particular, I recommend this @sharonbrous.bsky.social sermon.

I will never get over my anger at how much of my life has been occupied and destroyed by these fascists already. And it's hard to imagine how things don't get much, much worse.

I tend to think about what is happening to America right now as the ongoing attempted murder-suicide of multiracial democracy by a white nationalist minority and it’s very frightening but what’s happening in LA feels like a good sign that we’re not going down without a fight

Harvard has been in talks with leading US and international universities to temporarily house its foreign students facing bans under Donald Trump’s clampdown on the college. #AcademicSky #EduSky #HigherEd

Again, Brecht's line resonates: Be careful walking through Germany, with the truth under your coat.

Another shitty headline. Trump Lawless, Fascist Piece of Shit STILL wouldn't cover it.

I hate this timeline so much.

WTF. Musk should be drummed out of public life entirely. And if Khanna doesn't understand why, he should get out of politics entirely.

Jonathan Greenblatt striving to keep up with Stephen Miller as the most racist, fascism-friendly Jew in the US.

Here they are again: the greatest numbers in Tony history. A Tony weekend tradition! Which songs this Sunday might earn a place among them? www.timeout.com/newyork/thea...