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It should but we've been talking for a few years about why it doesn't.

Zohran Mamdani, who recently cross-endorsed with Lander, called for the comptroller’s immediate release. “This is fascism and all New Yorkers must speak in one voice,” said Mamdani.

In Hurricane Katrina, mainstream media were more worried people might take stuff rom WalMart than that grandmothers were dying on rooftops of buildings surrounded by contaminated floodwater.

The first U.S. bishop appointed by Pope Leo XIV—a refugee himself—is mobilizing priests to accompany migrants at immigration court on June 20. (Via Christopher Hale)

Exactly.

BREAKING: LA solidarity protesters in Austin are occupying JJ Pickle Federal Building, which houses local ICE processing center

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

Agree. Lately everything Trump does is described as a "distraction." Sending troops to LA is a distraction from the Musk/Trump feud, Musk/Trump feud is a distraction from budget bill, etc. I don't think he puts that much thought into it, he's just a stupid fascist motherfucker who does crazy shit.

This is their new thing. Present everything they are doing as "restoring faith" in something --- even though they are the ones who pushed the bullshit that destoyed people's trust in it. It's cute.

Yup. I have a hard time seeing the fact that Bluesky does not compensate people for being combative assholes to generate "engagement" as a downside.

I sometimes wonder if people who insist that everything is a distraction have to run their own errands. “This grocery trip is a distraction from the REAL issue, which is the weird noise my engine is making! The fact we’re out of toilet paper is a distraction from the REAL issue which is dinner!”

True story bro.

@tlotlotsamaase.bsky.social Oh my gosh, Tlotlo, congratulations on the Ignyte nomination! "Womb City" is truly singular and deserves all the kudos in the world.

The people of Los Angeles will rally on Monday, 6/9 to demand the release of everyone unjustly detained by ICE, like SEIU leader David Huerta, and an end to militaristic escalation on our communities. Join us and @aclusocal.bsky.social at 11 AM in LA to call for an end to these human rights abuses.

@littlebadger.bsky.social Darcie, congratulations on the Ignyte nomination! You never stop being amazing.

3...2...1... Let's jam.

I don't care if these monstrous ICE raids are a "federal operation". This is authoritarian violence, plain and simple. Just because Stephen Miller has kidnapping quotas for brown people he doesn't want to see on the street doesn't mean we have to think it's okay.

"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...

🇺🇸 “Rolling Stone reached out to all 53 GOP senators after the president said he didn't know whether he needs to honor the nation's founding document. None replied.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Forcing people to pay $130 for a passport in order to vote is just a Jim Crow poll tax by another name. It is blatantly unconstitutional.

Colossal Bioscience did not revive dire wolves, despite a sensationalist Time Magazine cover story. Making genetically modified animals that are cosplaying as extinct species is not de-extinction.

Howard is the obtuse simpleton that Wall Street folks told me he was

What was the MCU? Read about its latest commercial failures in the special feature inside the new issue of SFFTV, with articles by @gerrycanavan.bsky.social @jbarchivist.bsky.social @ccakir.bsky.social. @baftss-sff-sig.bsky.social Read it via the LUP website: bit.ly/SFFTV18-1

Chief National Security Reporter at the Pentagon for Fox News says she surveyed defense officials who said the info was actually “far more sensitive” than “war plans” and “clearly classified”

I’m old enough to remember when Secretary Hegseth tried to publicly mock Judge Reyes—suggesting that she didn’t know what she was doing when it comes to protecting our national security. It was … two days ago.

Congratulations to everyone on the BSFA Award shortlist! file770.com/bsfa-awards-...

defy the norm. get even stranger. NO SURRENDER

**DO** buy from local shops today. They can’t afford, nor do they deserve, to lose your business.

Excuse me but for 55 goddam years I was told that we had to put up with gun violence because all those crazily ironed-up citizens would protect the country from being taken over by a tyrant AMERICA I WANT A REFUND

MORE OF THIS FOR THE LOVE OF GOD

“I think sometimes genre is a code word to keep us in our place as artists, and I just want to encourage people to do what they’re passionate about” - Beyoncé after winning Best Country Album for “Cowboy Carter”

Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"

Fuck this guy. Ask any nurse or LPN or ER doc or admin clerk or social worker if they work weekends. This disrespect to our federal workforce is disgusting. Especially from this piece of shit.

If you are a federal worker being offered a buyout, I would advise against taking it. Of course, this is a personal decision for everyone and it’s your choice. But these offers are a rush job. The legality is questionable and this admin does not keep to its word. They aren’t firing for a reason.

i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country

Christ, yes. Do not make me tap the sign, people!

I will be continuing to call it the Gulf of Mexico because I don't cater to the whims of a ridiculous felon www.reuters.com/world/us/goo...

When they go low, we take care of our community. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Whoever snapped this photo deserves some kind of special Pulitzer.