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Love how the Pizzagate crowd, self-educated in epidemiology & virology during Covid, are now commentating on Iran as if they’re foreign policy & nuclear refinement experts.

Don’t you just love Pussy Riot? ❤️ www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

Trump's willingness to go to war in Iran is being presented as a betrayal of his non-interventionist allies when it is in fact the culmination of his approach to foreign policy newrepublic.com/article/1969...

WE ARE THE SPIDERS OF THIS HOUSE YOUR HUSBAND SAYS WE’RE MORE AFRAID OF YOU THAN YOU OF US HAHAHA UNTRUE YOU’RE TERRIFIED AND WE LOVE IT WE’VE WRITTEN SONGS ABOUT YOUR FEAR CHOREOGRAPHED BALLETS ONCE WE HAD A RAVE IN THE ATTIC

Stay safe tomorrow, everyone, and raise hell!

Art by Ray Troll, sentiment by millions…..

Pin this, save it, we’ll need it. “When a prison camp opens in your town…when a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom…when the President destroys what’s left of the Constitution…They will all say they didn’t know this was coming. And I want the American people to know that they did.” AOC 🔥🎯

“Trump bristled on Thursday at the mention of a series of “No Kings” protests against his administration.” Great work everyone! You are seen! You are heard! And we will outshow his little military birthday party parade!

Watching Republicans try not to talk about a US Senator being manhandled, pushed to the floor, subdued and then forced out of a press conference--after wanting to ask questions of a US government official, might be the most chilling moment of the last 5 months.

For the record: The Confederates fought a war against the United States to defend the institution of slavery. Period.

NBCC member Diane Josefowicz reviewed "Attachments: Essays on Fatherhood and Other Performances" by Lucas Mann for The Providence Eye:

These "hunger games" being played by Israel and the US are so disgusting. The humiliation and terrorizing and murdering of Palestinians via inhumanitarian aid is further evidence of how dehumanized Israel and the US are. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

I can’t be the only one thinking that on 6/14 there’ll be some false flag operation in LA or DC, or maybe simultaneously, and it will be used as a pretext to declare martial law.

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

Real world: - Trump team trying to create a Reichstag moment. - Trump telling military audience that LA is hellhole full of "animals" - Officials in Calif trying both to calm things down, and stand up PUNDIT world: - Is it smart politics? - Is Gavin running? - Doesn't Trump look strong!

I met up with @maryannehobbs.bsky.social last week at the Tate to talk about her new radio show, but instead found myself on a lazy river considering free will, art, conflict and life on a NWOBHM bus... thequietus.com/interviews/m...

People tried so hard to follow the law, Byzantine and unjust as it is. They showed up at meetings, filled out the paperwork, went to the courthouse. You responded by kidnapping them in front of their children and dragging them to black sites. This is what’s left. This is all that’s left.

Don't forget that Elon has a rogue force of DOGE employees only committed to him, who are embedded within the entire Federal Gov. It will get even worse in terms of hacks and leaks in the coming weeks. Beware of disinformation.

quick explainer on: Why Trump And Elon Are Fighting 1. They're irredeemable assholes with unchecked egos and god complexes, they were always going to fight and anyone half-sentient knew that but on the policy, let me break it down...

My latest — I wrote about Trump pardoning reality stars Todd and Julie Chrisley’s tax and bank fraud convictions after their daughter praised him at the RNC vs. 18-year-old Marcelo Gomes da Silva’s wrongful ICE detainment, and how justice has merely become a presidential transaction. Read here:

🎶Division of Marine Fisheries is listening for whales! 🐳 Explore our new data dashboard to learn more about our passive acoustic monitoring network, developed with @whoi.edu, that will help us understand North Atlantic right whales + inform future conservation efforts. mass.gov/info-details...

I have never in my life, seen anything like this, and I would actually like to ask anyone else if they’ve ever seen whole groups of federal officials obscuring their names and replacing it with “the others” or if this is new.

Maipi-Clarke has emerged as the young lawmaker who catapulted this story of Indigenous strength, of Māori mana, or spiritual power, into international news. The Treaty Principles Bill is dead, but her work is not done. Read the full profile here ⤵️

Another dumb gross irony here is Harvey Milk served in the Navy and Donald Trump's Navy secretary didn't www.military.com/daily-news/2...

(Reuters) - FEMA staff left baffled after the disaster agency’s head said during a briefing that he hadn’t been aware the US has a hurricane season. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fema-staff-confused-after-head-said-he-was-unaware-us-hurricane-season-sources-2025-06-02/

Again, authoritarianism as a component of capitalism is about shifting from a society of relative privilege to one where it becomes normal that people will needlessly die, that to protest or speak out means risking death or imprisonment. This has been building for decades.

these knobs are upset that they have to at least pretend to be doing work, which isn't as much fun as being a hateful trolling asshole all day on the internet most of these guys won't last a year

Ah yes, as guaranteed in the First Amendment, Americans may enjoy free speech as long as it’s in sync with what the administration is trying to accomplish

Reading Sahil Lavingia's blog post about working for DOGE and it's just painful how little any of them bothered to learn anything about civic tech. Silicon Valley types thinking they're the first people to name problems and solve them sahillavingia.com/doge

"Disability highlights that nature cure is a fallacy." @louisekenward.bsky.social in @uk.theconversation.com theconversation.com/nature-writi...

Anyone who tells you that there’s anything more important in politics than framing and repetition must be forced to explain how Bobby Jr. became 12th in line for the presidency.

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST!

"This tax bill's enormity is being underplayed ... [It] will cost more than the 2017 tax cuts, the pandemic CARES Act, Biden's stimulus, and the Inflation Reduction Act combined," Jessica Riedl, a budget specialist at the conservative Manhattan Institute, told Yahoo Finance.

Local history is coming to a public space near you! The State Archives is hosting pop-up exhibits across Rhode Island. Join us at the Wild Weather and RI's Revolutionary Communities exhibits, which both feature documents and photographs from the State Archives!

It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.

Dems surely could use this to pummel Republican members in swing-ish Trump districts: “Your Republican representative is more extreme than Donald Trump. Even Trump recognizes the importance of Medicaid. He said ‘Don’t fuck around with Medicaid.’ Your representative ignored him.”

Rhode Island Center for the Book does so much for literature & literacy in our state! Kickoff the KRARI summer reading with @ogemora.bsky.social June 14, 2-4pm at William Hall Library

Whitney Plantation is arguably the most important museum on slavery in the Deep South (if not nationally) because of how it centers on the experience of enslaved people. If you haven't known about it before, please look it up and support them as you are able.