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Writer. Prof at SFSU. Tomorrow in Shanghai & Other Stories; Useful Phrases for Immigrants; The Girl from Purple Mountain, etc. Board member of NBCC @bookcritics. Web: https://may-leechai.com/
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No Waymos for you this weekend www.wired.com/story/ahead-...

SCOOP: Details about Saturday’s “No Kings” protest are under watch by domestic intelligence centers, where analysts regularly distribute speculative threat assessments among federal, state, and local agencies, according to an internal alert obtained by WIRED. UNPAYWALLED:

<thread> On the left: June 12, Judge Breyer writing that THE test for whether the US Marines/Guard violate Posse Comitatus will be whether they've engaged in "detaining" civilians. On the right: June 13: See for yourself. Note: The DoD has confirmed the detention of civilian to Reuters.

“When you’re a star, they let you do it. I can do anything. Grab em by the Posse Comitatus”

We handed them both a multiracial democracy and the moral high ground paid for by the blood of everyone from Douglass to Ida B Wells to MLK. They threw it away rather than confront white grievances and now they are demanding our labor to rebuild what they squandered. SMH.

SAY IT WITH ME, WARRIORS: I AM INVOKING MY RIGHT TO REMAIN SILENT AND WILL NOT ANSWER QUESTIONS WITHOUT AN ATTORNEY PRESENT!!!!!!!!!!! SAY IT BACK!

This picture from Reuters confirms U.S. Marines have carried out the first detention of a civilian in L.A. The DoD has confirmed its authenticity.

It’s called eugenics. That’s what this is.

The Trump admin just figured out why Voice of America, who they want to eliminate, has served us well for many decades.

Who could have possibly forseen this except for everyone who's not a complete moron?

Moe Tkacik has traced the Air India plane to a terrible-quality run of Boeings that have started failing all over the place, but that managers under the new low-quality Boeing era pushed through production anyway because "none of these planes are staying in America, they’re all going overseas".

THEYRE CHASING BORDER PATROL IN THOUSAND OAKS????

Radiological and chemical contamination detected inside nuclear facilities in Natanz, Iran, — IAEA It’s also being reported that Iran had targeted the nuclear facility in Demona - this needs to be verified.

ICE arrested two people outside their San Francisco field office on Thursday, the city's 2nd immigration arrests this week. About two dozen people blocked both entrances of the building, demanding their release. missionlocal.org/2025/06/sf-i...

It's Friday, which means @lyz.bsky.social has a new "Dingus of the Week." The lede is an instant classic: "Satan’s very own pick-me, Kristi Noem, broke the glass ceiling of fascism this week." lyz.substack.com/p/satans-pic...

This cracked me up! I always enjoy reading @lyz.bsky.social but this was next-level. Thank you for your writing.

“It had this snowball-coming-down-the-mountain effect." CAT President Michael Holtmann on our NEA grant termination news. Thank you @erikpedersen.bsky.social for including us and our Bay Area neighbors @transitbooks.bsky.social & @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social. www.ocregister.com/2025/06/13/t...

Trump's biographer has revealed how the president is privately justifying the assault on Sen. Padilla by suggesting that he “looked like an illegal.”

House Democrats need to bring articles of impeachment against Kristi Noem, while Senate Democrats need to bring that chamber to a fucking halt.

💯💯💯 Never "This system is inherently hopelessly flawed and unsalvageable and must be done away with," always "This main issue with this system is The Wrong People are in charge, it should be me instead"

I do enjoy the country-specific name changes for No Kings protests this weekend

Trumpism proceeds by the successive breaking of taboos. Each time a new one is broken, the previous one is normalized, made to look not so bad by comparison. The manhandling and cuffing of Sen. Alex Padilla was a red-line moment.

Obviously the next natural step from Cambridge Analytica was to simply make Meta the military.

NEH laid off 2/3 of staff today About 100 National Endowment for the Humanities employees laid off, union says www.usatoday.com/story/news/p... via @usatoday.com

The Legislature is challenging Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposed funding cuts to higher education in 2026, while largely leaving intact the relatively more generous TK-12 spending the governor called...

The Senate bill aims to effectively end all civil rights lawsuits against the federal government except by entities rich enough to potentially pay million/billions in fees. I am not making this up.

“Meta does not indicate to users what their privacy settings are as they post, or where they are even posting to. So, if you log into Meta AI with Instagram, and your Instagram account is public, then so too are your searches about how to meet ‘big booty women.’”

Arellano: Sen. Alex Padilla's crime? Being Mexican in MAGA America

From we have nothing to do with it to this:

“she had asked a boss if he would let his children fly on a plane with the litany of flaws and non-conformances he was urging her to “pencil-whip”: “Cindy, none of these planes are staying in America, they’re all going overseas,” he retorted, much to her horror”

Rubio: This wasn't us, we had no involvement Trump: The bombing will continue until you make a deal

How JB Pritzker’s faith and Holocaust work are powering his dire warnings about Trump

What happened to @padilla.senate.gov in California today is outrageous. Senator Padilla is a respected leader of great dignity and he has every right to ask a question of Secretary Noem without being slammed down and handcuffed.

Man do I have some news about traditional country music.

It’s not illegal for a United States Senator to go to a public press conference and ask questions about your constituents safety. It's our job.

#7479b9

Relevant, as the National Day of Protest is coming up on Saturday. Know your free speech rights.

The sole survivor's seat. AFP Infographic showing the seat plan for the Air India Boeing 787 Dreamliner locating where the sole survivor was seated on the June 12 flight AI171

I did my best to compile as many protest safety notes as possible into a one page foldout zine! Coincidentally…it seems the file has breached containment…like it’s available for anyone to print or hand out 👀⚖️ toonyart.com/s/PSZine.pdf

ranked choice should have one additional box that just says "no fuckin way" and it counts for negative two votes

I can see how Hitler happened. The last decade or so in the U.S. makes it easy to imagine. Not just Hitler; the Tulsa race massacre, Rosewood, lynching, slavery, the Rwanda & Rohingya genocides & more. There is a wolf pack evil that lurks in the human heart and it’s easily activated by a demagogue.

I had a joke about the cyclops but it was short sighted ( I know, groan)

In the US, one can only dream// jacobin.com/2025/06/weal...