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FREE SPEECH UNDER ATTACK: Marco Rubio just had a man arrested and jailed, and is seeking to deport him, because he publicly supported Petro and opposed a presidential candidate in Colombia that Donald Trump would prefer to be elected. He committed no crimes and had an asylum application pending.

Did you touch the Reflecting Pool

Do any posts haunt you like the ghost of a person you watched drown without trying to help

The problem is not “work from home” as a concept — it’s managers and executives who don’t know how to build a strong team culture & enable people to build meaningful relationships (both laterally and vertically) in a remote/flexible environment.

There are people in DC who have been pushing for an Iran war as long as I can remember and it is important to note they are psychos and idiots

Trump pardoned people who literally smeared shit on the capitol walls

We, as a nation, are collectively missing a great opportunity to get RFK Jr to drink from the reflecting pool.

The media is abnormalizing Mamdani as pathologically as they normalize Trump

The author of this piece lives in Alaska.

from the description in NYT, this looks a lot like transnational repression of a Colombian immigrant by the US on behalf of the far-right Colombian presidential candidate

Donald Trump started and tried to win a war on Iran, but he messed that up and lost. So now he's trying to surrender to Iran, but he's messing that up too.

iran has closed the reflecting pool.

Imagine Biden starting a war for no reason and then sending Hunter to settle it. I’m sure the media would have been very chill about that.

“The United States has all the cards” is such a weird verbal tic even if it were not obviously false

The U.S. has absolutely no right to impose tolls for transiting the Strait of Hormuz. It’s actually an act of war and/or piracy against the entire world.

the influence of academics/NGO types drawn to radicalism for its own sake has been harmful here imo. The people impacted by bad policing don’t want to radically reimagine the entirety what crime is, they want their sheriff’s dept to be professionals who aren’t in literal gangs (real thing in LA)

This is hardly the most authoritarian thing the Trump administration has done but it’s probably the stupidest authoritarian thing they’ve done. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

Actually yeah, realistically voting *is* probably the most useful thing an average person could do in the face of a meteor coming. That’s the kind of thing the government handles. What, you gonna personally do direct action to the meteor? You gonna protest the meteor? Make cutting satire about it?

HYDRATION BREAK 🐣 🪶

Gillibrand made her name calling for the resignation of another senator by positioning herself as a champion of "zero tolerance" for senatorial misbehavior. That's great. I support it. So let's hold her to the same standard. We should have zero tolerance for political corruption. She should resign.

Everyone in britain after hearing the likely resignation news

I don’t know about multiple arrests, but washpost reported that one person has been charged with a misdemeanor in DC superior court (so, not “years in jail”) www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

thinkng about the best tweet

They're going to prosecute people who tried to take home pieces of Trump's peeling paint so he can falsely blame them for his embarrassing fuck-up. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

Finally, a politician who speaks for the owners of S corporations and other passthrough entities

'I'm here from the Anti-Israel Wallet Inspector Association'

The UFC White House show, which various UFC and administration officials claimed had done or would do Super Bowl-type viewership, turns out to have not been the most-watched MMA show of the past month.

Read a fucking book for gods sake

"Trump vs Vance rift" was a story invented/hallucinated by the political media basically for the reason that it would be good for Vance if it were true

This just in: meta workers can’t believe the leopards they built to eat everyone’s faces are eating their faces😮 www.wired.com/story/andrew...

nothing more good ol' boy in practice than letting your pedophile buddy off.

Yep. America is really great. It is also, at times, absolutely terrible. But on balance, I love it.

Might have more to say about this but DSA candidates have been easier to win over to urban abundance ideas than centrist candidates because homeowners are the centrist candidates' political base

My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and— I said look. Look with your eyes! Oh now you’ve gone and touched it. The paint is peeling. My beautiful paint! I’ll have to call my pool guy back. Vandal! Antifa! I said look And despair Nothing but the algae remains.

This is what popularism without values gets you www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-...

Many are calling it "The American Century of Humiliation"

wow, this screaming guy on fire just threw himself into the DC reflecting pool and now some kind of green creature is climbing out the other side?

The Trump administration's top foreign policy priorities are lying to the American people and pocketing money for themselves. Always have been. Here, Vice President JD Vance unleashes a warm stream of yellow liquid onto the audience's leg, and expects them to praise him for making it rain.

Kind of incredible how many people have built lucrative careers for the past three decades on insisting against all evidence that this kind of guy is what voters want.

They're fascists, yes, but again, and more importantly, they're deeply weird. These people are so psychologically warped and emotionally broken that they don't know how to be normal or happy members of a society.

The US government, media, and markets need to accept that Iran has real leverage here. And intends to use it. This isn’t Vietnam or Afghanistan, where insurgents exhausted America’s will to continue fighting. The US lost an interstate war, handing Iran real power and a good reason to use it.

Fun fact: if you say "An ICE facility" and "a NICE facility" out loud, they sound exactly the same.

My sense is that this is the spirit in which JD’s latest memoir has been received.

I work for antifa, my job is to put algae in the reflecting pool

The correct answer is “depends on what you mean by familiar? Let me show you where I am on the chart”

Seems like a big deal.

I think this still counts as “art of the deal,” as long as we’re talking about absurdist, non-representational art.

There is no universe in which it makes sense to call Zelensky a member of the Epstein class unless you take it for granted that “Epstein class” just means “the Jews.“

I know this app is 38 years old but who else worked at the mall. I had jobs at Electronics Boutique, Recordtown, and waited tables at our anchor restaurant which was a Ground Round.

At least NINE law enforcement or military officials were involved in detaining this ONE man for sticking his hand in the reflecting pool

as someone who is pseudonymous i care about about my pseudonymous identity's reputation and credibility in ways that feel different than how I care about my personal wallet name reputation and credibility; it is, obviously, more constructed but not necessarily less valuable

"Spanberger and Sherrill decided to provide material help for Trump’s fascist movement because opposing seemed hard. That doesn’t make them tough and pragmatic. It doesn’t make them normies. It makes them betrayers," writes @nberlat.bsky.social. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/centrism-m...

Here’s the thing: if the Trump Admin stopped periodically screwing South Korea and making them out to be the enemy, maybe that “malign influence” from China wouldn’t have as much power. Instead, we validate their narrative. english.hani.co.kr/arti/english...

The world's wealthiest man continues to post open racism endorsing pogroms

Here's the story of a lovely lady Who was bringing up three very lovely girls All of them had haunted stares, like their mother They’d clearly seen some shit Here's the story of a man named Brady Who was busy with three boys of his own. His wife, had strangely vanished They never found her bones

Several scientific studies have shown that Volodymyr Zelenskyy has more courage in his pinky toenail than Scott Bessent will ever possess as long as he lives. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

It is asada time

The Obama Library feels like a monument to the Weimar Republic

happy pride🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

It's been a bad yet for... society... and.. the world... BUT, it's been a VERY GOOD YEAR for sleepy gosling footage by your favorite labor photographer. So. At least we have that? Yes, at least we have that :) 🐣 🪶

yeah exactly ‘keeping the state’s violence doers in line’ is like literally one of the oldest problems in politics, this is not some totally unique problem requiring these unique solutions that no existent modern state has. this doesn’t mean the problem is at all simple or easy, but it’s not new.

MORE GOOD BIRD NEWS 🪶

Love this for him. www.politico.com/news/2026/06...

BREAKING: Trump Promises to Hunt Down Swamp Thing, Save Washington and Polluters from the Green Menace

Had a few (more) unkind words for the professional strategists who regurgitate the lazy, often self-serving advice that voters don’t care about democracy. www.offmessage.net/p/trump-iran...

Obama is Black and defeated white men. that's all it's about. it's nothing he said. it's that he violated core tenets of white supremacy. it's the same reason successful Black business people were targets of lynch mobs.

people's astonishment at being betrayed by Donald Trump never seeks to amaze me

i think this is basically the equivalent of how Pepsi wins blind taste tests because sweeter performs better in that format but the world prefers Coke

This is eating the seed corn. LLMs are built off the corpus of the internet.

They're playing the Irish National Anthem, Jump Around by House of Pain

"I have seen children harmed by disease, poverty, by bad luck. I had not, until now, seen them harmed so methodically by their own government." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"“CEOs receive lavish sums of money even when they fail while our retirement funds and employment are married to the companies they run.”" www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

“Emerges”?! Just FYI I think you misspelled “obvious.” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/19/w...

Finally found religion

Such fun seeing many Bluesky Immigration Law people at the conference, and it was a genuine pleasure to meet people who recognized me from online and said hi. See you all next year!

He looks like the pervert teacher from Election, sorry this is not a good looking man

A huge thing of glitter for my kids school project. It took fucking WEEKS to get it all. My wife was like "we gotta move"

I've seen a lot of artifacts of terrible things humans do to one another in my time. Seeing one of the planes that the Argentine dictatorship used to throw leftists into the ocean is about the most disturbing.

Seems like a clear positive that the World Cup has been spread across cities (11 in the US, 3 in Mexico, and 2 in Canada) as opposed to one mega-event in one city.

"Specifically, the water is more or less the color of a sour apple Jolly Rancher now. It looks like they're brewing Yodas in there." I love it when @davidjroth.bsky.social writes about Trump inanities.

This Day in Labor History: June 20, 1947. President Harry S. Truman vetoed the odious Taft-Hartley Act, the most vile piece of labor legislation in American history. But Congress immediately overrode it, showing how weak organized labor was even at its strongest point in history!

Everyone's comparing Ecuador's coach to Kato Kaelin but he's really more of a Keefe

Lmao I was raised Lutheran, we're considered Lazy Catholic Lite, and even I know this is a bad look. I was baptized when I was a couple months old

I actually think this would make a dope shirt

“I hereby fully authorize the toll free opening of the Strait of Hormuz” — Donald Trump, Sunday GFY — Iran, today www.wsj.com/world/middle...

Breaking NYPOST: Graham Platner Caught Sexting With The Algae

Sweden forgot their Allen wrenches at home and all their shit is wobbly

Trump really does want to imprison anyone who makes him look bad, an offense for which no one is more guilty than he is.

Fun fact: Curtis Sliwa was the King of the Mermaid Parade in 1999, and Queen Latifah was the Queen that year.

a museum of puzzles which employed two actual guards that did this would be delightful tho

Some people—to go by this roster of police from other states acting if they have jurisdiction in Washington—are taking the Republican ‘colonial overseer’ approach to D.C. _way_ too close to heart.

It should be Rosemary

For those of us intimately familiar with Batya lore, this is deeply satisfying. The embodiment of shande fur die goyim.

Among all the reasons it was stupid for Trump to launch the Iran war is the one that is delaying an exit: his co-belligerents would rather see the war continued, deal needs the US to end that fight, the US lacks the capacity to compel Israel to stop attacking Iranian allies in Lebanon. Strait flush.

This is actually stronger evidence than he’s ever provided for the 2020 election

Same, because the Bronx zoo has chicks! Similar to the Egyptian goose, they're ducks but named geese. And their ducklings are even more adorable! I'm sending my coworker and her husband with their 2 year old daughter to the zoo as a Brett Banditelli baby bird envoy www.instagram.com/reel/DZxsJkz...

Germany should win this match, but they're not as great as everyone thinks and Ivory Coast is dangerous as hell

From the Iran War to the occupation of Minneapolis to Callais almost every major bad thing in American politics in 2026 is something that not only could have been prevented by voting but could have only been prevented ex ante by voting

Netherlands-Sweden: A blip in American history, the short-lived New Sweden colony, was actually founded by Dutch merchants circumventing the West India Co's monopoly. Sweden ceded it to the Dutch Republic in less than 20 years (1638-1655). The Dutch didn't hold it much longer (1674).

I would be happy to ignore these people IF THEY WEREN'T RUNNING THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES.