Today is Juneteenth...it commemorates the effective end of slavery in the United States.

Israeli forces kill 72 Palestinians in Gaza, including 29 seeking aid At least 29 people killed in Israeli fire at crowds of Palestinians seeking aid in central Gaza, medics say.

Meanwhile, the U.S.-backed slaughter in Gaza continues. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/...

🚨🚨The White House is pissed off about this ad so you know what to do, share it everywhere! ICE is disappearing people just because of the color of their skin! No Warrant! No Due Process! This is not who we are as Americans! #MAGAKidnappers want an all white America, fuck that‼️

Verizon and Amazon cancel support for Juneteenth celebrations Amazon, Verizon, and other major corporations have ended or reduced their support for Juneteenth celebrations this year, forcing events in major cities to be significantly scaled back, a Popular Infor...

Verizon and Amazon cancel support for Juneteenth celebrations
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Hey, TV, Don’t Bend the Knee! The producer of 60 Minutes and the Evening News resigned today because he wouldn’t apologize for an accurate story.

Hey, TV, Don’t Bend the Knee!
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“National security concerns.”

Poll Finds 6 in 10 Democratic Voters Now Back Palestinians Over Israelis A record 59 percent of Democratic voters say they sympathize more with Palestinians than Israelis.

The proportion of Americans who back Israel is at the lowest level on record, with support for Israel cratering amid its genocide in Gaza, Gallup has found in new polling.

This

This is absolutely the truth!!

USA loses another war 🤦‍♂️

Bill banning mRNA vaccines in Iowa passes subcommittee • Iowa Capital Dispatch Health care providers could face a misdemeanor charge and fines of $500 for administering mRNA vaccines under the bill.

Bill banning mRNA vaccines in Iowa passes subcommittee

*Hangs on to this tweet for when he announces yet another farmer bailout*

Email shows Trump officials are lying to federal court, directing CFPB staff to ignore law An email sent Monday by a Trump administration official, obtained by Popular Information, explicitly instructs federal employees at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to not carry out act...

Email shows Trump officials are lying to federal court, directing CFPB staff to ignore law
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Supporters of suspected CEO killer Luigi Mangione establish defense fund Supporters of Luigi Mangione are raising tens of thousands of dollars for his defense fund.

One of the largest, and most suppressed, fundraisers of the year is exploding right now. Though it’s unclear if the money in these will actually get to his defense team.

Universal healthcare isn’t just a pipe dream folks. Early human societies thrived by sharing resources and caring for the sick to ensure collective survival. It’s already in your code!

CEOs Are Afraid Maybe they should be.

Bill Burr and Thomas Jefferson agree.

sharing this link again as I see that the bedbug has a hot take again on whose lives matter in the legacy paper of record. not for nothing, there are a lot of great local media in this list too!

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81 Democrats Vote With GOP to Pass Military Budget Barring Pentagon From Citing Gaza Death Toll “This is an alarming erasure of the suffering of the Palestinian people,” said Rep. Ilhan Omar.

81 Democrats joined Republicans to pass a staggering $900 billion military budget in a bill that also bans the Pentagon from citing the official death toll from Gaza and restricts health care for trans youth.

Luigi got them shook.

CEOs Are Afraid Maybe they should be.

If you’re going to mourn, mourn for the parents bankrupted trying to save their children. Mourn for the cancer patients who died because their treatment was “too expensive.”

Oh

Venn for right now. 🙀

Anybody else? 🤔

Intolerance

The left is no longer tolerant because the right broke the social contract.

a woman standing in a library with a book titled room on the shelf ALT: a woman standing in a library with a book titled room on the shelf

Librarians moving dystopian novels to the nonfiction shelves.