Trump administration blocks groups from voter registration at naturalization events Nongovernmental groups like the League of Women Voters are now barred from registering new voters at naturalization ceremonies, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has announced.

Nongovernmental groups like the League of Women Voters are now barred from registering new voters at naturalization ceremonies, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has announced.

Utah Strikes Down Gerrymandered Map, Reinstates Voter-Approved Redistricting Reforms Read more here.

🚨BREAKING: In a landmark victory for voters, a Utah judge struck down the state Legislature’s gerrymandered congressional map and reinstated the citizen-led redistricting reforms voters approved in 2018. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

YouTube video by RAZOR Science Show How do you grow trees in a treeless land?

An interesting story about reforestation in Iceland.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbkW...

...which reminded me of a poetical interlude in EARTH. Which I read aloud here:
youtu.be/bJXXab5ITpM

I wish they all could be California Girls🎶

People stranded on a desert island will waste time making SOS signs out of clam shells instead of starting a successful business

Supreme Court Rules 6-3 That Everyone A Damn Critic WASHINGTON—In a provocative 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court ruled Monday that everyone’s a damn critic these days. “It is this court’s opinion that apparently everyone has their own ideas about how this court should operate and is not shy about sharing their views—even when no one asks,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in his 10-page […]

Supreme Court Rules 6-3 That Everyone A Damn Critic
theonion.com/supreme...

RFK Jr.: Vaccines No More Effective Than Drinking Horseshoe Crab Blood Straight WASHINGTON—Citing extensive research he had conducted on the matter, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. issued a statement Friday claiming that vaccines were no more effective than drinking horseshoe crab blood straight. “Despite the lofty promises of pharmaceutical companies, there’s simply no evidence to suggest that vaccines provide more immunological benefit than […]

“Despite the lofty promises of pharmaceutical companies, there’s simply no evidence to suggest that vaccines provide more immunological benefit than punching a few holes in a horseshoe crab’s carapace and slurping its blood directly,” said Kennedy theonion.com/rfk-jr-...

How many kids go to work instead of school? They toil in mines, tend crops, scrub floors. An author of a new report on child labor points to great progress in reducing the number of kids who work but says the numbers remain "unacceptable."

They toil in mines, tend crops, scrub floors. An author of a new report on child labor points to great progress in reducing the number of kids who work but says the numbers remain "unacceptable."

Louis Brizuela wears a backwards baseball cap and a black shirt, standing in front of a custom built microfiche scanning station with a camera pointing down over a scanning plate.

For Louis Brizuela, leading the microfiche digitization team for Democracy's Library is more than a job—“I feel like I’m making a difference,” he says.

From Supreme Court docs to Canadian archives, he’s preserving history—live on stream. Meet Louis & tune in: ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/06/26/d...

Bezos Wedding Guests Given Monogrammed Plastic Bottles To Urinate In During Ceremony

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'They're Not Breathing': Inside the Chaos of ICE Detention Center 911 Calls Records of hundreds of emergency calls from ICE detention centers obtained by WIRED—including audio recordings—show a system inundated by life-threatening incidents, delayed treatment, and overcrowdin...

NEW: Records of hundreds of emergency calls from ICE detention centers obtained by WIRED—including audio recordings—show a system inundated by life-threatening incidents, delayed treatment, and overcrowding.

Unpaywalled from @dell.bsky.social and @dmehro.bsky.social:

What Satellite Images Reveal About the US Bombing of Iran's Nuclear Sites The US concentrated its attack on Fordow, an enrichment plant built hundreds of feet underground. Aerial photos give important clues about what damage the “bunker-buster” bombs may have caused.

NEW: The US concentrated its attack on Fordow, an enrichment plant built hundreds of feet underground. Aerial photos give important clues about what damage the “bunker-buster” bombs may have caused.

YouTube video by TRT World Iran launches six missiles toward US military bases in Qatar

IRAN, in response to the unprovoked U.S. bombing in Iran yesterday, launched 6 missiles toward U.S. military bases in Qatar

#Iran said this is not a “tit-for-tat” when asked about it by a reporter. Iran is defending itself against the aggressive attacks by #Israel & #U.S
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REMINDER: There are still hundreds of people jailed in El Salvador who never got due process.

I have a lot of respect for tomatoes but they don't belong on a sandwich of any kind. But you can't say that in today's society

5 Sensory Experiences of Prison Living in my Delaware prison is a sensory experience. Here is what I see, hear, smell, touch and taste.

5 Sensory Experiences of Prison. A writer shares what he sees, hears, smells, touches and tastes.

yep! unpaywalled:

Big Oil Faces First Wrongful Death Lawsuit Tied To Climate Change In The U.S. The estate of a woman who perished during the 2021 Pacific Northwest heat dome has filed a first-of-its-kind lawsuit against major oil and gas companies. By Dana Drugmand, Inside Climate News This...

"This latest case—the first filed on behalf of an individual climate victim—is another step toward accountability," said @climateintegrity.org's Richard Wiles

www.climateinthecourts.com/big-oil-face...

"This was an experiment by a kindergarten class. They dropped seeds in the cracks of the sidewalk to see what would happen.
This would help our bees "
via I Love Bees

Rare audio. Celia Black, 1974 - 114 years old, remembering the slave fields. Her voice isn't ancient history — it's a reminder we're only a generation removed from this.

Think you know American history? You don't.

🧠ERASED reveals what they buried.
📖Read it. Share it: stan.store/gxldsociety/...

One vote made all the difference in this NW Ohio election as Secretary of State certifies results Numerous races in the May 6, 2025 primary were so close it triggered automatic recounts.

COLUMBUS, OH - As Ohio election officials certify the results of the May 6 election, we’re presented with yet another reminder that every vote matters.
In Northwest Ohio, the Eden Township Fire and EMS levy passed by just one vote.
www.13abc.com/2025/06/05/o...

Teen Artists from MCPS to Exhibit at American University Museum - The MoCo Show The American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center (4400 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington, DC) will host The Teen Experience from June 14 to August 10, showcasing artwork by current and […]

Teen Artists from MCPS to Exhibit at American University Museum

Click below for full article.

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Education Freedom Accounts Expanded by House The House once again voted to expand the Education Freedom Account program, opening it to any New Hampshire child regardless of his or her parents’ income.

Get out your wallets folks. Wealthy people want subsidies from taxpayers like you to send their kids to private schools. On Thursday, our GOP-majority legislature decided that they’re going to get them—and you’re going to pay for them. #NHPolitics indepthnh.org/2025/06/05/e...

Here's what happened this week in North Carolina politics.

School's out for summer! Behave yourselves! 😎

EVERYBODY WATCH.

ICE IS OUT OF CONTROL.

Video of SEIU California’s President David Huerta getting assaulted & arrested during an ICE raid in the warehouse district of Downtown Los Angeles today.

He’s an LA native, American citizen and labor leader.

Don’t turn away.

when they go low, we go Jasmine Crockett @repjasmine.bsky.social 🔥

Original 1925 jacket cover of The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate a marvellous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period which reveals a hero like no other one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts. "There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life. .. It was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again?" It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous er-tertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism, and is infused with a sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe. It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism. CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS The GREAT GATSBY FITZGERALD

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.

OTD in 1938 the Austrian Anschluss vote took place. A dictator had sent his army over the border to make sure the illegal referendum got the right result.

Imagine that happening today.