A Minnesota Lawmaker and Her Husband Are Lying in State. Next to Them: Their Golden Retriever.

I think it is always worth mentioning that Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark were killed with their beloved dog Gilbert: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u...

Charlie Kirk shooter climbs to the roof of a building carrying a rifle at Utah Valley University in Provo, Utah unnoticed. Then after firing the rifle leaves unnoticed. That screams white guy.

And now we sit back and watch Republicans ignore the school shooting today while loudly mourning Charlie Kirk.

Forgive me if I care way more about the school shooting that also took place today than I do about Charlie Kirk.

Charlie Kirk on mass shooting victims: 'We cannot allow them to emotionally hijack the narrative'

Judge strikes down Wyoming abortion laws, including an explicit ban on pills to end pregnancy | CNN Politics A judge on Monday struck down Wyoming’s overall ban on abortion and its first-in-the-nation explicit prohibition on the use of medication to end pregnancy.

JUST IN: A judge on Monday struck down Wyoming's overall ban on abortion and its first-in-the-nation explicit prohibition on the use of medication to end pregnancy.

Tweet from Jasmine Crockett: If @HouseGOP really wanted to protect women, they'd release the Ethics Committee report on Matt Gaetz' alleged sex trafficking - not try to ban their colleagues from using the bathroom. Stop the bigotry and release the report.

Rep. Jasmin Crockett is always 🔥

I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget

We've gone mainline! Okay Presbyterians do your follow and amplification thing. Welcome @pcusa.bsky.social #pcusa

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Belief in "American exceptionalism" is destroying us two ways. The first is obvious: the insanity of the American right. But the second is the belief that somehow we will survive Trump when so many other empires have fallen behind petty, insane leaders like Trump. We aren't special.

You should be able to get black cake and sorrel in Ireland. Guaranteed there are West Indians somewhere.

‘Worst nightmare’: Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites could blind radio telescopes Second generation satellites emit 30 times more stray radio waves than before

Oh hey, look—Elon is destroying the entire field of Astronomy.

The Trump "landslide" continues as Democrats seize the House of Representatives in blood-red Alaska.

Chaz reports for State Navigate.

The Handmaid's Tale is a good book. But did you know that there's a book written by a Black woman about a post-apocalyptic Earth heavily affected by climate change and societal decline. The book was published in 1993, but is set in 2024 following a presidential election 👀 #BookSky #BlackBookSky

Interesting. A certain chicken restaurant makes a big deal about giving their employees the day off so they can worship with their families. Apparently it doesn’t apply to the guys power washing the building/parking lot. They have to get their worship some other day I guess. #jesusformebutnotforyou

Post from Latino pollster Mike Madrid: “Doing some research for an upcoming article on the last “mass deportation” of Mexicans during the 1930’s. Over half of those deported were US citizens.”

Indeed. When they rounded up the Japanese Americans, myself and my family included, for internment during WWII out of fear over Japanese spies and saboteurs, two thirds of us were U.S. citizens.

Don’t think it won’t happen again when they come for the “undocumented.”

YouTube video by Playbill Caroline Innerbichler Sings “Walls” From “Shucked” on Broadway

Something in nature does not love a wall...

Fortune headline: Elon Musk’s AI turns on him, labels him ‘one of the most significant spreaders of misinformation on X.’

Well, at least it got that one right.

What people keep missing about an accused—with corroboration—pedophile like Matt Gaetz and an adjudicated rapist and serial sexual predator like Donald Trump is that these men know exactly what they did and what they are.

That they still think they should rule America confirms them as sociopaths.

And I'm guessing the Bible is not in Greek, Hebrew, and Aramaic, so um... it's all translation anyway...

Reminder that while bookshop.org is amazing and you should be directing your online book sales there, I'll echo others and say that for small publishers, one of the most impactful things you can do is buy directly from our website, putting money in our bank account today for operations.

#addtoblacksky

Civility in the face of white Christian fascism is a threat to democracy. At some point, you have to stand up to these bad people and refuse to be civil. Civility on the altar of white supremacy is not unity — it is abuse. And I fear we are in an abusive relationship with our country.

Biles, Chiles share Jack Kelly Fair Play Award honor • USA Gymnastics Reigning Olympic team champions Simone Biles and Jordan Chiles have been selected as the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee's (USOPC) 2024 Jack Kelly Fair Play Award recipients.

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Opinion: The Trans Sports Attacks Were Never About Sports Attacks on transgender participation in sports was never about sports, and always about getting people comfortable with discriminating against transgender people.

So grateful for Erin Reed — Opinion: The Trans Sports Attacks Were Never About Sports: Attacks on transgender participation in sports was never about sports, and always about getting people comfortable with discriminating against transgender people. https://bit.ly/40PNB86

You need a position at UWI

If anyone’s looking for alternatives to GoodReads, I highly recommend StoryGraph. It’s owned by a black woman, and the platform is so much more accessible and easy to use.