When this is over, US rights abusers must be tried for crimes against humanity
Excerpt: Because when all this nonsense is over — and I swear one day it will be, at the ballot box or in the streets or by any means necessary, even though I might not live to see it — I want more than just people feeling ashamed of their role in this spree of inhumanity.
I want justice.
Me again: Enjoyable column, certainly, but just as certainly: If Trump & the Republicans are ever removed from office, and Democrats take power again, I expect nothing like this. Nothing. Dems will repair 5% of the damage done by Trump, and prosecute nobody.
Promoter of election conspiracy theories wins Republican primary for Nevada Secretary of State
How Republicans are gerrymandering black votes into irrelevance
Looming Supreme Court decision could narrow mail-in voting
Federal Judge blocks Idaho law criminalizing going to the bathroom
Trump administration seeks to halt first local reparations program for Black people
Secret vetting and blocked promotions: Inside Hegseth’s war on women and minorities in the military
Excerpt: “When I think about my career in uniform, in almost every instance where there has been poor leadership or people in positions they’re not qualified for, it was based on either the reality or the perception of a ‘diversity hire,’” Mr. Hegseth, a former major in the Army National Guard, wrote in his 2024 book “The War on Warriors.”
Frustrated by courts, Trump weighed suspending habeas corpus
Excerpt: In the case of the Insurrection Act, Vice President JD Vance pushed to invoke it just days after federal agents shot and killed Alex Pretti, a Minnesota critical care nurse who was protesting the administration’s immigration policies.
Claiming an antifa plot, US charges 15 in Minneapolis with conspiracy
‘Rejected’: How federal prisons stonewall grievances and deny care for years
Justice department says it will investigate Major League Baseball amid Pride hats controversy
Apparently the real reason Anthropic’s models are offline: a six-year-old Trump grudge
Trump’s new acting intel chief Bill Pulte arrives early, eyes firing hundreds
Gavin Newsom says Justice Department is investigating him and his wife
The President of the United States posted this at 3:38 AM today
Manager at Trump’s New Jersey golf club helped plan Reflecting Pool repairs
ICE spent $700 million on 7 warehouses. Now it wants to get rid of them.
Woman’s hypothermia death in Pittsburgh after her release from ICE custody is ruled a homicide
Report authors say feds violated Minnesotans’ human rights during ICE surge
Excerpt: “During Operation Metro Surge, federal authorities used serious human rights violations, they were not accidents: extrajudicial executions, enforced disappearance, arbitrary detention, some of the most chilling and potent human rights violations there are, to terrorize Minnesota’s immigrant and refugee communities,” McKenzie said.
As punishment for organizing a hunger strike at an ICE jail, Cuban immigrant was deported to Ecuador
Cubans are being unjustly deported under Trump even if they have bona fide asylum claims
25 babies and toddlers are in ICE custody on an average day
A mom’s worst moment is costing her everything. How ICE is tearing this New Jersey family apart.
ICE is targeting the lawyers of immigrant children
ICE protester says he was shackled in hospital for days after agents’ attack
ICE removed detainee protections after private outreach from top contractor
‘It’s like Hell’: 60 lawsuits detail alleged medical neglect at New Jersey ICE jail
ICE agents defy Connecticut law on mask ban
Excerpt: “Tell them to arrest me,” the agent responded. “Tell them. I dare you. Who’s going to arrest me?”
US citizen says ICE detained him for 2 hours without explanation
A small taste of life the unprivileged live every day.
After US strike on Iranian school, months pass without answers
We know the answers that matter: It was intentional, it was a war crime, and nobody will be punished.
Tulsi Gabbard, her guru and the mysterious messages that helped shape her political career
Leak exposes members of Peter Thiel’s secretive ‘Dialog’ society
Colorado commutations board had twice rejected freeing election thief; Dem Gov let her out anyway
UAW votes to divest from Israel Bonds
Excerpt: “I don’t just hope, but I know,” said Olga Karounos, 33, a public defender in Brooklyn, New York, from Local 2325 who made a motion to call the amendment out of committee, “that this is going to send a message to — not just the billionaire class — but to politicians and any single person who is not afraid of standing up to genocide, to (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu, to the United States government, and will put the UAW again on the map for standing for international solidarity.”
8 great Americans killed in B-52 bomber crash at US Air Force base in Southern California
CNN resident fact checker disappeared from air as company waited for Trump merger approval
New York Times does a deep-dig, decides Jeffrey Epstein probably killed himself
[2020] Personal news: why I’m now leaving MSNBC, by Ariana Pekary
Why do these San Francisco gay bars have TSA-style face scanners?
Judge denies Biden’s bid to block release of transcripts linked to special counsel inquiry
What are the grounds for this? What legal theory gives an arch-rightwing bunch of bozos the right to off-the-record conversations between a President and his ghostwriter?
License plate cameras will soon track phones, wearables, infotainment, and even your pets
Autistic children being injected with unapproved stem cell treatments supported by RFK Jr
Scores fall ill at Air Force base after Hegseth makes flu vaccine optional
Federal Trade Commission sues leading transgender health group
They’re uninsured after Obamacare became too costly. And they’re far from alone.
RFK Jr. hosts meet-and-greet with infectious diseases
US faces triple threat of climate crisis, economic hardship, and Donald Trump
US accused of trying to ‘edit out’ climate change in Antarctic report
RFK Jr insists scientific journal explain retraction of anti-vaxx article he liked
RFK Jr roundup (includes optimism!)
New plan scales back CDC’s work on diseases abroad
How an addictive gas station drug found allies in Trump’s cabinet
Trump ramps up Education Department’s dismantling with changes on special education and civil rights
Disability groups fear RFK Jr.’s new special education role
Pokémon Go players unwittingly contributed to tech with military drone uses
Papa Johns is spying on your fridge to know when you can be influenced to buy pizza
Amazon retaliated against workers who supported regulating data centers, complaint says
Trump DOJ trying to protect Musk from lawsuit over Memphis AI data center pollution
DOJ lawyers argue xAI is ‘vital’ for national security in NAACP lawsuit
‘We will hunt you down,’ Trump says in pre-movie ad that stunned Portland theatergoers
Excerpt: “Seriously?? Is this really happening? Disgusting. Shame on Regal Theaters,” one commenter wrote. Another added, “I will never step foot inside of another Regal theater in my lifetime.”
Me again: We have some Regal screens here in Seattle, which I’ll now switch from accidentally boycotting to on purpose.
For World Cup, branding isn’t allowed, unless FIFA gets a kickback
After 95 years, Big Money kills Hockey Night in Canada
US plans to end AIDS funding for South Africa
In addition to the immorality and cruelty and all the dead bodies, I’ve heard rumors that AIDS doesn’t respect international borders. Blowback happens.
Military official admits boat strike may have murdered human trafficking victims
Canadian released from US immigration detention after 8 months in a “vile, wretched hellhole”
Israeli “settlers” set fire to two West Bank mosques overnight
It is trivially easy to use Reddit to manipulate AI search, research suggests
Student cheating is becoming impossible to detect in an AI era
Leaked financial docs show OpenAI is losing billions of dollars a year
Utah turns to AI doctors—and actual doctors aren’t happy about it
Will it take a ‘Chornobyl-scale disaster’ for us to regulate AI?
California admits using high-risk AI — including systems it failed to report last year
AI facial recognition software leads to false arrests and ruined lives in Florida
Pension fund claims Microsoft duped investors about AI growth
How Ukraine uses AI to knock deadly Russian drones out of the skies
AI Slop: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Guy who sucks at being a person sees huge potential in AI
How cops are turning traffic stops into immigration arrests
Arizona officer guilty of manslaughter after shooting unarmed man
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass orders probe into fatal dog shooting by LAPD
I don’t know anything about Los Angeles politics, but I suddenly know Mayor Karen Bass is an absolute tool. Cops anywhere in America, everywhere in America, kill dogs so routinely, they must be trained to do so. If there’s a police presence at any residence and a dog so much as barks at a cop, that dog is likely to be shot. An investigation into one cop shooting one dog is like, I dunno, an investigation into one unlicensed hot dog vendor at Third Ave & Union Street. There are unlicensed food vendors everywhere, and cops kill family dogs more than daily, and everyone knows it, and claiming there’ll be an “investigation” is just the set-up for public relations that accomplishes nothing.
Cop driving San Diego police cruiser hits and kills pedestrian, and it’s ruled a suicide
Colorado trooper is finally fired for falsification of taser records, excessive force
Video contradicts FBI agent’s account of shooting during undercover sting in Country Club Hills
Family sues Detroit officer who stumbled, accidentally shot & disabled teen at 2024 block party
Family files wrongful death lawsuit after unarmed Navy veteran is killed by Michigan deputies
Ohio corrections officer charged with illegal cavity search over bar of soap
Second federal lawsuit alleges unconstitutional strip search by Oklahoma police, jail staff
Former San Antonio cop who fed homeless man shit-filled sandwich gets big promotion
Former Virginia officer sentenced to 5 years for indecent liberties with 16-year-old
A disease of deforestation: how Ebola is linked to the smartphone in your pocket
All it takes is a broken car air conditioner for climate change to kill you
Damage to boreal peatlands fast-tracks climate change
American government to pay $765 million to cancel 4 more wind projects
Trump administration allegedly backs off plan to end ocean monitoring
Pope Leo: Safeguarding minors ‘is a mandate’ for the Church
Can you hear me laughing across the internet?
Arizona pastor gets seven years in prison for abusing minor
Arkansas: Immanuel Baptist Church tells members it’s reached settlement in sexual abuse lawsuit
So says Pastor Willy Rice.
Florida diocese places priest on administrative leave after unexplained ‘serious charges’
Louisiana pastor gets 80 years in prison for sexually abusing teens
A sexual abuse case against a Michigan church leader keeps growing even after 60+ felony charges
Missouri pastor resigns after child molestation arrest
North Carolina: Former seminary student pleads in child sexual abuse material case
Founder of Pastors for Trump drops from Congressional race amid extramarital texting scandal
In this Wyoming church, child sexual abuse has gone unchecked for so long that it spans generations
Chris Evert & Martina Navratilova: The Final Set
Maridee Bonadea
bicyclist in a car country
James Burrows
sit-com maestro
Daveigh Chase
actress, Donnie Darko
Tom Dreesen
comedian
Carlo Ginzburg
microhistory
Alan Greenspan
husband of NBC News Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent Andrea Mitchell
Abdullah Ibrahim
piano jazz
Mona Khalil
sea turtles
The Major Oak
Sherwood Forest
name withheld
forgotten person
name withheld
forgotten person
James Blood Ulmer
rock’n’roller, “Are You Glad to Be in America?”
Gregory Williams
what is race anyway?
Jane Yolen
author, The Devil’s Arithmetic
Nothing will meaningfully improve
until billionaires fear for their lives.
6/22/2026
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