the strait of hormuz is in a quantum superposition of open and closed that only collapses when you try to take a tanker through yourself and see if you get shot at

Hegseth announces automatic registration for US military draft to begin in December. Any immigrant who doesn't register within 30 days of turning 18 can be criminally charged.

All this does is show MAGA hypocrisy. Somehow auto voter registration isn’t possible—but auto draft registration is. smh

This is the most adorable thing I’ve seen on the internet of a long, long time.

Artemis II sent a pic of the beautiful garden planet we are too greedy, lazy, short-sighted, and ungrateful not to destroy:

Opinion | The Strait of Hormuz Closed Because Iran Is Using the U.S. Playbook Iran has blocked the Strait of Hormuz by raising risks for ship operators. In doing so, it has taken lessons from American financial policy.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

By closing the Strait of Hormuz, “Iran has learned the lessons of American foreign policy,” Edward Fishman writes in a guest essay. “It has used the tools at its disposal to exacerbate risk, forcing private actors to become unwitting tools of its statecraft.”

13 Rules to Protect Yourself While Protesting At No Kings Read and share as communities across the United States rise up against the Trump regime and for a more just future

As millions protest at No Kings this weekend, the Trump regime is violently cracking down on people exercising our 1A rights.

As a human rights lawyer, I share 13 things you can do to better protect yourself and your community from Trump's goons.

No paywall. Please share.

Hate to hear it for Maxey, but this is hilariously on brand given the Sixers injury luck the last few seasons.

OKC would love that.

it’s only an echo chamber when it’s the left. when it’s the right they call it some bullshit like the Agora or the Town Square

Since 1976, a street in Alexandria's Muharram Bek neighbourhood transforms into a football pitch every Ramadan for the Al-Falaki Street Tournament — one of Egypt's oldest grassroots competitions.

"We've grown up with the Falaki tournament. It's our tradition."

While we sit around to find out how bad exactly it all is, a bit of cheer: the best baguette of Paris competition was won by a Sri Lankan who appears to have started as a dish washer in restaurants and eventually trained as a Boulanger.

www.paris.fr/pages/la-mei...

This one hits hard.

Community meme: I CAN EXCUSE FASCISM. BUTI DRAW THE LINE AT MERCANTILISM.

The Supreme Court:

Now that’s a quote!

Alysa Liu’s Olympic run came with terms. Her choreographer helps her express them Liu is the best U.S. hope for an Olympic medal in women's figure skating, which would be the country's first in the competition since 2006.

“When Liu, 20, decided to return to skating, she did so with conditions. She’d wear what she wants. Dance to the music she wants. Eat what she wants. Take breaks when she wants…. [Skating] would be the vehicle through which she displayed the real Alysa.”

she did it! her! way!!

Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.

It’s half time, and that means it’s time for one of America’s most enduring and beloved traditions: mediocre white people being unproductively furious at having to notice brown people

St. Peter police chief intervenes, prevents federal agents from arresting resident The police chief of St. Peter intervened to prevent federal agents from taking a local resident who was observing ICE enforcement actions into custody. It is believed to the first time local police in...

"MPR News has learned that the police chief in the small southern Minnesota city of St. Peter intervened Thursday afternoon to prevent federal immigration agents from arresting a local resident" who had been observing federal agents. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

every epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds

Jim Pattison won't sell U.S. warehouse proposed as new ICE facility | CBC News Jim Pattison Developments has announced it will not sell an industrial building in Ashland, Va., that was set to be turned into an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) processing facility.

Turns out that you can simply chose not to sell your warehouse and prevent it from becoming a detention center

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Best gas masks “How did these people go out and get gas masks?” AG Bondi asked.

me, emotionally writing an essay on the use of force by federal agents: ok but what if i packaged this in the most insane way possible www.theverge.com/policy/86857...

You should absolutely do this. It’s not common knowledge.

The first professional police force in the US began in 1838 in Boston. In 1854 only three cities had police forces: NYC, Philly, and Boston.

Whether it was Republicans nominating a convicted felon or Democrats nominating a woman, both parties left voters with an impossible choice in 2024.

A doctor who witnessed the shooting submits a sworn declaration in federal litigation to halt ICE surge in MN:

"I did not see him attack the agents or brandish a weapon of any kind."

and

"The victim had at least three bullet wounds in his back."

Read storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Remember that the legal standard for deadly force is whether the agent reasonably believed that he was in imminent danger of death or serious bodily injury.

That is the only question that matters. And that standard is plainly not met by what we see in the video.

AOC: They need 10 Democratic votes in the Senate to pass, continued unfettered ICE funding with no guardrails. Regardless of where you are in the Democratic party, this moment proves that the status quo cannot stand

I would implore my Democratic colleagues in the senate to vote no

Seeing a bunch of normal ass midwestern moms and dads marching in -20 degrees knowing they might be tear gassed or worse really drives home what a cowardly lot of people the pundit class is