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[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

Great nations invest in education. Great men aren’t threatened by brilliant women.

[Jacobin @jacobin]

A kids’ movie about tech addiction and the terror of being obsolete?

Of course Toy Story 5 is a hit — we’re all living through it. https://t.co/eChH6DJYIw

[Geoff Bennett @GeoffRBennett]

NY Magazine: Mamdani gets his rent freeze. New York City's Rent Guidelines Board approved a freeze on one-year rent-stabilized leases -- and, for the first time in its history, also approved a freeze on two-year leases. https://t.co/6vRvAzDxWX

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Calls to expand the Supreme Court EXPLODE after they ruled that Americans can't sue the maker of Roundup weedkiller for causing cancer — blocking thousands of lawsuit.

These Republican justices are utterly corrupt...

"Impeach the corrupt right-wing justices and pack the fucking court already. Enough," wrote leftist commentator Kyle Kulinski on X.

"SCOTUS rules Monsanto/Bayer can’t be sued for omitting a warning even if their herbicides do cause cancer. Even if the legal reasoning of the court is sound in this case, it’s a blatant travesty of justice," Republican Congressman Thomas Massie wrote on X. "Congress and the President can fix this and we absolutely should."

The court's decision to side with Bayer — which became the manufacturer of Roundup after they purchased the maker Monsanto in 2018 — is the latest in a long string of decisions in which the justices have sided with corporate interests over the welfare of the American people. In its current state, with a Republican majority, the Supreme Court functions as just another arm of these massive companies.

They ruled against a Missouri man who convincingly argued that his cancer was caused by Roundup. A jury had previously awarded him $1.25 million. The Trump administration supported Monsanto in this case, removing any lingering doubt that the "Make America Healthy Again" shtick was a farce. This White House was always going to choose profits over people.

The decision comes after Bayer was hit by a deluge of lawsuits for failing to properly warn customers that their product can cause cancer. The justices' incredibly tenuous logic was that because federal regulations have not found the cancer link in question, a label is not required and failure-to-warn lawsuits at a state level are illegitimate.

Jay Feldman of Beyond Pesticides, a health and environmental group, called the ruling "a tragic setback for public and environmental health,."

It's time we stop pretending that the Supreme Court is some sacred, nonpartisan institution. Right-wingers have spent decades stacking it with reactionary ideologues in order to undermine the public interest and entrench the power of the super-rich and corporations. Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito literally take bribes from billionaires in the form of lavish gifts and trips. They're not even pretending at legitimacy.

That leaves us with one option. Since the court is now nothing more than a partisan battleground, we need to start taking territory. Expand the court and nominate liberal justices to seize back control of our democracy!

Please ❤️ and share if you support expanding the court!

[Acyn @Acyn]

Mamdani: Now, many of you know it’s a city of 8.5 million people. More than 3 million of us were born elsewhere. I’m one of them. We’re a city that’s proud of our immigrant heritage.

And when we think about especially what Haitian New Yorkers have had to deal with—not just for weeks or months or years, but frankly for decades—we have seen a cruelty that has become normalized. And to have people who, frankly, taught the world about freedom have their own freedom be put in jeopardy by the actions of a Supreme Court and a federal administration, it is not only cruel, it’s something that we will not ever accept.

And so we stand here as New Yorkers proud of standing in solidarity and proud to do everything that we can to keep people in their homes and to keep people together.

And we’re proud of that because we know that at the core of what it means to be a New Yorker is also to celebrate the many different places that we all come from, to understand that no matter where we were born, no matter what language we spoke growing up, we belong in the city and the city belongs to us.

And especially when you think about the fact, as you can see here on this pin, a team that brought us all together in the Knicks and reminded us of what it means to be a part of this city—the joy, the emotion, the ecstasy that comes with knowing yourself as a New Yorker.

And it wasn’t just embracing the people next to you whose names you’ve known for years. It was also jumping into the arms of a stranger, watching the game wherever you were, whether it was a LinkNYC kiosk or at a bar or in a backyard or on a delayed stream, somehow in the trunk of a random New Yorker’s car—you were watching the game.

And I think what those weeks also showed us was the magic of the city, and that at the heart of that is each and every New Yorker, no matter how different their stories are, whether they’re Haitian, whether they’re Syrian, whether they’re from wherever it may be in the world. They too are New Yorkers. We’re proud of them, we’re proud of the city.

[The Root @TheRoot]

Maryland @Sen_Alsobrooks (D) expressed her frustration and anger over President Trump abruptly cancelling plans to sign a bipartisan housing affordability bill on Wednesday.

The first-term congresswoman said, he “woke up having another tantrum” and called him a “man child.”

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

No other race is told to forget their history!

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

🚨 BREAKING: Major legal victory for MeidasTouch host Katie Phang.

Judge Emmet Sullivan has granted Phang's motion for a preliminary injunction, ordering the Trump administration to move forward on key transparency measures in the Epstein files case—including defending redactions, producing additional records, and publishing the disclosure log required by law.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Mamdani: We want to make it clear that our city does not simply oppose the actions of ICE, but that we are not going to be complicit with those actions either. And that means making sure that every single city agency is in compliance with our sanctuary city policies.

Now, if you don’t know what a sanctuary city policy is, I’ll describe it this way: it means that we do not allow ICE agents into our schools, our hospitals, our city property unless they can provide a judicial warrant signed by a judge. It means that we don’t assist ICE with their civil immigration enforcement. It means that we make clear that we are proud of our heritage as an immigrant city.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Joy Behar: “You look in the dictionary next to the word cool, Obama’s picture’s there. Not for nothing, but Trump is about as cool as Mitch McConnell. He ain’t cool at all and he’s green with envy and it’s hard to be that green when you’re orange”

[Joaquin Castro @JoaquinCastrotx]

Today, the Supreme Court decided to become a partner in Donald Trump's mass deportation campaign. It is shameful and cruel.

Hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers will now be subject to deportation. They fled danger and violence and came to the United States in search of safety. They have raised families and contributed to our economy as healthcare workers, teachers, and more. This is not the end, and we will keep fighting.

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

This makes me happy.

Obama’s first bucket at the Obama Center.

Build libraries. Build community spaces. Build things that will outlast the outrage cycle.

[Ricky Davila @TheRickyDavila]

Black excellence, the envy of every racist bigot.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Ansari: I didn’t think I could be shocked by anything he does, but he was literally handed a bipartisan housing bill that would lower costs on a silver platter. It was such an easy win for him at a time when he’s so unpopular because of his cover-up of the Epstein files and this illegal war he screwed up. He could’ve said, “I did this big housing bill,” and because he is so committed to rigging the election, he chose to blow it all up. Their party is a mess. Trump is a joke.

[Miles Taylor @MilesTaylorUSA]

For criticizing him, Trump opened an investigation into me for “treason.”

I’m not scared by that feckless thug. I’ve decided to call out his corruption louder than ever.

See you at the movies, Mr. President. No need to buy a ticket. We’re making this free for everyone.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Reconstruction was a pivotal and turbulent chapter in our nation’s history – and its consequences are still being felt today. With @HGMedia's Reconstruction: The Unfinished Promise, I hope folks can rediscover an essential part of our past and remember that even in moments of deep conflict and contradiction, persistence and perseverance remain powerful sources of hope.