Same-sex marriage is under attack again. The Christian nationalist right has launched a new campaign, and, unsurprisingly, it’s using children’s safety as a pretext to roll back equality.

Elon Musk's net worth just hit $800 billion. How?

One of his corporations acquired another one of his corporations.

Meanwhile, Elon's companies pay next to nothing in federal income taxes and get billions of dollars in government contracts.

This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.

Power begets wealth and wealth begets power. We're seeing how the extreme wealth concentration is distorting politics, rigging markets, and granting unprecedented power to a handful of billionaires.

Kudos to Pope Leo for speaking out. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

How to respond to Trump's lies about a "crime wave" https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-to-respond-to-trumps-lies-about

Sometimes Murray Bookchin just sounds like a grumpy old man using scary words to complain about young people: "Indeed, lifestyle anarchism today is finding its principal expression in spray-can graffiti, postmodernist nihilism, antirationalism, neoprimitivism, anti-technologism, 1/2

The US military has no place in civilian and domestic law enforcement. Keep the National Guard out of American Cities.

Let’s give it up for Angie the ICE Chaser

The United States government is no longer able to protect us from real hazards, such as flash floods, because it’s shifting funds to fake hazards, such as a non-existent immigrant crime wave. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/u...

Front and center table at my Barnes and Noble. Good on you, @barnesandnoble.com