A black woman won a country music award so today the Grammys have announced they're are creating a new "best traditional country album" award, one that is separate from - but equal to! - the renamed "best contemporary country album" award, formerly known by its original name of "best country album".

https://www.billboard.com/music/awards/grammys-add-category-best-traditional-country-album-1235997304/

BREAKING: ICE has ‘kidnapped 6 roofers’ in South Florida, abandoning the roofing truck by the road and telling no one. Locals say those men have no criminal records, have families here and are living in America legally with valid work permits.THIS is why people are protesting… Enough is Enough! ✨

@steveroyle it appears ducks can swim, but
More funding needed

Column | What Orwell thought of military parades
https://wapo.st/4jPVm3I

It's hard to credit MAGA with ignorance. If they were ignorant they'd sometimes accidentally choose less evil over more evil, but no. No matter where you set them, no matter how many times you spin them around, their moral compasses point with unerring certainty toward maximum atrocity and cruelty.

@BLTpizza @futurebird
teacher: "now, dear student, you will learn how to identify trees by their bark "

student: "but teacher, so often I see different kinds of bark on the same tree! "

teacher: "relax! we will begin with the easy trees, which seldom have more than four different kinds of bark on the same tree."

@jerry

@geekysteven I don't recognize that monster's name

Josh Marshall at TPM is showing how journalists should work: he is reporting, and explaining, the actual meaning of the actual words used by people like Kristi Noem.

Words mean things. They matter.

When Noem (or Trump, Vance, Rubio, Miller, Musk, Thiel, etc) describe how they will extend fascism, we need to understand that they mean precisely what they say.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things-stand/noem-says-national-guard-occupation-is-meant-to-liberate-la-from-its-mayor-and-governor

RFK Jr. Is Barely Even Pretending Anymore
https://open.substack.com/pub/drrubin/p/robert-f-kennedy-jr-must-resign-or?r=9qjn9&utm_medium=ios

I'm curious, do people honestly view this and think to themselves "yup, self-defence"? Are the participants of 7 October in every single building?

Trump Bristles at ‘No Kings’ Protests - The New York Times

Apparently, he’s not thrilled about the idea of millions of Americans turning out to take a giant dump on his birthday party using THEIR military as decorations. Fuck him.

no paywall ⏵https://archive.ph/fdApu

As usual, Talking Points Memo understands what's happening earlier than Big Journalism -- in this case the Trump regime's actual goal in its attack on LA.

What's happening is a coup, an extreme right-wing overthrow of the elected state and local governments.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things-stand/noem-says-national-guard-occupation-is-meant-to-liberate-la-from-its-mayor-and-governor

Because you probably missed it ⏵ French Senator Has Become Trump’s European Nemesis - The New York Times
cc @renewedresistance No Paywall: https://archive.ph/8PPDp

I am not looking forward to Saturday.

Best-case scenario: Nobody gets killed, and the magnitude of a peaceful No Kings event happening everywhere overwhelms the military parade in DC.

A guy can hope.

You youngsters take it for granted, but it was fiendishly difficult to get angry at strangers before the invention of the internet

new Live Programming/Coding discourse just dropped:
https://live-workshop.github.io/primer/

@kerrytani @heidilifeldman Senator Padilla on the ground, cuffed.

Dude represents ~18 million people. He's a "liberal", but hardly a fiery radical. Hell, he's one of the Democrats who voted for the sleazy crypto bill.

The biggest scandal in AI energy usage right now deserves to be the xAI data center running on 35 methane gas turbines that don't need air permits because they are "temporary" and don't have catalytic reduction pollution controls installed because... they just didn't bother?
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/12/xai-data-center/