Olivia Miles has tied Paige Bueckers as the fastest player in WNBA history to reach 250 points and 80 assists.

The national trauma of Hurricane Katrina remains seared into the minds of those who were alive to experience it firsthand. Absent from that narrative is the experience of the folks incarcerated in Old Parish Prison during the storm, who couldn’t evacuate. scalawagmagazine.org/2026/06…

“Queer theory has frustratingly little to say about how college acceptance rates and financial aid shape a queer life of the mind.” thebaffler.com/salvos/the-ho…

It’s been 12 days since the Israeli military kidnapped 20-year-old U.S. citizen Sama Safi from her family’s home in the West Bank. She is being held without charge in Israeli military detention where her family cannot access her or contact her.

President Trump's investment accounts traded between $212 million and $695 million in stocks and other securities in the first three months of the year — an unprecedented sum for a sitting president. cbsn.ws/4eqg612

Another instance of ICE releasing vulnerable detainees in the middle of nowhere, in freezing weather, killing them. They did the same to Nurul Amin Shah Alam, who was legally blind. Woman’s hypothermia death after her release by ICE is ruled a homicide theguardian.com/us-news/2026…

🇱🇧A Christian pastor, along with his wife and daughters, was killed in Lebanon, and their church was destroyed by Isræli forces.

Reading will forever be one of my favorite hobbies because it’s like bed rotting, but with moral superiority.

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There you have it. Anthropic's CEO said it: The murder of more than 100 schoolgirls in Minab targeted by Anthropic's CLAUDE "is a use case that doesn't even violate our red lines." Time to rise up against these technofeudal war criminals.

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If The New York Times got its hands on leaked audio recordings from the Situation Room, then we have a massive national security crisis on our hands. That very likely means our enemies know everything that’s been said in that room, at least since Trump took over. This should be a massive scandal.

Excerpt: At first I was not sure I had heard the doctor properly. “C4, like the explosive?” “Yes, they thought it was cheese. They found it along with some bottles of water and Pepsi.” It’s towards the end of Nov 2024 and I’m in Gaza City. The IDF had recently withdrawn from the area this family lived in. The family had briefly returned. Read here (it’s free): open.substack.com/pub/arwada…

Wait, is this for real? Trump spent $60 million of our taxpayer funds to host a UFC fight and then is selling UFC coin to line his family’s pockets. The Trump corruption swamp is a mile deep. cnn.com/2026/06/09/politics/…

Breaking: Palestinian prisoner Imad Sarhan, from Haifa, has died in Gilboa Prison after spending 24 years in Israeli prisons.

I think it’s rather interesting that despite being far wealthier in absolute terms than a Vanderbilt or Carnegie or Stanford, and being directly positioned in an industry that could benefit from it, no tech elite has ever founded a university, and few have even given endowments

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UFC Freedom 250 is facing a chaotic weather setup on the White House South Lawn, with a 60% chance of thunderstorms, heavy downpours, and wind gusts up to 34 mph threatening to delay the outdoor fights. On top of the storm risk, brutal D.C. humidity is driving a triple-digit heat index alongside massive swarms of mosquitos and gnats that fighters will have to battle inside the cage. While the venue’s massive 92-foot overhang will keep the octagon dry, a single lightning strike within eight miles will trigger an automatic 30-minute freeze on the entire event.

Today marks 9 years since the Grenfell Tower fire. But 9 years on, there is still no justice. 9 years on & people still live in unsafe buildings. We must not forget those killed because of dishonesty and corporate greed.

On the day he died, Aldon Smith visited a charity that feeds homeless people in San Francisco and donated 10 pizzas. Shortly after that, a friend of Smith's found him unresponsive, and he was declared dead less than an hour later. nbcsports.com/nfl/profootbal…