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NEW: Records of 911 and EMS responses to calls from ICE detention centers show a surge in emergencies the facilities are unequipped to handle, including suicide attempts, severe pregnancy complications, and alleged sexual assaults by staff. This is by @dmehro.bsky.social and @dell.bsky.social

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This is the slippery slope New reporting on use of federalized National Guard in what appears like DEA-led drug bust, no protesters in sight, far outside of LA @lizagoitein.bsky.social has very sharp analysis on why this appears illegal on all counts (including Trump’s own presidential memorandum)

NEW: Duck Durbin addresses the Whistleblower letter accusing above of telling the courts to fuck off during Bove’s judicial nomination hearing.

There are now 59,000 people in immigration detention. Almost half have no criminal record www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-rec...

This is the Great Replacement theory

BREAKING 🚨 🚨 🚨 The Trump admin plans to limit sharing classified information with Congress after someone leaked an internal assessment suggesting that Saturday's bombings of Iran's nuclear facilities weren't as successful as President Trump claimed. www.axios.com/2025/06/25/i...

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) says he will vote for the $9.4 billion White House rescissions package that will cancel $1.1 billion for public broadcasting and $8.3 billion in foreign assistance, including a key AIDS prevention program. www.politico.com/live-updates...

In interviews with NOTUS, former FBI, DEA and ATF officials claim that Attorney General Pam Bondi has become subordinate to senior Donald Trump adviser Stephen Miller and his demands to round up more and more immigrants. www.rawstory.com/stephen-mill...

DOJ sues to stop Minnesota law allowing undocumented students to qualify for in-state tuition The Justice Department argued in its complaint Wednesday that the state unfairly discriminates against U.S. citizens. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

Sen. Thom Tillis warned his colleagues during a closed-door meeting Wednesday that he would not vote to take up the party’s sweeping domestic policy bill without further clarity on Medicaid changes. www.politico.com/live-updates...

Fired, rehired and fired again, some NOAA employees get letters demanding money Three former NOAA employees told NBC News they had received debt notices from the federal government for health care coverage. www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...

BREAKING 🚨 🚨 🚨 House GOP issues new subpoenas, ramping up ActBlue investigation The fundraising platform claims the probe is partisan and not related to lawmaking. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

In a Truth Social post, Trump states that Netanyahu's criminal trial in Israel should be "canceled immediately, or a pardon given."

Russ Vought is already illegally withholding hundreds of billions in federal funding from our communities. Now, he's refusing to rule out cutting off even more funding with a new, illegal end run around Congress. He's ignoring common sense & the plain text of the law.

"Answer the question, Mr. Vought ... I don't want to hear about the Biden administration. You're here on behalf of the Trump administration" -- Jon Ossoff *was not* putting up with Russ Vought's bullshit

Murray to Vought: This should be a yes or no. What I hear is all kind of word salad to make sure you are letting us know that you intend to do things that are outside the intent of the law.

MERKLEY: How do you feel about being responsible for hundreds of thousands of kids dying because of your sudden interruption in these key programs? VOUGHT: I reject the assertion MERKLEY: I find your response both ignorant & callous. Few Americans have had a more devastating & disastrous impact

'Reflective of the experiences of all individuals': Jan. 6 rioter who bragged he 'beat the s—' out of police wants Capitol memorial to acknowledge him too lawandcrime.com/high-profile...

The Trump administration has terminated millions worth of funding for Springer Nature, a German-owned scientific publishing giant that has long received payments for subscriptions from National Institutes of Health and other agencies, Axios has learned. www.axios.com/2025/06/25/t...

"The Federal Bureau of Investigation has started a probe into how a preliminary intelligence assessment about U.S. military strikes in Iran became public, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Wednesday morning."

Scoop: Trump denies 9 former Biden aides executive privilege The White House's move means the former Biden aides will have to answer questions about their private conversations with Biden, unless they or Biden try to challenge the decision in court. www.axios.com/2025/06/25/b...

They’re planning on building a detention center for migrants in the middle of the fetid swamps of Florida. If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.

Laziness is using a fork for eating yogurt because you only grabbed one utensil and didn't want to go get a spoon.

Breaking news: Former New York state governor Andrew Cuomo has conceded to progressive rival Zohran Mamdani in the Democratic primary for New York City’s next mayor www.ft.com/content/e4b8...

BREAKING 🚨 🚨 🚨 Donald Trump waged his latest courtroom bid Tuesday to avoid paying the $83.3 million judgment he owes the writer E. Jean Carroll for defamatory remarks he made about her after she accused him of rape. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

🚨🚨🚨 Edward “Big Balls” Coristine, one of the first technologists hired as part of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), is no longer working for the federal government. “Edward Coristine resigned yesterday,” a White House official tells WIRED.

Mike Johnson: "Many respected constitutional experts argue that the War Powers Act is itself unconstitutional. I'm persuaded by that argument. They think it's a violation of the Article 2 powers of the commander in chief. I think that's right."

This is why we learn the rules…