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Thank you @jimmykimmel.com for making it plain: the media is helping to push lies about what's happening in Los Angeles when literally ... almost NOTHING is happening in Los Angeles, EXCEPT for where ICE shows up and kidnaps people. The city is perfectly normal otherwise. Media: stop playing along!

Can we send this to every white liberal who asks this question because baby I'm tired of y'all trying to call him to save you.

“… I think what people are really remembering is a country where an Obama speech mattered. What they must accept — if we are to do the hard work before us — is that we no longer have that country.” @tressiemcphd.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/o...

This.👇

USAGM today urgently called back to work the staff of the Voice of America's Farsi language service. All had been on paid admin leave for the past three months with the rest of VOA's silenced journalists.

Regarding recent immigration actions and the Club World Cup.

"About 50 inmates at Delaney Hall, the ICE detention facility in Newark, banded together and pushed down the wall of a dormitory room when meals were hours late, a lawyer told NJ Advance Media."

Newsom: "This is what he does. He creates a problem and then he tries to be a hero in his own Marvel movie ... he initiated those raids. He significantly increased the scale and scope of those raids. That's why he wants the National Guard."

SCOOP — ICE employees received an email yesterday telling them the agency's warrantless arrest policy had been rescinded. It's likely part of the Trump administration's efforts to further loosen enforcement restrictions to meet the new quota of 3,000 immigration arrests per day. My report:

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Just heard it’s gonna cost $60M to repair the streets after the tanks roll through DC for Trump’s military parade BS birthday — on top of the $45M to throw the fucked up event itself!!!

Newsom on Trump's military parade: "It's a vulgar display. It's the kind of thing you see with Kim Jong Un, you see it with Putin, you see it with dictators around the world that are weak ... Weakness masquerading as strength ... that's about as small as it gets ... that's Donald Trump."

talk yo sh*t Gavin!

a side note: this is as frontal an assault on the US by Israel as I've ever seen, and there have been some bad ones. This is Israel blowing up the planned negotiations in Oman tomorrow between the Trump envoy and Iran. This is Netanyahu saying the US can't do diplomacy he doesn't sign off on.

🚨 BREAKING: Israel strikes Iran

Reports of an uprising inside Delaney Hall immigration detention center in Newark NJ. I was here with people trying to visit family when we all started choking due to tear gas used inside.

The Secretary of Homeland Security is trying to be all hard, but she really is just a garden variety Karen.

yep! unpaywalled:

EXCLUSIVE: Middle Tennessee family torn apart after ICE-Highway Patrol checkpoint 'looking for color of skin,' wife says www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...

If that’s what they do to a United States Senator with a question, imagine what they can do to any American that dares to speak up. We will hold this administration accountable.

I would like to once again say that once they arrested Ras Baraka every elected Dem should have understood what was in store.

Somehow the smallest news of the day, but the largest evangelical denomination, the Southern Baptists, have officially voted to begin pursuing the repeal of federally legalized gay marriage the same way they successfully repealed federally legalized abortion.

Jeffries should have been out there IMMEDIATELY saying that his entire caucus was filing articles of impeachment against Noem. These people LOVE to issue letters. Think of this as a souped up letter and then BASH HER WITH IT DAILY. Every time you can start a sentence with: "NOEM must be impeached"

This stand-alone item is inaccurate, @nytimes.com. In the widely viewed video Padilla loudly and clearly identifies himself from the beginning.

Because Black people know that there is no such thing as “identification” or “identifying yourself”. They aren’t saying Padilla didn’t identify himself as a U.S. Senator. They are saying that there is only one acceptable identity — credential — being white and, in these times, being pro-Trump.

Fed cops appear to rough up a member of the Senate.

Senator Alex Padilla is one of the most decent people I know. This is outrageous, dictatorial, and shameful. Trump and his shock troops are out of control. This must end now.

AP footage of Senator Alex Padilla being physically removed from Kristi Noem's press conference about the LA @schiff.senate.gov @congresstran.bsky.social Thank you, Senator @padilla.senate.gov

Trump's military moves - the political Fort Bragg speech, L.A. troop call-up, tanks in D.C. for a Kremlin-style parade - aren't 'a distraction' It's the essence of his regime, and he's pulling a slow-motion coup to crush all dissent and take control My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/coup...

Nine years ago, a gunman tore through my neighborhood bar, Pulse Nightclub, and stole 49 people from us. I was lucky to make it out alive, but my best friends Drew & Juan never made it home to say goodbye. Nine years, but it hurts like yesterday. Please #HonorThemWithAction .

Overkill much? #bully “ #Texas Gov. Greg Abbott ordered deployment of more than 5,000 Texas National Guard troops across the state, + more than 2,000 state police, to help local law enf manage protests against Trump and ongoing federal immigration raids” #NoKings apnews.com/article/immi...

SCOOP: Guardsmen deployed to LA aren't on formal orders, thus aren't set up to be paid or get healthcare yet www.military.com/daily-news/2...

Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board Resignation Statement open.substack.com/pub/frmrffsb...

BREAKING: Judge says Mahmoud Khalil cannot be detained or deported based on Rubio’s determination. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

RIP to Brian Wilson, who gave us many perfect albums but also the perfect interview

God only knows what I'd be without you. Brian Wilson 1942-2025 www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Damn I missed Sly stone too? 🤯😭

Though their work drew from previous touchstones, Sly Stone and Brian Wilson both heard music in their heads that nobody had conceived before. We’re remarkably lucky that they were able to cultivate ensembles that helped make their music a reality. The cost of genius was steep, though. It usually is