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As Philadelphia’s jail population hits a 33 year low, Philadelphia homicides plummet to their lowest level since 1967. And after blaming him for virtually every bad thing under the sun, suddenly the national press abandons all interest in DA Larry Krasner. abolitionistlawcenter.org/2025/06/17/p...

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Awesome news! Brian Beals, who served 35 years on a wrongful conviction, gets his Certificate of Innocence: chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2025/0...

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This may be the most absurd and expansive view of Article II that Trump has put forward yet. DOJ is arguing that Trump can deploy the military within the states to do anything, for essentially any reason, even reasons not in the statute, and no court has jurisdiction to review it.

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“I’m a lawyer and I’m going to give you the legal term for what’s happening: It’s fucking ridiculous.” @zellnor.bsky.social

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A growing crowd of New Yorkers is protesting outside the immigration court where NYC comptroller and mayoral candidate Brad Lander was seized by masked men in plainclothes working for ICE. Other officials and candidates are speaking. Someone in the crowd heckled Andrew Cuomo

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I still can't get past the idea that people in America are now supposed to accept that this is a valid form of law enforcement and just assume it's fine when random dudes in groups with face-coverings, no ID, no warrant, & no uniform grab people off the street and force them into unmarked vehicles

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This is the core issue that elected officials and the press choose not to understand. They’re always up in arms when an elected official gets arrested, but in our constitutional order elected officials are just people. And the police do this sort of thing to regular people all the time.

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A week after 75 Dems vote for a resolution expressing gratitude toward ICE in a resolution that pretended to be about antisemitism, ICE goons arrest the Jewish comptroller of NYC without cause.

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In writing, Trump's judicial nominees have all signaled their support for his election denier conspiracy theories, and their willingness to end birthright citizenship. But Senate Democrats didn't challenge the nominees on these answers when they had the chance. Most of them didn't even show up.

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Not an original point but worth saying again - there is not a single element in this picture that identifies any of these folks as law enforcement agents. No badges, no uniforms, no vests. Out of context it just looks like a bunch of random guys are kidnapping a mayoral candidate.

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I dunno man, warnings don't seem to be doing the trick

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democratic leaders are operating like the mike lee thing is just a slip up by one guy instead of how the entire movement thinks. im tired of it. this is who they are. theyve been like this for decades. whether its goldwater opposing civil rights, reagan attacking welfare recipients or wmds

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we are at the “SA beating and arresting political opponents” stage of the transition to authoritarianism

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"A reporter from @thecity.nyc had overheard one agent say to another minutes before Lander’s arrest, 'Do you want to arrest the Comptroller?'"

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Whenever Laura Loomer and the NY Times editorial board are on the same side, you know a) they're probably attacking a member of a minority group they believe they can demonize w/o consequence, and b) their arguments will be full of obfuscations and recycled smears that don't hold up to scrutiny.

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how can an overwhelming D state and city not pass and enforce laws preventing masked thugs from kidnapping people on the 'trust me bro' promise? maybe the abundance guys can tell them how to do it

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Impromptu presser outside 26 Federal Plaza as elected officials gather, calling for Lander's release.

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NYC Comptroller Brad Lander was just arrested by Trump’s ICE agents because he asked to see a judicial warrant. This is fascism and all New Yorkers must speak in one voice. Release him now.

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An Afghan man who worked as a translator for the U.S. military during the war was detained by ICE after showing up for a hearing inside of a federal courthouse in San Diego, his attorney says. He fears that if he returns to Afghanistan, he would be tortured or even killed, @nbcsandiego.com reports.

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New York City did not defund the police. This is not a thing that happened.

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We've had four years of Mayor Cop! It's total madness that anyone believes New York City defunded the police.

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While Mike Lee and Steve Daines' Senate Natural Resources Committee amendment to the budget reconciliation package mandates the sale of up to 3.3 million acres of public land, what most people miss is that it also authorizes the sale of 258 million acres. That's 40 percent of all public land:

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"61% of Republicans — and 72% of the subset who identify with Trump’s MAGA movement — support the bill... But ...after being told the bill would decrease funding for local hospitals and increase the [uninsured], support among those who back MAGA dropped more than 20 percentage points"

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New from 404 Media: cops in California investigated what they called an "immigration protest" with AI-powered cameras, according to new data we obtained. Data also shows local cops around the country tapping into California cameras on behalf of ICE. This is illegal www.404media.co/california-c...

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As California lawmakers make a show of banning face masks for cops, they’re green-lighting a law that would roll back transparency for “undercover” officers’ misconduct files. My latest for @us.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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The valedictorian at a west Ottawa high school says she's been told not to come to school Monday after she made pro-Palestinian remarks during a speech at her commencement ceremony.

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There is always a tweet.

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I have no idea what this woman is talking about. “So much visceral anger coming from Dems”? I see a bunch of half-dead pathetic nincompoops scared of their own shadow walking around in stupor talking about sternly worded letters and how we all need more bipartisan cooperation.

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LOOK AT THIS SHIT: Marines and ICE team up in a show of force, turning a community swap meet into a surveillance operation. Witnesses say people were cornered, forced to identify themselves, and had their photos taken — without suspicion or a warrant. This is a police state.

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The Trump Admin wants to bring back asbestos! You can’t make this shit up. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/u...

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I’m watching the Panama v Guadeloupe Gold Cup game on TV as we speak. It is being played in Los Angeles. And the stadium is almost completely empty. A sport that in the U.S. is highly dependent on Latino audiences is no longer viable. The World Cup cannot come here.

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It constantly blows my mind that we have elected someone so gobsmackingly uncomprehending of the gravity and responsibility of his office that he does not grasp how insanely dangerous it is to fire off comments like this on a whim.

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🚨 There’s a lot of horrific news out of Washington right now—but you might have missed this: Senate Republicans just introduced a plan to sell off 120 million acres of our public lands. Let me break down what’s in the bill and why it’s a full-scale land grab. 🧵

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After the murders in Minnesota, Tim Walz called for "grace and compassion and vision and compromise and decency." Some Republicans chose a far uglier course. Take the increasingly unhinged Sen. Mike Lee, for example. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

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I wouldn’t even wipe my ass with The New York Times at this point.

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Javier Bardem went so hard on the genocide of Palestinians that the View had to cut to commercial break

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Can’t believe nobody wants to go to a soccer game to be kidnapped by ICE

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FIFA Club World Cup ticket sales tank dramatically after the Dept. of Homeland Security bragged that agents would be “suited and booted" at the stadium in a now-deleted social media post

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I wrote about Democrats' obsession with calling Trump's actions a "distraction," and how it reflects their failure to understand the modern media ecosystem.

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It has been four days since Kristi Noem, the head of the department of homeland security, said this in public. If meant literally, it describes the end of democracy in California. If not meant literally, would be nice for that to be clarified and for the troops to leave. bsky.app/profile/just...

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BREAKING: Trump took to Truth Social to stoke panic with a reckless threat, telling Iranians: “Everyone should immediately evacuate Tehran.” It’s 2 a.m. in the Iranian capital. Some 16.8 million Iranians call the Tehran metro area home.

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"I've sat on this bench now for 40 years. I've never seen government racial discrimination like this." That's what a Reagan-appointed judge said about Trump cancelling hundreds of NIH grants. We can't stop fighting Trump's assault on science, the NIH, and our values.

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Jesus, this video. What a sadistic psychopath. And he was allowed to terrorize people for at least three years before he was finally held accountable.

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Too bad there's no opposition political party that could capitalize on this.

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honestly i don’t know how we keep a united front together when the center-left prefers a corrupt rapist centrist over a social democrat as mayor

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After ruling the NIH grant terminations illegal, Judge Young ended the hearing with an eye-opening speech. “This represents racial discrimination, and discrimination against America’s LGBTQ community. That's what this is. I would be blind not to call it out. My duty is to call it out. And I do so.”

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if you're trans or black or muslim, everything you do is considered political, but if you're a christian terrorist, you're just an apolitical part of The System (derogatory)

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