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Trump administration abruptly shifts focus of its mass deportation campaign, telling ICE officials to largely pause raids and arrests in the agricultural industry, hotels and restaurants. @haleaziz.bsky.social Zolan Kanno-Youngs www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/u...

submitted 15 hours ago • 46 comments

Protest works. But there was no way for Trump to keep his “mass deportation” promise without terrorizing non-criminals, traumatizing communities, and implementing cruelty. Anyone who thought otherwise was being foolish.

submitted 15 hours ago • 52 comments

U.S. Marines have detained a civilian for the first time on the streets of Los Angeles, where President Trump ordered them to guard a federal building. The civilian, an Army veteran, said he was on his way to a VA office inside the building. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

submitted 13 hours ago • 12 comments

it’s quite strange that wednesday ICE employees got an email saying it’s open season on warrantless arrests, as i reported (ostensibly to meet daily quotas) and then another email thursday saying heyyyy pump the breaks on arresting certain types of workers. somebody’s lying or incompetent or both.

submitted 12 hours ago • 50 comments

Trump demonizes ordinary immigrants as MS-13 gang members - in reality he is funding the guy who is protecting MS-13 leaders

submitted 12 hours ago • 9 comments

The big problem they have is they'll never find 12 million people to deport unless they deport people like this ... working in farms, hotels, eatries..LT care... service industry. And unless they deport LEGAL migrants. They misled voters into believing that 12 million criminals would be deported.

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

Highly clarifying piece from @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social charting the different ways Biden and Trump handled Israel and the Mideast, leading to where we are now. "We wouldn’t be here if not for Donald Trump." www.arcdigital.media/p/netanyahus...

submitted 7 hours ago • 4 comments

Good insight in this thread about new reporting Marines have detained individuals in LA, which raises the question of Posse Comitatus Act violation.

submitted 7 hours ago • 48 comments

Guards bar volunteers, reporters from Sacramento immigration court hearings www.sacbee.com/news/politic...

submitted 6 hours ago • 13 comments

Highlights the fatal flaw of the DOGE "move fast & break things": there's no time to learn whether the thing you're about to break might be worth saving

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Hey @smerconish.bsky.social you say the last time we had a serious debate on immigration was in 2015. How come you ignore the BIPARTISAN proposal led by REPUBLICAN SENATOR Lankford, and supported by President Biden. But blown up candidate Trump. www.cnn.com/2024/01/25/p...

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Now that Trump has suspended deportation raids in the agriculture and hospitality industries, it's even worse that Dems failed to put their stamp on the right side of this debate. This dereliction could now let Trump get away with recasting his climbdown as sensible recalibration on his part. Awful.

submitted 4 hours ago • 25 comments

New in PN: The Trump/Musk fight is why we say "No Kings" "Musk's staggering wealth allowed him to shepherd a chosen candidate into office, install himself atop the government informally, and systematically destroy it from within. That’s not what America is supposed to be."

submitted 4 hours ago • 79 comments

This is a shocking development. Two leading Democratic lawmakers and their spouses in Minnesota were shot in their homes early this morning by a man possibly impersonating a police officer. This is the kind of violence we have been warning about. www.fox9.com/news/brookly...

submitted 4 hours ago • 243 comments

A federal appeals court has declined to rehear Trump's challenge to the $5 million E. Jean Carroll civil judgment.

submitted 4 hours ago • 15 comments

Wow. NYT is reporting that Trump is largely pausing deportation raids in agriculture and hospitality industries, suggesting he fears deportations are "hurting industries and constituencies that he does not want to lose." As I try to argue in this piece/thread, he's vulnerable here. Reset, Dems:

submitted 6 hours ago • 33 comments

Trump has pledged to restore Confederate names to military bases, even though it would violate a statute passed by Congress. These names belong to traitors who led a rebellion against America. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/u...

submitted 5 hours ago • 99 comments

ALERT 3 people shot at homes of Democratic lawmakers in Minneapolis, prompting a shelter-in-place Suspect is still at large, dressed like a police officer The first shooting at home of State Sen. John Hoffman A 2nd shooting happened at home of a state representative bnonews.com/index.php/20...

submitted 5 hours ago • 3 comments

federal immigration agent arrived at World Cup party attended by Miami-Dade County’s mayor, who is calling the incident “deeply troubling” and a potential warning sign that international soccer fans won’t feel safe traveling to Miami next year for World Cup www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...

submitted 5 hours ago • 39 comments

Israel and Iran carried out waves of deadly attacks on Saturday, with neither side showing any sign of heeding international pleas for an immediate de-escalation of hostilities. Follow live updates.

submitted 5 hours ago • 16 comments

Gov. Walz on situation in Minneapolis

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Alternatively, “Thousands of Americans expected to take to the streets in defense of their neighbors and their democracy” www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

submitted 5 hours ago • 70 comments

Unsparingly accurate from Rose Kelanic. Let's hope someone gets the headline in front of the president. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/o...

submitted 5 hours ago • 3 comments

Fucking hell: “Minnesota state senator John Hoffman in Champlin and Minnesota state representative Melissa Hortman in Brooklyn Park were reportedly shot in their homes by a gunman impersonating a police officer.”

submitted 5 hours ago • 163 comments

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submitted 20 hours ago • 113 comments

BREAKING: Reuters has published video images of Marines carrying out the first known detention of civilian in Los Angeles

submitted 20 hours ago • 100 comments

The White House has already previewed their legal argument in the military deployment at the border context; they argue it's not a violation of the Posse Comitatus Act because the troops are not arresting the person, merely temporarily detaining them for local law enforcement to arrive.

submitted 20 hours ago • 128 comments

I spoke with the LA-area pastor who confronted masked men conducting an apparent immigration action on church property — men, she says, who said "the whole country is our property." DHS claims ICE wan't there — but I have video, and it may've still been a DHS team. religionnews.com/2025/06/13/i...

submitted 22 hours ago • 54 comments

Striking to see Dem electeds calling on people to join the NoKings protests.

submitted 20 hours ago • 167 comments

Sheesh

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STAT+: In fight over research overhead funding, universities propose alternatives to Trump’s cuts www.statnews.com/2025/06/13/n...

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Nothing says “Christian values” like calling to tar and feather your political opponents.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

As is often the case, Texas has been a preview of this, being a little laboratory of autocracy for the past 10 years under Abbott/Patrick/Paxton, as @amykristinsanders.bsky.social and I wrote about here. www.statesman.com/story/opinio...

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Fox hosts, parroting DHS, claimed Sen. Padilla "ran at,” "lunged at," and tried to “bum-rush” Kristi Noem. Video disproves their claims, showing Padilla standing calmly across the room asking his question as security grabs him.

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Members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus marched from the House floor to Senate Leader Thune and House Speaker Johnson’s offices after Sen. Alex Padilla was forcefully removed from a DHS news conference in Los Angeles.

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If Trump’s mock-up is anything to go by, his $5 million “gold card” looks more like a credit card than a piece of government identification. Gold cardholders would almost singularly consist of rich foreigners. https://trib.al/HjeyBEt

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

“Les Misérables” was Victor Hugo’s response to a menacing, authoritarian regime—an irony that seems lost on Donald Trump, who apparently counts the musical among his favorites.

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Guess who was right in the thick of the assault on @padilla.senate.gov? Corey Lewandowski. (He may have been the guy instructing that there's no recording at a press conference and seems to have realized how badly they fucked up.)

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The "No Kings" organizers say that there are more than 1,800 protests planed for tomorrow.: www.nokings.org We'll have journalists at several of them, but you can tag @motherjones.com with your clips and tips.

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Inside the push by President Trump and his GOP allies to raise the financial stakes for suing over his policies -- and for winning early injunctions halting them buff.ly/Ll1TrOw

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This is a clear imposition of religious doctrine on Arkansas' students. We will fight to uphold this nation’s foundational constitutional principles.

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When a Christian Nationalist pastor calls genocide “an act of mercy,” believe him. This is why we fight for a secular government, not one guided by ancient holy war fan fiction.

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Trump unwittingly exposed 'crucial lie' that'll make Stephen Miller 'weep': host www.rawstory.com/trump-expose...

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Appeals court pauses ruling requiring Trump to return control of California National Guard to state | CNN Politics share.google/aqNmPu360ebk...

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