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A Good Read The damaging part is the assault on health & science research DOGE & Trump admins go in & slash cervical cancer & sickle cell research because it’s “woke” Why is it woke? Apparently because men do not get cervical cancer & blacks are the unfortunate carriers of sickle cell. Keeping up?

“Never woulda happened if I’d been President ..” 🤡

My man Jay did the deep dive into ACB’s absolutely fucked up concurrence in the anti-trans case https://ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/skrmetti-barrett-concurrence-supreme-court-opinion-recap/

Two things: 1. The purpose of these visa checks is to reduce any sort of dissent against the Trump administration globally. 2. Social media posts that reflect "hostile attitudes our citizens, culture, government or institutions" would disqualify the majority of Trump admin officials.

Every consular officer has been made a censor. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

“Bloomberg's US Economic Surprise index has turned the most negative so far this year, with a growing number of economic indicators coming in weaker than analysts initially expected.” 🇺🇸 @lisaabramowicz1

WSJ: “.. The overall national unemployment rate remains around 4%, but for new college graduates looking for work, it is much higher: 6.6% .. the highest level in a decade”, ex-COVID. @wsj.com www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...

@bradlander.bsky.social: "I was in a DHS detention for about 3.5 hours... I'm going to sleep at home in my bed tonight, safe with my family. But at Edgardo, who I was trying to accompany, he is in ICE detention. God knows where he's going to sleep tonight. And who knows what state."

Do you remember when I was posting this story a bunch? Well, the incumbent sheriff (“Detain ‘Em Dave”) is handily losing the GOP primary right now to a challenger who says *he wasn't going far enough on helping ICE.* Casts the lack of a Dem candidate in even starker light.

So @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social did a writeup of Brad Lander's arrest today at 26 Federal Plaza in NYC, focusing not just on Lander's treatment, but the treatment of immigrants inside, both in the courtroom and once they are detained. prospect.org/justice/2025...

Every single Senator who voted for this, including plenty of Democrats, just helped make Trump’s crypto grift more profitable

NEW: A California court has upheld the disbarment recommendation for John EASTMAN, the attorney who helped develop President Trump's last-ditch effort to subvert the 2020 election. Eastman plans to appeals to CA Supreme Court. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

Grateful that Brad Lander is using his experience to highlight the biggest outrage; that ICE is re-arresting people who have been 100% compliant with ICE and the courts, with the goal of unlawfully stripping them of a court hearing to juice Stephen Miller's deportation numbers.

House Policy Bill Would Add $3.4 Trillion to Debt, Swamping Economic Gains .. but the rich make out like bandits www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/u...

Virginia's two statewide Democratic primaries, with roughly one-fifth of the vote in, are as tight as can be!

Trump administration moves to expand oil and gas leasing in Alaska reserve reut.rs/3ZDLH8Z

I had to check. This is a real headline on CNN.com.

HAPPENING NOW: New Yorkers are protesting against ICE’s illegal arrest of NYC comptroller Brad Lander.

War monger Lindsey Graham speaks.

hey @marcelias.bsky.social is this reporter on your democracy docket team?

“These guys want to go to Mars. Let them go to Mars.. The people here want to enjoy the beach” How Starbase, Elon Musk’s New Company Town, Is Upending Texas’ Rio Grande Valley

as i suspected, a Mesa County deputy stopped this teen and then called ICE. the county is looking into it, according to @cprnews.bsky.social #copolitics

1/2 This is appalling in principle—and shocking in detail, if you Zoom in on specific parcels offered for rush sale. www.wilderness.org/articles/med... Eg (shown in dark green) Forest Service land people use for hiking, camping, horse-riding, general outdoors-ing in San Bernardino Mountains.

As a 52-year-old, I grew up with domestic right wing terrorist organizations threatening violence daily, and blowing up buildings and killing people periodically, throughout my whole political life: it was the anti-abortion movement.

The hypocrisy is... well, to be expected at this point "Kristi Noem...proclaimed that if 'Joe Biden federalizes the National Guard, that would be a direct attack on states' rights.'" www.publicnotice.co/p/noem-liber...

Far-right figures have used “remigration” as a way of discussing forced relocation to create a white ethnostate.

“Over 250 million acres of public lands are eligible for sale in the bill, including local recreation areas, wilderness study areas and inventoried roadless areas.” www.wilderness.org/articles/med...

The report found that while the NYPD’s Community Response Team was initially created to focus on so-called quality-of-life issues such as illegal motorbikes, its officers have more recently been “stopping, frisking, and searching unconstitutionally.” By @ericumansky.bsky.social

BREAKING: ICE raids at farms and hotels are back on. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Huge congratulations to @boltsmag.org -- fantastic investigative reporting with serious impact.

I sat down for a conversation with Melissa del Bosque for @theborderchronicle.bsky.social this morning on the current moment in the Rio Grande Valley, ICE raids, and the new Texas bill that will force sheriffs to carry out immigration enforcement actions. www.theborderchronicle.com/p/the-border...

In case you missed it — Department of Defense strykers just arrived in the Rio Grande Valley, USBP RGV confirmed on Saturday. NewsNation's Ali Bradley reported two weeks ago that a National Defense Area would be set up along the border in our region.