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A man with a green card said ICE agents arrested him in #Lynn, Mass then took him to a detention facility—but first made a detour to a cemetery, where they took him out of their vehicle and beat him. #mapoli #Massachusetts

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.

BREAKING: Judge Breyer orders Trump to return control of the National Guard back to California, saying the call-up was illegal. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Gov. Mike Kehoe has activated the Missouri National Guard, declaring a state of emergency due to civil unrest, even as no evidence existed of riots or other widespread violence in the state.

For everyone repeatedly abused by NYT headlines, please remember the @inquirer.com is owned by a nonprofit trust.

Kristi Noem: "We are not going away. We are staying here to liberate the city from the socialists and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country and what they have tried to insert into the city." Sen. Alex Padilla is then forcibly removed!

SCHATZ: "This is the stuff of dictatorships. He identified himself. That should be enough."

holy shit they threw him on the ground and cuffed Padilla when he was out of the room.

Even worse, you must give money to Elon Musk as a condition of any corporate merger. This shit is terrifying. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/b...

Illinois follows the law — we expect the federal government to follow the law, too. We won't participate in abuses of power. We won't violate court orders. We won't ignore the Constitution. We won't defy the Supreme Court. We won't take away people’s right to peacefully protest.

Two Palestinians showed us first-person videos of what it's like to try and retrieve, and provide, food in Gaza City. By Ang Li, Meg Felling, and me. Heaps of geolocation help too from @fdov21.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/video/world/...

NEW: A prominent LI civil rights attorney will be announcing a lawsuit against ICE later today on behalf of his client, an American citizen from Brentwood, Long Island, NY who says ICE agents detained him, entered his car, reached inside and and demanded he exit the vehicle. More info coming soon..

NEW: Kilmar Abrego Garcia's attorneys ask Judge Xinis to impose sanctions on the govt for evading discovery. They ask that she compel production of certain info/docs (or appoint a special master to investigate) and impose fines for civil contempt. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

holy shit -- GOP Rep. Mike Turner tries to "help out" Hegseth by getting him to confirm that the Pentagon does not in fact have plans to take Greenland by force, but Hegseth instead more or less testifies that yep, they have devised plans for that

What happened here is an example of the Trump administration “de-documenting” people. His workers all had work permits; it seems they were Nicaraguans who entered through CHNV parole. But the Trump admin stripped them of their status then rounded them up, making even his supporter mad.

NEW: third poll (AP) now out in as many days showing Trump under water on every issue including immigration (53% disapprove). Trump’s overall approval rating now down to 39% Bonus: 60% think Trump’s dumb tank parade destroying the streets of DC is waste and abuse. apnorc.org/projects/mos...

Israel is a state that deliberately starves whole populations, then uses the promise of food to lure people to locations where they can be killed. What does it mean to say that such a state “has a right to exist”? www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

Among the sanctions attorneys for Kilmar Abrego Garcia are now seeking against the Trump administration for defying court-ordered discovery into his wrongful deportation to prison in El Salvador: The judge should seize and review Pam Bondi’s phone. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

They are, in fact, being used as pawns in a political game and it is quite likely that they are in illegal-order territory.

In April, President Trump and Salvadoran President Bukele shook hands in the Oval Office to celebrate a deal to ship gang members to the notorious CECOT prison. But a new ProPublica investigation found there’s more to the story. 🧵👇

It’s completely insane that US troops are illegally deployed to suppress domestic opposition and it’s not uniformly condemned by the press and political elite.

Planning an ISS repeater contact? In addition to tracking the station across the sky, be sure you are tracking the frequencies Doppler shift. The center frequency of 437.800 can shift +/- 9 kHz during a pass.

While not from the 12th June... this graffiti from two weeks later speaks to the awakening & realisation HKers had. "It was you who taught me peaceful marches are useless.”

A pretty shocking clip from today. An LAPD officer on horseback tramples a protester who then falls in front of another horse. As others try to help the protester up, an LAPD officer wields a blunt weapon to strike the protester, but strikes a nearby horse in the head.

Hard to see how the Trump Admin could not be violating due process and the First Amendment here www.wsj.com/us-news/prot...

BREAKING: More militant ICE raids are coming to a city near you. President Trump is readying tactical ICE units known as “special response teams” to conduct large raids in 5 Democratic cities: New York City, Seattle, Chicago, Philadelphia and northern Virginia. https://trib.al/PE7flNG

Follow the thread: The White House got it from a White supremacist account on X

A sampling of NWS weather faxes relayed through GOES-18 at the start of the new day, June 12, at 5 PM local here in Vancouver (0000 UTC). The fax data itself dates earlier. Received via 1.7 GHz radio signal using @Nooelec ground station (antenna, LNA, SDR, plus a Raspberry Pi).

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...

My relatives keep asking me how we're doing in the riots. I say, you mean the police riots? Cuz no one else is rioting.

bear-patrol-ass government

ICE: It is DEEPLY OFFENSIVE and HURTFUL to compare us to the gestapo. Also ICE: Ach, brothers of the soil, please inform on the hidden vermin in our midst.

I think we should start changing our language. Say Trump. Trump is tear gassing Americans. Trump is detaining US citizens. Trump is shooting rubber bullets at US citizens. Trump is kidnapping farm workers and children. Trump is invading the states. ICE, police and military are doing it for Trump

@jamesstout.bsky.social another point blank shooting

Cuomo already sounds defeated by Trump's authoritarianism. I will stand up for our city of immigrants because I'm not funded by the very same MAGA billionaires who put Trump back in the White House.

WATCH: “Holy f*ck — They literally just shot her point blank… I live here…” @lapdhq shoot a woman trying to get to her apartment at point blank range with a rubber bullet. Alexandria’s page (the woman who helps her): www.tiktok.com/@labyrinthlo...

Absent the invocation of Insurrection Act, I don't see how this doesn't violate Posse Comitatus. Detaining people pending the arrival of civilian law enforcement is supporting civilian law enfcmt. Neither s12406 nor POTUS' claimed Art II power extends beyond protecting fed property/functions.

Also, what the actual f: "a pop-up shop operated by 365 Campaign...was set up on-site with campaign-style merchandise on Army property. Soldiers were seen purchasing clothing and tchotchkes, including "Make America Great Again" chain necklaces to faux credit cards labeled/"

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BREAKING: A few minutes ago, a vehicle of three people was rammed by a truck belonging to federal immigration authorities in Boyle Heights, CA. According to security footage shown to me, they deployed chemical munitions & detained the driver at gunpoint. All are US citizens according to the wife.

Really important story - army officials asked soldiers to identify themselves if they don't agree with Trump's politics that way he'd get only supportive soldiers in uniform during his political rally on base. Heavier soldiers were also barred from participating.

JUST IN: The Trump admin defends sending ~5,000 troops to LA: "The statute empowers the President to determine what forces 'he considers necessary' to 'suppress' a 'rebellion' or to 'execute' federal 'laws'—not the Governor, and not a federal court." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

A US citizen was reportedly just detained by ICE in LA. Incredible reporting by @acatwithnews.bsky.social

Turns out the "illegal" pregnant woman was a US citizen, and she's since been hospitalized.

W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee: “Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”

After targeting day laborers at Home Depots, ICE is moving into California's agricultural fields and packinghouses www.latimes.com/california/s...

The law bars active-duty mil from participating in partisan fundraising or rallies. One of many regs aimed at making it hard for a POTUS to do what the framers feared: co-opt a standing army to entrench non-democratic power. Wrote about this in Trump 1.0 here. JAGs, COs, Congress - uphold the law.