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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.

Jimmy Kimmel is spot on about what's happening in LA and no news broadcast and/or pundit is as on point about what's unfolding in America www.youtube.com/watch?v=baR4...

"Fietsvlonders" are mobile bike platforms designed to turn a car parking spot into urban bike parking. They’re modular, moveable, and cheap, making it easy to test better use of public space. When car storage gets swapped for bikes, entire streets start to feel different.

the second trump administration is creating entirely new careers for new liberal politicians.

BRO I WAS FUCKING JOKING

Don't be part of the problem Be the whole problem

Trump Announces 7 Military Bases Reverting Back to Names Honoring Confederate Traitors; MAGA Celebrates- 6/11/25 1/ time.com/7293047/trum...

I think we should just infer that their duties were never limited, they just lied about it and said that they were.

First bit of polling after Trump's escalation in Los Angeles, and it is very bad for him. Here are the last three YouGov polls of Trump's job approval: 45%-49% (-4) - June 2 45%-55% (-10) - June 6 40%-53% (-13) - June 10

Two YouGov polls taken June 9/10: – Deploying Nat’l Guard: 38% approval-45% disapproval (30-47 among indies) – Deploying Marines: 34-47 (27-50 among indies) – Trump’s handling of deportations in general: 39-50 (30-54 among indies) Just because Trump wants this doesn't mean it's a winner for him.

(1/) This week, we focus on the Holly Blue butterfly. This is the only species of blue butterfly that is likely to be encountered in gardens across most of the UK. Species information: butterfly-conservation.org/butterflies/... @savebutterflies.bsky.social @ukbms.bsky.social #CitizenScience

@coolgirlemily.bsky.social Thanks, I hate it!

good morning

I simply do not concede that any of your cookie vendors' interests are legitimate.

We feed you. They hunt us.

"fuck you." "go home." "get the fuck out of here." scenes from the deployment of the american military against americans

the day you can internalize "I like this and I don't care what anyone else thinks about it" is the day you truly become an adult it is the most freeing realization of your life

NEW: The Trump admin has plans to send thousands of foreigners to Guantanamo beginning as early as this week, including citizens of close allies UK & France, with no intention of notifying their home governments in advance, per sources and documents

Very easy to feel doomerish right now, but I'm taking some heart from this @leahgreenberg.bsky.social message laying out the rationale for Saturday's No Kings protests.

Omaha. @ketv7.bsky.social www.ketv.com/article/omah...

He must be protected at all costs.

A call for a stuck elevator came in from DHS at 26 Federal Plaza at 7:37 p.m. It was a ruse. There was no stuck elevator. The fire truck responding opened a space that ICE used to drive a van of kidnapped people through. ICE evaded protesters apparently by calling in a false emergency call.

Fox anchor John Roberts suggests law enforcement is showing a lot of restraint by not shooting protesters Roberts: "There are plenty of democratic countries ... where doing something like that would get you shot, so there would seem to be a fair degree of restraint being practiced"

Posting this 1967 Birmingham News editorial cartoon for all the people who don't realize that this is how MLK was viewed by a big chunk of white America.

Fox is airing aerial footage of U.S. Marines practicing how to subdue and arrest people as they prepare to deploy in L.A.

Trump threatens to use “heavy force” against anyone who protests his military parade this weekend, and note that he makes no exception for peaceful protesters