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the Keystone Stasi must be stopped

ICE agents in tactical gear chase down and tackle a U.S. citizen in L.A. After realizing he’s American, they just slink away. Their only explanation: “Why were you running?” Probably because two masked men with guns were trying to snatch him.

"The media continues to cover politics as if it is still the 1990s. 'Both parties are basically center-right or center-left parties.' The journalism infrastructure in our country wants to pretend that that’s the world that we live in. The instinct is to treat everything politicians say as valid."

Yes, Rep. Melissa Hortman was a consequential Speaker of the Minnesota house. But what distinguishes her career is character. Did you know this about her?

My brain is breaking a little. The Cato Institute us saying ICE is going too far

STORY TIME: ICE rolled up. The city of Bell, California said, “Not today!”

And without due process this Georgia-born American citizen spends the rest of his life disappeared in a jail in Jamaica. Do you get it yet?

SAY IT PLAIN: Federal “ICE officers” should not be anonymous. And this shouldn’t be a controversial thing to say.

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#BBCNews - 'Everyone is scared': Iranians head to Armenia to escape conflict with Israel www.bbc.com/news/article...

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“Almost 600 people are expected to die early in the heatwave roasting England and Wales… The surge in deaths would not be occurring without human-caused global heating, the scientists said, with temperatures boosted by 2C-4C by the pollution from fossil fuels.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Free download of the pdf here: files.libcom.org/files/The%20...

Yeah I feel like not enough people know that RFK jr has repeatedly stated that he believes COVID was bio-engineered in Wuhan by the Chinese government and Ashkenazi Jews to spare Ashkenazi Jews

holy shit. Cuomo halted an investigation into the Weinstein case after a donation from Weinstein’s former lawyer’s firm to his reelection campaign… guys, this was in 2018 AFTER the Weinstein exposés (multiple) had been published & the #metoo movement was ascendant

Michael Pham fled Vietnam at the age of 13. He was named bishop of San Diego a month ago. Today, he stood watch at a courthouse: ICE agents were “standing there covered with masks as we walked toward the courtroom. Eventually the agents scattered and went away” timesofsandiego.com/life/2025/06...

THIS JUST HAPPENED: Brad Lander walked through the fire, got burned, and came back with a fucking gasoline can. ICE arrested him — now he’s escorting migrants right past them, again. Most politicians wouldn’t show up. He showed out.

This sounds oddly....."familiar" 🤔

Compton, CA: A masked, heavily-armed man wearing body armor jumped out of a SUV today to kidnap a local resident. He forgot to put the vehicle in park, causing it to roll down the street damaging other cars. He jumped in the vehicle (which had no platess) and drove off without identifying himself.

The thing about the Khalil case is that it's very very good that he's free now but you can't have it take three months between "the government kidnaps you off the street for no basis reason whatsoever" and "a judge makes them let you go." You just can't.

Documentary about the experience of two British surgeons in Gaza. Never seen anything that bad. news.sky.com/story/amputa...

y'know it's kind of a tell that they think celebrating the end of slavery is DEI

NEW: Judge Farbiarz, now in writing, orders the release of Mahmoud Khalil on bail TODAY. AND—happy surprise—he reconsiders and adds a line forbidding electronic monitoring, as Judge Sessions did for Rümeysa Öztürk. He also forbids monetary bond due today. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Somehow this is not surprising. Treating children as if they are magically immune was always a bad idea. Schools need proper ventilation and vaccination schemes. Mask up, get vaccinated. boingboing.net/2025/06/19/n...

Andrew Cuomo is part of the legal team put together by Alan Dershowitz to defend Benjamin Netanyahu against war crimes charges. nypost.com/2024/11/25/u...

NEW: Gov. Hochul announces that the state is dedicating $50 million for legal assistance for immigrants like those who may be targeted by ICE when leaving the federal courthouse

Beyond parody.

SCOOP: Trump’s tax bill includes a little-noticed line that spends $200 billion on a tax break that rewards private equity firms for taking over small businesses and then loading them up with debt, slashing employee pay, mass firing workers, and driving them into bankruptcy.

Bombing hospitals is a red line - unless Israel is doing it - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/bombing-hospitals-red-line-unless-israel-doing-it

Just some creepy armed Mad Max guys trying to gain entry to Dodgers Stadium. ICE says it wasn’t them. DHS says they were Border Patrol. But honestly who the hell knows? They’ve given permission for any psycho to put on a ski mask, point a gun, grab people & throw them into an unmarked vehicle.

The three-judge appeals court panel overturned a lower court order that gave control of the National Guard back to Gavin Newsom.

call me crazy but I don't think we should.

"Human society depends economically & socially on resilient forests. As a result, pushing forests toward collapse threatens human well-being globally, not just in communities that are in or near forests." -- Amazing that we need IUCN reports to make this point. 🌏 news.mongabay.com/2025/06/resi...

Ethnonationalism always means the othering and persecution of citizens who don’t fit the bigots’ idea of nationality.

The first batch of Byrd bath guidance from the parliamentarian has been released! HUGE victory for Dems and for consumers everywhere: Republicans cannot defund CFPB.