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SLOTKIN: Does the uniformed military have the ability to arrest and detain protesters? HEGSETH: Um. I -- S: It's a yes or no H: Troops are given very clear orders S: What are they? H: They're public S: So say it -- yes or no H: They are there to protect law enforcement, ICE officers

EXCLUSIVE: Myles Lewis-Skelly agrees new Arsenal contract. Huge boost to Arsenal and Mikel Arteta. Full story 👇 charleswatts.football/news/exclusi...

Martin Wolf going hard on the chart title on.ft.com/4636MO1

If you live in the US, you are in greater jeopardy today than you were 6 months ago. So is your family. So are your friends & neighbors. Virtually all the important parts of the U.S. gov't created to protect us are being shut down, gutted, or marginalized. My latest. newrepublic.com/article/1968...

MPs vote to decriminalise abortion in step forward for reproductive rights

COLLINS: Tulsi Gabbard testified in March that the intelligence community said Iran wasn't building a nuclear weapon TRUMP: I don't care what she said

Marguerite, 1907 #artbots #matisse https://botfrens.com/collections/48/contents/15691

The US is not very free & the media are scared: Trump sues them often for a lot of money. In a free society the president should not be allowed to sue the media for ever so slight a criticism. The Reporters without Borders Press Freedom Index ranks the US #57, below Liberia. rsf.org/en/index

From The Archives: ICE Agents Hurl Pregnant Immigrant Over Mexican Border To Prevent Birth On U.S. Soil

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.

Why isn't Trump's clear and open call for federal law enforcement to arrest a Democratic governor based on zero lawbreaking of any kind leading every single news site right now?

What’s going on here? Protestor facing 21 months in prison before trial. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

EXTREMELY BAD NEWS for economic research, per former BLS Commissioner @ericagroshen.bsky.social on LinkedIn. BLS is suspending access to its restricted data "for the forseeable future." Applies to projects through the Federal Statistical Research Data Centers & onsite projects with BLS. #EconSky

Every Republican Senator who votes for the budget bill should be voted out of office. Repost if you agree.

A billionaire who profits off the presidency is feuding with another billionaire who bought access to the government to line his own pockets. Neither should have ever been able to amass so much power. What we're witnessing is a failed experiment in billionaire governance.

German Chancellor Merz sets the record straight after Trump tries to draw moral equivalence between Russia and Ukrainian actions: "Ukraine is only targeting military targets. Not civilians, not private [property], not energy infrastructure. This is the difference."

I feel like Musk could really blow MAGA's collective minds just by continuing to tweet out facts the rest of us have known for years but never penetrated their media bubble.

This seems like a great day to remind Bluesky that Stephen Miller lived four doors down from me freshman year And our student council person asked him (and everyone) to sign a birthday card for our dorm’s janitor And he threw a tantrum and wrote an op-ed about not socializing with “the help.”

"It only missed by a few meters": A man managed to sleep through an enormous container ship running aground on his front lawn cnn.it/3ST0pFg

Elon Musk’s status at Starbase has the same vibe as Zardoz.

Trump is retaliating against Harvard for rejecting his adult son Barron Trump & for allowing students to practice their free speech to criticize Israel's genocide in Gaza, the regime tried to punish the university by eliminating its ability to enroll international students. Is being blocked by judge

Ukrainians are confident that they can continue fighting—even without the same level of American support, @anneapplebaum.bsky.social reports.⁠ Read more: https://theatln.tc/O2j130pw

HASSAN: What is habeas corpus? NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country HASSAN: That's incorrect

Papillon vibes

Personality cult authoritarianism