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Gavin Newsom calls threats to deploy US marines in California ‘deranged’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Less than 45 minutes after President Donald Trump thanked the National Guard "for a job well done!" Mayor Karen Bass clarified on social media "the National Guard has not been deployed in the City of Los Angeles."

CATO Institute Director of Immigration Studies

Have a Happy Stormy Sunday Morning!! 🌞🎶🐶❤️

Imagine that. www.npr.org/2025/06/02/n...

www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

Stormy's Bluesky singing debut! He sings the CBS Sunday Morning intro every Sunday and has done so since he was a tiny pup (he's 3 now). It's the only song he howls to! 🐶🌞🎶

Me turning on the news

Borscht what in tarnation is going on good buddy

sometimes Georgie stands on top of me to show me who’s boss and I let her because she’s not wrong

"Fuck your concrete"

There is no bigger story right now than the White House asserting that California residents are in a state "of rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States."

'Like a king': China brutally mocks Trump in new opera www.alternet.org/china-mocks-...

I love working at Farmers Markets 🌸

Squirrel of the Day for June 8, 2025, loves the smell of peanuts in the morning #sqrlpix

Long Beach man’s website taps community to slow ICE’s deportation raids Read more:

California representatives did a check in where migrants were being detained. They found no beds, no food and no water. Children were among the detained.

A preview of the 20 Years in Wales Doctor Who: Unleashed youtube.com/shorts/oAkyi...

The Miami Herald has an investigation into FDC Miami echoing my reporting from the past couple weeks: harsh conditions, crumbling infrastructure, use of force and lack of access to legal counsel www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

everyone tune in to cbs sunday morning at 9am eastern (ie in the next few minutes!) to hear about the folger shakespeare library!!!

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

Proper ‘Handmaids Tale guardians’ vibes. Just guys with guns, who all of a sudden are in charge for some reason.

New: Breaking With Trump, Bacon Says He Won’t Follow His Party ‘Off the Cliff’ www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/u...

“universities contributed patents underpinning 50% of FDA-approved drugs… NIH-funded basic science has contributed to the development of more than 90% of new medicines, vaccines, and devices… 75% of scientists in America were considering leaving the country.” www.statnews.com/2025/06/06/u...

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It's necessary to keep pointing out: all this is not because ICE wants to deport murderers and rapists. It's because ICE is going to Home Depot parking lots, courthouses, and elementary school graduations to round up peaceful families, many seeking asylum, which means they are here legally.

It's the Washington Monument in the background that really takes this to next-level dystopian

📢 Hundreds of protestors have taken to Sydney streets to demand justice of the death of an Indigenous man who died while being restrained in an Alice Springs supermarket.

A truly sad sight. Trump’s America. 🇺🇸

📢 Hundreds of protestors have taken to Sydney streets to demand justice of the death of an Indigenous man who died while being restrained in an Alice Springs supermarket.

I was an immigration lawyer for about fifteen years. The people I met… the way they wanted to give their absolute best to this country, and then DID. Skills, ideas, beauty, culture… that’s what they bring. America is a nation of immigrants, and immigration is what made America.

I know that many don't want to hear this but we've been moving towards this current state of affairs over the past 65 years. And it's really been a bipartisan project. The expansion of the carceral state is the fuel for fascism. Folks have been trying to make this case for a long time.

fair play, that’s a decent signing

The spin has already started as if our entire city is in chaos. I went from Burbank all the way over to Koreatown on surface streets tonight and jackshit was happening. The CNN coverage makes it look like world war 3 and that’s what Trump wants so he and his fucking goons can come shoot Angelenos.

"The President has triggered this crisis and is now using it to exercise military authority within a state against the wishes of the state’s civilian elected leaders – Mayor, Governor, congressional representatives, etc. This is 100% Trump. He’s created the situation and now he’s exploiting it."

Don't you hate it when you federalize the National Guard and forget to include any sort of legal authority to do so?

Newsom criticizes activation of National Guard in L.A. area protests. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

The crackdowns on civilians and the threat of the national guard being sent to LA should be *the* most important story right now-- not the Trump/Musk feud or whatever the f**k that was. People are being terrorized all over the country. News outlets need to get it together.

I wish this piece I wrote for @theflytrapmedia.com weren't so timely. As soon as I saw protestors waving Mexican flags, I knew we were moments away from rhetoric....

What country is this?

For some reason, Goldy Gopher, mascot of the Minnesota Golden Gophers, is the special guest star at this lesbian wedding I am at.

BREAKING: please, everyone, turn on local news. there is NOTHING going on in LA. Its over, the protest broke up hours ago. Local news helicopters are trolling for trouble and there's none. Just some LAPD/LASD road blocks. If they 'send the Guard' now, its just because they really really want to.

An excellent and very distressing @panicworld.com interview with Salvadoran journalist and political analyst Ricardo Avelar about Nayib Bukele and the authoritarian links between El Salvador and the United States. www.patreon.com/posts/130627...

2020 all over again