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big beautiful basket weavers www.semafor.com/article/06/0...

We surveyed 50 Hill Republicans to see who is going to Trump's parade on Saturday. Only six are planning to attend.

notable that this times piece casts a story with conventional wisdom abt protests, immigration etc. and cites various polling data but doesn't cite the one poll since this started which shows the militarization is distinctly UNpopular 🤔 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/u...

Trump tariffs may remain in effect while appeals proceed, U.S. appeals court decides reut.rs/4l0bQac

The Vicious MAGA Feedback Loop Feeding Trump’s L.A. Crackdown www.thebulwark.com/p/the-viciou...

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Alina Habba has created something called a "Special Prosecutions Division" to charge Donald Trump's political enemies. (This press release tells a third or fourth mutually inconsistent story about what happened at Delaney Hall.) www.justice.gov/usao-nj/pr/c...

S.F. cafe endures worst vandalism to date after ICE protesters descend upon Mission www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/m...

As we say on the internet, "some personal news." After 39 years on the job I am retiring as an NYU professor. In this thread I will take a few moments to reflect on my academic career. Spoiler alert: I am not leaving the field, or the fight for a public service press. 1/

Congratulations and thanks to @jayrosen.bsky.social Worth reading whole long thread.

I guess I'd missed this. The new head of the Office of Legal Counsel at DOJ is a former Ken Paxton soldier from his wildly corrupt AG's office down in Texas. Old news. from Jan. But I hadn't heard. Arsonist now running the fire dept. www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/release...

Really good WSJ article on ICE escalations over recent weeks including Miller's visit to ICE national HQ where he demanded Home Depot raids. www.wsj.com/us-news/prot...

There’s no one who hates American freedom more than Tom Cotton. For him the Boston massacre are like the glory days.

Lol Bob Dylan narrated the trailer for Machine Gun Kelly's new album

There is a difference between acknowledging Palestinians lack state capacity to effectively govern and saying Palestinians shouldn't have a state. The below statement is the latter category. It's an argument for condemning both peoples to more generations of violence.

lol they’re planning a grand DOGE council of billionaires to run DOGE because none of them want all the toxic publicity by themselves www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/u...

I miss amy Gibson- or whatever the hell her name was that they tried to say ran doge

Agree with this. Either a majority or big plurality are already unhappy about this needless troop deployments. Now setting up for a boffo totally unprecedented domestic display of military power and priming to unleash troops on anyone who says it’s not awesome.

So, 65% of the annual NEH budget.

This should be *more than* sufficient to allow a person who wants to go protest to seek and obtain an injunction against the use of force against protesters

A Hellscape Miscellany: Finding Sweet Spots of Leverage Amidst the Chaos talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-hel...

NEW -- SecDef Hegseth is asked in Congress what authority, precisely, Trump is using to put troops on the ground in Los Angeles. Hegseth says he doesn't know but is certain Trump has it. www.huffpost.com/entry/hegset...

Stephen Miller Demanded ICE Target Home Depots talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

Far from the first one to say this. But agrobusiness regions, even in blue states, are generally in red areas. They're heavily dependent on undoc'd labor. Take the dairy industry in Kristi Noem's home state or in CA. we're not seeing any of these raids there. not zero. but they're getting a pass.

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[email protected] I’m told you’re not planning on showing up tomorrow for NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya’s hearing tomorrow after NIH researchers published this public declaration abt gutting NIH? Is that true? arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

PHILLY: Man posing as an ICE agent robs car repair business, ties up and manhandles a woman from the Dominican Republic — “He kept saying he is immigration officer.” It was only a matter of time before these masked vigilantes breed impersonators. www.fox29.com/video/1501153

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The contrast and absurdity is so brazen. They're literally raiding Home Depots to find whatever guys are there to get work as day laborers. People eager for work. And the ICE agents has zero idea who they are or any criminal background.

This is the spirit of Los Angeles. This is California. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. #FreeDavidEndRaids