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Friends, I started a YouTube channel to host my interviews. I haven't promoted it, & I'm only 18 people away from 10K subscribers. Like The Left Hook, there is NO PAYWALL. Give what you can. Please subscribe and share my chat with the great @katiephang.bsky.social! www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoGV...

Once again, Brendan Loper and The New Yorker cartoons nail it. Is this a chance for the global community to make real progress on international agreements that the US has long sabotaged?

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

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.

Israel's Prime Minister may think no one will notice what he's doing in Gaza while he bombs Iran. People face starvation. 55,000 killed. Aid workers and doctors turned away at the border. Shooting at innocent people desperate for food. The world sees you, Benjamin Netanyahu.

“ICE in just a few weeks has transformed itself into the closest thing that the US has ever had to a ‘secret police,’ with more seemingly culturally in common with the Klan nightriders of Reconstruction than their federal agency brethren like the FBI or ATF.” @garrettgraff.bsky.social

In the hearing just concluded before Judge Charles Breyer, he asked the parties to brief his jurisdiction to consider a preliminary injunction, saying he expected they'd disagree—an understatement—and asking for brief on Monday. Federalized Nat'l Guard troops remain under Trump's control for now.

If Trump has his way, Juneteenth will be a goner as a federal holiday. The Trump tweet and the WH comments about not marking it (and the prevailing racism within MAGAworld) mean they'll make a run at eliminating it, that much seems clear.

Cracker who has single handedly inflicted gratuitous epochal damage to US prosperity and prospects from his golf cart:

Trump posts that there are "too many" holidays on Juneteenth

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Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.

Alternet: Mike Lindell was found guilty of defamation by a federal jury. Lindell used social media to baselessly call former Dominion Voting Systems employee Eric Coomer a "traitor' who allegedly rigged the 2020 election in favor of Biden. I💙Karma! #ProudBlue #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice

“Then Civil War soldiers marched by, but they were in the WRONG COLOR uniform, not the one worn by the folks all our best forts are named for, but the blue one.” www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Today I’m leading 152 House Democrats in challenging Trump's devastating cuts to life-saving NIH research grants. Congress—not Trump—controls federal spending. Trump must do his job, “faithfully execute” the laws and stop violating the Constitution to undercut public health.

@smith.senate.gov: "I think [Mike Lee] was sort of stunned to be coming face to face with somebody who was really calling him out on his bullshit... The way that people like Mike Lee and others on the right take advantage of the worst kind of human tragedy and political violence... is unacceptable."

Nearly half of 140 senior SSA administrators have been forced out or left the agency. A decimation of hundreds of years of administrative expertise at the insitence of the ignorant. (Gift article) www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/u...

For those wondering about the identity of the shooter in this report—and specifically whether "peacekeeping team" means the police—I've confirmed with the SLCPD that the answer is no: "The peacekeepers referenced were non-sworn community members we believed associated to the demonstration."

Undocumented immigrants aren't actually illegal. Calling them illegal is a racist slur to demonize them.

This is an egregiously shameful tweet from a US senator

Democratic senators need to stop pretending that GOP senators are their “good friends across the aisle” and realize many of them are just lying sociopaths who are actively fanning the flames of violence against them.

Shapiro: " If the Guard is going to be federalized. we have a legal process in place where POTUS has to consult with the Commander in Chief of the Guard — the governor — and seek his or her approval first. POTUS did not do that [in CA]. He went around the governor and created some real dangers."

Massive #NoKings march in New York City!

The L.A. protesters have really gone too far this time… 🌼

If this is how this administration responds to a Senator with a question, you can only imagine what they're doing to farmworkers, to cooks, and to day laborers throughout California and across the country. We will hold this administration accountable.

AOC: “They’re making people undocumented by removing LEGAL status, then having the audacity to call them illegal… correct?” @govpritzker.illinois.gov: “Taking their legal right to be here away.” @aoc.bsky.social: “The Republican majority is anti-LEGAL immigration, I want to make that very clear.”

Field Marshal Noem was also conducting combat operations today for her masked elite special forces.

There's a fun little nesting doll of fascism in this, from -They tackled and handcuffed a US Senator -For asking a question of an admin official -Who had just stated plainly that the federal government wanted to "liberate" a city/state from its leaders

Sen. Padilla, standing yards away: “I’m Sen. Alex Padilla. I have questions for the secretary…” DHS: “Senator Padilla chose disrespectful political theatre and interrupted a live press conference without identifying himself or having his Senate security pin on as he lunged toward Secretary Noem.”

Under Trump & Congressional Republicans’ #ReverseRobinHood budget, not only would more than 300,000 Pennsylvanians lose their health care coverage, but health care centers across our commonwealth would be even more strained.   And all for what? More tax cuts for the GOP’s billionaire donor friends.

Kristi Noem must resign. She has deported a four year old with cancer, detained a U.S. marshal, and arrested two members of Congress. She’s lost the confidence of the American people. ICE must stop terrorizing our communities.

The U.S. House voted Thursday on a rescission bill to claw back money for foreign aid programs, along with two years of funding for the public media system. The measure now goes to the Senate.

If that’s what they do to a US Senator with a question, imagine what they do to farm workers, day laborers, cooks, and the other nonviolent immigrants they are targeting in California and across the country. Or any American that dares to speak up. I will not stop fighting to demand accountability.

🚨 The Trump regime just arrested a sitting U.S. Senator at a DHS presser—then lied about it. Tanks in D.C., Newsom fights back, Trump's latest trade surrenders, and more. Full breakdown on the MeidasTouch Podcast live at 8p ET/5p PT!

By now, we've all seen the video of Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA) being forcibly removed and handcuffed for asking a question during Kristi Noem's press conference. But what Noem said just moments before the video was taken is "classic authoritarian red-baiting," points out @davidcorn.bsky.social.

Why is ICE arresting employees but not employers? DOJ policy is to charge the most culpable people. The employers would seem to qualify.

Breaking:   WASHINGTON (AP) - Health secretary removes every member of scientific committee that advises the CDC on how vaccines should be used.

Trump has now mobilized 700 active-duty Marines to Los Angeles in response to protests against ICE raids there. Deploying the military against American citizens is a gross abuse of power that should alarm us all.

News media coverage of Los Angeles has been so distorted it’s unrecognizable. They’re basically close-ups of anything that looks a mess, not to mention the unnecessary troops and police. It is far more dangerous here after a Dodgers win of a big game!! At best, 2-3 blocks. Maybe 150 people.