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You know your country has screwed up priorities when it pretends it doesn't have the money to prevent LGBTQ teen suicides but it *does* have the funds to subsidize the wealthiest man in the world's engineering incompetence. www.cbsnews.com/news/video-s...

So much for MAHA.

ICE looking more and more like the American Gestpo.

"The bill directs what is likely the largest single sale of national public lands in modern history..." www.wilderness.org/articles/med...

Another SPACE X explosion

I just walked into a Trump store in southern Missouri. I picked up a few items and saw that they were made in China. The place was full. I asked loudly if anything in the store was made in America. She said no. For emphasis, I said again, so nothing in the store is made in America? She said no 🤷🏼‍♀️

FINALLY Democrats are putting out HARD-HITTING ads. WATCH AND SHARE: #MAGAKidnappers

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.

Four Democratic members of Congress from Illinois, Jesús “Chuy” García, Danny Davis, Delia Ramirez, and Jonathan Jackson, were denied entry to an ICE facility in Broadview, just outside Chicago, despite federal policy allowing them access without prior notice.

What owl?

In February alone, the national suicide hotline's program for LGBTQ youth—who are four times more likely to attempt suicide than their peers—received an average of 2,100 contacts per day. Now the Trump administration is shuttering this critical resource.

House Republicans passed the biggest health care cut in U.S. history. Senate Republicans’ response? Hold my beer. Now they’re pushing even deeper Medicaid cuts—knowing it’ll shut down rural hospitals, strip care from their own voters, and leave millions hanging.

one thing i think people should ask the court conservatives given this ruling is what, specifically, was wrong with plessy?

Less than two weeks ago, the richest man in the world claimed the president of the United States was directly involved with Jeffrey Epstein and that seems like five years and 15 scandals ago. This is all quite unsustainable.

SLOTKIN: Have you given the order to be able to shoot at unarmed protesters in any way? HEGSETH: What is that based on? SLOTKIN: It is based on Trump giving that order to your predecessor, who I give a lot of credit to bc he didn't accept the order. He has more guts & balls than you

Justice Sotomayor's dissent in Skrmetti (which she's now reading from the bench) is deeply pained, accusing her colleagues of abandoning "transgender children and their families to political whims" and badly damaging "bedrock" principles of equal protection. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

If Republicans pass the Big Ugly Bill ⬇️ 16 MILLION Americans lose their health care ⬇️ Ppl still get sick ⬇️ More ppl go to emergency room ⬇️ Ppl can’t pay their medical bills ⬇️ Hospitals foot the bill ⬇️ Hospitals are forced to reduce services or CLOSE ⬇️ EVERYONE is impacted

Manhandling a Senator. Using unnecessary force. Separating families. Defying court orders. Secretary Noem must come before the Senate Judiciary Committee and answer to this under oath.

New in PN: Judge rules that anti-woke is just racism “'I’ve never seen a record where racial discrimination was so palpable,' Judge Young fumed. 'I’ve sat on this bench now for 40 years. I’ve never seen government racial discrimination like this.' *More of this, please*"

REPUBLICANS & SKEPTICS: What did the No Kings protests accomplish? ANSWER: The anti-Trump movement is being noticed. Politicians are paying attention and will feel safer speaking out. The White House sees that Trump overreached. Watch this stitch…

C-SPAN caller to Tapper: "When are you going to examine what's going on with Trump? ... this president has been pure chaos, which indicates to me that there is something wrong with him. We will never get a straight answer on his medical exam, and yet you have gone after Joe Biden with a vengeance."

@bradlander.bsky.social: Trump "is trying to destroy our empathy. That's what authoritarians do... We've got that Statue of Liberty out in the harbor saying, send me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses.... That's what New York City is built on. That's why I love it. And he hates it."

@bradlander.bsky.social: "Donald Trump is coming to strike fear into immigrant families and just fear into cities. He's coming for LA, he's coming for New York, he's coming for other cities. And he's trying to both stoke fear and provoke conflict."

Melissa Hortman was only 55 years old. She had a lot more to do. It is so bitter and so sad that her life was taken - assassinated for fighting for what she believed in. It will now be up to us to carry on these fights.

Schatz: People are seeing what chaos really looks like. We are on the brink of some very dangerous developments in the Middle East, and we have chaos inside the US—not chaos the federal government can’t control, but chaos the federal government is, in some instances, precipitating or making worse.

Judge Hannah Dugan, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, Rep. LaMonica McIver, Sen. Alex Padilla, and now Brad Lander. The Trump administration keeps detaining and prosecuting elected officials who get in its way. This is the timeline of authoritarianism.

Per NPR: Jeremy Greenberg, who led the National Response Coordination Center at FEMA since 2020, resigned his post last week, as Trump moves to eliminate the agency. Greenberg is the latest high-level official to resign from FEMA.

Hi, this is Meg Barnette, Brad's wife. While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE. This is still developing, and our team is monitoring the situation closely.

Padilla: The President, VP, and their allies have continued to call all the protesters out there insurrectionists. Yes, this is the same man who provoked an actual insurrection at our capitol on January 6.

I wrote this four days ago. Today, they arrested the NYC Comptroller.

JUST IN - The U.S. will join the war against Iran, Israeli officials assess — Channel 12 JFC

Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani is now here calling for the release of Lander (his fellow mayoral candidate)

Claiming he "assaulted law enforcement" is so obviously belied by the video, which shows no such thing.

Brad Lander's wife, Meg Barnette: "This is not the way we deal with rule of law, this is not the way people are treated in the United States."   "I feel really rattled and scared, and my husband is a candidate for mayor, is an elected citywide official, is U.S. citizen."

Lander just got detained by federal agents as he tried to escort a man out of the courtroom. Lander was taken in an elevator with masked agents, along with one member of his NYPD security detail.

Padilla said Trump is on a "tour of retribution" in his first floor speech since he was handcuffed at Noem's press briefing last week.

Hi, it’s Meg again. Brad is still in ICE custody. We are grateful to the many friends, supporters, and allies who have gathered in Federal Plaza. Together we are standing up for those with no voice.

ICE's arrest of Brad Lander (New York City Comptroller and current mayoral candidate) is illegal. It's the latest in a long string of acts – Trump's blatant intimidation strategy to make us all feel frightened.

“As agents pull Lander away from the hallway, he shouted out “show me your warrant, show me your badge… I’m not obstructing, I am standing right here in the hallway,” he said. “You don’t have the authority to arrest U.S. citizens asking for a judicial warrant.” www.aol.com/nyc-mayoral-...

Trump rolls into the G7 summit complaining about how mean they are to Putin, trashes America on foreign soil, confused the EU with the UK, dropped papers on the ground, trashed Tucker Carlson, accomplished nothing, then bailed early to escalate a war. MAGA!

This sums it up perfectly

When does the “great” part start?

The Minnesota assassin appears to be a hate-filled right winger. So can we stop walking on eggshells about MAGA's legitimization of political violence? Yes, Republicans have also been the target of inexcusable violence, but this isn't a "both sides" issue. 1/ A🧵on the danger.

Sen. Amy Klobuchar dined with Melissa Hortman, a Minnesota lawmaker and decades-long friend, just hours before she and her husband were shot and killed in what authorities are saying was a politically motivated killing. “I wish everyone had known her like we knew her,” Klobuchar told POLITICO.

Didn’t think I’d raise a child with three separate Gravedigger shirts but here we are

The most consequential Speaker in state history.

What a legacy and what a tragedy 19thnews.org/2025/06/rep-...

We may make the squeaking our ringtone