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“.. ‘They did not show any warrant. They did not provide any reason to why they were there. It seemed to me that they were just like, Hey, you look brown, you look Mexican enough that maybe you’re undocumented.’” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/06/15/u...

Well holy shit.

BREAKING: Judge Breyer orders Trump to return control of the National Guard back to California, saying the call-up was illegal. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The first U.S. bishop appointed by Pope Leo XIV—a refugee himself—is mobilizing priests to accompany migrants at immigration court on June 20. (Via Christopher Hale)

RIP Brian Wilson — god only knows what American music be without him and thankfully we were not music.apple.com/us/album/god...

We don't have secret police in America. At least we're not supposed to.

Wow. What a sign that criminal case against Abrego Garcia may be politically cooked up. "Schrader’s resignation was prompted by concerns that the case was being pursued for political reasons" Schrader spent 15 years in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Nashville and was chief of the criminal division

BREAKING The President of California’s largest union has been detained during an ICE raid.

Via NCR Opinion - “This is cruelty in legal disguise. This is what dictators do: disappear people through loopholes, evading responsibility while pretending their conscience is clean.” #Trump #immigration #ICE #disappeared www.ncronline.org/opinion/gues...

Brill

trump's department of homeland security has thus far arrested: a judge a democratic mayor a democratic congresswoman now handcuffing a democratic congressional staffer gothamist.com/news/homelan...

I'm Dr. Annie Andrews. I’m a pediatrician, not a politician. But either way I know how to handle people who are full of sh*t. Today I am announcing my campaign for US Senate to replace Lindsey Graham. Share this if you're with me. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8wM...

Couldn't agree more with this. It's jaw-dropping to see the patty cake people are playing with him after what was a full constitutional assault that, oh by the way, is almost certainly going to lead to tens of thousands of people in the global south dying needlessly.

All MAGA hat, no cattle cuz government is hard — but they damaged the regulators who scrutinized them and it’s not clear how they plundered our data systems. At some point, there should be a massive investigation into what these fly by nights did. www.wired.com/story/nicole...

Wait, is this RFK Jr. supporting fired drummer Zak Starkey??

“Poor man wanna be rich. Rich man wanna be king. The king ain’t satisfied ‘til he rules everything.”—Springsteen, Badlands

“I guess there’s just a meanness in this world.” — “Nebraska,” Bruce Springsteen

Deportation for honking his horn at an undercover ICE officer

Just leaving this here for no reason whatsoever

Dear @nytimes.com - Please, for the 100th time, please hire a progressive Catholic columnist. Some kind of counter-weight to Douthat. I have names, others do as well. This is not hard. Thank you. #PopeLeo #PopeLeoXIV www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/o...

“These are our community members. They're our neighbors. We don't want to send our friends away. We don't care where they're from... "We would want them to stand up for us, so we're standing up. Tucson is resisting.” www.azcentral.com/story/news/p...

Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-New Jersey): If they can do this to us and to Mayor Ras Baraka, they can do it to anybody. They're gearing up. We waited for over an hour to be addressed by ICE, we had the authority to be there. While we were in the waiting area,

This part

So let me get this straight: masks are bad and un-American if worn to fight a pandemic, but good if worn by people claiming to be government agents when they kidnap people off the street

My Monday Reliable Sources column about America needing a civics refresher — and the media needing to incorporate some Constitution 101 into day-to-day news coverage — resonated with many readers. Here are some of the responses >>> cnn.it/4kfRF83

“Abolish ICE” is the moderate position. Radical is “prosecute every ICE employee under RICO.”

Having now watched the footage and interview two of the members who were there, the amount of armed, masked federal agents surrounding three members of Congress and a mayor outside the ICE facility was totally unnecessary; the only possible reason for it was intentional escalation and intimidation.

NEW: In the Mahmoud Khalil case, Judge Farbiarz orders the government to give him a COMPLETE LIST of every time since 1975 it has invoked the secretary of state's power to deport someone for foreign-policy reasons—including a description of each case's facts and a copy of the official determination.

Scanlon: The Gulf of Mexico was so named over 500 years ago. If we want to update that name to reflect our current culture, maybe we should call it the Sea of Emoluments—you know, the place where we can board the Ship of Fools and navigate from a State of Ignorance to the Confederacy of Dunces…

While in the US the rule of law is under attack and due process is not followed when it concerns ICE/DHS, Rubio dares to criticize Germany that fights against extremism, as noted they have some experience with that...

“Do not mock us.”

SWISHER, on Trump/crypto: “.. It’s a way to pay the president under the table in ways we do not understand and will not understand. .. a coin-operated president. Like, you can give him money and not know it, essentially.” @karaswisher.bsky.social www.mediaite.com/entertainmen...

Same

A visual analysis shows the U.S. likely bombed a migrant detention center in Yemen on April 28. At least three U.S.-made GBU-39 bombs at the site of the attack, which killed 68 African migrants, according to the Houthis, a militant group that controls northern Yemen.

No notes. h/t @ianbremmer.com