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tentative good news Kilmar Abrego Garcia on way back to US to face criminal charges: Sources abcnews.go.com/US/mistakenl...

"Israeli military said its troops fired 'warning shots' at Palestinians who had strayed from a route leading to the site." We will bomb your homes, schools, & hospitals, force you to flee again & again & again, slaughter whole families & starve your babies—but THIS place is safe. Psych! 🎁🔗

Counterargument: A huge swath of America still waves Confederate flags.

If the military is going to play along with Trump’s dictator’s birthday parade and help him waste $90 million dollars on this disgusting bullshit and wreck the streets of DC, how will they react when Trump orders them to shoot protesters?

NEW: Reporting from @thecity.nyc shows how ICE's outrageous new operation to re-arrest people attending check-ins as part of compliance with their release is undermining the rule of law. One woman whose daughter-in-law was re-arrested says she's now too afraid to attend her court hearing.

Michigan baptist pastor Scott Haught has been sentenced to up to 25 years in prison for raping 2 of his own daughters. www.ourmidland.com/news/article...

Nearly 20 years ago today I met George & Iris Lavis. They met on the Normandy invasion beaches. She landed a week after D-day, one of 12 women aboard a landing craft. He waved her ashore & shouted "what are they sending bloody women for when we need ammunition & supplies!" Then they fell in love

THEY COULD BRING THEM BACK But they won't because if they bring them back they get to talk to lawyers. And if that happens, then a very few people might get legal rights given back. Risking ICE agents lives is less important than that. The ICE agents are evil and foolish enough to accept that.

Update: my friend was quoted by @thecity.nyc as he waited to find out what happened. It's two days later and he has no idea where his client is. She was detained on Wednesday morning at a check-in. She's not in the ICE Detainee Locator, and when he's called ICE they refuse to tell him where she is.

Sahib Lavingia, whose previous experience was as a coder at Pinterest and a failed startup, developed the AI tool that cancelled contracts for the VA without reviewing or understanding their purpose. stocks.apple.com/Agzd-tMJFSW-...

Thomas Fugate, who has no apparent management or anti-terrorism experience, replaced an Army veteran with more than two decades of national security experience who resigned in March when the administration began cutting his staff. By @hannahallam.bsky.social‬

D-Day!!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfOK...

The Nazi, exploding car guy is catfighting with the orange rapist felon & Big Balls won't comment because he's busy harvesting another few billion Social Security numbers before he gets fired.

Because the next couple days are gonna be confusing for everyone, here's a reminder that you do not ever have to "hand it to" any of the following guys: Elon Musk Donald Trump JD Vance RFK jr Stephen Miller

The fire at the oil depot in Russian Engels continues, Russian Telegram channels report. Some of them say that the fire has spread on to the next tank.

After NYPD cops chased a vehicle that crashed and burst into flames early on a morning in April, the officers drove past the vehicle with the victim still inside — and continued driving, video of the fatal crash obtained by THE CITY shows. www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/05/n...

um, spoilers...?

Senators and members of Congress caught telling the truth about their budget bill that would gut health care coverage through Medicaid for millions of working people. A thread 🧵

The Russia Report was released, but heavily redacted. It won’t be released in unredacted form. More importantly - it’s now obsolete & too narrow in scope for the current threat environment. What we need now is a comprehensive review of all foreign interference in UK democracy.

Yes, Mr. Roosevelt, there's a polio vaccine. Yes, sir, this man lies about vaccines. Yes, sir, we think you should embrace him. No? Okay, you're the boss. Now onto this next potential supporter. He's a car manufacturer. Yes, the fellow who did the Nazi salute. Sir, please stop yelling at me.

the waste is coming from INSIDE THE DOGE.

ICE making numbers by arresting (and presumably hoping to deport)…a U.S. Marshal. Real professional, rule of law operation here.

How are the tariffs going? Well an 8 Oz bottle of Penzey’s vanilla extract is now SIXTY SIX dollars.

“AESC has informed the state of South Carolina and our local partners that due to policy and market uncertainty, we are pausing construction at our South Carolina facility at this time... We anticipate being able to resume construction once circumstances stabilize.”

The more than 250 students at the Cascades Job Corps center in Sedro-Woolley must be out by Friday, June 13. This is after the Trump administration announced a nationwide pause to the program. Job Corps provides free education and vocational training to low-income youth ages 16-24.

Funny story, a company can keep you from working enough hours to qualify for healthcare benefits. Ask me how I know.

As I just said on CNN, I’m not going to take any money from Elon Musk, a man who did a Hitler salute. It’s astounding that some Democrats won’t say the same. secure.actblue.com/donate/abu-bluesky?refcode=cnn

To the Dems who are all, sure we’d welcome Elon back, ah yes smart idea, welcoming into your tent the guy who you know turns on people on a dime and starts implicitly accusing his former best pal of being a maybe-pedo after ingratiating himself enough in your party’s inner circle to the point that…

if anything, we should protest telsa harder.

Democrats — don’t even think about taking money from Elon Musk. It’s blood money.

trump could be front and center in the release of the epstein files and his supporters would not care one bit tbh

Honestly, on top of the political problem, if there are adults left in the White House -- BIG IF -- Elon's meltdown really does pose very complex NatSec issues.

ICE made up lies about gang affiliation so that they could terrorize a child's birthday party. newrepublic.com/post/196138/...

Well, hell. Got a flat tire on the drive home.

We’ll know for certain this whole thing isn’t kayfabe if Trump starts firing the DOGE goons. Because if it’s real, he *has* to do this—and right away!—to prevent sabotage. He might not understand this himself but I guarantee at least a few people around there are freaking out about it.

This is f*cked up! Stories of ICE luring immigrants to hearings just to arrest them keep coming—now they’re going after kids. Martir Garcia Lara, a fourth grader from Southern California, went to a hearing in Houston with his dad. Instead of an update, they were both detained and separated by ICE.

I'm just having a really negative reaction to people's reactions to Musk's claim that Trump is in the Epstein files. My reaction is: In 2016, one of his victims openly sued Trump and Epstein jointly claiming she was raped at the age of 13.