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On a packed trolly heading to the #NoKings protest. There are people of all ages here, and so many more waiting to get on. Everyone is chatting and making friends. The solidarity is incredible 🚫👑 (Sharing the first sign I saw in the station, since I didn’t have time to make my own sign)

‘No Kings’ protest planned for NYC Saturday after days of anti-ICE demonstrations https://gothamist.com/news/no-kings-protest-planned-for-nyc-saturday-after-days-of-anti-ice-demonstrations

Let Steve McQueen on a bike by your guide & aspiration. (nuthin' but Nazis in your rearview)

Remember my NewYork friends: "Cuomo" NO WHERE ON THE RANK-BALLOT!

SAY WHAT?????? Cuomo: Killer of Pre-K (to say the least!)

Worried about the climate? Sorry, that's woke.

mighty mighty men

Ha’aretz keeping count: Israel at War Day 616

Good morning, I am at the ghost town that is the Army Birthday Celebration, excited to experience what promises to be an incredibly stupid day The Army Strength Competition is about to begin Let's do this 🧵

The "big beautiful bill" passed by House Republicans would lead to 3.2 million people losing federal food assistance. The cuts to SNAP would also hit states with about $14 billion a year in costs, according to a new analysis from the Congressional Budget Office. nevadacurrent.com/2025/05/27/r...

CEO's hasve found the American schilles heel Now, they are going to entertain us to death

After a 196-day strike 2,400 therapists, psychiatric nurses, social workers and psychologists at Kaiser Permanente have won big. The Southern California mental healthcare workers won 20% raise over four years, a $2,500 signing bonus, and more. truthout.org/articles/kai...

RFK Jr. has reportedly fired all the federal workers who have been helping the government write heat protection standards for the U.S. workforce. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

KNOW WHO THE ENEMY IS

Oregon lawmakers have passed a bill that would block private-equity firms from controlling healthcare practices. The resolution would create the nation’s strictest ban on corporate influence in medicine. It now heads to Governor Tina Kotek’s desk. www.wsj.com/articles/ore...

these new confederates have reinstated their slave mentality FIGHT THEM AND WIN AS WAS DONE BEFORE!!

The airlines also sold our data to ICE. Jesus.

Today the Trump EPA is moving to repeal federal limits on power plant climate pollution. EPA head Lee Zeldin will announce the repeal of the regulation to curb hazardous air pollution like mercury, and of the power plant carbon dioxide regulation. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

Senate Republicans want to sell off up to 3.3 million acres of federally owned land in 11 Western states. Their draft of the budget bill includes this massive and unpopular sale of public, federal land. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

If you ask them, which is one way of answering your question, many of those who find it hard to say "that's a lie" will tell you that in order to report that as a fact we need to know the motivation of the speaker, and we have no access to that, so it's just an opinion, and we don't deal in opinion.

The most broken thing the #BrokenTimes doesn't do today: It doesn't cover the NoKings protests on its home page (can you find it?). There is a link to a 6/11 story about other protests. There is plenty of coverage of Trump's fascist parade. The rest of us? No.

Pay up. Trump fails to overturn $5m damages award to E Jean Carroll for defamation www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"The HHS document says that another paper it cites found 'an increase in placental blood clotting in pregnant mothers who took the vaccine.' But the paper doesn't contain any reference to placental blood clots or to pregnant women." www.npr.org/2025/06/13/n...

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My grandmother was a young pregnant Jewish woman alone on a train in Poland during WWII when a German soldier told her to get off at the next stop because there wouldn't be any soldiers waiting at the station. She survived because, in that moment, a soldier chose the right thing over obeying orders.

It's not just any Friday. It's Fri the 13th. Fitting for today's edition of Emptywheel Friday, as Marcy Wheeler @emptywheel.bsky.social joins me to discuss this surreal week's news and insanity. 3ET/12PT at youtu.be/haVcCspgq9A, nicolesandler.com, emptywheel.net, nicolesandler.substack.com #NoKings

early bird Marcy Wheeler catches the worm!! LISTEN UP! (special treat: Grok's allusion to MARCY 😀

My team and I at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@[email protected], Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) have a new piece out: wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/amer.... In it, we show that through May 2025, the size and scale of anti-Trump protests have dwarfed those in 2017. 🧵

I'm proud I don't have Andrew Cuomo's record of corruption, scandal and disgrace. And the name is M-A-M-D-A-N-I.

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Look, it’s simply an incredible string of coincidences that so many Republican officials turn out to be pedophiles.

From 2012, could have been written yesterday.

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Leading Democratic candidates in New York City's mayoral race will face off tonight in a debate co-hosted by WNYC/Gothamist, just two days before early voting begins in the June primary election.

We've got all the leverage ---We'll take that dare....move! This entitled wealth is a cancer both here or worldwide ~ It's a new day chumps ~ Its called SHARE That's the rent for living in the house NewYorkers built.& maintain

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Indictment against @replamonica.bsky.social is finally docketed (note that Alina Habba announced it before polls closed yesterday). DOJ has now told at least 3 different stories about what happened (which conflict w/Baraka's story), which I'll return to. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Holy shit: Trump is citing his ERROR (and per Newsom, wildly misreprsenting the call). We're going to get to litigate Trump not remembering EVEN THE DAY of this call. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Reupping, from yesterday, given that Hegseth couldn't answer basic Qs about the deployment today. Trump ordered Whiskey Pete Hegseth to invade Los Angeles at the same time as he struggles to find him the kind of babysitters EVEN Hegseth said he needed to succeed. www.emptywheel.net/2025/06/09/h...