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🚨NEWS: Colorado Gov. Jared Polis is ordering his employees to help Trump's immigration crackdown & follow a secret Trump subpoena that his top labor official says illegally violates state privacy laws that Polis himself signed, according to court documents reviewed by The Lever.

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JUST IN: Judge blocks Trump administration effort to dismantle AmeriCorps in 24 states that sued over the steep cuts. She concludes that the abrupt cuts, without notice/comment period, violated the law. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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The executive director of Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom's fellowship foundation said she resigned from her position, more than two months after the law firm agreed to provide President Donald Trump with $100 million in free legal services @davidjthomas.bsky.social reut.rs/4kCLcEs

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Joe Walsh is registering as a Democrat: "Three words I never thought I'd ever utter: I'm a Democrat. This former Republican Congressman … this former TEA Party champion is formally joining the Democratic Party." socialcontractwithjoewalsh.substack.com/p/from-the-t...

submitted 15 hours ago • 87 comments

Trump travel-ban country list is based on BS data Driven by CBP report on which countries have most visa overstays—but CBP does not know who overstays visas. Can’t tell who legally extended or changed immigration status. And e.g. international students stay thru end of studies, not a fixed period

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"Sweeping national origin bans declare many innocent people to be a threat based on factors they cannot control in their home countries. There is no evidence this is making us safer..." Read our full statement: www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/news/trump-2...

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NEW: The Trump administration has obeyed a court order to return a Guatemalan man improperly deported to Mexico in Feburary. His lawyer says he's en route to a detention facility in Arizona. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

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DELETED: Trump administration deleted a webpage summarizing evidence that “undocumented immigrants are arrested at less than half the rate of native-born U.S. citizens for violent and drug crimes and a quarter the rate of native-born citizens for property crimes.” 1/2

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NEW: Judge Boasberg has ruled that the Trump administration must quickly propose a way to give the 140 men sent to El Salvador in March — some on evidence he says was "flimsy, even frivolous" — proper due process. w/ @joshgerstein www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

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Judge Boasberg, invoking Kafka, certifies a class of prisoners sent to CECOT under Trump Alien Enemies Act proclamation, and gives govt a week to explain how they plan to facilitate the prisoners' getting habeas corpus relief. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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WHITE HOUSE TO ADMIT JUST $9 BILLION IN CUTS FROM DOGE is a Drudge story. Bet someone writes it before I can get to it in the morning.

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We’re waiting, JD.

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In South Park, San Diego, US citizens stigmergically rose up against Trump’s Gestapo. The revolt erupted midday when ICE began rounding up people at a restaurant; patrons and passersby alike dropped everything to confront the regime storm troopers. #3E #EndImpunity #StopICE

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Trump wins the appeals court lottery in D.C. The panel hearing emergency appeals this month appears to be: Rao, Katsas, Walker. All three are Trump appointees — in fact the only Trump appointees on the DC Circuit. They are handling one of the key tariff appeals.

submitted 3 days ago • 98 comments

Trump's pivot from the Muslim ban in his first time to mass deportations this time may be easy to explain: During his first term and more than ever now, he has found that rulers of Muslim countries are willing to line his pocket with business deals and massive bribes. And that's what Trump likes.

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Thomas Hart Benton (American, 1889-1975): Keith Farm, Chilmark, 1955. Oil on canvas, 21 x 29 in. © Estate of Thomas Hart Benton

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We are going to see this administration escalate even further on immigration as they fail to hit the outrageous numbers that Miller is demanding.

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1. Trump and his Republican allies say their budget cuts are targeted at waste, fraud, and abuse But Trump's new 1,223-page budget proposal, quietly released on Friday afternoon, reveals the real target: Poor children

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I've been genuinely surprised that there have yet to be leaks of tactical orders DHS has given to ICE teams on face coverings & courthouse arrests--it's a sign goons like it. But this Sat story in WashEx DOES have leaks fr Stephen Miller being an asshole. www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-h...

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WSJ: “Support for law firms that didn’t make deals has been growing — At least 11 big companies are moving work away from law firms that settled with Trump or are giving more business to firms that have been targeted but refused to strike deals…” www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

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No public social goods for people outside of groups that support giving him power

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My cartoon on Musk, Trump and the death of democracy in the US. Published with @theage today 漫画马斯克川普以及美国民主现状 support me and get my first graphic novel ‘You Must Take Part In Revolution： www.amazon.com/You-Must-Tak...

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NEW: The National Sheriffs’ Association(!) puts out a statement saying the Trump admin’s publication, with no feedback first, of a list of Sheriff departments alleged to be sanctuary jurisdictions “violated the core principles of trust, cooperation, and partnership with fellow law enforcement.”

submitted 5 days ago • 138 comments

What infuriates me so much about this new operation is that it is literally punishing people for following the rules and showing up to their court hearings. It is so toxic to the basic concept of following the rules. It is an operation designed by people who hate the concept of the rule of law.

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Musk may (or may not) be leaving Trump regime, but we do know the 32 federal investigations into Musk's companies that were all started before Trump came to office, are paused, dismissed or simply disappeared. Re-sharing my article on this: deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/did-trump-...

submitted 5 days ago • 23 comments

Something to remind you Its a world worth saving

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June 14. Millions of us are standing up against the tyranny of Donald Trump and standing FOR Americans and our democracy. Trump wants to make himself a king. But we have no kings here. This is a country of, by, and for The People. Find the No King's event near you at www.nokings.org

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MAGA kill children. Everyone involved with DOGE have the blood of hundreds of thousands on their hands. Murderers.

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🚨NEWS: The new top voting lawyer at the Department of Justice was until recently an attorney and activist for a leading anti-voting legal group that has worked for years to spread fear about illegal voting and press election officials to tighten voting rules. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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The U.S. Supreme Court in the month of May has allowed the Trump administration to end legal status for more than 1 million people.

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Raskin: This is a gangster state. This is not basically a legitimate government that is sometimes doing corrupt things. This is an essentially corrupt enterprise. It's like watching The Sopranos. Every day, they get up and they try to figure out how to plunder and pillage the people

submitted 6 days ago • 1126 comments

How did Trump amputate the souls of his cabinet members? ... They all appear as soulless zombies (Rubio, Noem, Bessent) -- or in some cases, carnival hucksters (Lutnick) -- in thrall to their evil lord.

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"You see it in the carefully planted stories and apparently tossed off quotes." @joshtpm.bsky.social doubts any storyline that frames Elon as "someone who tried to tame government spending but was simply over-matched by 'Washington’s ways' and finally failed." talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/dont-...

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Spare me the fake outrage. None of these people showing up for court are criminals of any kind. As a prosecutor, I worked with many ICE officers who arrested violent criminals. None of them wore masks. Many of your agents are clearly ashamed to carry out your orders.

submitted 6 days ago • 890 comments

Folks Trump has no authority to fire the National Portrait Gallery director and no one need report it as if he does

submitted 6 days ago • 127 comments

When impartiality becomes inconvenient, just call it bias and cut the mic.

submitted 6 days ago • 94 comments

Eichmann snowed Hannah Arendt in a number of ways, but she really was onto something about the inability to think—and the inability to conceptualize the minds of others—as a source of evil www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

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A year ago today, a jury of everyday New Yorkers concluded Donald Trump was a criminal. They looked at the evidence, pondered for a while, & reasoned that he — without a doubt — faked documents to hide a sexual affair from voters in 2016. I was in the courtroom then. He's in the White House now.

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People will lose vital healthcare coverage if Trump's budget bill passes. One estimate found that this would lead to over 20,000 avoidable deaths per year. Oh, and a reminder that Joni Ernst is up for re-election in 2026.

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NEW: We obtained DHS data that shows the US knew only 32 of the 238 Venezuelans deported to a prison in El Salvador in March were convicted of US crimes, only 6 of those violent. Trump called them “savages,” “monsters” and "the worst of the worst.” www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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JUST IN: DC Circuit upholds fed-court preliminary injunction blocking TX Atty Gen Ken Paxton's probe into liberal media watchdog group Media Matters. Judges Pan (Biden), Edwards (Carter) & Henderson (GHWB) who concurred w/caveats Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

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“Trump and Vance aren’t just promoting policies; they’re trying to degrade America’s moral character to a level more closely resembling their own.”

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Worth sharing www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/o...

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In San Antonio today, plainclothes ICE officers (not masked this time) arrested, handcuffed, and zip-tied a family of five (yes, ALL of them, including the little children) coming out of their immigration court hearing — which ICE had just had dismissed. www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/a...

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Amazingly, we are still forced to listen to Republicans say with a straight face that cutting taxes for the wealthy will create such an explosion of economic growth that the tax cut will pay for itself. This is what they always say to justify upper-income tax cuts, and they’re always wrong.

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