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Laura Loomer has 1.7 million followers. She’s telling people to arm themselves tomorrow because the protesters are “working with Islamic jihadists.” She and other right-wing pro-Zionist influencers are also claiming there are Iranian “sleeper cells” who are going to attack tomorrow.

The right is really trying to provoke violence tomorrow. Desperate for a violent crackdown on critics.

I did my best to compile as many protest safety notes as possible into a one page foldout zine! Coincidentally…it seems the file has breached containment…like it’s available for anyone to print or hand out 👀⚖️ toonyart.com/s/PSZine.pdf

From my column, linked below

I uploaded all the Kash Patel redacted grand jury documents that just got filed. Consider a Court Watch subscription to offset the cost of PACER fees (www.courtwatch.news/upgrade) www.courtlistener.com/docket/69626...

<thread> On the left: June 12, Judge Breyer writing that THE test for whether the US Marines/Guard violate Posse Comitatus will be whether they've engaged in "detaining" civilians. On the right: June 13: See for yourself. Note: The DoD has confirmed the detention of civilian to Reuters.

Let's all take a moment to read the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878. It's only one sentence.

Las Vegas police immediately arrest two livestreamers when one of them insults an officer after an anti-ICE protest ("honor your oath, bitch"). "You need to learn there's rules: don't run your mouth at me."

Oh look. He's a citizen. And a US Army veteran. Good thing these mooks who are brazenly breaking federal law are also super competent. Sheesh.

Thank God, we are being protected from (checks notes) veterans who want to visit an office of the department of veteran affairs. Surely these are our greatest enemies!

OMG. According to two members of Congress that just conducted an inspection and confirmed horrible conditions at the ICE detention center where unrest led to 4 people escaping, apparently people were able to escape because an EXTERIOR WALL was made of drywall and wire mesh!

When I was the front desk manager at the Driskill hotel in Austin, TX in 1998, a guest accidentally locked himself out of his room while naked, when he pushed his room service tray into the hall. I got to joke about it with another guest: Dr. Ruth Westheimer.

It is actually nuts that even when the NYC political establishment was presented with a broad field of talented candidates w/ many ideas, in a time of generational change & anti-corruption, they STILL chose to line up behind scandal-ridden Andrew Cuomo. It’s cowardice.

Andrew Cuomo treats NYC like it’s his safety school.

My royal we is raising questions already answered by my royal we.

So according to Michael Wolff’s sources, Trump has been telling people in phone calls that Alex Padilla “looks like an illegal” www.instagram.com/reel/DK2EEyC...

In 1977, Andrew Cuomo was working on his father's unsuccessful mayoral campaign against Ed Koch. Voters received mailers saying, "Vote for Cuomo, not the homo", which Andrew Cuomo has been widely reported to be responsible for. He's been using the same bigoted campaign tactics for nearly 50 years.

One thing that stood out really powerfully in last night's mayoral debate is that Zohran Mamdani and Brad Lander both operate from the premise that New York City is a wonderful and beautiful and precious place. Andrew Cuomo does not.

Watching the NYC mayoral debate from last night this morning and ... in addition to all the other major problems with him, it is obvious Cuomo doesn't even LIKE New York City.

One of the greatest, most disturbing quotes I've seen in a long time www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t...

Community blames the protected bike line, and not the parked car that forced a child to exit a bus in the middle of a busy street and also prevented both the child and the cyclist from seeing each other

Great news for personal injury lawyers like me. I want to thank the Adams administration for deliberately making a popular roadway more dangerous. It takes real courage to know that your policy decision will lead to serious injuries and death, and proceed anyway.

New reason to never use Doordash: Doordash is Bad For The Jews

so @doomtree.bsky.social are extending their sale on No Kings merch—if that's your taste, and times being what they are—10% off with code "NO KINGS". maybe you could use a flag with a big anti-king logo on it, for various sorts of flag-waving purposes in the near future!

We know what we have to do to save our city from Andrew Cuomo. We're cross endorsing 🤝 @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

We know what we have to do to save our city from Andrew Cuomo. We're cross endorsing 🤝 @bradlander.bsky.social

Walking past Elvis Costello at the Met, leaning against a wall by a ladies' room, looking monumentally bored. I bet I could've spotted Diana Krall had I waited around.

WATCH: “I WAS AN INTERPRETER IN AFGHANISTAN FOR 3 YEARS.” ICE grabs a man whose name they don’t even know at his immigration hearing, shackles him, expedites his removal. Q: Why would anyone ever help our military again? — Trump is endangering and weakening our military.

NEW: 12 masked armed men try to enter a homeless shelter without saying who they are. ICE agents park outside an elementary school, sparking fear and a car accident. Local police respond to a call about a possible assault, only to find ICE. Inside one day on LI: theintercept.com/2025/06/13/i...

Seems important: "FBI ‘Escorted’ Him To Trump DHS Presser They Claim He Crashed" Padilla says he "didn’t “barge” into the presser, he was signed in and escorted, and was listening in the room for 10 minutes before he tried to ask a question" www.mediaite.com/media/news/s...

Uh, whose fault is this?

NEW: The CBP confirmed to @404media.co that it has been flying Predator drones over LA amid the protests. These Predator B drones are military-caliber UAVs used for aerial reconnaissance that can be armed. It further breaks the seal on federal involvement in civilian matters. More here:

Once again, it seems to me that when a court finds the president is doing something wildly unconstitutional, it is dangerous and unhealthy that we default to “but let him keep doing it until multiple layers of review all agree.”

This is one of my favorite dynamics enabled by Ranked Choice: that you can build a coalition with people you mostly agree with whose message is "maybe them, maybe me... but definitely not that fucking guy"

Imagine being too physically abusive and politically embarrassing for Corey Lewandowski

He was deported on March 15

1/ Incredible story from @dfriedman.bsky.social and @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social (fixed!) on how MAGA organizers of Jan 6 "Stop the Steal" rally have quietly taken over the entity running the military/birthday parade organizing entity: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

when you want to join the fun but can't quite get down with the nomenclature (ht @davelevitan.bsky.social)

"Less likely to be clean-shaven in the morning" is my new favorite euphemism for the DTs.

The logical thing for the US to do was deny any involvement in the attack on Iran, which makes it harder for Iran to build a case for retaliating against the US. It looks like that was the direction they were heading until president dipshit decided to personally taunt Iran on social media.

This is *such* a good read. I was unable to pick a pull-quote - every graf is better than the last. My eyebrows got a workout. Also, I laughed out loud several times. Also, it's terrifying that these people are in charge now.

Idiots. Morons.

Fucking Sophie's Choicing lawyers

Huge endorsement for Zohran news.bgov.com/bloomberg-go...

it's a mystery how The Onion stays in business when this is the actual news headlines