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It’s not just Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Law Dork can also report that O.C.G., a gay man sent into hiding when the Trump administration deported him to Mexico, has been brought back to the U.S. Read my Law Dork report on Trump’s deportations — and the challenges they have faced:

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Genetic material shed by tumors can be detected in the bloodstream three years before cancer diagnosis, according to a study led by investigators at Johns Hopkins University. That study was made possible with federal funding. Now, many studies like this are canceled. hub.jhu.edu/2025/06/04/...

submitted 9 hours ago • 38 comments

The wife of an Albuquerque man witnessed federal immigration agents use what she described as unnecessary force in a recent arrest in the South Valley, causing him to be hospitalized. Now, after returning to ICE custody, no one knows where he is. sourcenm.com/2025/06/11/i...

submitted 13 hours ago • 13 comments

ICE agents pulled this guy out of his car and beat the shit out of him, putting him in the E.R. Then they pulled him out of the hospital saying he was a "violent gang member." (He's a Doordash driver with only a traffic ticket on his record.) Now he's just...gone. What a nightmare.

submitted 12 hours ago • 25 comments

SCOOP: Guardsmen deployed to LA aren't on formal orders, thus aren't set up to be paid or get healthcare yet www.military.com/daily-news/2...

submitted 10 hours ago • 117 comments

youtu.be/baR4logaaOQ?... Jimmy Kimmel last night talks about what’s actually happening in Los Angeles for those who believe the city is some kind of totalitarian hellscape…

submitted 10 hours ago • 63 comments

Idk man but when the administration that tried to reject humanitarian aid for Los Angeles when it was burning tries to justify their illegal military occupation by saying they aren’t going to let LA burn it kinda sounds like bullshit

submitted 12 hours ago • 215 comments

Minnesota was just ranked the 5th best state for child wellbeing — here’s why: ✅ Free school meals ✅ Nation-leading Child Tax Credit ✅ Paid family and medical leave

submitted 10 hours ago • 315 comments

The only reason people think LA is a postapocalyptic nightmare is because of the X algorithm. An unreality machine.

submitted 11 hours ago • 184 comments

Wahls: During the nomination fight with Hegseth, she expressed some reservations that turned out to be very well-founded—but Joni didn’t do the right thing. She said back in 2014 that she’d go to Washington and “make ’em squeal.” I’d say Joni Ernst is all squeal, no bacon.

submitted 10 hours ago • 32 comments

This is all massively unpopular, and unlike some other unpopular stuff is neither a Trump or (for the most part) a GOP media priority. A handful of GOP Senators could put an end to it any time they want.

submitted 11 hours ago • 19 comments

Reuters: FEDERAL JUDGE RULES MAHMOUD KHALIL, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY STUDENT AND PRO-PALESTINIAN ACTIVIST CANNOT BE DETAINED ON TRUMP ADMINISTRATION JUSTIFICATION, BUT DOES NOT IMMEDIATELY ORDER RELEASE

submitted 11 hours ago • 21 comments

Here’s a video of Stephen Miller in high school screaming that he’s “sick and tired of being told to pick up my trash, when we have plenty of janitors who are paid to do it for us.” This is the sociopath shaping our immigration policy and so much more

submitted 12 hours ago • 2149 comments

This panel is never approving another vaccine.

submitted 11 hours ago • 18 comments

Politico is leveraging their role as kowtowing to an aspiring dictator in a much clearer and more urgent way than they did during his first term.

submitted 12 hours ago • 32 comments

I was at a car wash in Culver City today that was raided twice last weekend by ICE. 25 car wash workers and 1 customer have been kidnapped over the past several days, and the whereabouts of most of them is unknown. I spoke to families of the kidnap victims: prospect.org/justice/2025...

submitted 11 hours ago • 45 comments

CHIRLA has been around since 1986. It's one of LA's most prominent immigrant rights organization. Hawley is putting at target on it.

submitted 12 hours ago • 11 comments

FYI... "The woman said of the “refugees”: “They were understanding that they would be arriving here for complete assistance. People thought they would be arriving at a house, a job, medical insurance, and other things. It isn’t that way at all." www.thesouthafrican.com/lifestyle/af...

submitted 13 hours ago • 153 comments

This is a major scandal. But it’s one of a hundred major scandals.

submitted 11 hours ago • 10 comments

This can’t be. Donald Trump said he was going to end the wars

submitted 12 hours ago • 6 comments

VAN HOLLEN: The CBO says when you make these cuts, you will bring in less revenue from very wealthy people than you otherwise would. Do you agree with that analysis? BESSENT: I don't VH: It would be helpful if you could get back with what specific CBO premises and conclusions you disagree with

submitted 12 hours ago • 32 comments

FAO UK 'patriots' who admire blokes like this. This is what he jokes about. The 'don't make me look like I don't care' line isn't because he cares but because he got caught out not caring.

submitted 14 hours ago • 22 comments

REED: Are you confident that no information has been exported from the Treasury Department by DOGE personnel? BESSENT: Not to my knowledge REED: Have you investigated it? BESSENT: We have strict protocols around that so there's no reason to believe there was

submitted 12 hours ago • 158 comments

What a disgusting, ignorant, arrogant statement by the Secretary of Defense of the United States. Nobody trusts anything he says or does. That’s very dangerous for the US…we depend so much on our Allies. I served in Afghanistan in RC South 2009-2010 where thousands of Allies fought and many died.

submitted 12 hours ago • 59 comments

HEGSETH: We wore a patch on our shoulder that said ISAF -- International Security Assistance Force. And you know what the joke was? That is stood for 'I saw Americans fighting.' COONS: Let's just make clear for the record that our military partners in Afghanistan included many who served and died

submitted 18 hours ago • 543 comments

BEYER: Isn't this embarrassing? BESSENT: You seem not to have seen the economic data. GDP growth has been quite substantial BEYER: GDP growth is half what it was last year, sir BESSENT: Job growth is solid BEYER: Job growth is a third what it was last year, sir

submitted 15 hours ago • 546 comments

Really important story - army officials asked soldiers to identify themselves if they don't agree with Trump's politics that way he'd get only supportive soldiers in uniform during his political rally on base. Heavier soldiers were also barred from participating.

submitted 15 hours ago • 427 comments

We're living at a moment when ICE is threatening not only to arrest and deport immigrants but arrest and prosecute everyday people and leaders for educating others about their constitutional rights. Helping to defend our immigrant communities is one clear action that we can all take right now. ⤵️

submitted 14 hours ago • 52 comments

Dealing with law enforcement can be stressful, so it’s important to know your rights before you’re face-to-face with ICE agents. While there’s never any guarantee that law enforcement officers will follow the law, here’s what they can and can’t legally do to you and what you can legally demand. ⤵️

submitted 15 hours ago • 60 comments

HUGE MEDIA NEWS: POLITICO is launching a new spin-off publication, POLITICO Weimar! If you sign up now, each morning you can get its “Reich Chancellery Playbook” newsletter delivered to your inbox as a bonus!!

submitted 20 hours ago • 204 comments

Double.

submitted 15 hours ago • 3062 comments

Sen. DURBIN: The Trump Administration has shown they’re willing to break the law to carry out their mass deportation campaign… The President won’t stop at immigrants. Any of us could be next.

submitted 14 hours ago • 7 comments

A piece of advice from an old retired soldier to the commanders and leaders currently serving: Review the regulations & policies addressing political behavior when wearing the uniform, and then address those standards with your teams.

submitted 20 hours ago • 297 comments

People need to see what’s happening. ICE just took a dad while his teenage son watched, crying and powerless. Trump is ripping families apart—and some folks still say, “That’s what I voted for.” If that’s your take, that sentiment says more about you than it says about any undocumented immigrant.

submitted 20 hours ago • 171 comments

This is straight out of Nazi Germany.

submitted 15 hours ago • 123 comments

The Trump administration’s table of authorities in this filing:

submitted 15 hours ago • 87 comments

HORSFORD: Do tariffs on steel, aluminum, and lumber raise the cost of construction? BESSENT: On the housing point, the interest rates went up because the economy was stronger HORSFORD: Data shows the debt added by this big ugly bill will increase interest rates

submitted 14 hours ago • 28 comments

Uh, pardon me but...what the fuck? I keep looking for the part at the beginning where these guys signal the car to stop and they just...don't? They just ram-trap it and then point guns - and they've got the wrong car no less!

submitted 15 hours ago • 9 comments

BREAKING: A few minutes ago, a vehicle of three people was rammed by a truck belonging to federal immigration authorities in Boyle Heights, CA. According to security footage shown to me, they deployed chemical munitions & detained the driver at gunpoint. All are US citizens according to the wife.

submitted 15 hours ago • 2087 comments

THOMPSON: Can you point to one independent study performed by an expert PhD economist who is not on the payroll of this administration who says this legislation will not add to our national debt? BESSENT: Yes T: Who? B: Art Laffer T: I don't think that one counts

submitted 16 hours ago • 97 comments

Miller says he wants to demographically cleanse "huge parts" of Los Angeles until everyone in the city knows each other, and it's not a "society of strangers" anymore. We are talking about dystopian nightmare here. He's the apocalyptic prophet with an army.

submitted 1 day ago • 173 comments