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UPDATE — A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the government had until 9:30AM today (30 minutes ago) to appeal Mahmoud Khalil’s possible release. They did not do so. His legal team has just asked the court to accordingly order his release.

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"Two Israeli officials claimed to Axios that Trump and his aides were only pretending to oppose an Israeli attack in public — and didn't express opposition in private. 'We had a clear U.S. green light,' one claimed. ... The U.S. side has not confirmed any of that."

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ICE abducted Moises Sotelo today. He is a trusted vineyard management business owner from Newburg, Oregon, who has been in the US since 1994. He has a wife, three children, and five grandchildren who need him to be returned safely to them.

submitted 7 hours ago • 6 comments

there’s got to be some kind of statute of limitations on this crap. I get moral hazard, I get all of that, it’s just completely insane to say that this guy who built an American life for 30 years isn’t American.

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BREAKING: A federal judge halted provisions of Trump’s anti-voting order that required documentary proof of citizenship for voter registration and targeted mail-in ballot receipt deadlines. From: @jaknutson.bsky.social‬

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1/ In the middle of everything today, a little good news: a fed'l judge has ruled that challenged parts of Trump's executive order on voting are invalid. It would have required, among other things, proof of citizenship before people could register to vote. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Such dishonorable cowardice. An interpreter for the US military in Afghanistan shows up to his asylum hearing and these cowards in masks arrest him without warrant and plan to deport him. The immigration judge granted him a merit hearing to decide his asylum claim, but he'll likely never see it.

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Björk's Post turns 30 today. Revisit our Perfect 10 review: pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

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An Afrikaner “refugee” family was reportedly stranded at a hotel in Montana without food, money, or a cellphone. Instead, they had reached out to a Facebook group for help

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The first U.S. bishop appointed by Pope Leo XIV—a refugee himself—is mobilizing priests to accompany migrants at immigration court on June 20. (Via Christopher Hale)

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I was, of course, pleased to sign this letter from a wide range of esteemed Supreme Court reporters calling on the justices to live-stream audio of opinion announcements. There is no reason this audio should be withheld for months, as the court does now. www.scotusblog.com/2025/06/repo...

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“Tesla’s driverless ‘robotaxis’ could launch in Austin as soon as June 22. But a demo in Austin today showed a $TSLA, manually driven to test its Full Self-Driving system, failed to stop for a child-sized dummy at a school bus—and hit it.” @cbsaustin @velez_tx

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ICE in CA with Texas plates 🤔

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Republicans defunded PBS, NPR, and humanitarian aid and pretended it was about the deficit, right after voting for massive tax cuts for the rich. www.huffpost.com/entry/house-...

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I know so many journalists who are dynamite at their jobs. Thorough, diligent, honest. And yet there is so much lazy, misleading slop that gets churned out by so many big outlets. Not a single mention that this was recorded in ten different angles of video.

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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...

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I'm literally two sentences into this article and MY MAN YOU WERE USING IT FOR LEGAL ADVICE??? www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t...

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Not that it even matters terribly. But one of their claims was that he had no identifying lapel of whatever. But I just noticed in the photo on my article he’s literally wearing a US senate shirt.

submitted 9 hours ago • 72 comments

There has been far too little focus on Darren Beattie, who was fired from the first Trump admin bc his extremist views were too extreme.

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Trump is scrambling to spin this. Netanyahu wasn’t trying to help diplomacy; he was trying to destroy diplomacy. How do we know? They reportedly targeted and killed Iran’s chief negotiator with Trump.

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ICE is detaining people in torturous conditions in a two-story office building in #Burlington, Mass. The detainees are barely being fed, can't wash their hands, and are in such confined spaces that they can't all lie down at once. #Massachusetts #mapoli www.wbur.org/news/2025/06...

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I don’t know who needs to hear this, but scheduled protests are not an emergency. fox4kc.com/news/missour...

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Two different court cases involving Kilmar Abrego Garcia 1) He’s arraigned today in Nashville in trafficking case 2) His civil attorneys are asking judge for sanctions against Trump Admin, alleging Justice Dept defied court order to return Abrego Garcia months earlier

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New in PN: We've reached the indicting the opposition stage of fascism "The charges against McIver are thin, to say the least. And none of this can be separated from the intensifying chaos around us, as ICE thugs rampage in the streets and Republicans target Democratic politicians."

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A man with a green card said ICE agents arrested him in #Lynn, Mass then took him to a detention facility—but first made a detour to a cemetery, where they took him out of their vehicle and beat him. #mapoli #Massachusetts

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(Reuters) - On the campaign trail, U.S. President Donald Trump promised to end the world's hottest conflicts and usher in global peace, but nearly five months in, with Israel attacking Iran and bloodshed in Gaza and Ukraine unabated, those hopes are in shambles. www.reuters.com/world/middle...

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Guess who was right in the thick of the assault on @padilla.senate.gov? Corey Lewandowski. (He may have been the guy instructing that there's no recording at a press conference and seems to have realized how badly they fucked up.)

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I don't know how many times these people have to say "non-whites are not americans unless they are part of my inner circle, we want to do ethnic cleansing" before people start listening bsky.app/profile/pale...

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are you sure

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Gov. Pritzker: “It's wrong to deploy the National Guard and active duty Marines into an American city over the objection of local law enforcement, just to inflame a situation and create a crisis.”

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Crucial from immigration advocate Tori Gavito: Trump's stunning admission that deportations are hurting farmers and the economy suggests he's hearing major blowback from businesses who want them to stop. On the pod, Tori is good on why this is such a big moment: newrepublic.com/article/1967...

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👀: “Two Israeli officials claimed to Axios that Trump and his aides were only pretending to oppose an Israeli attack in public — and didn't express opposition in private. ‘We had a clear U.S. green light,’ one claimed.”

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Yesterday, a senior DHS official gave a briefing to an anti-voting group founded by Cleta Mitchell. The event focused on using a federal database to check registered voters’ citizenship information. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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A document circulated to members of Congress misinterprets studies and cites debunked research, scientists say. It could influence congressional perceptions of vaccine safety.

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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.

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Israeli Official to 'Post': 'There was full and complete coordination with the Americans' www.jpost.com/israel-news/...

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Trump world was selling campaign merch on a military base… www.military.com/daily-news/2...

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Once again I am calling for Democrats to introduce legislation requiring standardized uniforms, visible badge numbers with names, as well as a requirement for ICE and DHS agents to present proof that there is enough danger present to be masked to a judge when they get their warrant.

submitted 9 days ago • 59 comments

😬⏰

submitted 11 hours ago • 39 comments

Hey internet - dox them all. Especially the front dude, who is high as a fucking kite.

submitted 11 hours ago • 63 comments