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‘Trump Inc.’: Filings Show Staff Profited From Being in the President’s Orbit A constellation of companies and groups paid President Trump’s supporters before they took jobs in his White House, according to new disclosure statements. @kenvogel.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/06/15/u...

At yesterday's protests in Atlanta, police arrested the respected journalist Mario Guevara—clearly ID'd as press and, crucially, known for tirelessly documenting ICE abuses—for livestreaming their crackdown. He was booked on charges of "obstruction" and "pedestrian walking on or along" a roadway.

The radicalization of the American right is THE story of US politics over the last four decades and political reporters are still not allowed to talk about it

Just an appreciation post for Jacob being on the scene. In the absence of this reporting it would have been he-said/she-said. The sheriffs attacked peaceful protestors including kids with flashbangs, tear gas, and rubber bullets. We need more peaceful protest and more documentation on the ground.

BRENNAN: The public approval is so high of deportation PADILLA: It depends how you ask the question. If you ask the same people, 'Do you think we should maintain due process in the US?' the answer is overwhelmingly yes

According to the latest WaPo/Schar School poll, Trump’s handling of deportations has 37% approval, 52% disapproval. And Quinnipiac has it at 40% approval, 56% disapproval. But @facethenation.bsky.social insists “public approval is so high on deportation.”

Once again the correct response to this is to immediately push for a huge amnesty bill. If farm, hotel, and restaurant workers are so vital to the country that even donald trump can admit it, they should all be getting green cards now

If you don’t think Christian privilege is real or a pervasive problem, just mildly criticize one of the many problematic things Jesus said or did in the gospels. Then step back and brace yourself for the 87 people who will immediately pop up to shout you down in defense of his honor

Yet another Trump shakedown www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

The owner of Twitter sends out 100 right wing propaganda tweets every single day and the algorithm is set up so that every single person on Twitter has to see every single one of these tweets. Now here’s another piece about Blue Sky’s ideological diversity problem.

Over 12 million people protested in America yesterday meeting the 3.5% threshold ❤️🤍💙 “Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change.” www.bbc.com/future/artic...

here’s the moment LASD advanced on protestors with horses and used flash-bangs as we reported live yesterday. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp-vi...

A few scenes from #NoKings St. Louis County. Over 7,000 lining at least a mile of road!

Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman was a friend who worked with Gabby to stop gun violence. We’re thinking of her children, who've now lost both their parents, and we’re praying for Sen. Hoffman and his wife, who are still fighting for their lives. Stay strong.

I thought I was losing my mind when this happened because it was an attempted assassination of a national political leader and it was treated like it was nothing.

This is incredible. You don’t need to speak Spanish to fully enjoy this 60 seconds. Good luck buying any house built buy American workers during Trump 2.0

The number of people arguing with this number because “Alt National Park Service said it was 11 million” is kind of staggering to me. Folks, Alt NPS is not real, okay? None of the “alt” accounts are. They don’t have special knowledge. They pulled that number out of thin air/their ass

I feel that running those alt accounts is fundamentally unethical right now. At least with political/media literacy being what it is. People treat those like they're actual government entities, or at least that the people running them have some special insight. And it's just bloody parody accounts.

What have I been saying? Keep your eye on Miller (and Vought) "The rise of Stephen Miller, the architect of Trump’s hardline immigration policy With time, events in Los Angeles of the past wk may come to be seen as the anti-immigrant zealot’s ultimate revenge" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Padilla on Noem: "How does the cabinet secretary not know the senator from California when she steps foot into Los Angeles? She came through the Senate for confirmation."

I am wondering why Lisa Leher from the @nytimes.com did not discuss the data that suggests political violence in the US in the current era mostly comes from the right. Seems like a strange fact to ignore. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/u...

This is serious, rigorous analysis and it should change the way the media has been covering these protests. These were, in the aggregate, *massive.*

Meanwhile, at a congressional hearing this week, Eugene Vindman quizzed Whiskey Pete Hegseth about whether he knew what Kaliningrad was. Whiskey Pete ... failed that quiz.

Donald Trump's Saturday parade honoring the 250th anniversary of the establishment of the U.S. Army, which coincidentally fell on his 79th birthday, fell flat with one former Army general who expressed his disgust on MSNBC on Sunday morning.

We should've made a bigger national crisis of someone breaking into Nancy Pelosi's home & trying to kill her husband. But then, we should've made a bigger national crisis about hundreds of someones breaking into the Capitol & trying to steal an election. But then, we should've done lots of things.

Vance Boelter was an anti-transgender Christian Nationalist who delivered anti-queer sermons in the DRC, in case anyone was confused as to his political slant.

ICE raiding a crowded supermarket in Rosemead, California with no identification, indistinguishable from cartel hitmen, pulling high caliber rifles on unarmed US citizens trying to ask questions about wtf is going on. #3E #StopICE

Tennessee headlines just from today

If you’re going to lots of protests this year let me suggest that you buy a handful of Celox Z-fold Hemostatic bandages. These are special bandages with a material derived from shellfish that stop even heavy bleeds within one or two minutes. They’re ideal for treating severe gunshot or stab wounds.

A Tennessee woman is studying to be a nurse and works nights cleaning buildings. ICE recently deported her husband, leaving her alone with three kids and another child on the way. She's about to lose her car and home. Would you consider donating to help? www.gofundme.com/f/urgent-hel...

The most consequential Speaker in state history.

Serious question: Members of Congress have to file financial disclosures, right? So why is it ok that @RepMarkGreen won’t say what “private sector opportunity” he’s resigning for… as he sticks around to get the budget passed? Obviously unethical. Maybe unlawful?

Punk rock kid buskers (‘The Whops’, tiktok) near the Edgware Rd. They run into Paul Simonon, play Death or Glory for him. He asks if they know The Guns of Brixton. They do -

More than 5 million people took part in "No Kings" demonstrations in over 2,100 cities and towns across the country, with an additional 300 "Kick Out the Clowns" rallies being held. Philadelphia saw more than 100,000 attendees and Chicago 75,000. www.axios.com/2025/06/14/n...

Trump’s move to halt an initiative to restore abundant salmon runs drew condemnation. “The Administration’s decision to terminate these commitments echoes the federal government’s historic pattern of broken promises to tribes,” a tribe member said. With @opb.org‬

Holy sh*t! Protesters are lined up for a mile in the small town of Geneva, Illinois for the No Kings rally!