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BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schools—told staff they had “parental consent.” They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.

Dear America: This is what you get for ignoring the fact that Russia has been waging a new kind of war against America, and Trump is Putin’s weapon.

New from 404 Media: Delta, United, American etc don't want you to know they sold your flight data to DHS. The country's airlines sell bulk names and flight itineraries to DHS to be searched without a warrant. Contract tells DHS to not reveal where this data came from www.404media.co/airlines-don...

The reason I say the US is entering a new dark ages is we’re seeing attacks not just on science, but on the very idea that scientific reasoning should be independent of political control.

the fact that people were told “today you are going to an elementary school to lie to teachers and kidnap kids” and didn’t immediately tell their bosses to go fuck themselves is all you need to know about why ICE should be dismantled

To not see it as fascism now, you have to utterly ignore what's happening @kjephd.bsky.social www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/fascism

This is the kind of thing that is going to happen constantly now that we have an unaccountable masked gang with complete impunity: Random scammers, stalkers and criminals are just going to pretend to be ICE, because why not?

Mass protest gets the goods.

I guess Trump decided that since he couldn't end the wars in Gaza or Ukraine, or do real trade deals, he might as well start a war in the United States. It's very MAGA!

This is incredibly courageous and brave. Support NIH staffers. They stuck out their necks for us. Now we have to have their backs.

The bottom line on the Trump-Musk feud www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

This really cannot be said enough. The only two major internal crisis's in the US are combatting climate change and affording healthcare.

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

"Tanner, a chemist at the Univ. of Mississippi working to develop a novel approach for treating glioblastoma, was notified in April that the grant was terminated. “I would like to cure brain cancer,” Dr. Tanner said. “I think that's not particularly controversial.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

You must always be more disciplined than the forces brought against you. They're allowed to make mistakes. They make the rules. Your mistakes will be used as justification for your own repression.

National Guard troops have arrived in Los Angeles in response to immigration protests, and a Democratic congresswoman says she's been told to expect "30 days of ICE enforcement." Follow live updates: cnn.it/4kpcsGy

In Manhattan, ICE officers were forced to flee inside 26 Federal Plaza

To be clear, this is what an insurrection looks like:

Study abuse, understand oppression

I've done a fair bit of research & read more on how to increase retirement savings. It's made me pretty pessimistic about every strategy except mandatory, universal pensions for baseline retirement income security. Lots of people just won't choose to save but will need $ later.

Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio tried to give a press conference to announce his lawsuit against DOJ. Much to my surprise it turned out to be the greatest press conference of all-time.

Everyone needs to keep this in mind, always

So the conservative justices who had a meltdown over their "privacy" being violated by Dobbs protests in front of their homes are cool with Musk's Doge minions rampaging through the personal data of EVERY American. Cool. Cool. Double standard. So awesome.

If you strip away the egos and shitposting, the Trump-Musk feud is really an argument over how comprehensively to screw over poor and working people—over how best to make our society a meaner, crueler, less equal, more savage place. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1962...

Guardian - University of Michigan is using private, undercover investigators to surveil pro-Palestinian campus groups, including trailing them on and off campus, furtively recording them and eavesdropping on their conversations. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/06/michigan-university-gaz

Economics literature: Trump's 2018 steel and aluminum raised prices, reduced output, cut employment and reduced wellbeing. Trump, 2025: What if we doubled them? I can't find a *single* study that suggests this is a good idea. Lemme know if you find one.

The speed with which the mainstream institutions and load bearing media orgs have folded is unbelievable. If there is a chance for libs to control them again in the future, they should be treated as what they are: dogs that have to know their place. This is the language they love and understand.

This is the *real* rationing and “death panels.” ‘Merica.

Let this be a warning to avid collaborators: It won't end well.

It is deeply hilarious that the Hudson's Bay Company was founded in 1670 and chugged along for three and a half centuries and Private Equity finished it off in like five years.

"if you wanted to find a way to really destroy American manufacturing, what you would do is figure out a way to jack up the cost of steel for American manufacturers."