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Executive Director, Institute for Research & Education on Human Rights. Co-author, Breaching the Mainstream. Old school anti-fascist. Hockey fan. he/him.
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Under the guise of "Make America Healthy Again," Leland Lehrman, the director of the MAHA Institute, who has promoted antisemitic conspiracy theories, is now cozying up to the Heritage Foundation, the architects of Project 2025.

My heart is breaking in ways I didn’t know were possible—but I’m holding onto outrage. Two U.S. teens were dragged from their home in SoCal as federal agents shattered windows, hurled flashbangs, & took their parents. This is cruelty. This is terrorism. And it’s happening on our soil. F*ck ICE.

JUST IN: Never seen this before — the Justice Department is suing ... the entire federal district court bench in Maryland over its standing order requiring an automatic two-day stay in habeas cases. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Wow, there is an AI voice generated “public speaker” at the ACIP meeting right now. Insane. Obviously they are promoting anti-vaccine points, saying to “abolish all vaccines”

NEW, from me: I found long time far-right activist and defense lawyer, Jason Lee Van Dyke. leading training efforts inside Patriot Front. www.splcenter.org/resources/ha...

NRA President pays six-figures to settle 2020 election interference lawsuit newsletter.grantstern.com/p/nra-presid...

“Is there any sign of life?” Records of 911 and EMS calls obtained by @wired.com from ICE detention centers show a system inundated with horrific incidents, including suicide attempts, severe pregnancy complications, and alleged sexual assaults. read @dmehro.bsky.social and @dell.bsky.social:

If you’re zip-tying grandmas protesting losing health care maybe you’re not the good guys in the story?

The Ku Klux Klan Acts (passed in 1870 & 1871 to protect 14th amend rights) were particularly focused on masked gunmen who violated the civil rights of Black people. We should remember this history when masked law enforcement ofcrs are deployed in our communities. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

“Trump has now pardoned several people accused of corruption, bribery, and financial crimes. A recent review by House Judiciary Democrats found that Trump’s pardons had forfeited $1.3 billion in restitution and payments to victims,” @jesspish.bsky.social writes.

New from IREHR. Antisemitic Conspiracy Promoter Cozies Up to Heritage Foundation. irehr.org/2025/06/25/a...

How many armed, masked men does it take to disappear an unarmed woman who has committed no crime? 2.5, evidently. I feel safer with her on the streets than I do the monsters disappearing her. 💔 screw Miller’s america.

A lot of stories like this in the world now. I hope some journalists in Korea follow up on this story and other similar stories as people are forced to leave their homes in the US and create new lives in Korea. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

“His wife, Linet Vartaniann, 37, is a U.S. Citizen. A spokesperson said she is also behind bars and will face federal charges for allegedly harboring her husband and threatening to shoot ICE officers if they entered her home.” “HARBORING HER HUSBAND”

Trump administration scraps Biden-era plan to limit sale of Americans' personal data www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Palantir, Meta, OpenAI execs to commission into Army reserve, form ‘Detachment 201’ breakingdefense.com/2025/06/andu...

This is a travesty & a nightmare. The US was a founder of @gavi.org. It lowers global vaccine costs, has vaccinated 1B children, & averted 19M deaths. This pull out will cost 100s of thousands of children's lives a year - and RFK Jr will be personally responsible. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

🚨 1/ IN COURT: The sentencing for Patrick Macdonald, better known as the Dark Foreigner, and a propagandist for the terrorist group Atomwaffen, has begun. Follow along here for important updates. Read our coverage of Macdonald’s trial where he was found guilty here:

My daughter was just telling me that a few of her friends can’t go to see the fireworks display, because they’re afraid that ICE will grab them. This is the country we now live in, where a government agency has made 15-year-olds afraid to hang out with their friends and celebrate Independence Day.

Stephen Miller, Trump's deputy chief of staff and homeland security advisor, disclosed owning between $100,001 and $250,000 in Palantir stock. Given Palantir's contracts with ICE, and Miller's work with the agency, that raises ethics concerns.

NEW: Do you want to know how a businessman wanted for a billion-dollar fraud in Moldova, accused of enabling Russian political influence and working with a Russian state-owned military bank is linked to a new cryptocurrency in Kyrgyzstan? Then I've got the OSINT investigation for you 1/

🧵 1/2 US citizen tackled by ICE in downtown LA—for filming them harassing street vendors. They pinned him face-down, punched him, & then left him seizing on the street. When his family tried to intervene, they were shoved & threatened. The man never touched an ICE thug. Video in 2 parts

Where’s the warrant? Where are the gang members Trump said they were going to get? These men are bounty hunters. KIDNAPPERS! This is Santa Monica, California…

"The people who hate this result the most are the Democratic establishment… poll after poll after poll showing Democratic voters fed up with their leaders in Washington…”

It's outrageous and scandalous that the Republicans canceled the one and only briefing they planned for Members of Congress on the war in Iran. The Constitution makes clear that only Congress has power to declare war.

We’ve lost Big Balls. 🇺🇸 @wired.com #DOGE @makenakelly.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/big-ba...

Emil Bove, a senior Department of Justice official, suggested the department should tell courts “f*** you” and ignore their orders to carry out President Donald Trump’s aggressive deportations, according to a whistleblower complaint by a former DOJ attorney. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Daniel Park, suspect linked to bombing of California fertility clinic, dies in federal custody, Bureau of Prisons says www.cbsnews.com/news/daniel-...

Without input from parents or students, the Education Department ordered several civil rights investigations on its own — targeting schools with trans athletes, gender-neutral bathrooms and initiatives it sees as discriminatory to white students.

“In Pasadena last week, a man stepped out of his unmarked vehicle at an intersection, unholstered his pistol and aimed it at a group of pedestrians before returning to his car… That incident left the police chief of Pasadena resigned to figure out whether it was a crime or part of a federal raid.”

Schrier to RFK Jr: You gave Cassidy the answer he needed to hear in order to get his confirmation vote, then as soon as you were secretary you turned around & fired all 17 members. You lied. I also want to be clear that I will lay all responsibility for every vaccine-preventable death at your feet.

3.75 million children would have qualified!!😡 www.sacurrent.com/news/texas-g...

If you ban Calvin and Hobbes you’re a straight up fascist son of a bitch and that’s that

This people, THIS!!! We've heard RFKJ spew on about increasing rates of childhood autism and how the cause MUST BE vaccines or toxins. But he failed to acknowledge or investigate the simplest answer: we expanded the definition of autism, leading to more diagnoses. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/o...

NEW: The Supreme Court's conservatives halt a preliminary injunction that had restricted the Trump administration's ability to rapidly deport migrants to "third countries" where they have never lived and where allegedly face torture. All three liberals dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

WTAF?!! This is Bullsh!! #DemVoice1 Trump Administration to End Protections for 58 Million Acres of National Forests www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/c...

Gutting the National Institutes of Health - which was the greatest biomedical research organization in the world - to turn it into a right wing man’s grievance-based podcasting studio

"Insurance companies currently rely on ACIP’s guidance on which vaccines to cover. But if enough reputable public health groups come up with recommendations different from ACIP’s, Osterholm said, those groups could sway insurance companies on which shots to cover..." www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

A 58-year-old man in Virginia may spend the rest of his life behind bars for following and shooting two Latino men because he was "pissed" about "illegal immigration," and immigrants receiving welfare. So much hate. Where does it come from? lawandcrime.com/crime/man-ob...

DISASTROUS. This means they will send people to horrific situations with no due process — in direct violation of promises the Solicitor General made to the Court in previous cases. This greenlights sending people to be enslaved in Libya or tortured in any random foreign country.

Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them theonion.com/democra...

DHS CONTRACTORS FOR KIDNAPPING: These job adverts confirm that DHS-ICE is hiring people off the streets with as little as 2 years military service. Plus CBP is hiring former War on Terror analysts to hunt Americans and migrants alike. Straight up Secret Police shit. These were on LinkedIn.

Wow: ICE Has Deported at Least 70 U.S. Citizens

A Trump regime ICE trooper pulled a gun and threaten to kill US civilians in a car as he crossed the street. Meanwhile other regime thugs pepper sprayed and attacked civilians, during an ethnic cleansing operation, at Home Depot in Santa Ana, California. #StopICE

Graduating seniors will no longer have to pass a U.S. history state assessment after the Mississippi State Board of Education voted on June 19 to eliminate the requirement beginning in the fall.

The Ayatollah’s biggest mistake? Not going on Joe Rogan.

“family members identified the victim as Narciso Barranco, a father to three sons who are all U.S. Marines” ktla.com/news/local-n...

Masked ICE agents (or unidentified kidnappers with “badges”) who don’t like being followed