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Government by the few, of the few and for the few - why we need to end the #TrumpRegime NOW www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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There are worse reasons.

To any politicians that need a reminder: Public schools aren’t Sunday schools.

www.theverge.com/news/687418/... every day a new shakedown, every day a new reminder we put the most chintzy scam artists this country ever produced in charge of the government

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Veteran photographer Michael Nigro was shot in the head with a non-lethal bullet while covering anti-ICE protests in LA. "It felt very very intentional," Nigro tells NPR, "a chilling effect to convince us to go away." Other reporters say they have been targeted too. My story below:

Essential point in this exchange with @willsommer.bsky.social: Trump-Miller have to target noncriminals for deportation because it's the only way to get the numbers they need to try for "full-scale ethnic change." Terror is central to this. Will is very good here: newrepublic.com/article/1968...

The Republicans who run one of Texas’ biggest counties have recruited the national GOP’s top map-drawer, as well as a leading Washington D.C.-based voter suppression group, to ram through a new gerrymander that aims to expand their majority. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/top...

Not everything is terrible

"Bluesky is dead." Meanwhile, on Bluesky...

Truest words on the Internet today.

Hi everyone I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing

Thrilled to have the winner of our art competition in D.C.! 🎨 Isabelle’s painting represents everything that NJ-10 is: vibrant, purposeful, and full of joy. Congratulations, Isabelle—you’ve made our district proud!

This administration is filled with what at any other time would be career-ending scandals you have to learn about in school, but instead they get immediately buried by three other scandals from the same day.

Hey there Scott Walker. I noticed you deleted this after learning that in fact the shooter was from the right. I don’t think it matters either way, violence is violence, so I’m waiting for you to tweet the same thing with corrected facts? Cuz you’re uh, to use your words, “being silent.”

Trump’s immigration raids & detentions are ignoring red states. He’s only focused on blue states. Because everything Trump does is meant to divide us. Today’s show, 11am ET/8am PST, right here.👇 m.youtube.com/@socialcontr...

"Law enforcement work to contain protestors" is a funny caption for a photo of a bike cop just spraying a chemical agent wildly

REMINDER: The President MUST go through Congress before sending American troops to war.

Utah voters: Are these really your values? Mike Lee is the best you can do?

WATCH: “You shouldn’t treat every child in your care like they’re murderers. Most kids in Dick Bean’s facility are not convicted of anything.” The still operating KNOXVILLE facility known for sticking kids in solitary, sometimes for ‘talking back’ Story: www.propublica.org/article/knox...

📢 #AltGov Announcement Joining us on #NoKingsDay we are proud to welcome @altniosh.bsky.social to Altgov! These exceptionally qualified scientists & stewards of public health have stepped up to keep the facts flowing. If you are unfamiliar with NIOSH, visit here before it's deleted by 🧠🐛.

Fuck all of this shit. #Veterans #VA #DougCollins www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Until the day I die I will never understand why he was even still allowed to run after bragging that he grabbed women “by the pu*sy”.

“Friends and former colleagues interviewed by AP described Boelter as a devout Christian who attended an evangelical church and went to campaign rallies for President Donald Trump” apnews.com/article/minn...

The Los Angeles Press Club says law enforcement officers have violated press freedoms of reporters covering anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles more than three dozen times. https://n.pr/3Zw0tPg

Instead of a million words. Azovstal Defender before and after Russian captivity. #Ukraine 📷: olddog100ua

BREAKING: Minnesota shooter Vance Boelter has been arrested alive. He faces 4 charges of 2nd Degree murder. The two counts for killing Rep. Melissa Hortman & her husband bring a max of 40 years prison. And the two counts for injuring Sen. John Hoffman and his wife bring a max of 20 years prison.

Among other things Melissa Hortman, murdered along with her husband yesterday by a far-right assassin, was a climate champion throughout her political career. I found a few things to that effect.

🧵I think it’s important to understand what disinformation like Sen. Mike Lee’s tweets are trying to do, psychologically/cognitively. In my disinfo class/Substack, I talk about how disinfo often uses “moral disengagement strategies” to manipulate people into accepting harmful conduct 1/

This post uses dehumanizing language like “sick of mind,” “robbers,” and “destroy our Inner Cities” to portray the left as not just wrong but evil. It’s less about ICE and immigration than it is about casting political opponents as threats to the nation’s survival.🧵(cont.)..

On a hot mic, Donald Trump praised Kim Jong-un’s authoritarian control, saying, “He speaks and his people sit up at attention. I want my people to do the same.” He wasn’t joking & no context softens the implication: he openly admired dictatorship and expressed his desire to wield it.

"No kings, no subjects" by @heathermarsh.bsky.social: georgiebc.wordpress.com/2025/06/15/n... Removing tyrants requires removing the tyranny embedded within us. In Nov., world watched U.S. passively accept rigged election, attack each other, wait for a saviour US public has greatly advanced since

"Let the rotten Russian empire fall" Georgia does not surrender to fascism. (📷 @publikage.bsky.social ) #3E #EndOligarchy #EndImpunity #EndAutogenocide #GeorgiaProtests

Ali Khamenei, cloaked in divine excuses, plunders Iran's wealth to feed his endless greed. Meanwhile, Mahsa Amini's memory shines as a beacon of true heroism against tyranny. #3E

Those who silence the cause of Iranian women and their fight for freedom, accusing us of backing a Nazi regime, can shove it. No government gets our nod—just citizens chasing liberty with unbreakable spirit. #3E

I missed this Trump post from this morning where Trump said Serbia and Kosovo were “going at it hot and heavy” during his first term.

🚨BREAKING: Donald Trump cites false claims about noncitizen voting to justify expansion of deportation efforts to other Democratic controlled cities. I will have this and more in my newsletter to premium members tomorrow. Subscribe now. newsletters.democracydocket.com/member-meblu...

Melissa Hortman was a Democrat. Murdered for being a Democrat. Every headline should say so. This was political terrorism.

If passed, the SAVE Act would limit access to our democracy for millions of eligible voters. The House has already passed it, but the Senate can still stop it in its tracks. Tell your Senator to REJECT this bill in defense of our voting rights.

Why is germ theory in the same air quotes as "miasma theory," I ask as a historian of medicine who is very very tired

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.

NEW: He didn’t like Pelosi. He didn’t like Tim Walz. He didn’t like Joe Biden. He DID like Alex Jones. He DID vote for Trump. He would be offended if anyone thought he was a democrat. wapo.st/45UNM4e

Whatever loser your parade sucked