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NEW: ICE has quietly rescinded a policy requiring agents to ensure courthouse raids don't clash with state and local laws. WIRED detected the missing language in a superseding memo posted to ICE's website this week. by me and @dmehro.bsky.social:

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When your massive ego gets you to announce something a more careful person would have kept quiet.

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Just a reminder even though he opposed the bill NOW, AFTER it passed, Elon Musk is not a good guy. He wants MORE cut out of what you need. This is a guy that’s a billionaire for one reason: the US Govt tax breaks and financing

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Here’s a rare member of the U.S. Senate who seems to understand how close we are to a dictatorship.

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Chris Murphy: "We can't be preparing for the 2026 election. It might not come. All of our focus right now has to be on protecting the democracy, about stopping the corruption."

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Arresting a 17-year-old on his way to volleyball practice, here since age 5, or a Missouri mom of three at a routine check-in after 20 years in the U.S.—this isn't justice, it's cruelty. And, yes, ICE agents should be ashamed of themselves.

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Very ominous: Trump administration officials delayed and censored a govt forecast because it predicts an increase in the nation’s trade deficit in farm goods later this year www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

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Federal judge, quoting Kafka, gives the US government one week to come up with a way for 100+ migrants sent to a notorious prison in El Salvador prison to challenge their deportations. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278436/gov.uscourts.dcd.278436.148.0_1.pdf

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Earth will warm 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels in just two years, new data shows. Irreversible tipping points — like the melting of Arctic ice sheets or the collapse of coral reefs — are closer at hand than previously believed.

submitted 21 hours ago • 369 comments

i know no one cares about hypocrisy or shamelessness or anything anymore but these people really used to tell us they were scared of an armed govt being turned against americans, they made an entire career out of it

submitted 20 hours ago • 394 comments

it is absolutely true that lincoln tried not to get too far afield of public opinion on slavery, calibrating his positions and actions according to what he thought was the mainstream. but it is important to note that at no point did lincoln ever disavow or deny his sincerely held antislavery views

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"By rejecting passivity, Sanders is also doing more to actually put Republicans—who’ve recently been ordered to abandon town halls in the wake of mounting anger from their own voters—under pressure." Published March 11, 2025: https://trib.al/Eo7jNUO

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Significant ruling by Judge Boasberg for men sent to CECOT prison. "The Government must facilitate the Class’s ability to seek habeas relief to contest their removal under the Act." Important moment for the rule of law and against government lawlessness. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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BREAKING: Chief Judge James Boasberg finds that those people sent to CECOT under the Alien Enemies Act on March 15-16 had their due process rights violates and certifies them as a class. He orders that the government "facilitate" the ability for them to seek habeas relief.

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Terrifying stuff. Sharp decline in insect numbers tied to global heating. They are at the base of ecosystems and their decline will reverberate upwards. The fact that this is probably going to happen in my life time. We really need to stop burning fossil fuels today!

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“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.” — President Theodore Roosevelt.

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www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/do... (link opens warren's very punchy short report in pdf format)

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1/ New in the Abrego Garcia case, the Judge has just granted his lawyers' request for permission to file sanctions against the government, which is very unusual.

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Perfect.

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MASSACHUSETTS: “He is not a criminal… 18 years old… one of the nicest kids in school… plays drums in church… this is the only home he has ever known…” Lawyers say Marcelo Gomes da Silva is here legally: www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/...

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The world is not zero sum. Relationships aren't zero sum. Exchange isn't zero sum. Zero sum thinking is the framework of the ignorant, unhappy, and simple-minded.

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The woman who shouted "people will die" at Joni Ernst, India May, is a nurse and a librarian who first got involved in politics by going to a town hall about bills aiming to defund libraries. Now she's running for state house. eu.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/p...

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🚨Heard about this earlier today; ICE is expanding to arrests at ATD (alternatives to detention) case management check-ins. Dozens of people got texts to show up weeks in advance of their normal check-in, and ended up detained. Three women let go were told to come back tomorrow with their kids.

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State Dept snr official Darren Beattie has been spewing oddly pro-Putin narratives for years—while dismantling the offices that fight pro-Putin (& other) narratives, as I reported for @technologyreview.com. Now, we know why: his wife has family ties to Putin. archive.ph/2025.06.03-1...

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It’s rare to see such CLEAR before-and-after effects. These graphs? Dramatic drops in disease after vaccine rollout 💉🦠📉 Correlation isn’t causation. But paired with 1000s of vaccine studies? Vaccine-preventable diseases: absolutely prevented💥 👉 graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d... #vaccinessavelives

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just a reminder that the dem who ran this campaign unseated a 3x gop incumbent who had never won by less than double digits

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Whether it's a random liberal nobody praising Luigi on Facebook or a Republican cabinet nominee calling for genocide against all non-whites, there's plenty of incendiary rhetoric on both sides.

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ICE dressed up like utility workers who offer "free estimates" if invited inside. Neighbor recorded the ICE goons and intervened, just before a young boy let them into his home. Tucson Electric Power was not told ICE agents would be impersonating their utility workers as part of the ICE raid.

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PRO PUBLICA: Of the 238 men sent to an El Salvador mega prison, only 6 had prior violent crime convictions. 0 were on the gang member list. 130 had no criminal history. 32 had minor offenses. All 238 thought they were being sent back to Venezuela. www.instagram.com/p/DKcjM7FPhz...

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“Half the tree of life disappearing in one human lifetime.” As this heartbreaking eulogy makes clear, the amount of beauty & wonder we’ve lost is truly overwhelming. All life is connected, & we’re currently on track to learn this truth in the most painful way possible.

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The Trump regime wants us to believe there’s an emergency that justifies ignoring due process to rid the country of undesirables. The only emergency is their disgraceful, illegal violation of due process and the rule of law.

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Beyond frustrating and disappointing that CBS got a rare exclusive sitdown interview with Musk and didn’t ask him a single question about his reckless and ignorant cuts to USAID and all the lives that are being lost across the world as a result of it:

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McSweeney's: New York Times’ Style Guide Substitutions for "The President Violated the Constitution" www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/new...

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They are not picking up dangerous criminals, but the immigrants who were actually complying with the conditions of their presence in the US. And now, other immigrants have less and less reason to do so.

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Reminder that Trump was ordered by the Supreme Court to facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the United States. That was nearly two months ago. If Trump can violate due process and openly defy a SCOTUS order, what’s to stop him from doing the same to anyone else?

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Despite many constitutional questions, AG Pam Bondi signed off on the acceptance of a jet from Qatar. The American public deserves to know more about the memo and any ethics guidance Bondi received, given her former work as a foreign agent of Qatar.

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The Brennan Center and @cato.org filed a brief in support of the @aclu.org ’s challenge to the administration’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to detain and deport Venezuelans. The president exceeded the limits of his powers by invoking a wartime law to conduct peacetime immigration enforcement.

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Murray: Those funds were appropriated by congress and your department was to allocate them and it looks like the department is illegally impounding funding…

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True story ⤵️

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COLORADO… My Pillow Guy Mike Lindell admitting in court he has no evidence the 2020 election was rigged…

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The interests of the nation are secondary to the petty grievances of the authoritarian.

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