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Michael Pham fled Vietnam at the age of 13. He was named bishop of San Diego a month ago. Today, he stood watch at a courthouse: ICE agents were “standing there covered with masks as we walked toward the courtroom. Eventually the agents scattered and went away” timesofsandiego.com/life/2025/06...

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“Take him in,” one of the officers said.

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He’s TACOing on his TACO.

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#NoKingsDay at Meadow Lakes, a retirement community in East Windsor, NJ. 50 of us. No one under 75. Many in their 80s & the oldest 95. Lots of thumbs up & honks from drivers passing by. Exhilarating to raise our voices for #Democracy. nj50501.bsky.social njindivisible.bsky.social maddow.msnbc.com

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I spoke with the LA-area pastor who confronted masked men conducting an apparent immigration action on church property — men, she says, who said "the whole country is our property." DHS claims ICE wan't there — but I have video, and it may've still been a DHS team. religionnews.com/2025/06/13/i...

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"The HHS document says that another paper it cites found 'an increase in placental blood clotting in pregnant mothers who took the vaccine.' But the paper doesn't contain any reference to placental blood clots or to pregnant women." www.npr.org/2025/06/13/n...

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“ICE” as snatching people from churches now. Never forget they said this👇🏾 MAN AT CHURCH: “We don’t want this in our property.” ICE: “The whole country is our property.” No IDs shown, non-government out of state plates, basic tactical vests that just say police. Who are these men?

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You mean elected officials who were voted into office by the citizens of California? I wonder how Kristi is going to fare in a women’s prison someday.

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House Democrats need to bring articles of impeachment against Kristi Noem, while Senate Democrats need to bring that chamber to a fucking halt.

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Sen. Alex Padilla, who was just forcibly removed from a DHS press conference, is the ranking member of Judiciary’s subcommittee on immigration, citizenship, and border safety, which has “oversight of federal agencies with citizenship, asylum, refugee, and immigration enforcement responsibilities.”

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Gavin Newsom just did what every governor must when faced with illegal federal overreach: he stood up, spoke out, and sued. As Trump veers into authoritarianism, California is now ground zero for a historic constitutional fight. Jen Rubin breaks it down.

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chemical warfare

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Americans have understood the threat of standing armies to democratic nations as long as there has been a United States—and even longer. They can easily become tools of repression against We the People. From the Declaration of Independence:

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Newsom addresses Trump directly: "Where's your decency, Mr President? Stop ... it's immoral. You're creating the conditions that you claim you're solving."

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ICE is a much greater threat to this country than illegal immigrants. The current administration ia by far the greatest threat this country faces. The problem is not st our borders. It is in the White House.

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From @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Too many Christians are transforming Christianity into a vertical faith, one that focuses on your personal relationship with God at the expense of the horizontal relationship you have with your neighbors,” writes our columnist David French.

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🍌 Rep Dean tries to get through to Lutnick #TrumpTradeWar

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Jeffries: Yes Joni, the American people know that at some point in their lives, they are going to pass away. The cause of death should not be Republican cruelty

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Stephen King knows horror better than anyone.

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Here's something everybody should be paying attention to: Congressional Republicans are trying to weaken the Affordable Care Act and put millions of people at risk of losing their health care. Call your Senators and tell them we can't let that happen.

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Law enforcement officers should never cover their faces when making arrests or conceal their identities (unless they are working undercover). They work for us. We have a right to know who they are. These face coverings are frightening & unAmerican, as though they're ashamed of what they're doing.

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"Getting rid of USAID is a very easy way of winning headlines... But if your one accomplishment in government is to rip funds away from the neediest, so that they can die, so they can be unmedicated, so that they can starve, that is a moral stain that I hope will haunt you 'til the day you die."

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We won’t allow the government to force religion on our students. Texas, we’ll see you in court.

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Great essay (which like all such ia good to argue with). Magazines "never sought out but seemingly always at hand" (in my house it was "Smithsonian"): a mainstay of the lives of intellectually precocious pre-teens in a pre-Internet world. theamericanscholar.org/kodachrome-e...

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The church said it's terminating a decades-long partnership with the federal government to help refugees arriving in the U.S., citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa.

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Ice needs to be abolished

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Article I, Section 9, Clause 8: “no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.”

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www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2025...

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The cognitive dissonance just entered the confessional.

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This part

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Defendants are presumed innocent unless convicted. Every US Atty (or so I thought) knows you can’t weigh in on guilt like this.

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So let me get this straight: masks are bad and un-American if worn to fight a pandemic, but good if worn by people claiming to be government agents when they kidnap people off the street

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I am outraged by the unjust arrest of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka earlier this afternoon outside of Delaney Hall in Newark. I am calling for his immediate release by federal law enforcement.

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This part just sends me: “Someone just drew a line…..I’m a very artistic person.” Just the insult of talking about another country’s borders and physical integrity this way with the PM sitting right there trying not to leap out of his chair. It’s just indecent.

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Even if Donald Trump's openness to defying the Constitution and denying due process doesn't surprise you, his ignorance of his oath of office should shock all of us.

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The recent Pew Religious Landscape Study found two-thirds of adults who identify as Southern Baptists are 50 or older. Only 31% are under 50, and only 10% between the ages of 18 and 29. religionnews.com/2025/04/30/s...

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Bazinga!

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U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell struck down Trump’s EO against Perkins Coie as an unconstitutional attack on the American judicial system, echoing Shakespeare’s line, “The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.” Her decision should and will be upheld on appeal. search.app/msccAsjXYNrv...

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