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Claiming he "assaulted law enforcement" is so obviously belied by the video, which shows no such thing.

“You do not have the authority to arrest U.S. citizens,” Lander repeated, as the officers tightened handcuffs to his wrists.

Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.

"A reporter from @thecity.nyc had overheard one agent say to another minutes before Lander’s arrest, 'Do you want to arrest the Comptroller?'"

Masked ICE agents just violently arrested a US citizen —and elected official — for simply asking to see a judicial warrant. This is authoritarianism. Comptroller Lander must be released immediately.

This photo is going to appear in 7th-grade history books someday. www.amny.com/news/brad-la...

Trump has been walling us off from foreign-made goods, ideas, and most significantly, humans. This month, Trump banned entry from most or all nationals from 21 countries; leaked memo suggests another 36 to be added. Trump is finally building his wall, and Americans will pay for it.

Donald Trump refuses to be the President of all Americans because he doesn't think people who disagree with him are real Americans at all.

Look, I don’t much care what Tulsi Gabbard says either, but here’s the thing: I didn’t appoint her to be my Director of National Intelligence.

Trump thinks if Russia wouldn’t have been thrown out of the G8 there wouldn’t be a war. Russia was thrown out because they illegally invaded Ukraine in 2014. What humiliation for the United States to have this kremlin owned puppet representing her on the world stage

Russia is a terrorist state and must be defeated. This is what Ukrainians have to deal with every freaking day from these genocidal war criminals

So MAGA had an issue with the U.S. sending weapons to Ukraine while Ukraine never, ever asked for any military intervention but have no issues on Trump taking us into a war with Iran. Meanwhile Russia continues committing genocide and terrorist attacks killing Ukrainians on a daily basis

My daughter, the comedian

@citizencohn.bsky.social: Yes, they’re going after Medicare too www.thebulwark.com/p/yes-they-a...

Me, me, me, me, me! Everything is about me!! Everyone should thank me!! Poor me!!

Whoa! Hats off to ABC News reporter Matt Gutman for keeping his cool yesterday. This LAPD officer needs to be relieved of duty if he can’t handle an alleged “touch” without snapping.

Terrific 🧵

I thought I was losing my mind when this happened because it was an attempted assassination of a national political leader and it was treated like it was nothing.

I understand why Democrats are being restrained about this but the right's effort to lie about what happened here is incredibly disrespectful to the victims and requires vociferous pushback. The shooter appears to have been an anti-abortion zealot and a Trump voter. Don't let them avoid this.

1. BREAKING 🚨 The Israeli Defense Forces have issued an urgent warning to Iranians who are in or near facilities producing military weapons, or in supporting institutions, to evacuate immediately.

BREAKING via Reuters: In recent days, President Trump vetoed a plan by Israel to assassinate Ayatollah Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Absolutely braindead take. Forget about the realities of the Israeli military, let’s put that aside for a second… By virtue of the fact that the United States will not allow Israel to be demolished, the Islamic Republic of Iran does not have the upper hand.

1. The Islamic Republic of Iran is not updating casualty figures, likely because it wants to appear as dominating Israel, but the organization Human Rights Activists in Iran, which has long kept track of casualty counts in Iran, says at least 406 people have been killed and another 654 injured.

The number of ballistic missiles the Islamic Republic of Iran sent in this latest barrage was 30. The number of missiles it is sending keeps going down because it will run out of missiles in the next two weeks otherwise.

When NO KINGS reigns over your parade. #SAD 🤣

Schiff: "In the first administration, there were at least a few people in the cabinet of some independence who could say, 'No, Mr. President, that's a lawless idea, that's a stupid idea.' But there's no one in this current admin to tell POTUS 'that's a stupid idea'... there's nothing but sycophants"

Thank you to Dan Rather for this We’ll Never Go Back open.substack.com/pub/steady/p...

6 in 10 Americans think this was a waste of $45m So who are these other 4 Americans and where were they educated? youtu.be/jW0tlcyC5yU?...

BREAKING: Reports on Orange Mussolini’s parade attendance are in… 200,000 were expected — only 8,647 bothered to showed up. 😂 Meanwhile, everywhere else…👇

Law firms benefit from fighting Trump attacks. Those who caved suffer. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

this is like Trump foreign policy mad libs

Trump considering adding 36 countries to existing travel ban. 
On list are 25 African nations, including significant U.S. partners such as Egypt and Djibouti, plus countries in the Caribbean, Central Asia and several Pacific Island nations. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Trump’s provocations have turned Angelenos into pedestrians

Texas Department of Public Safety says there is "credible threat" against Texas lawmakers attending today's protest at the State Capitol in Austin, TX

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. apparently embraces the outdated "miasma theory" of disease instead of the widely accept "germ theory" of disease, which may help explain some of the actions he's been taking.

When Tim Walz became Kamala Harris's running mate, progressives highlighted policies passed. It could not have been possible without Melissa Hortman. -Free school breakfast and lunch -Restoring voting rights for felons -Paid leave Great piece by @gracepanetta.bsky.social 19thnews.org/2025/06/rep-...

My Pet Goat, the epic novel edition.

Once again, it seems to me that when a court finds the president is doing something wildly unconstitutional, it is dangerous and unhealthy that we default to “but let him keep doing it until multiple layers of review all agree.”

if the other site goes all in on false flag stuff after this guy turns out to be a right wing freak, you think we'll still see "bluesky is an echo chamber" nonsense takes

Now the White House is saying that Trump didn't know the "full scale" of ICE's efforts to detain & deport undocumented people, after it's been all over the news for months, and the White House bragged about their cruelty. Bullshit.

Israeli media reporting that the IAF targeted the chief of Staff of the Houthis in Yemen, Muhammad Abd Al-Karim Al-Ghamari, who was reportedly meeting with other senior Houthi military figures in or near Sanaa. Al-Ghamari is (was?) under UN sanctions.