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Not only are ICE bounty hunters, who look more like criminals than law enforcement, abducting people from workplaces & off the street—we’re now seeing they’re being held in private detention centers w/some of the most deplorable conditions imaginable. REPEAT: people are profiting from this cruelty.

BREAKING via AP The DOJ has fired at least three prosecutors involved in U.S. Capitol riot criminal cases, the latest moves by the Trump administration targeting attorneys connected to the massive prosecution of the Jan. 6. 2021, attack.

We were so fortunate to have such a good and decent man as our president.

Yes there are millions of people who buy in to white Christian nationalism and some have shown how to turn it into very profitable businesses, but at its core is ignorance, racism, fear, insecurity, and perversion of the teachings of Jesus.

If Jeff Bezos can afford to rent Venice for a $50 million wedding, he can afford to pay his fair share in taxes.

SEN: @ossoff.bsky.social: “WHO’S GETTING FIRED AT THE VA?” COLLINS: 🤷🏼‍♂️

I miss having a human president.

Birthright citizenship is a Constitutional RIGHT. Any attack on it is an attack on us all. This is an attempt by far-right justices to attack immigrant communities and remove protections from any American who questions Trump. Your rights are nonnegotiable. We can’t compromise on that basic fact.

NYC Comptroller Brad Lander: "I don't think the line for the [Democratic] party right now is between progressives and moderates; I think it's between fighters and folders."

TRUTHHHHH

The American Civil Liberties Union of Montana filed a motion Tuesday to intervene in a lawsuit challenging a state law that slashes same-day voter registration hours and threatens to disenfranchise Indigenous voters across the state. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

I love how the right is trying to scare us by saying the United States is turning into one of those European countries with great mass transit and free healthcare.

Update on Smart Elections' lawsuit in Rockland County, New York. apnews.com/press-releas...

@electiontruth.bsky.social

When anti-abortion activists talk about “defunding” Planned Parenthood, they focus on tax dollars going to an org that (separately) provides abortions. They don’t tell people that it would shutter hundreds of clinics making it harder to get abortions and so many other services like birth control

This is the fallout over today's Planned Parenthood SCOTUS ruling that no one is talking about:

The Supreme Court is yet again attacking Planned Parenthood to further the Republican’s War on Women They’re allowing poorly ran red states to deny Medicaid funds for contraception, testing, cancer screenings for no reason other than spite STOP THE WAR ON WOMEN! Shameful!!!

THE ULTIMATE FAFO... “We believed in his [Trump’s] immigration policies and were completely blindsided and truly believed that only criminals were being detained,” Morgan Gardner (Trump supporter and voter). Hope you like Iran as an American.

Peters: "Mr. Vought -- Can you show a little bit of respect here? I don't need you to answer questions I'm not asking. Please. I'm trying to be as civil as I can."

Federal and local law enforcement wearing masks is just plain unamerican. It’s a cowards move, and shows the fact that the kinds of deportations happening and the methods are, shameful and unpopular. adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/why-are-fe...

The criticisms of how this has been handled has absolutely nothing to do with the pilots. ONLY Trump is dragging them into this discussion. Once again he is using the military for partisan politics, and Dan Caine and every other senior military officer should be embarrassed.

“Tonight is his night. He deserved it. He won.” The result in New York City, if it holds, is a seismic event not just for the city but for the Democratic Party, making the 33-year-old Zohran Mamdani the clear frontrunner heading into November.

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Do they really think they can scare us with the word “socialist” when they are literally sending out men in masks with no warrants and no badges to disappear people off American streets? I know what I’m scared of, and it’s not a socialist.

There's something really interesting going on here methodologically in Justice Jackson's Medina v. Planned Parenthood dissent. You can see it in one footnote. In short, Jackson is emphasizing that Black Americans are part of the original "public" about which "originalists" should be concerned.

Watch this. Because this is the way: Local officials using their platform right, reaching out to the community. Ambrocio “Enrique” Lozano, affectionately known as “the popsicle man,” was reportedly abducted in broad daylight in Culver City. Masked man. White van. Cart left behind in the street.

Easily the best news I've seen in weeks. www.thepinknews.com/2025/06/26/i...

Bezos Wedding Guests Given Monogrammed Plastic Bottles To Urinate In During Ceremony theonion.com/bezos-w...

The Secretary of Defensiveness ☠️😂

@timmiller.bsky.social: “The fact that you have to have a Secretary of Defense go out on TV and berate the media like they’re children and do all this puffery about the president. To me, it shows a lot of insecurity and just a lack of seriousness in the Pentagon.”

Most of this “press conference” is this lunatic yelling at the media. This guy is so obsessed with his press coverage that he can’t even function.

I’ve seen lots of nonsense since Mamdani’s primary victory but the most irritating thread is people claiming they will leave NY if he is mayor. First of all, Go! It’s fine. It’s FINE. Go swelter in FL or wherever. No one cares. And secondly shut up. You’re lying. You aren’t going anywhere.

I wonder if Mitch McConnell assumed Americans who lost their healthcare would "get over it" because they will be dead.