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“Inhumane”: Marine Veteran Calls for ICE to Release His Father After Video of Brutal Arrest Goes Viral As ICE increases its raids on immigrant communities, footage of the arrest of one man, Narciso Barranco, shows seven federal agents — all masked — pinning the 48-year old gardener to the ground and...

"Inhumane": Marine Veteran Calls for ICE to Release His Father After Video of Brutal Arrest Goes Viral

The Supreme Court issued a stay, effectively ruling, for now, that the Constitution no longer applies, at least not to immigrants. Fast-track deportations with no opportunity for judicial review violate the fundamental principle of due process, especially for people already on U.S. soil.

At ABC News paying Trump $ is fine, telling the truth is not.

Support pro-democracy independent media. hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0

DOJ’s New Top Voting Lawyer Worked for Leading Anti-Voting Law Firm Read more here.

The new top voting lawyer at the Department of Justice was until recently an attorney and activist for a leading anti-voting legal group that has worked for years to spread fear about illegal voting and press election officials to tighten voting rules. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Cutting the NIH—The $8 Trillion Health Care Catastrophe This JAMA Forum discusses the recent budget cuts to National Institutes of Health (NIH), the effects of these cuts on scientific research and health of individuals in the US, and the prospects for cha...

Says the top peer reviewed American Medical Association journal JAMA, Trump’s $500 billion in NIH cuts will cost the US $8.2 trillion in lost health and will “destroy the equivalent of one-quarter of annual gross domestic product in the US."
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Unease at F.B.I. Intensifies as Patel Ousts Top Officials

“A succession of top agents, all women, were given an ultimatum: Take a different post or be asked to retire.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/01/u...

And President Trump is, as per SCOTUS, immune from criminal prosecution for bribery, correct?

Even the conservative Cato Institute...

Texas Targets Latino Officials in Voting Crackdown, Setting up a Climate of Intimidation Read more here.

NEW: Attorney General Ken Paxton’s crusade against alleged voter fraud has led to the criminal prosecution of six Democratic officials, all Latino, in Frio County, Texas. Civil rights groups say the charges are politically motivated and aim to suppress Latino civic participation.

Corporate investors now own 30% of the single-family rental homes in the Atlanta area.

ICE raids have 'overwhelmed' coastal California communities Communities in three California counties "overwhelmed" as ICE raids ramp up in the region.

A man pulled up to a gas station to fill up his truck. ICE agents surrounded him and took him away. But his children were left behind.
“They arrested someone,” witness said. “They left the children inside the truck.”
www.sfgate.com/centralcoast...

Stephen Miller, Tom Homan, Kristi Noem and a whole lot of ICE/DHS types is will discover a Strange New Respect for habeas corpus and the rule of law when the 2029 Truth and Reconciliation Commission arrests them for human trafficking, conspiracy, kidnapping, and child abuse.

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

They’re falling for the wallet inspectors

YouTube video by Democracy Docket IT’S OVER: Republican Jefferson Griffin Concedes in North Carolina Supreme Court Race

🚨BREAKING VIDEO: Jefferson Griffin, the Republican candidate in the 2024 North Carolina state Supreme Court election, finally conceded six months after losing the race to incumbent Justice Allison Riggs, a Democrat.

Paige and I discuss. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpOx...

8:38 4 Bluesky •• I LTE 90• Science On a Nature news article reporting that NIH planned to suspend subawards for foreign collaborations: "No, that's false. There's going to be a policy on tracking subawards. The NIH and the government should be able to see where the money's going." "I'm really uncomfortable with this conversation, because you're like, actually spreading rumors that you don't know anything about... Nature also is spreading rumors. Halt foreign collaborations, that's not true." "We're working on the policy, Jocelyn. You shouldn't be reporting rumors. I know there's leaks all over here, but the leaks don't actually reflect what's happening. Don't write about rumors. It actually makes the things that you and I care about worse. Like it spreads panic." Later that day, NIH released a policy that halted future subawards to foreign scientists and said they will need to apply directly for money under a system still in development.

NIH Director Jay Battacharya talking to Science magazine, right before the interview was cut short by an aide.

Trump’s Corruption Hits Next Level With Shady $2 Billion Crypto Deal An investment firm backed by a foreign government just made a massive deal using the Trump family’s crypto firm. The conflicts of interest here are unprecedented.

The Trump family’s cryptocurrency business just got a $2B investment from a firm backed by the United Arab Emirates government.

With this deal, they will be enriched beyond most people’s comprehension—and they have the UAE government to thank for it.

oh hey foreign films are now a national security threat

Bishop Thomas John Paprocki of Springfield, Illinois, slams Trump for posting an AI image of himself as the Pope:

“This is deeply offensive to Catholics, especially during this sacred time that we are still mourning the death of Pope Francis…He owes an apology”

Order to End Federal Support for NPR and PBS Is a Legally Dubious Push to Censor Media Coverage Trump Dislikes Trump’s unhinged attack on public media shows why our democracy is on life support.

An executive order from Trump calls for the end of federal support for NPR and PBS. Everyone who cares about accountability and democracy should be deeply concerned about public media's future.

Our statement: https://www.freepress.net/news/trump-order-end-federal-support-npr-and-pbs-censorship

FDA chief says they're looking at whether to approve COVID shots for next winter FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary said there is a "void of data" on the COVID booster shots.

More evidence that RFK Jr. and Makary are not going to permit the FDA to approve new COVID19 vaccines for the US this fall. This is unconscionable. People will die because of this. www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-cov...

While you highlight it, please note is the product of local journalism, which has been carrying a lot of the burden in an environment where national outlets simply can't cover everything everywhere all at once. Support your local journalists!

This site has been taken down!!
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NANCY BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER I FEEL AWFUL MEAN AND GROUCHY TODAY RADIO MUSICAL JINGLE- NEVER PUT BANANAS IN THE REFRIGERATOR NOBODY'S GOING TO TELL ME WHAT NOT TO DO ( NANCY IS THROWING BANANAS IN THE REFRIGERATOR)

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
April 26,1948

Bleh

The FBI director flew this government plane (or one just like it), possibly from Las Vegas, where he still lives, to see a hockey game in Long Island.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/u...

There’s a word for this, and it’s called bribery.

Despite a court order, White House bars AP from Oval Office event The Trump administration has turned a reporter and photographer from The Associated Press away from covering an Oval Office news conference involving President Donald Trump and El Salvador President N...

Full blown constitutional crisis: 1st Trump defied the US Supreme Court by refusing to bring home a MD man Trump illegally imprisoned in El Salvador. Now he has defied the court by illegally continuing to bar AP from WH press events (for referring to “Gulf of Mexico.” ) apnews.com/article/trum...

This is terrifying in America. ICE agents are showing up masked—these abductions must stop. If you’re going to detain someone, show your face, present a warrant, and proper ID. Disappearing people from their families without evidence or accountability isn’t law enforcement—it’s state-sponsored fear.