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It's not even 11am yet, and federal agents have gassed the northwest side of Chicago twice this morning.

Just before 10, NWSRR reports they detained two people in Irving Park, one of them known to be a US citizen: www.instagram.com/p/DQPKhmDEd4W/

I’ll say it straight: It is unbecoming, undignified, cowardly, and shameful for a institution as revered and respected as the University of Virginia to grant an audience in 2025 to those who are committed to destroying science, free thought, human rights, and the rule of law.

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America’s Retreat From Aid Is Devastating Somalia’s Health System Hunger and the diseases that stalk small children have surged in Somalia after the U.S. slashed its aid to the country.

When the Trump administration dismantled USAID and ended vast swaths of foreign assistance to the world’s poorest countries, much of the food aid and health care for children across Somalia were abruptly cut off. Now more children are arriving at emergency centers sicker and thinner than ever.

“Deplorables” was a scandal for years and she wasn’t even in the government yet. This is the White House Press Secretary, whose salary is paid by the American public.

So many awful things this administration has done but this is up there in the level of monstrosity

You can't raid and arrest everyone in an entire apartment building, or even legitimately get a warrant to do that, any more than you could for a whole neighborhood. That would be a general warrant. This is the most specific core the-British-did-it-to-us thing the Fourth Amendment is written to ban.

"A Senate staffer tells us Senator Tim Kaine, who spearheaded it, reached out to a number of Republican senators in hopes that they would sign on and make the letter bipartisan, but that none would join. Do these GOP senators really not want answers to any of these questions?"

The president of the United States just declared war, actual military war, not a metaphorical one, on a major American city, and one governed by his political opponents.

In any other period, this would be impeachment-worthy.

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Washington D.C. Indies Contend With Police and Military Presence The Trump administration’s military takeover in Washington, D.C., last month is impacting sales and foot traffic to various degrees at indie bookstores across the city.

"No bookstore that PW has reached out to has been as adversely impacted as @loyaltybooks.bsky.social, which specializes in diverse and intersectional literature ... Sales are down 65% since August 11."

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Notice that Gov. Pritzker is calling out what @radleybalko.bsky.social has emphasized: Trump is *barely even bothering* to manufacture fake crises to use as pretexts to send troops into cities. It's just repression for the hell of it

the united states government's social media accounts are just third tier comments on 4chan /pol/

George Mason Is the Latest University Under Fire From Trump. Its President Fears an “Orchestrated” Campaign. When university president Gregory Washington received notice that the Trump administration had opened an investigation into complaints of antisemitism, he was “perplexed.” But there are signs it may…

Right-wing publications called for ousting George Mason University's president just after a federal probe was launched.

“When you start seeing these hit pieces come out one after another in a matter of days, you know it’s coordinated,” said a faculty member.

RFK Jr. says US won’t donate to global vaccine effort Kennedy ripped into Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, in a video address at its pledging summit.

This is a travesty & a nightmare. The US was a founder of @gavi.org. It lowers global vaccine costs, has vaccinated 1B children, & averted 19M deaths. This pull out will cost 100s of thousands of children's lives a year - and RFK Jr will be personally responsible.
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

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.

GOP Lays Groundwork To Restrict Abortion Pill With New Junk Science Report Recent comments from Trump’s FDA commissioner, coupled with an anti-abortion study on mifepristone, are setting off alarm bells among reproductive rights groups.

NEW: Republicans are laying the groundwork to restrict the abortion pill using a new junk science report.

The Trump administration has quietly doubled down on its decision to stop sending emergency food to children starving in Bangladesh, Somalia, and other countries. Without urgent intervention, these children might die within months, @hana-kiros.bsky.social reports. https://theatln.tc/kQAZFJJw

This is insane. Again, USAID is the largest provider of food assistance in the world. These boys playing with systems and lives they don’t understand and don’t care to understand will produce a body count of already-suffering people far from Washington

“People Will Die”: The Trump Administration Said It Lifted Its Ban on Lifesaving Humanitarian Aid. That’s Not True. Organizations that provide vital care for desperate and vulnerable people around the world have been forced to halt operations, turn away patients and lay off staff. “I’ve never seen anything that sca...

USAID does in fact carry out or fund an enormous amount of vital services globally.

The destruction of USAID has been utterly ruinous to a lot of innocent people, and it’s only just begun.

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

The newest Rep from Maryland, Rep. Sarah Elfreth, came out swinging: "Elon Musk has called USAID a criminal organization, and yet, he is the one who came in the dark of night in a takeover that is illegal."

Yes, Musk is the criminal.

Illegal Trump-Musk Power Grab at USAID Suddenly Becomes Bigger Scandal As Trump and Elon Musk engage in another major abuse of power aimed at USAID, a Dem Congressman explains why their moves are illegal, how Dems must fight back, and what the prospects are for resisting...

Elon Musk is "unelected" and "unvetted" and has "absolutely no security clearance," yet Trump is letting him "gut" USAID and Treasury, says Rep Don Beyer. "It's a huge gift to China and Russia."

On the pod, Rep Beyer explains why legal action can still stop Musk:
newrepublic.com/article/1910...

list of banned keywords

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

front page of NYT today

A private citizen, with the backing of the President, illegally shut down a major government agency over the weekend and it is not on the front page of this morning's New York Times

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Why does Musk want USAID 'to die'? And why did its website disappear? Under the Trump administration, the U.S. agency that funds aid projects has faced layoffs, a stop action order for most aid efforts and a disruption of its website. Now Elon Musk says it should 'die.'

USAID provides everything from humanitarian assistance and global health interventions to education and conflict prevention.

As climate change impacts ramp up (about 30% of which are the result of cumulative US emissions) these efforts have become ever more critical.