ICE’s spending on weaponry has soared more than 700 percent this year The $71.5 million spent so far has paid for guns and armor, chemical munitions, “guided missile warheads," and "explosive components.”

This is nuts. And we would like to know more about these "guided missile warheads."

Good reporting via @juddlegum.bsky.social / @popular.info

Jay Brown, HRC:

LGBTQ+ people live in every zip code and are from every background.

We were born here and we immigrated here.

We come from red families and from blue families.

And we are here to say that this is our America too.

Hero’s of the day - In a small town of Beckley, WV, Kendra Sullivan staged a one-woman No Kings protest. She was confronted, had the police called on her, but stood her ground. She was physically threatened. Police came more than once and protected her right to protest. This is how we do it.

#NoKingsPittsburghSouthHills
Mt. Lebanon and other Pittsburgh suburbs representing.

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

NEW: The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did.

We found more than 170 such incidents since the start of the second Trump administration. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer.

It only took 256 days to reach the “zip tying little kids at 2am on the street” stage of this administration.

The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced. I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.

Some personal news:

I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.

Thread incoming.

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alert: potential ban on federally-funded hospitals providing any trans health care is in the house hhs funding bill

Not giving a shit about the poor
is the quickest way to determine
that a Christian doesn’t give a shit about Jesus.

May James Dobson burn and rot below for all eternity. A cruel, venal man who caused grave harm with every breath he took.

The WHITE HOUSE The White House V* @WhiteHouse X.com OPERATION MAKING D.C. SAFE & BEAUTIFUL ARRESTED CARRYING A PISTOL WITHOUT A LICENSE The WHITE HOUSE 2:01 PM • 8/11/25 • 1M Views

The White House’s official X account has a long thread in which they’ve posted pictures of people arrested during the feds’ occupation of the city. Every single person in the thread is a person of color.

Stephen Miller: The Breitbart Emails Before the 2016 election, White House senior adviser Stephen Miller regularly emailed Breitbart News editors. Hatewatch evaluated more than 900 of those correspondences. This series includes Hatewatch...

The White House Twitter feed is now basically the old “black crime” tab from mid-2010s Breitbart. The editor of Breitbart back then was Steve Bannon, and a young senate staffer named Steven Miller was feeding him content from white nationalist sites. www.splcenter.org/resources/gu...

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.

I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

The library is trying something new.

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Our community has overcome hurdles before and we will certainly do it again. Our existence will not be silenced or erased by a court, a Congress, or a president.

Join our organizing call on Monday, June 23 at 8 pm ET for more on what comes next: hrc.im/scotuscall

That’s horrible!

Our Pittsburgh suburb community of Mt. Lebanon held a separate #NoKings protest so folks could also attend our community Pride earlier in the day. We had over a 1,000 people adding to the Downtown Pittsburgh events earlier in the day.

a photo grid of dolls with protest t-shirts and signs.

I need everyone on Normal People internet to know that American Girl Doll Instagram is doing doll protests today. There are tiny t-shirts and signs. AND THEN I realized it's a joint protest with the Barbie ppl, where there are EVEN TINIER SIGNS.

I love this so much

they wanted a big counterprotest sooooo bad so they would have an excuse to do some violent bullshit and instead they are just squeaking their way down empty silent streets looking like huge losers. NO ONE CAME TO HIS BIRTHDAY PARTY. he is going to lose his mind

Same with people who claim “I don’t have a racist bone in my body”.

Ok Grandwizard.

“Anyone”

Petition to have Andy Cohen host the Trump-Musk White House Housewives Reunion. America deserves all the tea 🫖.

Also kill the bill. 😉

So disgusting. He might as well been wearing a t-shirt saying, “yeah you bet I called Myles Garrett a …”

Was thinking the same thing when I saw those pics of him at the rally.

Who wants to be the one to tell Pee-Wee German that the "boys at Normandy" weren't all white, non-immigrants, or American citizens, but they *were* all fighting people like Stephen Miller--people called fascists.

YouTube video by TED How to Fight (and Win) an Information War | Peter Pomerantsev | TED

How to Fight (and Win) an Information War @peterpomerantsev.bsky.social
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AWS enters into 'strategic partnership' with Saudi Arabia-backed Humain | TechCrunch Amazon says it'll work with Humain, the AI company recently launched by Saudi Arabia’s ruler, to invest '$5 billion-plus' in a strategic partnership.

Pretty incredible that Jeff Bezos' Amazon announced a "$5 billion-plus" partnership w/ a Saudi AI co launched by Mohammed Bin Salman and sent CEO Andy Jassy to meet with him less than 7 years after MBS murdered Jamal Khashoggi, a columnist for Bezos' Washington Post.

techcrunch.com/2025/05/13/a...

This is the problem with X in a nutshell. You fundamentally can't trust the product, because the owner will trash it's functioning in an effort to make the world match his batshit views. It's as if Henry Ford was not just antisemitic, but stitched anti-semitic propaganda into every Model T.