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“The government should be run like a business.”

It was dumb the first time someone said it, and it’s aged like cyanide-laced milk.

New Lawsuit Alleges Wisconsin’s Congressional Map Violates State Constitution Read more here.

A group of Democratic Wisconsin voters just sued the state over its congressional map. The lawsuit claims the GOP-drawn map locks Democrats out of power in a 50/50 state, and wants it redrawn by 2026.

If they win, it could shift control of the U.S. House.

Lawmakers call for release of Afghan man seized by Ice at green card appointment – US politics live Man who worked for US military in Afghanistan seized by immigration agents and taken out of state after arriving for green card appointment, say attorneys * Revealed: Trump has supercharged the US’s immigration crackdown Lawmakers are calling for the release of an Afghan interpreter, who worked with the US military for years in his home country, who was seized by armed, masked Ice agents after a routine appointment for his green card. The former wartime interpreter, identified only as Zia for his safety and that of his family, aided American troops in Afghanistan for about five years during the war and fled the country with his family after the Taliban resumed power in 2021. Zia has done everything right. He’s followed the rules. He has no criminal history. Following the rules are supposed to protect you. It’s not supposed to land you in detention. If he is deported, as so many of the people have articulated today, he faces death. What happened to him is the worst kind of abhorrent violation of basic decency. Put aside the legal causes and the issues here for unmasked agents to snatch someone off the street with no warning, no counsel, no opportunity even to know who is doing it while it’s in process is un-American. To Zia, we have your back. We’re going to fight for you. We’re going to leave no stone unturned. Our credibility is at stake. We have families who have risked everything not just for themselves, but for their entire family. They have risked their health and safety. And in the name of standing up for the promises of our American democracy, that could not have been easy at the time. So this betrayal has to be that much more difficult in this moment. This isn’t about one person. This is about thousands of people. This is about our veterans. If their word means nothing when they’re on the battlefield, risking their lives, and being saved in so many instances by the support of people like Zia who are giving this services as their family and their own lives are being threatened and tortured, then what does that mean for our word going forward? In June this year, average daily arrests were up 268% compared with June 2024. Ice is increasingly targeting any and all unauthorized immigrants, including people who have no criminal records. Despite Trump’s claims that his administration is seeking out the “worst of the worst”, the majority of people being arrested by Ice now have no criminal convictions. Detention facilities have been increasingly overcrowded, and the US system is over capacity by more than 13,500 people. The number of deportations, however, has fluctuated as the administration pursues new strategies and policies to swiftly expel people from the US. The US government has deported more than 8,100 people to countries that are not their home country. Continue reading...

Lawmakers call for release of Afghan man seized by Ice at green card appointment – US politics live

FDA Layoffs Could Compromise Safety of Medications Made at Foreign Factories, Inspectors Say Beyond staff cuts, the departures of some longtime investigators in recent months have left less experienced people tasked with rooting out dangerous manufacturing practices.

NEW: With deep job cuts at the FDA, inspectors say the ongoing strain could compromise policing an industry spread across more than 90 countries.

“Things will be missed, we are going to have a lot less safe drugs,” a former inspector said.

I genuinely cannot believe how many Democrats are spending their energy on destroying Mamdani when the GOP is trying to turn ICE into a full on secret police by drastically raising their budget

🚨 ICE disappeared a woman on Wednesday night. She was grabbed by men in plainclothes and taken to an unidentified location.

ICE is refusing to say where she is being held. It’s 72 hours later and not even a dedicated team of lawyers can find her.

This is WRONG. We can’t let this be the new norm.

Trump announced a travel ban yesterday, which can be “painted as a response” to the terror incident in Colorado over the weekend, Adam Wren says.

But none of the countries include Egypt — where the suspect is from.

We dig deeper into Trump’s messaging on #playbookpod: ow.ly/t3Lm50W4HbV

A cartoon showing various activity at an airport, including an extorted luxury jet, an exploding X rocket, a ketamine enthusiast wheeling a barrow of money to his plane, many ICE officers -- some taking people to an El Salvador plane, another with a zip-tied child being blocked by a federal judge -- scientists boarding a plane to Europe, a medical self-educator covered with pox, and more. All the people are represented by various animals. The story is made in the style of a Richard Starry children's book. Alt text borrowed from Mastodon..

“A Busy, Busy Day at the Airport”

By Ruben Bolling

Genius. Click in.

wtf kind of country is it that allows this to happen to it’s citizens? Literally die because of a decision to not make healthcare affordable?

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Register a March!
March in your front yard! March ALL Over America.
This aims to be the biggest March in American History.
PLAN IT. LFG Resistance! RT this!

@gregsargent.bsky.social is doing important work on Trump's deportation gulag.

But this misses a key point.

Stephen Miller lied his ass off to get Trump elected. He lied abt TdA, he lied abt number of criminal aliens, he (obviously) lied abt Haitians, he funded a shit-ton of false ads abt migrants

Stephen Miller Erupts in Fury over Low Arrests—and Hands Dems a Weapon Hitting Miller’s new deportation quotas could mean fewer resources to fight child trafficking, terrorism, and other crimes. Do Americans really want that?

Stephen Miller is privately raging over deportation numbers he deems too low. So he's shifting huge amounts of law enforcement resources away from fighting serious crimes and into his immigration crackdown.

If voters knew about this, they'd recoil. 1/

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Plaintiffs' [103] Motion for Class Certification is DENIED WITHOUT PREJUDICE as to the Criminal Custody Class and GRANTED as to the CECOT Class with modifications. The latter Class shall be defined as follows: All noncitizens removed from U.S. custody and transferred to the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) in El Salvador on March 15 and 16, 2025, pursuant solely to the Presidential Proclamation entitled, "Invocation of the Alien Enemies Act Regarding the Invasion of The United States by Tren De Aragua"; and 3. By June 11, 2025, Defendants shall submit a Notice to the Court advising how they intend to facilitate the ability of the CECOT Class to seek habeas relief. Case 1:25-cv-00766-JEB Document 147 Filed 06/04/25 Page 2 of 2 Is/ James E. Boasberg JAMES E. BOASBERG Chief Judge

BREAKING: Chief Judge James Boasberg finds that those people sent to CECOT under the Alien Enemies Act on March 15-16 had their due process rights violates and certifies them as a class. He orders that the government "facilitate" the ability for them to seek habeas relief.

Yikes

Jasmine Crockett is clear choice to lead Oversight Dems I told you I wouldn’t pick sides in this race because I don’t have a vote. Then I realized it’s up to all of us to make sure our party gets this one right.

My latest: Jasmine Crockett is clear choice to lead Oversight Dems
I told you I wouldn’t pick sides in this race because I don’t have a vote. Then I realized it’s up to all of us to make sure our party gets this one right.

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Trump’s Most Dangerous Enabler Is Not Who You Think It Is Kash Patel? Pam Bondi? Stephen Miller? No, no, and no. For now, the winner of this dubious title, and serial betrayer of his old principles, is the guy in Foggy Bottom.

We told you Marco Rubio was Trump's most dangerous enabler. Now that Rubio has been given the job of interim National Security Adviser, reupping this piece, which systematically details how Rubio has had a hidden hand in many of Trump's most lawless enterprises:
newrepublic.com/article/1930...

Photos show Mike Waltz checking Signal during yesterday’s cabinet meeting.

JD Vance, Tulsi Gabbard, and Marco Rubio, among others, appear to be in his unsecured, self-deleting chat.

Unreal.

Marco Rubio has as many jobs as the number of jurisdictions in which the president was indicted.

Signalgate had been fading into the background. Interest among political press had dropped off substantially. Other concerns were crowding it out.

Not anymore and all because this giant fucking clown inexplicably shared classified intel with his family in a group chat.

Tell Your Senator(s) to Vote NO on the Silencing Americans Act Republicans are once again pushing what we’re calling the “Silencing Americans Act”, a dangerous bill that would create unnecessary obstacles for millions of eligible Americans trying to register to v...

Republicans want to restrict access to the ballot and eliminate online and mail-in voter registration. Tell your senators to reject the GOP’s voter suppression bill (especially if your senator is listed here):

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SHAHEEN (NH)
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BREAKING: Judge Sessions orders Trump not to remove Mahdawi from the US or out of the state of Vermont

In similar circumstances to Mahmoud Khalil, Mohsen Mahdawi is a Columbia University student and pro-Palestinian who was arrested by ICE despite holding a valid visa

Reuters: archive.is/qMkIk
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Using antisemitism as an excuse for the right to pursue long-held grudges against higher education and immigrants puts Jewish people, unwillingly, at the center of an authoritarian agenda. Yair Rosenberg in The Atlantic wrote an article “Trump’s Jewish Cover Story”: Donald Trump and his allies have been using “anti-Semitism” as a pretext to advance a radical agenda that has nothing to do with Jews at all—and that most American Jews do not support…But the lesson most American Jews have drawn from their history as a persecuted people is that narrow nationalisms never end well for those who are different, because no matter their patriotism or contribution to the collective, their difference will always make them suspect. Jews may be inside the circle of concern today, but that circle is always shrinking, and Jews will ultimately not determine who it includes.

Sobering historic fact: The anti-communist McCarran-Walter Act that Rubio is using to deport students in the name of antisemitism was written by an antisemite, and in practice, used to block European Jews from entering the US. Such tools can be used on any immigrant group for any reason.

Trump to Bukele on Salvadoran concentration camps: “Home-growns are next. You’re going to have to build about five more places.”

1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.

El Salvador is a very small impoverished country that consistently produces refugees and organized crime, Bukele is a very wealthy man that’s pushed for cryptocurrency. Bought over 34 new luxury properties. Crypto is favoured by organized crime to launder money. You do the math.

Trump is doing this right now btw

Surely, it won't be lost on the courts that if Donald Trump has the influence over El Salvador President Nayib Bukele to persuade Bukele to get on a plane to come to the United States, he has the influence over Bukele to get him to put a kidnapped prisoner on a plane to come to the United States.

At least one US president cares to denounce this attack.

Before press came in — but while live feed was running on Bukele’s feed — Trump said to him: “home-growns are next. … You’re gonna need to build about 5 more places.”

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