Alan Huffman

Even despicable, horrible creatures are occasionally right, even if they're right way too late;

Look, also, at how the BP funds were spent and who benefitted. These patterns persist.

You are so right, as always. Stay with it -- not that you need any encouragement.

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Trump appointees have ties to companies that stand to benefit from privatizing weather forecasts Downsizing at the National Weather Service appears to be part of an effort by Republicans to privatize such agencies.

The downsizing of the National Weather Service and the NOAA appears to be part of an effort to privatize the work of such agencies.

In several instances, the companies poised to step into the void have deep ties to people tapped by Trump to run weather-related agencies. apnews.com/article/trum...

BREAKING: Gavin Newsom has just torched Trump, Stephen Miller and the whole administration. 🔥

It comes after armored vehicles and armed federal agents stormed MacArthur Park in LA today.

EVERY. WORD. OF. THIS.

YouTube video by Pod Save America We need to talk more about Stephen Miller

Jon Favreau on Stephen Miller.

Pure damage control. They know their readers have a point.

NYT... read pitchbot, everything else follows.

What Republicans in Congress just did is give Trump all the infrastructure he needs for a mass, nationwide ethnic cleansing campaign complete with funding to build all the concentration camps he'll need.

And if you think it's just undocumented immigrants who will wind up in them, you're very naive.

Congrats to Lisa Murkowski on voting for a bill that she herself admitted was not ready in hopes that the House would change it. Now it’ll become law. She had the power to stop it, and instead chose to become complicit. That’s her legacy.

The media’s weasel wording helps Trump Here are 5 ways news outlets sugar-coat fascism with euphemisms.

I’m sick of the mainstream media using euphemisms and other weasel wording to soft-pedal the Trump regime’s corruption.
Rather than committing crimes, Trump “sidesteps laws.”
Rather than lying, he’s “untethered to truth” or “inverting the facts.”
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Q: "A 75 year old Cuban national died in ICE custody. He had lived in the U.S. for 60 years...Is there anything you can tell us about that?"

Border Czar Tom Homan: "People die in ICE custody. People die in county jails. People die in state prisons."

Children Beg for Father’s Release After ICE Detains Jackson Man Activists are calling on immigration officials to release Kerlin Moreno-Orellana from ICE custody after his arrest for illegal dumping.

Kerlin Moreno-Orellana was dumping trash at an apartment complex at the direction of his boss for a real estate project when Jackson police arrested them for alleged illegal dumping.

Now, the 16-year-resident is in ICE custody and faces deportation.

His children are begging for his return.

NBC News: Iran threatened to unleash attacks by sleeper cells inside U.S. if it was attacked +4 Courtney Kube, Monica Alba, Tom Winter, Jonathan Dienst and Carol E. Lee Iran sent a communiqué to Trump in the days before last night's strikes on its nuclear facilities threatening to activate sleeper-cell terror inside the United States if it were attacked, sources said. The message got to Trump through an intermediary at the Group of Seven summit in Canada last week, which Trump left early June 16 to consider his options amid the conflict between Israel and Iran, according to sources who include two U.S. officials and a person with knowledge of the threat. The White House did not respond to multiple requests for comment, and the Iranian Mission to the United Nations declined to comment. Trump vowed yesterday on social media that any Iranian retaliation against the United States "WILL BE MET WITH FORCE FAR GREATER THAN WHAT WAS WITNESSED TONIGHT."

Note the sourcing when you see reports like this about how “sleeper cells” could be activated in the U.S. by Iran.

And remember that “U.S. officials” can now include people like Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller and 19 year old DOGE dipshits like Big Balls.

Opinion: On the Mississippi Gulf Coast, a glimpse of an emerging protest movement Writer among millions of Americans who turn out for mass marches, many for the first time

I wrote about the No Kings Protest yesterday in Gulfport, MS for @msindy.bsky.social Opinion: On the Mississippi Gulf Coast, a glimpse of an emerging protest movement msindy.org/p/opinion-on...

Newsom: "Democracy is under assault before our eyes. This moment we have feared has arrived. He's taking a wrecking ball to our Founding Father's historic project."

Newsom: This Saturday, he's ordering our American heroes, the United States military, and forcing them to put on a vulgar display to celebrate his birthday, just as other failed dictators have done in the past

BREAKING: California Governor Gavin Newsom delivers a 'major address' in response to the Trump admin.'s actions in L.A.

"Authoritarian regimes begin by targeting people who are least able to defend themselves, but they do not stop there," Newsom said.

Europe Freezes US Travel as Lufthansa, British , Air France, KLM and More Slash Routes to Major Cities Including New York, Miami, Los Angeles, and Chicago to Tap Soaring Demand Across Canada, Mexico, ... European airlines are freezing their transatlantic growth and pulling back from major U.S. cities like New York, Miami, Los Angeles, and Chicago as they redirect flights to Canada, Mexico, Brazil and ...

“.. European airlines are freezing their transatlantic growth and pulling back from major U.S. cities like New York, Miami, Los Angeles, and Chicago as they redirect flights to Canada, Mexico, Brazil and Caribbean.”

$JETS $XAL
www.travelandtourworld.com/news/article...

Even after all this, the @nytimes continues to normalize it

Nick Judin's story does everything great journalism is supposed to do, and his editor, Ashton Pittman, makes some excellent points here about reporting on -- and reading about -- this terrible outcropping of a tumultuous time. Kudos to MFP.

Editor’s Note | ‘FAFO’ is Poison to the Journalist’s Soul MFP News Editor writes about how journalism should always put humanity before politics and on how empathy is essential to tell people’s stories.

"Too often, national reporters express stories on policies that have enormous implications for the lives of everyday people in terms of whether it’s a win for the Democrats, a loss for the Republicans, or a boon for the president. We reject that," Ashton Pittman writes.

Who attended Trump’s crypto dinner? Photos and social media offer some clues Previously anonymous, attendees of the $Trump meme coin dinner in Virginia stepped out for the MAGA gala.

We sifted through the 220 attendees of Trump‘s crypto Gala and identified previously unknown Trump coin power players.

A lot of details and photos here:

www.nbcnews.com/tech/crypto/...

ICE Arrests Mississippi Father at His Citizenship Hearing ICE arrested Kasper Eriksen, a Mississippi father, at his citizenship hearing, imprisoning him and threatening him with deportation.

When he showed up to an immigration meeting in Memphis, Kasper Eriksen thought he was on the verge of becoming a citizen.

Then ICE arrested the Mississippi father of four, not even giving him a chance to say goodbye to his wife, whisking him away to a prison.

@nickjudin.bsky.social reports:

ICE Arrests Mississippi Father at His Citizenship Hearing ICE arrested Kasper Eriksen, a Mississippi father, at his citizenship hearing, imprisoning him and threatening him with deportation.

One morning, sitting in an immigration office in Memphis, Kasper Eriksen found himself transformed. A day before, he was a welding foreman, a husband and father of four.

Now, he was a detainee, bound and shackled in a detention shuttle in Tennessee.
www.mississippifreepress.org/ice-arrests-...

Starkville father of four in immigration custody after arrest at final citizenship interview by ICE agents Family and friends marshal support for Denmark native who has legally lived and worked in Mississippi for more than a decade

Excellent reporting on this important story -- very well researched and written. One correction: You say the story was first reported by Mississippi Today, when in fact The Mississippi Independent broke the story several days prior. msindy.org/p/danish-leg...

Excellent article. One correction: It says the story was first reported by Mississippi Today when in fact it was first reported by The Mississippi Independent on May 15, several days prior.

Twelve Migrants Sharing a Queens Apartment In New York City, a shadow economy helps new arrivals find a place to sleep. Sometimes it’s just a bed and a curtain.

Amid the Trump Administration’s mass-deportation efforts, Jordan Salama details his interactions with communities of migrants: construction workers, aspiring nail techs, and others “focussed on the day-to-day difficulties of surviving.”

Walthall County Halts Tornado Recovery While Waiting on FEMA As Trump scales back FEMA, Mississippi’s federal disaster assistance request is pending months after 18 tornadoes ripped through the state.

Mississippi’s request for federal disaster assistance is pending more than two months after 18 tornadoes ripped through the state.

The delays offer a glimpse into what could be in store for communities nationwide as the summer storm season arrives—while FEMA is mired in turmoil.