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I wrote this story because the case of the Guatemalan children hasn’t received nearly as much media attention as it deserves.

I wanted to highlight the full extent of the government’s depraved conduct.

I hope you’ll read and share. Don’t look away.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

Twist!

Grand juries will apparently NOT necessarily indict a ham sandwich THROWER.

Start your morning with two minutes of the testimony of Samuel Garcia, an average American who drove 3 hours to speak truth to power to the Texas legislature. Let’s decide that we are all Samuel Garcia. Get in their faces and make them listen. Mr. Garcia is a great American.

Ken Paxton is a massive piece of shit who worked with anti-abortion activists to find abusive men willing to sue over their ex’s abortions.

I guess that’s my way of saying: if Ken Paxton got you pregnant, hit me up at tips@abortioneveryday.com

Here are the Declaration of Independence’s grievances against King George III. Many apply to Trump. It's uncanny.

NEW: In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson listed 27 grievances to prove that King George III was a tyrant. We looked at how many of those now apply to Donald Trump. Have a good Fourth of July and pass this on.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I know your R reps are garbage and it feels pointless to call them.

But please call them today and tell them not to vote for Trump's murderous budget.

The call costs nothing. The fact that it MIGHT save lives is all that matters.

Find your US rep here: reps.fyi

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES _________________ No. 24A1153 _________________ DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, ET AL. v. D.V.D., ET AL. ON APPLICATION FOR STAY [June 23, 2025] The application for stay presented to JUSTICE JACKSON and by her referred to the Court is granted. The April 18, 2025, preliminary injunction of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, case No. 25–cv10676, is stayed pending the disposition of the appeal in the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and disposition of a petition for a writ of certiorari, if such writ is timely sought. Should certiorari be denied, this stay shall terminate automatically. In the event certiorari is granted, the stay shall terminate upon the sending down of the judgment of the Court. JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR, with whom JUSTICE KAGAN and JUSTICE JACKSON join, dissenting. In matters of life and death, it is best to proceed with caution. In this case, the Government took the opposite approach. It wrongfully deported one plaintiff to Guatemala, even though an Immigration Judge found he was likely to face torture there. Then, in clear violation of a court order, it deported six more to South Sudan, a nation the State Department considers too unsafe for all but its most critical personnel. An attentive District Court’s timely intervention only narrowly prevented a third set of unlawful removals to Libya. Rather than allowing our lower court colleagues to manage this high-stakes litigation with the care and attention

NEW: SCOTUS lets the Trump admin deport non-citizens to third countries (S. Sudan) without screening them for fear of persecution, staying a lower court's injunction during appeal.

Justice Sotomayor writes for the 3 liberals: "I cannot join so gross an abuse of the Court’s equitable discretion."

Alabama lawyer calls Trump legal aid cuts ‘a war on the poor’ as thousands face losing help The Trump administration has proposed cutting almost all funding for the Legal Services Corporation.

Alabama lawyer calls Trump legal aid cuts ‘a war on the poor’ as thousands face losing help (via @al.com)

#JustFundIt #LegalAid #AccessToJustice #A2J

🚨LAST CALL:

I NEED your stories to STOP this bill from passing the Senate by 6/23.

Here's how:

1) DM YOUR personal Medicaid/ACA/Medicare or SNAP story
2) Please INCLUDE your NAME & STATE

I will HAND deliver to your Senators offices June 26.

YOUR VOICE MATTERS!🙏

Please REPOST & NEVER GIVE UP!🚨

CLARIFICATION :

The Trevor Project's hotline will still be live. But basically this means LGBTQ people can no longer be connected to it through the US national 988 suicide prevention hotline.

They will need to be contacted DIRECTLY

So spread this around

They can be texted. They can be called.

📢 Protest Advice - Tear Gas 🪧

If you are protesting tomorrow - this video has great advice for preparing for and responding to tear gas. No makeup, contacts, etc.

If you live near a protest site - consider placing buckets of clean water outside your home so protestors have easy access. 🪣

Trump’s Big Bill Would Be More Regressive Than Any Major Law in Decades Estimates from the Congressional Budget Office, released Thursday, offer a detailed view into the effects on income groups.

“I’ve never seen anything that simultaneously really goes after poor people and then really helps rich people."

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.

figure 2. shows poor get poorer and rich get richer, percent change. -4% for bottom 10%. +2.5% roughly for top 10%.

dollar change. shows poor get poorer and rich get richer.

NEW FROM CBO: brutal distributional analysis of House GOP "Big Beautiful Bill"

On avg the bottom 30% of households get poorer under the GOP bill

Avg gets little - and are worse off if you include tariffs

This'd be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history

Make a Donation to LSC Your support fuels innovative programs that address critical gaps in access to justice, helping underserved communities across the nation. By funding special initiatives outside of our federal fundin...

Civil legal services keep families safe, housed and financially stable. But millions could lose access to this critical help if LSC funding is cut.

⚖️ Help protect equal justice. lsc.networkforgood.com #LSCMatters

NPR readers share stories of love and adversity in honor of Loving Day June 12th is Loving Day, a holiday that commemorates the Loving v. Virginia case, which allowed interracial marriage in all parts of the U.S. NPR readers share how the case changed their lives.

June 12th is Loving Day, a holiday that commemorates the Loving v. Virginia case, which allowed interracial marriage in all parts of the U.S. NPR readers share how the case changed their lives.

Los Angeles is a BIG place. For the idiots who think the whole city is on fire (it is not), please see this handy map from Craig Miller. Look for the red highlighted circle. Any Angeleno not *there* is perfectly safe. This escalation by Trump is for his own political purposes. PERIOD.

Deploying Marines to LA isn’t normal. It’s a gross abuse of power similar to what we see from dictators around the world, setting the stage for martial law or full-on authoritarianism.

Make peace visible. ☮️

They’re looking for photo ops. Don’t throw things, don’t spit…and beware agitators.

Protesting against this fascist regime is needed and it’s our civil right, but they win if you bite — please don’t take the bait.

Be safe out there 🙏🏼

In addition to fighting for the rights of immigrants, we are facing serious First Amendment challenges at the administrative immigration courts in Phoenix.

It is the lead front page story in today's Arizona Republic.

PLEASE HELP US AMPLIFY THIS:

www.azcentral.com/story/news/p...

@azcentral.com

I hope you'll listen to Rachel as she shares her son’s story.
 
Nate is a disabled adult who relies on Medicaid. Medicaid makes Nate's life & dreams possible—it means freedom. Cuts to Medicaid eliminate those freedoms.
 
Help share Nate's story & join me in saying: NO CUTS TO MEDICAID.

NEW STUDY: Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ Will Cause Over 51,000 Additional Americans to Die Each Year | The U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions WASHINGTON, June 3 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, issued the...

Boo-hoo for Musk.
☠️New calculations from Yale Univ & the Univ of PA are finding that more than 51K additional Americans will die each year if Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill" is signed into law.

PASS IT ON OFF BSKY, TOO!
📞 Call your Senators: (202) 224-3121 ⏰24/7
www.help.senate.gov/dem/newsroom...

A summary of LGBTQ+ friendly mental health resources Trans Lifeline is a trans-led organization that connects trans people to the community, support, and resources they need to thrive. Available at https://translifeline.org or 1-877-565-8860 LGBT National Hotline serves the community by providing free & confidential peer support, information, and local resources through national hotlines and online programs. Available at https://lgbthotline.org or 1-800-246-7743 National Suicide Crisis Lifeline: Available at https://988lifeline.org or 988. Text PRIDE to 988 for LGBTQ+ services. "At the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, we understand that life's challenges can sometimes be difficult. Our caring counselors are here for you. You are not alone." Crisis Text Line serves anyone, in any type of crisis, providing access to free, 24/7 support via mediums people already use and trust. Available at https://www.crisistextline.org/ or text HOME to 741-741 For LGBTQ+ young people: The Trevor Project, available at https://www.thetrevorproject.org or text START to 678-678 For queer BIPOC community: BlackLine, available at https://www.callblackline.com/ or 1-800-604-5841 For queer South Asian community: DeQH, available at https://www.deqh.org/ or 908-367-3374 For LGBT older adults >50 years: SAGE, available at https://www.sageusa.org or 1-888-234-SAGE

Friends, as much fun as it is to play "Goon, fiend, or wanker? with the Trump regime, the sad reality is that this regime is actively attacking the LGBTQ+ community. Please share this LGBTQ+ friendly one-pager of mental health resources widely #PrideMonth #MentalHealth #AltComms

New Yorker here. Adrienne Adams is head of the city council. Brad Lander is comptroller; Scott Stringer has been too. Zellnor Myrie is my state senator & a great guy. We have an embarrassment of candidate riches, & yet all polls point to Cuomo, who could care less about the city.

Breaking news! 📣 40 bipartisan attorneys general have written letters to Congress urging support for LSC.

"Funding the LSC represents a sound investment in the foundational American principle of equal justice under the law," they write.

Read more: lsc-live.box.com/s/2i4kpcg6x5... #LSCMatters #A2J

The GOP's plan to defund Planned Parenthood would add $300 million to the deficit So much for cutting costs.

NEW @motherjones.com: The GOP's plan to defund Planned Parenthood would add $300 million to the deficit

The provision—which would cut services like pap smears, cancer screenings, & birth control, since Medicaid already doesn't fund abortions—moved forward today.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Call your senators and tell them not to enable Trump's Crypto Corruption. Especially if your senator is Mark Warner, Ruben Gallego, Kirsten Gillibrand, or one of the other crypto-curious Dems.

indivisible.org/resource/cal...

Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and…

Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban.

Here’s how we did our analysis.
(Published Feb.)