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Now That They’re Free, Venezuelan Men Want the World to Know What They Endured in CECOT Venezuelan men deported by the Trump administration say they endured months of physical and mental abuse inside a Salvadoran prison. Though happy to be home, they say the fact that they were released…

#ICYMI: We obtained internal data showing the Trump administration knew at least 197 of the men it sent to CECOT had not been convicted of crimes in the U.S.

Nearly half were whisked out of the U.S. while in the middle of their immigration cases, which should have protected them from deportation.

You are not going to out "tough on crime" fascist Republicans. Because they don't actually care about *crime* - they care about racism and power.

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

Gotta get rid of the woke and DEI and return to merit-based hiring.

I keep mixing him up with Malcolm Gladwell.

6 days after Soviet troops invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968, a Prague paper published these “10 Commandments”:
‘When a Soviet soldier comes to you, YOU:
1. Don’t know
2. Don’t care
3. Don’t tell
4. Don’t have
5. Don’t know how to
6. Don’t give
7. Can’t do
8. Don’t sell
9. Don’t show
10. Do nothing’

I don’t think I have ever publicly criticized any Presidential nominee before.

But E.J. Antoni is completely unqualified to be BLS Commissioner. He is an extreme partisan and does not have any relevant expertise.

He would be a break from decades of nonpartisan technocrats.

"Are you seriously claiming that Trump is deploying the National Guard to D.C. as a distraction from his relationship with Epstein?"

Yes. I am. Next question.

Oh no www.mediapost.com/publications...

Because making money on crypto is more important to them than human decency. bsky.app/profile/usat...

A Rare Copy of ‘The Hobbit’ Is Found on an Unassuming Shelf

Not all those who wander are lost. #BookSky
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/w...

I, for one, am an exceptional layman, near the top of the well-known layman hierarchy.

This is the lesson Republicans take from the evil cruelty of America's past actions.

C’est un véritable désastre écologique dans l’Aude. En à peine 7h, plus de 7000 hectares sont partis en fumée, avec un front de feu de >30km de long. La vitesse de propagation est exceptionnelle : nous assistons probablement au feu de forêt le + rapide et le plus violent du XXIᵉ siècle en France 1/2

The worst chief justice of all time Move over, Roger Taney and Melville Fuller.

New in PN: The worst chief justice of all time

"American history has no shortage of legendarily bad chief justices and disgraceful decisions. But John Roberts has overseen the wholesale corruption and capture of the Supreme Court, and history should look back on his tenure with revulsion."

Opinion | Want Medicaid coverage? Go pick some vegetables. The unworkable plan to replace deported farmworkers with non-working Medicaid recipients.

Wrote about the Medicaid-for-agricultural-labor idea, why it was floated and why it would obviously not work. Gift link: wapo.st/44K4i5b

Just a smattering of recent posts from the public Facebook page of Fred Doucette, FEMA Regional Administrator for Region 1 (overseeing Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont)

Mayor Mamdani and the News Judgments That Provokes Careful about religious bigotry and brandishing “socialism”

@dicktofel.bsky.social calls out CNN & NYTimes for their dishonest, fearmongering coverage of Mamdani "rooted in ignorance of the country in which we are living, and in indulging in bigotry of a sort which deserves no place in decent journalism." dicktofel.substack.com/p/mayor-mamd...

Hearst to purchase Dallas Morning News Hearst has expanded its foothold in Texas, and the Dallas purchase means it now owns newspapers in the state’s four largest cities.

Big news for Texas, and the newspaper business. Hearst is the best newspaper chain left, and it now controls all the most important papers in the state.
www.houstonchronicle.com/business/art...

From Food Aid to Dog Chow? How Trump’s Cuts Hurt Kansas Farmers.

An example of two of the most important aspects of this moment:

Established programs that were central to the economy and lives of specific populations, ones you probably never knew about, are being destroyed by people who didn’t know about them either and..:

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/u...

From the 1970s into the 2010s, a statement like this would not have coded as particularly partisan or leftist. The fact that virtually no Republican public figure could have said this today is a sign of how much that party has radicalized away from what used to be the center of US politics.

Spoiler: They won't.

“ If you thought Trumpism promised redress for what elites and their hand-rigged economy have done to working people over the last half-century, well, you’ve been swindled. Very, very badly.”

There are actually quite a few undocumented Russians in the US.

Anyone have any videos of ICE forcefully deporting them?

Or just the brown people?

164. Justice Kagan's D.V.D. Concurrence Thursday's denouement in the third-country removals case was not surprising. But the split between Justice Kagan and Justices Sotomayor and Jackson highlights a deeper (and July 4-appropriate) debate.

The divide between Justice Kagan and Justices Sotomayor and Jackson over #SCOTUS’s “clarification” in the third-country removal case reflects a broader debate over the role law (and legal arguments) should play in response to mounting executive branch lawlessness.

More in a July 4 “One First” post:

Grok says yes, cuts have been made.

And regardless of the role NWS cuts played in this particular tragedy, they pave the way for more tragedies like it in the future.

And cuts to FEMA, Medicaid, USAID, SNAP etc. will make it harder to deal with the aftermath.

Not pro-life.

My old friend Jenny Holzer.

NY Times election coverage in 2018 and 2020 will be as bad as it was in 2016 The Times' new politics editor Patrick Healy epitomizes the worst of the paper's presidential campaign reporting.

Want to understand how tne nyt operates and works against the public interest? This piece has amazing relevance today
www.mediamatters.org/new-york-tim...

Here’s Your Cheat Sheet for Vaccine Recommendations Backed by Science These graphics will guide you through science-based vaccine guidelines for children and adults

Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪

Evangelicals push Trump into conflict with Iran Forget Joe Rogan — the Christian right remains Trump's most important constituency

The media coverage of MAGA infighting over war with Iran overlooked one crucial aspect: The biggest, most powerful group of Trump supporters wants war super bad.

Unfortunately, I don't think evangelicals will be satisfied with a single bombing.

www.salon.com/2025/06/25/e...