Dave Babbott-Klein

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When the Yankees get eliminated

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

ICE Is Using a New Facial Recognition App to Identify People, Leaked Emails Show The new tool, called Mobile Fortify, uses the CBP system which ordinarily takes photos of people when they enter or exit the U.S., according to internal ICE emails viewed by 404 Media. Now ICE is usin...

New from 404 Media: ICE is using a new facial recognition app to identify people, leaked emails show. Point camera at person, reveal their identity. It uses the CBP system that records peoples' faces as they enter or exit the U.S. Now, turned inwards to be used by ICE www.404media.co/ice-is-using...

The path for Democrats is very clear: have good ideas, believe in them, state them clearly, stick to them, act decisively in support of these ideas, speak to the young half of the electorate, support other democrats who do these things. Follow Mamdani and Lander's example or fade into nothingness.

Hope and solidarity won tonight, and will win again in November.

Congratulations, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

On Friday night, we walked the length of Manhattan, from Inwood Hill to Battery Park.

New Yorkers deserve a Mayor they can see, hear, even yell at. The city is in the streets.

Leeds United have confirmed the permanent transfer of Jaka Bijol from Udinese.

An undisclosed fee, but understood to be £15m with performance-related add-ons, for staying up etc.

The Slovenia international has signed a five-year contract and is the club's second summer. #lufc

6/21, Los Angeles: A neighborhood volunteer documenting ICE was stopped by agents in an unmarked car, surrounded, and threatened by masked agents while they filmed him on their phones.

illegal war started by a man constitutionally ineligible to be president

My word, this is very good

Many years later, as he faced the editorial board, Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani was to remember that distant afternoon when his father told him to abolish ICE

Suspect in Minnesota Shooting Linked to Security Company, Evangelical Ministry The alleged shooter is a 57-year-old white male; according to his ministry's website, he “sought out militant Islamists in order to share the gospel and tell them that violence wasn't the answer.”

In some sermons that we reviewed, Vance Boelter can be heard railing against the LGBTQ community and abortion

www.wired.com/story/shooti... story with @timmarchman.bsky.social and @leahfeiger.bsky.social

Former roommate of MN shooting suspect Vance Boelter says Boelter was a staunch supporter of Donal Trump www.kare11.com/article/news...

19 companies pulling back their support for Pride For years, major corporations publicly celebrated the LGBTQ community.

19 companies that have pulled support of Pride parades, in whole or in part, this year:

Lowe's
Dyson
Nivea
Tiffany & Co.
Toyota
Capital One
UPS
Disney
DoorDash
Live Nation
Anheuser-Busch
Diageo
PepsiCo
Nissan
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Citi
Mastercard
Booz Allen Hamilton
Deloitte

new @fangraphs.com: ugh, ugh, ugh.

This is America.

Democrats Cave, Prepare to Rubber-Stamp Trump Crypto Corruption Pro-crypto senators are poised to pass a stablecoin bill, while failing to crack down on the Trump organization issuing one to collect payments from foreign governments.

BREAKING: Democrats reached a deal on a stablecoin bill that will give them a fake amendment on Trump crypto corruption that is designed to fail, so collaborators can say they did the best they could.
"Schumer 101," said one source.
prospect.org/politics/202...

Department of Education Eliminates Grant for PBS Children’s Shows

vandalism www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/u...

New piece: Trump’s approval rating among low-engagement voters has fallen 30 points since Jan, the worst decline for any group. The GOP’s big advantage with hard-to-reach voters has evaporated as economic turmoil & toxic politics turns them away from Trump
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/what-do-di...

A drone view of detainees forming the letters SOS with their bodies in the courtyard at the Bluebonnet Detention Facility, where Venezuelans at the center of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling are held, in Anson, Texas, U.S. April 28, 2025. REUTERS/Paul Ratje

April 28, 2025: Migrants are making SOS signs out of their bodies so drones can see them at our country's concentration camps.

a cartoon chef is cooking in a kitchen with a frying pan and a spoon . ALT: a cartoon chef is cooking in a kitchen with a frying pan and a spoon .

Jayden Bogle rn vs stoke

#lufc #mot

Fixed it for you, @NYTimes. Oh, and by the way, @ChrisVanHollen — he's NOT coming back.

The White House just posted this on X.

The CFPB is one of those things where like, virtually every single person in the United States would support its existence if they were told the truth about what it is/does. Or used to do, I guess.

🚨URGENT—Despite the Supreme Court declaring that it would be illegal to deport people under the Alien Enemies Act without giving them a meaningful chance to seek judicial review, the Trump admin is reportedly about to send a group of Venezuelans detained in Texas to El Salvador in a matter of hours!

DOGE cut a CDC team as it was about to start a project to help N.C. flood victims The National Center for Environmental Health was hollowed out in the cuts of 10,000 federal health workers on April 1. That's the same day an assessment of people hurt in floods was set to begin.

North Carolina, don't forget this abandonment. Thom Tillis is up for reelection in 2026. Vote them all out.

www.npr.org/sections/sho...

Stephen Miller is the only member of the administration I’ve seen comment on the SCOTUS ruling, which says they have to bring him back from El Salvador, and it’s not looking good.

The simple truth is that Trump believes that, if we send money to a county in exchange for stuff, we've just lost because now they have our money

Unambiguously good news!