Paul Blest

2 million rally in Italy for Gaza as general strike halts key services Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

ICE just gassed a group a civilians near the Rico Fresh supermarket intersection on Armitage in Chicago - bystanders say this was in response for being heckled from the street.

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

A Starbucks store was targeted in a viral video that got millions of views after workers didn’t write 'Charlie Kirk' on a cup, in line with Starbucks' cup-writing policies. What followed was terrifying: baristas at the Yucaipa & 6th store faced threats, their personal information was leaked online, and instead of protecting them, Starbucks leadership lied about its own cup-writing policy to Fox News. Starbucks threw baristas under the bus for following its own rules. Now, partners at Yucaipa & 6th just filed to unionize. They’re standing up for safety, community, and each other. And they need you with them! Celebrate Yucaipa partners taking this bold step. Congratulate them with a like and comment to show you are by their side.

Seeing how @sbworkersunited.org seamlessly connects right-wing culture-warring to workplace safety & the need for a fighting American labor movement like this underscores just how poorly most incumbent unions have met this moment despite having more $ and influence: www.fingers.email/upgrade?offe...

Surreal moment for America. Needless to say, if the normal police ever pulled something like this — pulling every single person out of an apartment building and handcuffing them to run warrant checks — they would be sued into oblivion.

Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.

JUST IN: A U.S. citizen from Alabama who has been detained twice by ICE while working at a construction site, has filed a class action suit claiming ICE's broad warrantless arrest powers violate the constitution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I'll take the bullheaded, deeply flawed, 1990s quest for authenticity and cultivating a core which you shouldn't sell out over this any day. Any day.

Man why is this guy a billionaire and not a heel wrestling manager. This is humiliating for the rest of us

Ezra Klein keeps saying that "politics is about winning power" and Democrats have "gotten way out of step with the public" on immigration and trans kids in sports but he is blind to the fact that to win power you have to convince people you have the right position, not cede to the other side

Finally listened to the Coates/Klein thing and thought this was pretty funny

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

Life is a problem that can’t be solved Remembering Kaleb Horton

god dammit www.welcometohellworld.com/life-is-a-pr...

The agents' attacks were notably distinct from prior days in that officers went after people who were simply gathered to support the active protesters. Officers forcibly removed people sheltering from tear gas in vehicles, resulting in the separation of a child from family members who were bringing food in support of the protest. Agents fired weapons at specific protesters in direct response to their First Amendment-protected statements and snatched protesters’ signs. Officers also confiscated tents used for shade, as well as food, water and first aid supplies, and people’s bike helmets and other personal property, putting them in a dumpster in the restricted area. When some of those present tried to leave in their vehicles.

National Lawyers Guild of Chicago is a very reliable source with numerous legal observers at protests and meticulous note taking and info gathering. This is how they say things seemed different Saturday at Broadview ICE detention center.

Fire Hakeem Jeffries power-and-light.ghost.io/hakeem-jeffr...

a lot of good writers out there, but Kaleb Horton was truly gifted. what a terrible loss

It's a Great Time to Be a Crook Tom Homan, Trevor Milton, and putting the money in the bag.

I started blogging again. I’m going to be doing some writing about politics, corporate power, and labor and probably some personal essays and music criticism too. First post is up, about Tom Homan and the golden age of graft. power-and-light.ghost.io/its-a-great-...

The UN has broken through Israel’s ban on data collection & declared famine (for 1st time in the ME)

Palestinians in Gaza-including Lujayn in @thenation.com -have been documenting this reality for months
www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Thanks to @jackmirkinson.bsky.social for publishing this

they desperately want footage of soldiers shooting americans

10 Blue Dogs in the House and Bernie Sanders is the most popular politician in the country, meanwhile the safety net is aggressively dying so we can afford to subsidize data centers and coal plants. What exactly does Third Way do except circulate memos

That's crazy I was just circulating my own memo about a blacklist of words Democrats shouldn't use

The only thing the government spends money on now is this shit, AI and powering AI, and contracts for Deloitte to create blood oaths for Medicaid recipients

ICE used your taxpayer dollars to trick out a bunch of trucks in new livery, all painted black with "ICE" and a logo printed in gold on the side (and Trump's name in gold on the back window), then shoot a rap video in DC to post on social media.

I am not making this up.

“A possible immigration raid at a farm in Ventura County escalated on Thursday afternoon when agents began firing tear gas on a crowd that had started to gather by the operation.”

oh man wait until they hear about what William F. Buckley Jr. considered a prank

DOJ announces plans to prioritize cases to revoke citizenship Denaturalization is a tactic heavily used during the McCarthy era and one that was expanded during the Obama administration and grew further during President Trump's first term. It's a tool usually us...

"The Justice Department is aggressively prioritizing efforts to strip some Americans of their U.S. citizenship...At least one person has already been denaturalized...June 13, a judge ordered the revocation of the citizenship of Elliott Duke, who uses they/them pronouns."

www.npr.org/2025/06/30/n...

Palantir Is Going on Defense Palantir threatened to call police on a WIRED reporter and kicked out other journalists from a recent conference following reports of the data analytics firm's work with the Trump administration.

NEW: Palantir threatened to call police on @wired.com reporter @carolinehaskins.bsky.social and kicked out other journalists from a recent conference following reports of the data analytics firm's work with the Trump administration. @carolinehaskins.bsky.social reports www.wired.com/story/palant...

On the other hand I guess it's tradition for German chancellors to consider France part of Germany