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More percussion grenades launched by LASD near the site of anti-ICE raids in Paramount, CA.

Percussion grenades set off car alarms and send some folks scattering down the street in Paramount, CA.

Bluesky uploads are extremely slow on scene, so @melbuer.bsky.social has taken over this account to help share video from a better internet connection.

Brush planted in the street dividers has been caught on fire due to stun grenades thrown by federal authorities in Paramount, CA.

Nearby the confrontation between protesters and federal officials in paramount, CA. Several people got so gassed they collapsed into a small green area near a Chevron. I’ve seen people run choking out of their houses. Elderly people getting treatment for CS exposure.

Paramount, CA - This particularly large volley featured a *lot* of chemical munitions from federal authorities. The white cloud in the background is chemical munitions.

The flip side to Trump's military parades are federal officials with military gear brutalizing protestors.

The woman with the American flag chants "this is not the America we know" while chemical munitions are rained down upon her.
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One woman holding an American flag, shouting at federal agencies here in Paramount, CA. Still lots of chemical munitions, pepper balls, foam batons.

Who had Stephen Miller, his wife Katie and Elon Musk in a Ménage à trois on their bingo card?

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Don't forget and a woman.

DOJ politicization escalates with bogus arrest of congresswoman Alina Habba strikes again.

New in PN: DOJ politicization escalates with bogus arrest of Rep. LaMonica McIver

"Even Alina Habba's sworn declaration contains obvious false statements, clearly disproven by the bodycam footage ICE released to the media. And her online posturing appears to violate the DOJ's own rules."

They're so against mandates that they mandated you can't have one.

U.S. AG Pam Bondi Sold More than $1 Million in Trump Media Stock the Day Trump Announced Sweeping Tariffs Disclosure forms show that Bondi sold between $1 million and $5 million worth of shares on April 2. That day, after the market closed, Trump’s “Liberation Day” press conference sent the market tumblin...

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Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, recently used my second-place finish in the 1,600-meter run, and that of my teammate in the 800-meter run, to malign Soren Stark-Chessa, the trans-identified athlete who finished first. One of the reasons I chose to run cross-country and track is the community: Teammates cheering each other on, athletes from different schools coming together, and the fact that personal improvement is valued as much as, if not more than, the place we finish. Last Friday, I ran the fastest 1,600-meter race I have ever run in middle school or high school track and earned varsity status by my school’s standards. I am extremely proud of the effort I put into the race and the time that I achieved. The fact that someone else finished in front of me didn’t diminish the happiness I felt after finishing that race. I don’t feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points. We are all just kids trying to make our way through high school. Participating in sports is the highlight of high school for some kids. No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby, who want to take sports away from some kids just because of who they are. Anelise Feldman Freshman, Yarmouth High School Yarmouth

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

RFK Jr. said multiple times during his house and senate hearings today that no scientists have been fired from federal agencies. Our reporting has shown that hundreds, if not thousands, of scientists have been let go from NIH/CDC/FDA

9/11 First Responders: “The Secretary (RFK JR) is uniquely unqualified… This is 20 years of bullshit… nobody apologized after 9/11 — instead we created the World Trade Center Health program. And then to gut it? You took your own apology away from us… Kennedy is an id*ot.”

Andry Romero, a young gay man, was given an asylum appointment by the U.S. Government. When he showed up to the appointment we kidnapped him and sent him to a foreign prison.

I asked Secretary Noem to check if he’s alive. Her response was shameful.

24 hours later…

What's in Trump and Republicans' massive tax and immigration bill?

Here's a breakdown for you.

I'm the econ policy geek in Congress for @washingtonpost.com. I read the whole bill (really, I did) so you don't have to.

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Let's thread it out.... 🧵

Stop taking this administration at its word

Walz: I do want to give a huge shout out to our Canadian neighbors, they know that this is wrong. They stood up to it

Strengthening and Unleashing America's Law Enforcement to Pursue Criminals and Protect Innocent Citizens By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:Section 1.  Purpose and

formed in accordance with Executive Order 14159 of January 20, 2025 (Protecting the American People Against Invasion) to coordinate and advance the objectives of this order
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So basically Martial law is happening. This part is the most troubling: Sec. 6. Use of Homeland Security Task Forces. The Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall utilize the Homeland Security Task Forces (HSTFs)

BTW, Russia is ranked the _24th_ most corrupt country.

So now ask yourself why the Trump Administration isn't constantly talking about corruption in Russia as a critical issue in the resolution of the war Russia started in Ukraine.

Ask yourself why a much less corrupt nation gets attacked instead.

Courts Handed Trump A Slew of Legal Losses This Week Read more here.

Conservative and liberal judges across the country this week ruled against President Donald Trump in at least 11 different lawsuits challenging his administration’s immigration, elections and anti-diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Another big turnout of anti-Trump protesters today outside Nashville’s Centennial Park.

The CFPB Has Been Gutted The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau terminated the positions of 1,406 employees at the congressionally mandated agency.

This is getting fewer headlines than it should. After coming to power promising to help working people, the president is revealing his real priorities by actively making it easier for banks to rip people off.

It is SO unusual for the Supreme Court to issue an order this late at night and honestly incredible only Thomas and Alito noted their dissents.

Also fascinating that SCOTUS rushed out the order before Alito could finish writing his dissent. That basically never happens! Again—majority seems pissed.

Paul Ingrassia & GP @PaulIngrassia Subscribe Generations of lawyers and judges, on both sides of the aisle, have been infected with a parasitical ideology that denies reason and common sense, causing irreparable damage to our judicial system. This is why a putatively "conservative" Supreme Court so often fails to uphold the most basic principles of constitutional governance. Nations require borders in order to preserve national sovereignty, define citizenship, and allocate rights. That 7 members, including 3 appointed by President Trump in his last administration no less, would choose to willfully ignore that most basic precept of national sovereignty, demonstrates that the Supreme Court would rather actively participate in America's ruination, rather than work alongside the duly elected president to help reestablish the RULE OF LAW. This is why the ongoing efforts to hold elite universities, law firms, and law schools accountable by the Trump administration is so vitally important.

The calluel mour fuulelat oyotell beg ho wil the poison taught by these institutions, which has infected even so-called conservative lawyers and judges with the same anti-Constitutional, anti-American, immoral ideologies over decades and decades. Law must be moderated by the virtues, including individual responsibility and wisdom. Its practitioners must have mastery over these virtues in order to properly execute the laws for a free and self governing people. That imperative was long ago abandoned by our educat onal institutions. The judges in law courts today, including the majority in the nation's Highest Court, telegraph with these decisions that they have no understanding of law and its proper function and role. President Trump is the first leader who has actually meaningfully attempted to reverse this destructive trajectory, and done so with the gravitas of executive power that will be sure to have a lasting impact for years to come. * johnny maga @ @ _johnnymaga • 1h As usual, Alito and Thomas are the only two Justices you can count on to uphold the integrity of our vaniahlia

Hey, John Roberts? The White House liaison to DHS is saying that you have no understanding of law and its proper function and role.