Mary Perkins

I Watched 20 Arrests In Trump’s America. Here’s What They Looked Like. "This is fishing in a stocked pool. You tell them, 'Show up at this location,' and then they show up and you grab them,” one federal agent involved with immigration court arrests told HuffPost.

New: Five days in immigration court.

I witnessed 20 arrests over five days in lower Manhattan. It only takes a couple of seconds for agents to transform New Yorkers attending appointments into detainees.

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One of the men @jessicaschulberg.bsky.social and I wrote about is Ysqueibel Yonaiquer Peñaloza Chirinos. He came into the U.S. legally, through the CBP One app. His family has worked tirelessly to secure his release from CECOT. Tonight, they got to hug him again. His mother Ydalys shares this video:

10 Years After Marriage Equality, Queer Couples Are Worried On June 26, 2015, the Supreme Court ruled to give LGBTQ couples nationwide the right to marry. But 10 years on, the wave of optimism that followed the decision has changed.

I spoke with 4 queer couples about what the 10th anniversary of the Obergefell ruling means to them.

After Dobbs, legal experts are worried about conservative efforts to push religious freedoms challenges to undermine marriage equality and LGBTQ rights overall.
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WAE STATEMENT: 1 YEAR OF BARGAINING AT CBS NEWS DIGITAL "Today marks one year that the journalists, editors and social media producers at CBSNews.com have been in negotiations with management for a first contract. The 44-member bargaining unit is fighting for fair improvements to their salaries, benefits, job security, severance, remote work options and paths to promotions."

ONE YEAR AT THE TABLE: FAIR CONTRACT NOW! "We call on management at CBS to bargain in good faith and reach a fair deal with the union by the current last scheduled bargaining date of June 24, 2025."

The following is a statement from the WGAE marking one year of bargaining at CBSNews.com. Fair contract now!

The Trump Administration Is Trapping Migrant Kids In Shelters In recent years, kids stayed in Office of Refugee Resettlement shelters for about a month. By April, that had climbed to 217 days, with many kids stranded indefinitely.

under the Trump administration, it has become nearly impossible for undocumented people to sponsor unaccompanied migrant children — as a result kids are trapped in government shelters, despite having parents and siblings desperate to care for them at home www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

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The GOP’s Obsession With Women Having Babies Looks A Lot Like The Past The Trump administration's policy ideas to incentivize women to have more kids resemble those pushed by authoritarian regimes throughout history.

This is super important: @alannavagianos.bsky.social
interviewed a history professor about how authoritarian regimes use pro-natalism to trap women in the home.

Really, don't miss this one: www.huffpost.com/entry/gop-pr...

Kristi Noem Openly Flouts SCOTUS Order With 'Incredibly Chilling' Remark Kristi Noem said the deported Maryland man “will not be coming back" despite a court order, a claim that one Democratic senator called "incredibly chilling."

Today, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem openly flouted the Supreme Court's order that the Trump admin facilitate the return of Abrego Garcia, saying there's "no scenario" where he comes back.

One Democratic senator called her comments "incredibly chilling." www.huffpost.com/entry/kristi...

Trump Boasts Of New Trade Deal That Triples Taxes On Americans Buying British Products The agreement will result in $6 billion in new taxes that Americans will have to pay for goods from the United Kingdom.

NEW -- Trump's new trade deal just raised taxes on Americans by $6 billion, and he's bragging about it.

On the plus side, he agreed to raise import taxes on Rolls Royces, Bentleys and Jags by just four-fold, rather than ten-fold.

www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Pam Bondi Holds Key Meeting In Trump Push To Reinstate Death Sentences The Trump administration’s longshot campaign to bring state death sentences against people who will already die in prison “purely political,” one expert said.

Pam Bondi met with victim family members of the people whose federal death sentences were commuted by Biden as part of the Trump admin's longshot campaign to bring new state death sentences www.huffpost.com/entry/pam-bo...

It appears the Washington Post has created a website to discourage its tech workers from unionizing.

Lengthy post from Post CTO Vineet Khosla plays the anti-union hits. Sample below
posttechteam.org

Now leading HuffPost:

www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...

“People are looking for this ‘crossing the Rubicon’ moment […] ‘When would this cross the line from what scholars call constitutional hardball into the ‘oh, my God’ dictator-for-life world?’ And I think we’re already there.” —Kim Lane Scheppele, Princeton sociologist who studies autocracies

Two transgender girls are first to challenge Trump’s trans sports ban The lawsuit was originally filed against a New Hampshire law that banned transgender girls from playing on school sports teams

Two transgender girls in New Hampshire are the first to challenge Trump’s trans sports ban, @shruti-rajkumar.bsky.social reports. The lawsuit, which was originally filed against a state law that banned trans girls from school sports teams, is now also fighting Trump’s executive order.

Opinion | Don’t think ‘it can’t happen here’ — it’s already happening Demonizing rhetoric from the White House, arrests without due process, deporting immigrants to a brutal prison in a foreign country. This is America today.

For @msnbc.com I tried to scream abt how it’s already happening here & how, barring drastic action, we are on the worst trajectory, w/ insights from @andreapitzer.bsky.social on the history of concentration camps www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Trump Admin Pulls Research Funding To Protect Pregnant Women From Domestic Violence Homicide by an abusive partner is the leading cause of death for pregnant women in the U.S. – and researchers are gutted by the sudden cuts.

Trump Oct 2024: I'll protect women.

Trump March 2025:

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Signal Chat Caught Trump Officials Cheering Destruction Of Entire Building To Kill 1 Man Houthi officials said 53 people were killed in the Yemen strikes that have become notorious for Trump administration officials' use of Signal for planning purposes.

NEW — Overlooked in the whole Signal military attack chat scandal is this: Top Trump national security were cheering on the destruction of an entire residential building to kill one suspected terrorist.

How many innocent civilians were killed?

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Radio silence from the chairs of the House Armed Services Committee (GOP Rep. Mike Rogers) and Senate Armed Services Committee (GOP Sen. Roger Wicker) re: Pete Hegseth and co. sharing highly classified war plans in Signal + including the editor in chief of The Atlantic in their group chat.

Top House Democrats Throw Chuck Schumer Under The Bus Amid Funding Fight "This false choice that some are buying instead of fighting is unacceptable,” Rep. Nancy Pelosi said as Schumer cast his vote for an extreme GOP spending bill.

Nancy Pelosi + Hakeem Jeffries both threw Chuck Schumer under the bus today for backing the House GOP's extreme govt spending bill vs fighting for a clean spending bill.

Pelosi: "This false choice that some are buying instead of fighting is unacceptable.” www.huffpost.com/entry/nancy-...

Who’s in Elon’s ear — and DMs Musk's most trusted advisers remain a tight-knit group of executives who have followed him from his companies but lack political experience.

> Musk plays video games on "massive TV" In Eisenhower Executive Office Building: Politico

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Trump Still Doesn’t Understand How NATO Works Or That It Fought On America’s Behalf He threatened not to support others if they haven’t “paid” enough, but did not seem to know that the only time the alliance was triggered was to help the U.S. after 9/11.

NEW -- Trump today mused whether, if the US were attacked, NATO would really come to our aid.

Except it already has.

In fact, the ONLY time the alliance's mutual assistance clause has been invoked was after Sept. 11 -- on behalf of the United States.

www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

The Dem's 'Let's All Wear Pink' Stunt Fell Painfully Flat. Here's Why. Is color coordination really an effective protest in 2025?

Color coordination as protest? In this economy?

My story today on the Democrats' “let’s wear pink" silent protest at President Trump's address last night. Unsurprisingly, many found it feckless and a little too 2016. www.huffpost.com/entry/why-di...

Georgia Nonprofit That Produces Life-Saving Food For Kids Has Federal Contract Cut An estimated 300,000 children globally are expected to lose access to a nutrient-dense peanut butter that’s specially formulated to treat severe acute malnutrition.

An estimated 300,000 children globally are expected to lose access to a nutrient-dense peanut butter that’s specially formulated to treat severe acute malnutrition.

Leading @huffpost.com tonight www.huffpost.com/entry/andrew...

CALLOUT: Looking to speak with people who went into debt to get an abortion, for a story about financial barriers to care & the impact of medical debt. Can offer anonymity.

DMs are open or reach out:
alanna.vagianos@huffpost.com
avagianos@protonmail.com
avagianos.25 on Signal

White House Kicks Out HuffPost Reporter From Press Pool Breaking with decades of precedent, the Trump White House is insisting on the ability to choose which reporters cover the president.

The White House kicked out a HuffPost reporter from the pool of journalists set to follow the president, breaking with decades of precedent.

The White House Made A Shockingly Cruel ASMR Video. ASMR Creators Are Pissed. "There's no way this is real and there's no way this is the actual White House account," said one ASMR YouTuber.

The fact that the Trump administration would use ASMR ― one of the softest, cuddliest subsections of the internet you can find ― to promote its “mass deportation” agenda didn’t sit well with many, especially not the ASMR YouTubers themselves.

My story today: www.huffpost.com/entry/white-...

How stupid and arbitrary are Trump's mass firings at federal agencies?

A State Dept employee tells me some colleagues are racing to change their job descriptions so phrases like "transnational crime" don't get caught up in DOGE AI bots scanning for words like "trans" to fire people because "DEI."

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Does your company have a policy for what to do if ICE agents show up and demand entry – with or without a warrant?

I want to talk to you.

Please get in touch. Anonymity guaranteed. Signal 646-397-4678 (not on a work device/network). Other methods in my bio.

Thank you!
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Donald Trump Has Already Spent $10.7 Million Of Taxpayer Money Playing Golf Somehow, the expense has flown under the radar of the waste, fraud and abuse experts at DOGE.

NEW --There's this guy in the executive branch who in less than a month has already spent NEARLY 11 MILLION DOLLARS of taxpayer money playing golf.

Yet the whole thing has flown under the radar of the crack waste/fraud/abuse squad over at DOGE somehow.

www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...