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As Floods Hit, Key Roles Were Vacant at Weather Service Offices in Texas Some experts say staff shortages might have complicated forecasters’ ability to coordinate responses with local emergency management officials.

Crucial roles were vacant at local National Weather Service offices as severe rainfall hit parts of Central Texas on Friday morning. Some experts question whether it hurt coordination with emergency officials.

What $100 billion in new ICE funding would look like The staggering increase is difficult to process. These numbers will help.

We all know Trump's bill is "big," "mega," and "supercharged."

But the scope of one of its most crushing ambitions appears to have been lost: more than $100 billion in new ICE funding.

@inaeoh.bsky.social unpacks the staggering figure here—and the future of our police state below.

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.

What is the point of having a constitution if it allows this? “Humans should not be subjected to torture” is an extremely basic principle that should never have to be explained or justified.

But the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments are clear: no person shall be “deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law.” It doesn’t say “citizen.” It says “person.” The Constitution doesn’t get to be optional.

I was briefed on the intelligence last week.

Iran posed no imminent threat of attack to the United States. Iran was not close to building a deliverable nuclear weapon. The negotiations Israel scuttled with their strikes held the potential for success.

Speaking at the Pentagon just now, Pete Hegseth said, “We give glory to God for his providence.” Sounds like typical rhetoric from Iran.

1. Many things reported with confidence in the first hours and days will turn out not to be true

A black and white image of Henrietta Lacks. She stands with her hands on her hips in a suit jacket. Source: Wikipedia.

(1/5) 📢 Remembering Henrietta Lacks on #Juneteenth:

Today we honor the countless contributions of Black Americans—many of which came at great personal cost. Among these stories is Henrietta Lacks, whose immortal legacy has shaped modern medicine without the recognition she or her family deserved.

Meet Russell Vought, the New Face of the DOGE Agenda Read more here.

While Elon Musk and Donald Trump continue their public break up and tear down, the real story is the man replacing Musk at DOGE: Russell Vought.

Democracy Docket dug into Vought and his plans to wreak havoc on millions of Americans. Fund reporting that focuses on facts and cuts through the noise.

When 15 million Americans lose their health care and plunge into personal crisis, none of them are going to give a shit about a made-for-clicks twitter fight between two billionaires arguing about who gets the bigger share of the corruption spoils.

Future historians -- if there are any -- will just be shaking their damn heads that Tapper sucked up all the oxygen as the current president was criming in plain sight while drooling and his henchmen were dismantling even more of the country.

Comey’s 8647 and Grok’s tampering both experiencing the Streissand effect within 24 hours shows that even though the Trump regime and its billionaire backers can at times seem all-powerful, they’re actually just a small group of incompetent fascists who are way in over their heads.

While going about your Saturday routine, please take a minute to stop and think about this. #Altgov exists because regular employees of the federal government must FIGHT this administration to simply be allowed to do the work we were hired and funded to do for the American people. THIS IS INSANE.

Gen Z, we will have a post-Tr*mp era soon, and your skills will be needed to rebuild and restore what this regime has destroyed. Your skills will be needed to create the America we have needed and deserved. Stay focused! Finish your studies!

again and again the broad public says “we want woke”

@betches-news.bsky.social We've been waiting for you!!! 💙💙💙

Vance meets Pope Francis on Easter Sunday after tangle over migration, gets chocolate eggs for kids U.S. Vice President JD Vance has met briefly with Pope Francis on Easter Sunday as the pontiff recovers from pneumonia.

JD Vance killed him.

The shock of meeting a NAZI.

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OMG

☑️ was waiting for eugenics to officially enter the chat!

Since I mentioned it yesterday, let’s talk about the 19th Amendment - “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.” It was ratified 72 years after the 1848 Women’s Rights convention in Seneca Falls. 1/

A tweet by Sarah Longwell (@SarahLongwell25 ) reads: "He’s threatening media companies who are critical of him. He’s talking about sending Americans to foreign prisons. He’s signing executive orders to investigate former staff members who spoke out against him. Don’t you see what’s happening here?"

I see it. I have lived it. 83 years ago, the U.S. government turned upon a group of its own citizens and residents and sent them to internment camps without due process. I was there among them. American fascism is back. It is here. It is now.

I want to pay my taxes. I don't ever complain about taxes funding basic services for the American people. I feel absolutely sick today knowing our taxes this year are 1. Buying spots in torture gulags for innocent men and 2 lining the pockets of billionaires while our communities suffer.

Many products sold in the U.S. are made in El Salvador. In response to the El Salvador president’s statements today, we’re calling for an immediate boycott of all Salvadoran-made goods. Please help by listing any products or brands made in El Salvador in the comments below.

I really hate this season of the White POTUS.

the way i would be the smuggest little wench in the world if i got to hit send on this push alert

> @wutangforchildren.bsky.social

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Obama Calls for Universities to Stand Up to Trump Administration Threats As the Trump administration threatens universities, the former president suggested schools shouldn’t be intimidated. But he also offered a critique of campus culture, saying it had too often shut out ...

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