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All These Stories About Trump Making the Epstein Files a Winning Issue Have a Funny Thing in Common Is Trump really turning the tables on this one?

The Times, Post, CNN, and Politico all ran stories this weekend or this morning about Trump getting his base back behind him on Epstein. The most prominent source cited to justify this claim _in all four publications_ was Steve Bannon. slate.com/news-and-pol...

the 404 media homepage with ICE coverage in spanish

we just republished months of our ICE coverage, free of paywalls, in professionally-translated spanish. check it out: www.404media.co/were-publish...

The Trump Admin Is Pushing Americans to Have More Kids. This Movement Explains Why Elon Musk, who's fathered at least 14 children, has claimed that unless birth rates increase, "civilization will disappear."

Trump's administration reportedly wants to incentivize people to have more kids, driven by an ideology associated with eugenics.

EPA Drops Legal Case Against the GEO Group, a Major Trump Donor, Over Its Misuse of Harmful Disinfectant in an ICE Facility A complaint filed under the Biden administration alleged that on more than 1,000 occasions in 2022 and 2023, the GEO Group had its employees use the disinfectant, which causes irreversible eye damage…

#ICYMI: The EPA withdrew a legal complaint filed last year against the GEO Group, a major Trump donor that has more than $1 billion in contracts with the administration to run private prisons and ICE facilities.

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Congratulations to Harvard on its principled resistance to Trumpism <hand to earpiece> Hold on, I’m getting word -

It’s past time Democrats start calling the media out in their appearances. Talking about ICE? Ask the host if they support white supremacy—and if not then why are they talking about ICE without talking about Stephen Miller, the documented racist who’s running it for a checked out Trump?

important update on @propublica.org's reporting on America's largest oxygen supply company, which made billions while repeatedly defrauding Medicare 👇

seems like this should be a big deal.

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Last night a bunch of Republicans in the House were saying how awful this bill was.

Only took a couple hours, some merch, and a few words from Donald Trump, and they’re lining up to rip away health care from 17 MILLION people.

I’m sadly not surprised — but I am still outraged.

"Two U.S. contractors said they were coming forward because they were disturbed by what they considered dangerous and irresponsible practices. They said the security staff hired were often unqualified, unvetted, heavily armed and seemed to have an open license to do whatever they wished."

Republicans vote to kill

It’s worth noting (again) that explaining to non-historians how studying history develops critical thinking skills is the most effective way to help people understand history’s value to society and leads them to support greater funding. aaslh.org/reframing-hi...

Surprise surprise. A week after Sarah McBride gives cover fire for throwing trans people under the bus, some Dems are privately indicating they’ll capitulate on trans youth healthcare and citing the pseudoscientific Cass Report literally drafted in consultation with hate groups.

It’s so bad. Everyone I know with the luxury of citizenship is carrying their passport around. I should say, everyone who isn’t white, since the abductors are clearly and obviously targeting people by race. Many, many people are too scared to leave their homes.

For Mayor Consideration Podcast Episode · LA Podcast · 06/30/2025 · 48m

Oh man, I’ve been out of town for the last week or so, but this brought home how absolutely dystopian it is in LA right now. Roving bands of unidentifiable masked men just snatching people off the street, abetted by LAPD. It’s fucking terrifying. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...

People in wheelchairs are getting arrested right now in the Russell Senate Office Building in DC. They showed up to tell Congress not to cut their Medicaid, because they cant afford health care without it. If you look closely you can see the zip ties on their hands. #WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid

The alarming rise of US officers hiding behind masks: ‘A police state’ Mike German, an ex-FBI agent, said immigration agents hiding their identities ‘highlights the illegitimacy of actions’

Federal officers from across US government depts have joined ICE to execute raids, but we don't know who they are while they widely cover their faces + refuse to identify themselves.

"Masked agents in casual clothing using force against people in public is associated with police states."

If you’re zip-tying grandmas protesting losing health care maybe you’re not the good guys in the story?

“detention centers” doing a lot of heavy linguistic lifting for… other descriptors

Exclusive: US Marines carry out first known detention of civilian in Los Angeles, video shows Marines deployed to Los Angeles carried out the detention of a civilian on Friday, the U.S. military confirmed after being presented with Reuters images, in the first known detention by active-duty troops deployed there by President Donald Trump.

The first known detention by the US Marines in their recent Los Angeles deployment is of... a US Army veteran on his way to an office at the Department of Veteran Affairs building. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

THREAD.

Let history note: what's happening on the streets of LA is an extension of DOGE. Musk's guys illegally consolidated data from across government and cut a corrupt contract with Palantir to build an immigrant-hunting computer system. Presumably in use now.

About 3 dozen LAPD officers in full riot gear, standing around looking confused, bored, aimless. A waste of taxpayer money, a threatening show of force without morality or purpose. Behind them, the north wall of the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, covered with Barbara Kruger's "Untitled (Questions)" mural: against a field of stark red, white letters that read, in part, WHO IS BEYOND THE LAW? WHO IS BOUGHT AND SOLD? WHO DOES THE TIME? WHO SALUTES LONGEST? WHO DIES FIRST? WHO LAUGHS LAST

Pulitzer prize for this Jay L. Clenendin image of LAPD stormtroopers in front of Barbara Kruger's "Untitled (Questions)"

In the past week, a union leader has been arrested, a U.S. Rep charged with a crime, a U.S. Senator violently handcuffed, and reporters shot with rubber bullets and detained. There is no ambiguity. This is a regime operating as an authoritarian. Americans who believe in liberty must oppose it.

ICE agents get green light to make unjustified warrantless arrests The agency announced an accountability policy has been rescinded.

My latest scoop: ICE has rescinded its accountability policy for warrantless arrests, giving agents “free license to make any arrest,” per one lawyer representing victims.

It follows @theguardian.com exclusive that the agency was told to “push the envelope” to meet Trump’s 3k arrest quota.

Largest Trans Survey Ever: Top Reason Trans People Stop Transitioning Is Transphobia “In almost every single case, the reason was anti-trans discrimination in the form of pressure to ‘detransition’ from one’s family, friends, or community.”

1. The US Transgender Survey has finally been released, and the results are stunning.

- <1% of people are less satisfied after HRT.
- The most common reason for detransition, pausing transition, or stopping transition is transphobia.

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"Doctors looked at my body, and couldn’t decide whether to mark M or F on my birth certificate. So instead of changing the form, they tried to change my body.

"What I experienced is the opposite of gender-affirming care; it's gender enforcement...

"I deserved to make those decisions for myself."