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“No right is safe in the new legal regime the Court creates.” –Justice Sonia Sotomayor.

One of the most chilling sentences I have ever read.

So am I reading this court decision correctly? We now have 50 micronations with their own laws interpreting the U.S. Constitution wholly separate from one another? But there's one guy with private law enforcement who is immune from all punishment who can do whatever he wants in those 50 states?

Why Are Federal Agents Wearing Masks? It’s a Threat to American Democracy Masked Federal Agents Are Undermining Trust—and Democracy

If you need a mask to enforce the law, you don’t deserve a badge.
Federal agents are snatching people off the streets—faces covered, names hidden.
This isn’t safety. It’s secrecy.
It’s not America.

adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/why-are-fe...

Criminalizing pregnancy: A record number of women were prosecuted the year after Dobbs They were targeted for substance use, miscarriages, and stillbirths, largely driven by fetal personhood laws.

Today marks the third anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.

What's happened since?

A record number of women have been prosecuted. Pregnancy loss is now considered extremely suspicious, even when it has nothing to do with abortion.

Journalist searched and detained at US airport CBP searched an Australian journalist’s phone. He noted he was questioned over materials in his blog, social media posts, and reporting

🚨 ATTN: Journalists crossing through a U.S. border 🚨

Alongside @eff.org, we now have an extensive guide on preparing your devices for travel through a U.S. border, including a digital security checklist and additional resources.

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She called 911 to report domestic abuse. Then Houston police called ICE on her. The woman’s case is a worst-case scenario, according to advocates worried about the worsening state of domestic violence in the Houston region.

Houston police called ICE on a woman who called 911 to report domestic abuse by her ex-husband.

The only reason she didn't get deported is because ICE said there was no one to take custody of her kids, according to the police report. www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

Folks, it’s free. Learn. Please.

They’re planning on building a detention center for migrants in the middle of the fetid swamps of Florida.

If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.

Favorite sign from Wichita, KS, today.

Former appointee of Tim Walz sought in ‘politically motivated assassination’ of Minnesota lawmaker and husband days after she voted with GOP as cops reveal disturbing manifesto A former appointee of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is being sought in connection with the assassination of a state lawmaker and the shooting of another, police sources said.

Notice how they select one very particular piece of evidence to feature in their headline (“former appointee of Tim Walz”), signaling to their readers which frame they should select to interpret these events through (“the left did it”): nypost.com/2025/06/14/u...

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Look at Trump’s Truth Social post. Consider his call with Newsom. He is incoherent, insane. Failure of corporate press to say that every day as he is taking us down the road to a police state is the gravest journalistic malpractice in American history. They will never redeem themselves.

June 11, 2025 A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.

In case you don't know already the best way to start your day running is to subscribe in your phone's podcast app to the most concise pertinent bullet points of the current zeitgeist to hear @hcrichardson.bsky.social read Letters From An American

Abrego Garcia is the test case.

@timothysnyder.bsky.social is 1000% correct here.

We knew exactly what this administration was going to do because it was written in Project 2025.

Folks can be surprised at how quickly it has moved, but no one can act like they didn't know.

what a horrible feeling it is to pay taxes to this infernal country

A tweet by Max Burns (@themaxburns ) reads: "From the U.S. Holocaust Museum: 'What distinguishes a concentration camp from a prison (in the modern sense) is that it functions outside of a judicial system. The prisoners are not indicted or convicted of any crime by judicial process.' Welp."

Never forget.

"you know what I love the most, cock energy." - Diana Taurasi

#ncaawbb #thegoat

Robert Wolf on Fox News: "This big beautiful economy that actually was rolling pretty good with jobs and inflation coming down feels more like the Game of Thrones red wedding. I mean, it's not going well."

Find Your Voting Locations | WISDEMS Voter Protection Team This searchable map shows you early voting and dropbox info for hundreds of villages, towns, and cities across Wisconsin. Enter the address you're registered at and your options will pop up!

If you're in Wisconsin, please know that Judge Susan Crawford will protect YOUR rights and freedoms. Find your polling place and make a plan to vote tomorrow: vote.wisdems.org

She is!

This Kansas State - Kentucky game!!!

#ncaaw

Kansas State’s Temira Poindexter is the first player other than Caitlin Clark to make 8 or more 3’s in an #NCAAW Tournament game since 2018

Same. Pin this feed, it should help

How to play States Against Humanity the March Madness tournament where we, a group of trauma-bonded strangers, decide which state is worst for our humanity.

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It's come to my attention that some people believe you can't buy a new book until you've read the books you already have. Let me assure you, as both a lawyer and a writer, that this idea is legally and morally WRONG and BAD. Buy more books.

Henry Morris posted this recently

Russian attack on Dobropillia in Donetsk Oblast kills 11, injures 30 as region declares day of mourning Russian forces launched multiple strikes on Dobropillia late on March 7, damaging at least four apartment buildings.

⚡️ Donetsk Oblast declares day of mourning after Russian attack that killed 11 people.

Ukraine's Donetsk Oblast declared a day of mourning after the Russian attack on Dobropillia on March 7 that killed 11 people and 30 seven, the local administration announced.

If the men's teams don't have to play on that ugly optical illusion court, they should file a Title IX violation. 🤢 #BigXII #BigXIIWomen