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Tried watching your show again & remembered why I stopped. WTF at you maniacally laughing when people are going to be hurt by the shutdown? You are a grown man/journalist(?) Act like one! And Brendan Buck, the voice of reason? And Claire? 🤦🏻‍♀️

Brilliant and powerful piece by my friend @willbunch.bsky.social. A must read:

KAT ABUGHAZALEH Illinois congressional candidate was thrown to the ground by armed troops during a peaceful protest outside Broadview ICE facility‼️If anyone threw a woman on the ground like that before 2025 they would be condemned, and arrested‼️

DOJ has now scrubbed its website of a study that found domestic terrorism is far more likely to come from the RIGHT than the LEFT. We need Democrats that are ready to counter this bullshit narrative from Sen Eric Schmitt (R-MO). They’re coming for freedom of speech, fight back‼️

Project 2026: Trump's plan to rig the next election From nationalizing voter suppression to flooding the streets with federal agents, the president and his allies are using all the tricks in the authoritarian playbook to tilt the midterms in their…

With the very real prospect of Republicans losing the midterms thanks to President Trump’s widely unpopular policies, he and his allies are already working to sway the ballot before a single vote is cast.

And they’re only just getting started.

EPA plans to end a program that makes solar power available to low-income Americans The Trump administration plans to end a $7 billion Biden-era program that helps low-income households get solar power.

The Trump administration plans to end a $7 billion Biden-era program that helps low-income households get solar power.

Why the Extremists Took Over on the Right Fear of a pluralizing America is fueling a radicalization out of a sense of weakness and besiegement

Some light evening reading - on the extremists who are in charge on the Right and the escalating siege mentality that has fueled their rise.

It’s a long piece - but it comes with an added audio version (read by me, not some AI garbage) to make it more accessible, hopefully.

‘Horrific’: report reveals abuse of pregnant women and children at US Ice facilities Report from senator Jon Ossoff’s office found 510 credible reports of human rights abuses since Trump’s inauguration

‘Horrific’: report reveals abuse of pregnant women and children at US Ice facilities | US immigration | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

U.S. measles cases reach 33-year record high as outbreaks spread Johns Hopkins University data reflects the public health reversal in defeating the vaccine-preventable disease since measles was officially eliminated from the U.S. in 2000.

The wages of ignorance is death.
U.S. measles cases reach 33-year record high as outbreaks spread www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

YouTube video by Democracy Docket "People Are Going to Die Because of This Bill" | Gov. JB Pritzker on Democracy, the GOP's Budget

I've known and admired J.B. Pritzker for years. He is a true warrior for democracy. I think you will enjoy watching this conversation as much as I did recording it. youtu.be/wwxFVHCTvAA

It's very obvious that the NYT has put people in editorial positions who view it as part of their job to upset the left. This is, in the bizarro, insular world of US elites, seen as a way to restore balance & regain the trust of the right.

Putting aside the merits of the larger effort ...

I read a lot of conservative media and have yet to see a profile of an able-bodied American who's sponging off taxpayers to get free medical care.

But we are told that are a lot of them are out there! So they shouldn't be hard to find!

Have any of you seen a credible piece along these lines?

The Supreme Court’s Birthright Citizenship Ruling Is a 5-Alarm Catastrophe In Trump v. CASA, the court hands the president yet more unaccountable authority—and yanks us into a neo-Confederate legal nightmare.

Reading @elienyc.bsky.social is always time well spent.

www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Why Did a 75-Year-Old Man in Poor Health Just Die in ICE Custody? Isidro Perez came to the United States from Cuba nearly 60 years ago. This is who Stephen Miller is going after now?

Just awful: A 75-year-old man just died in ICE custody, ICE has revealed in a notice to Congress.

But here's the rub: This man, a Cuban national, was first paroled into the US in 1966—nearly 60 years ago! They were set to deport him anyway.

Details in my new piece:
newrepublic.com/article/1974...

With this budget, ICE alone would have nearly as large a detention operation as all 50 states' prison systems combined. Bigger budget than the Marine Corps. Police-state levels of spending

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Canadian man awaiting deportation dies at detention facility in downtown Miami The cause of death for the 49-year-old man is still under official investigation.

Johnny Noviello moved from Canada to Daytona Beach when he was 10 years old. He grew up in Florida and became a lawful permanent resident.

On Monday, June 23, he died at the Federal Detention Center in downtown Miami, after six weeks in immigration detention.
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

How Trump Upended 60 Years of Civil Rights in Two Months

Be sure to sit down with @nhannahjones.bsky.social’s latest piece in the NYT magazine. It’s a sobering reality that we should be shouting from the rooftops. (Gift link)
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/m...

In Sudan, where children clung to life, doctors say USAID cuts have been fatal The Trump administration’s cuts to USAID had an immediate and deadly impact in war-ravaged Sudan, according to civilians, doctors and aid officials.

wapo.st/3GjK8qn This reporting needs to be repeated everyday. Policies of sociopaths. Don’t let anyone tell you differently.

Perhaps the most remarkable thing from the last few weeks is that is the official position of the White House and President that this bill does NOT cut Medicaid. And we all pretend somehow this is normal and that Trump remains fit to serve.

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Thank you @lindseyboylan.bsky.social ❤️

What are you even talking about? Yeah, dogs work for a reward…don’t you work for money? Detection dogs train hard, they know their job, and they don’t “fake it” for toys. I’m not a huge fan of police right now, but don’t make up shit about dogs, especially dogs trained in nose work.

Important point: rank all 5 slots to block Cuomo!

I feel like “Current Republican Speaker of the House threatens political opponent with third degree burns and torture” should get more media attention than it will

Don’t Fall For Elon Inc.’s Press Campaign We’re in the midst of a storm of articles — variously encomiums,...

As I note here, really zero reason to believe Elon is stepping away from anything. This is all a crisis comms campaign. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/dont-...

Yes! Only way I’ll go back. I boycotted before & found I didn’t need them. At this point…🤷🏻‍♀️