Penske rental company should face a boycott for participating in this

From a report today on @npr.org: People held at Alligator Auschwitz have no legal path out. ICE says they're held on state charges, so Federal immigration judges can't hear cases for bond or anything else. The state hasn't charged them, so state judges can't hear the case because there's no case. 1/

Thank you for referencing this classic Mr Show sketch

The US could see a 30-40% decline in new international student enrollment, resulting in nearly $7 billion in lost revenue and more than 60,000 fewer American jobs. https://www.nafsa.org/fall-2025-international-student-enrollment-outlook-and-economic-impact

Pretty sure he donates money to GBH, which if you’ve noticed in the very recent news cycle, is vital for GBH right now. He’s a sponsor, and on very rare occasions, comments on news topics.

Heads up: the Bureau of Labor Statistics also calculates the Consumer Price Index.

New: Ghislaine Maxwell was technically ineligible to be transferred from to a minimum-security federal prison camp-- and the Bureau of Prisons had to waive a rule to facilitate the move, according to public records and a federal prison expert. With @lawofruby.bsky.social

Devin Nunes loses his federal defamation lawsuit against NBCUniversal over a @maddow.msnbc.com segment: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Why shouldn’t she?

🤔 sounds like someone else we know

NEW: FEC records show Elizabeth Fago donated $1 million to MAGA Inc, the Trump super PAC, in April.

She attended a fundraising dinner with Trump at Mar-a-Lago on April 4.

She lobbied Trump to pardon her son, who had pleaded guilty to tax crimes.

3 weeks later, Trump issued the pardon.

Sean Combs' Allies Have Upped Pardon Talks. His Survivors Want to Shut Them Down Some Sean "Diddy" Combs’ survivors are in talks to send a letter to President Donald Trump urging him against the idea of pardoning the mogul.

New tonight for @rollingstone.com from @cheyenneroundtree.bsky.social and me: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Iranian president says country is on brink of dire water crisis Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian warned against excessive water consumption which he said was untenable for the country and could leave Tehran facing severe shortages by September, semi-official Tasnim news agency reported on Thursday.

This is looking disastrous.

Venezuelan men tell NBC News they experienced physical and psychological torture, including one man’s allegation that he was sexually assaulted, after the Trump administration sent them to a notorious prison in El Salvador. NBC News’ Didi Martinez reports.

Update for folks: Following a very large (M 8.7) and relatively shallow undersea subduction zone quake in the West Pacific east of Kamchatka, Russia, there is a considerable threat of a damaging basin-wide #tsunami. For late-breaking details, visit: https://tsunami.gov

Alvarez: “Tony’s production meeting was, I go & meet with these guys &then I go meet with these guys.He did these meetings thru the day & that was what he considered production meetings. Other people were like, thats not a production meeting. So of late, he actually is now doing production meetings”

Look, it’s a success and it’s great that it exists. But throwing hundreds of millions of dollars helps with that. The merch problems, the live venues problems, zero production meetings.. not remarkably well run.

You mean they’ve been doing live 2-hour nationwide tv productions for 5 years and they haven’t been doing production meetings?

New Hampshire Defies DOJ Push for Voter Data Read more here.

NEW: New Hampshire Secretary of State David Scanlan (R) has declined a request from the U.S. Department of Justice to turn over the state’s full statewide voter registration list, citing state law and cybersecurity concerns. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Fact Sheet: The United States and European Union Reach Massive Trade Deal MAKING GLOBAL HISTORY: Yesterday, President Donald J. Trump announced a trade deal with the European Union (EU), fundamentally rebalancing the economic

Believe it or not, the EU-US trade deal just got messier.

The White House has published a fact-sheet about the agreement with claims that directly contradict the European Commission's version of events.

Let's take a closer look.

Trump excludes 12 Louisiana chemical facilities from new EPA pollution rule • Louisiana Illuminator Trump issued what the White House labeled “regulatory relief for certain stationary sources to promote American chemical manufacturing security.”

Oh wow. Plants in "Cancer Alley" are huge emitters.
Trump excludes 12 Louisiana chemical facilities from new EPA pollution rule

Deaf, mute and terrified: ICE arrests DACA recipient and ships him to Texas Javier Diaz Santana, who is deaf and communicates using sign language, was swept up in a federal immigration raid at his job in Temple City. He could not communicate in handcuffs. His attorney says U....

A deaf man swept up in an L.A. ICE raid couldn’t speak, couldn’t hear — and couldn’t ask for help. His family had no idea where he was. This is how it happened

Greatest movie

‘Catastrophic’: Mass. lawyers say new ICE policy will deny immigrants due process, strain detention facilities - The Boston Globe A July 8 internal memo directs ICE officers to detain people who entered the country without permission for the duration of their deportation proceedings.

A recent Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo declaring millions of undocumented immigrants ineligible for bond hearings has left many Massachusetts immigration lawyers concerned that people with no criminal record will be sent to overcrowded detention facilities.

Good morning from LA County, where people don’t dare drop their kids off at day care. (From LA Times newsletter)

We Have to Stop Using Facebook and X to Warn People About Disasters In the early morning hours of July 4th, as the Guadalupe River reached catastrophic heights, city officials in Kerr County, Texas turned to an all-too familiar mechanism for getting the word out to ar...

It's terrible that so many local authorities primarily attempt to communicate to the public via Twitter and Facebook, even for emergency alerts.

A long read by @faineg.bsky.social

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DOGE Put Free Tax Filing Tool on Chopping Block After One Meeting With Lobbyists A key operative from DOGE initiated plans to potentially kill Direct File, the free tax filing tool developed by the IRS, after offering assurances it would be spared from cuts.

SCOOP: DOGE moved to kill Direct File, the IRS's popular free tax filing tool, days after meeting with private tax filing software lobbyists.
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