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Another campaign finance scandal emerging while we wait for the mayor to emerge is peak Adams administration
In another loss in the courts for Trump, a federal judge just blocked the administration from revoking legal status from hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans and Haitians in the United States. Judge Chen ruled that the termination of TPS exceeded the DHS Secretary’s authority and violated the law.
Hello! I'm conducting research on BIPOC communities throughout Central Illinois on their media intake and their trust/distrust of mainstream (predom white) news sources. if you are or know someone who'd be good to talk to please get in touch (could be a neighbor, parent, auntie, old school teacher)
NEW: A Texas mother recently became the first woman to sue for wrongful death of an embryo from abortion pills; past cases had aggrieved male partners suing. But in a wild counterclaim, the Marine she accused of “drugging” her hot chocolate says she made it all up and there was no coercion
Firefighting veterans believe the management team overseeing fire crews played a key role in handing team members over to immigration authorities, shares Stateline. buff.ly/CicG9BT
things you don't ever expect to see in print "It is unusual for federal border agents to make arrests during the fighting of an active fire, especially in a remote area." www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Especially nausea-inducing to hear updates on a school shooting on the car radio as you drop your own kids off at school
ok i did not think i'd actually get an answer to this
do you think the officials in the cabinet meeting know that taylor swift is engaged
meghan and i have been saying this
New from @iamleslierangel.bsky.social and me: Rep. Nicole Collier spent the night held hostage in the Texas House. Then four enraged women — many of them mothers — refused to leave her side overnight. The slept in jail; are banned from Capitol grounds for a year. thebarbedwire.com/2025/08/19/h...
thank god we've got Fire It Up www.youtube.com/watch?v=-172...
LAPD’s liability settlements are defunding the budget to the point that the city can’t find $1 million to cover legal services for immigrants. www.latimes.com/california/n...
feeling validated that i wasn't the only one struggling to find it at first
The White House Twitter feed is now basically the old “black crime” tab from mid-2010s Breitbart. The editor of Breitbart back then was Steve Bannon, and a young senate staffer named Steven Miller was feeding him content from white nationalist sites. www.splcenter.org/resources/gu...
What Hangs In The Balance? "The federal government wants a display of military force so great that any lawful opposition to their agenda is effectively silenced" www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Military "showing force" at the very same site where Japanese Americans were rounded up for incarceration during WWII.
All police gone now. Everyone out here claps. "See y'all tomorrow!" shouts one guy to a few weak laughs.
back to asking ppl where they were on Jan. 6 www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...
are all the backlot Oval Offices going to have to add the gold knicknacks and wall appliques now too
is anyone out there still brat? can The Cut interview them
listening to brat and feeling like i've aged 1,000 years since last summer
NEW: We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims officers use a “minimum amount of force.” You can judge for yourself. By @nicolefoy.bsky.social @mckenziefunk.com
NEW FOIA Files SCOOP: The FBI redacted Trump’s name—and the names of other prominent public figures—from the Epstein files under two privacy exemptions before DOJ & FBI concluded “no further disclosure” of the files “would be appropriate or warranted.” www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
“In the past few weeks, longtime allies of the rap mogul have approached…operatives, lobbyists, and others with close ties to Trumpland and government officials, offering to pay them large sums of money if they agreed to help with a potential Trump pardon, three people familiar with the matter” say…
Karen Read wants her SUV back: people.com/karen-read-w...
The terror began immediately. Salvadoran guards beat them with their fists, boots and batons, shot them with rubber pellets, and forced them to lick other men's backs. What happened when we sent 230+ Venezuelans to a prison known for human rights abuses. www.propublica.org/article/vene...
Trump's US Atty in LA has moved to dismiss: -a case against a Trump donor accused of carrying out a $47m “sham loan” scheme -the case against an LASD deputy already convicted at trial & sentenced for throwing a Black woman to the ground in a parking lot www.latimes.com/california/s...
as someone who is really sick of annoying people moving to Texas because it's the based state, i had a lot of fun writing about how Joe Rogan's friends all seem to hate living in Austin: www.chron.com/culture/cele...
"how many tickets to bail chuck e cheese out" ended me: www.huffpost.com/entry/chuck-...
MY LATEST @latimes.com COLUMNA: A new iteration of Taco María opens, in an unlikely place. Share, porfas!
i've been informed i'm on my 5-year-old's "not being good" list, along with his little brother and ... Shohei Ohtani
a privately owned fighter jet going from El Paso to Oxnard is quite a vibe www.cnn.com/2025/07/25/u...
NEW: our profile of Gregory Bovino, the Border Patrol official running the immigration raids on the streets of Los Angeles, and what his role portends for next phase of Trump's propaganda-driven deportation campaign @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
it's july
To the tune of De Colores: 🎶 innnnnndoor voices
the moment Ysqueibel Yonaiquer Peñaloza Chirinos reunited with his family after 125 days in CECOT, shared with me and @mattshuham.bsky.social by his mom, Ydalys Chirinos-Polanco
Here you go internet. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Wastewater from Alcatraz currently gets sent off the island by boat to San Francisco. If Trump turns it into a prison, the city could try to block shipments.
i found myself thinking "gee what happened to Alex Acosta" earlier this week and well! ir.newsmax.com/news/news-de...
Discovered I've still got press releases in my inbox about Trump's Sharpie drawings selling at auction, but sure, he doesn't draw pictures www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
“I never wrote a picture in my life.” bsky.app/profile/jswe...
welp i'll never look at donald trump's signature the same way again www.wsj.com/politics/tru...
New: Tried to take a step back to look at how/why the Epstein story is bigger than a conspiracy theory & why it might be one of the few events that cant be pushed out of the news cycle. What happens next will tell us a lot about who has power to redirect attention www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
just looping back on this october 2024 warning and yep we have ticked through them all
Judge Orders Trump Admin To Stop Rounding People Up Based On Skin Color In Southern California www.huffpost.com/entry/ap-us-...
Update: The Border Patrol agent charged with drunkenly attacking a Long Beach cop while off duty was involved in the controversial arrest of a U.S. citizen last month. www.latimes.com/california/s...
the Shoreline Village parking lot, iykyk
An off-duty Border Patrol agent is accused of drunkenly entering women's bathroom with a gun at a restaurant in Long Beach, then resisting arrest, the LA County DA's office says: da.lacounty.gov/media/news/d...
Hearing from UFW spokesperson just now that this man has died.
Feds just threw tear gas at protesters so they’d clear the road for a US Marshals bus carrying people they arrested at the farm
Greetings! I’m at the US Courthouse in Los Angeles, CA with @melbuer.bsky.social . We are here to cover a suit filed by (among others) immigrant rights groups, several cities to enjoin DHS’ “flouting the Constitution and federal law in connection with ongoing immigration raids” in the LA area.
The spirit of BuzzFeed News lives on in this story by @paginaskinner.bsky.social, always so fun to dive deep into the silly little videos that flash by in our social feeds (which actually have a lot to say about the world we live in) www.huffpost.com/entry/dallas...
Marqueece Harris-Dawson, said if Border Patrol wants to film in LA, “you should apply for a film permit like everybody else. And stop trying to scare the bejesus out of everybody who lives in this great city and disrupt our economy every day.” www.huffpost.com/entry/ap-us-...
one of the hersey's bars i bought for Fourth of July s'mores lol
yes! i clicked in out of horror and then was like "...wait" www.cnn.com/2025/07/02/h...
At the stage of watching a House vote on CSPAN where I'm sure some of these representatives are made up
listen, i love hot dogs but "as little as one hot dog per day" is still quite a lot of hot dogs
It’s hard to convey the scope of pain that will hit Americans if the GOP's “Big Beautiful Bill” becomes law. The rich get richer The poorest get kicked down ICE detaining American kids Clean energy jobs are toast Student loans are harder to get An assault on American life tinyurl.com/3y6d3y4k
A federal judge is keeping this man in jail to protect him from the federal government.
I obtained this from a community member minutes after arriving on scene following a raid at the Cypress Park Home Depot this morning. they detained day laborers.
Unless something dramatic happens in the interim, a birth certificate will no longer be sufficient to prove the citizenship of any child born in much of the United States after July 27.
Sotomayor is reading from her dissent. "No right is safe in the new legal regime the Court creates."
Every case that used to seek a nationwide injunction will now have to pursue their lawsuit as a class action in order to address the horrific impact of this SCOTUS ruling this morning.
NEW: ICE carried out arrests at an L.A. courthouse this week, a long derided tactic many fear will chill witnesses from coming forward. Court officials say they were "absolutely blindsided." My latest: www.latimes.com/california/s...
Liver King getting arrested really makes me miss BuzzFeed News
Things are looking pretty good for the guy who represents the All in the Family neighborhood (woah), and the Search Party crew is all for it, but mr gossip girl is lurking and the Seinfeld gang could blow it all up any minute
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...
When ICE agents targeted day laborers at the Home Depot in Hollywood, they focused on people with darker skin, one man told the LA Times www.latimes.com/california/s...
NEW: "Where is the outrage over Skrmetti?" On the far right's campaign to create uncertainty over gender-affirming medical care for minors — and the powerful institutions that helped along the way. Tonight, at Law Dork, my written equivalent of a direct-to-camera address.
www.huffpost.com/entry/cecot-...
“Rioting… protesting… whatever it is your bus is going to be late okay”
Families of people who were detained by ICE in immigration raids say they haven't been able to make contact with their loved ones or even find out where many of them are being held.
“Trump is using military forces to stop a protest — I want y'all to consider what kind of government it appears to be when every time we exercise our democratic right to protest, the military is deployed against us.” Doechii at the #BETAwards
If you're looking to background any LA sheriff's deputies this week to see if they have a history of bad behavior, here is a searchable collection I made of all the disciplinary and use of force (SB 1421/ SB16) records LASD has released so far: journaliststudio.google.com/pinpoint/sea...
"Being brown, being Black, being asian, looking like an immigrant does not make you criminal. We are human beings. We have families." @chirla-org.bsky.social reports 45 people detained in random sweeps at day labor sites across LA today
An American citizen and Los Angeles native, @seiucalifornia @seiuusww President David Huerta was injured and detained when ICE terrorized a working neighborhood. We demand his immediate release!
"Unrelated to this" case is doing a lot of work here.
NEW (but not): DOJ/DHS/State *still* have nothing to report in the J.O.P. case on the whereabouts of Cristian, removed without his asylum claim having been adjudicated in violation of a court-approved settlement agreement. Here is today’s declaration: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
i'm very proud of my loud son
if there was a world's loudest baby award, he'd be a contender
The 18-month-old has discovered acoustics. Now he scampers into every available tunnel, alcove and service entrance to emit the most joyful, piercing shrieks. It sounds like an emergency but he's just testing the room tone (or echolocating?)
what a news day to be out of diet coke
Before landing at DHS, 22-year-old Fugate worked on the Trump campaign and interned at The Heritage Foundation. According to his LinkedIn, the bulk of his leadership experience comes from having served as secretary general of a Model UN club. New: @hannahallam.bsky.social @propublica.org
...oooooooh
AP really outdid themselves with this thumbnail: www.huffpost.com/entry/ap-us-...
If nothing else, your reporting made me think twice about also getting that tattoo
RFK's decision to no longer recommend COVID vaccines for healthy children and pregnant women is gonna make it harder for *everyone* to get vaccines + could to lead to scary health problems for babies, kids and pregnant people, warned a key public health expert. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
A good part of friendship in your late 30s is just messaging people how you can't believe their kids are so big
NEW: Andrew Cuomo is mounting a stunning political comeback despite 12 women accusing him of sexual harassment just 3 years ago. I spoke with several of the women whose claims were substantiated by three investigations. They feel betrayed & forgotten. www.huffpost.com/entry/andrew...
almost added a BBW tag to a story on Trump's "big beautiful bill" by mistake, how's your night going
Today, instead of spending his time focusing on international relations, the health of the country or, I don’t know, grocery prices, Trump posted about the “lack-of-hotness” of a pop star. www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...
“Earlier this week, The Onion ran a piece headlined “Sean Combs Asks for Quick Trial So He Can Get to Part Where Trump Pardons Him.” It may be on to something.” www.rollingstone.com/music/music-... By @cheyenneroundtree.bsky.social and me
This Could Be The End Of America As We Know It I spoke to a host of legal experts and they warned of the very real chaos that could ensue if the Supreme Court rolls over for the Trump administration. I hope you will read and share: www.huffpost.com/entry/this-c...
There's a pipeline that goes from birth control skepticism --> MAHA --> MAGA 19thnews.org/2025/05/birt...
gotta be the first pope who conceivably has tried malort
Ok Chicago people are never gonna let us hear the end of this, I say this with love
For every doll you deny me I will push another jet off an aircraft carrier
AP notes that Diddy's hair and goatee were almost fully gray today in court; hair dye is not allowed in the federal jail where he's being held
"Despite the administration’s claims, many of the immigrants sent to El Salvador had entered the United States legally and were actively complying with U.S. immigration rules." www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...