More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Inflation is so bad these days that taking a $50,000 cash bribe can't even get you indicted. SAD!! Thank you for your attention to this matter.
AOC responds to the Tom Homan story.
An Israeli strike on a meeting of Hamas officials in Qatar has cast a cloud of growing concern across Turkey that it could be the next target With @andywilks61.bsky.social apnews.com/article/hama...
"This is not the action of someone that's doing something legal or that they're proud of" -- Duckworth says the Trump administration locked the doors and "fled the base" when she and other Democrats went to visit Great Lakes Naval Base
BREAKING: Judge Charles Breyer finds that the Trump administration violated the Posse Comitatus Act by using the military for domestic law enforcement purpose in Los Angeles. He enjoins further violations of the Posse Comitatus Act ⬇️ storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Close to 200 people showed up today on fairly short notice for a silent vigil for Kilmar Albrego Garcia and all immigration detainees at the intersection of the road leading to Farmville Detention Center where they are held.
BREAKING: Judge Sooknanan has now expanded her restraining order as she attempts to block ongoing efforts to remove hundreds of Guatemalan children, which their lawyers say are currently underway. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
We've launched a new D.C. campaign demanding that federal agents take off their masks — because public servants should face the public. Our posters and mobile billboard will be blanketing the District, demanding accountability.
National Guard soldiers called into service for President Trump's law enforcement surge in D.C. have been assigned to spread mulch at federal monuments. Normally the Park Service does that, but the administration laid off the workers. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Netanyahu knows they f*cked up by bombing a hospital twice, killing rescue workers live on air after killing journalists.
Sounds like a certain cranky little boy is badly in need of a nap.
Naps are great. From an experienced mom’s perspective, a certain cranky little boy is badly in need of one.
Fact-check: true
Newsom: "He's a failed president. Who else sends ICE at the same time we're having a conversation like this? Someone who's weak. Someone who's broken. Someone whose weakness is masquerading as strength."
Here is the chart showing the growth of reported protest over time, 2025 vs. 2017, referenced in the piece below.
George Conway on Trump: "What we have here isn't traditional conservatism, it isn't traditional republicanism, it is authoritarianism. But I think a better word for it, gangsterism... We don't have Ronald Reagan anymore. We have Tony Soprano."
HUGE. The first major court victory involving conditions of confinement at ICE field offices. The judge bars detention in any cell which isn't: - Restricted by capacity - Has mats for people to sleep on overnight - Is cleaned 3 times a day - Provides hygiene supplies - Offers free legal calls
👀 Again: wild that neither Hegseth or Trump (or @marshablackburn ) have been asked about this
BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: Senator Whitehouse asked the BOP for Ghislaine Maxwells sex offender waiver, custody level, transfer code, and security point score. I have them. She's also been granted the ability to leave the facility for work assignments. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...
Israel targets and kills Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif as toll worsens on Gaza journalists apnews.com/article/mide...
An entire news crew working for Al Jazeera was killed by Israel as they sought to bring the world firsthand reporting from #Gaza. Among them was prominent journalist Anas Al-Sharif, who had been previously smeared and threatened by the IDF. #NotATarget Full statement: cpj.org/2025/08/isra...
Because I am angry I will share this again. One of the reasons that Israel is able to target individuals so precisely is that it collects every phone call in Gaza and stores the recordings in Microsoft Azure, then uses AI to analyze and pick targets.
This is what the IDF’s typical current operations in Gaza look like—troops providing overwatch for busy demolition crews. The signature Israeli weapon of the Gaza war is no longer the US-manufactured 2,000-pound bomb, as it was in earlier phases, but the US-manufactured earthmover.
Interfaith meeting on immigration reform held
Awdah Hathaleen, a well-known Palestinian activist whose work was featured in the Oscar-winning documentary “No Other Land,” was shot and killed by an Israeli settler in the West Bank, according to witnesses.
In a new statement, Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) says he's done supporting any aid to Israel amid Gaza's nutrition and humanitarian crisis. "My litmus test will be simple: no aid of any kind as long as there are starving children in Gaza due to the action or inaction of the Israeli government.”
Is this Gaza’s ‘bomb the tracks’ moment? With Gaza’s annihilation in plain sight, the question is what can compel global intervention to end Israel's genocide — and what form it will take. Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man www.972mag.com/gaza-genocid...
VIDEO: 🇮🇱 🇵🇸 Israeli activists march to denounce food shortages in Gaza Israeli activists march in Tel Aviv with sacks of flour to denounce the ongoing food shortages in the Gaza Strip #AFPVertical
UVA Faculty fights back rejecting action by Board of Visitors and government interference in university governance. www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
Former Head Start director here - this is appalling. I see that a number of other critical services that help people become more self-sufficient, including mental health and substance abuse treatment, are included in the reclassification.
Syria’s government and Kurds still at odds over merging forces US envoy Tom Barrack told @apnews.com that there was no breakthrough after high-level SDF-Damascus talks today apnews.com/article/syri...
The Catholic Church is authorizing parishioners to indefinitely skip Mass out of fear of ICE raids😕
Public land selloff is OUT of the Big Beautiful Bill, as the parliamentarian rules it not compliant with the Byrd rule. Several other sections also killed:
This is not about the merits of Iran’s nuclear program. No president has the authority to bomb another country that does not pose an imminent threat to the US without the approval of Congress. This is an unambiguous impeachable offense.
Breaking : In a tense phone call on Thursday, Israeli officials told the Trump administration they do not want to wait 2 weeks for Iran to reach a deal to dismantle key parts of its nuclear program and Israel could act alone before the deadline is up. www.reuters.com/world/middle...
This.
In a park overlooking Damascus, 25-year-old Khaldoun Hallak has spent the past few evenings with his friends, drinking yerba mate, snacking on nuts, smoking hookah pipes and watching the sky for missiles streaking overhead apnews.com/article/iran...
BREAKING: A federal judge in Massachusetts (the Reagan-appointed William Young) has declared the Trump administration's cuts to NIH grants — ostensibly over Trump's EOs on gender ideology and DEI — are "illegal" and "void." He's ordering many grants restored.
So, if the US goal is a deal, not sure that the US track record of negotiating a deal, signing it, pulling out of it, seeking to negotiate it again but actually using the negotiations as a cover for an attack is going to build confidence in the likelihood we'll keep our word.
Padilla: “We will hold this administration accountable”
BREAKING: Gov. Newsom is asking for a restraining order on Trump/Hegseth's use of the military in Los Angeles, saying they are preparing to go on immigration raids with ICE. He wants a ruling within two hours. "They must be stopped immediately." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Jeffries: "We will not be lectured by Donald Trump and anyone in the Republican Party about issues of law and order ... he pardoned hundreds of violent felons, criminals, who brutally assaulted police officers and attacked the Capitol on January 6. That's what Donald Trump did on day one."
No, Trump Voters Did Not Vote for This www.emptywheel.net/2025/06/09/n...
1/ If accurate, this is almost certainly a conflict with the Posse Comitatus Act, which prohibits the use of the military for domestic law enforcement, including the National Guard if they are federalized.
Many undocumented immigrants who went to ICE check-in appointments at a federal building in L.A. this week were taken into custody, brought to the basement and held there, lawyers and family members say.
BREAKING: Israel strikes Beirut's southern suburbs on the eve of Eid al-Adha holiday, saying it targeted Hezbollah drone production.
It's important to challenge this in the courts. It's also important to understand that Trump engages in performative behavior when he wants you to ignore something else he's doing. Don't look away.
Law enforcement officers should never cover their faces when making arrests or conceal their identities (unless they are working undercover). They work for us. We have a right to know who they are. These face coverings are frightening & unAmerican, as though they're ashamed of what they're doing.
Just call it the Self-Inflicted Wound Era, when we took a bunch of stuff that was working largely fine (vaccines, weather monitoring, friendly relations with like 175 countries, cancer research, renewable energy credits, the FAA, global trade, etc etc) and just broke them for giggles
In what is shaping up to be a huge day for democracy in the lower federal courts, at least, Judge Chutkan rules that the case against DOGE can proceed.
The best Memorial Day speech is only 271 words and wasn't delivered on Memorial Day, but on November 19, 1863. Read it carefully, it's the most important speech in American military history (and maybe all of American history).
The Israeli military is systematically using Palestinians as human shields in Gaza, several former detainees and soldiers tell the AP, though the practice is banned by a national court decision and international law.
Kristi Noem, our homeland security secretary, does not know a literally 1000-year-old core legal principle. Arguably the first, foundational legal principle of a free society.
Netanyahu vows to ‘take control’ of Gaza as UK, France and Canada threaten action against Israel
Placement of pedestrian bridge beams to cause traffic stoppages
It’s weird to live in a time when basic principles like cruelty is wrong, cheating is empty & the idea that curiosity, generosity, originality, the satisfaction of earned accomplishments & loving intimacy are the center of a good life feel like countercultural concepts
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This is what passes as a ‘ceasefire’ in sth #Lebanon, where there are near daily Israeli attacks without a word from US & French ceasefire monitors. UN peacekeepers have clocked more than 2,600 Israeli airspace violations, 1,400 military activities & more than 60 airstrikes during the ‘ceasefire'
Yes. We keep writing headlines that assign powers to the president that he does not have.
I hope everyone realizes that scrubbing historical exhibits from museums is no different from burning books. bsky.app/profile/adam...
Today, the World Food Programme stockpiles inside Gaza finally ran out, 54 days after the Israeli military banned aid supplies to the area. Unless Israel’s blockade is ended or broken, civilians in Gaza will eventually start dying of starvation in large numbers. www.wfp.org/news/wfp-run...
Trump and his administration have lost seven cases so far today.
Marriott’s CEO said it straight: “We welcome all… we create opportunities for all… that’s who we are as a company.” He went back to his hotel to find 40K emails from Marriott associates worldwide saying “thank you.” Plenty of CEOs talk. Capuano showed up. Marriott still has my business.
If someone is arguing against due process, just ask them if they believe someone is innocent until proven guilty. It's the same thing.
Van Hollen indicates he'll be looking into how/where Trump got the money to pay El Salvador given Congress had not appropriated funds for that purpose.
I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.
Boasberg gave the government a deadline of April 23 either to comply with his initial order or, alternatively, identify which members of the administration chose to defy his order. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/boasber...
Requiring REAL IDs and passports and birth certificates to vote?!? Imagine if these were required to buy a gun.
So much withering truth here
The Associated Press wins reinstatement to White House events after judge rules government can’t bar its journalists, citing the 1st Amendment.
Judge’s order to reinstate AP in White House press pool shows the importance of fighting lawless orders. It’s not just the rights of one that are at stake, it’s the rights of all.
Amazing. We lived in Oconomowoc briefly in the 1970s, in a cute apartment above a stationery shop
Thank you, Senator Booker!
BREAKING: I'm placing a hold on President Trump's nominee for U.S. Attorney in DC. For the past few weeks, Ed Martin has been a one-man wrecking ball. Threatening political opponents, firing public servants, and using his office to chill free speech. His nomination must be blocked.
"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥
How will the latest strikes between Israel and Lebanon affect a tenuous ceasefire? apnews.com/article/leba...
This is a very important point. Breathlessly vague headlines and summaries of these executive orders created for the executive powers it does not have. This kind of press contributed to authoritarian regime change.
Members of the Yemen Signal chat—including NatSec Advisor Michael Waltz and Chief of Staff Susie Wiles—left their Venmo accounts exposed, linking them to politicians, doctors, tailors, lobbyists, and each other. Experts say it a digital op-sec disaster. w/ @timmarchman.bsky.social
Holy shit. Republican Harriet Hagemen got torn apart at a town hall in Wyoming last night. In a state that voted for Trump by 46 points. She tried defending DOGE and it went as well as you’d imagine. “Deport Elon, Deport Elon!” Watch to the end…
You don’t know who we just disappeared to El Salvador. Think about that.
This is blatant defiance of the court order. It was NOT too late. When the judge issued is order, two planes were in the air, and a third took off from Texas AFTER the order.
Can’t emphasize this enough: if you’re feeling overwhelmed by the debased assault on our country, the antidote is connecting with other people in the flesh who are feeling the same way. There are millions of us.
An entire population deliberately cut off from *drinking water* at the height of Ramadan. A crime of unfathomable proportions.
She doesn't mention cloture specifically. But I think it's clear what Pelosi is saying here. And I think her saying it is a pretty big deal.
if Trump and his cronies are able to veto appropriations made by Congress, then we've already moved into a dictatorial system of government. Why would Democrats waste time negotiating spending deals if Trump can just rip them up after he signs them?
You can eliminate programs w/o altering legislation by adding burden. Make no mistake, this is exactly what they're doing to Social Security. They're cutting core administrative capacity required for people to actually apply for, and receive, benefits. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
A federal judge in NY has blocked any effort by the Trump administration to deport Mahmoud Khalil – whose arrest and imminent deportation Trump celebrated on Turth Social today — until further proceedings play out. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
this is precisely the issue. in the 2024 campaign, DEI meant aggressive policing of pronouns, land acknowledgements, trans sports, etc. It's now being used to mean basically everything under the heading of anti-discrimination and civil rights going back to late 1950s.
Whitehouse: "I see the VP and the president acting very directly as agents of Putin and Russia in these so-called negotiations. Imagine if FDR had told Winston Churchill, 'We're cutting off Lend-Lease, you have to negotiate with Hitler, and be prepared to give up some of your territory.'"
This is essentially what he was impeached for the first time.
An important statement from the American Bar Association. www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...
IMPORTANT: Social Security's ability to deliver checks, especially for disability SOC SEC but also for retirement SOC SEC checks will be severely impacted by the gutting of the agency which kicked off yesterday. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/memo-...
BREAKING: A federal judge just blocked Donald Trump's executive order pausing the US Refugee Admissions Program saying it appeared to "cross the line" into "nullification of congressional will."
A moment of shame. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Associated Press sues Trump officials over barred access for not using ‘Gulf of America’
🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS sweeping nationwide injunction against Trump DEI executive orders finding that they violate First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. A huge victory for @democracyforward.org and its clients. A stinging loss for Trump. Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.
