Stephen Miller vs. #ICE: The fight within the #Trump admin over who to deport.
Miller doesn’t just want ICE to grab illegal immigrants who have done crimes.
The quota of apprehending 3000 people per day should include the law abiding too.
#Canada’s new fentanyl ‘czar’ says the border bill will help in fight against drug and his US counterparts are pleased.
The #Trump admin had used the ‘Emergency’ of Fentanyl from Canada as the reason to impose tariffs.
Canada is actually thought to be source of less than 1% of US #Fentanyl.
https://globalnews.ca/news/11239631/fentanyl-czar-canada-border-bill/
FYI this is some kerazy f⁕⚠︎ed up shit
#TulsiGabbard #fires leaders of #intelligence group that wrote #Venezuela assessment
[because, facts]
The director of national intelligence [#DNI] fired top officials weeks after their group authored an assessment contradicting #Trump’s #legal rationale for #deporting alleged Venezuelan gang members.
#law #immigration #AlienEnemiesAct #FactCheck #TrumpLies
https://wapo.st/4kjboU8
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi sold between $1 million and $5 million worth of Trump Media stock the same day Trump unveiled new tariffs that caused the stock market to plummet, according to records obtained by ProPublica.
#News #Trump #StockMarket #Stocks #Tariffs #Economy #USPolitics
#Trump says he could bring back #KilmarAbregoGarcia, an #immigrant his admin wrongly deported to the infamous #CECOT prison in #ElSalvador. But he won’t, despite #SCOTUS’ order to “facilitate” the return of Abrego Garcia, who was deported unlawfully in the first place.
by Adam Serwer
#law #immigration #FactCheck #TrumpLies #DueProcess #SeparationOfPowers #AbuseOfPower
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/05/trump-abrego-garcia-smears/682773/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxXUvK2gAhWVb3xi8qi5xPpA
The #GOP’s New #Medicaid Denialism
Unable to defend their #healthcare #cuts on the merits, congressional #Republicans have pivoted to magical thinking.
Republicans in #Congress claim to have achieved something truly miraculous. Their One Big Beautiful Bill Act, they argue, would cut nearly $800B from Medicaid spending over 10yrs without causing any Americans to lose #health care—or, at least, without making anyone who loses health care worse off.
#law #Trump
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/06/medicaid-cuts-tax-bill/683018/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxehuZomZV-OE0U-cMvwG0vA&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
The OECD has slashed its outlook for global output as Donald #Trump's trade war saps momentum in leading economies— Financial Times
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/oecd-us-economic-forecast-trump-tariffs-2025-2026/
Staff of #FEMA were left baffled on Monday after #DavidRichardson, the head of the US disaster agency since May, said during a briefing that he had not been aware the country has a #HurricaneSeason, acc/to 4 sources familiar w/the situation.
The US #hurricane season officially began on Sunday & lasts through November. #NOAA forecast last week that this year's season is expected to bring as many as 10 #hurricanes.
#Trump #idiocracy #ClimateCrisis #Climate #ExtremeWeather
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fema-staff-confused-after-head-said-he-was-unaware-us-hurricane-season-sources-2025-06-02/
Keep 'em coming. #UnionStrong
Via Kyle Griffin:
Reuters: U.S. JUDGE BLOCKS #TRUMP ADMINISTRATION FROM CANCELING UNION BARGAINING FOR 50,000 TRANSPORTATION SECURITY OFFICERS
#KilmarAbregoGarcia's latest legal brief roasts #Trump's "shocking proposition" that officers can "snatch residents of this country & deposit them in foreign prisons in admitted violation of federal law" — & no US court can do anything about it.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815.176.0.pdf
#law #immigration #Rendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #SeparationOfPowers #AbuseOfPower
The #Trump admin says Secy of #State #MarcoRubio is "personally handling" discussions with #ElSalvador over the return of wrongly deported migrants.
He has a "personal relationship" with #Bukele that dates to his time on #ForeignRelations Cmte.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.457483/gov.uscourts.mdd.457483.290.1.pdf
#immigration #law #DueProcess #AlienEnemiesAct #CivilRights #HumanRights
Crap.
Via Kyle Cheney:
#Trump wins the appeals court lottery in D.C.
The panel hearing emergency appeals this month appears to be: Rao, Katsas, Walker.
All three are Trump appointees — in fact the only Trump appointees on the DC Circuit.
They are handling one of the key tariff appeals.
“Young, an 84-year-old jurist appointed by Ronald Reagan, said that the manner of #RumeysaOzturk’s arrest seemed unusual to him.
“‘I’m not accustomed to … law enforcement officers without identification, approaching individuals masked and you know, not having a warrant…’”
#law #immigration #StateSponsoredAbduction #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #Trump #AbuseOfPower
https://www.allrisenews.com/p/aaup-rubio-trial
It’s the #LibraryOfCongress.
But #Trump claims it’s his.
Trump’s new target in his campaign to expand #ExecutivePower: the Library of Congress. Never mind the name—admin attys are now arguing the main #research #library of the #legislative branch doesn’t belong to #Congress at all.
A #legal push to claim the Library as executive turf isn’t a one-off. It’s the latest move in a broader effort by Trump…to erase the…lines that separate the branches of govt.
#law
https://wapo.st/4dQh5Hm
😳🤦🏻♀️
Via Maddow:
#trump's department of homeland security has thus far arrested:
a judge
a democratic mayor
a democratic congresswoman
now handcuffing a democratic congressional staffer
From the Creator of ‘#Succession,’ a Satire of #Tech’s #FarRight
…“Succession” creator Jesse Armstrong…new movie, “#Mountainhead,” …He wrote the script, about grandiose, nihilistic tech #oligarchs holed up in a mountain mansion in Utah, in Jan & Feb, as a very similar set of oligarchs was coalescing behind #Trump’s inauguration. Then he shot the film, his first, over 5 wks this spring. It premieres on Sat on #HBO.
#broligarchy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/26/opinion/succession-mountainhead-tech.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=F1B636B4-CB53-4955-B261-4829BC8C52DD
With each passing day, the #unitedstates sinks deeper in the #cesspool of an egregiously #corrupt #fascist #authoritarian #state. #Rights are mere illusions under #Trump.
According to Vox, Trump has asked #SCOTUS to disregard the Convention Against Torture.
https://www.vox.com/scotus/416163/trump-supreme-court-deport-immigration-convention-torture
#news #uspol #hellscape #america #thisis2025 #torture #deportation #wtf
"Comfortable."
COMFORTABLE striking a nuke facility.
So glad he's so comfy. I'm not.
Yashar Ali:
BREAKING via ABC NEWS
“#Trump is getting comfortable with the idea of taking out Iran's Fordo nuclear facility. It would not be just one strike on the facility, it would be several. There is now a movement to get ready for this.”
"Just for clarification, there is no such thing as a white South African refugee. And the Episcopal Church is well aware of that fact. Because there is nothing that a white South African needs to be refuged from. ...
South Africa's wealth distribution is heavily influenced by race, with white South Africans historically and currently holding a disproportionate share of wealth."
~ Keith Owens
"During the EXCLUSIVE telephone interview, the senior #Trump transition team insider explained that President Trump is determined “to make #theInternet serve America first”, emphasizing the word “first”.
The transition team insider then added that President Trump is considering many different actions to deliver on this, including a Presidential Executive Order."
Of the 238 men deported to the prison in El Salvador, DHS data shows:
• 130 had no U.S. criminal histories aside from immigration violations;
• 32 had been convicted of crimes in the U.S.;
• 6 of those were violent crimes.
#News #ElSalvador #Venezuela #Deportation #Trump #Immigration #Crime #Data
When Trump took office, the administration set up a tip line for employees to identify and assist in slashing programs focused on diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility.
Not one of the EPA’s more than 15,000 employees used it, ProPublica learned via a public records request.
https://www.propublica.org/article/epa-diversity-initiatives-trump?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Hearing in #KilmarAbregoGarcia's case is underway with Judge #Xinis on the bench hearing arguments over whether the #Trump admin can invoke the #StateSecrets privilege [GMAFB] to withhold information about what it has done to facilitate #AbregoGarcia’s return to the #US [nada].
[via Anna Bower + my commentary]
🧵
#immigration #law #judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #AbuseOfPower #rendition #StateSponsoredAbduction
#SCOTUS maintains block on #Trump #deportations under wartime #law #AlienEnemiesAct
The US #SupremeCourt on Friday kept in place its block on Trump's deportations of #Venezuelan migrants under a 1798 law historically used only in wartime after their lawyers said the government was set to remove the men without #judicial review in #violation of a prior #CourtOrder by the justices.
#immigration #DueProcess #judiciary #SeparationOfPowers
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-supreme-court-maintains-block-trump-deportations-under-wartime-law-2025-05-16/
