#NoKings #Protest #Solidarity #Immigrants #MassDeportation #EndICE #StopICE #Project2025 #Trump #MAGA #ThisIsFascism #ThisIsWhatYouVotedFor #ElectionsHaveConsequences #SaveDemocracy #USConstitution #DueProcess #FirstAid #JustFollowingOrders #NationalGuard #AlligatorAuschwitz #OathToDefendTheConstitution #FreePress #LetsGoTaco
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#JDVance is traveling to #LosAngeles Friday to meet w/ #Marines & visit federal command centers.
Vance’s office did not release a reason for his visit. But #LA has been the epicenter of #protests against the #Trump admin’s #MassDeportation ops.
Trump deployed #NationalGuard troops to LA this month in response to the protests. #California sued for a #TRO to stop the deployment, but a federal appeals court ruled in Trump’s favor Thurs night while litigation continues.
https://apnews.com/live/donald-trump-news-updates-6-20-2025#00000197-8dc1-d631-a1ff-edf5548b0000
A #California #farmworker died on Friday from injuries sustained a day earlier when #US #immigration agents raided a cannabis operation & arrested hundreds of workers, according to a farmworker advocacy group.
Dozens of #ImmigrantRights activists faced off w/ #federal agents in rural Southern California on Thursday. It was the latest escalation of #Trump's campaign for #MassDeportations of immigrants in the US.
#law #HumanRights #ICE #Gestapo #PoliceBrutality
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/one-california-worker-dead-hundreds-arrested-after-cannabis-farm-raid-2025-07-11/
#politics #LGBT #LGBTQ #equality #cruelty #discrimination #trump #fascism #alt #canada #mentalhealth
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Via Anna Bower: 1/...
HAPPENING NOW: Judge Charles Breyer is presiding over a hearing in #Newsom v. #Trump -- the first hearing in the district court following the Ninth Circuit's order allowing Trump to mobilize the national guard in #California.
Judge Breyer starts by saying that the parties and the court need to decide how to move forward. (This was supposed to be a preliminary injunction hearing, but Ninth Circuit construed his initial TRO as a preliminary injunction and stayed it.)
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The IRS Is Building a Vast System to Share Millions of Taxpayers’ Data With ICE
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ProPublica has obtained the blueprint for the Trump administration’s unprecedented plan to turn over IRS records to Homeland Security in order to speed up the agency’s mass deportation efforts.
#News #Data #Privacy #ICE #Deportation #Immigration #IRS #Tax #Trump
To recap:
Via Kyle Cheney:
Judge BREYER.. #Newsom and DOJ to brief him on whether he still has authority to weigh #Trump's military deployment in #LosAngeles following the 9th Circuit's stay of his original order.
He seems to think there are aspects of the case still in his domain — like Posse Comitatus.
The story behind the arrest of 87-year-old #veteran #JohnSpitzberg at the Capitol
John Spitzberg joined a #veterans march at the National Mall on March 14 in Washington, DC. The 87-year-old veteran was #arrested June 13 at the US Capitol while protesting #Trump’s birthday parade spectacle.
#AmericanAutocracy #law #democracy #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #RightToProtest #dissent
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/20/nx-s1-5438406/john-spitzberg-veteran-arrest-trump-parade
“A #Florida judge sided with #Trump. Behind the scenes, he was lobbying for a nomination.
Ed Artau was already meeting with Senate staff about securing a nomination to the federal bench when he sided with Trump in a case”
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/20/ed-artau-trump-judge-nomination-florida-00415408
#DOJ fires 9 more employees from JackSmith's team
#US AG #PamBondi on Friday fired at least 9 more *#Justice* Dept employees who worked for Special Counsel #JackSmith to investigate #Trump's retention of #ClassifiedDocuments & efforts to overturn the 2020 election, according to 5 people familiar with the matter.
#law #MafiaState #authoritarianism #dictatorship #tyranny #AmericanAutocracy
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-justice-fires-nine-more-employees-jack-smiths-team-sources-say-2025-07-12/
A federal judge blocked the #Trump admin on Friday from making indiscriminate #immigration arrests in the #LosAngeles area & denying detainees the right to consult with a lawyer.…
The California judge granted 2 TROs in response to a lawsuit filed last week by immigrant advocacy groups. A fuller hearing is expected in the coming weeks, but the initial rulings represent a sharp rebuke of the tactics that federal agents have employed in & around #LA….
#law #ICE #Gestapo
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/us/immigration-raids-judge-injunction.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
"I have been on Truth Social to cover Trump since the first day it became active, and have read every post. The people on that platform are hardcore MAGA cultists who are typically intensely loyal. But his dismissive post on Epstein drew a tidal wave of angry responses like I have never seen before. So far, Trump has received over 45,000 replies, over 90% negative."
~ Ron Filipkowski
https://www.meidasplus.com/p/disillusioned-trump-fans-respond
Two-thirds of the #DOJ unit defending #Trump policies in court have quit
The #US *Justice* Department unit charged with defending against legal challenges to signature Trump administration policies - such as restricting birthright citizenship & slashing funding to Harvard University - has lost nearly two-thirds of its staff, according to a list seen by Reuters.
#law #lawless #felon47 #judiciary #RuleOfLaw #constitution
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/two-thirds-doj-unit-defending-trump-policies-court-have-quit-2025-07-14/
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Exclusive: #Putin, unfazed by #Trump, will fight on & could take more of #Ukraine
Putin intends to keep fighting in Ukraine until the West engages on his terms for *peace*, unfazed by Trump's threats of tougher #sanctions, & his territorial demands may widen as #Russia advances, 3 sources close to the Kremlin said.
#TrumpIsWeak #PutinsPuppet #geopolitics
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/putin-unfazed-by-trump-will-fight-could-take-more-ukraine-2025-07-15/
#EU tells #Trump to 'share the burden' of sending Patriots to #Ukraine
U.S. president has said Europe should pay for the missile systems Kyiv needs, but the bloc's top diplomat wants to split the bill
https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-kaja-kallas-us-eu-patriots-ukraine
"The authoritarian dream is rooted in the belief that state violence should serve as the primary tool of governance. ...
What we are witnessing is a spectacle of domination. The deployment of troops, the vigilante targeting of Democratic lawmakers, the planned grotesquerie of Trump’s military parade, and Trump’s order for ICE to target cities led by Democrats are not isolated events — they are scenes in the same authoritarian drama."
~ Henry A. Giroux
#B2bombers moving to #Guam amid #MiddleEast tensions
The #UnitedStates is moving B-2 bombers to Guam, 2 US ofcls told Reuters Saturday, as #Trump weighs whether the #US should take part in #Israel's strikes against #Iran.
It was unclear whether the bomber deployment is tied to Middle East tensions.
The B-2 can be equipped to carry America's 30k-pound GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator [aka #BunkerBusters], designed to destroy targets deep underground.
#war
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/b-2-bombers-moving-guam-amid-middle-east-tensions-us-officials-say-2025-06-21/
😂🤣😂 The #Trump brothers are launching a smartphone to prove to #Apple & #Google that you can build a “Made in #America 🇺🇸” phone—but they are having problems due to many electronic parts being made overseas.
👉🏾 The Morning After: Can the golden Trump Phone actually be made in USA? https://www.engadget.com/general/the-morning-after-engadget-newsletter-111557952.html
I’ve been joking about Trump dying for a Nobel all week. Now he provides us with the punchline. 1/...
Via Acyn:
#Trump: They should give me the Nobel prize for Rwanda and have you looked at the Congo? You could say Serbia. You could say a lot of them. The big one is India and Pakistan. I should have gotten it four or five times. They won't give it because they only give it to liberals.
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2 days after catastrophic #floods roared through Central #Texas, #FEMA did not answer nearly ⅔ of calls to its #disaster assistance line, acc/to documents reviewed by NYT.
The lack of responsiveness happened because the agency had #fired hundreds of contractors at call centers….
#Trump #idiocracy #ExtremeWeather #FederalGovernment #Funding #MassLayoffs #BudgetCuts
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/climate/fema-missed-calls-texas-floods.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
“Truth Social started experiencing global outages around the world within minutes of #Trump posting details of a US military strike on #Iran.”
https://www.wired.com/story/truth-social-crashes-as-trump-live-posts-bombing-iran/
i believe a thank you is in order for the sponsors of today's military action
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#Trump on Saturday released letters imposing new 30% #tariffs on imports from #Mexico & the #EU, dashing hopes for #trade deals that would avoid such punishing levies. The tariffs will take effect Aug 1.
#economy #inflation #recession #trumpcession #RevengePolitics
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/12/us/politics/europe-eu-tariffs-trade.html?smid=url-share
A resident of northern #Arizona has died from Pneumonic Plague.
#Plague is rare to humans, w/ on avg ~7 cases reported annually in the #US, most of them in the western states, acc/to federal #health ofcls.
The death in #CoconinoCounty, which includes #Flagstaff, was the first recorded death from pneumonic plague since 2007, local ofcls said. Further details including the identify of the victim were not released.
#PublicHealth #Science #Medicine #HHS #RFKJr #Trump
https://apnews.com/article/pneumonic-plague-death-arizona-2c32ed6bd4a86be3d38828fe69aeb68b