"Video of SEIU California’s President David Huerta getting assaulted & arrested during an ICE raid in the warehouse district of Downtown Los Angeles today."
Via Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/fightforaunion.bsky.social/post/3lqxwdph6f22c
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"Tyler McBrien sits down with #AkbarShahidAhmed, the diplomatic correspondent at The Washington Sun, to discuss Ahmed’s new book ' #CrossingTheRedLine: #Biden, His Advisors, and #Israel's War in #Gaza.' They talk about the top officials in the administration who drove Biden’s Gaza policy, how the war quickly became a moral and strategic disaster, and what the heavy civilian death toll might augur for the future."
Ladies and gentleman, meet the pro-dementia party. If Congress passes #Trump's big, hideous bill, 96% of #Alzheimer's research projects would have to be rejected.
If you know someone with #dementia, if you love someone with #Alzheimer's, call your Congresspeople and tell them you have enough cognitive reserve to remember how they vote.
Egregious ruling: #SCOTUS lifted a lower court order blocking the SSA from granting access to the agency’s sensitive data to affiliates of the #DOGE.
The court separately paused a lower ct’s order that required DOGE to turn over docs as part of a lawsuit claiming the entity, like other govt agencies, should be subject to federal records requests.
DOGE will be able to access data on millions of Americans...
#SocialSecurity #Betrayal #Data #Resist #NoKings #June14 #USPol https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/06/politics/supreme-court-restores-doges-access-to-sensitive-social-security-data
This is insane.
#Trump’s Secretary of the #Army thinks
that currently there is a US soldier on the moon.
Embarrassing AF.
#USpol #military #MilitaryPreparedness #kakistocracy #idiocracy
Ronnie Dugger, founding editor and longtime publisher of the Texas Observer and for many years the crusading conscience of the progressive movement in Texas and beyond, died of complications of dementia at a hospice center in Austin on May 27. He was 95. https://www.texasobserver.org/ronnie-dugger-1930-2025/
#politics #USpol #journalism #RIP #Texas #media #history #news
The latest from cartoonist Ben Sargent, in our magazine.
Read more from the May / June 2025 issue: https://www.texasobserver.org/issues/may-june-2025/
#education #religion #schools #politics #USpol #Texas #TXlege #comics
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This painting, located in the northern city of Roubaix, France is titled “The Statue of Liberty’s Silent Protest.” By Dutch artist Judith de Leeuw 😢
#MastoArt #StatueOfLiberty #France #USPol #SilentProtest #Art
This week's net.wars, "Nephology", attends the US House Judiciary Committee's Thursday hearing on "Foreign Influence on Americans' Data Through the CLOUD Act", at which four experts expertly defended encryption: https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2025/06/06/nephology/ #NetWars #USpol #surveillance #encryption #Apple #UK
Regarding the below:
“Sixteen people were killed by rubber or plastic bullets during the Troubles [in the North of Ireland]. A 17th person was killed by a fall, possibly after being hit by one of the bullets.
Some were involved in street disorder. Others were bystanders.
Eight of the dead were children.
Others suffered serious injuries, including brain damage and blinding.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-64939678
From: @david
https://fouroclockfarms.club/@david@fouroclockfarms.club/114653940084433019
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⚡️President Donald Trump’s global tariffs were deemed illegal and blocked by the US trade court, dealing a major blow to a pillar of the Republican’s economic agenda.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-28/trump-s-global-tariffs-blocked-by-us-trade-court
Disillusioned & distanced from #Trump, #Musk says he’s exiting Washington & made clear he is frustrated w/obstacles he encountered as he tried to upend the #FederalGovernment🎻
Musk dissed Trump’s signature domestic policy, saying it would add to the #deficit. He complained about a lucrative deal that went to a rival co to build an #AI #DataCenter in the #MiddleEast. And he has yet to make good on a $100M pledge to Trump’s political operation.
#BooMutherFuckinHoo #USpol
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/us/politics/elon-musk-trump-doge.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=94709C91-3556-4635-8095-65DC81177EF3
700 Marines are being sent to LA to try and stop those who are fighting to protect their immigrant friends and neighbours.
Two journalists have already been shot with “less lethal” ammunition, one of whom required emergency surgery.
They’re shooting at the press.
They seem to want this situation to escalate and they want to silence the brave reporters trying to do their jobs.
Don’t let them. Keep speaking out. Amplify posts from those who are on the ground sharing what’s happening .
Speak up against atrocities. Don’t look away.
#ice #abolishice #uspol #la #fascism #immigration #losangeles
Hallucinating #GoldStandard science
"The #MAHA Report Cites Studies That Don’t Exist."
https://www.notus.org/health-science/make-america-healthy-again-report-citation-errors
"Health Secretary #RFKJr says his “Make America Healthy Again” Commission report harnesses “gold-standard” science, citing more than 500 studies and other sources to back up its claims. Those citations, though, are rife with errors, from broken links to misstated conclusions. Seven of the cited sources don’t appear to exist at all."
#AI #DefendResearch #Medicine #ScholComm #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
Did you know it’s not just two journalists who’ve been shot while covering the LA anti-ICE protests?
It’s many more. They appear to be targeting the press. Trying to silence them. Dissuade them from reporting on what is one of the most important issues America is facing.
Does the country want to submit to a fascist authoritarian?
Or do they want to fight back?
LA has chosen to fight back. And journalists are showing up to cover it. As they should.
Adam Rose is keeping a running tally on a thread on Bluesky. Highly recommend checking it out.
here’s some of the injured:
Ryanne Mena, shot with pepper balls
Sean Becker-Carmitchel, hit multiple times
Anthony Cabassa hit in face with chemical munition
Ryanne and Sean were hit again the next day, with a tear gas cannister
No name has been given but reports of someone from KTLA being hit with less lethal ammo and going to urgent care
Lauren Tomasi hit with less lethal ammo
Nick Stern shot with less lethal ammo and requires emergency surgery
These people were clearly identifying themselves as members of the press
They were there to do their jobs
And at least in the case of Lauren Tomasi, there’s video evidence which appears to show an officer taking clear aim and firing directly at her
Say their names.
Speak up.
The public need to know the risks the press are taking just to attempt to bring truth to the masses.
The Regime have been attempting to silence, sue and throttle the press since day one.
We shouldn’t tolerate any direct attacks on them.
#ice #abolishice #uspol #fascism #journalism #la #losangeles #resist
Political meme on (*points around to everything going on now*), with eye contact:
#EyeContact #Politics #democracy #WesternDemocracy #reality #HopeIsADiscipline #EUpol #NLpol #USpol #Israel #Palestine #Sudan
New today: It’s a different camp, different year, different creek, but the same story. This story—the one where the Hill Country experiences devastating and unexpected flash #floods following an intense period of extended drought—is a familiar one for those of us who grew up in the area. https://www.texasobserver.org/hill-country-flood-family-home-fourth-of-july-2002/
#Kerrville #KerrCounty #Texas #CentralTexas #flooding #history #environment #weather #politics #USpol #news #ClimateChange
The administration is trying to kill every program that pops up in a search for the word “climate.” In the process, the heart is being cut out of agencies that produce information that the state needs to manage its environmental threats. https://www.texasobserver.org/trump-texas-doge-cuts-disaster-aid/
#weather #Trump #FEMA #politics #USpol #news #Texas #environment #ClimateChange
For those trying to say the men who attacked Sen #Padilla didn't know who he is or bec he wasn't wearing a Congressional lapel pin or a name tag as an excuse for their actions - #KristiNoem, present in the room, most definitely knows who he is & could have called off her thugs at any time. She didn't
Weak excuse by a bunch of #fascist liars
As Sen Padilla said afterward, if they will treat a US Senator the way they did ON CAMERA, what do you think will happen to anyone else
Oh, good! Because Republicans are worried that not enough people will die.
GOP Senator vows deeper Medicaid cuts in 'second bite at the apple'
https://www.rawstory.com/ron-johnson-2672984017/
#BigFuglyBill #BBB #Medicare #Medicaid #TrumpDidThis #RepublicansDidThis #GOPKakistocracy #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
This:
"Sunday reading: Why the Extremists Took Over on the Right
I wrote about the escalating sense of besiegement that has fueled the rise of dangerous people and truly radical ideas that fully define the Right today.
This week’s piece: https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/why-the-extremists-took-over-on-the "
Here: https://mastodon.social/@tzimmer_history/115004613922564206
#USPol #USExtremism #Misogyny #ChristoFascism #RepublicanParty #MAGA #Trump
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New today from Ana Flores: "I learned early as a Texan that our state doesn’t always fight for its people. Especially if you’re Latina. Especially if you’re undocumented. Especially if you’re young, brown, or poor." https://www.texasobserver.org/cuts-women-healthcare-reproductive-rights/
“Our country is really headed in a direction away from caring about individuals, and it’s still so shocking.”
New today at Austin Free Press: I spoke with the ACLU of #Texas, and the parents of local transgender teenagers, about the impact of the recent Supreme Court ruling which upholds bans on gender-affirming care for minors. https://austinfreepress.org/supreme-sadness/
#SCOTUS #Austin #trans #transgender #LGBTQIA+ #LGBTQ+ #news #politics #USpol #healthcare #gender #children #transphobia
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I gotta say..
..it's pretty damn disgusting how the US gov is trying to make "a deal" with Ghislaine Maxwell in trade for more information while she's in prison for one of the most gruesome crimes
Somehow I have a feeling they're gonna allow her to say whatever Trump wants her to say and she gets a pardon from him afterwards
If that's gonna be the outcome the US has lost all credibility or what's left anyways and it's not much if any
Nobody in print wants to suggest the possibility the shooter could actually BE a cop.....
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