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Yesterday, in the fearlessly political email from Penzeys — the only place I buy spices now:
It’s been 10 years since he launched his political career with “Mexicans are rapists & murderers." Republicans at the time claimed he wasn’t racist, it was just that he was trying to protect us from the worst of the worst.
Now that the Republicans in Congress & on the Supreme Court have ruled him beyond the bounds of any law, it’s not the worst of the worst he’s rounding up, it's just moms at chemo treatments, kids at little league practice, & pretty much anyone who is an essential worker. Seems it was just racism all along.
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'Not going to tell you,' Bondi flips out & refuses to answer after being pressed by Sen Merkley.
On Trump's #crypto scheme, AG Bondi became angry & refused to answer Qs on whether foreign influence is affecting decisions being made by Trump.
"Many folks who attended this dinner were buying those claims bc they wanted to influence policy." He listed suspicious foreign characters at the dinner. “Don't you think the American people have a right to know?"
#Corruption #USPol
https://www.rawstory.com/pam-bondi-2672435040/
National #Science Foundation to Be Requisitioned as Mansion for HUD Secretary (And Also HUD Office)
“There appears to be no plan for where the NSF staff will go.” https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/national-science-foundation-to-be-requisitioned-as-mansion-for-hud-secretary-and-also-hud-office #uspol
Report: ICC threatened over arrest warrants for Netanyahu & Gallant
A lawyer linked to Netanyahu told Karim Khan that if arrest warrants for Netanyahu & Gallant were not withdrawn, he & the ICC would be "destroyed".
Nicholas Kaufman, told Khan (chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court) that he had spoken to Netanyahu’s legal advisor about the matter.
Note: Kaufman also represents Duterte.
#KarimKahn #ICC #USPol #EuroPol #ArrestWarrants #GazaGenocide .
Federal Housing Finance Agency Director William Pulte: “After significant studying, and in keeping with President Trump’s vision to make the United States the crypto capital of the world, today I ordered the Great Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to prepare their businesses to count cryptocurrency as an asset for a mortgage”
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #US politics
Calling people "bad" and "trouble makers" who don't agree with the state is something said by Vladdick Putin, Kim Jong-un, Adolf Hitler
but also by Donald Trump.
That alone should say enough
Purple Heart Army veteran self-deports after nearly 50 years in the U.S.
Earlier this month, immigration authorities gave 55 year old Sae Joon Park an ultimatum: Leave voluntarily or face detention and deportation.
When 20-year-old Park finished basic training, he was deployed to Panama — unaware that he would soon be part of the 1989 U.S. invasion known as Operation Just Cause to topple Manuel Noriega's regime. Park was shot twice. #deportation #immigration #USPol #army #veteran
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/24/g-s1-74036/trump-ice-self-deportation-army-veteran-hawaii
Is what's happening at home now the same as what we've been doing to others out in the world?
Key #Medicaid provision in #Trump's big tax cut & spending bill is found to violate #Senate rules
The Senate #parliamentarian has advised that a key Medicaid provider tax overhaul that is central to Trump’s bill does not adhere to procedural rules, delivering a crucial blow to #Republicans rushing to finish the massive package this week.
#law #USpol
https://apnews.com/article/trump-big-bill-hospital-provider-tax-f6f4343bbc9c9a279bd7861c2e5c1b7b?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-06-26-Breaking+News
#RFKJr #CDC #vaccine advisory committee recommends against #flu #vaccines
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (#ACIP), made up of members recently hand-selected by #HHS Secy Robert F. Kennedy Jr., voted 5-1 on Thurs to recommend against #FluBaccines containing the preservative #thimerosal.
One committee member, Vicky Pebsworth, abstained on each vote.
#Trump #USpol #law #health #PublicHealth #policy #science #medicine #AntiVax #ConspiracyTheories #eugenics
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/cdc-vaccine-advisory-committee-recommends-flu-vaccines-thimerosal/story?id=123224218
🚨"The Trump DOJ’s goal is to force💔100,000 undocumented students to drop out of college & deport themselves."
-A Reichlin-Melnick
"DOJ is suing MN over its policy of offering in-state tuition regardless of immigration status, following suits in TX & KY. MN is one of 27 states plus DC that provide in-state tuition for unauthorized immigrant students."
-J Gelatt
#Immigrants #Universities #Racism #DueProcess #DHS ICE #TrumpRegime #Fascism #Deportations #Resist #USPol
https://www.startribune.com/us-justice-department-sues-minnesota-for-offering-in-state-tuition-costs-to-undocumented-students/601380357
An 82 year old with a valid green card has been disappeared to Guatamala.
Luis Leon came to the US in 1987.
He sought asylum from political persecution in Chile.
He’s been in the US almost 40 years.
He lost his wallet (and green card) in June & when he went to replace it he was disappeared by ICE
What followed for his family is the stuff of nightmares.
They couldn’t find him. Couldn’t talk to him. Couldn’t get him a lawyer.
This was a senior citizen who did absolutely nothing wrong.
Who hasn’t lost their wallet at some point?
On July 9th the family were informed he had died.
They were consumed with grief and still had no information about what happened to him.
Mercifully it turns out that information was a mistake, and Leon was instead being held in Guatemala.
Why Guatemala? No one knows.
Was it a mistake? Was it punishment?
This is what happens when you move fast and break things.
Someone who was granted political asylum should never have to fear being deported to a foreign country. This shouldn’t even need to be said.
He has multiple health issues and his current condition is unknown.
Family is flying to Guatemala to see him
This should never happen. People need to keep speaking out.
Leon did everything the “right” way and still got disappeared.
The cruelty seems to be the point
We're all 1 awful twist of fate away from being George Retes: "Retes, who served in Iraq, said agents never told him why he was being detained @ the federal Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown LA. He was packed off, w/o a phone call, access to a lawyer, or even a way to clean the pepper-spray residue off his clothes & face, he said. While in custody he became so distressed that he was put on suicide watch, but he was still not allowed to contact an attorney."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/army-vet-calls-investigation-being-013820898.html
#USPol
As predicted by everybody:
More Than 90 Percent Of ICE Detainees Have Never Been Convicted Of Violent Crimes | Techdirt
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/06/26/more-than-90-percent-of-ice-detainees-have-never-been-convicted-of-violent-crimes/
#USPol #PresidentForSale #Resist #Indivisible #VisibilityBrigade #Fascism
The scale of Trump's pay-for-access scheme outlined by the Times is mindblowing. Crypto contributions resulting in business deals with the Trump family crypto businesses, oil companies buying influence and later reaping benefits from friendly policies, and a $1 million pardon.
MAGA Sooo Angry......
Trump not interested in naming a special counsel for the Jeffrey Epstein case, White House says
Some of Trump's most prominent supporters had promoted the idea of Trump naming a special counsel to review the case
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Breaking #BreakingNews
The House has passed the GENIUS Act stablecoin bill, sending it to Trump's desk where he will sign it. They've also passed the CLARITY Act crypto market structure bill and the Anti-CBDC Surveillance State Act, both of which still need to go to the Senate.
Had you heard about sex workers getting caught up in ICE raids? I sure hadn’t.
Per Truthout:
In other labor sectors, worksite raids sparked massive outpourings of solidarity and creative resistance, including “Adopt a Day Laborer” campaigns and street vendor buyouts. But sex workers are left to fend for themselves.
“Our undocumented sex worker fam are terrorized and without resources,” wrote Cocoa Makati, coordinator of DecrimSexWorkCA. Sex work is migrant women’s day labor; massage parlors are their “Home Depot.”
h/t @mu @sarahc @lisamelton
FT: "Donald Trump is preparing to open the $9tn US retirement market to cryptocurrency investments ..."
Trump is seeking to direct Americans' retirement funds to a sector in which he and his family are heavily invested.
https://www.ft.com/content/07906211-5ab8-4917-bcad-5397c0bc3170
A 15 year old child was thrown in Alligator Alcatraz.
A concentration camp designed to apparently house the worst and most dangerous criminals was where they put a defenceless kid.
Homeland Security is also sending threatening letters to unaccompanied minors telling them if they don’t leave, they will be found and locked up.
They’re targeting children. The elderly. The disabled.
They have no bottom. No morals. No red line.
They must be stopped.
#immigration #ice #abolishice #fascism #uspol #alligatoralcatraz
FBI agents were told to ‘flag’ any Epstein records that mentioned Trump, Sen. Durbin says
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/18/trump-epstein-fbi-durbin.html
Justice Department asks court to unseal Epstein Grand Jury transcript.
This will do NOTHING.... no new information nor will a single Jeffrey Epstein file or list will be made public - total waste of time.
Will MAGA buy it!?!
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Breaking #BreakingNews