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I know it's been said but I keep getting re-infuriated about RFK Jr doing his thing, like we had this vaccines thing *settled*, they rule and they were working and all we had to do was NOT put the worst possible person in charge of the country's public health apparatus.

I do enjoy the country-specific name changes for No Kings protests this weekend

Huge endorsement for Zohran news.bgov.com/bloomberg-go...

I spoke with the LA-area pastor who confronted masked men conducting an apparent immigration action on church property — men, she says, who said "the whole country is our property." DHS claims ICE wan't there — but I have video, and it may've still been a DHS team. religionnews.com/2025/06/13/i...

Hello from the No Kings protest in Philadelphia. The park is already pretty filled up, and it doesn’t actually start for another 30 minutes.

We have been working on a story about the run of ICE impersonators robbing and terrorizing mostly Latino businesses. Now this has jumped to impersonating cops for politically motivated assassinations.

Occasionally, Trump and his team have a 24-hour period that makes an authoritarian vision clear. From yesterday: - Trump talks up Newsom's arrest - Hegseth hedges on honoring court rulings - Noem to “liberate” LA - Padilla manhandled, cuffed - Trump touts “remigration,” scrambles to federalize Guard

This is the central takeaway from Bergman’s extraordinary “Rise and Kill First,” his history of Israel’s assassination programs: repeated instances of tactical brilliance and bravery by Israel bereft of any strategic vision. A collapse of statecraft.

“The JCPOA was a generational diplomatic triumph that was working exactly as intended” is a hill I’m willing to die on.

Be safe out there ❤️

Watch the full conversation with Ta-Nehisi Coates and @chrislhayes.bsky.social on YouTube now.

From the last time Americans said "no kings"

NEW: Intelligence alerts obtained by @propertyofthepeople.org and reviewed by @wired.com show authorities are treating ICE tracking maps and the 'No Kings' protests as potential threats. @dell.bsky.social w/ the scoop. No paywall bc FOIA www.wired.com/story/no-kin...

Chris Hayes: “It is going to require this kind of democratic force and mobilization against the Trump administration constantly. Believe me, I know it is exhausting. But there will be a million more small victories along the way.”

Almost like trans people know what we're doing when it comes to fighting to preserve our community.

Angelenos are being hunted. Nannies kidnapped off of playgrounds with children being put into the back of ICE cars. Taqueria workers abducted. Farmworkers chased down. The level of depravity is sickening but please, PLEASE tell us how to protest good.

Also, when I reached out to DHS about this, they sent me a statement… …Except the statement appeared to refer to an entirely different incident at an entirely different church, and referenced photos I did mention or include in my press inquiry.

I wrote this before knowing the suspect had a police vehicle. I can say that 1 of the things we were looking at on the ICE impersonation story is the fact that uniforms, badges, etc are readily available for sale over the internet. Maybe an uncommissioned cop car is too. We'll see where this leads.

Houston City Hall rn:

Very excited to have to use a different "StoreBuck" for every single retail purchase, having a million forms of currency doesn't sound like a problem we solved 150 years ago at all www.wsj.com/finance/bank...

News: in aftermath of Israeli strikes on Iran, and the potential widening of the conflict, staffers from the Voice of America Persian language service have been urgently called back - per 4 VoA staffers. An admission by Trump administration of the network's utility during crisis.

In other words: what Biden did, and Republicans sued him for.

In a blistering letter to members, the president of Texans for Lawsuit Reform called out by name the lawmakers he said stifled TLR’s agenda and all but promised to take them on in primary campaigns next March.

“They took so many passports - and didn’t know how to handle or process them - it was a mess,” @yipengge.bsky.social tells me just now. This comes as police are reportedly getting violent at the crossing in Egypt where marchers are trying to pass en route to the Rafah crossing.

Many people I know who mask regularly are fairly isolated, which can lead to mocking hitting very hard on one's mental health (speaking generally not about Kelly). It's possible to just not mock people talking about masking. Just mute words/accounts and move on.

Doors for the parade open in less than 4 hours and yet my press credentials application is still listed as pending.

MN Dems have a one seat majority in the state Senate; the House is evenly split www.fox9.com/news/melissa...

Are people bringing tea to the protest tomorrow. I only have one box but I can bring it

Let's not forget that tomorrow is Trump's 79th birthday, which makes him very old

No ICE except Ice-T

what people with children think the lives of people without children are like

IDF has killed QF commander Esmail Qaani, too, per reports. Total destruction of Iranian military leadership

The 14th Amendment clearly says that disfranchisement of voters is supposed to lead to a state's loss of electoral votes. This has never been employed. Michael Meltsner, former NAACP counsel, explains the case now at the Supreme Court & how the justices will need to defy the Constitution to kill it:

I appreciate progressive Christians asking what I think they should do instead of loudly and publicly declaring right-wing Christians to be “fake.” It really boils down to this: thinking your theology is so important to our society that it must be debated publicly is PRIVILEGE you should put aside

Aforementioned video:

This is where Padilla was thrown down yesterday, but as noted, not a protest location. Outside of a few National Guard troops who have gone out with ICE agents, the vast majority of these federal forces allegedly quelling unrest aren't doing a damn thing.

Excited for a frankly horrifying ratio of “Trump looking at a tank” images to “millions of people protesting fascism” images from legacy media tomorrow

why would you say this unless you were lying and trying to pretend your client state didn't tell you to pound sand?

Trump has spent years insisting that international respect is one of the most important metrics for any president. But by this measure, according to new Pew Research data, Trump’s political career is a humiliating failure. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

NEWS on the Big Beautiful Bill: 1-Medicare changes are out. It was stupid to believe that these Republicans were ever going to fix upcoding, but it's now confirmed that they won't.

my nephew wants you to know that he made a t-shirt

🚨 Just heard from @yipengge.bsky.social on the March to Gaza: “I am safely back in Cairo now and staying with a friend. But they are mass deporting people from Ismailia and checkpoint one. My friends have been abducted and put on buses to the airport for deportation, and passport still being held”

Well dammit www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

NEW: Trump talks big on peace and diplomacy: on Iran, the Ukraine and Gaza wars, and tariffs with China. But he fails to meet goals. The US could be drawn into a new Middle East war as Trump supports Israel striking Iran. Gift link to our story: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/u...

Don’t go making “Sikhs pretending to be Christians” into the new “men in dresses sneaking into bathroom.” Both are nonexistent

as many a mossad leader has complained before: all tactics, no strategy

Shaming won't help people like me with limited energy get the energy to cook (I microwave frozen meals). Community care would, not that RFK Jr. cares.

A half-decade of frustration for craft brewers, as described by one West Coast brewery owner: "After pandemic chaos, supply-chain nonsense, inflation BS and now tariffs, we have our taproom crowd (largely Hispanic given the city we’re in) not wanting to go leave their homes for fear of ICE cruelty."

Feels like the whole world is pulling a Leeroy Jenkins these days

At the protest in New Orleans

Counterintelligence is downstream from institutional and political culture which is downstream from epistemology. They did not see what they did not want to see.

Every time I see his shitty fucking face I think about Cuomo’s horrific mismanagement of covid, but particularly faking death data in nursing homes to advance his fucking career

Waymo is limiting service across the U.S. ahead of a wave of expected protests this weekend, and stopping service in LA altogether: www.wired.com/story/ahead-...

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Well I guess I hope any law enforcement or military assigned to protests tomorrow are having a good think right now about which side they’re on but, well,,

"Please don't elect someone we hate, city we hate!"

One year ago today at @flaminghydra.com : @brewster.kahle.org of @archive.org, The Internet's Librarian This way of looking at librarianship and the digital commons has only grown exponentially more important since then vimeo.com/956678817

I'd be throwing around the word "bigot" if I was Zohran

Hearing that the Senate Finance Committee text, the final piece of the GOP megabill, will be out Monday.

Happy weekend to all the journalists covering "No Kings" protests tomorrow. Protestors, be nice to us even if you don't want to be interviewed.

Piss off, proselytizer

Turns out that there will come a day when you go on vacation with your kids, and it will again feel like an actual holiday and not just, “parenting your kids in another location.”

Important reminder from an American concentration camp survivor:

Spotted in the background here: a sign that identifies the holder as an “American Catholic” and asks “Who would Jesus deport?”

Selling three million acres of private land to private, profiteering entities would be a travesty.

SOMEONE WAS MEAN TO THE LESS-EVIL BILLIONAIRE EVERYBODY

i’m starting to think some of you aren’t experts on humanitarian and international law after all.

Every time I come to Philadelphia, I’m reminded that if you were to judge this city by its billboards, you could reasonably conclude that the entire region’s economy is, like, 90% personal injury lawyers.

These fucking ghouls. All about freedom and independence from The Man until it's someone they don't like.

Be safe, all. These are treacherous times with many bad actors trying to destroy democracy and those who believe in it. #nokingsday

IT'S ON VIDEO JESUS CHRIST

Cool cool this is really working out great!

Don’t proselytize in my notifications bruh

Heading to Trump Fest and some No King’s’ protests in the DC area tomorrow. You too? See anything interesting? Please let me know. Thanks!

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The Philly No Kings protest has already grown so big that it has spilled into the street. A variety of groups, organizations and causes represented among the crowd. This woman is now leading a chant.

"the NYPD’s highest-ranking uniformed official...used someone else’s identity in a bid to avoid paying income taxes on money he made while moonlighting as a basketball referee for six years" www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/12/j...

No kings except California Kings

"Thousands Of ‘No Kings’ Protests Planned Against Trump’s Policies On Day Of Army Parade: What To Know About Saturday" Yezen Saadah for @forbes.com

During an unsupervised moment, my 3-year-old got into his diaper bag and took out a tube of what he called "suntan lotion," and began applying it liberally to his arms and legs (and shorts and t-shirt). He proudly announced that he was "at the beach." Friends, it was diaper-rash cream.

Via @yonat.bsky.social: Palestinians invited to speak at a Bay Area synagogue were sent home at airport —> religionnews.com/2025/06/13/a...

The gunman even used a *police vehicle?!*

reaping, meet sowing www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/u...

Feel like fucking up people's Social Security is a great way to make people very, very mad?

Honestly the safety issue I’m most worried about in my small town is someone getting hit by a car while running across the highway because the organizers picked possibly the worst and most unsafe and inaccessible place to post up.

Social media is flooded with out-of-context images misrepresented as visuals from Israel's strikes on Iran. This photo shared on X is one example. Despite claims it is current, the picture actually shows a fire at a petrochemical plant in November 2020. factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

The fundamental point you miss is that “apostate” is a relative category. Non-Christians DON’T CARE (and shouldn’t have to care) about who you think is an apostate. Empirically, people who self-consciously leave the faith are apostates. You can’t just declare Christians you disagree with to be so

Okay. That’s it. Done for the week. DHS using Stephen A. Smith as their proxy effing broke me (at least until Monday when I’ll be back for more Sicko shit). Even Paul Verhoeven thinks this is over the top.

Look: Not even the U.S. telegraphing Israel’s intentions by literally pulling personnel out of the Middle East in advance of the expected Israeli assault can get in the way of Boys’ Night.

Also, this particular quote didn't make it into the piece, but when I asked Rev. Terri Hord Owens — General Minister and President of the Disciples of Christ denomination that this church belongs to — about the incident, she also compared the tactics here to those used by the KKK:

The handcuffing of Senator Padilla. Militarized ICE raids targeting non-criminal immigrants. Troops deployed to LA. Exploiting the military as political props. Trump's cruel authoritarian overreach is escalating—and Americans are pushing back.

This is useful at any time, and I would argue we all need to be getting more comfortable learning and speaking basic Spanish in the coming years.

BREAKING NEWS: The first demonstrators gathered throughout South Florida Saturday morning as part of a national day of rallies against what protesters see as President Donald Trump’s excessive accumulation of executive power.

The lowest forms of human life hellgatenyc.com/fdny-ice-hea...

Ah: Per @migrantinsider.bsky.social, Reps. Mark E. Green and Josh Brecheen are launching a probe into nonprofits that aid migrants. They single out Catholic Charities, CAIR, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and Global Refuge (formerly LIRS). homeland.house.gov/2025/06/11/c...

Iranian leadership: Not “currently clean” on OPSEC

being able to print a version of the bible that still precious few people could actually read led to like 300 years of religious warfare in europe so i have no idea why people are so blasé about the idea that a talking magic box that rich ppl tell them is basically already God might break society

This series rules #NBAsky

A lot of fascinatingly bad protest advice floating around out here today!