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This is just sick. via @ktla.com: Footage obtained by KTLA shows a young man crying, saying his mother had just been taken, and children and protesters running from tear gas that was deployed when a crowd gathered at an immigration raid at a Ventura County farm this afternoon
“If ICE was a military, it would have the 16th biggest budget in the world. You wanna talk about America First? Think about all the things we could do in this country, like giving a [hurricane] warning system to these folks in rural Texas, instead of plucking brown people out of their homes.”
We need a new generation of leaders who are the voices of democracy, freedom, social justice, & the rule of law. A new generation that gives meaning to the “we” in “we the people.” Instead of fretting over Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic Party should embrace him as the future.
We shouldn't need a Black Women’s Equal Pay Day, but here we are. Still underpaid. Still undervalued. 66 cents on the dollar means we lose thousands every year, for doing the same job. Over a lifetime? That’s hundreds of thousands gone. Pay Black women. Period.
"While the wildfires were raging in California, Ben and Ted Cruz had a podcast where they just attacked Governor Newsom and Karen Bass—that was while the fires were still raging. So spare us the grandstanding and virtue signaling about how this stuff shouldn't be partisan."
New in PN: The worst chief justice of all time "American history has no shortage of legendarily bad chief justices and disgraceful decisions. But John Roberts has overseen the wholesale corruption and capture of the Supreme Court, and history should look back on his tenure with revulsion."
“Then they started to talk about cuffing me, and that if the kids were here legally, what do they have to lose by answering. I told them that they still have their fifth and fourth amendment rights, and that they don’t have to speak to you or help with any investigation.”
“.. We appear to be driving straight into an abyss that holds no memory of what democracy is, was, or should be. “.. The people in charge who are supposed to protect us .. now use the Constitution as a weapon to suit their own ends.” @macfarlanenews.bsky.social www.cbsnews.com/news/fired-j...
Dersh weighs in on the Epstein controversy: “I know for a fact docs are being suppressed to protect individuals. I know their names & why they’re being suppressed, but I’m bound by confidentiality so I can’t disclose it. Files are being suppressed to protect them & that’s wrong.”
What's happening in California is a hostile invasion by the Trump regime. Perris, California's mayor warns civilians to remain calm and indoors as Trump regime ICE invasion forces carry out terrorist activity. He warns civilians to not open the door to strangers. #3E #StopICE
As FEMA responds to the deadly flooding in Texas, one key resource is missing: the FEMA leader. David Richardson, the agency's acting administrator, has not been to the site of one of the deadliest floods in the U.S. in the past 25 years. www.politico.com/news/2025/07...
A reminder that Brazil arrested and charged their former dictator Bolsonaro with planning a coup and trying to overturn the 2022 elections in their country. If only the United States had done the same instead of giving the plotter of a coup full totalitarian power of the govt.
In a just world, every one of these Democratic senators would be primaried - especially the hypocritical Cory Booker who is wisely trying to hide his face in this picture. (Netanyahu is wanted by the ICC, a far right authoritarian, and kills innocent Palestinians on a daily basis, including today!)
“American history has no shortage of legendarily bad chief justices & disgraceful decisions. But Chief Justice Roberts has overseen the wholesale corruption and capture of the Supreme Court, and history should look back on his tenure with revulsion.” @atrupar.com open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...
I'm concerned by State Farm’s unfair and arbitrary insurance rate hike on Illinois homeowners. These increases are predicated on catastrophe loss numbers inconsistent with Illinois DOI’s analysis, indicating State Farm is shifting out-of-state costs onto homeowners here.
NEW: Sec. Noem has now admits "last mile" disaster communications weren't up to par in the Texas catastrophe. But while bodies were still being recovered on Tuesday DHS canceled a $3 million grant focused on improving precisely those kinds of "last mile" comms. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/dhs-c...
ask yourself why former MN rep. dean phillips' opinion of zohran mamdani is considered more newsworthy than the opinion of the many new york city democrats who have endorsed him. do you think they booked him to appear on tv and speak on this subject because he is super important?
‘Parishioners excused.’ That’s how bad it is. A Catholic bishop lifted the obligation to attend Mass because ICE might raid the church. Mass isn’t required “if a member of the faithful has a genuine fear of immigration enforcement actions.” The feds should be ashamed. Terrorizing the faithful.
I think Ketanji Brown Jackson's dissents are an important exception to the "Supreme Court dissents don't matter" rule of thumb, because she is using them not to argue with the conservative justices, but to explain to the public that the conservative justices are liars and in the tank for Trump
This "Democrats and Republicans" line is bullshit. I wrote a bipartisan bill last year that would have stopped all asylum seekers from being released into the country. It gave POTUS emergency power to shut down the border. It put billions into border security. Trump killed it.
Alligator Alcatraz. FL lawmakers are finally being let in—after Dems got turned away last week. Here’s the catch: the tour’s not ‘til Saturday They know the conditions are inhumane. Scrub the cages, hide the worst of it, and pray no one asks too many questions. Don’t let them sanitize the truth!
Trump regime forces used helicopters during their attacks on civilian farmers in California. They allegedly used the helicopters to air in water for regime forces while destroying the crops beneath them. California ranks as the fifth-largest supplier of food in the world. #3E #StopICE
BREAKING: Massive ICE raid ongoing at a farm in Camarillo, Ventura County, CA. Local news reports that an unknown number of workers have been detained. Almost 20% of US strawberries come from the county. US food supply at risk from Trump’s fascist thugs & Stephen Miller’s quota.
NASA is more than rockets and moonwalks. NASA is behind much of our everyday technology. From space discovery, to Air Jordans, to CAT scans, NASA has played a role. We get it all on less than a penny of every federal dollar. Now their science may be gutted by 50%. #NASADidThat
"The Trump administration is firing and pushing out employees across the Justice Department and FBI, often with no explanation or warning, creating rampant speculation and fear within the workforce over who might be terminated next..." {gift link} wapo.st/3InfKMA
If you still support this hateful, treasonous President and actions that cause incredible harm to hundreds of millions of people, I'm not particularly interested in figuring out why you're doing that. Right now, I need to stop the bleeding you caused. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/i-dont-giv...