Thank you @unraveledpress.com and @djbyrnes1.bsky.social for the shout-out. Dave makes a key point: Even if the finance committee votes down the deal on the 13th, the full council may still approve it (last I heard, on the 15th). Crucial that Chicagoans flood their alders with disapproval NOW. 🙏

The administration may have changed its P.R. strategy for Trump’s mass deportation campaign. The violence hasn’t changed at all. trib.al/puZ1vsR

Juan Proaño on the killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo: The family is demanding the release of Lorenzo’s body. It has been complicated because they removed all of his personal identifying information before they put him in the ambulance. That required the hospital to admit him as a John Doe.

In one breath the GOP screams and sounds the alarm about the danger of socialism coming to destroy America And in the other, use government power to take stakes in companies, pour millions of tax dollars into certain industries Socialism has been here, Repubs just don’t want you to benefit

ICE claims that Araujo drove into one of their SUVs with his van and then tried to run over an agent. There were no marks on the van and KHOU11's Jeremy Rogalski found surveillance footage showing ICE chasing Araujo and cutting him off. Renee Good all over again.

We can see this in the ICE flight data. Domestic “round-up” flights are spiking, and some activist flight watchers report the flights are getting fuller. But deportation and removal flights remain steady. This means the concentration camps are getting packed to the brim. It’s awful to comprehend.

ICE does not deny that it's pressuring key eyewitnesses to the shooting of Lorenzo Araujo to agree to deportation without a court hearing, and instead offers no responsive comment at all.

They’re trying to deport the men who witnessed the killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. newrepublic.com/article/2129...

A lot of people are correctly dunking on Matt Walsh for pretending that SCOTUS just invented birthright citizenship, when they just upheld it. But I want to add to the dunking for another reason: it's also how he and his kids got citizenship. Let me explain... x.com/MattWalshBlo...

While we're in zooming-out mode, it's worth remembering that the only reason the Maine race matters so much is that our fucked-up system gives a state with 1.5 million residents the exact same number of Senators as one with 40 million (California) or 20 million (New York).

Reuters confirms. 11 more people captured by ICE have been sent to a maximum security prison in Eswatini (formerly Swaziland), a country where they have no ties and committed no crimes. reut.rs/4wpbIGU

When he does it, it isn't communism

Something something seizing the means of production

this is really well said www.liberalcurrents.com/graham-platn... @liberalcurrents.com

funny how the cutting edge of the far right is just regurgitated slaveholder agitprop from 1850.

one of my unpopular (to americans) opinions is that primaries are a pretty flawed way of choosing candidates and only superficially have more democratic legitimacy than “smoke-filled rooms”

But if you were wondering about the impact of Trump’s genuinely evil immigration policies, or why we need to abolish ICE, thousands of kids needlessly separated from their families for many months is one more hideous reminder.

Since last year, ICE and the Office of Refugee Resettlement have made it much harder to be designated as a sponsor for a child, even if you’re related. They’ve added all kinds of new bureaucratic and paperwork requirements – proof of income, identification, backup caregiving, and more.

The judge gave Estrella 21 days to file an asylum application, but I don’t know how that’s going to work, since she doesn’t have a lawyer, she’s separated from her mom, and again, she’s three years old.

I was back in Immigration Court this week, this time for the hearing of a sweet little three-year-old girl, I’ll call her Estrella. She’s been in federal custody, separated from her family for more than 10 months – even though her mom lives here in NYC. The cruelty is truly mind-boggling. 🧵

ICE is engaged in a very large escalation nationwide, with the agency claiming to be hitting record arrest numbers amid the return of quotas. This has gotten very little attention from the media because ICE learned lessons from the chaotic disasters of Kristi Noem’s tenure. Keep a watch.

There’s a scene in the dystopian sci-fi movie Minority Report where Tom Cruise’s character is riding in an autonomous vehicle that gets remotely commandeered by the police to bring him into custody. The audience is supposed to see this as flagrant disregard for privacy and due process.

Ten months ago. If you don't know his name, please learn it and remember it today.

Toxic masculinity of no responsibility: "talk about Platner being "deserving of redemption" is that Platner has never really acknowledged what he did wrong in the first place Paths to forgiveness and redemption exist But like, you have to earnestly get that you messed up" bsky.app/profile/glon...

💔 www.thebulwark.com/p/he-lived-h...

This is why we need outsiders vetting candidates before they get this far. "He didn't think of himself as a rapist." Racists don't think their racism is disqualifying. Bullies don't think their bullying is disqualifying. So it goes.

By comparison, poorer people & women encounter the state all the time. Medical offices, transportation, cops, security guards, etc etc The HR lady thing is about gender, yes. but in the structural and interpersonal sense of gender. The state is feminized, w/ illegitimate authority.

All of this. Adding: HR is also code for the state. if you are an affluent man with inherited entitlement Mark describes here, you simply don’t encounter the state very often. Maybe the DMV. But most of these dudes work. HR translates state power by managing regulations and risk.

It is baffling to me that “sensible” conservatives can putter around support for Trump and excuse this or that insane thing when the guy is directly responsible for the end of the current, very successful, global order of the past 80 years.

This is the unfortunate, but predictable outcome of Rufo's words & deeds, as well as Vance's & Trump's.

A hard lesson I imagine we aren’t gonna learn anytime soon: a person displaying politics you personally agree with doesn’t mean they’re capable/have done the hard work of examining and dismantling their own prejudices, flaws and harmful behaviors. The latter is in fact a useful quality in a society.

I once asked a priest to bless a printer that I was in the middle of fighting with and he went "I only bless things when there's a chance it'll take" and then turned and walked out of the room.

They’ve said this about nearly everyone they’ve shot in a moving car, and they’ve lied nearly every time.

This is striking: Former GOP operative @therickwilson.bsky.social says Republicans attacking the media as biased against them has been a ref-working scam all along. He says he personally did this, so he knows from the inside how the ruse really works. Our exchange: newrepublic.com/article/1885...

Jesus Christ

This is truly despicable. Trump essentially signing legal Iranian asylum-seekers’ death warrants.

The Trump administration violated U.S. law by providing Iran’s government with confidential information detailing the asylum applications for Iranians it planned to deport, a new lawsuit filed in D.C. alleges.

The fact that anyone can ever admit they were wrong is a wellspring of hope

When I was a kid during the late Cold War, Birchers were a synonym for total political crazy, the epitome of what the GOP had banished from their party to regain credibility with the mainstream. They were just WAY outside the Overton Window. Now these lunatics are running the US government.

Gebbia’s Birch society post blames immigrants for rising housing costs. Given that a lot of people blame AirBNB for unaffordable housing, this seems like a prime example of a rich guy who scapegoating immigrants for a large social problem he helped create. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trumps-chi...

New from me: The Chief Design Officer of the United States, Trump's pick to rebrand the US government, just boosted the John Birch Society twice in recent days. He did so to claim immigrants are driving up housing prices. He is also a founder of AirBNB. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trumps-chi...

This is coming for all of us, not everybody but randomly enough to be caustic for everyone of us. (Disclosure: David is my friend.) wapo.st/4vg9nx4

THE US HAVING A WHITES-ONLY REFUGEE POLICY SHOULD BE A MUCH BIGGER STORY

Something I haven’t seen much mention of: the lawyer who worked with Eric Swalwell’s victims is involved in supporting the multiple women previously involved w Platner. There are almost certainly more accusations to come.

Here’s a gift link because the article is really worth reading in full

“Finland's president and Norway's prime minister started workshopping their text messages to Trump, talking about which words they should render in capital letters.”

“Without fanfare.” Ice raids are more sweeping. And quieter. To avoid protest. [Gift article] www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/u...

I hope these kids are given all the resources they need to recover, to heal, and since they are kids, just to eat and sleep and play. And I hope the adults in charge face justice.