I've represented over 30 Laotian men, most of them Hmong, and it's shocking how similar their stories are to Zong Yang's. The same for his wife Linda and their families. Heartbreaking and, sadly, very common in our Southeast Asian communities in Minnesota right now. www.minnpost.com/metro/2026/0...

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Rung in the 4th by briefing another habeas case. Thinking about everyone locked up right now who came to America for a better life. I'm ashamed of what our Government has done to them. But I've never been prouder of my neighbors who won't accept it laying down. That's what makes this country great.

I don’t even speak Portuguese and I keep rewatching this video where a Brazilian journalist thinks he’s just interviewing a random Cape Verde fan at the stadium and it turns out it’s Vozinha’s dad.

Pretty major fireworks accident at the end of the @angelcity.com game tonight. Fireworks were set up on the turf at BMO Satdium and a show was going, about 5-7 minutes in fireworks started shooting into the crowds and stadium seats. Really hoping no one was seriously injured.

Truth! 🇨🇻❤️

GO CAPE VERDE! 🇨🇻

The stars finally aligned! Wilco and I finally got the play those Mermaid Avenue songs together at Solid Sound last weekend. You can stream the whole set here www.nepm.org/podcast/the-...

In the past 2 weeks we’ve watched these films on DVDs checked out from the library: Killer of Sheep Medium Cool Harlan County USA Matewan Lone Star Next up: Belle de Jour Libraries ROCK!

“The surge was so much worse than most people realize...Our town was just inundated...It was really just like night and day. One day things were normal, and the very next we were practically an underground militia.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Situational awareness for Thursday, July 2 -Spain vs. Austria at SoFi at noon -Watch at Casa España at Culver City's Ivy Station -Portugal vs. Croatia at 4 -Switzerland vs. Algeria at 8 -Hansen Dam fan zone opens -Dodgers vs. Padres at 7:10 p.m.; reminder that Union Station will have $65 parking

“wear a mask and stay indoors during and after the show” sounds like a really fun way to spend the Fourth of July. Could he find any more ways to ruin absolutely everything?

Via Seattle Times: “Light rail trains carried a record 280,000 passengers Friday, as people surged into Seattle for the USA-Australia World Cup soccer match, a sold-out Mariners game and summer-sauntering downtown.” Mass transit. It does a city good.

happy Franz Kafka Is Too Tired day (est 1914) to all who celebrate! "July 1. Too tired."

a slow burn is still a fire that needs to be extinguished. they can try to change tactics of spreading out to inundate more cities with their snatch-and-grab techniques but we need to be out there for our communities, because we remember what they’ve already done to us and others.

Good lord. This is going to be an actual disaster.

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YES! Well deserved honor. We are fortunate to have independent journalists covering events on the ground. Support Mel by subscribing to her newsletter. www.wordsaboutwork.news

Way to go, antivaxxers! Also, f**k Pete Hegseth. Keon McDaniel was only 25 years old when he died of influenza during basic training, after Hegseth rescinded the flu vaccine requirement.

MEX WE CAN 🇲🇽

The helicopters are getting loud because the LAPD hates joy.

People who build theatrical scenery, get a load of this. She shot close-ups. All seams are visible. Chunks are missing. No one smoothed out the vinyl sheeting layered on top. The fake stone is wrinkly. I'm a crap drywall installer. Even my first time as a teen, nothing I put up looked this bad.

I know the list is endless but I genuinely think trashing the legitimate congressionally chartered org for celebrating the 250th to instead hijack our national assets and taxpayer funds for his personality cult grifter crap should, in and of itself, be fully sufficient to merit removal from office.

When we talk about places contracting with ICE's notorious 287g contract, it's usually county sheriffs or even state-level agencies. But some cities are so zealous they contract with ICE directly. In Arizona, there's only one such city: Mesa. That's now an issue in the July elections:

Ak has a sale on right now, and my book is $17.25, which is less than a drink in some fancy places! (If you're struggling and this is a reach, please hold onto your money and ask your library to order one or share one with friends) www.akpress.org/against-the-...

There's nothing else to do at the reflecting pool but loiter. It's literally the whole reason it exists, it's a public space where people are invited to linger and loiter.

Now you can't "loiter" on the National Mall, the most public of all public land in the United States.

obviously not the first person to make this observation but the "move along, citizen" shit for regular DC residents is especially galling in context of the pardons for the rioters who broke into the fucking capitol

You should tell people when they do well — when they serve your food or have a good outfit or tell a sharp joke or hug you just right or do nothing but make it through the day — because I don’t think any of us hear it enough. And it is so hard all the time for everyone.

1/ The Lineage warehouse fire in Boyle Heights has been burning for over a week. The flames are nearly out, but there are so many unanswered questions. What are people breathing? What health risks remain? And what does this say about the safety of communities living next to industrial facilities?

Today's ruling effectively overturns the law requiring asylum access at the border and squanders the United States’ once-renowned reputation as a beacon of hope for those seeking safety. Read our statement:

The sentences doled out in the Prairieland case today are horrific. Des was sentenced to 30 years in prison for moving a box of zines. There is no pretense of "justice" here. The judge said, “the state wants to send a message to anyone who shares a similar ideology.” crimethinc.com/prairieland

Good! May she prevail.

The measure disapproving of the Iran War has passed both the House and Senate.

Far harsher sentences than the worst J6ers, who are free today: “Enrique Tarrio, the leader of the Proud Boys who was convicted of seditious conspiracy, was sentenced to 22 years in prison. Stewart Rhodes, the leader of the far-right group the Oath Keepers, was sentenced to 18 years in prison.”

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The soccer team from Iran left a note in SoFi Stadium's locker room thanking Los Angeles for its hospitality at the World Cup: "We came to Los Angeles with pride, competed with honor, and leave with ​dignity." "May peace, respect, and friendship prevail among all nations."

1/ You likely saw the national news: a flu outbreak hit the military just two months after Hegseth’s policy change made flu vaccination optional for active-duty service members. This was a scientifically and economically terrible decision.

These workers are making minimum wage or close to it, and many of them work multiple jobs to get by. They are demanding basic job protections, dignified pay, and access to health insurance, and in response The Twins said they're bringing in scabs. All coming to a head at tonight's game.

May not look like it but this is a coverup. They’re trying to lay it all on one prosecutor and keep higher-ups at DOJ out. And also trying to get judges to keep giving them the presumption of regularity.

Way to go, antivaxxers!

Picture the John Hancock Tower in Boston. Lay it on its side, then fill it with 82 MILLION POUNDS OF MEAT. Add insulating foam and anhydrous ammonia to taste. Now set it on fire and let it smolder for six days. Then let it bake in the California sun.

Smoke from the fire in Boyle Heights floated throughout the county, into Dodger Stadium, and as far east as Pomona, into Montclair and San Bernardino County. This is a developing story, here's what we know: lataco.com/smoke-lineag... By @afroxander.bsky.social

Getting your first World Cup win in 5,000 years has to feel amazing

I have painted the pool that was on the National Mall and which you were probably planning on visiting Fuck you don’t touch my pool that’s vandalism I miss Jeff

Solstice pelican flight, Ocean Beach, San Francisco 6:59 pm June 21, 2026 @trachkids.bsky.social @waves-sf.bsky.social

Angelenos still do not feel properly informed about the situation by officials (imagine how the tourists feel!) and I'm urging everyone to follow and support Boyle Heights Beat, who is putting out the best coverage with a newsroom that was built for this moment

"Can I touch your hair?"