BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

Mary Ruefle

DOGE has apparently created a cloud database of gov’t data & personal info about almost every American … used AI to mine it … and, evidently, exposed it to grave security vulnerabilities in the process. This isn’t dystopian fiction. This is happening in the United States.

NEWS: DNC Chair Ken Martin says TX State Rep. Nicole Collier was threatened with a FELONY charge for speaking on a press call with him, Cory Booker, and Gavin Newsom.

DC Police and federal agents detained a man on the National Mall. After trying to flee, the agents tackled him to the ground as he screamed in Spanish, 'Please, I’m not a criminal, I work here, I want to be with my family.’ (📹: @AimeeCho4)

BREAKING: At least 87 Palestinians, including 52 aid seekers, have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza in the past 24 hours, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/2etx3o

Watch our colleague Mohammed Abu Mughaisib, Deputy Medical Coordinator, explain how starvation destroys the body. Health workers in #Gaza are starving alongside their patients as Israeli authorities use hunger as a weapon. Learn more: www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/palestine-ms...

Just hours ago, Islamophobic freaks like Laura Loomer were blaming the shooting on Islam and Muslims and immigrants, as ever, meanwhile the NYPD police officer killed was a Muslim. Awful. A pregnant widow. Awful.

“Israel’s four-month blockade has left Gazans so bereft of basics like fuel that some of the bodies of victims Sunday were piled onto donkey carts … . According to the Gaza Health Ministry, at least 79 people were killed.” wapo.st/4m23Gi7

On the Roebling Bridge that connects Ohio & Kentucky - Trump regime troops violently attacked protestors fully armed, shoving, dragging, & repeatedly punching one demonstrator. After refusing to move from the roadway, they faced not simple arrest but brutal, disproportionate assault. #3E

An update on Jaime Garcia, who reportedly fell several stories from a greenhouse during yesterday’s immigration raid in Camarillo, California.

“The United Farm Workers union said it was told one worker fell several stories from a greenhouse at the Camarillo location. […] Strater said the person suffered catastrophic injuries and is not expected to survive.”

I’d missed this last week but Indiana passed a new law that is leading to the forced elimination of hundreds of majors across their state universities. Apropos of recent events, the eliminated majors include atmospheric science. Sabotage is a word that comes to mind. www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

This disastrous bloodbath is coming for every single R1 university in the country. I still can’t believe the total lack of loud public collective action to speak out against it. It’s mind-boggling to me. Mancur Olson was right, I guess.

“Plaintiff Abrego Garcia reports that he was subjected to severe mistreatment upon arrival at CECOT, including but not limited to severe beatings, severe sleep deprivation, inadequate nutrition, and psychological torture,” the court filing says. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

BREAKING The University of Pennsylvania has come to an agreement with the Trump administration on what the Department of Education said was its Title IX violations. This will include stripping trans athlete Lia Thomas of her records, titles, and recognitions.

Yikes: "Around 315 Guard personnel were deployed to assist DEA in executing a federal search warrant"—a deployment that "appears to be unauthorized" even under Trump's memorandum federalizing National Guard units.

LAPD showed up—not to stop the violence—but to shield ICE. The man was eventually hospitalized with head trauma. His phone, which held the footage, was seized as “evidence.” This is what happens when you dare to speak up, but they won’t stop us. Tyranny is here, and it’s wearing a badge.

🧵 1/2 US citizen tackled by ICE in downtown LA—for filming them harassing street vendors. They pinned him face-down, punched him, & then left him seizing on the street. When his family tried to intervene, they were shoved & threatened. The man never touched an ICE thug. Video in 2 parts

This is Trump’s America. It’s not the America I want to live in. Violence against anyone on our soil, let alone violence against a US Citizen by a group of thugs racially profiling our communities is unacceptable! @padilla.senate.gov @schiff.senate.gov @mikethompson.house.gov @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov

Beloved Ohio high school soccer star kidnapped by ICE and deported www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

Sayed Naser served as a U.S. military interpreter in Afghanistan. Now he’s being deported. The Taliban assassinated his brother and kidnapped his father. All because he helped us. Why are the feds trying to deport him, even though his asylum case is still pending? Not justice, it’s a betrayal.

Just some creepy armed Mad Max guys trying to gain entry to Dodgers Stadium. ICE says it wasn’t them. DHS says they were Border Patrol. But honestly who the hell knows? They’ve given permission for any psycho to put on a ski mask, point a gun, grab people & throw them into an unmarked vehicle.

Hi, this is Meg Barnette, Brad's wife. While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE. This is still developing, and our team is monitoring the situation closely.

Welp

This is f*cked up! Stories of ICE luring immigrants to hearings just to arrest them keep coming—now they’re going after kids. Martir Garcia Lara, a fourth grader from Southern California, went to a hearing in Houston with his dad. Instead of an update, they were both detained and separated by ICE.

Heavily armed paramilitary forces stormed a local San Diego restaurant today, deployed stun grenades against a crowd of onlookers, and kidnapped a handful of kitchen workers.

UN secretary-general says Israel’s war on Gaza is intensifying ‘with atrocious levels of death and destruction’.

🚨According to litigators, ICE just put a dozen men on a flight (which may have already taken off) to SOUTH SUDAN, a country on the brink of civil war, in direct defiance of a court order requiring ICE to give people an opportunity to raise objections before being sent to a country not their own.

After an ICE raid in Waltham, MA, on May 4, a 12-year-old boy was left alone after agents arrested the adult with him. A Neighborhood Watch volunteer told the child his rights & walked him home. Agents refused to ID themselves, and one drove his car at City Councilor Colleen Bradley-MacArthur.

Possibly the most brazen, bald-faced corruption in American political history abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...

If Congress valued the Constitution, it would impeach Trump for bribery. The Constitution bans US officials—explicitly including POTUS—from accepting things of value from foreign govts. Ben Franklin famously gave up a gift from France as ambassador. US institutions now see blatant bribery as ok.

President Trump, whose administration has insisted it could not bring Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia back from El Salvador to the U.S., said he does have the ability to help return the wrongly deported man, but is not willing to do so because he believes he is a gang member.

A horrible story but god bless this woman so accurately reading the ICE goons for filth here

Please highlight this story. ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago. kfor.com/news/local/w...

Harmful bleaching of the world’s coral has grown to include 84% of the ocean’s reefs in the most intense event of its kind in recorded history, the International Coral Reef Initiative announced. cnn.it/3EDO9oF

One of the most shocking things I have read for a while: t.co/lg46ijHLDF

CEO of The Federalist is opening calling on Trump to defy the Supreme Court.

Checking the interest rates at Treasury's latest debt auctions. Note that CBO projects that Washington's average interest rate remains at 3.5% essentially forever. Instead, we're still seeing a lot of 4.0-4.8 rates - and rising. What do rising interest rates mean for the federal budget? 🧵

This is some scary shit—and everyone needs to pay attention because it could affect any one of us. Rachel Maddow & NPR just blew the lid off Musk’s DOGE team. A whistleblower at the NLRB says they accessed data without authorization and breached security. The potential motive is pretty shocking. 🧵

Autocrats erase the boundary between public and private - and now DOGE is seeking to assign "teams" to private organizations that receive federal funds. Yet another line has been crossed. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

No notes: @mattdoyle.bsky.social I know you will fully appreciate this….

El Salvador is a contractor providing the United States with a paid service. The idea that we couldn’t get anyone they’re holding back with the snap of a finger just by asking is so ludicrous on its face, it seems less like a real excuse and more like a test of how much shit the courts will eat.

One of hundreds of people abducted by ICE and sold to slavery in El Salvador was a 19 year old with no criminal record in the US or Venezuela and no tattoos of any kind. An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one." The other said, "Take him anyway." So they did.

“The Trump administration is indeed discussing this idea behind the scenes …. In their most serious form, these conversations have revolved around attempting to denaturalize American citizens and deport them to other countries, including El Salvador.”

Sumy 💔 A family mourns the loss of a loved one. 21 people killed and at least 20 more injured as of the current information. Today is an important church holiday in the Easter Orthodox tradition. Many people were headed to church in Sumy this morning...

If the government can pay a foreign state to imprison you and, in so doing, remove you from the protection of US law, the Constitution is worthless.