This is a great way to respond to a SLAPP suit. Well done.

BREAKING🚨: 120 buoys staged for Trump's Rio Grande floating barrier broke loose near Eagle Pass, closing bridges. They're drifting toward Laredo, where officials declared an emergency, expecting them at the Colombia Bridge by Sunday, threatening water supplies & trade. Read full story: 🔗🦂

The Trump DOJ is trying to deport someone they deem an "alien terrorist" in a highly secretive DC court that is being tapped for the first time in 30 years. Much of this matter is classified. And according to the rules, the DOJ's application is submitted straight to the judge and filed under seal.

I wrote in my 2021 book REIGN OF TERROR that we had yet to see the final form of the War on Terror. Events this week, from ICE in Maine to Marco Rubio's attempt designate the left as a foreign terrorist organization, have me thinking that we're getting a preview.

DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin just claimed stats we don't hear often. The US government forcefully deported 442,637 people in 2025. The number stands at 403,294 in 2026 so far.

Surprise, surprise. The docs they unclassified show the opposite of what Trump claimed. www.notus.org/trump-white-...

He reportedly called his ex-wife to ask her to "lie for him" and to "cover for his character."

Story on the day's hearing (which, btw, is still ongoing)

It is telling that the Trump administration refuses to release the OLC memo that serves as the legal permission slip for the boat strikes.

HIRONO: DOJ has sued 30 states seeking voter lists. 14 of those lawsuits have been resolved. Did any of those 14 judges agree w/DOJ's position? BLANCHE: Yes HIRONO: Pardon? B: The answer to the question is yes H: Actually, that's not correct. The answer is no. Some of them were Trump appointees.

Permanent standard time is better for health, and Congress is ignoring the science on this. If we want more sunlight after work, let's end workdays sooner — not wake up in darkness. med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...

A man was struck and killed by a truck in Florida while fleeing a federal immigration operation today, the Florida Highway Patrol confirmed, the third death connected to immigration enforcement efforts in the past week.

Security camera footage obtained from local businesses showed individuals who are believed to be U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers surrounding a car and pulling the driver onto the street, in events connected to the fatal shooting of a man in a coastal town in Maine on July 13.

A 20% charge would work out to about $32 million for a fully-loaded very large crude carrier at current oil prices. That’s far higher than the tolls that have been charged by Iran, which have previously been described as reaching $2 million www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I spoke with a nurse who has worked at a Bronx Hospital for 39 years and is now being laid off, along with 11 other nurses, to be replaced by AI. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

smalltime rapper called "Bankroll" boasts about partying with yacht bitches, having a jewish lawyer & all his "pesos" was arrested for a scheme that filed 446 sham returns seeking $7.9m in tax refunds check this low-key diss from the feds who say his watch, which retails for $350,000+, was a fake

“All of them reiterated that there were never any ICE agents in front of the van … They came in and started shooting from the sides.” Consistent testimony from all three men who were with Lorenzo Salgado Araujo when ICE killed him. DHS is pressuring them to leave the US before they’re deported:

related, I have sent this @drewmagary.bsky.social column to so many people lately. it really speaks to the moment of what ALL publishers — of any size, content type, funding model — are up against right now

I'm been wondering if it would come to this and apparently it has. huge move from cloudflare, which hosts a fifth of all websites on earth.

"On Thursday, DHS officials said the officers involved had not yet received their body-worn cameras and blamed government shutdowns they say delayed funding for that equipment." So we can see all the footage from the cameras ICE has deployed, right? Right? www.click2houston.com/news/local/2...

Ukraine hitting Russia’s shadow fleet with drones—impressive to identify and locate all these ships—undermining the funds that fuel Russia’s war machine. Another reason I think there’ll be a global energy supply crunch: on top of what’s stuck in the Gulf, a lot of Russian capacity is knocked out.

Good. One thing worth noting here is that I think it’s effectively impossible to draw any practicable or meaningful distinction between “promoting” some idea or ideology and discussing it in a serious way. You cannot have an adult conversation about an idea without presenting it in its best form.

An Israeli strike in Gaza just before the kickoff of the Egypt-Argentina World Cup match killed a top Palestinian aid official who helped organize public screenings of the game across the enclave. apnews.com/article/gaza...

This is the just outcome. That red card was an imprudent call by the referee.

What a great effort by one hell of an underdog. Like the Telemundo hosts said, this was the most emotionally riveting game of the World Cup so far.

Last year ICE said a man tried to murder a female ICE officer while she was trying to arrest him. They swore under oath he grabbed her by the neck and tried to choke her to death. He was even indicted for attempted murder. Problem is, it never happened! Bystander video unraveled the lie.

NEW: Federal immigration officials have detained more than 10,000 people in the last 5 days, a major surge that has stemmed from a push at ICE to increase arrests. The WH has wanted more arrests. The expectation inside ICE is 2K arrests a day. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/u...

New: there is a major vulnerability with Apple’s Hide My Email feature that lets attackers discover peoples’ real emails. Verified it works on my own email. We’re not disclosing how it works because Apple has not fixed it. But Apple has known for more than a year www.404media.co/apple-hide-m...

The entire nation is on vacation for the rest of the week for the 250th, right? Right?

The US State Department warns Americans not to travel *north or south* of a street that splits an Ecuadorian city in half "due to terrorism and crime." Well, we keep deporting people there and this journalist has a job to do. See y'all on the other side.

you can’t blame everything on him, but: he campaigned on this www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

A huge night for Zohran Mamdani and the DSA. gothamist.com/news/nyc-pri...

New book from my new @notus.com colleague.

In 2025, the baby name “Donald” hit its lowest point of popularity in U.S. history, according to data maintained by the Social Security Administration and reviewed by NOTUS. https://www.notus.org/donald-trump/donald-baby-name-popularity

NEW: Insane screwup inside Meta. The company exposed worker keystroke data that was being used to train AI — making it potentially accessible to anyone at the company. The data included personnel and performance info, private convos, full transcriptions…imagine your coworkers seeing all of that.

TMZ meets reflecting pool police state is the coverage we deserve. www.tmz.com/2026/06/22/w...

Surely this life is a simulation, because it's a badly written simulation.

MIT researchers think they've worked out exactly how Russia's Burevestnik nuclear-powered missile flies. "It's almost certainly a terrible idea," one analyst said. "But it's not an impossible idea." n.pr/4fNzaZA

"Activities such as speeding, walking a dog not on a leash, or fishing without a valid license may now serve as the basis for the government filing a civil denaturalization complaint in federal courts." From new TRAC report on rising denaturalizations. tracreports.org/reports/774/

The DOJ would like this scandal to go away. Let's see if the judge has other plans. www.notus.org/courts/broad...

BLUMENTHAL: Was the Capitol attacked on January 6? BERTHIAUME: Uh. We had activity outside the Capitol, protests and such BLUMENTHAL: Was the Capitol attacked? You're supposed to be the inspector general BERTHIAUME: There was protest activity

Egad

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Kohen Wiley, a 1-year-old child, is dead after a Mississippi police officer shot into a car and killed him. Family members say his mother was holding him in the passenger seat. The officers were responding to a shoplifting call over a box of diapers at the Senatobia Walmart.

The Trump government, in its hunt for antifascists who counter ICE raids, now has its first case explicitly against a "rapid response" group — in Minnesota. RRs are the activist networks that ID undercover feds and coordinate citizen monitors.

💣 www.notus.org/senate/senat...

SCOOP from @by-cjewett.bsky.social & me: Markwayne Mullin urged the Department of Health and Human Service to remove warnings from the FDA website about the health risks of the gas station drug kratom. Mullin owns equity in a leading kratom company called Botanic Tonics that could have benefited.

did you see that video of Knicks fans smashing up a yellow cab after Game 4? @jmartineznyc.bsky.social spoke with the cabbie, and it’s really heartbreaking: