Dissent is patriotic. We have a right to disagree and dissent with those in power and demand a better world.

What, exactly, are we celebrating this Fourth of July? Our cutting off healthcare to the needy to enrich the greedy? Our new concentration camps? Our dying economy? Our ditching due process? Our corruption? Our broken Congress? Our corrupt Supreme Court? Our ridiculous buffoon President?

It appears that the United States is going to celebrate its Semiquincentennial Anniversary by burning itself to the ground and then salting the earth. Glory!

Went home and hugged my dog. We take one big collective breath and then we gear up. The battle wages on…

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

With ICE's *enormous* new budget and its ability to hire *many* more agents, the United States is about to enter an era of brutal domestic terrorism that we've never seen before.

1/6 RFK Jr. says “working scientists” aren’t part of his staff cuts. That’s a lie. Scientists are quietly being forced out of CDC and NIH through Title 42 contract lapses - with no public announcement and no plan to replace them. 🧵

NEW: SCOTUS shoots down a federal judge’s effort to protect eight men from being expelled—without due process—to South Sudan, where they face torture and death. Dissenting, Sotomayor says the court’s “indefensible” decision makes it complicit in “lawlessness.” www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

What, exactly, are we celebrating tomorrow? Our cutting off healthcare to the needy to enrich the greedy? Our new concentration camps? Our dying economy? Our ditching due process? Our corruption? Our broken legislature? Our corrupt SCOTUS? Our ridiculous buffoon president? #FourthOfJuly

I am deceased.

Let’s be clear. Mamdani can: ✅ freeze the rent in rent regulated apts (~2M NYCers benefit) Mayor controls. ✅ deliver fast buses. Mayor largely controls streets, can speed buses ✅ in an excellent position w/ a strong campaign to make Hochul tax the rich to pay for big stuff.

A win! Edward “Big Balls” Coristine is out at the Department of Government Efficiency!

Andrew Cuomo gets publicly humiliated. Bill Clinton learns his endorsement is worth less than dogshit. What a great time to be a hater. A golden age.

They’re planning on building a detention center for migrants in the middle of the fetid swamps of Florida. If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.

Here's your periodic reminder that political centrism is nonsense. There is no middle ground between democracy and oligarchy.

A win! Thank you to everyone who spoke out! After facing bipartisan resistance, the Senate Parliamentarian, ruled that Sen. Mike Lee’s proposal to sell off millions of acres of federal land cannot be included under reconciliation rules.

“B-2 stealth bombers have taken off from the US and are headed over the Pacific, multiple news outlets reported, as Trump weighs American involvement in the war between Israel and Iran.” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Charlottesville Police have paused use of Peregrine software, not sharing Flock data

Happy #Caturday Try and stay cool today and stay hydrated.

Compton, CA: A masked, heavily-armed man wearing body armor jumped out of a SUV today to kidnap a local resident. He forgot to put the vehicle in park, causing it to roll down the street damaging other cars. He jumped in the vehicle (which had no platess) and drove off without identifying himself.

“.. ‘Our history and achievements are being belittled .. and it is intentional. But I believe that intent can work both ways. .. We wanted to show him on #Juneteenth what it looks like when people are intentional about showing our history.’” @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Fact:

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I looked this up, and yes, it is real. I've included an article about it in the comments. Please share for those who may need it. Thank you!

holy shit. Cuomo halted an investigation into the Weinstein case after a donation from Weinstein’s former lawyer’s firm to his reelection campaign… guys, this was in 2018 AFTER the Weinstein exposés (multiple) had been published & the #metoo movement was ascendant

An ICE officer said, "I don't need a warrant." Things are escalating. We may end up striking simply because we all fear going out. Soon, they will get anyone off the streets for "harboring" people. The ones they released didn't get their phones back. Glendale, CA.

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Ted Cruz "hates communists" because Cuban President Fulgencio Batista, who was *not* a communist, imprisoned and tortured Cruz's father for helping Fidel Castro, who *was* a communist and who freed Cruz's father from the non-communist prison. Proving, once again, that Cruz speaks absolute rubbish.

ICE is the cartel. They kidnap, cage, and traffic human beings without any due process or accountability. And they do it with your tax dollars. Burn it all down.

If you think it can’t happen here, remember that it already did. In 1942 soldiers came with rifles to our home and ordered us out. They put us in internment camps. Most of us were citizens.

Mahmoud Khalil is free.

After 450 million years of evolutionary history, shark populations are collapsing, and more than a third of shark species and their relatives face extinction. Now scientists are trying to use the lure of “Jaws” to advance shark conservation efforts.

In 2022, inspectors described a “cascade of failure” at one foreign factory. The FDA barred it from shipping drugs to the U.S. — then excused more than 20 drugs from the ban, despite risks to consumers.

an easy disguise: all you’d need are some black masks

BREAKING: In a unanimous decision, a federal court of appeals has ruled that Louisiana's law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in all public school classrooms is unconstitutional. We’ll keep saying it: Public schools are not Sunday schools.

"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm

Today, the Chicago City Council is scheduled to vote on an ordinance that would give the Chicago Police superintendent sole authority to enact a “snap curfew” with a 30-minute notice. thetriibe.com/2025/06/teen...

There’s no reconciliation without accountability. There’s no “healing” without trials. You don’t move forward by pretending fascism was a difference of opinion.

With everything else going on, the Senate sent the Big 💩 Bill back to the House, and made some changes. Here’s one:

Fuerza responds to scenes where alleged ICE enforcement is reported. If officers are indeed with ICE, they hit record and spread the word. They also speak directly with those being detained. They are part of a growing scrappy network of volunteers protecting neighbors from ICE. bit.ly/4lgke5N

CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @dccartoonist.bsky.social ) #Juneteenth

Except in the prison system

A proper headline. Take note, @washingtonpost.com