FTA: #FBI agents now deployed alongside #ICE have been taken away from... cybercrimes, drug trafficking, terrorism, espionage, violent crimes, counterintelligence... For long-term #whitecollarcrime prosecution trends, see this link: tracreports.org/reports/760/

ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants

Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties

Does President #Trump and Secretary #Hegseth understand who comes to the minds of generals when they hear the phrase "enemy within"? Aren't generals deeply committed to "support and defend the #Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic"?

Nvidia’s chips are no longer welcome in China

A sample of what Meta's GenAI: Content Risk Standards deem acceptable when chatting with teens: "I take your hand, guiding you to the bed. Our bodies entwined, I cherish every moment, every touch, every kiss." #DigitalEpstein #facebook #instagram #chatbot

CA's prison population peaked at about 170,000. Today it's 91,000. Closures / loss of jobs can be tough on some towns. However, the article notes that Norco in Riverside County argues it "can find a better use for the site. It was an art deco hotel before it was a state prison."

#CPB informed its employees today that the majority of staff positions will conclude with the close of the fiscal year on 9/30/25. A small transition team will remain through Jan 2026 to ensure a responsible and orderly closeout of operations.

MAGA is actively seeking to destroy the VA direct care system *because it is effective* and they don't want anyone to see how well government can work for the people. We must defend VA. www.stripes.com/veterans/202...

BREAKING: ICE officials will gain access to personally identifiable information for all Medicaid enrollees, according to an agreement obtained by the AP.

Rising government debt poses greatest risk to US market standing, says BlackRock reut.rs/3I7BWKi

U.S. imprisonment peaked in 2009 with 1.6 million incarcerated Americans.... But now, “rapidly declining numbers of youth are committing crimes, getting arrested, and being incarcerated..." #crime #prison

Bill Moyers was one of the greatest humans i ever knew. The world is a far better place for hin having been in it www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/b...

"Four years after Gov. #GregAbbott announced #Texas would be the first state to build its own #borderwall, lawmakers have quietly stopped funding the project, leaving only scattered segments covering a small fraction of the border."

An airline-owned data broker collected US travelers’ flight records, sold them to Customs and Border Protection, and then as part of the contract told CBP to not reveal where the data came from, according to a contract obtained by 404 Media.

"Administration sources told CBS News on Sunday that the White House was not aware that an attack was coming." My 2 cents: all Ukraine needs to do to attract Trump support is succeed on their own so Trump can take credit for their work.

The Worst Person You Know Just Made Some Great Points

“When #Congress created the #CPB, it stated clearly that the CPB is not ‘an agency or establishment of the U.S. Government,’” CPB said in court filings. “This alone demonstrates that the CPB is not an executive agency....”

#LasVegas #Nevada #Layoffs #Trump

How well do most Americans understand the Fourth Amendment? Here's a brief and simple intro from 2023. #DOJ #UnitedStates #Constitution #SearchAndSeizure

BREAKING: The World Food Program says its food stocks in Gaza have run out under Israel’s nearly 8-week-old blockade, ending a main source of sustenance for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the territory.

where we are in 2025: major universities seeking a mutual-protection treaty against the U.S. president

Trump and Navarro’s genius plan for shrinking trade deficits looks like it’s sending them soaring instead.

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. -FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.

"The move carries particular significance given #Sheinbaum’s Jewish heritage.... Her administration has openly criticized #Israel’s attacks on #Palestinian territories, aligning #Mexico with other nations advocating for Palestinian self-determination."

The question Martin Luther King Jr. asked in his last speech: substack.com/@johnfdicker...

DT criticized U.S. aid to #Ukraine and framed them as the aggressor. Now 77% of Republicans want to end the war asap (per Gallop). U.S. support for Ukraine was leverage against #Putin. We're not negotiating from strength but a desire to quit. So why would Putin stop at only 20% of Ukraine?

“The Postal Service is American. It’s a public good. It’s not here to make a profit and we all depend on it.”

I recommend this Andrew Marantz article for those interested in understanding (rather than making a quick judgement about) the dude-heavy world of para-social media. He also spoke to Fresh Air recently: www.npr.org/2025/03/20/n...

"Longtermism... very techno utopian ideology.... decisions about cognitive enhancement at birth... So what we really should do is give more money to rich, productive, white people who are producing all these amazing technologies..." #longtermism #Bostrom #Musk #eugenics #thebellcurve

Actually, the White House explicitly admitted to violating the order. Their claim is they don’t have to comply with court orders.

The #DOJ attorneys arguing in support of #Hegseth‘s #transgender military ban hadn’t read any of the studies submitted to the court that allegedly supported it. It turns out that the studies don’t support the ban.

The Republicans who saw that Trump was possible as a national candidate are like the zoo lions who eat a human and don't want to go back to cold meat.

Musk claims Social Security is a "gigantic magnet to attract illegal immigrants." In fact, immigrants here illegally do not collect Social Security. But they pay $25.7 billion a year into it, a recent study found, so these undocumented workers are actually subsidizing Americans.

Rep. Mark Alford: "It is true that the Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security make up about 75% of our budget. We've got to find the savings there. We will do that."

In the lead-up to the 2016 election, #Facebook employees embedded with the Trump campaign helped it micro-target potential voters, feeding them bespoke ads filled with “misinformation, inflammatory posts and fund-raising messages.” (Clinton campaign declined Facebook’s offer to embed employees.)

Only 36 companies account for half of global emissions, report estimates https://www.ft.com/content/7ba9da9c-2bba-4c0d-8ea0-ba907325a611

It's just enormously important to understand that the goal of this tariff policy isn't to raise money or to increase manufacturing in the United States. The goal is to make some of the nation's largest companies subject to Trump's personal discretion and dependent on his favor.

effort and talent AND investment #education #therebutforafortune

DT's imagined role as "dealmaker" is shattering, and those outside the #GOP aren't inclined to indulge him.

Today's "find $880 billion" (highlighted in #AOC's comments) sounds to me an awful lot like 2020's "find 11,780 votes" in Georgia. #medicaid #budget

Warning: @financialtimes.com looks at a very grim aspect of war in #Ukraine. Executing prisoners appears to prosecutors like Russian policy. Beyond Ukraine, as U.S. removes its guardrails, a question for the #Trump admin: is there such a thing as a war crime? Or is all fair...? #genevaconvention

"Our imagination of a coup or regime change is that there are tanks and violence and somebody shoots up the chandelier in the presidential palace," @anneapplebaum.bsky.social says. "Actually, nowadays, that's not how democracies fail. They fail through attacks on institutions coming from within."

Senate Armed Services Chair Roger Wicker says Pete Hegseth made a “rookie mistake” by calling a return to Ukraine’s pre-war borders “unrealistic.” “I don’t know who wrote the speech — it is the kind of thing Tucker Carlson could have written, and Carlson is a fool.” www.politico.eu/article/sena...

Literally all they’re doing is a private equity play. They need these offices so they’ll have to rent them back putting further strain on the budget and justifying further cuts (while their friends make money on the deal)

DT on U.S. Treasury bonds: "It could be that a lot of those things don't count.... some of that stuff that we're finding is very fraudulent, therefore maybe we have less debt than we thought." Who's the "we" there? About 2/3s of treasuries ($27 TRILLION) are owned by domestic sources. #trump #bonds

USAID is responsible for about $2 billion in U.S. commodity purchases annually for humanitarian food aid. Sec. of Ag. nominee Brooke Rollins is cruising through confirmation process. Ask her how "international aid" helps those in the U.S. heartland. #usaid #farmers #musk #trump