ICE is gone but DC cops are still out at V and 14th, getting heckled by an angry crowd after one person was supposedly arrested by feds in a roadblock aimed at immigrants

Situation on 14th St and W St. NW, with federal agents -- no specific agency identified -- pulling cars over for checks. They arrested a Black woman in this car. BIG crowd of people shouting at police. "Fuck you!" "What is wrong with you!" "You don't need to terrorize people like this!"

I can see my old building in this photo

Twitter is not real life

People who pay their rent on time can establish credit scores or significantly raise low scores if the payments are reported to credit bureaus, new research found.

NY lawmakers, take note.

Brad Lander gets the @ezraklein endorsement: "He has far more experience and far better relationships inside New York City government than Cuomo does. And he has a far deeper record at pushing progressive change through the machinery of the city than Mamdani does." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/o...

“It could be to the point where we lose our planting and having the ground ready, and even then, why plan if we cannot even harvest? [...] the amount we need in order to cover that cost of growing, we have to have much broader personnel than just family hands-on.”

"I'm happy to report I'm just fine. I lost a button. But I'm gonna sleep in my bed tonight, safe, with my family... At that elevator, I was separated from someone named Edgardo... Edgardo is in ICE detention and he's not going to sleep in his bed tonight."

There’s always a tweet.

There's a debate about if Lander getting arrested was a stunt? Of course it was a stunt, and it was a good one. He's got the race's best photo op, he raised awareness that they will arrest anyone without a warrant, and most importantly he put his body on the line to do good. Nothing wrong there.

Padilla: I was forced to the ground, first on my knees and then flat on my chest. And as I was handcuffed and marched down a hallway repeatedly asking, why am I being detained? Not once did they tell me why. I pray you never have a moment like this

For those outside NYC, Brad Lander isn’t just a mayor candidate, he’s also the NYC Comptroller—the chief financial officer and auditor of the biggest city in the country.

"You don't have the authority to arrest U.S. citizens," Lander tells ICE agents as they hustle him out

Holy shit. DHS just detained New York City Comptroller Brad Lander, a candidate for NYC mayor, as he was observing ICE arrests in court.

Here it is: deadline.com/2025/06/trum...

This has been reported in the Hollywood trades, but not in politics pages: Apparently the vintage Army uniforms that were used in Trump's big military parade were rented from Hollywood prop houses. They didn't support the parade but were happy to get the work during tough times for production.

WE HAVE QUESTIONS… This is a kidnapping. No uniform, no badge, civilian car. Who are they? ICE? Sanctioned bounty hunters? Either way, they’re grabbing people without warrants. How often is this happening, and why aren’t more people talking about it? Congress?

Russia was kicked out of the G8 in March 2014 exactly BECAUSE it launched its war in Ukraine by invading and forcibly annexing Crimea.

It does feel a bit like RCV is turning into an electorate-wide LSAT, complete with essential test-preparation courses.

I am embarrassed to admit that I did not know before now that ICE has not had a Senate-confirmed director since the Obama administration ended. Given ~everything~ that has happened since 2017, how is that not a scandal?

Based on crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event turnout, and extrapolating for the cities where we don't have data yet, it looks like roughly 4-6 million people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday. That's nearly 2% of the U.S. pop! Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels

My latest scoop: ICE has rescinded its accountability policy for warrantless arrests, giving agents “free license to make any arrest,” per one lawyer representing victims. It follows @theguardian.com exclusive that the agency was told to “push the envelope” to meet Trump’s 3k arrest quota.

NEW: Officials are responding to reports of a disturbance inside Delaney Hall, an immigration detention facility in Newark. Masked officers seen carrying pepper spray inside amid complaints of meager meals and unsanitary conditions. W/ @traceytully.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/n...

Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.

Yeah that name led to a lot of questions (it was not the Musk Starlink, just had the same name): "Subaru STARLINK is now MySubaru Connected Services"

In my time in the Senate I've never seen a Senator treated this way. @padilla.senate.gov is carrying out his constitutional responsibility to conduct oversight and defend the people he represents. Absolutely shocking and disgusting way to handle a sitting member of Congress.

The Bullwark just posted this from Padilla's staff, that's Senator Padilla on the ground.

If I were an elected official I would not stay in DC this weekend with that much military hardware in town, and under control by these folks.

AOC: When they say illegal vs legal immigration—they are trying to end legal status in the US making people undocumented and then they have the audacity to call them illegal when they were here documented.

🚨 Secretary Noem basically said that her agency is now dedicated to forcible regime change…in American cities and states. There 👏🏽 is 👏🏽 a 👏🏽 name 👏🏽 for 👏🏽 this

For the past year I've been working as executive editor of @insidephilanthropy.com. Almost everything we cover is paywalled but this week we dropped a Special Report on How Philanthropy Can -- and Is -- Responding to Authoritarianism. It's all outside the paywall, and linked below.

Trump just admitted that his mass deportations are bad for farmers and the economy, and crucially, also admitted that workers who are getting deported are "almost impossible to replace." That's a massive repudiation of MAGA ideology:

Last month I toured the miles-long "national defense areas" Trump invented along the US-MX border, supposedly giving the military the authority to detain people for "trespassing." I wrote: "What if he starts declaring them throughout the country?" Well, look at LA. www.huffpost.com/entry/milita...

The set-up to the tipping point event to come

incredible. www.jta.org/2025/06/10/u...

🚨Second poll comes out in as many days showing Trump/Miller's regime's dictatorial tactics targeting LA/CA is backfiring (yesterday YouGov showed double disapproval of deployment of Marines) These polls make the blowhards among East Coast media/pol elites look out of touch w rest of America. (1/2)

The amount of times I've been door-knocked, texted or called this primary season in NYC makes me feel like I live in Iowa.

This DC bar race drew more voters than some NYC City Council primary contests.

Rep. Gomez: LA County alone is 34% foreign born, 34%. So when he says they're going to liberate us, who is he going to liberate us from? Ourselves?

This should be a national debate, not an executive power grab. 📌 The Posse Comitatus Act prevents the president from using the military as a domestic police force.

America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.

The Supreme Court keeps letting Trump break the law because he's doing it in a way that aligns with the conservative majority's own agenda. I think the justices will regret this approach when they tell Trump to stop doing something they don't like and he says "make me." slate.com/news-and-pol...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal judge blocks immigration authorities from revoking international students' legal status nationwide.

Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner survived an impeachment initiated by GOP lawmakers and clashed with Elon Musk. After all that, his reelection bid this week turned out to be a carbon copy of his easy win four years ago over a more punitive challenger. boltsmag.org/larry-k...

“Democrats in Congress should decide whether they are physically and mentally up to the task of stopping the Republican effort to tear down America’s institutions—or make way for those who are.” newrepublic.com/post/195617/...

SCOOP: Less than two weeks before the start of hurricane season, the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) rescinded the agency’s strategic plan, which includes a document that guides agency priorities when responding to disasters, WIRED has learned.

If a foreign adversary snuck into our Federal budget and cut science research and education the way we’re cutting it ourselves — strategically undermining America’s long-term health, wealth, and security — we would likely consider it an act of war.

This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?