While using these trucks for raids is probably not illegal, it flies in the face of the latest 9th Circuit order to stop making arrests without probable cause. www.latimes.com/california/s...

A life-saving miracle of science, developed over decades, is being scrapped by HHS.

#Earthquake Update: A magnitude 4.5 earthquake took place 6 km N of Fontana, California at 9:32:24 AM. #light For details from the USGS and to report shaking:

#earthquake in SoCal, 4.5 near Fontana. Had slight shaking in the SF Valley.

Not surprising because so many economists predicted this: www.latimes.com/business/sto...

BREAKING: We’re suing to block the Trump-Vance admin’s unlawful restrictions on funding for programs focused on domestic violence, sexual assault, housing, youth & homelessness. This is the latest in a series of attempts by this admin to weaponize federal funding to push their anti-equity agenda.

Trump’s National Guard Troops Are Questioning Their Mission in L.A. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/u...

In January a masked man identifying himself as a bounty hunter in WA reported to a city council that ICE is recruiting their squads to capture “illegals” at $1000/person. www.latimes.com/california/s...

"Immigration is also helping drive the strongest period of economic growth since Spain’s construction boom in the mid-2000s. Between 2022 and 2024, average GDP per capita increased 2.9 percent — the strongest of the E.U.’s four largest economies." wapo.st/4kSg2t7

Hmm: former NBCU chief Jeff Shell “anointed as the new CBS chief if the deal gets done. He is likely to downsize the organization and, according to sources, address the alleged political biases in its news programming that are at the center of the Trump lawsuit.”

#breaking Kennedy and Oz will announce news on Monday about Medicare. #healthcare

They’re keeping tabs on even relatively under-the-radar journalists…and deporting them: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Pope Leo is sending Trump a clear message about how he intends to lead. The first U.S. bishop appointed by Pope Leo XIV—a refugee himself—is mobilizing priests to accompany migrants to immigration court on June 20th, which also marks International Refugee Day. Thank you, Pope Leo. #OnYourSide

What framing—this woman at the right shoulder of Cardinal Blase Cupich like an angel as he delivers a sermon against othering our neighbors and the ICE raids. #popeleomass #chicago

ICE agents are making arrests inside Chicago's immigration court hallways again this morning. Reportedly three people detained so far after exiting their hearings.

House votes to claw back $1.1 billion from public media www.npr.org/2025/06/12/g...

This is the most straightforward thing they've said so far. They're using the military to "liberate" Los Angeles from its mayor and governor.

Breaking: Statement from LA County Supervisor Janice Hahn on @padilla.senate.gov being shoved, expelled and handcuffed today.

Both statements are from last night. Note difference between how Trump characterizes conditions in LA ("RIOTS AND LOOTERS"), vs how the LAPD does ("Peaceful Protests")

Latest from L. A. Mayor Bass.

In her just-released statement, LA County supervisor @hildasolis.bsky.social reminds LA residents to contact the county’s immigrant affairs office for support during this Fed action: oia.lacounty.gov/about-us/

There are two pathways to what Trump is doing: 1) He is federalizing 2000 National Guard troops; or 2) He is deploying 2000 members of another state’s National Guard with the permission of *that* state’s governor. These posts walk through the relevant authorities—and the questions they raise:

For the love of god plz SOMEONE in the White House pool report on the legal authority invoked in this memorandum

1/ If accurate, this is almost certainly a conflict with the Posse Comitatus Act, which prohibits the use of the military for domestic law enforcement, including the National Guard if they are federalized.

🚨NEW: @cbsnews.com reports ICE is arresting people who can't even legally be deported and holding them without enough food or water in a federal building BASEMENT in Los Angeles. Families dutifully attending check-ins with ICE are being arrested and held for days, forced to sleep on the floor.

This seems like a good time to recommend @radleybalko.bsky.social Rise of the Warrior Cop and @kathleenbelew.bsky.social Bring the War Home bookshop.org/p/books/rise... bookshop.org/p/books/brin...

#AltCitizen 🖕✊️

Video from about an hour ago as less than lethal rounds are being used against protesters in Southern California

It looks like protesters at a freeway exit and near the Home Depot stopped what was meant as a significant raid: www.latimes.com/california/s...

BREAKING: Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, said he plans to send the National Guard to Los Angeles to combat protests against ICE that began this weekend following immigration raids in the city. www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

Think broader: Higher Ed is America's premier example where we have a dominant trade surplus with the world & Trump's intent on destroying it.

“The retaliatory investigation against Ms. Lau is one example of how Alex Villanueva used the LASD to target and harass his political opponents,” www.latimes.com/california/s...

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. threatened to bar government scientists from publishing in major medical journals, saying on a podcast that three top journals were “corrupt” and influenced by pharmaceutical companies.

All universities are now being Harvard’ed: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...

If they mandate this, people are going to die.

Police reform and civil rights activists joined thousands of ordinary people Sunday to mark the fifth anniversary of George Floyd’s murder at religious services, concerts and vigils nationwide and decry the Trump administration for setting their efforts back decades.

Immigrants following the government’s rules for asylum and due process get rounded up: apple.news/ARFDf0tNrQoi...

As @swin24.bsky.social , the author of this piece, just said on MSNBC, this orgy of corruption can’t be impressed too much in the public consciousness.

This is a massive redistribution of wealth — from poor people, to defense contractors and private prison execs. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Senate votes to overturn California's landmark ban on new gas-only car sales - Los Angeles Times www.latimes.com/environment/...

Yesterday, Republicans in the Senate tried to jam through the SAVE Act –– which would lead to the disenfranchisement of millions of eligible American citizens if passed. I blocked it.

When he showed up to an immigration meeting in Memphis, Kasper Eriksen thought he was on the verge of becoming a citizen. Then ICE arrested the Mississippi father of four, not even giving him a chance to say goodbye to his wife, whisking him away to a prison. @nickjudin.bsky.social reports:

Boyle: "This is really the breaking news ... because of the size of the deficits, because of the paygo act, that would trigger sequestration of Medicare, and it would total over $500 billion. The official figure that CBO confirms is $535 billion in cuts to Medicare."

Phew! Now add to this unreal list the USDOJ starting an investigation into the NY Mayor’s top political rival, and “Operation Guardian Angel” pulling undocumented inmates out of CA custody to put them in…what? Foreign gulags?

🚨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.

The DeVos family is back at it and about to write some big, big checks to try to turn *everything* in Michigan red. There's a lot more to this story – so I want to break it down 🧵

Passengers on Southwest Airlines flights will soon be required to keep their portable chargers in plain sight while using them because of concerns about the growing number of lithium battery fires.