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Randi Weingarten, the longtime leader of one of the nation’s most influential labor unions and a major voice in Democratic politics,
has resigned from the Democratic National Committee.
She pointed to disagreements with the party’s new chairman, Ken Martin.
Ms. Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, had supported Mr. Martin’s rival in the chairmanship race early this year,
Ben Wikler, the chairman of the Wisconsin Democratic Party.
Mr. …

Randi Weingarten Quits D.N.C. Post in Dispute With Chairman
In a letter to the party’s chairman, Ken Martin, Ms. Weingarten wrote, “I appear to be out of step with the leadership you are forging.”

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Vom U-Bahnhof Schiffe gucken - das geht in Hamburg!
Denkt da auch an die Seeleute

Very pleased that 'just yelling at me like freaks' won this
https://c.im/@jake4480/114693281452790655

New Texans WR Christian Kirk: C.J. Stroud will ‘take this team as far as we want to go’ https://www.nfl.com/news/texans-wr-christian-kirk-c-j-stroud-will-take-this-team-as-far-as-we-want-to-go

Lawmakers are poised to extend Pell Grant eligibility to short-term credential programs.
With few guardrails in place, it could incentivize an explosion in unaccredited and for-profit providers.
https://www.insidehighered.com/ne…

Workforce Pell Would Extend Grants to Unaccredited Programs
Lawmakers are poised to extend Pell eligibility to short-term credential programs. With few guardrails in place, it could incentivize an explosion in unaccredited and for-profit providers.

⚠️ Please BE AWARE that there is a chance that if you transfer your save file from Switch to Switch 2, you may lose it. This person lost 20 years of data that they'd had since their Game Boy Advance. Totally brutal. It's a huge gamble, and to me, might not be worth it if you really value your save data.

'There's nothing I can do. I don't even know if I wanna play anymore' — Pokémon fan left devastated after '20 years worth of data' lost in Switch to Switch 2 transfer
‘My Scarlet save file is gone,’ sobs gamer. They say no error messages popped up during their Friday the 13th transfer attempt.

Le trafic est ralenti de Juvisy vers Versailles Château.
Pour plus d’informations sur cette perturbation, consultez le fil X du RER C.
Motif : malaise voyageur Š Juvisy.
🤖 16/06 08:46

celegans_metabolic: Metabolic network (C. elegans)
List of edges comprising the metabolic network of the nematode C. elegans.
This network has 453 nodes and 4596 edges.
Tags: Biological, Metabolic, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/celegans_metabolic

It’s authoritarianism and in-your-face grift all in a neat little uniquely American package
That it it’s his personal brand, not the state, is just the cherry on top.
https://bsky.app/profile/scottlincicome.bsky.social/post/3lrqa6jslpy2x

Scott Lincicome (@scottlincicome.bsky.social)
So the guy who can singlehandedly set US tariffs on smartphones is launching his own US smartphone company do I have that right

Kathrin Grund arbeitet in Santos bei São Paulo, Brasilien 🇧🇷 bei der Deutschen Seemannsmission.
Im Radio erzählt sie von Begegnungen mit Seeleuten und wie sie es ihnen schmackhaft macht, in der Stadt mit dem 18km langen Garten am Strand an Land zu gehen
https://on.soundcloud.com/EwQq60jmxqoY

The Mig Flash is admittedly a really cool, great idea, but you know Nintendo. You probably shouldn't use it unless you're ok with Nintendo maybe nuking your new Switch 2 😬

After just 12 days, Nintendo is already nuking Switch 2 consoles for players caught using Mig Flash — popular cartridge allows Switch 1 games on the new console, but users say they're only using their own ROMs
Affected users are barred from using online services on the console, for now.

Nabla, which offers an AI copilot for doctors and other medical staff, raised a $70M Series C led by HV Capital and says it now supports 85K clinicians (Judy Rider/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/ai/nabla-ai-copilot-agents-healthcare-fundin…

Nabla Lands $70M To Build AI Agents In Healthcare Settings
Paris-based Nabla, which has developed an AI copilot for doctors and other medical staff, announced Tuesday that it has raised $70 million in a Series C funding led by Germany’s HV Capital.

So far the Social Security agency’s core functions — like sending monthly checks to 74 million Americans — have remained largely intact.
But under pressure from Musk’s team, nearly half of the Social Security Administration’s 140 senior executives, and thousands of employees overall, have taken buyouts or retired.
As many as 12 percent of staff members, out of a bureaucracy that numbered around 57,000 people, are expected to depart their jobs as part of DOGE’s cost-cutting plan.

Inside DOGE’s Chaotic Takeover of Social Security
The drama offers a case study in how Elon Musk’s team sought to run a critical government agency through misinformation and social media blasts — and how longtime employees responded.

Which NFL players will improve in 2025? C.J. Stroud, Deebo Samuel among guaranteed risers https://www.nfl.com/news/which-nfl-players-will-improve-in-2025-c-j-stroud-deebo-samuel-among-guaranteed-risers

Etwa 90% des weltweiten Handels werden per Schiff transportiert

For the longest time, the c.im server didn't even accept or ask for donations, but I just got the notification that they are now, and I immediately donated. This place is too great.

Trump governs today in the wake of the near-complete dismantling of checks and balances on the executive branch -- at least in the foreign policy and national security realm.
Since the 9/11 attacks, Congress has granted the presidency more and more power over foreign affairs
and declined to take any of it back,
and the Supreme Court has been reluctant to provide any meaningful restraints.
Trump inherited an ever-expanding national security apparatus that operates wi…

Imperial President at Home, Emperor Abroad
American foreign policy in an age of unrestrained executive power.

Le trafic est momentanement interrompu entre Brétigny et Dourdan dans les 2 sens.
Pour plus d’informations sur cette perturbation, consultez le fil X du RER C.
Motif : individus sur les voies entre Arpajon et Egly
🤖 16/06 14:11

Turbulent relations between France and Israel are nothing new,
but even by those historical standards the crisis caused by President Emmanuel Macron’s apparently⭐️ imminent readiness to recognize a Palestinian state is acute.
https:…

France’s Macron Faces Dilemma With Intention to Recognize Palestinian State
The French-Israeli relationship has always been turbulent, but the prospect that President Emmanuel Macron may recognize a Palestinian state has brought tension to a new level.

Known as “white” asbestos,
chrysotile asbestos is banned in more than 50 countries
for its link to lung cancer and mesothelioma,
a cancer that forms in the lining of internal organs.
White asbestos, however, has been imported for use in the United States for roofing materials, textiles and cement as well as gaskets, clutches, brake pads and other automotive parts.
It is also used in chlorine manufacturing.
Last year the Environmental Protection Agency, u…

E.P.A. Plans to Reconsider a Ban on Cancer-Causing Asbestos
The Trump administration’s move sets back a decades-long effort to end the use of the material, which is widely banned in other countries.

Maritime Lieder
Ukulele
Seemannsgarn (auch mal ernst) von der Seemannsmission
Zum Mitspielen, Mitsingen, Zuhören.
Mit Ukulele Hamburg
Eintritt frei. Spende erbeten für die Seemannsmission.
Am Dienstag, 17.6. um 19 Uhr in der Christuskirche Eimsbüttel #ukulele #maritim

Mitsing und Mitspiel-Ukulele-Konzert
Zu einem maritimen Benefiz-Konzert laden die Deutsche Seemannsmission und der Ukulele Hamburg e.V. am Dienstag, 17. Juni von 19 bis 21 Uhr

"At the end of the day - who cares what you choose. Just choose something. Stop looking at it as 'blogging' or trying to 'capture an audience'."
Great piece by @… from a few years back on the importance of brain dumps and blogging:

The Trump administration is thinking about adding 26 more countries
—most of them African
—to his travel ban list.
The Washington Post obtained a Trump administration memo that would give the 26 countries listed 60 days to capitulate to State Department demands.
Some countries were flagged for having “no competent or cooperative central government authority to produce reliable identity documents or other civil documents,”
or “government fraud.”
There was …

Trump Wants to Ban a Quarter of the World From Traveling to the U.S.
If put into effect, it could jeopardize future events like the 2026 World Cup and 2028 Olympics.

Le trafic est interrompu entre Pont de Rungis et Massy-Palaiseau dans les 2 sens jusqu'Š 17h.
Pour plus d’informations sur cette perturbation, consultez le fil X du RER C.
Motif : affaires oubliées (en gare de Massy Palaiseau).
🤖 16/06 16:00

Robert Reich here, with breaking news:
The House of Representatives has voted to take back a whopping $1.1 billion in federal funding for public broadcasting.
These are huge, crippling cuts,
and if passed by the Senate, they'll be a fatal blow to public radio and television stations around the country.
It's all part of Donald Trump's ongoing war on the free press.
He knows that independent journalism is one of the biggest obstacles to his authorita…

Help Robert Reich get the truth out.
Anything you can give will help us spread the truth, keep you informed, and stop our slide towards fascism.

Wifey (@…) makes cool resin things. She made these for me - they fade to purple on the undersides. This photo doesn't even do justice to how cool they are. And they glow in the dark, too. Rad as shit
#resin #tentacles

Fears of racial profiling rise as Border Patrol conducts ‘roving patrols,’ and detain U.S. citizens
video: “These guys, literally based off of skin color! My homie was born here!” The friend said Gavidia was being questioned “just because of the way he looks.”
U.S. Border Patrol Sector Chief Greg Bovino,
who oversaw raids that included picking people up at Home Depot
and stopping them on the highway,
has emerged as a key figure in L.A.
He stood alongside…

Fears of racial profiling rise as Border Patrol conducts 'roving patrols,' detains U.S. citizens
Border Patrol agents on 'roving patrol' arrest U.S. citizen on assault charges. Fear of widespread racial profiling gains momentum as Home Depots and car washes raided.

Le trafic est interrompu entre Brétigny et Saint-Martin d'Étampes dans les 2 sens jusqu'Š 19h.
Pour plus d’informations sur cette perturbation, consultez le fil X du RER C.
Motif : Incident affectant la voie Š Etampes.
🤖 16/06 18:06

“Using this tragedy to push your own political agenda is disgraceful, people are dead,” Democratic activist Nina Turner replied on X.
“Even for MikeLee, this is beyond disgusting,” political scientist Norman Ornstein wrote on X. “Disinformation, beneath contempt.”
“What the hell is Mike Lee doing? Has he completely lost it?” conservative journalist Brad Polumbo also wrote on X.
“It’s Father’s Day, and you’re spending your time tweeting lies about a tragedy to run cover for …

MAGA Sen. Mocked for Absurdly Calling Dem Assassin ‘Marxist’
Senator Mike Lee joined Elon Musk in portraying the suspect in attacks on Minnesota lawmakers as a leftist.

A sleepy #Caturday

The gunman accused of shooting two Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota has been taken into custody. 
Vance Boelter, 57, was arrested late Sunday night for the murders of Democratic State Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband, and the attempted murder of Democratic State Senator John Hoffman and his wife. 

Minnesota shooting suspect Vance Boelter is arrested after Democrat lawmakers were gunned down
Vance Boelter, 57, the gunman accused of shooting two Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota has been taken into custody.

‘L.A.’s too hot for ICE'
Smaller but determined crowds march downtown as heat rises
https://www.latimes.com/california/live/los-…

Tensions rise as immigration raids continue across Southern California
Federal authorities raided a swap meet in Santa Fe Springs Saturday as tens of thousands of ‘No Kings’ protesters flooded the streets of downtown Los Angeles in opposition to President Trump’s policies.

La gare de Juvisy en direction de Versailles Château, de St-Quentin en Yvelines et de Pontoise n'est pas desservie jusqu'Š 08h.
Pour plus d’informations sur cette perturbation, consultez le fil X du RER C.
Motif : incident affectant la voie.
🤖 16/06 05:28

Genndy Tartakovsky's developing a new show 'Heist Safari' that looks pretty great. Loved what he did with Dexter's Lab. This one's about three estranged frog brothers who meet up at their dad's funeral, have to rob a bank to inherit their late dad's fortune, and have issues when they cut side deals with mobsters. Every episode will be executed as just one shot, the events won't be in chronological order, and it'll have an EDM score. Looks & sounds prom…

Genndy Tartakovsky Developing 'Heist Safari' Animated Series for Adult Swim
Celebrated animator Genndy Tartakovsky — the tooned-up brain behind the adult-comedy movie Fixed (coming to Netflix on August 13), Sony's Hotel Transylvania

When Donald Trump last attended a Group of 7 meeting in Canada, he was in many ways the odd man out.
At that meeting, in 2018, Trump called for the alliance of Western countries to embrace Russia,
antagonized allies and
ultimately stormed out of the summit over a trade battle he began by imposing metals tariffs on Canada.
As he returns on Sunday for the Group of 7 meeting in Alberta, those fissures have only deepened.
Since retaking office, the president has sough…

As Trump Returns to G7, Rift With Allies Is Even Deeper
In 2018, the president called for the group to embrace Russia and stormed out of the summit. Now he is seeking to shrink America’s military role abroad and embarking on a more expansive trade war.

As unrest and military troops overtake Los Angeles, terrifying scenes are also unfolding in smaller communities around the country.
They, too, are being invaded by what resembles a secret police force, often indistinguishable from random thugs.
https://www.washington…

The secret police descending on Small Town, U.S.A.
Masked immigration officials are storming towns and arresting people.

Donald Trump on Sunday directed federal immigration officials to prioritize deportations from Democratic-run cities,
a move that comes after large protests erupted in Los Angeles and other major cities against the Trump administration’s immigration policies.
Trump in a social media posting called on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials
“to do all in their power to achieve the very important goal of delivering the single largest Mass Deportation Program in Hist…

Trump directs ICE to prioritize deportations from Democratic-run cities
President Donald Trump has directed federal immigration officials to prioritize deportations from Democratic-run cities after large protests have erupted in Los Angeles and other major cities against the Trump administration’s immigration policies. Trump in a social media posting Sunday called on ICE officials “to do all in their power to achieve the very important goal of delivering the single largest Mass Deportation Program in History.” He added that to reach the goal officials ”must…

Les gares de Ivry-sur-Seine et Vitry-sur-Seine en direction de Massy-Palaiseau, de Saint-Martin d'Étampes et de Dourdan La Forêt ne sont pas desservies jusqu'Š 18h45.
Pour plus d’informations sur cette perturbation, consultez le fil X du RER C.
Motif : panne d'un train (vérifications techniques en cours du train ROMI dans le secteur d'Ivry).
🤖 16/06 17:56

Trump appears eager to create optics that support his claim that public dissent constitutes an existential threat to the nation.
He also apparently seeks to get the American public used to seeing our armed forces in a new light.
In the president’s version of America, the military should be seen less as an apolitical body loyal to the Constitution.
-- Rather, it should be viewed as an institution that serves at the behest of a leader and his ideological and political agen…

Opinion | Trump Wants You to Get Used to This
The president wants to get Americans used to seeing the armed forces in a new light.

Telescopes on the Andes glimpse elusive encounters fueled by the very first stars in the universe more than 13 billion years ago by detecting cosmic microwave light signals https://www.404media.co/humans-have-now-seen-the-dawn-of-time-from-ear…

Humans Have Now Seen the Dawn of Time from Earth After Breakthrough
Telescopes perched on the Andes Mountains glimpsed elusive encounters fueled by the first of the first stars in the universe more than 13 billion years ago.

Instant Pot Brands plans to offer a “45/47 Collaboration” featuring various products branded with those numbers and Trump’s signature “Make America Great Again” tagline. 🤮
https://bsky.app/profile/semafor.com/post/3lrq3syd56z2a

Période : Š partir de 23h50 jusqu'Š fin de soirée.
Dates : les samedi 14 et dimanche 15 juin.
Le trafic est interrompu de Versailles Château Rive Gauche Š Invalides :
- Dernier train au départ de Versailles château Rive Gauche Š Invalides Š 23h25.
Report : Ligne N ou les lignes de bus de ville 169 et 171.
Les horaires du calculateur d'itinéraire tiennent compte des travaux.
Motif : travaux sur le réseau ferroviaire.

Italian filmmaker @_elena and her friends have made an OUTSTANDING short film, which explains why people should quit the fascist social networks and join us in the fediverse.
Watch, and share the link everywhere
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRJHIJy5Nno

The Rapid Response Network of Kern is a collaborative of local organizations, community leaders, and immigrant rights advocates supporting our immigrant communities.
The Rapid Response Network of Kern was established in February of 2018 to respond to the needs and challenges of our immigrant communities who are targeted by increased immigration enforcement activities.
Call our hotline to receive rapid help against ICE, including in person support, legal help, grocery delivery, …

On the orders of the Donald Trump administration, National Park Service employees hung two highly controversial signs this week at Manzanar National Historic Site, a museum examining the property’s former role as a prison where the U.S. government incarcerated more than 10,000 Japanese Americans during World War Two
Displayed on a site where American citizens were held against their will for more than three years,
the signs encourage visitors to report any depictions of U.S. his…

Donald Trump urged Iranians to evacuate Tehran,
citing what he said was the country's rejection of a deal to curb nuclear weapons development.
Trump was due to leave the Group of Seven summit in Canada later on Monday -- a day early -- due to the Middle East situation, the White House said.
Fox News reported Trump would convene his National Security Council.

How hunter-gatherers slept: sleep and rest in the prehistoric era https://lithub.com/how-exactly-did-hunter-gatherers-sleep-on-rest-and-relaxation-in-the-prehistoric-era

How Exactly Did Hunter-Gatherers Sleep? On Rest and Relaxation in the Prehistoric Era
“…human vanity cherishes the absurd notion that our species is the final goal of evolution.” Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker (1986) * Sleep was a mystery to our distant ance…

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Sam Lynn Ballpark in Bakersfield, where batters face into the setting sun,
is an anomaly in a sport of anomalies.
Or perhaps it is simply
a reminder of what once was.
There’s not one thing about Sam Lynn that makes sense to the modern fan, Wheeler admitted. 
“Is it glitzy? No,” he asked rhetorically.
“Is it entertaining for the people that are there?
Yes. Yes, it is.
Are you going to go blind if you look into the sun?
Yes. But it is wh…

In 1967
artist Michael Bowen advertised
"A Gathering of Tribes for the Human Be-In"
in the underground newspaper the San Francisco Oracle
to bring together the "tribes" of psychedelic San Francisco hippies and Berkeley anti-war activists.
https://exhibits.library.uc…

ShelterBox
To ensure no one is without shelter after disaster
We often work in places that others don’t,
making sure that we reach families who need support to take the next step in resuming their livelihoods and rebuilding their communities
https://www.shelterboxusa.org/

Trump and his allies wasted little time in branding the people protesting against immigration enforcement raids in Los Angeles as “insurrectionists”.
Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff for policy
– particularly the vindictive kind
– spoke darkly of a “violent insurrection”.
JD Vance, the vice-president, inveighed against “insurrectionists carrying foreign flags” on the streets of the nation’s second-biggest city.
It didn’t escape notice that …

#NowPlaying that raunchy new Cave record yet again
#metal

Nadya Tolokonnikova,
the co-founder of the feminist art collective Pussy Riot,
was sitting in a replica Russian prison cell in downtown Los Angeles
when the police started shutting down the streets around the art museum.
Police helicopters hovered overhead. Somewhere, through a loudspeaker, an officer delivered a tinny order to disperse.
Tolokonnikova was only three and a half days into what was supposed to be a
“durational performance” reenacting her two ye…

A demonstrator who was shot on Saturday during Salt Lake City’s “No Kings” protest has died, Utah police said on Sunday afternoon.
The man, Arthur Folasa Ah Loo, 39, had apparently been shot by a man who had been part of the event’s peacekeeping team.
“Our victim was not the intended target,” Brian Redd, the Salt Lake City police chief, said, “but rather an innocent bystander participating in the demonstration.”
Arturo Gamboa, 24, was taken into police custody on Saturday ev…

Death toll mounts in Israel and Iran as both countries threaten further response after trading strikes overnight
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/202

The original Jurassic Park flick was released in U.S. theaters today (June 11) in 1993. I was 13 at the time, and had actually read Crichton's book. I was psyched to see Jurassic Park in the theater, which I did, with my family. I loved it- it was wild. I was intrigued by dinosaurs then, and still am. But this was and still is the only JP movie I've seen- I never saw any of the sequels.
I've certainly had a crush on Laura Dern ever since 😍

Emmanuel Macron has criticised Donald Trump’s threats to take over Greenland
as he became the first foreign head of state to visit the vast, mineral-rich Arctic territory since the US president began making explicit threats to annex it.
“I don’t think that’s what allies do,”
Macron said as he arrived in the Danish autonomous territory for a highly symbolic visit aimed at conveying
“France’s and the EU’s solidarity” with Greenlandon his way to a summit of G7 leaders in …

Netanyahu said:
“There’s so many false reports of conversations that never happened, and I’m not going to get into that.”
“But I can tell you, I think that we do what we need to do, we’ll do what we need to do.
And I think the United States knows what is good for the United States,”
Anonymous administration officials had claimed that the Israelis reported they had an opportunity to kill the top Iranian leader, and that Trump waved them off of the plan

Ukraine’s military said on Sunday it had attacked a Russian drone factory about 1099 kilometers from Ukraine
-- in the city of Yelabuga in Russia’s Tatarstan region.
The Ukrainian military general staff said the factory produced, tested, and launched drones at Ukraine,
in particular against energy and civil infrastructure.
Videos on social media showed an explosion said to be at the factory in Yelabuga, also known as Alabuga,
which builds Iranian-design…

You know it's coming, but you just never know. I was lucky to see Brian solo once, it was a magical show. RIP to this legend. I don't even know how to start with how much I love the Beach Boys. I've talked about it many times on here, how I really got into them in my teens, my parents had tapes (I wrote about my love for Wild Honey here:

Albums that made me
I heard about this great ‘albums that made me’ idea (that’s apparently been floating around other social media sites for a while now) via another Jake on Mastodon. So, big thanks …

Yesterday Trump told us that his plan was to remove 21m people from the United States,
or 6% of our current population and at least 5% of our total current workforce.
“All of them have to go home.”
A few points about this insane post:
Best estimates are that the total undocumented population in the US is between 12m and 15m.
The figure that Trump and his regime keeps using
- 21m came in under Biden
- is made up and false.
Here’s the latest Pe…

Trump's Escalating Migrant Terror Campaign Is Unpopular, Out Of Control, Inhumane And Doing Enormous Harm To The Country
Leon Krauze, long time Los Angeles Univision anchor, joins us Live at 12:15pm ET today

Donald Trump’s deployment of the National Guard and military against protesters in Los Angeles is widely being interpreted as
a display of intimidation and state power ahead of his birthday,
when Trump will oversee a military parade in Washington, D.C. in the style of a dictator.
The president has warned that protesters in D.C. will be
“met with very heavy force.”
Democrats and civil rights groups say the president is inflaming tensions to justify further repr…

Trump Is Rapidly Expanding the Surveillance State as Protests Grow
Immigrants are only the first target of a rapidly expanding digital dragnet that can track our individual movements.

If you want to know why a Democratic Senator and Representative in Minnesota were shot...
It might have something to do with the fact that their deaths would end the Democratic majorities in both chambers.

Current mood 🧪
#standupforscience #NoKings
https://bsky.app/profile/princess-vime

Henry Clay Frick was a union buster

In 1892, he hired hundreds of Pinkerton detectives
— a private army of thugs with guns
— to quell a strike against a Pennsylvania steel mill.
Ten men were killed, dozens injured, and the situation became so inflamed that the state militia was called in to break the workers’ resistance.
Frick, who made a fortune supplying the coal derivative known as coke
to Andrew Carnegie’s steel company, where Frick later served…

At the Frick, a grand Gilded Age collection shows its intimate side
A five-year, $220-million expansions has transformed the Frick, without changing anything fundamental to the experience.

Cynthia Santiago, an attorney in Southern California, won her high school presidential class race the same year Stephen Miller,
the current White House Deputy Chief of Staff,
lost the class speaker race.
More than 20 years later, Santiago is trying to fight Miller’s mass deportation efforts.
Santiago, the daughter of immigrants, has been working to defend immigrants’ rights since 2012.
But having gone to school with Miller, watching his rise to prominence in P…

She beat Stephen Miller in the race for high school class president. Now she’s fighting his deportation efforts
California attorney is fighting Miller’s mass deportation efforts by working as an immigration lawyer

Minnesota political assassin
57-year-old Vance Boelter,
was twice appointed to the nonpartisan Governor’s Workforce Development Council

-- in 2016 under former Gov. Mark Dayton
and again in 2019 under Gov. Tim Walz.
His most recent term expired in January 2023.

57-year-old suspect sought in targeted shootings of Minnesota state lawmakers
Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband have died after they were shot at their home in Brooklyn Park.

The Supreme court ruled
in Humphrey’s Executor v. United States
that the Constitution did not grant the president an “illimitable power of removal,”
at least over certain types of officials.
This included the head of the Federal Trade Commission, whose firing by President Franklin Roosevelt had sparked the case.
Humphrey’s Executor stood basically untouched for decades, until Justices John Roberts and Samuel Alito – both of whom had previously served in the exe…

Supreme Court ignores precedent instead of overruling it in allowing president to fire officials whom Congress tried to make independent
Can the president fire leaders of more than 50 independent agencies overseen by Congress because he wants to? The Supreme Court may say yes, upending decades of constitutional law.

At a topline glance, Trump's Big Budget Bill is an outrage:
large tax cuts for the rich and millions kicked off health insurance,
almost a parody of what an apparently fragile coalition of contemporary conservatives might abide
(if also a bill that raised the eyebrows of a few debt scolds, including Musk).
But because it is also a one-stop legislative omnibus,
rushed so quickly through the House that Republican representatives are now protesting they didn…

Opinion | Trump’s Budget Tells Three Unhappy Truths About America
Features of the budget: A supercharged ICE, school vouchers and no relief for a warming planet.

Santa Barbara's turnout was just one example of the historic nationwide mobilization.
The “No Kings” protest brought millions to the streets in over 2,100 cities and towns across the country.
Organizers stated this movement has exceeded expectations,
uniting citizens to reject authoritarian overreach, defend fundamental freedoms,
and protect vulnerable communities.

Thousands Show Up for 'No Kings' Protest in Santa Barbara
Over a thousand demonstrators lined Cabrillo Blvd Saturday to join the nationwide "No Kings" protest opposing the Trump administration and defending democracy.

Donald Trump admitted on Truth Social that his mass deportations are hurting farmers and the economy.
Those removals are “taking very good, longtime workers away” from farms and hotels, Trump declared,
adding that those workers are proving “impossible to replace.”
To be clear, Trump was talking about his own immigration policies.
That’s a stunning acknowledgment that Trump’s forced mass removals are targeting hard-working folks and that those undocumented immigrants…

Trump Accidentally Reveals a Dark MAGA Truth—and Hands Dems an Opening
A little-noticed letter from vulnerable House Republicans acknowledges the flaw at the heart of Trump’s mass deportations. Democrats: Seize on this!

I need everyone on Normal People internet to know that American Girl Doll Instagram is doing doll protests today.
There are tiny t-shirts and signs.
AND THEN I realized it's a joint protest with the Barbie ppl, where there are EVEN TINIER SIGNS.
https://bsky.app/profile/tolcser…

Sarah Tolcser (@tolcser.bsky.social)
I need everyone on Normal People internet to know that American Girl Doll Instagram is doing doll protests today. There are tiny t-shirts and signs. AND THEN I realized it's a joint protest with the Barbie ppl, where there are EVEN TINIER SIGNS.

After Massive Cuts to Forest Service, US Enters Fire Season Woefully Unprepared
The results could be catastrophic, especially in states that have experienced unprecedented fires in recent years.
https://truthout.org/articles/after-ma

After Massive Cuts to Forest Service, US Enters Fire Season Woefully Unprepared
The results could be catastrophic, especially in states that have experienced unprecedented fires in recent years.

It’s going to get worse.
Trumism proceeds by the successive breaking of taboos.
Each time a new one is broken,
the previous one is normalized,
made to look not so bad by comparison.
The cuffing of Padilla was a red-line moment. And yet:
There’s plenty of reason to worry that in four months, we’ll look back on it as a moment of comparative innocence.

The Manhandling of Alex Padilla Was a Red-Line Moment for America
This is the essence of Trumpism: Go intentionally overboard, and then lie about it and try to reverse reality.

League of Women Voters
#SantaBarbara
Book Club
About this event
The book is "Money, Lies, and God" by Katherine Stewart
Date and Time
Thursday, June 19, 2025,
1:30 PM until 2:30 PM
Event Contact(s)
Anne G Heck

A heady throng of tech billionaires, ministers, corporate titans and the king of the Netherlands have convened in Sweden for the 71st Bilderberg meeting
– the publicity-shy annual policy conference that has long sustained conspiracy theorists
– hosted this year by the fabulously wealthy Wallenberg family.
The four days of transatlantic talks are taking place at the swanky Grand hotel,
which is owned, like so much else in Sweden, by the Wallenbergs.
The Swedis…

"Anyone you’re talking to has had decreased funding, or lost almost all of their funding, or is having trouble continuing their funding...
That, along with the pretty pervasive and growing anti-science establishment narrative … have been strong motivators to look elsewhere,” Eric Schuster said.
Schuster is one of many budding academics reflecting what could become a significant American brain drain,
sending the brightest minds in the country to flee the US and take their…

Star-studded nuptials between Amazon founder, billionaire Jeff Bezos, and Lauren Sšnchez, a former TV journalist.
The days-long shindig,
expected to begin from 24 June,
will be the biggest wedding held in Venice California since George Clooney married Amal Alamuddin in 2014.
While Venice residents mostly embraced the Clooneys’ fairytale big day,
the Bezos wedding has been met with much more antipathy.
As soon as Venice’s millionaire mayor, Luigi Brugnaro…

The eighteenth-century legal system relied primarily on victims and other private individuals to initiate prosecutions.
To counter the disincentives raised by the financial fees, time and potential damage to reputation entailed in mounting a prosecution,
the government offered financial incentives,
both in the form of rewards and the payment of expenses.
Voluntary societies were also set up to support prosecutions.
Despite these initiatives, however, many sti…

Voice of America’s Farsi-language broadcast,
dismantled under Trump and DOGE,
was abruptly reactivated today,
recalling dozens of staff from paid leave
as tensions between Israel and Iran escalated.
https://bsky.app/profile/altnps.bsky.social…

THE POPE appoints new bishop
who is now mobilizing priests to accompany migrants at immigration court on June 20th
Rebuke Trump and ICE
https://bsky.app/profile/patti3333.bsky.social/post/3lrmbjuyi722e

In 2024, Vandenberg Space Force Base had 51 launches,
but proposed changes would increase that number to 100 launches per year at both the Space Launch Complex (SLC)-6 and SLC-4,
including both Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launches. 
The Falcon Heavy, which according to the EIS, has not launched out of Vandenberg Space Force Base in the past, would launch a maximum of five times per year from the SLC-6.
Because of the Falcon Heavy’s two side boosters landing separately, …

Trump has promoted his private businesses in unprecedented ways for a sitting president, presenting conflicts of interest.
His ventures into crypto, in particular, have drawn scrutiny because he has simultaneously moved to create a more friendly regulatory environment for the industry. 
The $57 million from his stake in the crypto firm World Liberty Financial came from the sale of digital tokens.
That provides a glimpse into Trump’s earnings from cryptocurrency ventures t…

PORTLAND, Ore. — Health officials in Hood River County confirmed Monday that two local deaths have been linked to a rare brain disease within the last eight months.
During that period, the county said, there have been one confirmed and two probable cases of
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, or CJD, a prion disorder somewhat similar to the more commonly known "mad cow disease."
So far, two of those cases have resulted in death

Elizabeth Warren Calls for DHS Secretary Noem’s Resignation Following Padilla Incident
“The Trump administration is trying to undermine free speech in this country,”
Warren said during an interview.
https://truthout.org/articles/warren-c

Elizabeth Warren Calls for DHS Secretary Kristi Noem to Resign Following Padilla Incident
“The Trump administration is trying to undermine free speech in this country,” Warren said during an interview.

The US taxpayer is going to be on the hook for all the soldiers, tanks, and planes that appear in Donald Trump’s military parade.
But several major tech companies are paying for the festivities along the parade route.
According to recent statements from America250, #Oracle, #Amazon,

Big Tech quietly sponsors Trump’s military parade party
Though big tech companies have downplayed their involvement in funding this weekend’s military parade, the event’s organizer, America250, has released statements confirming involvement from Amazon, Palantir and Oracle.

There is little about Scott Jennings,
or the words that come out of his mouth,
that corresponds to reality.
A decade into Trump’s capture of the Republican Party, Jennings is the premier crossover enabler.
He is perhaps CNN’s most recognizable face alongside its primetime anchors,
and he is feted on jokey, tough-talk shows like Bill Maher. 
But Jennings is a representation of our own malady,
a projection of a country whose political culture is now…

Scott Jennings in the Hyperreal and the Myth of the Escape Hatch
Jennings is like a simulation of a Trump enabler.

Two Minnesota state lawmakers and their spouses were shot in their homes early Saturday
by a man who apparently posed as a police officer — and is still on the loose.
Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL) Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman was shot in her Brooklyn Park home,
while fellow party member Sen. John Hoffman was targeted roughly 8 miles away in Champlin.
A manhunt is on for the suspect, who was wearing black body armor over a blue shirt and blue pants.

Two Minnesota Democrats, a third victim shot in their homes by madman posing as cop: reports
A manhunt is on for the suspect, who was wearing black body armor over a blue shirt and blue pants.

Melissa Hortman, top Democrat in Minnesota House, shot and killed in home
Gov. Tim Walz confirmed Saturday morning that Hortman and her husband Mark had both been killed in what he called targeted political violence.
https://www.startribune.com…

Melissa Hortman, top Democrat in Minnesota House, shot and killed
Gov. Tim Walz confirmed Saturday morning that Hortman and her husband Mark had both been killed in what he called targeted political violence.

Trump has ordered more troops to Los Angeles and Washington than he currently has stationed in Syria and Iraq combined.
He seems more willing to use the military against Americans than against Iranians.
He celebrates a show of force on U.S. soil even as he denounces “endless wars” outside its borders.

Trump Relishes Troops in American Streets While Shunning Conflict Overseas
The seemingly disparate postures of recent days speak to the president’s complicated relationship with the military.

Indian Creek Village,
the “Billionaire Bunker” near Miami,
couldn’t get approval to discharge its waste into a neighboring town’s sewer lines.
So the village quietly persuaded state lawmakers to force the issue.
In a world where billionaires are increasingly exercising political clout,
the fight over sewage in Indian Creek suggests the degree to which their influence is extending not just to policy in the White House and Congress but to some of the most foundat…

A Billionaire Island Where Bezos and Kushner Live Is Fighting Over Sewage
Indian Creek Village, the “Billionaire Bunker” near Miami, couldn’t get approval to discharge its waste into a neighboring town’s sewer lines. So the village quietly persuaded state lawmakers to come to the rescue.

Less than two years ago,
the administration of President Joe Biden announced what tribal leaders hailed as an unprecedented commitment to the Native tribes
whose ways of life had been devastated by federal dam-building along the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest.
The deal, which took two years to negotiate, halted decades of lawsuits over the harm federal dams had caused to the salmon that had sustained those tribes culturally and economically for thousands of years. …

Trump Administration Abandons Deal With Northwest Tribes to Restore Salmon
The Trump administration canceled a deal, signed under President Joe Biden, that would have enabled the removal of four hydroelectric dams along the Columbia River that are considered harmful to salmon.

Three of the new advisers appointed by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to guide the government on immunization policy
took part in lawsuits casting doubt on the safety or efficacy of vaccines,
public records show.
In dismissing all 17 members of an influential Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advisory panel on Monday,
Mr. Kennedy cited what he said was a history of conflicts of interest that he claimed made those experts a “rubber stamp” on approving …

Kennedy’s New Vaccine Advisers Helped Lawyers Raise Doubts About Their Safety
Three of the health secretary’s picks to replace fired members of an influential panel that sets U.S. vaccine policies have filed statements in court flagging concerns about vaccines.

A federal judge Friday issued a second preliminary injunction blocking some provisions of the sweeping executive order on elections that Donald Trump signed in March.
Judge Denise Casper blocked provisions ordering the U.S. Election Assistance Commission to take steps to require documentary proof of citizenship from people registering to vote and requiring federal voter registration agencies to “assess” the citizenship of individuals who receive public assistance before providing them …

Parts of Trump’s executive order on elections blocked by a federal court
A federal court granted a coalition of states an injunction halting implementation of parts of Trump’s executive order on elections.

Majority of Voters Oppose Trump's “Big, Beautiful Bill,”
With Just 27 Percent Backing It
The bill would gut billions of dollars in health care spending,
and redistribute wealth from the poor to the rich.
https://truthout.org/articl…

Majority of Americans Oppose Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill,” With Just 27 Percent Backing It
The bill would gut billions of dollars in health care spending, and redistribute wealth from the poor to the rich.

NO KINGS Santa Barbara
Rally · Volunteer organized
Saturday, June 14
10:30am – 12pm PDT
Chase Palm Park
236 E Cabrillo Blvd.
Santa Barbara, CA 93103
Map
https://www.mobilize.us/nokings/event/788033

NO KINGS Santa Barbara · No Kings
**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** NO KINGS is a national day of action and mass mobilization in response to increasing authoritarian excesses and corruption from Trump and his allies. We’ve watched as they’ve cracked down on free speech, detained people for their political views, threatened to deport American citizens, and defied the courts. They’ve done this all while continuing to serve and enrich their billionaire allies. 🚨**On Saturday, June 14, we’re takin…

This is a BFD.
Rand Paul and Tom Massie have been calling out Stephen Miller's gulag numbers for several weeks;
it got them both disinvited from the White House picnic.
And now Ron Johnson is joining in?
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsk…

emptywheel (@emptywheel.bsky.social)
This is a BFD. Rand Paul and Tom Massie have been calling out Miller's gulag numbers for several weeks; it got them both disinvited from the White House picnic. And now Ron Johnson is joining in?

On the same day a military parade unfolds in D.C. to mark the Army’s 250th anniversary on Saturday,
an organized day of protests against the policies of President Donald Trump’s administration is planned for more than 2,000 cities nationwide.

While thunderstorms could disrupt the celebrations in D.C.,
weather will vary at locations around the country where rallies are planned.

Mostly dry and hot weather will dominate the western United States,
while it should b…

A city-by-city forecast for Saturday’s nationwide ‘No Kings’ protests
Conditions will vary across the country, with wet, unsettled weather near the East Coast and dry, hot air dominating the West.