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Loved this comment this morning about Trump as the chairman of the Kennedy Center. It’s the Chairman’s responsibility to serve the interests of the institution not the other way around. That pretty much sums up whats wrong with this entire presidency.

Republicans just cut polling locations in Tarrant County right before the midterms. They’ll do EVERYTHING but give folks a reason to vote for them. You want the people’s votes? Do your job and earn them. It’s really that simple.

A Canada-based company has been awarded a $382M ICE contract to transport detainees. That’s in addition to the $330M ICE paid them to convert warehouses into concentration camps. open.substack.com/pub/projects...

I voted NO on today’s funding bill.  I will not act like business as usual while our President sabotages our elections and our ability to vote by mail. Stay loud.

Of course they said he could do it. They’re nothing but a rubber stamp for home. The law is clear Congress has the authority but this SCOTUS has no use for Congress

Capital One disclosed in a court filing that it shut down hundreds of Trump Organization accounts over money-laundering concerns. President Trump has maintained that his businesses were "debanked" for political reasons, and the Trump Organization sued Capital One last year. https://cnn.it/4xiOF0T

Wyden and Merkley are urging federal regulators to crack down on prediction markets that allow users to wager on how long wildfires will burn and how much damage they will cause https://mrf.lu/2Zrth

Oregon State legislators and candidates for state legislature just called for a statewide data center moratorium! The courageous first movers 👇 Rep. Muñoz (HD 22) Rep. Chaichi (HD 35) Sen. Neron Misslin (SD 13) Sen. Golden (SD 3) Candidate Tammy Carpenter (HD 27) Candidate Myrna Muñoz (SD 15)

🔥 View from the Austrian-Italian Border Trail.

A SECOND person died of exposure last winter after DHS dumped them in the middle of nowhere, miles from their home, without notifying their family.

This makes a hell of a lot of sense.

Elias Irizarry, a January 6 insurrectionist who later pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor offense related to the Capitol attack, has now been appointed to a Pentagon policy position with responsibilities tied to counterterrorism and other sensitive national security matters.

What the actual F*** Texas’s War on Latino Voting Groups includes raids by officers with semiautomatic weapons! Heres a gift article www.nytimes.com/2026/06/06/u...

NEW: Tim Robinson, the former CEO of Addiction Recovery Care, which once operated more than 40 drug treatment facilities statewide, was charged with attempting to resell millions of dollars worth of tax credits. w/ @kentucky.com

Yes, your honor, we could just rent cars, like we already do all the time, but the President needs total control. Trump administration sues Oregon, three other states over undercover license plate denials oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2026/05/28/t...

Feel secure now!!??? The only thing saving Americans from some sort of terrible attack under this incompetent administration has been luck. Let’s hope it doesn’t run out.

More than 3,700 trades. Trump’s more focused on his stock portfolio than lowering costs for you.

Scott MacFarlane reports on growing momentum in Congress for Supreme Court term limits. Several bipartisan proposals would impose 18- or 20-year limits on Supreme Court justices. Rep. Olszewski says the issue goes beyond any single ruling and reflects a broader crisis of confidence in the Court.

NEW: Federal procurement records show ICE sought more than 65,000 square feet of office space within San Antonio, Texas, in the weeks after the agency bought a 640,000-square-foot warehouse intended for detention operations.

Right on!

Another example of local resistance to the ICE warehouses, this one in Salt Lake City.

NEW—Video shared w me by a witness shows another angle of NYPD officer throwing a protester to the ground during an anti-ICE protest outside Wyckoff Medical Center in the early hours of Sunday morning + has helped identify the officer. His name is Hubert Mohamed, The Handbasket is first to report:

Headline should be Trump Administration uses fear and intimidation to scare 2026 elections workers, because that’s what this is about! NYT - Trump Administration Demands Names of 2020 Election Workers in Georgia www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/u...

Disgraceful!

LOL. Russia can unilaterally withdraw from Ukraine too if it's had enough "winning"

#Orwellian The DOJ accuses the Southern Poverty Law Center of supporting the KKK, so Fidelity won’t let donors donate their own money to the SPLC! Fidelity 800-952-4438

Kidnapping by masked ICE goons on Erwin and Simpson in San Fernando Valley.

Oregon briefly had two Republican members of the House. This will be the enduring legacy of one of them “widespread misconduct, including the use of department resources for personal trips and having an affair with a member of her security team.” Read more › www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...

Sam Samson is emblematic of why this doesn’t end even if there’s a mid-term blowout. The 27-Year-Old Diplomat Waging Trump’s Cultural War With Europe www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/w...

Trump rebranded his war to Economic Furry! Economic fury on the American people!

In addition to moving people, the contract requires Paragon to furnish armed escorts and stationary guards, for when detainees are in hospitals, at court hearings, or held in field‑office holding rooms.

Daily Memo: 16th In-Custody ICE Death Reported as ICE Ramps Up Targeting in Los Angeles The full report on lataco.com.

Every once in a while, a member of the GOP gets brave and sticks their head up to defend the Constitution

He’s not serious. Just dangerous! Trump Was Watching a U.F.C. Fight in Miami While Iran Talks Collapsed www.nytimes.com/2026/04/11/u...

After billions of dollars, numerous lost lives Trump and JD fail to reach the deal Obama had and Trump tore up. What a waste. War Live Updates: U.S. and Iran Fail to Agree on Peace Deal, Vance Says, Leaving Cease-Fire’s Fate Uncertain www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...

Agreed

* SOME OF LEBANON'S HOSPITALS COULD RUN OUT OF LIFE-SAVING TRAUMA KITS WITHIN DAYS AS SUPPLIES NEAR DEPLETION FOLLOWING MASS CASUALTIES IN ISRAELI STRIKES, SAYS WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION @reuters.com

JD Vance conveniently got asked in Hungry if Ukraine interfered in the US election. Thats the set up for this www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/o...

Trump Drops in on SCOTUS & Bulldozes Judge’s Ballroom Construction Ruling youtu.be/vmweBLQXgNc

Among the most despicable things about this administration is its shear hypocrisy! Rubio wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for the 14th Amendment. substack.com/@glassempire...

Sauer’s argument will stand out as one of the most absurd ever made to SCOUTUS “No. But of course, we’re in a new world now,” the solicitor general responded. “Where eight billion people are one plane ride away from having a child who is a US citizen.”

That source on what Noem's departure actually means: Miller still wants the warehouses. Mullin will probably give them to him. But Homan is nobody's ally here — didn't like Noem, not a Mullin guy. The pressure is on Mullin from all angles. “This is the time for people to make noise,” they said.

Go Kat!

“They [ICE] let him rot in there and die like he had no family,” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/u...

90 year old veteran in Lake Oswego, Oregon who knows what matters