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Trump called Ric Grenell to confront him over Alina Habba’s claim that a $5.6 million donation to the Kennedy Center from her billionaire husband had disappeared. Grenell denied it. Yesterday, her husband’s attorneys delivered the evidence to the White House. www.yahoo.com/news/politic...

NC STATE STUDENTS ARE DEMANDING JUSTICE FOR NOLAN WELLS AND THE LIBERATION OF BLACK AMERICA! From Mississippi to Raleigh, the Nolan Wells case strikes a chord at the very heart of the seemingly never-ending war on Black Americans in the United States.

Katie Zacharia sat on the advisory board of an organization that calls for women who have abortions to be executed “in the public square,” and for pro-choice Americans to lose their right to hold public office.

The Roads Have Eyes! 👁️ Turn on the Surveillance Layer in Map Options to see known license plate readers from Flock Safety, Motorola Solutions (Vigilant), Genetec, Axis Communications, Axon, Leonardo (ELSAG), Neology, Rekor, PlateSmart, Ubicquia, Verkada, and other outdoor surveillance cameras.

MAHA, NUH-UH! •USDA lost 20,000 workers, including 874 food inspectors. • FDA's workforce down by 20 •CDC’s team for tracking parasites dropped from 11 down to 3 •USDA shelved raw poultry standards barring sale of meat contaminated with salmonella. newrepublic.com/post/214946/...

#ResistanceEarth Farmworkers are struggling as temperatures rise, and not only due to heat stress. Extreme heat causes pesticides to evaporate faster, filling the air with dangerous chemicals. As workers sweat, their pores open, also increasing exposure through the skin. www.rfi.fr/en/environme...

After a long hiatus I am back with a bird photo! Today's #birdoftheday theme is #birdinabush. Here's my noisy neighbor Merlin who went on and on throughout the day this summer. #bird #birdphotography #nature #wildlife Technically Merlin is in a tree but the tree is part of the bush, right?

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NEW — I wanted to know if ICE’s newly uncovered plan to offload seven of the 11 concentration camp warehouses was actually a big deal, so I went straight to the expert: Michael Wriston of @projectsaltbox.com, which has been tracking these warehouses every step of the way. Our full convo here:

One thing I learned when I was just out of college and watching 6-8 hours of Fox News a day for my research job at Media Matters: Ingesting hours of propaganda on a daily basis changes you, no matter how smart you think you are. If you don't notice the changes, that just makes you an easier mark.

US-Iran talks in Switzerland abruptly called off

Trump Tells Federal Employees to Wear "Freedom" Pins—Or Else Park Service officials have threatened to discipline employees who refuse to wear Freedom 250 swag. Mother Jones: apple.news/ADFJJp_6TSvG... 🤦🤪🤡good grief, this regime is so pathetic, so insecure, so desperate to seem powerful

AI researchers and online privacy experts have long warned of the myriad dangers generative AI poses for personal privacy. These cases give us yet another scenario to worry about: generative AI exposing people’s real phone numbers.

💥 Apocalyptic scenes in Harouf, South Lebanon. Israel dropped bombs on residential buildings in the middle of the night. Entire families are now buried under the rubble. @sarahabdallah.bsky.social

❗SCOTUS ruled today a defendant can't just waive away their rights to an appeal if that'd be a miscarriage of justice. Gorsuch wrote a concurrence saying: If we don't limit this, prosecutors will keep pushing their luck. And he cited Bolts' article on waivers in Virginia to show how far they go:

WHOA. At least three passenger jets appear to have had rejected landings/go-rounds in ~30 minutes while that UFC light show was going a mile away. @aaronparnas.bsky.social previously reported a commercial pilot filed an FAA safety report about being “nearly blinded” by a test run of the lights.

The third week of 250 to 250 videos. #WeAreAmerica250

OPINION: "Cuts in funding and staffing have stressed NOAA’s ability to collect critical observations. Last year, retired NOAA scientists volunteered to staff hurricane hunter reconnaissance flights so the missions could still be flown," Brian Tang writes.

Shame, shame, shame!

This is the single most alarming thing I’ve seen yet from RFK Jr. He is attempting to get identifiable medical records from ALL OF US. “Under the proposal, HHS would get data from 90% of the population’s medical records by 2028”. This CANNOT be permitted to happen.

#MorningVibe The #Suffs march on Washington to demand the right to vote. Be inspired. We demand an amendment! #ERANow

One dog did this in two minutes. Original post

Cleve Jones is a human rights advocate, author, and lecturer who joined the gay liberation movement in 1972, co-founded the San Francisco AIDS Foundation in 1983, and founded the AIDS Memorial Quilt—one of the world’s largest community arts projects—in 1987. #WeAreAmerica250

Dr. Jelani Cobb is an author, journalist, and Dean of Columbia Journalism School. Cobb tells the story of John Peter Zenger, a newspaperman whose trial for printing critical statements about the royal governor of New York helped to define freedom of the press. #WeAreAmerica250

Where is the Governor?

This needs to be every day.

so, this is deeply, deeply horrifying thedreydossier.substack.com/p/i-found-a-...

The Justice Department removed hundreds of pages from its website detailing prosecutions and convictions of people involved in the Jan. 6, 2021 riot on the U.S. Capitol, including many from Philadelphia and across Pennsylvania.

If you've noticed an uptick of pro-Russia tankies hating on Ukraine, here is why: Russia hijacked hundreds of BlueSky accounts to spread propaganda and disinformation. This is why we also increased the anti-Kremlin posts by 300%. www.france24.com/en/live-news...

It’s truly astonishing to see how comprehensively the US government is tearing down every part of the system that has made it up until now a world-leading power in science, research, and technological development. The entire world will suffer from this wanton destruction.

NEW: Trump's gross Aliens.gov site claims to map where immigrants have been taken into custody, but it includes more 83 spots where Americans alone were arrested. Over 700 locations include citizen arrests. The counter is fake. The music was ripped. And Puerto Rico is listed as a foreign country.

In Spokane WA three ice demonstrators have been convicted this week.

Katy Tur on Trump's $1.8 Billion slush fund: The January 6th rioters are clearly who this is intended for. David Dempsey, who stomped on an officer's head, went on an hour-long rampage. Sentenced to 20 years in prison. Donald Trump pardoned him. And now we're going to pay him?

Lots of chatter about whether DOJ is investigating E. Jean Carroll. Most of it misses the key issue: Even if DOJ wants to indict, doing so could create major legal problems like vindictive prosecution claims. The reporting conflicts; the legal implications don't. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

What a f***ed up country we're living in. The more unpopular this regime gets, the more they tighten the screws.

The person organizing this conference that Greg Bovino is speaking at is Martin Sellner, a neo-Nazi activist. Sellner, among other things, corresponded and agreed to meet with the man who went on to murder 51 worshippers at two mosques in Christchurch, NZ in 2019 www.theguardian.com/world/2019/m...

Memphis Residents Sue Federal Agents Over Arrest Tactics Amid Crime and Immigration Crackdown www.nytimes.com/2026/05/28/u...

“This is an assault on artists everywhere”: 'Good Advice Cupcake' creator Loryn Brantz has condemned BuzzFeed and Amazon MGM Studios after learning her character is being adapted into an AI-assisted animated series without her involvement or approval. www.cartoonbrew.com/artificial-i...

“When people fall through the cracks, it is not inevitable,” Michelle C. Flynn, Janida Emerson and Kevin Curtis write in an op-ed. “It is a failure of coordination, and fixing that is a shared responsibility.”

At least some people understand how horrible this regime is and understand that we shouldn't support it.

Memphis is “under full-blown occupation” by ICE. Here’s why you may not know that.

When Minneapolis felt under heavy siege, people from everywhere helped and reached out and it was really heartening and made a difference. Memphis deserves that too, all the more so because there appears to be a concerted effort to keep their occupation out of the news

Do you know I actually think that these people are so inoculated from any public sentiment that they are legitimately shook by a handful of boos at commencements this week?

www.commondreams.org/news/gas-pri... “This data shows that energy price shocks function as an economy-wide, unacknowledged tax on households, with costs comparable to large federal programs and policies,” said the Climate Solutions Lab director.

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Deborah Sandidge Photography "A roseate spoonbill preens her pink feathers and stretches her wings, perfectly mirrored in a pond, double the magic, double the fun! Filmed with my Nikon Z 9 and 600mm f/4 TC lens, slow motion video.'