We can see this in the ICE flight data. Domestic “round-up” flights are spiking, and some activist flight watchers report the flights are getting fuller.
But deportation and removal flights remain steady. This means the concentration camps are getting packed to the brim. It’s awful to comprehend.
ICE is engaged in a very large escalation nationwide, with the agency claiming to be hitting record arrest numbers amid the return of quotas. This has gotten very little attention from the media because ICE learned lessons from the chaotic disasters of Kristi Noem’s tenure.
Keep a watch.
In a hearing where residents grilled officials on data centers, a resident of Tyrone Township, Michigan, asked a simple question: Have you signed an NDA with any party regarding developments that could affect the town?
The majority of the township's officials refused to answer.
This week someone targeted my family for harm with a false report. We’re physically OK, but that doesn’t mean we weren’t harmed. I am beyond furious.
Whatever your politics, this is awful, wrong, and can never become normal.
"I don't think about Americans' financial situation. I don't think about anybody."
-- Donald J. Trump
"I don't want to hear about affordability. The affordability crisis is a hoax."
-- Donald J. Trump
"No one gives a shit about housing."
-- Donald J. Trump
Getting it yet, America?
Dustin Nolan, Emmy winning anchor at KWQC TV6 in the Quad Cities, quit live on air Friday. "We have to be more than sanitized news because it makes people feel uncomfortable. The facts matter." He did not name his reasons. He did not have to.
BREAKING: Judge Patrick Schiltz has quashed several DOJ grand jury subpoenas aimed Gov. Tim Walz and Mayor Jacob Frey, saying they were part of a retaliatory effort over their refusal to aid Trumpa dmin immigration enforcement efforts. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Today I’m remembering the very last people in America to be freed from chattel slavery, who were not the Texans who learned of the Emancipation Proclamation on this day in 1865, but thousands of people in Delaware, Kentucky and New Jersey, who were freed by the 13th six months later.
Some years ago, I was chatting with a Retropolis reader, a young history student, and I mentioned there were several dozen people enslaved in New Jersey up until the day the 13th Amendment kicked in in December 1865.
Y’all. He identified every one of them.
njs.libraries.rutgers.edu/index.php/nj...
"If the Supreme Court is willing to deny key freedoms to some of the nation’s most vulnerable by narrowing its interpretation of whom the Constitution applies to and protects, it stands to reason that it can narrow it further for others,
Trump on Egyptian President el-Sisi: "He was in a hotel and I met him. We fell in love, deeply in love ... we didn't know each other before that. We had great chemistry, and I stayed twice as long as I was supposed to."
Damn Colbert is a treasure.
He very knowingly and intentionally played Linus and Lucy on the air, and the copyright holder joyfully got a fine out of CBS for it and then donated it to World Central kitchen.
www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...
While the killers of Renée Good and Alex Pretti walk free, the DOJ is busy bringing bogus charges against protesters.
The Administration thinks intimidation will make us back down.
They keep learning the same lesson: Minnesotans don't scare easily. We organize for our rights ✊🏽
For those who have forgotten the past 40 years:
Tax cuts for the rich
...don’t trickle down
Boosting military spending
...doesn’t bring peace
Slashing regulations
...doesn’t create jobs
Folks, we’ve seen this all before.
NEW: GEO group privately asked ICE to remove requirements to pay detainees to work. Seems like a 13A violation since most detainees aren’t convicted of crimes. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Imagine being a kid and learning both your parents were arrested by ICE. You’ll have to pay rent and survive on your own.
I shadowed four siblings—US citizens near Mar-a-Lago—as they try to do that. I'll be thinking about their story for a long time 1/x www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
BREAKING: A federal judge temporarily blocked a bathroom ban in Idaho that threatened transgender people with up to 5 years in prison for using a bathroom that aligns with their gender identity.
This is a win for trans rights.
The DOJ tried to make a federal case out of former NYC Comptroller Brad Lander peacefully protesting immigration policies. They offered a plea deal. He demanded a trial instead—and won a total "not guilty" verdict in just one day. Read how he beat the regime:👇
www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/the-regime...
Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick says James Talarico is “going to Hell”:
“I’ve never seen so much blasphemy from anyone running for office… He’s going to Hell, for sure.”
Ken Paxton’s own party impeached him.
His own staff reported him to the FBI.
Now his own defense attorney is endorsing our campaign.
Those closest to Ken Paxton know he's unfit for office.
In upsetting news you may have missed -
~40 detainees in a California concentration camp have been on a hunger strike since *mid-May*
Their demands? Basic rights: access to clean food and water and adequate medical care
This is happening in our country. We should all be ashamed.
Talarico: Here's what real men don't do. They don't lie and cheat their way through life. They don't sell their soul to the highest bidder. Real men serve others, weak men serve themselves. So I welcome this debate. I don't think Paxton or Cruz are in a position to tell anyone what a real man is.
Great news! Alejandro & his dad Jairo will be released from the Dilley trailer prison tomorrow. Alejandro missed his last days of 10th grade at Churchill High School and should have never been locked up. Thanks to all who pushed for their release. Keep speaking up, your voice is making a difference!
House Republicans advanced a funding bill that would cut fruit and vegetable support for millions of pregnant women, postpartum parents, infants, and young children.
This is so messed up.
Giving a convicted criminal the power that the orange turd has is insane. It's allowing criminals to control the nation. Not shocked anymore by his actions. Shocked that no one is doing anything to stop it. He will singlehandedly bankrupt the nation like his various other failed businesses. Period.
WATCH: “An absolute nightmare scenario. Let’s stop it.” 🦒 🦓
people mag covers brad paisley speaking out against the data center planned right next to the @nashvillezoo.bsky.social — public comment THURSDAY.
DC BLOX: 877.590.1684
@kairoscenter.org and many other beloveds brought song and shifted the space…we will keep singing, praying, protesting until every camp is shut down. No one is free until all are free. #FreeFamilies
It is being reported that when the Paramount deal goes through, Bari Weiss will oversee CNN's editorial direction.
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Polymarket offered me enough money to pay my rent for ten months for one post in my newsletter and I turned it down because I enjoy being able to sleep at night.
INVESTIGATION: 🚨 A Polymarket exec used a personal PayPal account to pay major political influencers like Riley Gaines and Brian Krassenstein, who then hyped how "accurate" Polymarket is at predicting outcomes.
We uncovered $350,000+ flowing to influencers this way
www.politico.com/news/2026/06...
I think he may mean venomous, as in injecting a toxin. Poisonous means the toxin is harmful if licked, eaten, or inhaled and I can personally attest women who color their hair are delicious
This blew my mind.
Some of the largest data centers can require up to 5 million gallons of water per day, equivalent to the water use of 50,000 people.
Why are we selling out the survival of our planet to enrich a handful of Big Tech CEOs?
If you or I had installed a water connection without the utility company's knowledge that was not linked to our account, we all know they wouldn't be saying that we have to be partners.
Link to article:
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
Famously vengeful Knicks owner Jim Dolan has long spied on people at his iconic arenas. We went deep inside the operation that allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more. www.wired.com/story/madiso...