Yuna
@yunao08.bsky.social
Research Associate at America’s Voice. Views are my own 💯
Robert F Kennedy Jr, the US health secretary, received $4m over the last year in book advances from allies within the Make America Healthy Again movement, according to a new report. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
RFK Jr received $4m in book advances from Maha allies over past year
In 2024 ethics filing, US health secretary pledged to ‘not engage in writing, editing, marketing or promotional services for any of these books during government service’
theguardian.com
A MAGA senator is drastically softening his stance on ICE as he faces the prospect of suffering a shock loss in the midterms.
Imperiled MAGA Senator Dramatically Flips on Love for ICE
Roger Marshall has seen warning signs that he could be defeated in deep-red territory.
thedailybeast.com
We basically have a federal government office of white supremacy and we're collectively shrugging as a nation. What is wrong with us?
Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · yesterdayWhite-nationalist "Remigration" envisions mass removals of nonwhite immigrants in service of ethnic cleansing. The Office of Remigration's activities have now been exposed by a good WaPo investigation. Its deportations are unfolding under indefensible conditions. 2/ newrepublic.com/article/2157...
The whole point of calling this agency the Office of "Remigration" is to deliberately signal to the world that white nationalism is now the basis for US policy. Some thoughts on this whole worldview below. 5/ newrepublic.com/article/2157...
Arizona: tune in to KJZZ’s The Show tomorrow during the 9:00 am PT hour. I’ll be discussing GardaWorld’s new construction contract with hosts Lauren Gilger and Mark Brodie.
KJZZ's The Show
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Project Salt Box@projectsaltbox.com · 3d agoICE just signed $7.3 billion in contracts to build detention space on land it owns, after its warehouse plan stalled. A $1.2 billion contract for a California site ICE left in 2014 went to a company tied to a developer facing more than a dozen lawsuits.
ISO: Student activists ready to get out the vote for the midterms 🗳️⬇️
Autopsies of Black Lives Matter and George Floyd protests often conclude that movements produced tough-on-crime backlash. My new study in Work and Occupations finds a different kind of movement outcome: BLM changed how local reporters cover cops and jails. 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
I could point to a dozen more instances and data points today that tell us just how screwed the Republicans. But here's my favorite: Suddenly-vulnerable GOP Sen. Roger Marshall of Kansas calling out...ICE! #KSSen
A 1yo in AZ, w/o an attorney, was told by an immigration judge to file an asylum application days after a federal contract for legal rep expired. A ONE YEAR OLD. So don't ever let yourself feel stupid when things like this are happening. Tell Congress to take action➡️ tinyurl.com/protect-kids
Vought holds one of the most powerful jobs in D.C., and he’s used his position to wage a quiet war to change the shape of the entire U.S. government. Here's what you should know about Trump’s shadow president. (Published Oct. 2025)
What You Should Know About Russ Vought, Trump’s Shadow President
Vought is the architect of President Trump’s broader plan to fire civil servants, freeze government programs and dismantle entire agencies. Here are some key things to know about the D.C. insider who ...
propublica.org
Commentary: An Economic Policy Institute calculator estimates the average Ohio federal income-taxpayer will shoulder about $1,670 to finance Trump’s mass-deportation campaign. Ohio’s total share is nearly $6.9 billion through the remainder of Trump’s term ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/09/22/o...
Ohio taxpayers face a $1,670 deportation bill, and a smaller workforce • Ohio Capital Journal
An Economic Policy Institute calculator, as reported by Axios, estimates that the average Ohio federal income-tax filer who owes tax after credits would shoulder about $1,670 to finance President…
ohiocapitaljournal.com
Trump's mindset when it comes to the Kennedy Center is that of an authoritarian toddler. If he can't have the toys he wants, he'll try to break them and make sure no one else can have them, either.
There are over 120K Flock cameras surveying us in the US right now. If you want to fight back against the state of mass ALPR surveillance please sign up for the ACLU’s excellent “Get the Flock Out” toolkit! Because mass surveillance doesn’t make us safe—investing in our communities does!
SCOOP: the ICE officer who shot Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez in Austin wasn't wearing his body cam. The officer is a new recruit hired by the agency last year 🔽 www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
The ICE Officer in Austin Wasn’t Wearing a Body Cam
The officer who shot a Venezuelan man was hired last year from another federal law-enforcement agency.
theatlantic.com
Hear me out here, but maybe when you hire people based on how well they’d do on a reality show, you shouldn’t be surprised when they focus on creating reality shows instead of doing their jobs and, I dunno, say modernizing air traffic telecommunications systems?
Major U.S. Airports Halt Flights After FAA Equipment Failure Reveals Bigger Problem
A failed circuit and damaged backup fiber line grounded flights across the Northeast, with Newark delays stretching beyond four hours.
mensjournal.com
NEW Economist/YouGov Net approval for Trump [at the start of his second term | when last asked] for... Crime +12 | -10 Immigration +11 | -12 Foreign policy +3 | -24 The economy +12 | -37 Inflation +6 | -42 yougov.com/en-us/articl...
NEWS: Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration has secured a record $131.5 million settlement from DoorDash after a NYC investigation found the company underpaid or failed to properly pay 264,000 delivery workers. 1/
A post that’s so eye-opening because this is exactly what liberals will say is GOP distraction tactics, almost as a parody— and here it really is what Gaetz is saying unironically as his GOP message.
While Trump Miller admin spends $170 billions on kidnapping immigrants and kills US citizens, under their mass deportation machine, they’re also gutting healthcare for 750,000 Americans. This is another way to hurt or kill Americans who can’t afford health insurance without ACA.
The latest shooting in Austin, Texas, highlights how ICE agents manufacture their justifications for shooting people. extremearturo.substack.com/p/ice-contin...
Some Maryland immigrants are discovering a surprising twist in their immigration cases: They’re being ordered to report to Washington, D.C. — often on short notice — to attend a virtual hearing with a judge back in Baltimore. buff.ly/2MnTCe5
Commentary: An Economic Policy Institute calculator estimates the average Ohio federal income-taxpayer will shoulder about $1,670 to finance Trump’s mass-deportation campaign. Ohio’s total share is nearly $6.9 billion through the remainder of Trump’s term. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/09/22/o...
Ohio taxpayers face a $1,670 deportation bill, and a smaller workforce • Ohio Capital Journal
An Economic Policy Institute calculator, as reported by Axios, estimates that the average Ohio federal income-tax filer who owes tax after credits would shoulder about $1,670 to finance President…
ohiocapitaljournal.com
"Any electoral victories this fall on Capitol Hill — and in the White House in 2028 — needs to come with a long, long, long series of consequences. We need to return to punishing people who do obvious crimes. Make Crimes Criminal Again."
Murshed Zaheed@murshedz.bsky.social · 2d ago“The rich and the powerful, from the President to Silicon Valley, can’t continue to act with impunity everywhere, without consequences, without remorse, without accountability. Laws exist for a reason.” @vermontgmg.bsky.social channels my issue no 1 ▶️ “it’s the accountability, stupid.”
@theintercept.com: "An email first sent over the weekend sent by Fetterman’s campaign came from the address 'info@gopsquad.com' and vowed: 'I’m always going to reject Socialism and the Anti-American way of life.'"
Ray Beckerman@raybeckerman.bsky.social · 2d agoJohn Fetterman Is Fundraising on GOP Donor Email Lists theintercept.com/2026/09/21/j...
When I first met Ariadna, she was still inside Delaney Hall. She translated for the other women inside, helping me learn their stories. Now that she’s out, she’s still shining a light on their experiences.
