The U.S. military shot and killed a man this morning. In America. www.npr.org/2026/07/05/n...

National Guard troops fatally shoot a man in downtown Memphis

Memphis police say National Guard troops fired their weapons in the early morning hours of July 5, killing a man who was armed with a handgun. State investigators will handle the case.

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#AbolishICE Their operations have increased recently, leading to more victims detained and taken in the past few months 👇🏽

Wisconsin Watch@wisconsinwatch.org · last mo.

ICE says it arrested 39 people across Wisconsin during one of the state's largest immigration enforcement operations since President Trump returned to office. Milwaukee officials questioned ICE's use of city and county property for staging. More from Paul Kiefer: wisconsinwatch.org/2026/06/wisc...

First, Flock cameras pointed at parks and sidewalks. Now, #BusPatrol tech installed on your child's school bus has joined the mass #surveillance machine. 👇🏽

Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo@digitalwarrior.bsky.social · last mo.

1/ Your kid's bus is now a rolling plate scanner. BusPatrol sold it as "stop-arm safety." Now they want cops to see the data too. This is how mass surveillance gets built: wrap it in child safety, then quietly hand it to police. 🧵 #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy

(🚨) BREAKING NEWS: As Threaded About on This Feed Days Ago, FIFA Has Exercised Its Ability to Suspend the Balogun Suspension; Balogun to Play Against Belgium

The New York Times@nytimes.com · last mo.

From @theathleticfc.bsky.social: Folarin Balogun will be available to play the USMNT’s round of 16 match against Belgium with his one-game red-card ban suspended. Multiple FIFA officials previously said that a team cannot appeal a red card or suspension. nyti.ms/4vJ2Ls7

There's a simple fact that no one in US politics is allowed to acknowledge publicly: the demographics most likely to play the role of Real Americans in the elite imagination are the least likely to support the core American value of pluralism. The most American are the least American.

Again: section 224 is integrating 🇺🇸 & 🇮🇱 militaries, and not enough people seem aware of it.

From Threads:

Video of the Statue of Liberty during the “Liberty Lights” artistic illumination event. It features a first-of-its-kind projection and laser show produced for America’s 250th anniversary as part of Disney Celebrates America. abc7ny.com/amp/post/spe...

I don't think any American--regardless of party, despite fondness for aviation (which I share)--would enjoy being under the nonstop low-altitude, high-speed, incredible-volume of the Caligula overflights of our nation's capital right now. It feels and sounds like being under aerial attack.

James Fallows@jfallows.bsky.social · last mo.

So, per @Froomkin, what we're getting now in DC is sequence of -F-35s -F-18s -More F-35s -F-22s about to arrive. Again, I love airplanes and airshows. But this is wasteful beyond belief. (Another F-35 pack zooms by just now.) Someone can calculate millions-per-flight-hr of each craft

2/2 Major Jason P. Watson

"The Uniform Code of Military Justice, which criminalizes contemptuous words against the president, vice president, Congress and other top officials... CNN reached out to the US Air Force to confirm whether Watson is an active-duty service member, but did not immediately receive a response." • CNN

US service member arrested at Capitol after calling for Trump’s impeachment | CNN Politics

A US Air Force major was arrested on the steps of the US Capitol on Wednesday after delivering a speech calling for the impeachment and removal of President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance.

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ICE agents almost shot a man after an ICE agent dropped his gun and another yelled, “Gun.” 📍 This happened in Everett, Massachusetts. Witnesses had to shout that the detained man was unarmed. americansagainstice.org/subscribe

The NPS will launch 850,000 fireworks in the middle of the night. (Last year, they launched 7,000) That will dump perchlorates and heavy metals into the Potomac River and cause the amount of soot and smoke particles to skyrocket (pardon), at great danger to any creature that breathes.

Bill Kuchman@billkuchman.bsky.social · last mo.

"The Park Service, in a separate document, similarly said that people should ‘wear an n95 mask when outdoors’ and ‘remain indoors as much as possible during and after the show.’” The guidance is to remain indoors ... during the fireworks. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

BREAKING: The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals just ruled 2-1 that ICE cannot detain people under the Trump administration's massive new detention policy for more than 90 days without affording them a bond hearing. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

If American democracy fails, everything people here care about - Gaza, climate change, spelling reform, whatever - gets worse. (Just ask the people now dying in Africa.) So prioritize your voting as if you're a reasoning, capable adult, and not a single-issue child holding your breath.

🚨 HUGE ongoing surge of ICE arrests, with ICE directing 80% of all officers to go out into the field and round people up, aiming to hit 2,000 arrests a day; which would be more than during the Minneapolis surge. This may be why the nun in Texas got briefly picked up. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/u...

Immigrant Arrests Surge to 10,000 in 5 Days as ICE Clamps Down

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MINNESOTANS!!! Jury nullification is legal and good. But you can’t talk about it while you’re doing it, and you can’t learn about it after you’ve been selected for jury duty. You gotta read up now! beyondcourts.org/sites/defaul...

Minnesota Star Tribune@startribune.com · last mo.

A group of Twin Cities protesters accused of conspiring to impede immigration enforcement efforts in Minnesota pleaded not guilty to their charges. The hearing drew several dozen demonstrators to the federal courthouse, calling for the charges to be dropped.

By funding & glorifying high school & college dropouts, Thiel’s network peddles the fantasy that extreme capitalism offers young men more opportunity than democratic socialism, which Thiel has long feared. It’s BS bc most people don’t have the likes of Palantir to back them up. 1/

Jenny Cohn@jennycohn.bsky.social · 2mo ago

4/ They want us to focus on Isaiah Taylor, the uber Christian high school dropout who founded Valar Atomics. Behind the curtain, however, Valar is backed by current and former executives of Peter Thiel’s Palantir. Yeah, Valar has a Trump admin contract too. #Palantir

I got angrier and angrier as I wrote this for @damemagazine.bsky.social. The collapse of this country’s civic morality dovetails with the cruelty and corruption that dominates policy. The rest of our institutions are being dragged down by or are abetting it. That’s the thing on my mind this 4th.

How Trumpism Is Destroying America's Civic Morality

Trumpism has normalized cruelty, corruption, and public spectacle. Rebuilding democracy requires restoring civic morality, accountability, and decency.

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🏡💵 How new law SB 79 may reshape neighborhoods across #California 👇🏽 @indivisiblevent.bsky.social @swingleftlosfeliz.bsky.social @teslatakedownla.bsky.social

L.A. Material@lamaterial.com · last mo.

California’s sweeping new housing law, SB 79, has taken effect, with the potential to remake neighborhoods near transit in the years ahead. Matt Hamilton breaks down what the law does and what changes Californians can expect. Read the full report: lamaterial.com/p/sb79-housi...

If you have that one uncle at the barbecue this weekend who talks about fiscal responsibility, be sure to ask why the government spent north of $1 billion on overpriced derelict warehouses that DHS failed to turn into detention camps, and are now trying to get rid of them.

Trump will try to sabotage the midterms — and he will fail.

This is VERY MUCH worth reading. It’s even worse than many of us knew. All corruption. All the time.

John Garrison Marks@johngmarks.com · last mo.

This is a succinct and damning report on the corruption of the Great American State Fair. It also has the cleanest explanation of the split between Freedom 250 and America250 that I've seen anywhere. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/the-gre...

Profit over planet. Cartoon from 2017. #earth #greed #money #nature

i’m in downtown minneapolis for a rally and press conference in support of the 15 minnesotans indicted by the federal government recently for their anti ICE work

"Federal heat standards for outdoor workers are long overdue [...] American workers, many of them Latino, still do not." My Op-ed as the #heatwave takes hold. www.recordonline.com/story/opinio...

The World Cup has cooling breaks. Latino neighborhoods don't | Opinion

Millions will experience this World Cup in dangerous heat in dense NJ and NY neighborhoods, with no hydration breaks and no one looking out for them.

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#DivestGEOGroup 💵 #CloseTheCamps ⚖️ #AbolishICE 🧊🔨

More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social · last mo.

Asylum seekers in the U.S. are suing ICE, accusing it of forcing them to wear “draconian” ankle monitors to enrich GEO Group. GEO Group charges twice as much for the physical monitors than they do for their app alternative. GEO Group made $250 million in profits last year.

Since being sworn in, Donald Trump has not only escaped accountability for his criminal conduct, but he has reportedly amassed more than $2 billion in profits.

The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that a man who's lived in the U.S. for >20 yrs, detained for >8 months by ICE, must be released, and ICE guidance, issued in July 2025, denying bond to all detainees who entered the country illegally, is unlawful. #ProudBlue www.cbsnews.com/colorado/new...

Federal Appeals Court in Colorado finds ICE "no bond" policy unlawful, orders release of detainee

The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that a man who's lived in the U.S. for more than two decades, detained for more than eight months by ICE, must be released, and that an ICE guidance denyin...

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