vote blue no matter what unless the progressive wins the election at which point we must consider if it’s wise to back the candidate who is poisoning the pure, innocent, and previously uncorrupted wellspring of our politics

An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play

NEW: Alabama's Governor has signed another death warrant for Jeffery Lee, whose execution was blocked last month when a federal court held that the state's nitrogen hypoxia protocol violated the Eighth Amendment. The state is now moving to execution Lee with lethal injection.

Totally inappropriate framing considering the seriousness of the allegations. Just disgusting sensationalism for clicks

Every subway fire is an opportunity to point out that the new 15 second hold on opening emergency exits is going to kill someone eventually

The New York Times@nytimes.com · yesterday

A fire on a maintenance train in Lower Manhattan early Tuesday injured 14 people and disrupted subway services for morning commuters, the authorities said.

"A concentration camp, in its most basic definition, is a place where a targeted civilian population, not necessarily accused of a crime, is detained and at least some of their basic rights are suspended," writes @jwashing.bsky.social. "That’s precisely what’s happening in the United States today."

Don’t call them ICE detention centers. Call them camps | John Washington

I’ve spent a decade reporting on immigration enforcement. The word ‘camp’ best captures the political function of these facilities

theguardian.com

NEW: Alabama's Governor has signed another death warrant for Jeffery Lee, whose execution was blocked last month when a federal court held that the state's nitrogen hypoxia protocol violated the Eighth Amendment. The state is now moving to execution Lee with lethal injection.

come ON www.notus.org/democrats/de...

The DNC Lost Nearly $29,000 to an Email Scammer Posing as Ken Martin

The Democratic National Committee caught the error, but only recovered a portion of the funds, an official said.

notus.org

NEW: In June, a federal judge issued an unprecedented ruling, finding that AL's nitrogen execution protocol violated the 8th Amendment. Men on death row are now in legal limbo, as AL pushes to conduct lethal injection executions of men who opted to die by nitrogen www.law360.com/articles/250...

Ala. Ruling Leaves Executions In Uncharted Waters - Law360

Last month, a federal district judge ruled that Alabama's nitrogen hypoxia execution protocol violated the Eighth Amendment, an unprecedented decision that upended the state's death penalty process. N...

law360.com

I went to Bronx today to talk to the attorneys and staff from the Bronx Defenders, who are on strike for the second year in a row over contract disagreements "I think management has been incredibly dishonest" Alesia Paz, a legal advocate and union delegate told me www.law360.com/pulse/modern...

300+ Public Defenders Strike In The Bronx - Law360 Pulse

More than 300 attorneys and staff with the Bronx Defenders Union went on strike Monday, one year after the last time the union walked off the job.

law360.com

NEW: A large trove of Claude-generated documents have been exposed to the web and indexed by Google. We reviewed what appear to be real medical records, the full names and phone numbers of school-aged children, and company documents marked for internal use only. futurism.com/artificial-i...

A Whole Bunch of People's Claude Chats Are Publicly Accessible Online, and There's Some Wildly Private Stuff in There

A trove of documents generated by Anthropic's Claude were indexed by Google. They included medical records and student information.

futurism.com

“If immigration hadn't picked up my brother, my sister-in-law would still be alive, and the children wouldn't be going through this sorrow,” he said. “Unfortunately, immigration — the [U.S.] government — doesn't see that. It makes no difference to them.” www.stlpr.org/law-order/20...

Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportations

The couple’s 14-month-old daughter was found crying beside her mother’s body in a sugarcane field last week, according to Guatemalan authorities and media.

stlpr.org

NEW: In June, a federal judge issued an unprecedented ruling, finding that AL's nitrogen execution protocol violated the 8th Amendment. Men on death row are now in legal limbo, as AL pushes to conduct lethal injection executions of men who opted to die by nitrogen www.law360.com/articles/250...

Ala. Ruling Leaves Executions In Uncharted Waters - Law360

Last month, a federal district judge ruled that Alabama's nitrogen hypoxia execution protocol violated the Eighth Amendment, an unprecedented decision that upended the state's death penalty process. N...

law360.com

oh my god just don’t go to the authoritarian dinner you giant babies

Scott MacFarlane@macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 2w ago

NEW: 500+ journalists formally ask White House Correspondents Assoc. "to publicly pledge that it will fight back against the Trump Admin's assault on press freedom" at its dinner with Trump on Friday "Attacks on journalists and press freedom have become even more egregious"

NEW INFO HAS REVEALED that the 28-year-old Mexican man killed while running from ICE last week was just visiting on short tourist visa—and already had a plane ticket to go home. newrepublic.com/post/213277/...

Man Who Died Running From ICE Was Tourist With a Ticket Home

The man has been identified as Juan Jairo Coronilla Duran, who was in the U.S. on a tourist visa and already had a plane ticket to go back to Mexico.

newrepublic.com

NEW: Aurora Police say an ICE detention center employee shot a protester last night. She is expected to survive. 42-year-old Brandon Booth, who works for the ICE contractor GEO Group, is being held on suspicion of attempted second degree murder and other charges.

”would you check for me if he read my emails” We are doing a confirmation hearing for the AG but Senator Kennedy is one suck of a hard candy away from turning into a bedridden grandparent from Charlie and the chocolate factory

With two people dead in Memphis in four days and one the same week in Houston, that's four people federal agents have shot and killed over just nine days. July 5: Tyrin Johnson July 7: Lorenzo Salgado Araujo July 8: Alfonso Ivy July 13: name not released yet

Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · 3w ago

A person was killed in a shooting involving US Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Maine on Monday morning, the speaker of the state’s House of Representatives said

This doesn’t feel relevant? A warrant is not a death sentence. The point is ICE is conducting extrajudicial killings.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 3w ago

BREAKING: BIDDEFORD, Maine (AP) - Homeland Security secretary said man killed by ICE in Maine was not the target of warrant, Maine Sen. Angus King says.

Bro shut the fuck up

Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · 4w ago

Dana Bash presses Brad Lander on endorsing Abdul El-Sayed, asking: "You don‘t think by him not believing in what you believe in the notion of a Jewish state of Israel compromises your humanity?" Lander: He‘s been clear he wants full and equal civil and human rights for Israelis and Palestinians.

They’re trying to deport the men who witnessed the killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. newrepublic.com/article/2129...

Texas ICE Killing Darkens: Rep Says Witnesses Pressured to Self-Deport

There were three others in the van with the man shot by ICE in Houston this week. A represenative for the families tells TNR that the government is pressuring these potential witnesses to self-deport.

newrepublic.com

schrodinger’s mitch mcconnell?

In which Brett Kavanaugh says we should reconsider if the 14th amendment grants citizenship to children of undocumented immigrants born here by invoking American Indians, many of whom, notably, were not uniformly seeking citizenship but sovereignty as the U.S. government eroded their rights

babe wake up the highest court of the land of the richest and most militarily advanced country in the history of the world is waxing poetic about children playing sports

Another one: In January, a guy wrote an angry (but non-threatening) letter to former ICE chief Todd Lyons after the Good, Pretti killings. Last week, ICE agents tracked him down at the NYC hotel where he and his daughter were staying after returning from a vacation in Finland.

Another ICE threat visit: How did agents track down this critic on his vacation?

The ICE agents who threatened a Syracuse poll worker for an Instagram post warned a Rochester man in an unsettling way.

syracuse.com

I'm sorry, but the Democratic establishment doesn't get to say "these are low turnout primaries, they don't mean anything." Ritchie Torres, who unlike Espaillat and Goldman, *trounced* his primary challenger got a *total* of 24k votes. Chevalier got 33k Valdez got 38k Lander got 55k

We’re gonna find out this wasn’t true in two weeks and also this really isn’t push alert worthy either way

For as long as I have lived in NY, hysterical reactionaries have been weaponizing Jewish identity in bad-faith political attacks. I'd argue It's counterproductive to the safety of Jews to attack someone like Brad Lander, who has a demonstrated track record of caring about his constituents.

Roy Edroso@edroso.bsky.social · last mo.

Whenever the Bari Weiss Brigade don't get their way, their response is IT'S A POGROM!

Please don’t touch the pond scum, we’re working on a new bioweapon in the reflection pool

NEW: Videos show ICE agents defying Connecticut’s new mask ban during recent arrests. The agency says it “will not abide by” the ban. "Tell them. I dare you,” an agent said in one video. “Who’s going to arrest me?” My latest at @ctinsider.bsky.social — www.ctinsider.com/news/article... #nutmegsky

‘Who’s going to arrest me?’ ICE agents defy Connecticut law on mask ban

"Tell them to arrest me," the agent can be heard saying. "Tell them. I dare you. Who’s going to arrest me?”

ctinsider.com