Mastodawn

After spending a zillion dollars and bulldozing natural habitat, Texas MAGA gives up on the border wall.
Maybe the Lone Star state can only fund the border troops now?
" State leaders suggested the federal government could pick up the effort."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/only-8-built-texas-quietly-100000199.html
#Texas #Immigration #Mexico #ICE

With only 8% built, Texas quietly defunds state border wall program

Texas officials suggested the federal government could pick up construction. However, during President Trump’s first term, his administration built about one...

Yahoo News

MizGanzer 1d ago

Shoq 1d ago

Always amusing (but dangerous) when AI summaries get it this wrong. Our allowing these mega-platforms to provide their own AI assistant to summarize news is just one more misstep on the road to calamity.

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Nina Bernstein 1d ago

“The uptick in political violence and people being willing to use violence as a means to achieve their political ends,” she said. “I believe that it is fueled by the president’s willingness to use violent rhetoric and to cheer on the people that are doing violence on his behalf.” https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/us/politics/tina-smith-mike-lee-minnesota.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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NPR 1d ago

'Labubu' is a plush toy that is causing a frenzy. Here's its origin story
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/18/g-s1-72939/what-is-labubu-pop-mart-explained?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Arts & Life @arts-life-npr

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Dare Obasanjo 1d ago

Those who voted for Trump saying “what’s the worst that could happen?” are finding out they lacked imagination.

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MizGanzer 1d ago

@skry "Ban" is so unfriendly, no?

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Richard Rollinson 2d ago

A view of the garden in this morning's (continuing) rain. We need some sunshine! Details of plantings are in the alt text. Not shown are rhubarb and pole beans which are behind the photographer. Note the bolted (already) lettuce. More to plant out. Still have to get the Okra going if the soil warms up. It's hard to see but the garden is on a slope and rises about 10 feet (3 meter) from bottom to top. Faces east. 😀
#gardening
#Allotment
#NewEngland
#zone6b
#rain
@gardening

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Kim Perales 2d ago

Sen Padilla spoke on the Senate floor about his experience being removed from a press conference in LA with DHS Sec Noem. The senator grew emotional recounting the incident & recalled being "handcuffed just for trying to ask a Q."

"Padilla gave this speech on the fl pretty much as the news of Brad Lander's arrest in NY was breaking.🚨2 Dem lawmakers tackled & handcuffed by fed LE in the span of a week."
-NM Ramirez
#ICE #Immigrants #DueProcess #PoliceState #Resist #USPol https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/padilla-recounts-being-forcibly-removed-from-dhs-press-conference-in-l-a-241755717573

Padilla recounts being forcibly removed from DHS press conference in L.A.

Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., spoke on the Senate floor about his experience being removed from a press conference in Los Angeles with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. The senator grew emotional recounting the incident and recalled being "handcuffed just for trying to ask a question."

MSNBC

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Kat O’Brien 2d ago

This is Gestapo stuff https://apnews.com/article/brad-lander-nyc-immigration-court-arrest-6ed341297efab31a08a14421674d8ed8
NYC mayoral voting is underway. Obviously don’t rank serial sexual abuser/harasser Andrew Cuomo.
Rank Lander, Mamdani, Adrienne Adams, Myrie & Blake.
#bradlander #lander #nycmayor #nyc #ice

Brad Lander, NYC mayoral candidate, arrested at immigration court

New York City Comptroller and Democratic mayoral candidate Brad Lander has been arrested by federal agents at an immigration court after he linked arms with a person who authorities were attempting to detain. A reporter with The Associated Press witnessed Lander’s arrest on Tuesday. The immigrant Lander escorted out of the courtroom was also arrested. Lander was released from custody after a few hours after spending the morning observing immigration court hearings. He told an AP reporter that he was there to “accompany” some immigrants out of the building. The episode occurred as federal immigration officials are conducting large-scale arrests outside immigration courtrooms across the country.

AP News