Michael Hill

@mdhillca
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Student of the 1961 blitz and the True Believer phenomenon, GNOME early adopter, husband, grandfather.
@ai6yr Lots of unvaccinated people in some of those places (Hobby Lobby, Bigot Chicken)

Oooh, wow, the LAST release about measles in Maricopa County was a doozy. It's like a TOUR DE MEASLES

Locations:

Arizona Athletic Grounds
Pecan Lake Entertainment
Club Dance Recital
Hobby Lobby
Walgreens
In-N-Out Burger
Star Dance Competition
Chick-fil-A
Chili's Grill & Bar
Boba CuCue Bubble Tea House
Target
V's Barbershop
Fry's Food Store
Menchie's Frozen Yogurt

https://www.maricopa.gov/m/newsflash/Home/Detail/3675

#measles #arizona #publichealth

Colorado is a solidly blue state.

So why does one of its Democratic senators keep voting for Trump’s nominees?

On Tuesday, let’s make sure Colorado gets the real Democratic fighter that it deserves — help us get out the vote for Julie Gonzales: https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible/event/949972/?source=mastodon

Eight people who participated in a protest at the Prairieland ICE detention facility in Alvarado, Texas, were sentenced on Tuesday to between 50 and 100 years in prison. A ninth person, Daniel Sanchez-Estrada, the husband of one of the demonstrators, did not participate in the protest, but was sentenced to 30 years in prison after he was convicted of moving boxes containing leftwing zines and other materials after a prison phone call from his wife.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/26/texas-protesters-anti-ice-convictions

Alarm over ‘extreme’ sentences for anti-ICE protesters convicted of terrorism

First amendment groups call 50-to-100-year prison terms chilling as legal experts say sentences unusually long

The Guardian

Trump won the working class. The rich keep getting richer because so many workers are suicidal racists who keep concentrating wealth away from themselves. Bigoted workers have incessantly voted for tax cuts for billions for 60 years. These stupid workers see billionaires as targeted and oppressed.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/26/billionaires-wealth-soars-as-workers-struggle

As billionaires’ wealth soars, US workers struggle: ‘The rich keep getting richer for no good reason’

Ultrarich face backlash as billionaire tax in California makes it to the ballot and Americans organize for higher wages

The Guardian

"Thursday's court ruling was spurred by a lawsuit filed in April by independent journalist and legal commentator Katie Phang over the redactions, which she argues are a "brazen, shocking, and ongoing violation" of the federal law mandating the release of the Epstein files. She asked a judge to order the release of several unredacted files."<--MSNBC fired Katie Phang shortly after Trump returned to the White House

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/judge-orders-doj-unredact-more-epstein-files-or-explain-why-blanche/

Judge orders DOJ to either unredact more Epstein files or explain why they must stay blacked out

A judge on Thursday ordered the Justice Department to either release unredacted versions of several files on the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein or explain why it can't do so.

CBS News

Writing for the majority, Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. concluded that Mr. Trump’s many statements about Haitians were not “overtly racial,” and that it was unlikely that race had been a motivating factor in the administration’s decision to end the protections. He was joined by the court’s five other Republican appointees.

What Justice Alito did not do was set out a single example of those statements.

In dissent, Justice Elena Kagan was incredulous.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/25/us/politics/supreme-court-trump-haiti-race.html

Justices Clash on Whether Race Played a Role in Trump’s Bid to Deport Haitians

The split mirrored one that has long divided Americans: how seriously to take the president’s loose, provocative and sometimes ugly remarks.

The New York Times

US Senator warns of #Trump admin plan to hastily remove over 500 unaccompanied #immigrant #children

A Democratic US senator warns the Trump admin is getting ready to round up 500 immigrant children in a hasty effort to remove them from the country, bypassing #legal protections. It would be their second attempt after a federal court intervened last year in an overnight plan to fly out hundreds of children on Labor Day weekend.

#law #immigration #TheCrueltyIsThePoint
https://apnews.com/article/migrant-children-deportation-border-trump-wyden-853585bc4efd13e59eccfb43fc4d0ceb

Senator warns Trump plans to deport over 500 immigrant children

A U.S. senator is warning of a Trump administration plan to remove over 500 children from the country, bypassing legal protections, in a letter sent to U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday. Sen. Ron Wyden details that in the coming days, the administration will fast-track the removal of the immigrant children who arrived in the U.S. without their parents to their countries of origin. The targeted children have been in long-term foster care under federal custody for more than 180 days. This would be similar to the effort the administration made last year when they tried to remove hundreds of children under the cover of night on Labor Day weekend.

AP News

Some straight, and necessary, talk from Sen. Patty Murray.

Video: https://xcancel.com/hqnewsnow/status/2069784410363216016