a twice-weekly news & meme round-up,
usually on Tuesdays and Saturdays
The police will investigate, and decide whether a crime has been committed.
Trump authorizes 2,000 national guard troops to deploy to LA amid ICE protests
What do you think the people running the TrumpBot are hoping for here? Martial law, is what I’m starting to suspect and expect. The haters want to kill decent people, legally.
Supreme Court lets DOGE access sensitive Social Security Administration information
Now the worst people in the world know where you live, see your paycheck stubs, etc — info to be weaponized and sold or leaked.

AND NOW THE NEWS
#525
JUNE 8, 2025
Trump’s new favorite law for criminalizing his opponents
Excerpt: In practice, it’s even worse. Federal agents increasingly operate in masks and plain clothes, drive unmarked SUVs, and make arrests without warrants or even identifying themselves. Meanwhile, impersonators are exploiting this ambiguity often without fear of federal prosecution. Despite impersonation being a federal crime, federal prosecutors have not prosecuted ICE impersonators — armed with ICE-branded clothes and SUVs that look just official enough — who have improperly removed people from jail, kidnapped civilians, and terrorized neighborhoods. In many communities, the difference between a rogue officer and a criminal impersonator is nearly impossible to discern. Yet the law criminalizes any mistaken resistance.

TO HELL WITH HEALTH AND SCIENCE
About 8-million Americans would lose their healthcare under Trump’s bill
FDA food inspector vacancies near 20% after Trump hiring freeze
The White House gutted science funding. Now it wants to ‘correct’ research.

GIVE US YOUR TIRED, YOUR POOR, YOUR HUDDLED MASSES YEARNING TO BREATHE FREE, SO WE CAN IMPRISON THEM
ICE arrests record number of immigrants in single day, including hundreds at scheduled appointments
Arresting people who are trying to follow the law encourages people not to follow the law.
The ICE agents disappearing your neighbors would like a little privacy, please
In addition to the bad news, the word “detained” in this context is a lie. That’s what our enemies call it, because it sounds softer than what it is — being imprisoned without a trial.

GOOD NEWS

AND I SAY TO MYSELF, WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD
Trump administration imposes sanctions on four ICC judges in unprecedented move
Excerpt: The U.S. sanctions mean the judges are now on a list of specially designated sanctioned individuals. Any U.S. assets they have will be blocked and they are put on an automated screening service used by not only American banks but many banks worldwide, making it very difficult for sanctioned persons to hold or open bank accounts or transfer money.
Me again: For the ‘crime’ of opposing war crimes, these people might find their bank accounts closed.
Trump says it may be better to let Ukraine and Russia ‘fight for a while’

THE CRUELTY IS THE POINT
Republicans want to ban pets from domestic violence shelters
In recorded calls, reports of overcrowding and lack of food at ICE prisons

FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF DYSTOPIA
University of Michigan using undercover investigators to surveil student anti-genocide protesters

HORRID, HORRID PEOPLE
Louisiana House passes legislation to ban ‘chemtrails’, which aren’t real
Rift widens between Elon Musk, anyone who ever met him

MY BROWSER HISTORY, MINUS THE PORN
A brief history of Parisian pissoirs
Ken Jennings: Trivia and ‘Jeopardy!’ could save our republic
Never really thought about it before, the link between trivia and truth.
Denouncing antisemitism, Trump also fans its flames

American police are out of control — 6/4/2025
Ignoring the climate emergency — 6/2/2025
The Lord works in mysterious ways — 6/6/2025

And that’s the way it is,
and nothing will
meaningfully improve
until billionaires fear for their lives
6/8/2025
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Special thanks to Linden Arden, Becky Jo, Joey Jo Jo emeritus, Jeff Meyer, John the Basket, Dave S, Name Withheld, and always extra special thanks to my lovely late Stephanie, who gave me 21 years and proved that the world isn’t always shitty.

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