Unión del Barrio #Community #Patrol in #California is alert to #ICE activities. Their website has English and Spanish versions.
https://uniondelbarrio.org/main/communitypatrols/?fbclid=IwY2xjawLGchBleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFhVFVQcG9nZVhKa2FUcm9yAR7N8sF1Wtbgv8oJjrUj_DewfmRMTc0_FhfgmomVAq2WqKi1cdQQ3DPJaHaSZA_aem_iOKU6wAbEXEummtw6TDu3A

A #documentary #film produced as a #warning that now is #history - #Vigilantes is about the #racist #campaign to disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of legal voters of colour in the #2024 #US #election . Perhaps more than a million. https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzQbfpHrXXcDKsWdhRMvlBrTBpMM?projector=1

Everything can be monetized, even your reputations:

On Wednesday, the #US State Department announced it would resume the foreign #visa #application process, but now requires applicants to #unlock their #socialmedia accounts for government review. https://apnews.com/article/student-visas-trump-social-media-6632a2c585245edcd6a63594345dd8c7?ref=readtangle.com

June 12, Trump administration began directing Immigration and Customs Enforcement ( #ICE ) to pause investigations and enforcement actions in the agricultural, hotel, and restaurant industries. He acknowledged his immigration agenda had negatively impacted these industries and promised changes. However, on Monday, the Department of Homeland Security told its staff that it had reversed this decision and to continue immigration raids at #farms #hotels and #restaurants https://www.readtangle.com/trump-immigration-industry-carveouts/?ref=the-sunday-edition-newsletter

American Democracy Minute Radio News Report for June 23, 2025
In the run-up to the 2024 election, we reported on the organized #GOP efforts to #challenge the #certification of #elections laying the groundwork for sowing doubt and disrupting the outcome. A new #report published by the Brennan Center for Justice studied the threats to certification, and how to prevent them.

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https://www.americandemocracyminute.org/wethepeople/2025/06/22/new-report-outlines-ways-states-and-municipalities-can-protect-elections-from-certification-challenges-by-rogue-local-officials/

#US House-passed #budgetbill won't let women get #abortion coverage under the #affordablecareact Also denies all federal funding for #plannedparenthood including provision of primary health care, contraception, sexually transmitted infection testing and treatment, and family planning services. This #threatens #closure of rural #health #centers in medically underserved areas. Over 1 million consumers could lose access to essential health care. [via Democrat member of Congress]

Yesterday’s #licenseplate #readers have morphed into today’s reproductive dragnet. The systems built to track stolen cars and issue parking tickets have become #tools to #enforce #abortion #laws across state lines. What began as a local concern over #privacy has escalated into a #US #national #civilliberties crisis.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/she-got-abortion-so-texas-cop-used-83000-cameras-track-her-down

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#US #state of #NorthCarolina depends on a #private #energy #company Duke Power has finally consented to provide power to a low-income housing project. https://ncnewsline.com/2025/06/21/duke-energy-relents-provides-power-to-new-chapel-hill-affordable-housing-project/

#Members of #US #Congress have filed a #WarPowersAct to try to stop Trump from getting the US into Israel's #war with #iran https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rqD0pExB_g

American Democracy Minute Radio News Report for June 19, 2025
The #NorthCarolina #legislature once again finds itself in #federal #court for two #racial #gerrymandering cases in a trial beginning June 16th. Voters and three pro-voter groups accuse GOP leaders of violating the 14th and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, and the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

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https://www.americandemocracyminute.org/wethepeople/2025/06/18/once-again-the-north-carolina-legislature-finds-itself-in-court-for-racial-gerrymandering/

Clear analysis about the purpose and uses of the #US #NationalGuard by a retired brigadier general. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/madness-a-retired-brig-general-slams-trumps/id886009669?i=1000713369034

The #pkk #Kurdistan 's armed wing, has just disbanded. A #discussion about what this means for the Kurdish people will be coming up online June 21 from the #Civil #Diplomacy Center - North and East #Syria https://globaltapestryofalternatives.org/events:2025_pkk_dissolution

#ICE roughed up and captured a #candidate in the current #NewYorkCity elections today on his way out of immigration court with a defendant. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/brad-lander-new-york-detained-ice/story?id=122937246

#increase in #number of #homeless #elder #Americans over 55 - set to triple in 5 years | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/homeless-americans-over-55-rate-increase-b2771692.html

World #governments could raise about $2.6 trillion annually, more than enough #revenue to #finance most #climate related #needs if they collectively adopted low-rate #wealth #taxes beginning with the #richest 0.5% and stopped #multinational #corporations from shifting #profits the Tax Justice Network said Monday. [via Law360]
https://taxjustice.net/

NRC Commissioner Says Trump Illegally Fired Him
Former #US #Nuclear #Regulatory #Commission chairman and current commissioner Christopher Hanson said Monday that President Donald #Trump #illegally #fired him on Friday, becoming the latest member of an independent agency removed by the president. [via Law360]

#Monsanto Ends #Roundup #Cancer Case With Midtrial #Settlement
Monsanto confirmed Monday that it has settled a #Texas man's Roundup cancer #lawsuit shortly before closing arguments in the trial were set to begin. [via Law360]

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/opinion/trump-has-reawakened-the-resistance.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Pk8.sPFf.J1UYtXeDZvQS

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250612-the-uncancelled-venue-palestine-museum-offers-podium-to-palestinian-narrative/#disqus_thread