ICE arrest of vineyard manager shakes Oregon wine industry https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/19/oregon-vineyard-manager-arrest-ice?CMP=share_btn_url
Early on June 12, Moises Sotelo woke up to go to work in the rolling hills of Oregon’s Willamette Valley wine country, a place he has called home for decades. A car tailed him as soon as he left his driveway. Trucks surrounded him outside of St Michael’s Episcopal church, where he was detained by federal immigration agents. By the end of the day, Sotelo was in an ICE detention facility
#Racism #Immigration

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/20/trump-michigan-coal-power-plants
The Trump administration is moving to keep open two Michigan coal plants that emit about 45% of the state’s greenhouse gas pollution, which opponents say is an indication of how the US president plans to wield his controversial national energy emergency executive order.
#Climate #ClimateChange #Pollution

@Waitnwallflower
yet truly beautiful!

@mancavgeek @kibcol1049 @Lassielmr @rayhindle @HarriettMB
At the very least USA now has someone very nearly equivalent to King Farouk as the head of the federal government

https://www.theburnerseattle.com/post/while-70-000-people-marched-to-seattle-center-tukwila-protesters-needed-more-bodies-to-block-ice-ki
Trump, & the disease of which he is only a symptom, will not be defeated by simply marches and rallies. Fascism will not be defeated by liberals making all of this seem as if it were just the end result of one man’s ambitions. The fascist takeover of our country will only be resisted by making changes to how we engage with this threat. We must build power and resistance together through solidarity, community mutual aid, and direct action.
#USPolitics #Fascism

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/18/iowa-farm-chemicals-cancer

“People in rural communities are getting sick. Cancer is just everywhere,” said Kerri Johannsen, senior director of policy at the Iowa Environmental Council, a non-profit focused on improving the environment that is helping to lead the project. “Every person I talk to knows somebody that has [recently] had a cancer diagnosis,” she said. “It’s just a constant drumbeat. It’s scary.”

#Health #Farming #Agriculture

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/16/trump-military-parade
The parade, as it turned out, was something of a disappointing affair

#USPolitics

The reign of the Swamp King

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/16/trump-conflict-of-interest

“This theft and destruction. This is the looting of America.”

#GOP #Corruption

@BrianJopek

Buncha shiny happy people there!

@cdarwin
1A Practicioners

@jimthewhyguy @sandlapper37
be here now

@Axomamma @spocko
That’s criminal child abuse

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/14/trump-parade-ice-no-kings-protests#comments
Trump is ruining the country, thanks to John Roberts and his fellow GOP toadies.
#GOP #Fascism #USPolitics

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/14/trump-parade-ice-no-kings-protests
As we resist Donald Trump’s tyranny, America gains in solidarity. As we gain solidarity, we feel more courageous. As we feel courageous and stand up to the president, we weaken him and his regime. As we weaken Trump and his regime, we have less to fear.
#Fascism #USPolitics

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/14/democratic-lawmakers-minnesota-shot
Two Minnesota lawmakers have been shot in their separate homes.

Local news stations identified the victims as state senator John Hoffman and state representative Melissa Hortman. Both are members of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor party. There is little information on the suspect at this time.
#USPolitics

@Hey_Beth
Down with Dog Killer Noem!

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/jun/12/la-protests-los-angeles-california-curfew-ice-immigration-marines-national-guard-donald-trump-latest-updates
US Senator Alex Padilla came to the press conference to hear what Kristi Noem had to say, he said, emphasizing “the right for people to peacefully protest and to stand up for their first amendment – their fundamental - rights”.

I was there peacefully. I had a question, and so I began to ask question.
I was almost immediately forcibly removed from the room. I was forced to the ground, and I was handcuffed. I was not arrested. I was not detained.”
#GOP #Fascism

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/jun/12/la-protests-los-angeles-california-curfew-ice-immigration-marines-national-guard-donald-trump-latest-updates
“If this is how this administration responds to a senator with a question, if this is how the Department of Homeland Security responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they’re doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers, throughout the LA community and throughout California and throughout the country.” —US Senator Alex Padilla
#Fascism #GOP #DHS

@guruwaztor
They deserve to be doxxed, those fascist toadies