Laura Ibsen

I sometimes do stuff.

[LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @LongTimeHistory]

Police body slam woman peacefully protesting ICE—give her concussion.

"I was targeted," she said.

"Made example of so more 'loud mouth' protesters like me would stop showing up."

2 officers throw her to ground and land on top of her—so hard she needs treatment for concussion.

Annya Mari is well known for protesting ICE for the past 20 years with no criminal record—until now.

She has now been charged with "harassment of a public official."

Incident occurred outside the ICE facility in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

[Irlandarra @martinez_j7902]

Israel has killed more journalists than any other nation in history.

More than the total number of journalists killed during the U.S. Civil War, WWI, WWII, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War combined.

[i Expose Racists & Pedos @SeeRacists]

🚨 A white police officer was caught on video beating a young Black child who was already on the ground.

The officer is seen kneeling over the kid and repeatedly punching him while the child begs “Stop, bro.” The boy is clearly not fighting back, yet this piece of shit keeps hitting him like he’s enjoying every second of it.

This is what happens when racist cops are allowed to treat Black children like animals and get away with it. Disgusting.

Sources: Video evidence

[Julia Ioffe @juliaioffe]

This sounds suspiciously like taxpayer-funded gender affirming care.

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: ICE agents were filmed assaulting, handcuffing, and kidnapping a U.S. citizen in Passaic, New Jersey… while refusing to even look at the ID he repeatedly begged them to check.

A man is pleading with federal agents to verify who he is…

And they refused.

Instead, one agent says, “We need to get him on the ground,” puts him in a chokehold, throws him to the ground, and multiple agents pile on top of him before handcuffing him, and throwing him into their vehicle.

Under the Fourth Amendment, the government cannot arrest, or seize someone, without probable cause that they have committed, are committing, or are about to commit an offense that authorizes the arrest.

U.S. citizens are also not required to carry identification unless they’re driving a motorized vehicle.

And if federal agents are refusing to verify someone’s identity before arresting them, then they are openly ignoring the constitution.

Which should terrify every American.

Because that means no one is safe from being kidnapped by the government… and disappeared.

Every agent involved should be publicly identified, and DHS should be forced to explain why they believed they had the legal authority to seize someone, while refusing to verify who he was.

This cannot become normal.

[Sarrah Bellus @sarrah_bellus]

The red cards work!

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days.

ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

There is something haunting about this photograph.

Not because of what it shows—but because of what it doesn't.

The young woman smiling into the camera had no way of knowing that almost everything she loved was about to vanish. Her name was Charlotte Salomon, a brilliant German-Jewish artist whose life would become one of the Holocaust's most heartbreaking stories.

As Nazi persecution tightened around her, Charlotte made a decision that seems almost impossible to comprehend. Instead of surrendering to despair, she painted.

Not one painting. Not ten.

More than 1,300.

Working at extraordinary speed while hiding in southern France, she transformed her memories, family tragedies, romances, nightmares, and hopes into a vast series she called Life? or Theater? Part autobiography, part stage play, part confession, it remains unlike anything else in the history of art. Every page feels like someone racing against time, determined to leave behind proof that they existed.

Those closest to her later recalled that before entrusting the paintings to a friend for safekeeping, Charlotte simply said, "Take good care of it. It is my whole life."

She was right.

In 1943, Charlotte was arrested. She was five months pregnant.

She was deported to Auschwitz.

Within hours of arriving, she was murdered.

The child she was carrying never had the chance to be born.

Yet somehow, Charlotte still refused to disappear. The paintings she left behind survived the war, preserving not only her remarkable talent but her voice, her humor, her grief, and the ordinary moments the Nazis tried to erase forever.

This photograph captures one of the last moments before history reached out and shattered her future.

She lost her life.

But she did not lose her story.

#archaeohistories

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

This will appear to the world as favoritism and as FIFA bowing to political influence. If the U.S. wins, I fear that much of the world will see it as a win with an asterisk and as Trump’s America making its own rules even in the sports world.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

DOGE deletes itself on July 4th. It will be remembered as a hugely destructive failure.

Musk promised $2 trillion in savings.

What we got, by DOGE’s own unverified math, was $215 billion. Even that number was never proven.

The costs were atrocious. Nearly 140,000 federal workers pushed out. Veterans waiting longer for care. USAID dismantled while people died overseas as a direct result. 20-year-olds with Red Bulls and no college degrees rummaging through Americans’ most sensitive data.

Musk, the world’s richest man, a federal contractor with billions in government business, auditing the government that pays him, accountable to no voter anywhere. 

Even Musk now says he wouldn’t do it again. The guy who ran it calls it a mistake.

Government reform was there for the taking. Both parties know federal technology is outdated. Both parties know waste exists. Fixing it required serious people working with career civil servants who know where the problems actually are. Instead we got a chainsaw, a photo op, and years of lost expertise we now have to rebuild.

Now Trump’s budget director says there will be no final accounting or receipts. They promised transparency and they’re closing up shop in the dark.
They’re counting on us all to forget.
https://t.co/LhgbGUY2Ca

[Julia Ioffe @juliaioffe]

The irony of Trump calling FIFA to overturn
a red card for Balogun because he knows the U.S. can’t win without Balogun, who only qualifies for the U.S. team because of birthright citizenship, which Trump just tried to overturn.

[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

If you're an American struggling to afford your own home or pay the rent, here's what Donald Trump thinks about helping you.

[Praise @tufpraise]

“Most transparent administration in history”

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

Trump the Groper-in-Chief: Beauty Queen Exposes His Violent Assault and Epstein-Style Threat

Disgusting. Absolutely vile. Trump allegedly lured 23-year-old Beatrice Keul to a Plaza Hotel suite in 1993, jumped on her like a predator, groped and mauled her body while she screamed for help, then threatened her with "bad things can happen" if she talked.

This isn't a one-off — it's the same serial sexual predator pattern from a man now tied to Jeffrey Epstein, who openly called her his "prey" right after Trump's alleged attack.

Keul is one of 28+ women with similar horror stories. A jury already nailed him for sexual abuse. He denies it all, claims he "never met" them, and his team calls him "exonerated."

Enough. This is a man who weaponized power to assault women and silence them. The dam is bursting, more victims are speaking, and America should be furious.

Trump doesn't belong anywhere near leadership — he belongs in the dustbin of history with every other pedophile, rapist, and sexual predator.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Here’s Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in April announcing the end of the military’s mandatory annual flu vaccine requirement, calling it “Not rational.”

[Tim Walz @Tim_Walz]

Found an imaginary problem, said only they could fix it, didn’t listen to experts, hired buddies who grifted millions, failed miserably, bragged how great it went.

The entire Trump presidency in a nutshell.

[FactPost @factpostnews]

Markwayne Mullin had the FDA delete warnings about the dangers of kratom, an addictive and sometimes lethal drug found in gas stations.

Mullin holds an up to $1 million stake in a major kratom company.

[Laura Ibsen @LauraIbsen]

@gayguycandleco Thr renovation isn't being plagued by stubborn algae. Its being plagued by chronic ignorance and disregard.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Candidate Trump: "I will end inflation on Day One."

President Trump today: "I love the inflation."

You know who doesn't love inflation, Mr. President? Working families struggling to afford gas, groceries and other necessities because of your disastrous actions.