Mike

A nation that isn’t broken, but simply unfinished. MPH. Medical/Science Writer. Paramedic for 30 yrs.. Healthcare is a human right. Into the wine, not the label

[Romain Molina @Romain_Molina]

Nommé par la FIFA pour officier durant la Coupe du Monde, l'arbitre somalien 🇸🇴 Omar Artan s'est vu refuser l'entrée sur le territoire américain

Vu ses difficultés pour obtenir un visa, il avait bénéficié du soutien de l'ambassade somalienne de Nairobi qui lui a notamment permis d'avoir un passeport diplomatique

Insuffisant pour les autorités américaines qui l'ont immédiatement renvoyé...

Pour rappel, Artan a dirigé la finale retour de Ligue des Champions de l'an dernier entre Pyramids FC et Mamelodi Sundowns tout en étant élu meilleur arbitre africain 2025 par la CAF

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

Hegseth is out playing dipshit 2nd Lt again for another photo shoot.

[Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney]

In appeals court fight over the White House ballroom, DOJ says the federal government could quickly bulldoze the statute of liberty and no one would have standing to sue over the changes once the demolition is done.

[LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @LongTimeHistory]

Trump's National Guard surge violently detains U.S. citizen—for holding a sign.

She was standing on her own front porch.

3 soldiers block her from entering her home—tackle her to ground.

"Help! Help! You're breaking my arm!"
she cries.

"You came onto my property—you have no authority to detain me!"

Trump Administration announced a "surge" in the number of National Guard and ICE agents in DC to at least 5,000 last month.

On at least three additional occasions in the last two weeks, National Guard soldiers have handcuffed and detained people in DC.

This footage was submitted to FilmThePoliceDC on June 2.

Incident occurred in the Truxton Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C.

[Jake Offenhartz @jangelooff]

On Saturday, while covering a protest at Delaney Hall for the AP, Angelina Katsanis' camera bag went missing.

Inside was $10K worth of gear, her biz cards and an Airtag -- which soon began to ping from home of a NJ sergeant. He's now facing charges.

https://t.co/fCHmWnJETI

[Mike @MikeD9111]

@Ratio_Disputati @Nomads4Pritzker Asking the locals would be a data gathering program.

[Mike @MikeD9111]

@Forever_Evil_X @Nomads4Pritzker I would like to see the pictures of migrants crossing the darien gap with cattle in tow.

[𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖_𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @SundaeDivine]

Happy Pride Month to the First Lady.

[Claude Taylor @TrueFactsStated]

This photo/screenshot will live in infamy.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

The New World Screwworm, a grave parasitic threat, has just been detected in US cattle for the first time since it was eradicated in 1966.

The parasite's revival comes after Trump and DOGE slashed funding for Screwworm monitoring programs.

[Jonathan Landay Reuters @JonathanLanday]

US Homeland Security cancels most pending Noem-era contracts after review https://t.co/9fQFaioeuW

[Nicholas Nehamas @NickNehamas]

NEW: Staff at an ICE facility in Louisiana mistreated immigrants, including one incident where an officer stabbed an inmate in the hand with a pen, the Homeland Security inspector general found. The watchdog's report provides a rare and candid look inside an ICE detention center.

[Whale Scan @WhaleScan]

🚨 stop scrolling.. do you understand what a frozen bank account actually does to a $4 billion resort project..

because most people are watching the protest footage and missing the math..

Albania Land Development — the Qatari-owned company that holds the coastal land Affinity Partners needs to build — had its bank accounts seized by SPAK on June 2, 2026..

no bank accounts means no transactions..

no transactions means no construction financing can move.. not $1 billion.. not $100 million.. not a single wire..

you don't freeze the land vehicle for an environmental complaint.. you freeze it when prosecutors believe the underlying property titles are fraudulent and you're afraid the money moves before you can stop it..

and here's the part nobody's connecting..

the 2024 land reclassifications that made this project legally possible are now the subject of a criminal investigation.. the titles are under fraud review.. the bank accounts are frozen.. and the probe opened and the freeze landed within 24 hours of each other..

that's not a slow regulatory process.. that's prosecutors running..

Kushner announced this deal in August 2024.. visited the site with Ivanka in early 2026.. called it a vision for the Albanian coast..

the Senate was already scrutinizing Affinity's foreign deals before any of this..

a frozen land company with allegedly fraudulent titles and a widening criminal probe is not a permitting delay..

it's the structural end of the project as currently built.

I'll keep you updated. Turn on notifications. 🚨

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: The Secretary of Homeland Security just admitted, on camera, that he is going to violate your First Amendment right to free speech.

He said, “I have ZERO tolerance. If you verbally assault our officers… we will find you, we will arrest you.”

Except… that’s not how the First Amendment works.

Unless someone is making a credible threat of violence, speech… even rude, angry, or insulting speech… is still protected.

That’s the whole point of a free speech clause… to protect the people from situations where those in power don’t like what’s being said.

So, when a top federal official starts framing “verbal assault” as something you can be arrested for, without clearly defining it as an actual threat…

It stops sounding like protecting officers, and starts sounding like a government trying to silence people who speak out against it.

[scha·den·freu·de  @BlisterPearl]

"Trickle down economics doesn't work, so let's try piñata economics. That's the one where we beat the billionaires until the hoarded wealth falls out."

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

@JaulaDePerreo How about “Let’s take another crack with a Biden.” Needs work but the possibilities are endless.

[Paolo Mossetti @paolomossetti]

Leen Hijaz, valedictorian at her high school in North Carolina, said the following in her graduation speech:

"Before I leave the stage, I have one last thing to say. Every single person here has a voice; we have the privilege to use it when millions around the world are struggling and suffering to be heard. Whether it’s the millions suffering in Palestine, Sudan, Congo, Afghanistan and so many other countries around the world, or families being torn apart by ICE. These are not just an issue here; they are happening there, they’re happening right here as I speak. My point is, we’re not given a voice to stay silent."

Corey Robin, a political theorist at Brooklyn College, writes: "The mere mention of Palestine—maybe ICE, too—sent the high school principal, Melissa Moore, hurtling across the stage to seize the microphone from Hijaz, and stop her from saying these unapproved words.

Just look at this photograph: A young Muslim woman, speaking out, and a desperate, terrified principal trying to shut her down, lest the student say something unauthorized, disapproved, discordant with the views of an increasingly small clique of government officials and voters.

It's so pathetic. It reads like a comic play by Václav Havel. It looks like the desperate last days of the Soviet Union. I can only hope Hijaz speaks for a generation that will, one day, sweep all this garbage into the dustbin of history".