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[Jose Olivares @jlosc9]

NEW: A 45-year-old Venezuelan man in ICE custody died in Georgia on Monday after being denied his medication, his sister and advocacy groups said.

Jesús Manuel Arenas-Silva was the fourth person to die in an ICE-related incident this week.

ICE officials confirmed the death of Arenas-Silva, who was arrested last Thursday. During his arrest, his family said they pleaded with officials to allow him to take his medications. They allowed him only one. Then Arenas-Silva called his sister to tell her ICE didn't give him his medication.

"He went without medication during his detention until he tragically died in ICE custody on Monday,” advocates said.

Story:
https://t.co/D3PwtIBWYn

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

We’ve gone from a helicopter at Kid Rock’s, to Apaches on the beach, to this legitimately dangerous flyover in Pensacola.

This is what it looks like when your “SecWar” is concerned with “low-T” instead of discipline.

[The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow]

Jack Smith on Trump’s behavior on January 6, 2021: “He was getting calls from people he trusts, people he relies on—and he still refused to come to the aid of the people at the Capitol. That’s evidence for criminal intent in our case.” @Acyn (2025)

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨 Republican candidate Ann Manning Martin has been caught forging thousands of signatures to get her name on the ballot.

She was campaigning on "election integrity."

[Zachary Cohen @ZcohenCNN]

Exclusive: US military commanders bypassed warnings that intel on potential targets in Iran was severely out of date & approved some strikes — including one that hit a school, killing nearly 200 hundred children & adults -- based on years-old info that was not updated before war started, per multiple sources.

[Jonathan Crane @jonathancrane5]

This is the cover picture for the joint statement from Ukraine's foreign minister Andrii Sybiha and sports minister Matvii Bidnyi, in which they say the IOC's decision to lift Russia's ban "sends a deeply concerning signal to the international community."

[Stephen Semler @stephensemler]

Through four months, the US has spent $103 billion on the Iran War.

An average of more than $860 million per day.

[Daniel Swain @Weather_West]

Among other very bad things, the proposed and imminent rules would cause "reduced public access to weather, water, and climate information as recipients of federal funding face new restrictions on public communication of their scientific knowledge and understanding."

[Steve Rattner @SteveRattner]

Trump’s net worth has nearly tripled in his second term, reaching $6.5 billion.

His administration is the most brazenly self-enriching in American history.

📸: @MSNOWNews @Morning_Joe

[Barb McQuade @BarbMcQuade]

Today’s decision in Slaughter will destroy the independence of the Merit Systems Protection Board, which will have a cascading effect on all federal employees, who have been free from political interference for 150 years. The spoils system is back, baby!

[Alex Lubben @alexlubben]

New Orleans' flood protection authority's police chief, Joshua Rondeno, was terminated on Friday.

Over the last year, we've written about him and his agency a few times. Here are some of the highlights:

[scary lawyerguy @scarylawyerguy]

Forty years ago, they masked their racism in "welfare queens" and "states rights." Ten years ago, they masked their racism in "white working class economic anxiety." But now, the mask has been dropped and it's just 190 proof unfiltered hatred. Really gross stuff.

[Noble Prize in Sarcasm @rewegreatyet]

The only reason we know about Sean Duffy and his wife is because they were on reality shows about Gen X hookup culture

[Patrick Svitek @PatrickSvitek]

As expected, the super PACs that recently meddled in House Dem primaries — Real Change PAC & Lead Left PAC — are tied to GOP donors.

FEC filings for May show they were almost entirely funded by Conservative Americans PAC, which is funded by the GOP-affiliated nonprofit American Prosperity Alliance.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Ron Johnson suggests vaccines cause SIDS, but then starts stammering when he tries to come up for some support for this claim: "I just read it ... don't quote me."

[Erin Overbey @erinoverbey]

It should be a much bigger deal that legacy media journalists like Ezra Klein, Bret Stephens & @newyorker writer Atul Gawande are members of or attended Peter Thiel’s secret society, Dialog.

[LanaQuest aka RosaSparks @LqLana]

Hold the fuck up. Hold up.

Those are Honor Guards?

I'm literally flabbergasted. The disrespect is off the charts.

Just fucking wow.
#DemsUnited

[Ben Smith @semaforben]

Extent to which White House allies are signaling that this is a culture war issue, not a technical one, is striking

[Mother Jones @MotherJones]

“Kushner makes up for his flaws as an investor by being a wildly corrupt appendage of his father-in-law’s wildly corrupt administration." https://t.co/IgFDFYO1PQ

[EU says Elon should not lie abt my blue check @emptywheel]

Crimes that far right moral reprobates embraced this week:

- the algae-filled reflecting pool they lied about
- a name on a building
- a massive kickback masquerading as a sporting event at the White House
- how the IPO (set up by a guy convicted of fraud for his LAST purchase) was set up