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(via $4.6 billion and 40,000 jobs lost—thanks to the artistry of our politicians. : r/clevercomebacks)

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The illusion is imploding.

Inadequate grifters can only manage for so long.

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when you get half eaten by a hostile creature cause you’ve gotta save your stupid clients 🙄

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Murderbot 1x07 "Complementary Species"

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They were trying to help, which didn't help. But as much as it pissed me off, I kind of appreciated it.

Murderbot TV (Apple TV) season 1 episode 7

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The son of a man who was brutalized by immigration authorities in Orange County, California, is speaking up after video of the incident went viral over the weekend.

The disturbing footage shows landscaper Narciso Barranco being pinned down and battered by a group of masked agents as he was picked up while working outside of a Santa Ana IHOP on Saturday.

At least a half-dozen men wearing gear identifying them as U.S. Border Patrol swarmed the man and beat him before forcing him into the back of an SUV.

Son Alejandro Barranco, a veteran of the U.S. Marines, told the Los Angeles Times his father was pepper sprayed and beaten, suffering a dislocated shoulder.

Alejandro Barranco said that he spoke to his father about 6 p.m. Sunday and was told that his dad had yet to receive medical treatment in the more than 24 hours after he was detained and sent to an immigration facility in Los Angeles.

Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement to the Times that Narciso Barranco declined medical care. She also alleged that he swung a weed whacker at an agent and fought his arrest.

HuffPost also has reached out to Customs and Border Protection for comment.

Describing the agent’s actions as needlessly violent and excessive, Alejandro Barranco told the Times, “I don’t think it was just, I don’t think it was fair. I don’t think they need four 200 [pound]-plus guys to hold down a 5-6 or 5-7, 150-pound guy.”

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Sebastian Stan as The Winter Soldier // Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)

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Manifesting things I want to see in S9 two others panels on patreon

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The Columbia graduate student has been in immigration agents’ custody since March 8.

June 20, 2025, 11:04 AM MST / Updated June 20, 2025, 1:58 PM MST

By Chloe Atkins and David K. Li

A federal judge ordered the Trump administration Friday to release pro-Palestinian activist and Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil, ending more than three months of custody in an ongoing test of the executive branch's power to unilaterally act against legal U.S. residents.

Khalil, whose plight has been center stage of Trump's vow to crack down on opponents of Israel's incursion into Gaza, has been in immigration agents’ custody since March 8.

“After more than three months we can finally breathe a sigh of relief and know that Mahmoud is on his way home to me and Deen, who never should have been separated from his father,” Khalil’s wife, Noor Abdalla, said in a statement released by the American Civil Liberties Union.

“We know this ruling does not begin to address the injustices the Trump administration has brought upon our family, and so many others the government is trying to silence for speaking out against Israel’s ongoing genocide against Palestinians," she said. "But today we are celebrating Mahmoud coming back to New York to be reunited with our little family, and the community that has supported us since the day he was unjustly taken for speaking out for Palestinian freedom.”

Assistant Homeland Security Secretary Tricia McLaughlin lashed out at "rogue" U.S. District Court Judge Michael Farbiarz, saying he had no authority to order Khalil’s release.

Pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil released after months in detention

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He’s no longer in office. No campaign. No spotlight. But Joe Biden stood in Galveston yesterday, honoring Juneteenth where it began. That’s not politics. That’s character.

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ICE already as much as $1 billion over budget: Axios

While Immigration and Customs Enforcement faces opposition in Los Angeles and other sites targeted as part of President Donald Trump’s “Mass Deportation Program,” the agency may face another threat: a funding battle in Congress.

As reported by Axios, ICE is “burning through cash so quickly that the agency charged with arresting, detaining and removing unauthorized immigrants could run out of money next month.”

ICE is already as much as $1 billion over budget for the year, and although Trump’s “one big beautiful bill” could provide $75 billion to ICE, that doesn’t solve the short-term cash crunch, and spending money an agency doesn’t have is a violation of the Antideficiency Act, according to Axios.

https://ktla.com/news/local-news/ice-already-as-much-as-1-billion-over-budget-axios/