“The Department of Homeland Security on Monday told staff that it was reversing guidance issued last week that agents were not to conduct immigration raids at farms, hotels and restaurants – a decision that stood at odds with President Donald Trump’s calls for mass deportations of anyone without legal status.
Officials from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, including its Homeland Security Investigations division, told agency leaders in a call Monday that agents must continue conducting immigration raids at agricultural businesses, hotels and restaurants, according to two people familiar with the call. The new instructions were shared in an 11 a.m. call to representatives from 30 field offices across the country.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-officials-reverse-guidance-exempting-133327303.html
Israel Destroys Iranian Launchers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1N797gcELzY
Local law enforcement had the vandals and rioters under control and sending the military was uncalled for.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTLKFojoYAA
Neoliberalism’s Far-Right Evolution | Quinn Slobodian | TMR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BEJutJm1sU
On the eve of the Russian attack, Ukraine was no closer to joining NATO than it had been in decades.
Ukraine and Israel were the only countries with a Jewish President and Prime Minister at the same time, and Ukraine doesn’t have far right party members in their legislature (unlike Western European countries!).
Russians from Moscow are much less likely to die in Russia’s invasion than Russians from the periphery. Russia is still like an imperial power throwing away the lives of its colonies while preserving their imperial core.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEmQmUTaEqw
The Houthi Red Sea Crisis – Complete Animated Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7C2XMRbgmQ
Stephen Miller is leading the Trump administration’s push to increase deportations, setting an escalating daily goal. ICE has mostly stopped differentiating between violent criminals and other illegal immigrants.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmO6dk4UuAM
“In March, President Donald Trump stood before a joint session of Congress and vowed to “do what has not been done in 24 years: balance the federal budget.”
The first major legislative package of Trump’s second term, however, will throw the federal budget farther out of balance, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) concluded in an updated assessment of the bill.
The CBO estimates that the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which cleared the House late last month and is awaiting a vote in the Senate, will increase deficits by $2.4 trillion over the next 10 years. The bill will reduce tax collections by an estimated $3.75 trillion over that period, while reducing government spending by an estimated $1.3 trillion.”
https://reason.com/2025/06/04/the-big-beautiful-bill-will-add-2-4-trillion-to-the-deficit/
What Ronald Reagan’s Fusionist Politics Teach Us About Liberty, Virtue, and Their Limits
https://reason.com/2025/06/05/the-fusionist-politics-of-ronald-reagan/
“Trump unilaterally imposed tariffs on much of the world. Yet the president has no such authority under Article II of the Constitution, which enumerates the limited powers of the executive branch. Instead, the authority “to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises,” as well as the authority “to regulate Commerce with Foreign nations,” resides exclusively in Article I, which is where the limited powers of the legislative branch are detailed.
So, Trump’s trade war violates the constitutional separation of powers because Trump has unlawfully exercised power that the Constitution placed in the hands of Congress, not in the hands of the president.”
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“As a pretext for his trade war, Trump invoked the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). Yet “the statute is silent on tariffs, and for good reason. It was never meant, and has never been understood, to authorize the President to impose them.” That observation comes from a superb friend of the court brief filed by a cross-ideological group of legal scholars and former government officials in support of the legal challenge against Trump’s tariffs. Their brief thoroughly explains why Trump’s use of the IEEPA to fundamentally remake the American economy cannot be reconciled with any law passed by Congress. In short, Trump’s tariffs flunk the test imposed by the major questions doctrine.”
https://reason.com/2025/06/05/overruling-trumps-tariffs-should-be-an-easy-decision-for-scotus/