Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

4 of the #lawyers Reuters spoke with said there was a widespread concern that attorneys would be forced to make arguments that could violate attorney #ethics rules, or refuse assignments & risk being fired.

Those fears grew when #DOJ leadership fired a fmr supervisor in the Office of #Immigration Litigation, a separate Civil Division unit, accusing him of failing to forcefully defend the admin’s position in the case of #KilmarAbregoGarcia, the man wrongly deported to El Salvador.

#Trump #law

Judges are deporting record numbers of young children under #Trump https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-immigration-child-deportation-numbers-b2786626.html #Fascism

#Trump Gets 'Ratioed' on Truth Social for First Time Amid Epstein Backlash https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-jeffrey-epstein-truth-social-post-pam-bondi-2098351

It turns out that the fact that Mercedes is making many of the cars it sells in the US won't shield it completely from the #Trump tariffs and that it will be forced to raise prices down the road. https://www.apr.org/news/2025-07-13/mercedes-benz-in-tuscaloosa-reacts-to-trumps-new-tariff-threat-against-the-eu #Alabama

Emails provided to Congress by a whistleblower and 15-year veteran of the Justice Department reveal that administration officials went to striking lengths to prop up the claim that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was a “leader” of the MS-13 gang. https://trib.al/vc68chl

“Emil Bove … has been an indispensable partner at the Department.”

Was he “indispensable” in holding back the Epstein files?

Shouldn’t we find out before the Senate votes on his judicial nomination?

Professor Caravello was swarmed by ICE agents and thrown into a van after he tried to assist a protestor in a wheelchair by getting a tear gas canister out from under their chair.

https://dailynous.com/2025/07/12/philosophy-professor-reportedly-assaulted-abducted-during-ice-raid-on-farm/

SEN. @ossoff.senate.gov : “I don’t want to hear another Republican in Congress ever again pretend to care about deficits and debt… explain why 🇺🇸 families have to pay $3000 to ride an ambulance when we’re handing out million-dollar tax breaks to the wealthiest.” Amen. #MedicareForAll

@GiftArticles @AlliFlowers
You can watch her (and her husband and their lawyers) speak about the situation here. Incredible people, what strength. Our nation is greatly diminished when our government attacks such people.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MM6f5OLzJY

FEMA Granted Multiple Flood Map Exemptions For Camp Mystic

https://crooksandliars.com/2025/07/fema-granted-multiple-flood-map-exemptions?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_content=104598

CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @dennisgoris.bsky.social )

"Marcy Wheeler of EmptyWheel notes that one reason Noem has been cutting so ferociously at FEMA is because she has run through the money Congress allocated for HHS with her single-minded focus on immigration."

It has to be noted: a lot of Americans voted for this to be done to themselves and family members. Those voters need to be held accountable for what they chose for themselves — and all of us.

#Trump #Republicans #KristiNoem #Texas #FEMA
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Florida Governor DeSantis refused to release names of people the state has forcibly interned in the Everglades, but today the Miami Herald released a list confirmed by DHS. https://archive.ph/2025.07.13-114542/https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article310541770.html (archived version, no paywall).

I don't know who needs to hear this, but Joe Biden did not take office until January 20, 2021. Everything bad you remember happening during the pandemic all happened while Donald Trump was President.

As Heather Cox Richardson reports today, we now know that the day after the lethal floods occurred in Texas, Kristi Noem did not renew the contracts for four call center companies answering emergency calls for FEMA help — so that on July 6, FEMA answered only 35.8% of the calls it received and the following day, only 15.9%:

#Trump #Republicans #KristiNoem #Texas #FEMA
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https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-12-2025