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Politico: Trump knocks California on its heels: ‘He’s pulling the trigger on everything all at once.’

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In years of conflict with Trump, California has never seen anything like this.

California Democrats have long battled Donald Trump. But they’ve never faced such a ferocious offensive as they did this week.

Between the deployment of federal agents to Los Angeles, the gutting of climate standards and the manhandling of the state’s senior U.S. senator, the state absorbed one show of force after another from the president. And in the balance of power between the Trump administration and the nation’s most populous state, California was on the losing end.

“We’re at DEFCON 1 in the conflict between California and the Trump administration,” said Democratic strategist Katie Merrill. “It’s orders of magnitude more than what we’ve seen, ever.”

Democrats in this deep-blue state have spent years working to shield California from a hostile White House, dating back to his first term. But for them, the week’s events registered a new low — a multifront assault that not only threatened the state’s liberal values, but exposed the limits of California’s ability to control its destiny when the federal government has other ideas.

“The moment we’ve feared,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said in a Tuesday night address, “has arrived.”

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Trump knocks California on its heels: ‘He’s pulling the trigger on everything all at once.’
In years of conflict with Trump, California has never seen anything like this.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/14/the-week-trump-rocked-california-00405932

Guardian: EPA drops case against prison company that has donated heavily to Trump

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The Donald Trump administration has dropped up to $4m in potential fines against the private prison operator Geo Group over the latter’s use of a toxic disinfectant in a detention center that allegedly put employees’ and detainees’ health at risk.

The administration made the move after Geo donated over $4m to the president and Republican leadership, as well as Trump’s inauguration fund.

More corruption?

EPA drops case against prison company that has donated heavily to Trump
Geo Group faced up to $4m in fines for violations involving the use of a toxic disinfectant at an immigration facility

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/14/trump-administration-epa-prison-company-donations

Atlantic: In Minnesota, America’s Luck Ran Out

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Early this morning, a gunman apparently impersonating a police officer targeted two Democratic Minnesota state lawmakers in their homes. First, he shot State Senator John Hoffman and his wife, who were seriously wounded. Law-enforcement officials believe the same gunman then shot Melissa Hortman, who served as Minnesota’s speaker of the house from 2019 to 2024. She was killed, along with her husband, Mark.

The perp was a die-hard MAGA maniac Trump supporter with hit list of 70 Democrats and abortion providers to be snuffed out.

In Minnesota, America’s Luck Ran Out
The United States is a fraying society, torn apart by polarization, intense disagreement, and ratcheting extremism.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/06/in-minnesota-americas-luck-ran-out/683194

AFP: Balloons, bubbles, tear gas: LA anti-Trump protests turn chaotic

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For hours, thousands of people in Los Angeles peacefully celebrated their defiance of US President Donald Trump Saturday with music, marching, bubbles and balloons — then police unexpectedly moved in, and chaos and confusion broke out.

The demonstration — part of the nationwide “No Kings” day of protests across the country — was by far the largest in more than a week of protests ignited by anger against immigration raids the Trump administration has been carrying out across the country’s second-largest city. 

Like those before it, Saturday’s had been largely peaceful. A march that began in the morning had finished, with demonstrators milling about on a sunny afternoon as the scene took on the air of a street festival. 

But then:

Then police unexpectedly began moving people away from the area, igniting confusion and anger among demonstrators caught off guard and unsure of where to go.

Police on horseback pushed crowds back as law enforcement fired tear gas and flash-bang grenades hours ahead of an 8:00 pm (0300 GMT) curfew. 

A police spokeswoman later told local TV channel KTLA that a “small group of agitators” had begun throwing rocks, bottles and fireworks at officers, prompting the decision to order the crowd to disperse.

Balloons, bubbles, tear gas: LA anti-Trump protests turn chaotic

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/balloons-bubbles-tear-gas-la-anti-trump-protests-turn-chaotic/ar-AA1GJd8h

Wall Street Journal: Trump’s Deportation Raids in L.A. Hit Longtime Workforce

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He is one of the millions of immigrants who make up greater Los Angeles’s Hispanic community, one of the nation’s largest and oldest. Some crossed the border illegally, overstayed visas or were brought here illegally as children and are stuck in legal limbo. They assumed President Trump wouldn’t target them for deportation and that he would instead focus on criminals and more recent arrivals.

The raids that unfolded here this past week, triggering protests and Trump’s deployment of National Guard and active duty troops, shattered that belief and altered life for a community that underpins the economy of the nation’s second-largest metropolis.

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Experts estimate the number of immigrants who entered illegally or are living illegally in Los Angeles County at close to one million people, or roughly 10% of the population.

So if King Donald and his Nazi Stephen Miller have their way, one out of every ten L.A. residents will be disappeared.

Trump’s Deportation Raids in L.A. Hit Longtime Workforce
The region is home to one of the nation’s largest and oldest Hispanic communities, which underpins the economy.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/trump-s-deportation-raids-in-l-a-hit-longtime-workforce/ar-AA1GIsGf

Independent: She was Stephen Miller’s high school class president. Now she’s fighting his deportation efforts

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California attorney is fighting Miller’s mass deportation efforts by working as an immigration lawyer

Cynthia Santiago, an attorney in Southern California, won her high school presidential class race the same year Stephen Miller, the current White House Deputy Chief of Staff, lost the class speaker race. More than 20 years later, Santiago is trying to fight Miller’s mass deportation efforts.

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Recalling the day she won her class election at Santa Monica High School, Santiago said that Miller was “booed” off stage for giving an incendiary speech about picking up trash.

A video of the moment, posted online years ago, shows Miller on stage asking his fellow students, “Am I the only one who is sick and tired of being told to pick up my trash, when we have plenty of janitors who are paid to do it for us?”

A school newspaper clipping, obtained by The Daily Beast, says Miller’s microphone was turned off and he was escorted off stage for what school officials said was going “over time.”

Writing for the Santa Monica Lookout in 2002, Miller advocated for all announcements to be written in English only, claimed “very few” Hispanic students were in honors classes, and asserted that the school’s political correctness would make Osama bin Laden “feel very welcome at Santa Monica High School.”

It seems Stephen Miller was brain dead at an early age and has never recovered.

Stephen Miller’s high school class president is fighting his deportation efforts
California attorney is fighting Miller’s mass deportation efforts by working as an immigration lawyer

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/stephen-miller-deportation-high-school-classmate-b2768997.html

MeidasTouch News: DHS to Revoke Work and Residency Permits for Hundreds of Thousands of Migrants

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Nationals from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela face deportation as Trump administration dismantles Biden-era parole program

In a sweeping immigration enforcement move, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is expected to notify hundreds of thousands of migrants on Thursday that their permission to live and work in the United States has been revoked, according to a notice obtained by CNN.

The targeted individuals — nationals from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela — originally entered the country through a Biden-era humanitarian parole program that provided legal entry and temporary protection to those with U.S.-based sponsors and who passed security vetting.

More than half a million people are believed to have benefited from the program. It remains unclear how many of those individuals have since transitioned into other legal immigration pathways, such as asylum or family-based visas.

This administration thrives on the misery of those less fortunate.

DHS to Revoke Work and Residency Permits for Hundreds of Thousands of Migrants

https://meidasnews.com/news/dhs-to-revoke-work-and-residency-permits-for-hundreds-of-thousands-of-migrants-

Newsweek: Gavin Newsom responds to Donald Trump’s ICE threat

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California Governor Gavin Newsom’s office has responded to President Donald Trump‘s threats to send federal immigration agents to sanctuary cities.

“It looks like Steven Miller got ahold of Trump’s phone again,” Diana Crofts-Pelayo, deputy director of communications at Newsom’s office, told Newsweek.

Trump wrote on Truth Social on Sunday that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) “must expand efforts to detain and deport Illegal Aliens in America’s largest Cities, such as Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York, where Millions upon Millions of Illegal Aliens reside.”

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Newsome responded in a post on X, formerly Twitter: “His plan is clear: Incite violence and chaos in blue states, have an excuse to militarize our cities, demonize his opponents, keep breaking the law and consolidate power. It’s illegal and we will not let it stand.”

Gavin Newsom responds to Donald Trump’s ICE threat
California Governor Gavin Newsom and President Donald Trump have been engaged in a verbal dispute over immigration enforcement.

https://www.newsweek.com/gavin-newsom-responds-donald-trump-ice-threat-sanctuary-cities-los-angeles-2086087

Alternet: Trump’s ‘disturbing and unethical’ new rule allows discrimination against Dems and single women

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The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has long had strict anti-discrimination rules. A VA center cannot refuse to treat a veteran because he or she is Black, Jewish, a woman or Latino, for example.

But according to The Guardian’s Aaron Glantz, an executive order from President Donald Trump allows some forms of discrimination.

In an article published on June 16, Glantz explains, “Medical staff are still required to treat veterans regardless of race, color, religion and sex, and all veterans remain entitled to treatment. But individual workers are now free to decline to care for patients based on personal characteristics not explicitly prohibited by federal law. Language requiring health care professionals to care for veterans regardless of their politics and marital status has been explicitly eliminated.”

The executive order that Glantz references in his article was issued by Trump on January 30 and titled “Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government.”

Glantz notes that the “primary purpose of” Trump’s executive order was “to strip most government protections from transgender people” but warned that its “far-reaching” effects could go way beyond that.

https://www.alternet.org/msn-uk/trumps-extremely-disturbing-and-unethical-va-rule-allows-for-far-reaching-discrimination

Tariffs Claim First Major Victim as American Auto Giant Files for Bankruptcy

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A major shock has hit the American auto industry. One of the country’s largest and most influential auto giants has filed for bankruptcy, catching workers, suppliers, and experts off guard. This comes after a series of steep new tariffs that have disrupted the cost and flow of car manufacturing and parts supply, putting even top companies at risk.

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The company in question is Marelli, a global auto parts supplier to Stellantis, Nissan, and Tesla. Its bankruptcy is one of the first major losses under the new tariffs.

Marelli has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the U.S. and aims to restructure over $700 million in debt. To stay afloat during this difficult time, it relies on $1.1 billion in emergency funding to maintain its operations.

If Tesla is one of Marelli’s major customers, perhaps this should not be much of a surprise. As Tesla declines, Marelli should follow to some extent. It’s not just the tariffs.

Tariffs Claim First Major Victim as American Auto Giant Files for Bankruptcy
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/tariffs-claim-first-major-victim-as-american-auto-giant-files-for-bankruptcy/ss-AA1GNXMk