holy shit????? ICE is getting rid of seven of the 11 would-be concentration camp warehouses they purchased and sec. mullin indicates new mass detention centers are not priority. huge!
Major news in the California governor race:
– Gavin Newsom officially endorses Xavier Becerra
– Tom Steyer concedes and throws his support behind Becerra: "It would be a travesty for Steve Hilton to win the governorship, and Californians must unite behind Xavier Becerra to ensure he does not."
Sunday Funday. Raman overtakes Pratt.
The LA Times loses track of the fact that the first 27 governors of California were all Hispanic, and several of them were duly elected. After Americans seized power in California in 1846, however, no Hispanics became governor even though they were a plurality of the population over much of the time
GAO finds millions of dollars wasted, safety and security at risk in Texas detention center www.newsfromthestates.com/article/gao-...
NEW: GEO group privately asked ICE to remove requirements to pay detainees to work. Seems like a 13A violation since most detainees aren’t convicted of crimes. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
MeidasTouch
In new federal standards released Monday, the agency appeared to make changes that could benefit Geo Group’s legal defense.
Raman is within 2% of overtaking the dark crystal dude or whatever with 78% reporting.
#SafeStreetsNow #RIP
Mueller, She Wrote
Scott Horton
Many immigrants who have been detained for months or years in Louisiana are filing habeas petitions, which in turn has swamped federal judges’ dockets and made it nearly impossible for judges to act quickly on these emergency pleas for release.
Jason Morín
Ariana Figueroa
Jason Morín
Louisiana has more ICE lockups than almost any other state. Now as a surge in habeas petitions overloads courts, people are held “unfathomably” long without recourse.
SoCal's killer highway claims two more victims. Two dead, one injured when alleged drunk driver plowed into three bicyclists on PCH north of Ventura; driver held on suspicion of DUI and murder: bikinginla.com/2026/06/13/t...
bikinginla.com
Two people are dead, and another injured, just because some guy felt the need to get behind the wheel after drinking. Allegedly.
Democrat Xavier Becerra consolidated Democratic support to advance in a bitter primary to become California's next governor, while the second spot remains up for grabs.
WASHINGTON — A hastily constructed immigrant detention facility on a military base in Texas wasted millions in federal funding and failed to meet basic standards, according to a report released Tuesda...
Video above: Millions of ballots still being counted amid claims of election fraud in California L.A. City Councilmember Nithya Raman is gaining slightly on Saturday against reality TV p…
Gordon Wood, American Revolution expert cited in ‘Good Will Hunting,’ fatally struck by car in R.I. parking lot
www.bostonglobe.com/2026/06/08/m...
Edward Fitzpatrick
www.bostonglobe.com
A longtime Brown University professor who won a Pulitzer Prize for his writing, Wood was name-checked by Matt Damon in the film about a self-taught genius.
