Joy Powers 📻

Me: *hears @WUWMradio in Lyft* Hey, that's where we're headed now! Driver: Oh yeah? I listen to you guys all the time. That's why I know everything and have no friends. Me: *realizes that's exactly why they hired me.*

GOP Sen. Ron Johnson on NPR today: Q: If you support the war, should Congress affirmatively vote on it? Johnson: "What you don't want to do in a terribly divided Congress is hold a vote that shows us divided." Q. We should avoid a vote because the country is not behind the war? Q. "What I'm saying is, somebody has to make the decision. That's the commander in chief." 1/2

BREAKING: Georgia father found criminally responsible for his son's alleged school shooting. A Georgia jury held Colin Gray criminally responsible for the alleged actions of his teenage son, Colt, in the 2024 Apalachee school shooting, which left two classmates and a pair of teachers dead.

So the government wants to pass a law that requires you to need a passport to vote, while forcing places to get said passport to close?

BREAKING: Trump-Noem DHS admits to wrongfully arresting 261 DACA recipients, 86 of whom were deported, since Trump’s second term started, per disclosure to Congress.

Exclusive: Pro-Trump activists are circulating a draft executive order alleging Chinese interference in the 2020 election, proposing a national emergency to expand presidential power over voting, like banning mail ballots and voting machines. wapo.st/3OBux9y

The most crucial thing you need to know about this policy is that @DHSgov is ordering @ICEgov to arrest legally present refugees on the first date they are legally permitted to apply for green cards. Here's how a federal judge describes this crazy argument and the trap it sets.

Woman arrested & jailed in South Carolina—for joining an online anti-ICE chat. Her crime? She told high school students she was "Proud of them for using their voices." She now faces up to 3 years in prison and a $3,000 fine—for the charge of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Police claim that as a "business owner she bears influence” over the students to manipulate their behavior. Dinah Marie Chollet co-owns The Knot Burger Pub—located about 4 miles away from the high school in Summerville, South Carolina.

Exclusive: After pulling out of WHO, the Trump administration is proposing spending $2 billion a year to replicate the global disease surveillance and outbreak functions the United States once helped build, which will cost about three times as much. wapo.st/4qNQYpo

The Heritage Foundation is now calling for the overturn of Plyler vs. Doe, the Supreme Court ruling that banned states from denying an education to the children of undocumented immigrants.

Interesting pitch. Essentially: You might not like us, but we do create a lot of self-serving propaganda.

People across America are increasingly facing the risk of losing parts of their land to eminent domain, in support of the growing expansion of AI data centers as the demand to power them continues to grow. Read more: abcnews.link/zOAmA5Z

JUST IN: The FBI has formally notified the Minnesota BCA that it will not provide the BCA with access to any information or evidence it has collected in the shooting death of Alex Pretti. Full statement: dps.mn.gov/news/bca/state…

When the Supreme Court allowed immigration agents to consider race during sweeps, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said that citizens shouldn’t be concerned because agents will “promptly let the individual go.” For these Americans, that wasn’t true. propublica.org/article/immigr…

I testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee. I discussed the largest fraud in the history of the US immigration system perpetrated by DHS and the State Department. Even Republicans on the Committee were shocked by what this administration is doing to legal immigrants!

Per this DOJ press release, fed'l prosecutors arrested a US citizen (& CBP officer) & charged him with "harboring an illegal alien" bc he "maintained a romantic relationship" with an undocumented person. Faces potential 10 year prison term.

WASHINGTON (AP) — EPA revokes scientific finding that greenhouse gases endanger public health, removing key basis for climate change fight.

The Trump administration says greenhouse gases emitted from sources like cars, trucks and power plants will no longer by regulated by the federal government. cbsn.ws/3MwGOeq

Jayapal asks Epstein survivors in the hearing room to stand and raise their hand if they still haven't been able to meet with Bondi's DOJ. Every single one of them does so. Jayapal then gives Bondi an opportunity to apologize to survivors. Bondi responds by trying to attack Jayapal and Merrick Garland but doesn't apologize.

Crockett: Unanimous consent to enter into the record: El Paso air space reopened after FAA quickly rescinds ten day flights restriction. This was published and it says it was because of an impasse with the DOD over the use of unmanned military aircraft—not triggered by Mexican cartel drones.

Breaking News: The FAA halted all flights to and from the El Paso airport in Texas for 10 days, citing unspecified security reasons. nyti.ms/3O942bi