A couple weeks ago, we talked about how the GOP’s Big Beautiful BillTM included a stray attack on preliminary injunctions. Against all odds, the roughly 1,100-page ostensible budget package included a small paragraph refining Rule 65(c) to require anyone seeking to enforce an injunction to put up a bond in the event the federal government eventually wins. How does one put a dollar value on “maybe don’t disappear innocent people off the street”? One could, as one judge told me, order the plaintiffs to put up a peppercorn in the interest of protecting access to justice. The GOP bill tried to turn Rule 65(c) into a mandate but allowed a sliver of wiggle room.

Roughly a quarter of all students in the Los Angeles Unified School District are undocumented. We see students who (usually) are a pleasure to teach, and parents who are grateful for teachers’ efforts. The average person in Los Angeles interacts with them continually in myriad ways — and without a thought to their immigration status. It is particularly egregious in Los Angeles, where between this and the local surcharge, we pay 9.75%. Glenn Sacks teaches government, economics, and history in the Los Angeles Unified School District.

Illustration: Kelly Caminero/HuffPost; Photo:Getty ImagesI am a Chinese woman, a daughter of immigrants, who voted for Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election. They still felt so un-American to me, and U.S. politics felt like it didn’t belong to them, or to us. When I share now that I voted for Trump in 2016, it drops like a bomb every time. Courtesy of Julia WuI wonder sometimes how long it would have taken me to get here had Trump not won the election in 2016. Everyone I love either loves someone who voted for Trump or is someone who voted for Trump.

LOADING ERROR LOADINGThe administration of President Donald Trump swiftly sought to downplay a Thursday incident in which Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) was roughly pinned to the ground and briefly handcuffed during a press conference by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem in Los Angeles. Video of the interaction, however, shows Padilla stepping to the front of the press conference as she spoke about Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity in some of the communities Padilla represents. He said later that he was initially there to watch the press conference “peacefully,” but that at one point, he had a question and wanted to demand an answer. Support HuffPost Already contributed? Support HuffPost Already contributed?

Republicans argue the $9.4 billion in spending cuts are necessary to address the nation’s mounting debt even though last month they passed a package of tax and spending cuts that could add an extra $3 trillion to the national debt over the next 10 years. The cuts passed Thursday, if approved by the Senate, would amount to less than a hundredth of a percent of projected federal spending for this year. Thursday’s vote represents the first attempt by Congress and the White House to take Musk’s work and make it official. Senate Republicans have suggested they’d like to change the provision, but LaLota expressed confidence that wouldn’t happen. Rescission requests, which are initiated by the White House, cannot be filibustered in the Senate, meaning they require a simple majority to pass.

xKristi Noem: "We are not going away. We are staying here to liberate the city from the socialists and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country and what they have tried to insert into the city." Sen. Alex Padilla is then forcibly removed!

President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he plans to phase out FEMA after this year's hurricane season. AdvertisementFlorida received over $1 billion from FEMA following Hurricane Ian in 2022. Support HuffPost Already contributed? Support HuffPost Already contributed? Hurricanes have made up the largest category of DRF spending, according to the CBO, followed by other natural disasters like flooding, severe storms, wildfires, tornadoes and earthquakes.

Then I Saw An Old Photo — And What I Discovered Next Left Me Shaken. I didn’t know what she looked like. Her mental illness was like a thick fog; I didn’t know how to navigate around it to see her. In the photo, a young white woman with a beehive hairdo looked at the camera with a wide, dimpled smile. “She was a white woman on the block, not scared, not worried about being attacked, not looking over her shoulder.

For instance, look at all the backlash against JoJo Siwa and her relationship with Chris Hughes. Advertisementtwitter when a bisexual is bi: pic.twitter.com/2yuyBvrsos — jessica ⋆𐙚₊˚⊹♡ (@tinkjobej) June 8, 2025If I’m in a relationship with a man, I’m a bisexual for attention. If I’m in a relationship with a woman, I’m a lesbian who can’t admit it. AdvertisementIn a world that is attacking the rights of our entire LGBTQ+ community, why are we turning on one another? It has never been a more fucking terrifying time to be anything but cis het and we are all having our experiences as queer people invalidated.

LOADING ERROR LOADING“Late Show” host Stephen Colbert on Wednesday mocked President Donald Trump’s renewed obsession with honoring the Confederate leaders who fought against the United States during the Civil War. Trump this week said he was restoring the names of those figures to U.S. military bases, including one honoring Gen. Robert E. Lee. Colbert fired back with a reminder straight from the history books. “Yes, ’cuz when you think winning, you think Robert E. Lee,” Colbert said. “Same reason we just named our new battleship the USS New York Jets.”

A messenger attending the Southern Baptist Convention participates in worship during the 2025 SBC Annual Meeting, Tuesday, June 10, 2025, in Dallas. (AP Photo/Richard W. Rodriguez) via Associated PressDALLAS (AP) — Southern Baptists overwhelmingly endorsed a ban on gay marriage — including a call for a reversal of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 10-year-old precedent legalizing it nationwide. AdvertisementThe resolution calls “for laws that affirm marriage between one man and one women.”There was no debate on the marriage resolution. The two-day annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention began Tuesday morning with praise sessions and optimistic reports about growing numbers of baptisms. That came shortly after the release of a blockbuster report by an outside consultant, which said Southern Baptist leaders mishandled abuse cases and stonewalled victims for years.

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I Had An Unlikely Friendship With Erik Menendez. Erik Menendez looks back and smiles at the spectator section during his and his brother Lyle’s murder trial, Aug. 11, 1993, in a Van Nuys courtroom in Los Angeles. My parents didn’t know about our friendship, and I was certain that this was the moment they would discover my secret, causing everything to come crashing down on me. I couldn’t imagine the consequences I would face if my mom and dad discovered that the “Erik” who often called our house was actually Erik Menendez. A letter sent from Erik Menendez to the author Courtesy of Jennifer Sullivan BeebeEver since then, I’ve felt like I owed you an explanation.

LOADING ERROR LOADINGA federal judge on Monday blocked several of President Donald Trump’s executive orders that have threatened federal funding to nonprofits that primarily service LGBTQ+ communities. District Judge Jon Tigar in Oakland, California, issued a preliminary injunction halting three of Trump’s anti-DEI and anti-transgender executive orders. Shortly after he also signed two orders directing agencies to terminate federal funding for all diversity, equity and inclusion programs. Almost immediately, nonprofit organizations saw that their contracts, totaling hundreds of thousands and, in some cases, millions of dollars in federal funding, were being canceled. Support HuffPost Already contributed?

But by night, I was secretly flying tons of cocaine for Pablo Escobar and smuggling it into South Florida. Photo Courtesy Of TJ DominguezAt that point, I started making regular trips to the Bahamas. Primarily because most cocaine pilots during that time partook in the cocaine they were smuggling, and they were always high. After I started making weekly $5 million trips for Pablo Escobar, he stopped paying me in cash ― and started paying me in cocaine. Then there was the “cocaine kingpin me” who was smuggling and selling tons and tons of cocaine for Pablo Escobar.