The United States government has intentionally killed at least 205 people outside any lawful circumstances—and the operation is still ongoing. That is what the campaign against the "drug boats" is. New from @AMKlasing: lnk.thebulwark.com/3PYDQkV

Chinese security officers have arrested Min Zin, a US citizen who studies politics in Myanmar, and accused him of endangering national security. Min Zin was arrested in early June. He disappeared on June 3 while in Kunming, the capital of Yunnan Province, which borders Myanmar. American diplomats are aware of the arrest. It is rare for China to arrest a US citizen on charges of a national security crime, and the action against Min Zin takes place as President Trump and Xi Jinping, China’s leader, are trying to establish a type of partnership between the two nations. Min Zin is a political scientist and executive director of a policy research group originally based in Yangon, the former capital of Myanmar. The group has worked from different locations since a 2021 military coup in Myanmar. Over the years, he has spent time in both the US and his home country of Myanmar, once known as Burma, and he now lives in Thailand. He has written essays on Myanmar politics for the opinion section of The New York Times, Foreign Policy and other news organizations. The arrest took place less than three weeks after President Trump attended a summit and state banquet in Beijing hosted by Xi. China’s arrest of another US citizen and its use of a national security charge complicates that rapprochement. China keeps about 200 American citizens under some form of detention. Some Americans are imprisoned on drug charges, while others are prevented from leaving the country on “exit bans,” often because of commercial or financial disputes. It is unclear why Chinese security officers in Yunnan Province arrested Min Zin. There was once a sizable presence of people from Myanmar in Yunnan, but that has dwindled since the pandemic. China has at times provided aid to some armed groups from Myanmar that operate on both sides of the border. But it is unclear whether Min Zin was involved in research or activities involving those people. The Chinese government has a close relationship with the military-linked government that rules Myanmar. Min Zin wrote extensively on China’s role in Myanmar. A Nepali research group said in an online post in May that Min Zin was scheduled to be a speaker at a policy and geopolitics forum in Nepal later this month. The speaker biography says his research group founded in Yangon, the Institute for Strategy and Policy Myanmar, is “dedicated to promoting democratic leadership and strengthening civic participation in Myanmar.” The biography also says he is a PhD candidate in political science at the University of California at Berkeley, and his research interests include civil-military relations, democratization and ethnic conflicts. His LinkedIn page says he has a master’s degree in political science from Berkeley, which he attended from 2010 to 2016. The handful of opinion pieces he has written for The New York Times have focused on those topics. Several were published soon after the Tatmadaw, the military of Myanmar, overthrew the elected government in early 2021. In an essay in June 2021, he said that the military and the opposition appeared to be locked in an “intolerable stalemate,” and that the Tatmadaw “appears to believe it can force its way to and through a next election by way of brutal crackdowns, by dissolving the once-ruling National League for Democracy and by threatening to imprison Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the country’s former de facto leader, for the rest of her life.” At the same time, he wrote, the anti-coup movement, which included Gen Z protesters and civil servants, “has been shifting tactics away from predominantly peaceful demonstrations to more violent kinds of resistance.” What Min Zin observed and predicted then has unfolded with force, and Myanmar is now engulfed in a civil war. The Myanmar military carries out airstrikes on civilian areas using Chinese and Russian-made weapons. nytimes.com/2026/06/11/us/po…

‼️The ICE deportation flight (OAE2272) has just taken off from Alexandria, LA for Ghana. This will be the 1st leg of the flight before stopping in Central African Republic with Iranian, Afghan & Syrian nationals.

Sec. Hegseth’s actions continue to be despicable – and they certainly aren’t representative of the Army I served in. We’ve repeatedly seen how this White House has disparaged and mistreated both active-duty service members and the veterans who raised their hand to serve this country. I’m glad that people are continuing to stand up and speak out. theatlantic.com/magazine/202…

This week, DHS waived every one of our nation's most important environmental laws to bulldoze new border barriers and roads through Big Bend National Park. This marks the first time in U.S. history these laws have been waived in a national park. With these laws gutted and a $1.7 billion construction contract already issued, very little stands in the way of DHS contractors plowing into the park, permanently destroying countless archeological sites, blocking off river access and turning this peaceful national park into an industrial construction zone. We will continue to fight this project every step of the way... more on that soon. Audio from NPR's fantastic Studio 1A program, which aired across the country last week.

Trump's agriculture secretary laid the blame for the outbreak on the Biden administration, despite it being more than 17 months since Biden's term ended. thedailybeast.com/brooke-rol…

Breaking: WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. inflation rises to highest level in three years, highlighting affordability challenge as elections nears.