Trump targets … us. In what The Daily Beast calls “a vengeance hit” against communities that protested his administration in Saturday’s “No Kings” protests, Donald Trump is ordering federal immigration officials to prioritize deportations from Chicago and other Democratic-run cities.
■ His hateful post on Truth Social took aim at those Democratic leaders: “There is something wrong with them. That is why they believe in Open Borders, Transgender for Everybody, and Men playing in Women’s Sports.”
■ After the feds fired off text messages last week demanding immigrants check in Sunday—Father’s Day—to the Broadview immigration center, at least two of those who complied were detained.
■ Allies say a Chicago mother, grandmother and organizer detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents is being held under “inhumane” conditions in Kentucky.
■ After the Trump administration demanded access to Chicago’s “CityKey” program—issuing municipal IDs to noncitizens—the city clerk’s taken down the online application portal.
‘America has just passed an important test.’ Economist Paul Krugman compares Trump’s Saturday military parade with the nationwide “No Kings” rallies.
■ CNN’s Brian Stelter: “If you think of it as a free speech test, pretty much everyone passed.”
■ Columnist Andy Borowitz declared the protests “Trump’s worst nightmare” come true.
■ The Onion, in another it-could-be-true bit of satire: “Trump Mouths Lyrics To ‘Happy Birthday’ While National Anthem Plays.”
■ Here’s almost three hours of video coverage from ABC 7.
■ Police report just one arrest …
■ … although Block Club notes “a prolonged, non-violent standoff that saw protesters hurling obscenities and chanting ‘Let us through’ at police officers” near an ICE field office.
■ One person was shot and killed during a Salt Lake City “No Kings” rally—allegedly by a man believed to be part of a “peacekeeping” team.
■ Washington Post columnist Karen Attiah has a message for those hoping Barack Obama will, you know, do something: “It’s strange that so many seem to want the ‘deporter in chief’ to speak out against Donald Trump’s immigration cruelty” (gift link, underwritten by those who voluntarily fund Chicago Public Square).
They got ’im. Police have arrested a man suspected of killing a Minnesota state representative and her husband and wounding a state senator and his wife early Saturday.
■ They say he crawled to them after they located him near his farm.
■ While police had yet to declare a motive, they’ve said they’re confident he acted alone.
■ Wonkette’s Marcie Jones: He’s “an anti-choice extremist and Christian evangelist with his own ministry and Roman-themed security company.”
■ Historian Heather Cox Richardson: The entire Minnesota delegation to Congress has declared this “politically motivated violence.”
■ Minnesota Reformer columnist J. Patrick Coolican: In the hours after the assassinations, “right-wing influencers coughed out disinformation.”
■ The attacks have raised concerns about the safety of state lawmakers in Illinois and across the country.
■ Law prof Joyce Vance sarcastically suggests “you’ll be shocked to learn” her two Republican senators in Alabama—Tuberville and Britt—have gone silent on the all-but-arrest of Democratic California Sen. Alex Padilla “for asking a question at a cabinet secretary’s press conference.”
Get out. Updating coverage: Israel’s military warned residents of Iran’s capital to evacuate.
■ NBC News: Trump went from opposing Israel’s strikes on Iran to reluctant support …
■ … but, the AP reports, he rejected an Israeli plan to kill Iran’s supreme leader.
■ A University of Pennsylvania lecturer: The conflict marks the start of “a dangerous new chapter in nuclear rivalries.”
■ A threatening antisemitic letter found in a Highland Park mailbox triggered a massive police response overnight.
■ A threatening antisemitic letter found in a Highland Park mailbox triggered a massive police response overnight.
■ The conflict may trigger a reprieve for Voice of America’s Persian-language operations.
■ The Tribune’s Chris Jones declares Lookingglass Theatre’s one-night history of the Middle East, Iraq, But Funny, “stunning.”
‘Absolute disgrace.’ In his longest show ever, HBO’s John Oliver last night condemned the U.S. juvenile justice system.
■ The segment’s viewable here free online at YouTube.
‘Late-night franchises are steadily diminishing.’ In a conversation with Status (which requires an email address to let you read its work), TV LateNighter editor-at-large Bill Carter ticks off the challenges—political and otherwise—facing networks’ post-prime-time shows.
■ LateNighter publisher Jed Rosenzweig: John F. Kennedy changed late night 65 years ago.
■ For the fifth year in a row, Jimmy Kimmel’s taking the summer off—yielding the stage to a series of guest hosts.
‘WBEZ needs your help.’ The Sun-Times’ Neil Steinberg “rattles the cup” for the paper’s nonprofit corporate sibling …
■ … in the process, flashing back to those many times “the Tribune’s ace columnist Eric Zorn and I would meet on Michigan Avenue every Friday and walk over to the pier to do a run-down of the week’s news”—like this time in 2013 when they joined your Chicago Public Square host on the air.
■ Axios: More cuts loom for local media across Illinois.
■ Seth Anderson and Mike Braden made this edition better.