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“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
— Voltaire
"The death of truth is the ultimate victory of evil."
— Mon Mothma
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Celestial navigation is my jam.
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Families, union leaders, and other allies who marched from Mariachi Plaza were forced to turn around after the volley of tear gas and pepperballs earlier, in the interest of safety.
Still around 200 people outside MDC, National Guardsmen lining back up. More video incoming as am able
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A line of guardsmen with “California National Guard” shields stand close together opposite a crowd of pro-Immigrant demonstrators in Los Angeles, CA.
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Stephen Miller has proposed Trump using red state NG (via their governors) in blue Sanctuary States against immigrants in particular.
That's what Ferguson's bill was in response to.
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Gabriel Quiroz, Jr. speaking to Sean, “[The march] didn’t even get to get here and they started shooting at us…Karen Bass—do something about this.”
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Only because Italy ran out of Proddies
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Republicans hate State's Rights, except as a euphemism for owing Black people.
Or in-extremis situations like when a Democrat happens to be president.
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open.substack.com/pub/michaeld...
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as Kristi Noem herself has pointed out!
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You've got my vote.
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Yep. San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle likely close behind.
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More than half are Republican. It's about 60% Republican 40% Democrat who are armed and capable, veterans and otherwise. But in a country of over 330 million people.
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It prevents the governor of another state (like Texas, or neighboring Idaho) from deploying their NGs into WA without permission from the WA governor, or POTUS.
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The entire US military is outnumbered and outgunned by armed civilians by 175 to 1.
This is not Tiananmen Square.
There is no precedent in military history for what this could become.
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Or a Confederate flag, or a Nazi flag, or...
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I hate when people protest carrying the wrong flag:
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As an Irishman myself, I always felt a little guilty that we stole Italy's flag.
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Pallets of bricks.
At a Home Depot.
What is the world coming to.
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I read the bill. I even know how to read the RCW so I don't need to read the bill, since it was passed into law.
You're right, it isn't four-dimensional chess. It's two-dimensional chess, and Ferguson's pretty good at it.
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Before he was a politician, before he was an attorney, Bob Ferguson was a chess grand-master.
He's worth watching.
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Also, armed US civilians outnumber and outgun the entire US military 175 to 1.
Even the average Marine should be able to handle that math.