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This is really pathetic, I have to say. Trump is completely the opposite of a "leader"; he's a coward who has no convictions at all, and always blames everybody else. Nauseating.

Trump’s America: — A sitting U.S. Senator cuffed by federal agents — Military in the streets — A birthday parade with tanks and jets — Threats to arrest political opponents Sound familiar? Yeah. Read this. adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/trumps-mil...

"The HHS document says that another paper it cites found 'an increase in placental blood clotting in pregnant mothers who took the vaccine.' But the paper doesn't contain any reference to placental blood clots or to pregnant women." www.npr.org/2025/06/13/n...

I want to patiently explain that this is exactly why U.S. national security interests depend on maintaining a trained and effective "Voice of America" broadcasting service, and nurturing deep area and linguistic knowledge, and I also want to lose my goddamn mind

2,169 events across 20 countries. Millions of peope are standing up tomorrow to say with one voice: No Kings!

WATCH: “I WAS AN INTERPRETER IN AFGHANISTAN FOR 3 YEARS.” ICE grabs a man whose name they don’t even know at his immigration hearing, shackles him, expedites his removal. Q: Why would anyone ever help our military again? — Trump is endangering and weakening our military.

No kings has been our thing for 250 years. We aren't going back.

Thank you for speaking out.

A very important story. Pam Hemphill, who is a hero, was disinvited from a rally because the organizers would not “forgive” her. This is how oppositions fail reedgalen.substack.com/p/dear-rally...

It is bizarre the way people with guns, bulletproof vests, riot shields, tanks, and other military gear act like rocks are an equal threat. It’s madness! If you are scared of rocks and think the punishment for having them thrown at you should be death, you shouldn’t be in law enforcement!

Sharing this informarion from ACLU for protestors this weekend. Be careful out there, stay safe, and be smart! 🇺🇸

If you'll allow me to say it, The Onion is cooking with gas today.

Tim Walz this morning at Center for American Progress: “We will get through this. We have to get through this. But we’re kidding ourselves, whistling past the graveyard, if we don’t think this is going to get worse before it gets better.”

The ignorant and shameful displays continue by our highest officials. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

Today Marco Rubio would like to congratulate Russia on its 70,000th forcibly kidnapped child from ukraine!!! Our people have so much in common.

Governor Newsom showed us how you take on a wannabe dictator: head-on. Trump can jail dissenters, but he'll never silence America’s voice. We surrender that to no one.

The first U.S. bishop appointed by Pope Leo XIV—a refugee himself—is mobilizing priests to accompany migrants at immigration court on June 20. (Via Christopher Hale)

there's something interesting here in how judges are building on each other's arguments, even in very different cases, in working through how to approach the administration's bad faith storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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BREAKING The US Embassy in Israel has ordered all employees and their families to shelter in place.

Rep. Crow: "At Fort Bragg in front of our beloved 82nd Airborne Division, sitting there while we politicize the military and pull our paratroopers into politics, booing elected officials, booing politicians with whom you disagree — it's antithetical to our values."

In 2018, Donald Trump, then in his first term as US president, let Iran out of nuclear restrictions in exchange for nothing. Many people, very much including me, warned that he put things on a path with only two possible outcomes: large-scale war, or a nuclear-armed Iran. And here we are.

“.. the bottom 30% of households would come out worse off ..” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

I wasn't under the impression that the Department of Homeland Security was authorized to unseat and replace local elected governments. (Her security detail then proceeded to wrestle a US Senator to the ground and handcuff him). Dark days indeed.

Our survey of LGBTQ adults in the U.S. found that most who are married to or living with a same-sex spouse or partner (63%) say their relationship is going very well, and married respondents are especially likely to say this. www.pewresearch.org/...

Newsom: "He's been a stone cold liar about what he said we talked about. He never discussed the National Guard. Period. Full stop. I would love to share with you what he actually talked about. It would send shivers up your spine."

Just sayin

"They took her in a car, in essence kidnapping her ... I met another young woman whose husband has quite literally disappeared" -- Newsom shares harrowing details of specific cases of ICE terrorizing immigrants in California

Fuck the puppy killer and the curling iron she rode in on

"The Trumpian June 14, 2025 parade and celebration will be the successor to that angry insurrection of January 6, 2021—a celebration of 'patriotism' that is deeply anti-democratic, and of a man who is the most authoritarian president in American history."

In retrospect it probably wasn't a good idea to allow private-equity bros to buy up, suck dry, & discard numerous important US businesses and institutions.

The Trump Administration physically attacking members of Congress, and Republican members of Congress making up excuses for it. Hmmm ... I wonder when we've seen that before.

This is just f'ing awesome: tiny little solar power plants are sprouting on German balconies. A *million* of them now! This needs to be legalized in the US, ASAP. I want my own balkonkraftwerk.

An MSNBC anchor just definitively claimed Padilla didn't identify himself when video clearly shows he did. So fucking irresponsible. This is how lies spread.

Noem is now claiming (falsely) that Sen. Padilla didn't identify himself. Huh. I'd ask her to imagine how confusing it must be when masked men with guns don't identify themselves to people they're grabbing off the streets.

Let's be absolutely clear: physically assaulting a US Senator for simply asking a question is disgraceful. We stand with Senator Padilla and all those peacefully defending working people against this administration's attacks.