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bethfosborne.bsky.social
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I LOVE MY HOMETOWN.

With the bullshit shenanigans 🍊💩 and his minions are up to, it is important that we not back down but we continue with our planned events. There will be Zoom calls the next several days to help us all prepare for Saturday. There are 3 scheduled for today 6-10-25 Link in the Alt text & in comments

One of the biggest reasons I'm fighting for democracy is to honor the bravery of my pop. open.substack.com/pub/bethf99/...

I just met with Education Secretary Linda McMahon, and I gave her over 1,000 letters from people across the country who are worried about what she's doing to the Department of Education.

#WeThePeople #StrongerTogether Saturday June 14 @ 5 pm LasVegas Fed Courthouse Sign up: mobilize.us/s/Z38NXb #NoKings theme song: Listen: No Kings In The USA ⬇️

Let’s be clear: we won’t back down. This is the USA. It is our right to ✨peacefully✨protest, and we will do so on June 14. A lot of planning goes into each protest, and we will have personnel and strategies to keep things fun AND safe. Please join us: www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...

Keep resisting in any way you can. You are not alone. #resistance

CNN’s Jason Carroll was zip-tied and escorted away—for reporting the news. But they claimed he wasn’t under arrest? Why are they shooting rubber bullets at and silencing journalists? We still have a First Amendment.

Highlights from today's letter from HCR. #BigBillionaireBill @hcrichardson.bsky.social substack.com/@hrichardson...

I've been tracking Trump’s six front war on democracy. Tomorrow morning I explain what they are and how they impact the fight ahead. Become a Democracy Docket premium member to receive it straight to your inbox in the morning. newsletters.democracydocket.com/member-meblu...

Today RFK Jr. fired every member of ACIP, the CDC committee that makes vaccine recommendations. Children will die. This is not ok. Lindsey Graham enabled this.

It's hard to overstate how destructive the reflexive "this is a distraction!" stuff that politicians and commentators and people are always peddling. Everything is happening all at once. That's how authoritarianism works. If you can't navigate and synthesize this, you're not meeting the moment.

I want to report some good news from LA: ICE picked a hotel in Pasadena to be their headquarters for this side of the city. The residents of Pasadena (myself included) would not stand for this and protested all yesterday in front of the hotel until, eventually, the hotel kicked out ICE!!

We’re deeply disappointed in much of the U.S. media. Grateful, however, to international journalists who are telling the truth.

The folks hollering about “family values” are out here tearing families apart with unlawful ICE raids, militarized police, & the weaponization of government. All while ripping away food & healthcare from working-class families. Are the family values in the room with us?

In LA, officers deployed tear gas and shot rubber bullets at protesters fighting against ICE raids. Here’s a reminder that those anti-protest weapons—which are billed as relatively safe—can actually cause serious harm.

"two months later, authorities have yet to provide any evidence that the more than three dozen people they arrested that night have connections to the gang..." www.texastribune.org/2025/06/04/t...

Independent journalism is when you can write what Terry Moran wrote without getting in trouble. Corporate journalism is when you can’t. It’s why many left the latter for the former. I understand the rationale behind corp journalism rules, I’m just glad they don’t apply to me

TODAY: A trial will begin in Florida over claims that the state’s Senate map is racially gerrymandered. The lawsuit claims a district was intentionally drawn to dilute Black voters’ power in the Tampa Bay area. Background: www.democracydocket.com/cases/florid...

What sparked the chaos in Los Angeles this weekend? Community organizer Ron Gochez says ICE agents "kidnapping people" led to fierce resistance from local residents who are "sick and tired of these attacks that are dividing and separating our families."

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

ICE causing fires from their own tear gas and flash grenades, don’t get it twisted. They’re the ones causing damages to cities.

Of course the fucking HBPD is there, bunch of fucking outside agitators

To be in public office right now is to constantly ask yourself: How do I make sure I'm standing on the right side of history? There's a simple answer. The wrong side of history will always tell you to be afraid - the right side of history will always expect you to be brave.

Police continue to shoot directly at protesters. Multiple protesters are bleeding with wounds

To anyone who wondered, what could go wrong if we elected as president a highly volatile, deeply dishonest, simple-minded cretin with a revenge fetish, the answer is THIS. All of THIS.

here's today's post: "here’s the evil that Republicans were up to while the fuckwits were fighting" — some stories you may have missed. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter so you never miss a post —

The people of Los Angeles will rally on Monday, 6/9 to demand the release of everyone unjustly detained by ICE, like SEIU leader David Huerta, and an end to militaristic escalation on our communities. Join us and @aclusocal.bsky.social at 11 AM in LA to call for an end to these human rights abuses.

Everyone should say it: The thing about Stephen Miller is not that he is the brains behind Trumpism. Yes, he is one of the people who conceptualizes the impulses of the Trumpist movement and translates them into policy. But that's not what's interesting about Miller. It's not brains. It's bile.

California representatives did a check in where migrants were being detained. They found no beds, no food and no water. Children were among the detained.

If I had to drill it down, this is me. My motto is be good to others, the planet, animals, and myself. If that makes me radical, then I am. @gasanature.bsky.social

That's the real Gulf of America.

That's what radicalized me.

Run on this. It'll be fun.

I wrote this poem during the first regime. It’s hauntingly appropriate for where we sit today. substack.com/@bethf99/not...

I’ve read too much science fiction too many dystopian novels and too many poems on civil rights to be quiet…

This isn’t even remotely legal what he is doing.

Sen Bernie Sanders (I-VA) just now on CNN: "We have a President moving this country rapidly into authoritarianism. He's suing media who criticize him. He's going after law firms that have clients who were against him. He's suing universities who teach courses he doesn't like"

Please help me do everything possible to make sure @drannieandrews.com defeats Lindsey Graham in 2026. Don't wait...let's start now.

F’ck ICE.

With the $45 million being spent on the president's parade here’s what that money could do for veterans instead: House 3k veterans for an entire year in transitional housing Provide full PTSD treatment for 3.75k veterans for a year Deliver job training to 9k veterans through 12-week programs

Undocumented immigrants pay almost $100 billion in taxes each year. The top 1% evade $163 billion in taxes each year. Stop pretending that immigrants are the ones taking advantage of taxpayers.

NEW: Lawyers for Abrego Garcia have asked Judge Xinis to consider the CRIME-FRAUD EXCEPTION to the government's privilege assertions in discovery. Plus, NEWLY UNSEALED DOCUMENTS. I don't think contempt is off the table yet. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/newly-unse...

Whenever law enforcement agents are given a quota of a specific number of people to arrest or detain, especially with the WH policy director screaming at their superiors to hit those target numbers, bad things are going to happen. Quotas always result in civil rights violations.

Oh, Canada.