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I have been a journalist, a novelist, a software quality assurance tester, and I'm a proud mother, and grandmother. I live north of the border, but south of the 2nd largest city in AZ on the only highway in the US that measures distance in km.
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Bob Costas nailed it. 🎯

4Horse Killer is her Indian Name The Horses she shot that day were terrified and tortured by experiencing the cruel deaths of their stable mates, before she shot them too I saw the picture where she had them lined up by her kill pit and yes it was torture and wanton cruelty So was Cricket

The L.A. protesters have really gone too far this time… 🌼

So these officers interfered with a senator's ability to obtain a briefing. When will they be arrested for interfering with the Senator's job? youtu.be/4E4fd2ozHlw?...

I would say he follows her around like a puppy dog but so far he has survived.

Mark this for the history books: “We’re talking about the president exercising his authority, and the president is of course limited to his authority. That’s the difference between a constitutional government and King George,” said Judge Charles Breyer.

BREAKING NEWS: Local water sausage executes a flawless 360,493° ultra-zoom mega spin. Physicists baffled.

A square mile doesn’t justify a $134 million military occupation, troops sleeping in squalor, or ICE agents terrorizing our communities. Americans feel unsafe. This Saturday, on #NoKingsDay, let’s show up in numbers—and send a message: we will not be ruled by a mad king.

Who else nearly fell out of the seat when you heard Cosplay Kristi accuse Sen. Padilla of “political theater”?

Unsung hero of WWII

We’ve uncovered fraud, waste, and abuse! ICE has now exceeded its congressionally approved budget. ICE is violating the Antideficiency Act by spending beyond Congressional authorization.

A cop doing the right thing? I think that i might need my fainting chair!

I think it's funny that it's going to rain on Trump's parade because Donald doesn't know how to close an umbrella.

NEWSOM: "It's a vulgar display. It's the kind of thing you see with Kim Jong Un, Putin, dictators that are weak… How weak do you have to be to commandeer the military for your birthday?“

Remember when Trump asked the general why the military couldn't just shoot protesters in the leg during his 1st term? Btw, this is what rubber bullets do.

History will not be kind to Speaker Johnson. Nor should it be.

Schiff: "One thing that got lost in the horrendous treatment of Alex Padilla today was what Kristi Noem said at that press conference in saying it was necessary to have these troops there to 'liberate the city from the socialists' ... the fact they would use the military that was is unconscionable."

These are the people that make America great 🇲🇽🇺🇸

BESSENT: We are trying to bend the curve on medical cost. And I believe that the medical expenses are out of control. TINA SMITH: But you're not controlling medical expenses by taking insurance away from people. You're just shifting the cost to hospitals and individuals and uncompensated care.

PATRIOTIC DUTY

A study found that dehorning — a conservation practice that involves trimming their horns, which do not have nerves and grow back in a few years — reduced poaching by 78 percent over a seven-year period in South Africa, home to most of Africa’s rhinos.

“What Senator Alex Padilla did today was political theater.” --Kristi Noem, the Head of Costuming, Hair, and Makeup at Political Theater

Don't let them win peeps ✌🏼💙💥

Sen. Alex Padilla getting pushed out by law enforcement on a live feed after he tries to question Kristi Noem at her presser on a live feed in Los Angeles “I’m Senator Alex Padilla. I have questions for the secretary. Because the fact of the matter is, a half dozen... Hands off!”

Reminder that seven Democratic senators voted to confirm Kristi Noem and six Dem senators declined to vote either way. She was confirmed, 59-34. The good faith experiment is clearly over, and we need the Democratic senators who didn't stand against her nomination to be loud as hell right now.

"[Troops] have told friends and family members they are deeply unhappy about the assignment and worry their only meaningful role will be as pawns in a political battle they do not want to join." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

BREAKING: “You’re not worthy of my questions.” Sen. Carbajal said what every vet, service member, and conscious American has been screaming. Pete Hegseth is a political prop, not a public servant. He’s not leading—he’s loitering.

see what you need to understand is that they’re coming hard at california bc if they can take us down then it tells the smaller states there’s no point in fighting. we’re the bellwether. that’s why it’s so important we stop this shit NOW.

It is literally going to take smoke rising from the stacks of giant ovens in concentration camps for some people to realize things have gone awry, but even then many won't care, or think "well, they probably deserved it."

Everything this FascistFuckstration does willy-nilly will be quantified to be the equivalent of many annual agency budgets. Somebody should make a spreadsheet for that

Boebert: What we’re seeing in LA is an insurrection Pritzker: You don’t know understand what insurrection is. It is outrageous that you are asking that when you are the one condoning the pardoning of people that attacked police.

If a US Senator is not safe from being handcuffed and detained for free speech, none of us are safe.

🚨BREAKING: A senior official in DHS held a briefing for a far-right anti-voting group on Thursday, according to an email sent by the group. The virtual meeting was to discuss how a database run by the department can be used to verify the citizenship status of registered voters.

Sen. Schiff: "Alex Padilla, on the ground, face to the ground, and in handcuffs — if you were looking for an image of our democracy in handcuffs, look no further."

Not taking anything away from Senator Padilla because he was treated atrociously But I JUST want to remind everyone that the Congresswoman LaMonica McIver, a Black woman, was just indicted for just asking questions at an ICE detention center in her state Keep that same energy of support for her

“There’s no recording allowed out here.” I just grabbed this uncredited off Facebook. Does anyone know who recorded it? I want to make sure they get proper credit.

Booker: He was made to kneel before the authority of the executive… They treated a member of the United States senate violently after he identified himself, dragged him out of a room, threw him upon the ground, and put him in handcuffs

When a cabinet member announces "We are using the military to liberate an American city from its elected leaders," where do you go from there. What is left to say. The idea of that being anything short of a near-universal "Wait, what the fuck is going on" moment proves how far we've backslid.

In the past week, a union leader has been arrested, a U.S. Rep charged with a crime, a U.S. Senator violently handcuffed, and reporters shot with rubber bullets and detained. There is no ambiguity. This is a regime operating as an authoritarian. Americans who believe in liberty must oppose it.

Worker to ICE agent at a workplace raid: “And here’s my bag of f*cks.”

Trump's Authoritarian Tactics: The Unacceptable Treatment of Senator Alex Padilla The Trump administration's actions, including the manhandling of Senator Alex Padilla, demonstrate a blatant disregard for democracy and the rule of law. www.digitaldrumbeat.com/p/trumps-aut...

A DHS spokesperson defended the detainment, accusing Sen. Padilla of failing to properly identify himself during Sec. Kristi Noem's press conference. But multiple videos show Padilla clearly identifying himself as a senator.