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This is how our fathers fought fascism

Wow

“If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.” – George Washington

President Eisenhower, the architect of D Day, would say this about Donald Trump’s birthday military parade.

JUST NOW: “This should be eye-opening for everyone. It is happening in our state.” ICE just detained up to 100 people in Nashville — we’re told at least one says MNPD participated in her detention PRESSER outside the ICE office👇🏽

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To mark Trump's 100 days in office, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) tonight will read into the congressional record 100 reports of his corruption. www.huffpost.com/entry/elizab...

You can’t say criminals don’t deserve due process when due process is the thing that decides if they're criminals. Otherwise you're just kidnapping people you don't like.

Chasten and I are relieved that Governor Shapiro and his family are safe. While we wait to learn more, this much is clear: the targeting of a public official and his family - especially a prominent Jewish official on a major Jewish holiday - is unconscionable and has no place in our country.

The executive targets his opponents w/bogus investigations. His government disappears people w/out due process and vanishes them beyond reach. He usurps legislative power, controls public funds at will, & consolidates power. Loyalty is expected — or else. Authoritarianism isn’t coming. It’s here.

The White House crafting its economic policy

Can we get more of this? “The Japanese American National Museum will ‘scrub nothing,’ Fujioka said, and instead will highlight the importance of DEI. “Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in,” Fujioka said.

“We lost a year’s worth of what we planned to use.” — my retired parents to me yesterday regarding their savings

For them, it’s all there in black and white.