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As soon as GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS asked a media company to sanction someone for POLITICAL SPEECH, ABC should have REVOKED any punishment they had been considering. Make it clear that such anti-free speech bullying will not be tolerated. But no. They fecklessly caved.

I think we’ve found the source of the violence

Federal lawmakers say they have been denied access to an ICE facility in CA

Share this. It’s why the White House demanding ABC get rid of Terry Moran. Moran has been suspended. What Moran said is accurate and true. Make sure his post makes the rounds.

Seriously Edward R Murrow would have eviscerated Stephen Miller. The truth is he is a horrible human being and the free press including Terry Moran, should be able to articulate this.

It’s obvious but worth drawing out what raids of Home Depot’s of all places is about. It’s rounding up people who are really eager for work and for whom there is work, peoples whose labor is in demand. We know this but shows just how far it is from rounding up just the bad guys.

Will defer to lawyers, but deploying active duty Marines to suppress domestic dissent is almost certainly a violation of the Posse Comitatus Act and illegal. It's very possible this would represent an unlawful order that military leaders would not be bound to follow.

Resign from ICE. Unless you signed-up to be a stormtrooper fighting against your fellow Americans. Just resign. And be on the right side of history.

ACLU: “Trump's deployment of federalized National Guard troops in response to protests is unnecessary, inflammatory, and an abuse of power. By taking this action, the Trump administration is… recklessly undermining our foundational democratic principle that the military should not police civilians"

NEW: In a fiery motion, Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s attorneys urge Judge Xinis to reject the govt’s request to relieve it of its discovery obligations now that Abrego Garcia has been returned to the US. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Washington just took the reasonable step of not allowing the National Guard of other states to operate here without our agreement. It’s not the Guard personnel we are concerned about, it’s other governors in the Trump cult. katu.com/news/local/g...

"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...

Here's the Washington Examiner piece that first quoted Stephen Miller ordering ICE to invade Home Deport a few weeks ago. This makes it clear that Miller himself ordered the escalation that has led to conflict in LA. www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-h...

Don't miss that the President of the United States is saying he thinks the situation in LA is now under control with existing forces.⬇️ That means there's no legal or policy basis to actually federalize (read: politicize) the National Guard.

Raise taxes for every American through tariffs on basic necessities, cut taxes on gun silencers and tanning beds. Republican priorities. bsky.app/profile/atru...

🚨BREAKING: A military Blackhawk helicopter is unloading dozens of boxes of weapons and ammunition in Los Angeles “as if they were getting ready for a major battle.”

The national guard wasnt deployed. So they couldnt do a great job Which means he’s either lying or the Dementia is getting worse I think there should be an investigation into his mental state

What happened to states’ rights, Kristi?

Rand Paul: "If they're asking to borrow $5 trillion, that is the example -- $5 trillion in borrowing means they are not restraining spending. That's the ultimate summation of all these numbers."

Now, if Trump invokes the insurrection act then we’re in a whole new world and it won’t end well for Trump

Big point that is being missed: without the insurrection act, the activated Guard troops are now federal army and cannot Do law enforcement. Period

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Beyond Musk, Senators face another budget bill foe — callers "5 Calls app's internal data shows consistent, monthlong opposition to Trump's 'disgusting abomination' budget bill." See the spike in calls near the House passage. www.allrisenews.com/p/budget-bil...

There were a few hundred people protesting the ICE actions in California today. Most probably lived in the neighborhood that had been raided by armed, uniformed men who looked like soldiers and not police. The idea that the response to this 2,000 National Guard is fucking insane.

Aussie News reporting on the protests CONDEMNING the ICE immigration raids in LA said: In Trump's America, Americans are MORE DIVIDED than ever due to Donald Trump’s DESTRUCTIVE & INHUMANE immigration policies !

WASH POST: Trump called Musk “a big time drug addict” — and Musk and Bessent came to blows after Bessent called Musk a fraud. A damn circus. 🎪 www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

It’s provocation. LA didn’t ask for the National Guard. We don’t need it, and won’t be safer because of it. Stay home, everyone.

Feel like the news reporting on this is very lazy. What national guard is Homan (a thug gangster if there ever was one) deploying exactly? The CA national guard is under the authority of Gov Newsom. Trump cld nationalize the guard. But we're not hearing anything abt that.

If you’re not ANGRY, you’re sleepwalking! MarshaBlackburn’s Secret Police bill criminalizes transparency and threatens 5 years for naming an ICE agent. If you’re doing your legitimate job & have nothing to hide, SHOW YOUR FACE! This is fucken facism.

Only one county juvenile detention center in Tennessee is governed by a board of trustees. Through scandals and state write-ups, it kept one man in power for decades. wpln.org/post/how-the...

The federal government is moving to take over the California National Guard and deploy 2,000 soldiers. That move is purposefully inflammatory and will only escalate tensions.

The most enraging thing for me is those ICE raids don’t need to include armed agents in military trucks swarming little bodegas. They could deport people the way they always have, the way we never noticed under other administrations. The show of force is theater.

SEIU-USWW President, my friend, and constituent David Huerta was thrown to the ground, tased, injured and arrested for exercising his 1st Amdnt right to observe and document law enforcement activity. This isn’t just an overreach — it’s a nationwide pattern of suppression. We must stand together.

Trump is deploying the military on U.S. soil to crush the first amendment rights of citizens protesting his administration’s illegal abduction and trafficking, and detention of immigrants. This is the authoritarianism we warned about.

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...

LAPD cooperating with federal immigration enforcement in CLEAR VIOLATION OF STATE LAW

Former Bush Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Donald Trump: “I believe Mr. Trump is beyond repair. He is stubbornly uninformed…he is unqualified and unfit to be Commander-in-Chief.” REPOST if you stand with Secretary Gates against Donald Trump!