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Resisting for 56 years since I was tear gassed peacefully protesting police brutality, Vietnam & Nixon at 14. A retired cop now living in Florida enjoying gardening 🌸 Puppies 🐶 and Good Trouble. Vegetarian. I vet all before a follow, no posts. No follow.
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Prayers for an “allergic reaction.” But mockery and hateful conspiracies for murder victims who aren’t in your tribe. With no apology or remorse. Fake Christian, small man.

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California Democrats introduce bill to ban law enforcement from wearing masks

Damn. Even Hitler didn’t do some of this shit.

They complained about masks when COVID was in the air. They’re awfully silent about the masked men kidnapping people now that fascism is in the air.

BREAKING: What you just witnessed was a state-sanctioned kidnapping. These people aren’t identifying themselves. Citizens can no longer distinguish between state authority & rogue violence. This is not a warning about what might come. We are not watching the start of something. We are living it.

NEW: New York Attorney General Letitia James on the arrest of NYC mayoral candidate and comptroller Brad Lander. “This is profoundly unacceptable. Arresting Comptroller Lander for the simple act of standing up for immigrants and their civil rights is a shocking abuse of power.”

When the birthday parade list reads like a cautionary guide to history.

Now this

"A reporter from @thecity.nyc had overheard one agent say to another minutes before Lander’s arrest, 'Do you want to arrest the Comptroller?'"

We aren’t just living in dystopian times, but in disgraceful, shameful, and dangerous times. Dystopian stretches our reality into some surreal space, but here and now is uglier and base prime evil. A guttural, feral place that is indescribably frightening. Like a declawed cat that keeps scratching

Top NYC Mayoral candidate arrested by masked federal agents Brad Lander: "You don't have the authority to arrest US citizens."

After obliquely threatening Iran’s Supreme Leader Trump followed up by demanding “UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER” It looks like the president is going to tweet us right into a war May G-d have mercy on our troops

For Trump, a military conflict with Iran would distract from:  -Sinking poll numbers -A devastating (and unpopular) budget bill -Harmful trade wars  -Unleashing the military on American soil -Millions of people protesting his authoritarianism We must remain on high alert.

1/4 CDC’s first all-hands in months is happening now. We have serious, unanswered questions—and we need leadership willing to address them. 🧵

Tuesday, June 17th events! www.wisconsinresist.com

Wisconsin #kickouttheclowns & #nokings crowd sizes! ≈ 𝟲𝟵,𝟯𝟬𝟬!

Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.

You gotta love it. E. Jean Carroll trolling the Oval Office criminal on X.

Whatever horrible thing happens in our country or the world, you can always count on the criminal to make it worse. You know, the creep who was going to end all wars on day one. 🙄

As Trump calls on ICE to ramp up arrests and deportations in America’s biggest cities, because they are the “Democrat Power Center,” he and his administration are eyeing Illinois for the next militarized crackdown. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

I honestly can’t. The whole “well she was illegal,” shit is not flying with me. There have been undocumented immigrants in this country since god knows when. This is calculated callousness and cruelty. I’m starting to think this is political. Those who either didn’t vote for him, or opposed him…

Every machine in a Hospital that diagnoses your body without cutting you open is based on a principle of Physics, discovered by a Physicist who had no interest in Medicine. If you think the world doesn’t need Basic Science, or that somehow Science has failed you, think again.

San Antone’s first openly LGBTQ+ mayor!!! Texas is a changing, and I am here for it. An Air Force veteran under the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy. Beat her Republican opponent. Blasting Pink Pony Club by Chappell Roan at her victory party is the chef’s kiss 🏳️‍🌈 www.texastribune.org/2025/06/07/s...

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“Our ongoing research on protests in the United States reveals that within the first two weeks of the second Trump administration, protest activity surpassed that of 2017. By the end of March 2025, there had been three times as many protests as had taken place in 2017. ...

You can opt out of data broker sites like Spokeo, Been Verified, etc. If you have a public life of any sort, I urge you to do this.

We’re facing the most brazen rollback of civil rights in generations—and it doesn’t have to be this way. On July 17, five years since the passing of Congressman John Lewis, communities are coming together to make sure #GoodTroubleLivesOn social.demcast.com/s/mtUdAy25

The leading explanatory factor for so many of Trump's actions remains that he is an operative of Putin. This photo from their presser after a no-translator meeting in Helsinki says it all. Only a visible leash is missing.

There is no nuclear weapons program. Fetterman’s pals in the Trump administration - including DNI Gabbard - have confirmed there is no nuclear weapons program. Fetterman is lying. Openly. Demonstrably. Shamelessly.

No, Junior Mint. You will not believe it—you will still lie about it.

World War III is minutes from breaking and our fascist Toddler-in-Chief is trying to distract us with this bullshit…

12 Dems, 1 Republican

You need this. Trust me.

Speaking as someone who hurt a congressman's feelings, Mike Lee isn't sorry.