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gizmo59.bsky.social
Retired chemistry professor, gay and married.
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Authoritarianism Isn't Coming—It's Here www.commondreams.org/opinion/auth...

newrepublic.com/post/196689/... The Trump administration is losing its ability to hide its pro-Russia affinities.

A friend at Disneyland is reporting ICE agents in the employee parking lot stopping cast members as they leave.

ALL HANDS ON DECK You know what to do, Peeps. Let's help get Mikie Sherrill over the finish line for Governor of New Jersey! ▪️ Website: MikieSherrill.com ▪️ Follow: @mikiesherrill.bsky.social 1/2

Gavin Newsom for the win🏆

Trump stood at Fort Bragg and hijacked a moment meant to honor the Army’s legacy—turning it into a spectacle for his own ego. He mocked political opponents, spread lies, and vowed to restore Confederate base names. Our Troops deserve respect. What they got was a dictator’s stunt.

Over 700 survivors. 380 abusers. All from inside the Southern Baptist Church. But tell us again how two men getting married is what’s destroying America? This is not morality. They don’t protect children. They protect and covet power. apnews.com/article/sout...

A huge setback that would only require that regulators watch a 19-minute Mark Rober video and read this week’s Bloomberg report to immediately implement.

This shit is embarrassing

Civil disobedience. 💁‍♀️

When Karoline Leavitt says the LA protesters are far different than the J6ers, what she really means is they have different colored skin.

Chair of history department at U.S. Naval Academy resigns after order to remove paper from symposium “for reasons having nothing to do with scholarship.” [James Matheson, Baltimore Sun]

I don’t know how to explain to you that the lives of refugees matter as much as those of citizens. You’re supposed to have learned that as a child.

Why accountability matters: “Civilians have impersonated ICE agents while committing robbery (Pennsylvania), kidnappings (Florida, South Carolina), sexual assault (North Carolina) and other forms of public intimidation (Washington state, California). Opinion”

We know from Trump’s first term as well as the writings of Project 2025 that the MAGA movement has no interest in guaranteeing the constitutional rights of Americans, let alone immigrants.

Cannot express enough how much what happened at that meeting three weeks ago has changed things on the ground. Courthouse arrests started within days, then check-in arrests. Worksite raids, once rare, began happening daily. Detention has skyrocketed over capacity. People are going missing.

This video speaks for itself...

@chrislhayes.bsky.social: The overwhelming majority of protesters in Los Angeles have been peaceful. But you would not know that from watching Fox News.

For the sixth day in a row, hundreds of anti-ICE protesters are marching through downtown LA in opposition to recent immigration raids.

Excellent news that this outrageous act has been rescinded by the NIH. Hopefully the "further Federal-wide guidance" will confirm that #censorship has no place anywhere, and certainly not in research. Our actions are having impact! #DefendResearch defendresearch.org

For more context, read @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

“Anti-Disease Lobby Launches Attacks”

BREAKING: Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) just called for CA Governor Gavin Newsom to be arrested. "Lock him up." Newsom's response? "Alabama has 3X the homicide rate of California. Stick to football, bro." Thank you Governor @gavinnewsom

I will not call it Fort Bragg. It’s Fort Liberty.

“The real problem with humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions. And godlike technology.” ~ Edward O. Wilson: Smart Guy

The nomination of David Fotouhi to the EPA is just the latest example of the Trump Administration's fossil-fuel-funded corruption.

Oh, that’s OK, Elon! No harm done. Well, except for Donald sending ICE and the National Guard into Los Angeles to arrest and shoot citizens just to provide a distraction from you calling him a pedophile. Other than that, no big deal, you tiresome twit.

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Donald Trump is at the Kennedy Center to see Les Misérables, Victor Hugo's classic about redemption and rebellion against injustice. Once again, irony has escaped Donald Taco-Rico.

Jessica: Gavin Newsom is speaking for a majority of Americans. There was a new Quinnipiac poll: Donald Trump -12 approval, -11 on immigration, -16 on deportation. He has taken his best issue and decimated it

Big corporations supporting ICE: 1. Deloitte; 2. Dell; 3. AT&T; 4. Microsoft; 5. Motorola; and 6. Thompson Reuters. Always protest peacefully!!

Just needs one more thought bubble saying, "Oh, and distracting from Republicans’ Medicaid cuts."

Musk: I'm so sorry Sugar Daddy Donald! Please Forgive me! www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...

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I've just begun reading Barbara McQuade's book "Attack From Within." It just came out in paperback with slight changes to match what's happening in our country. I have great respect for this law professor and look forward to finishing the book.

Drag queens are at the Kennedy Center to protest Donald Trump, who is in attendance for a performance of Les Misérables

Oh my fucking GOD

There are people on my Buy Nothing offering to run errands for their neighbors who are afraid of ICE, which at this point is any non-white person. There are no riots in LA, just rad people who want the military occupation and ICE violence to end.

Reminder that I AM LATINA AND PROUD. I am the product of immigration - my grandmother was undocumented and entered the country from Mexico as a baby. My mother was a fierce, gorgeous Latina woman of Mexican and Spanish descent.

@drjljohnson.bsky.social Join us & share our COMMITMENT to PEACEFUL resistance!✌️✊ THEY ARE CREATING FEAR IN AN ATTEMPT TO CONTROL THE NARRATIVE & SUPPRESS DISSENT! 🇺🇸EVERY @50501-sc.bsky.social event has been✌️❤️&JOY in a space that is WELCOMING to All. 🇺🇸 #SCPOL #JUNE14 #NOKINGS #SCPROTEST #RESIST

🌵Hundreds turn out in Tucson to support immigrants, resist mass deportations tucson.com/news/local/b...