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Proud husband to Jamie and 2x girl dad, a Durham NC native with a passion for people. Interested in learning, growing, and caring for others. Also likely to randomly post about Virginia Tech sports. #Letsgo
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And all bullies are cowards.👇

Mike Lee was born with every conceivable advantage in life. His father was US Solicitor Gen & dean of BYU Law, where Mike went to school. Older brother UT Sup Ct justice. Then he got jobs where family connections certainly help open doors. But he decided he wanted to be Catturd.

📌Happy birthday, Army. For 250 years you’ve bravely shed blood to fight kings and fascists. Don’t dishonor the sacrifice of our fallen now. Even this Navy guy knows yer too good for that …

Yuk

Holy moly.

This parade is going to drive the President bonkers. Congrats, Philly!

We’re seeing a wave of disgusting rhetoric and false claims coming from the far-right about the Minnesota shooting. As real families grieve the loss of loved ones, rightwing accounts are working overtime to circulate disinformation on social media.

The suspected assassin, Vance Boelter was the CEO a security services group in central Africa and the CEO of Praetorian Guard Security Services based in Minnesota.

For those with this conclusion, I’d suggest you’re falling into the narrative that those you oppose want you to believe. Don’t do it.

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This is the slap back to Stephen Miller’s “arrest everyone” madness. And an admission that Trump is under pressure from multiple industries that rely on migrant workers. This is huge and important. Keep amplifying the harm done by the Trump/Miller zealous, cruel overreach. Don’t bury this.

ABOLISH ICE.

🚨 Secretary Noem basically said that her agency is now dedicated to forcible regime change…in American cities and states. There 👏🏽 is 👏🏽 a 👏🏽 name 👏🏽 for 👏🏽 this

The state of California needs to arrest the DHS "security" forces for assault and every Democrat in the U.S. Senate needs to sign onto a campaign to impeach Kristi Noem. Right fucking now.

And if you're worried about violence this weekend, imagine how much worse it'll be if there's no immediate action to hold *these* assholes accountable. If they get away with roughing up a senator at a press conference, then protesters will be killed. It's a straight line.

📌BREAKING: Alex Padilla is the first Latino to represent California in the U.S. Senate. He is a son of Los Angeles. He was born and raised there. 📌He was just forcibly removed from a press conference IN HIS CITY by Kristi Noem and her thugs for trying to ask a damn question. 📌THIS CANNOT STAND.

We drill into military officers that Members of Congress have Constitutional oversight rights, Members outrank four-stars in protocol, and even Congressional staffers are treated like generals/admirals. To see sworn federal officers manhandle and handcuff a U.S. Senator... I'm still shook up.

You know that friend or family member who says they don't really follow politics or the news? Send them that video of these goons roughing up a senator.

If this can happen to a United States Senator, it can happen to anyone.

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Right now. Completely. Totally. All the lines have been crossed.

This is not hard. Every Republican member of Congress should join Democrats in condemning this administration’s vicious arrest of Sen Padilla. “A Republic if you can keep it” is now.

Protestors shown stopping more instances of looting of community businesses. It is also noted that the would be looters across multiple videos in different areas are wearing matching outfits. #3E

Over & over again, Sen Dems asked Joint Chiefs nominee Dan Caine if he would push back on Trump if he tried to politicize the military, as his predecessors had to do. He assured Senators he would. Where is Caine now? In hiding? Witness protection? What is he doing about this?

We're so far past the "I sure hope he doesn't ________!" phase that we can't even genuinely see it in the rearview mirror. WE. ARE. HERE.

I'm dissociating myself from anyone who stood behind Trump at Fort Bragg, and in their heart and mind agreed with him...and endorsed the BS he was saying. Those folks (and I'm allowing for the remote possibility that not all of them support him) are not my brothers and sisters. We are not the same.

Bipartisan House Members Urge Secretary Rubio to Save Program Tracking Kidnapped Ukrainian Children doggett.house.gov/media/press-...

The Right is engaging in textbook authoritarian abuse. They have created a completely imaginary scenario and threat that they have to "react" to and, in doing so, are inflicting unbelievable and indefensible abuse on everyone else. You can't reform this. You can't bargain with this.

FOX: “27% support, 53% oppose” 👀 #TrumpsTrillionsTransfer

So a Democrat governor finds his state (literally) under attack by Trump and does what we’ve all been saying we want to see - comes out swinging, no holds barred response. And many of my left leaning friends proceed to trash him b/c he isn’t ideologically pure enough. Ah, Democrats. Never change

Oppression breeds rebellion.

CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @deadder.bsky.social ) 🇺🇸

“When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect

We need to hear the Dems standing strong and firm with Rep. McIver.

This is a really smart, spot on, common sense tweet.👇

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The LAPD Chief has weighed in on Marines being deployed. Basically: Why is this necessary?

Unprecedented crimes & constitutional violations happening right in front us, on an hourly basis.

Our Founding Fathers would have had a word for calling up a battalion of Marines for regular domestic law enforcement: tyranny.

"On Tyranny" free resources to use and to share, now or any time snyder.substack.com/p/on-tyranny...

Ahem.

Anti-teargas "kettle", open source 3D-printable model.