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peterhaugen.bsky.social
Resistant. Hopeful (despite everything). Wrote “World History for Dummies” and other stuff, including many theater reviews. Proud survivor of newspaper journalism. Seek to be kind and respectful, but sometimes fail. Stop Donald and his evil cohort!
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The US Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon, seemingly does not know about the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre or Ruby Bridges: “I will look into it and get back to you.”

If @MarshaBlackburn is pushing a law to make it illegal to name ICE agents… doesn’t that mean it isn’t currently illegal? So what are she and @AndyOgles investigating Mayor O’Connell for exactly? 🤷🏻‍♂️ (Also: if ICE agents are this ashamed, maybe stop?) nypost.com/2025/06/04/u...

#ProudBlue A Meteorologist went live on air & talked about the cuts to NOAA & Science. He explained that the cuts are impacting the ability to forecast hurricanes & other catastrophic weather events. This needs to be discussed daily on air. It is beyond dangerous.

For years we've heard from the right about "welfare queens" and other so-called "freeloaders" pulling one over on the government. But actually, it's the wealthy who are the real freeloaders — pulling one over on us all by skirting their taxes. Where is the outrage over that?

US immigration officers ordered to arrest more people even without warrants. Ice officers are told to get ‘creative’ with arrests, including of undocumented people encountered by chance. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Cartoon by @dennisgoris.bsky.social.

Morning to all who were taught never to go anywhere with anyone who couldn’t show credentials. Even the police pushed this. Now we are to tell our children that masked men with guns and no credentials is ok? I’m furious! Take ICE down and unmask them all on TV! #Voices4Victory #DemVoice1

Remembering when a coworker laughed at me and a few other women who were talking about having been at the first DC Women's March. He thought it was hilarious how we were overreacting.

MURPHY: Did you worry about what your decision would do to these kids where you've ripped away their counselors & social workers literally in the middle of the program? McMAHON: I certainly worry about mental health MURPHY: It's a really cruel thing to do M: I can't evaluate every program

Imagine dedicating your career to hurting the most in need.

Does your local dry cleaners clean the blood off the uniforms of ICE, CBP, DHS agents’ uniforms? Let’s find out and figure out the names of these thugs. I’ve got a blazer that needs cleaning…#UnmaskICE

This story may surprise absolutely no one - but this is great reporting from NYT's Matthew Goldstein. Child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein invested $40 million of his money with Peter Thiel's Valar Ventures. That investment is now worth a lot more.... www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/b...

Trump’s big, bullshit bill will add $2.4 TRILLION to the deficit just so his rich friends can get a tax cut.

A military occupation by ICE

Exactly And Wait Until We Find Out More About Diddy As Well…..

KENNEDY: If Vietnam came to you and said, 'You win. We're gonna remove all tariffs and all trade barriers. Would the US please do the same?" Would you accept that deal? LUTNICK: Absolutely not. That would be the silliest thing we could do KENNEDY: What's the purpose of reciprocity then?

The original TT post read “we were diverted going to Dallas to Nashville on Southwest for “gas-fill-up” WTAF! TSA has screened & can stop boarding like any military state country Night Vision in Broad daylight? Opening bags with passengers on board? They aren’t trained agents.

Bannon says Musk and Republicans in Congress are lying about the deficit numbers in their budget, and the only way to reduce the debt significantly is to increase taxes on the wealthy: “You’re going to have to raise taxes.”

Perfect.

"For Trump, it doesn’t matter how loyal or subservient anyone has been in the past ... All that matters is 100% servility," writes @thelisagraves.bsky.social for Grave Injustice.

Trump softened America up for the ICE Gestapo by constantly saying migrants are dangerous criminals who don't lead ordinary lives. So why is ICE raiding neighborhood restaurants & immigration courts instead of drug dens & dog fights? (BTW militarization of domestic law enforcement is abhorrent.)

Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" is the prosperity gospel con distilled. "Give me your money and somehow that will make you richer. What, it didn't work? Ok, then, give me more money. I promise you it will work this time."

VAN HOLLEN: I'm simply asking you to provide the committee with a reorganization plan, and your response is 'maybe yes, maybe no.' Am I getting that right? LUTNICK: We're going to follow the law VAN HOLLEN: The law requires to you to submit these major changes to the Senate

1/ New in the Abrego Garcia case, the Judge has just granted his lawyers' request for permission to file sanctions against the government, which is very unusual.

Trump trashed Thomas Massie on Truth Social after he opposed his budget bill. Trump trashed Rand Paul on Truth Social after he opposed his budget bill. Elon Musk just opposed his budget bill.

Reminder that Trump was ordered by the Supreme Court to facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the United States. That was nearly two months ago. If Trump can violate due process and openly defy a SCOTUS order, what’s to stop him from doing the same to anyone else?

The bromance is over.

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Fascist Republicans voted for a bill that they are now pretending to be against. It has never been about governing or about the people or about deficit or about law and order, it has always been about spreading hate, causing chaos, passing immoral legislation and greed.

It's hard to watch Capitol Hill journalists do their jobs these days. They twist like pretzels to make it seem like everything is normal on the hill. In doing so, they do a terrible disservice to what is left of our severely ill democracy.

When your neighborhood pizza guy of 25 years is labeled a “threat” and disappeared by masked men in body armor, maybe the problem isn’t him.

The more things change....

"South Florida weatherman tells viewers he can't accurately predict hurricanes because of government cuts" Source: old.reddit.com/r/PublicFrea...

The orange felon has ordered scientists not to publish their findings until they are given permission by him, this comes at the time a top CDC official who oversaw covid-19 vaccine recommendations. The MAGA regime wants everyone sick, poor and dead. FU to all who chose this.

NYT, Page One: “Within hours, he had an email from China, offering to move his lab to ‘any city, any university I want,’ he said, with a guarantee of funding for the next 20 years.” @nytimes.com

I think we’ve reached a boiling point when it comes to ICE. Today in Minneapolis, a militarized task force raided the beloved Lake Street taqueria, Las Cuatro Milpas—and the community was not having it. Agents from ICE, the DEA, FBI, ATF, IRS and HHS rolled up looking like they were ready for war.

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka is suing interim U.S. Attorney for New Jersey, Alina Habba, for false arrest and malicious prosecution. I wish I could be a juror at the trial. 💙 #ProudBlue #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice #TrumpisaNationalDisgrace #TrumpIsAConvictedFelon

ICE dressed up like utility workers who offer "free estimates" if invited inside. Neighbor recorded the ICE goons and intervened, just before a young boy let them into his home. Tucson Electric Power was not told ICE agents would be impersonating their utility workers as part of the ICE raid.

America’s debt is at a breaking point, and trump’s tax bill WILL push it over the edge. This bill will destroy the US economy.

Minneapolis… San Diego… Folks are pushing back. This is only going to get worse.

Can’t we all just get along?

I mean, if you had a serious, important job and you made a mistake like this, you'd probably get fired...

So… Abrego Garcia… still down there huh?

San Diego. Minneapolis. The urgency is showing and I’ve never been this confident that the people will win. I’ve never been this proud to be an American. From the bottom-up is how we fix this. We walk in fear but we walk together. Thank you. We have a role to play where we can. We all get to choose.

Fmr. Chief, Capital Seige Section at the DOJ, Greg Rosen just said this about the damage created by the January 6th pardons: "The underlying message of the pardons, and the expressive nature of the pardons, is that political violence is acceptable, particularly if it's done for a specific purpose."