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The amount of rationalizing you have to do to justify this to yourself, your family, your fellow citizens must be astounding. I have no sympathy for anyone involved in this. You moved past too many off-ramps for this kind of behavior.

www.facebook.com/reel/7077234... NOT the “violent criminals”; essential workers betrayed by a dysfunctional immigration system and a fascist administration looking to fill quotas. 😡

m.facebook.com/story.php?st... These are NOT the “violent criminals” of empty campaign promises! A logical, well-run immigration system would accommodate essential workers.

KTLA: “I have no doubt it’s racially motivated.” A US citizen in the parking lot of a Home Depot was tackled to the ground, detained, locked up for 24 hours for filming ICE smashing a man’s window. He plans to sue. (From @keithboykin)

NEW: Adults fighting kids for clean water, despondent toddlers and a child with swollen feet denied a medical exam - these first-hand accounts from immigrant families are offering a glimpse at conditions in TX detention centers. according to court filing. apnews.com/article/migr...

My relatives in East L.A. — born in the U.S.A. — are afraid to go outside because masked men with guns are randomly snatching people off the street. This is a government terrorism campaign against its own people.

AOC: Being taken is wrong, it is illegal, it is a violation of his First Amendment rights, it is an affront to every American, and we will not allow—and will continue to resist—the politicization and the continued political persecution that ICE is engaged in.

Live Updates: U.S. Moves B-2 Bombers as Iran and Israel Exchange Strikes www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06... THIS DECISION IS LITERALLY CONGRESS’ JOB!!!!

Please media. Educate and inform Americans.

I wrote about the ICE drama with the Dodgers and why they are (finally at long last) doing the right thing (pressure pressure pressure) www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Occupy Democrats shared this.

Yes, please.

Add them all up—the pipe bomber, the Pelosi home invasion, the synagogue shooter, the school board threats, the Proud Boys—and you can’t help but feel that the country is lurching toward a state of violence. https://trib.al/JoM62GM

This is the most important thing I have written recently that you probably haven't read. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/the-...

TWO WEEKS DON 👇👇👇👇👇

We still have no idea who the ICE agents are. They could be insurrectionists, extremist militiamen or criminals themselves, chasing law-abiding citizens down the street for recording their kidnappings. The odds they aren't are low. Congress must raise hell about this. A masked gang runs our country.

Till tomorrow, night all.

Scrap the cap on SS payments. Problem solved!!!

The U.S. Senate is currently considering a budget reconciliation bill that quietly includes language that could devastate our public lands. It would: - Make over 250 million acres of public land eligible for sale - Mandate the sale of at least 2 million acres of Forest Service and BLM land

JUNETEENTH in Harlem. This is what America is about. Perhaps the most American holiday of all, Juneteenth honors the very best of what this country can be. It’s a celebration of the courage to fight for freedom, even when the cost is steep. It’s sad that the president gets angry over this

THE RESISTANCE #TRUMP #TACO #MAGA #FASCISM #THERESISTANCE #RESIST Trump is waging war on our democracy under the cover of a sham crisis like Hitler did in Bavaria. 📢 Remind those in active duty military that they can claim themselves as a conscientious objector. 1.877.447.4487 🔄 REPOST

Wrong, wrong, WRONG.😡

Unearthed Statement Shows Trump Praised Juneteenth in 2024, Now He’s Threatening It When he needed votes, Trump praised the holiday marking the end of slavery meidasnews.com/news/unearth...

What is the opposite of a Nobel Peace Prize?

Democrats cannot complain about Trump’s authoritarianism while ignoring their own constitutional responsibility regarding taking the country to war. Democrats must support Sen. Kaine’s War Powers Resolution. The U.S. must not get involved in Netanyahu’s war.

“Guns don’t kill people—people do.” But 3D-printed guns make it easier. Tech is evolving—regulation needs to catch up. @krisgoldsmith85.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/zdrQ2... Follow The Ken Harbaugh Show here: linktr.ee/thekenharbau...

Breaking News: The Trump administration laid off more than 600 people at the federally funded news outlet Voice of America, reducing its staff to less than 200. The news organization provides independent reporting to countries with limited press freedom.

“This morning, ICE agents came to Dodger Stadium and requested permission to access the parking lots,” the L.A. Dodgers said in a statement. “They were denied entry to the grounds by the organization.” https://trib.al/H4YZrIg

"The town Select Board is reviewing claims the ICE processing center is being used as detention center against their zoning code by keeping detainees in inadequate conditions for longer than a few hours, as originally intended..." www.nbcboston.com/news/local/b...

Don't let them distract you. Republicans are trying to sell off millions of acres of your public lands to billionaire developers — all as they take away your benefits. Now is the time to make some noise.

RESIST OR DEMOCRACY IS DEAD #TRUMP #MAGA #FASCISM #THERESISTANCE While symbolic, Democratic bills add to the collective resistance and should help flip Congress. POWER THROUGH PEACE ☮️ 📢 Remind active duty military they can claim themselves as a conscientious objector. 1.877.447.4487 🔄 REPOST

For generations, if you came on a visa and applied for asylum, you would generally not be arrested even if your visa expired during the process. That’s over now. They’re arresting everyone, even people who have done legitimately nothing wrong. What a terrible, awful, inhumane, cruel policy.

NEW: Trump calls for a special prosecutor to investigate the 2020 election. The same guy who spent over a year arguing in court that special prosecutors were unconstitutional. apnews.com/article/trum...

RESIST OR DEMOCRACY IS DEAD #TRUMP #TACO #MAGA #FASCISM #THERESISTANCE #RESIST 🔵 1 million people without status in LA. 🔵 Only 330 immigrants arrested in the past week and a half 🔵 4700 troops deployed Convinced now that this is a sham?Hitler would be jealous. POWER THROUGH PEACE ☮️ 🔄 REPOST

MAGA Republicans could’ve passed “No Tax on Tips” five months ago as a standalone bill. Instead, they are messing around with the language and adding a bunch of junk to pass along with it.

We have work to do, to counteract the republican insistence on increasing pollution and thereby accelerating the deadly heating of our planet. One, accelerate our state actions building clean energy opportunities. Two, free republican climate deniers for retirement. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/c...

"It’s rare to find a prominent political leader who is neither a champion of business nor a champion of workers, but Trump has managed to pull it off..." www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Six former CDC vaccine chairs are sounding the alarm—and we better listen. The U.S. is on the brink of losing access to life-saving immunizations. When science is attacked and trust is eroded, lives will be lost. This is not a drill. This is a national emergency.

RESIST OR DEMOCRACY IS DEAD #TRUMP #TACO #MAGA #FASCISM #THERESISTANCE #RESIST Justification for Iran war is the #WMDSham being globally propagated by #Israel. POWER THROUGH PEACE ☮️ 📢 Remind active duty military they can claim themselves as a conscientious objector. 1.877.447.4487 🔄 REPOST

Whenever lawmakers start carving up benefit programs, women raising children alone are always the first to feel the pain. Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” follows in that grim tradition. https://trib.al/b3Fsz7f

“We have masked, unidentified agents of the state snatching people off of the streets. We have the government attempting to skirt due process. We have an attempt to revoke birthright citizenship. Maybe the hour is later than we think.” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

THE RESISTANCE #TRUMP #TACO #MAGA #FASCISM #THERESISTANCE #RESIST Duffy doesn't seem to understand the rules of the road. 📢 Remind those in active duty military that they can claim themselves as a conscientious objector. 1.877.447.4487 🔄 REPOST

Idiot savant…ish. 🙄

WTAF!!!😳

BREAKING: A federal court has ordered the release of Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia student detained as punishment for his advocacy for Palestinian human rights. Mahmoud spent over 3 months in ICE detention, during which time he missed the birth of his first child and his own graduation.

The U.S. social safety net was constructed around ideas of "deservingness." For single moms, that often meant additional hoops to jump through. Analysis on how poor single moms rely on benefits programs, & what the reconciliation bill would mean for them: newrepublic.com/article/1970...