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Walker of woods, lover of forests, friendly with trees. Theorist of mediation. Arboreal nonhumanist. Zayde. Recovering academic.
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Forget the Democratic Party. Create a new anti-billionaire party and welcome all Americans--right, left, and center--who would take government away from the ultra-rich to join. wapo.st/405Hgny

ICE just arrested Brad Lander, the NYC Comptroller and one of the leading candidates for Mayor, without grounds. He was conducting routine immigration court work, escorting individuals from hearings. He asked ICE for their warrant - well within his legal rights. This is political intimidation.

Schumer is the worst. An old fool. He must step down as Senate minority leader immediately.

Netanyahu has clearly taken lessons from Putin. I fear he will succed in manipulating Trump to give the go-ahead to drop GB-57 bunker busters on Iran's Fordo enrichment facility. Such an action could provoke a terrorist attack in the continental US, paving the way for a declaration of martial law.

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

Thank you Senator Wiener!

A new Mass Ornament just dropped.

Yep. We desperately need an anti-billionaires party.

Forests are being pushed to the brink of collapse, potentially sending ripple effects across the globe ⚠️ Find out why and what we can still do: tyndall.ac.uk/news/report-... 🌳

We must conserve and restore forests because they are wonderful, full of life, support the lives and livelihoods of over a billion people, and play multiple vital roles in the maintenance of a liveable planet But to slow climate breakdown, we have to bring about the end of the fossil fuel age

Yes. I sounded the alarm on her claim in a post yesterday.

Yes, I made this point yesterday.

Arguably even worse than handcuffing Alex Padilla was this claim by Kristi Noem. "We are staying here to liberate the city from the socialists and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country and what they have tried to insert into the city."

"For the past decade, the US press has fueled a moral panic over leftists on campus while failing to report on the right’s assault." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I am not a violent man. But every time I see that weasely Johnson with his shit-eating grin I just want to punch him in the face. Hard.

there’s got to be some kind of statute of limitations on this crap. I get moral hazard, I get all of that, it’s just completely insane to say that this guy who built an American life for 30 years isn’t American.

Doesn't need a tattoo, Bill. He has brown skin and Latinx features.

As @letsgomathias.bsky.social reported, "remigration" has been used by white supremacists as "a euphemism for ethnically cleansing non-white people from Western countries." The GOP is "sourcing many of its talking points and policy ideas directly from neo-fascists." www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

If Senator Alex Padilla was Senator Alan Patterson, I doubt he would have been manhandled as violently and inhumanly as he was by Trump's Stasi.

One aspect of Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" that isn't getting enough attention?  It would give ICE tens of billions in additional funding to conduct more violent raids and abductions across the country. A big, ugly, authoritarian nightmare.

Bingo. If he were Senator Alan Patterson he would have been treated differently.

Watching Alex Padilla being forced to kneel and then be handcuffed by police of the Executive Branch, we should remember that there is a long history of violence against Mexicans in the West and elsewhere in the US, including lynching. daily.jstor.org/the-untold-h...

Sen. Alex Padilla: "If this is how this DHS responds to a senator with a question, I can only imagine what they're doing to farmers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California and throughout the country. We will hold this administration accountable."

Schumer is an old fool. He needs to step down as majority leader now and retire from the Senate at the end of his current term.

Take a minute to listen to this. Deep respect for this man.

Schumer is an old fool. He needs to retire at the end of his term--if not sooner.

We look at the footage of Alex Padilla and are appalled by the transgression of norms, of law, of basic bodily respect. But tens of millions of others look at the same footage and see exactly what they voted for, the unhesitating exercise of power, power directed against black and brown.

If Senator Alex Padilla was Senator Alan Patterson, I doubt he would have been manhandled as violently and inhumanly as he was by Trump's Stasi.

Arguably even worse than handcuffing Alex Padilla was this claim by Kristi Noem. "We are staying here to liberate the city from the socialists and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country and what they have tried to insert into the city."

MAGA is the new MAFIA, “Make Americans Fear ICE Again.”

MAGA is the new MAFIA, “Make Americans Fear ICE Again.”

MAGA is the new MAFIA, “Make Americans Fear ICE Again.”

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.

MAGA is the new MAFIA, “Make Americans Fear ICE Again.”

Trump is paying for people to fill seats at his parade Saturday. Not only is he demented, but his narcissism would be embarrassing if it weren't so destructive.

"There are more troops deployed in LA than there are in Iraq and Syria combined." --Jen Psaki, MSNBC

"There are more troops deployed in LA than there are in Iraq and Syria combined." --Jen Psaki, MSNBC

This alarm is like closing the barn door after the horse has run off. This was already the case on Day 1.

I’ve seen a few variations of this making the rounds. I like this one best. I don’t know who the original artist is but thank you to them.