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Suburban councilman. Trade unionist. John Brown enthusiast. Diasporic southerner.
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Remarkable. MSNC: "I want to reiterate this has been 100% peaceful." Seconds later, LA County sheriffs start firing on the crowd. Yet again, "law enforcement" deliberately escalated.

It's correct but

Can confirm.

Hmmm. Why would violent right wing freak have a cop’s uniform? This is a mystery worthy of Scooby Doo and his gang!

Are we sure the policeman was fake?

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Met @edsbs.bsky.social on the airport tram in Vegas.

what detainees

Yeah Gavin Newsom sucks but I also don’t feel like we’re really in the position right now to be picky because nobody else is doing anything

The Trump tax cut is a massive wealth transfer from the poorest to the wealthiest. Contrast that with Build Back Better, which helped those at the bottom of the income distribution. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

omg it’s a movement

I keep seeing calls for protesters to sit down if things turn violent and that seems like such a bad idea. They aren’t going to stop beating and shooting at you just because you sat down. It will just put you in more physical danger.

I peed next to Patterson Hood of the Drive By Truckers at PDX airport.

A man with a green card said ICE agents arrested him in #Lynn, Mass then took him to a detention facility—but first made a detour to a cemetery, where they took him out of their vehicle and beat him. #mapoli #Massachusetts

I don't know how many times these people have to say "non-whites are not americans unless they are part of my inner circle, we want to do ethnic cleansing" before people start listening bsky.app/profile/pale...

Slotkin has voted to confirm more Trump appointees(Including Kristi Noem) than any other senator besides John "My exploding brain turned me into a nazi" Fetterman

Every Dem Senator: "What happened to Senator Padilla today was an unprecedented breach of constitutional government and demonstrates the scale of the threat to our republic." Also Every Dem Senator: [Goes back to business as usual] 18 Dem Senators: [Vote for Trump's crypto bill]

As a four-decade veteran of the daily journalism business, let me tell you: Every competent political reporter in this country knows that Trump is trying to establish a dictatorship. The industry's shame is that so few journalists will say so, and the ones who do lose their jobs.

Schumer stopped the Senate to announce that this happened, in the middle of debate on a bill where Democrats were collaborating with Republicans on crypto legislation. How you can compartmentalize these two things is beyond me.

Sen. Alex Padilla, who was just forcibly removed from a DHS press conference, is the ranking member of Judiciary’s subcommittee on immigration, citizenship, and border safety, which has “oversight of federal agencies with citizenship, asylum, refugee, and immigration enforcement responsibilities.”

booker ready to do anything other than vote no on republican legislation

LAST ACTION HERO DONT @ ME

SCOOP: Guardsmen deployed to LA aren't on formal orders, thus aren't set up to be paid or get healthcare yet www.military.com/daily-news/2...

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This really isn't why David Hogg was removed. We had @malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social on @cancelmedaddy.bsky.social (the other removed chair who Politico didn't bother to name) to talk about the truth no one wants you to know about. Watch here: youtu.be/drL3ERidIeI

Posting this 1967 Birmingham News editorial cartoon for all the people who don't realize that this is how MLK was viewed by a big chunk of white America.

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These 18 Senate Dems just voted to advance the crypto industry's money laundering bill: Alsobrooks Booker Cortez Masto Fetterman Gallego Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Kelly Kim Lujan Padilla Rosen Schiff Slotkin Warner Warnock

Waiting for the big outlets to put two and two together and realize that police whose identities are secret and facilities are secret are secret police.

AMA

Thing I need all Dems at every level to absorb yesterday: if someone pulls a knife on you, you are in a knife fight, whether or not you want to be

BREAKING: A few minutes ago, a vehicle of three people was rammed by a truck belonging to federal immigration authorities in Boyle Heights, CA. According to security footage shown to me, they deployed chemical munitions & detained the driver at gunpoint. All are US citizens according to the wife.

Counterpoint: NO THE FUCK THEY ARE NOT! www.reuters.com/world/us/tro...