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Mayor, attorney, husband, father. Grandpa to two and hoping a future for them in a world that would deserve them. Doing what I can. “You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.” – Marcus Aurelius
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BREAKING: A judge has ordered the RELEASE of Mahmoud Khalil

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18 June 1916 | A Polish Jew, Dawid Steinberg, was born. A shoemaker. In #Auschwitz from 2 July 1942. No. 44571 He perished in the camp on 18 August 1942..

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Be Righteously Pissed Off This Weekend But Stay Peaceful

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NO KINGS This Saturday-- Let's go for a walk! John Lewis, Dr. MLK, Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Hamilton,Lincoln,FDR, TR, Grant, Eisenhower, your fathers and grandfathers who went to war to defeat fascism, will be there with us!

NO KINGS This Saturday-- Let's go for a walk! John Lewis, Dr. MLK, Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Hamilton,Lincoln,FDR, TR, Grant, Eisenhower, your fathers and grandfathers who went to war to defeat fascism, will be there with us!

11 June 1937 | A Hungarian Jewish girl, Anita Balaban, was born. In 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.

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Fuck you Donald Trump. I have a constitutional right to protest your stupid Kim Jong Un parade. I dare you to use the military to try to stop my First Amendment rights. You ignorant coward.

If you missed this address, I highly recommend you find it and watch it. Newsome isn’t playing. ⬇️ Gavin Newsom locks horns with Trump in a politically defining moment www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

"Do not give in to him." ~ @governor.ca.gov Gavin Newsom's historic speech on Trump's deranged agenda, courtesy @meidastouch.com. [Video starts at the 4:52 minute mark, approx]. #CaliforniaProtests 📺

Newsom: "Democracy is under assault before our eyes. This moment we have feared has arrived. He's taking a wrecking ball to our Founding Father's historic project."

Ana Navarro Encourages Latino Celebrities To Speak Out Against TRUMP47 RE: Deportations. youtube.com/shorts/JCo59...

Shocking.

The only people doing the violence are ICE thugs.

HAPPENING NOW: A MASSIVE crowd has gathered in the streets of Los Angeles, California to peacefully protest against Donald Trump’s American Gestapo (ICE) (Video: Anthony Cabassa)

“Since his first term, Trump has been a man in search of a Reichstag to burn down. “

Here’s what we know about Russell Vought: He’s stepping in for Elon Musk to run DOGE, the faux-agency slashing the federal gov. A self-described Christian nationalist, Vought was one of the key architects behind Project 2025. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

5 June 1903 | A Polish Jew, Szmul Szafran, was born in Warsaw. A bricklayer. In #Auschwitz from 3 February 1942. No. 20072 He perished in the camp on 7 March 1942.

Department of Homeland Security barged Congressman Jerry Nadler’s office Accused staff members of “harboring rioters” And handcuffed one of his staffers “‘The Trump administration is trying to intimidate members of Congress..They’re behaving like fascists,” Nadler said youtu.be/2d2GCrqIgXA

The Saturday night musing of a madman…

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called the lack of healthy food options on Native reservations a “genocide.” But the Trump administration ended a program that helped provide fresh, locally produced food for tribal food banks, saying the program no longer aligned with its priorities.

Last year, Illinois abolished requiring prior authorization for inpatient mental health care — and now, we're extending it to outpatient care. Patients and their doctors should be in control of decisions about their care, not insurance companies.

Yes World, this is how stupid they are

THESE are the tattoos we should be worried about… Valknut: historically Norse, used by some white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups.

1 June 1962 | After midnight Adolf Eichmann, whose task was to manage the logistics involved in the mass deportations of Jews to ghettos and extermination camps in German-occupied Europe, was executed in Israel. See the Yad Vashem exhibition about his trial www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibi...

More than 40 Russian warplanes are burning after a mass Ukrainian drone attack kyivindependent.com/enemy-bomber...

"California Republican Reps. David Valadao and Young Kim's districts are among the highest Medicaid enrollment rates in the state. In an April 14 letter, both said they were against the bill if it included Medicaid cuts — but then they voted for the bill anyway..." www.sfgate.com/politics/art...

Spread the word, wide and far…👇 Enjoy. 😎✨

Let's go for a walk! John Lewis, Dr. MLK, Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Hamilton,Lincoln,FDR, TR, Grant, Eisenhower, your fathers and grandfathers who went to war to defeat fascism, will be there with us!

Let's go for a walk! John Lewis, Dr. MLK, Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Hamilton,Lincoln,FDR, TR, Grant, Eisenhower, your fathers and grandfathers who went to war to defeat fascism, will be there with us!

YOUR ORDERS: JUNE 14 IS NO KINGS DAY! MARCH EVERYWHERE. See www.nokings.org & my FAFOPac.org Register a March! March in your front yard! March ALL Over America. This aims to be the biggest March in American History. PLAN IT. LFG Resistance! RT this!

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A federal court has struck down almost all of Trump's tariffs. Administration officials quickly challenged the ruling’s legitimacy, but the argument for judicial overreach here is "especially weak," Conor Friedersdorf writes:

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JUST IN: Judge Chutkan allows lawsuit seeking to enjoin Elon Musk and DOGE's operations to proceed. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

Phang: We don’t need the Ten Commandments hanging in Texas schools. What we need is common-sense gun legislation—so the kids can live. If my kid goes to a public school in Texas and they can’t come home alive, I don’t give a shit about the Ten Commandments being posted on the wall.

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