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Canadian born Floriduh boy living in the PNW. Interested in science, politics, music, nature, books...plus some gaming and bad movies too. Reader of Balloon Juice, TPM, dKos, Eschaton etc Original posts under #MusicalOffering and #BackyardBirding He/him
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If a seven-year-old can’t walk to the store the fault lies not with the parents but with the community.

The SEIU-USWW President was just arrested at an anti-ICE demonstration after ICE kidnappings in LA. PLZ SHOW UP! FRIDAY JUNE 6 AT 4pm PST DOWNTOWN LA FEDERAL BUILDING 300 N LOS ANGELES ST, LOS ANGELES, CA 90012 #StrongerTogether #LosAngeles #50501Movement #FiftyFiftyOne #NoKings #PeoplesMovement

Let’s be clear: ICE injured and detained the president of SEIU California for peacefully observing. ICE picked the wrong side. The wrong state. The wrong person. and the wrong union. David Huerta stood up. And now 750,000 SEIU workers are standing up behind him. seiuca.org/press-releas...

What's telling to me is that there are literally a couple of dudes trying to negotiate trade deals with every country in the world. There is no staff, no infrastructure, it's Trump stupidity dialed up to 100. The first thing you'd do if you wanted to do this right is staff a massive organization

The chief of the country’s premier anti-antisemitism organization is now praising a government official who just this week defended Holocaust denial as part of “viewpoint diversity.”

Guys, I did it GOOD SHABBOS

FBI RIOT TEAM OUT IN STREETS OF LOS ANGELES (& GETTING PUSHED OUT BY COMMUNITY ON THE GROUND) Dozens of FBI, ATF, & DHS agents in camo fatigues with guns out. FUCK THESE GESTAPO PIGS! Angelenos are pushing the feds out!

🚨🚨🚨LA EMERGENCY PROTEST🚨🚨🚨 From the Community Self Defense Coalition: STOP DEPORTATIONS NOW! ICE HAS HUNDREDS OF MEMBERS OF OUR COMMUNITY KIDNAPPED AND IS HOLDING THEM AT THIS LOCATION Friday, June 6, 2025 4:30PM 535 Alameda St, LA, CA 90012 

81 years ago today, Allied troops landed in Normandy to continue the fight against fascism. My grandfather was a frogman in WWII. My father and I followed in his footsteps and I'm proud every day to honor their legacy and the legacy of all the those who served on D-Day.

This as a response to people talking about how to fight back against Trump flouting law to withhold funds from states is absolutely brain dead. Sure, we settled claims about state sovereignty in 1865, and we settled claims about dictatorial powers for the executive in 1776.

Ambushing & arresting people who are here legally & are obeying the law by checking in with ICE as they’re required to do. Repressive fear tactics that will NOT end with immigrants alone. Why would it? It’s a handy way to force your opposition into compliance and silence, & take dictatorial control

Hot takes of the day: -Take what works from 'Abundance' and leave the rest behind. -Musk is talking about creating a 3rd party, not funding Democrats. -Trump would never let someone call him a pedophile as a distraction. -The Republicans on the Supreme Court can all suck an egg.

What I’m hearing is that @rokhanna.bsky.social is working to bring Nazis into the Democratic Party Go. Fuck. Yourself.

EVERYBODY WATCH. ICE IS OUT OF CONTROL. Video of SEIU California’s President David Huerta getting assaulted & arrested during an ICE raid in the warehouse district of Downtown Los Angeles today. He’s an LA native, American citizen and labor leader. Don’t turn away.

Nailed it:

Rep. Al Green Announces Impeachment Vote for Authoritarian President - Congress is Court of Last Resort. Watch Rep. Al Green's floor speech on YouTube by clicking the link:

The Chief of the Criminal Division at the US Attorney’s Office/Middle District of Tennessee RESIGNED the same day the Acting US Attorney signed the indictment of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. He writes: “do the right thing, in the right way, for the right reasons.” There are no coincidences.

NEW A little-noticed provision in the Senate budget bill would gut the government’s long-running CAFE fuel economy program for cars & light trucks. The provision sets all penalties for automakers who run afoul of the rules to zero — essentially repealing the law. heatmap.news/politics/cor...

REUTERS: U.S. SUPREME COURT DECLINES TO HEAR CHALLENGE TO FIREARMS RESTRICTION ON LARGE CAPACITY MAGAZINES IN WASHINGTON, D.C.

In the context of what’s happening this week, it’s all the more important to join our Muslim friends, family and neighbors in celebrating Eid al-Adha. I was proud to sign a new law making Washington the first state in the nation to recognize Eid as a state holiday. Eid Mubarak!

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I often get asked to help with bird ID problems when the answer is: it's a female of a common species! Here's a poster celebrating the often-overlooked intricacies of female bird plumage. During June, proceeds from my shop sales go to @instbirdpop.bsky.social topatoco.com/collections/...

This is an absolutely revolting hagiography of someone who posted images from one of the most depraved child sex abuse videos circulating on the trading underground and I seriously doubt he got it from a news article

After months of ignoring our Constitution, it seems the Trump Administration has relented to our demands for compliance with court orders and due process for Kilmar Abrego Garcia. This has never been about the man — it’s about his constitutional rights and the rights of all. Full statement:

Thank you for your work, @vanhollen.senate.gov, I'm glad I voted for you.

Today's episode of "We are Nothing Like the Gestapo".

So to review: 1. He never should have been deported. The admin admitted that. 2. The admin said he was an MS-13 member and also they couldn’t get him back. They lied. 3. They are now charging him with a crime that they did not mention until literally now.

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We don’t need to back off the American Gestapo and we don’t need to respect its agents. People exercising state violence are not entitled to anonymity. Nor are the people directing the state violence.

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Must be a day for miracles as I had an actual human being answer in Gillibrand's office this morning when I called about this.

It had been 2 weeks since a judge ordered the Trump admin to allow the detainees it was trying to ship off to South Sudan to talk to their lawyers–and the lawyers say they have still not heard from the detainees who have been stuck in Djibouti this whole time. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

6 JUNE 1775, NEW YORK: The hundred redcoats in the town withdraw to the Royal Navy man-of-war Asia in the harbor, but a spontaneous mob raised by Marinus Willett stops them from taking most of their arms and war materiel with them (and persuades several of them to desert).

I think whoever brought these charges should be fired (into the sun).

Harshing the Mellow - A Thread. We need to laugh, especially with the damage that Trump is inflicting on us. We need to laugh for our own reasons (kittens) and we need to laugh at him. Because he really is foolish. But there are those, who, at the sound of a laugh, try to stop it.

Looooool, get on the bus this morning to take us from the hotel to the Ford Museum and all the driver and convention assistant can talk about is the meltdown yesterday. This thing has legs, and if the Dems are smart, they’ll hammer it incessantly.

"Harriet Tubman was bad because she was a Federal spy" is a level of tankie I didn't know even existed. Why did Harriet Tubman become a Federal spy, asshole? Who was she spying on?

The Republic as we knew it is over. We are living through a culmination of a) an 80-year movement to undo the New Deal's reconstruction of the United States as a modern state, b) a 60-year movement to reverse the Second Reconstruction, and c) a 50-year movement to undo post-Watergate reforms [1]

Hi #KidLitArtPostcard! Once upon a time in Korea, there was a tiny sickly stray puppy. A scary tiger spotted the puppy & thought she’ll make an easy snack. But the unexpectedly feisty puppy kept running in & out of rabbit holes in the ground, making fun of the tiger. (1/?)