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Dog-loving First Amendment fan with musical proclivities and lots of books. Dedicated to wife and family and the carefully aimed one-liner.
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"two months later, authorities have yet to provide any evidence that the more than three dozen people they arrested that night have connections to the gang..." www.texastribune.org/2025/06/04/t...

SCOOP— FEMA essential functions are at "high risk" of not functioning properly just days before hurricane season because of staffing shortages, per a recent internal memo obtained by The Handbasket. These deficiencies "may disrupt life-saving and life-sustaining program delivery." Full story here:

The Court’s ‘Make It Up As You Go’ Constitution talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-c...

Tell me: if these dudes show up with guns in an unmarked van to grab someone, why don’t the Second Amendment fans think they should be shot?

Deportation for honking his horn at an undercover ICE officer

p0Fort Smith AR had TWO protests today and around 170 people showed up (some at both). @50501movement.bsky.social

Great news for our Canadian Neighbors. Pierre Poilievre will be remembered as the guy who went from a projected landslide majority to losing not only the election but also his own seat that he previously held for 20 years in just four months. Truly a historic fumble. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

2/ Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

1/ From Thomas Paine, The American Crisis, 1776 (apologies for sexism): THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.

'Cause this is the country we live in now. popular.info/p/us-citizen...

Rinse and repeat for the foreseeable future.

This seems potentially huge to me. www.commondreams.org/news/nonprof...

My god, some good news!

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If you're in the neighborhood, drop on by.

Look what I found. Should we open it?

🚨UPDATE: New evidence filed by the ACLU last night shows that the Trump administration is going forward with more Alien Enemies Act deportations in seeming violation of the Supreme Court's clear command that people be provided a "meaningful" opportunity to seek judicial review.

I have been following the back and forth in these legal cases closely, etc, but it’s important to take a step back, as here.