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Proud lifelong Democrat🗽rooting for a time when common decency and civility exists in the 🌎 again. Support human rights & animal rights.🐾
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ICE was "responding" to the chaos ICE itself created. It was not responding to the way LA is without intentional provocation from ICE. And now the National Guard is "responding" to the chaos ICE created. It is not responding to the way LA is without intentional provocation from ICE.

Sorry, I’m not listening to folks who criminalize immigrants while voting for a criminal…

NEW: A data broker owned by the country’s major airlines, including Delta, American Airlines, and United, collected US travelers’ domestic flight records, sold access to them to Customs and Border Protection (CBP). www.wired.com/story/airlin...

While tear gas and flash bangs were bursting in air, a flag gave proof that democracy still would be there [image h/t attorney @johnathanperk.bsky.social]

Escalation is a distraction. We are no longer talking about Tariffs, or Big Beautiful Bill, his shitty unqualified Administration, Project 2025, actual Immigration crisis.

Los Angeles 2025

A robin made a nest in one of my plant pots right outside my studio. The baby birds are hatching today.

New in PN: ABC is too cowed to state the obvious about Stephen Miller "Miller and Trump are hateful bigots. Independent journalists can still say that. Journalists at ABC can’t, because the president gets a veto over their coverage. That’s not democracy and it’s not a free press. It’s fascism."

Watching the right now oppose the part of the second amendment that guarantees a well regulated militia under state control is… something.

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“Tasted a little tear gas— tasted like fascism”

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Imagine that. www.npr.org/2025/06/02/n...

“Strongman” politicians project their supposed strength by attacking immigrants, people of color, and the LGBTQ+ community. But these groups of people aren't the "threats" we should be worried about. Who is? The oligarchs who earn their keep by exploiting the rest of us.

What we’re seeing in L.A. isn’t an insurrection—so why federalize the National Guard? Why the threat of using the U.S. military against civilians? We’re not there yet—but we’re closer than we think. Watch this Project 2025 reminder until the end. Then view everything happening through that lens.

Information on Governors' powers when a president mobilizes the National Guard. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

Hell of a photo

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A military Blackhawk helicopter is unloading dozens of boxes of allegedly weapons and ammunition in Los Angeles

Now, if Trump invokes the insurrection act then we’re in a whole new world and it won’t end well for Trump

ICE is the January 6 insurrectionists all over again. Only instead of attacking law enforcement, they are pretending to *be* law enforcement. And instead of just terrorizing at the Capitol, they are doing it EVERYWHERE.

This is a pre-planned operation in LA!

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I don't care if these monstrous ICE raids are a "federal operation". This is authoritarian violence, plain and simple. Just because Stephen Miller has kidnapping quotas for brown people he doesn't want to see on the street doesn't mean we have to think it's okay.

"What they want is for people to look at who's rich, who’s important & say, 'That’s just the way things are. That’s the way they're supposed to be.' They don’t want people looking back at the past & saying, “This is because of slavery or Jim Crow or because women were excluded from the workforce.'”

Are you OK with a real life Handmaid’s Tale in 2025? Cuz Trump just sent 1000 fully armed National Guardsmen into LA to attack protesters — claiming they are rioters. Fuck this!!!! Join us to defend our democracy before it’s too late!!!!!

Ahem.

I have been a history, enthusiast my whole life. I’ve been watching America as history repeats itself. This poignant quote from Anne Frank proves the fact. The German Gestapo and Trump’s ICE are following the same cruel procedure to round up people.

Deploying the military on U.S. soil as law enforcement against Americans was on page 555 of Project 2025. So don’t say “I didn’t vote for this,” because you did. This isn’t a response. This was always their plan.

What happened to states’ rights, Kristi?

cats don't obey in advance and no one else should, either

Just more HYPOCRISY from the right…👇 Nothing more. Enjoy. 😎✨

Reports and video show flash-bangs thrown into piles of debris just before a car caught fire, strongly suggesting it was law enforcement, not protesters, who sparked it. More details are coming. Don’t let them control the narrative. Thank you to everyone sharing footage, always record everything.

Big point that is being missed: without the insurrection act, the activated Guard troops are now federal army and cannot Do law enforcement. Period

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Welcome to America, where protesting illegal kidnappings without due process is an insurrection, but attacking the nation’s Capitol is not.

"Veterans know the layoffs aren’t about saving money. They’re about weakening the institution and ultimately privatizing and gutting VA disability funding, as spelled out in Project 2025." share.google/pz6mLWSzZIYC...

Cutting aid to the world’s most vulnerable children. What, is this guy on ketamine?

Chris Murphy on Joni Ernst: "I think everybody in that audience knows they're going to die, they would just rather die in old age at 85 or 90 instead of dying at 40. And the reality is that when you lose your healthcare, you are much more at risk of early death."

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Trump: “Ukraine has no cards!” Ukraine <destroys 1/3rd of Russias bomber force> Trump: “”

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Hot off the press!

“Is it unlawful for the president to accept a gift from a foreign state without the consent of Congress?” - @adamschiff.com

A refreshingly honest take from a Maga politician Concerned citizen : “Your cuts are going to kill people!” Joni Ernst : “Well, duh.”