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Books are my drug. Libraries are my church. Gardener. Retired RN. Not a good corporate fit. Building community makes us stronger. Don’t give up hope.
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😡 White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has engaged in BOTH criminal & unethical acts! 👉Her previous New Hampshire campaign finance violations, including accepting illegal contributions & failing to refund them, are Federal CRIMINAL OFFENSES, with her campaign owing over $300,000 in refunds!

Here is the full indictment. I also listened to Pam Bondi's press conference. They allege that he was involved in a lot of very serious crimes and reference multiple "co-conspirator" statements (likely jailhouse informants). Notably, however, he's only *charged* with the TN traffic stop incident.

The paper of record now writes puff pieces about people who spread CSAM in the process of earning a profit. Archive dot org link, because dear god why would you want to give them legit traffic? @stuartathompson.bsky.social‬ is literally shameless. archive.ph/077hM

Ina Congress of Ro Khannas and AOCs, be AOC. Always.

An ICE vehicle in Los Angeles refuses to stop when a protester attempts to block it The vehicle continues driving until the protester is violently slammed to the ground

Despite the mine operator's poor record of violating worker safety, pollution and environmental regulations, the Trump admin greenlit the expansion of a coal mine in Montana. (Most of that coal is exported to Asia btw.) With dramatic staff cuts at MSHA, there's no way this won't end in tragedy...

Peoples lives and careers have been ruined, health and welfare and education all decimated, violence and fascism unleashed, the damage already incalculable and immediate, by these two high agency clowns and all their cronies.

It's weird to me just HOW blatant US authoritarianism had to get before most people started recognizing it as authoritarianism. It's like they were actually inside a house when it caught fire, and just stood there coughing and blinking from the smoke, moving into other rooms to escape the heat...

One thing I absolutely need you to understand is that in the United States, *police can legally lie to you.* And in most cases, a cop lying to you is NOT a defense to a criminal charge. Don't talk to cops. Get a lawyer.

Posted - and then deleted - this morning. 514 days until the midterms.

I said this indirectly the other day, but it deserves special focus today. ABC's parent, Disney, capitulated to Trump early on. But ABC continues to get really well-sourced stories, like the one on MDTN prosecutor Ben Schrader's resignation. abcnews.go.com/US/mistakenl...

The plan: Tell the world the president is in the Epstein files to force the release of the files he can release at any time

DOJ as we have known it, as a place where prosecutors from the AG on down do the right thing, for the right reason, in the right way, is over.

🚨BREAKING: Mississippi is asking the Supreme Court to uphold its mail-in ballot grace period. Mississippi is fighting back against a challenge from the RNC to strike down the law. Depending on how SCOTUS rules, it could change how over a dozen states conduct elections. Paige and I discuss.

Kristi Noem less than a month ago: "There is no scenario where Abrego Garcia will be in the United States again." (No matter what happens, bringing him back to the US is a climbdown for the administration)

That’s insane. California should withhold taxes paid to the federal government.

"The decision to pursue the indictment against Abrego Garcia led to the abrupt departure of Ben Schrader, a high-ranking federal prosecutor in Tennessee...Schrader’s resignation was prompted by concerns that the case was being pursued for political reasons, the sources said."

If you're wondering what the tech bros are planning for the world, you might want to check out my conversation with @gilduran.com of The Nerd Reich today at 5:00 on my YouTube channel and Facebook. Gil has been studying their ideology for years now, and can walk us through it.

Chief of Nashville, criminal division resigns over decision to charge Abrego Garcia. That’s a big story and the details will likely be very damning for the administration.

Wow. What a sign that criminal case against Abrego Garcia may be politically cooked up. "Schrader’s resignation was prompted by concerns that the case was being pursued for political reasons" Schrader spent 15 years in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Nashville and was chief of the criminal division

OMG can they even tie their own shoes. They are like - wait we voted to take money away from my state. The entire bill needs to go. There are much worse things in the bill than your state not getting money for projects.

This guy consistently posts songs with incredible lyrics mere hours after events unfurl. This was a good one.

We just sued Sonoma County for its warrantless drone program. With 700+ flights logged, county agents routinely launch low-altitude drones that invade people’s privacy in and around their homes. This violates the California Constitution, full stop.

NEW: Louisiana has a wild system: Officials known as justices of the peace get to decide evictions, and they can *pad their own salaries* with the eviction fees. Critics have filed a lawsuit trying to strike down a system that they stress incentivizes these court officials to grant evictions.

So in a bizarre development, Kilmar Abrego Garcia is on his way back to the US from El Salvador BUT he’s now been indicted for allegedly transporting undocumented migrants within the US. Here’s the indictment: assets.bwbx.io/documents/us...

So are we just teaching our kids they have to obey anyone with a mask and an unmarked car and an oddly-fitting vest and zip ties now and go with them? Is this where we’re at?

Love to feel the plane rapidly ascend in the midst of a descent (while in full cloud cover) and have the pilot come on four minutes later to say “Air traffic did not give us proper distance to another plane landing!”

Bernie’s approach is proving to be a far more effective mechanism for delivering new information to targeted communities—illustrating the depravity of Trump’s actions through the words of regular people. Published March 11, 2025: https://trib.al/sWRrZRM

Immigration advocates say they saw about seven people detained outside of the ICE office in Homewood Wednesday. The immigrants had arrived for what they thought were routine meetings. www.al.com/news/2025/06...

Chaos leads nowhere good.

ABC reports Kilmar Abrego Garcia is being returned to the United States abcnews.go.com/US/mistakenl...

There are many complicated explanations for why Dems have spent 50 yrs losing lots of elections, but theres also a simple one: Dems were a majority party for decades when they championed New Deal-ism & they became a losing party when they sided with money & discarded that legacy

MEMPHIS — YESTERDAY: “He’s not a criminal!!” ICE agent clumsily PULLS A GUN on the daughter of a man they grabbed. Original post: www.facebook.com/share/v/12LM...

In short: the US President & his top donor got into a public fight over who could control & steal more of our assets for their personal gain.

☀️Good morning—release the Epstein files, protect the victims, hold those implicated accountable, regardless of political party or status.

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.

Thank you, Rep. Green @algreen.house.gov, for your continued moral clarity, bravery, and leadership. May many others follow in your footsteps!

One thread of a creepy campaign.

Terror Toddler. 22-year self-professed “Trumplican” now oversees DHS terrorism prevention office. Katie Phang on how Trump is rewarding loyalists in critical roles that impact your safety.

My latest: For nearly 4 decades, scientists have relied on now aging U.S. military weather satellites to track dwindling sea ice. But the DOD is now "deprioritizing" access to this data.

I’m in The Economist about the Trump/Musk breakup www.economist.com/united-state...

Shame on the military for enabling this idiot.