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Getting old AF. Life-long liberal. Left US for 7 years while Reagan was pretending to be president. Fond of trees, waterfalls and decent people.
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www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j... It's an idea...

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Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/b... Taking the long view

This is what patriotism looks like - marching toward the Capitol with pride, purpose, and the promise of liberty for all.

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

DEVELOPING: No warning. No reason. NYPD officers rushed into the crowd and tackled a protester this weekend. His body was limp. He couldn’t move. He said, “I can’t feel my legs.” He might never walk again. For showing up. This is brutality. This is America.

Critically important point from Juliette. The only real justification for federalizing the nat guard over a governors objection is when the civil authorities are defying the law. This is attack on the sovereign right of the people of California to self government.

the bumbles always love the foxgloves so much

Goldman: Both of the issues Marjorie Taylor Greene raised—were widely publicized and thoroughly debated in committee and on the House floor. If you’re publicly admitting that you didn’t know what you were voting on and now regret it—you’re not competent or qualified to serve in Congress.

Ahem.

Your oath is to the Constitution. The President violates the Constitution. If he orders you to violate the Constitution… Your oath remains to the Constitution.

ICE arrested 36 Chinese & Taiwanese immigrants after raiding an LA nightclub. That's them, ziptied on the sidewalk. Yo Asians—if you weren't already outraged and mobilizing on behalf of others, guess what? That "First they came for the..." poem has gotten up to us. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Let’s look at the facts: DHS claimed there were “about 1,000 rioters,” but Reuters couldn’t independently verify that number. Meanwhile, flash-bangs used against peaceful protesters ignited one of the fires captured in widely shared photos.

All we want is healthcare.

This is no surprise, I've always believed the GOP was completely racist, and that their token type homage to black people was superficial just to brainwash the more conscientious among them.

I don’t think people should engage in violence and vandalism and I don’t think federal agents should provoke people to engage in violence and vandalism. Too many law enforcement officers sworn to protect and serve now look and act like they are in Fallujah.

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.

“The best hope of holding Mr. Trump accountable for his culture of corruption involves calling attention to it and making his allies pay a political price for enabling it.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/o...

Nothing de-escalates a tense crowd like 40 guys in camo pointing rifles at a vegan protester handing out granola.

Earlier this evening, the Univision crew grabbed their gear and started running when federal police began shooting pepper balls at us. @lataco.bsky.social

California representatives did a check in where migrants were being detained. They found no beds, no food and no water. Children were among the detained.

This parade will cost at least the equivalent of 180 years worth of an NIH biomedical research grant.

If Donald Trump and Elon Musk were both on fire and you only had one fire extinguisher, where would you hide it?

Undocumented immigrants pay almost $100 billion in taxes each year. The top 1% evade $163 billion in taxes each year. Stop pretending that immigrants are the ones taking advantage of taxpayers.

The American version of populism uses government to screw it’s supporters whenever there is a private dollar to be made

Yeah I guess LeBron putting up a 22.6 PER is pretty special, but it's not that impressive when you compare him to people rolling out of bed and firing off something like this at age 86.

Earlier today ICE agents hit someone with a car and tear gassed a neighborhood, sparking several fires and disrupting businesses. Immigrants, by contrast, did 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...

Strategy is clear. "Ratchet up raids on peaceful people . . Use protests against draconian raids to arrest Democratic leaders & invade a blue city. Point to chaos created by Miller’s draconian ICE raids to demand passage of Big Ugly bill . .Create chaos, & use it to codify authoritarian power."

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The most vital thing you can do right now is spread this message offline to normies. There is no "unrest", there's a protest. It has 400 people. LA does worse when the Lakers come in 3rd in a season.

Can you imagine the tea party reaction if Obama had federalized the Texas national guard for domestic law enforcement? Not one of those fucking cowards will speak out against this.

This is so true.

I was just wondering yesterday what happened to Garcia, I am so happy to hear that once again Trump is a liar

Sixty years ago today, Griswold v. Connecticut recognized a right to privacy and struck down a Connecticut law banning access to contraception.  Today, the rights to privacy and contraception are under attack. I’m cosponsoring the Right to Contraception Act to enshrine that right into federal law.