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cristabelle.bsky.social
Just a girl, living in a MAGA world. Trying to find reason, logic, civility, morals & reliance on the Constitution & Bill of Rights. Old school.
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There are so many things going on in the world now. How is POTUS addressing them? What about the economy, China, tariffs, food cost? Are we just lemmings? Can we multitask & live, yet stay aware? Do we follow each distraction! FOCUS on what matters to you. Democracy is my focus.

@radiofreetom.bsky.social I don't know if protests are effective or ineffective. Many want to express anger, rage & desire to force change. There have been many protest movements throughout history. It's a strange climate, that makes many uncomfortable. New reality for many.

this sort of gives the game away. the whole point of the LA deployment is relitigating the dispute (both political and cultural) that the right feels it lost in 2020

Everyone should look on the bright side: We have no idea if Trump will send Seal Team Six after Gov. Newsom. But at least we know that, if Trump did it, he’d be immune from criminal prosecution for doing it.

IMPORTANT: Stop calling the troops in LA National Guard Troops. They are not. When Trump activated them against the wishes of the Gov they became FEDERAL troops… like the 82nd airborne with no Law enforcement power! Don’t let them confuse you!

I lived in a purple pocket of a ruby red state. Most are ill/uneducated, unaware of politics, trying to get through daily life. They don't recognize or understand the stakes. Same as the election. We aren't a great people or nation until we rise for what is right.

Bob Costas Condemns Mainstream Press for Doing ‘MAGA Media’: ‘There Really Isn’t Two Sides’

“If you saw all this in any other country — soldiers sent to crush dissent, union leaders arrested, opposition politicians threatened — it would be clear that autocracy had arrived. The question, now, is whether Americans who hate tyranny can be roused to respond.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/o...

It took protesters to whoop Trump’s ass the last time he was in office, and it looks like protesters are the only ones up to the task this time too.

Billionaire Walmart Heiress Promotes Nationwide Anti-Trump Protests The 76-year-old Christy Walton has aligned herself with “No Kings,” an organization planning mass protests across the country this Saturday.

It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence. They are in charge.

Every danger that mental healthcare professionals and experts on authoritarianism predicted and warned about is coming to fruition because we were right about Trump’s malignant narcissism, including the cabal of same spectrum enablers who are helping him obtain power and control.

@radiofreetom.bsky.social resisters

A great idea, and better than kids in balaclavas cosplaying as resistance heroes

@radiofreetom.bsky.social I know how much you dislike Led Zeppelin, but maybe you'd find "The Making of Led Zeppelin" interesting. I'm bypassing the gross overreach of federal power for an innocuous cultural reference. Not a fan of Zeppelin, but they were formative in my music ed.

Attend a #NoKings protest this Saturday to take a stand against fascism and wake up the mainstream media. My latest Stop the Presses newsletter. Spread the word.

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

The only emergency is the one Trump is causing.

Escalating to escalate. "Roughly 500 Marines based out of the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in California have been mobilized ... and will join the National Guard troops that were activated ... over the weekend without the consent of California’s governor or the city’s mayor."

There are many evergreen social media posts of the Trump II era, but my personal nomination is this from @brendannyhan.bsky.social captures the multidimensional degeneracy of our times:

"Mass deportation" is the excuse and trigger for authoritarianism. As it was always intended to be.

As you see Trump defending his decision to deploy the National Guard into LA and potentially elsewhere, just remember that he did *not* order the DC Nat Guard to protect the Capitol on Jan. 6. I debunked that lie, told by some of his prominent surrogates, here: www.justsecurity.org/93316/anatom...

WSJ Edit Page tonight: “It’s fanciful to think that raiding restaurants to snatch busboys, or Home Depot to grab stock clerks, won’t inspire a backlash. All the more so when ICE acts in heavy-handed fashion” www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...

Reporter: There’s a pretty good chance Trump might be watching Newsom: I hope so, he might learn something— rescind this order— it’s illegal. You’re creating the conditions you claim you’re solving and you’re not

President Trump, who is itching for things to escalate, keeps posting incendiary messages.

EXCLUSIVE: California Gov. Gavin Newsom addresses immigration protests in Los Angeles. "Donald Trump has created the conditions you see on your TV tonight ... His mess — we're trying to clean it up," Newsom said.

Major General Randy E. Manner, former Acting Vice Chief, National Guard Bureau statement to Fox News: "This is an inappropriate use of the National Guard and is not warranted.”

The fact that folks like this think they had to be "courted" to stop Trump is why Trump wasn't stopped. Can't be part of a coalition if you're holding your breath and demanding that pony.

Combine Trump's love of the exercise of authoritarian power with Stephen Miller's hatred to non-white immigrants, and you get the terrible sight of of U.S. troops deployed here at home in the service of mass deportation. @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social and I discuss www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLd7...

Everyone should say it: The thing about Stephen Miller is not that he is the brains behind Trumpism. Yes, he is one of the people who conceptualizes the impulses of the Trumpist movement and translates them into policy. But that's not what's interesting about Miller. It's not brains. It's bile.

They could never abide peace; they can only abide their own rages and capricious whims.

AYFKM

BTW, we went there in 2015. The ultimate result of choosing entertainment over thoughtful, considered, meaningful governance.

I love the "Hunger Games" shift the GOP is taking. Very entertaining & distracting from the car wreck of DNC.🍿 Performative politics elevates unserious people in vital positions. WE ARE WHO WE VOTE FOR. We have a new genre; "Reality Politics". Not real, just entertainment.🤦🤷

Elon threatening to just leave people on the ISS is making a pretty good case for why you nationalize your space program!

This is precisely why we need to SUPPORT BOTH SIDES

Republican Senators checking out X today.