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drweber.bsky.social
Former college professor; social scientist; dog lover; democracy believer; never trumper (or his cult)
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“A U.S. citizen!” And now he’s missing. Adrian Martinez tried to defend a man ICE was harassing. Video shows six agents swarming him. He struggles but doesn’t lay hands on them. They take him to the ground & shove him into a CBP vehicle. Abuse of power. Keep recording. Don’t stop. (1 of 2)

Hey there Scott Walker. I noticed you deleted this after learning that in fact the shooter was from the right. I don’t think it matters either way, violence is violence, so I’m waiting for you to tweet the same thing with corrected facts? Cuz you’re uh, to use your words, “being silent.”

LMAOOOO www.instagram.com/reel/DK2nMmJ...

Rain on his parade.

Please share this everywhere. This is shameful.

A 23 year old electrician from Brentwood speaks out out after a disturbing encounter with federal immigration agents handcuffed him, leaving him shaken, despite being a United States citizen. This is racial profiling , harassment, and it’s unacceptable!

@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social: “Republican senators should be very careful on this right now. If they do not come out and defend Senator Padilla’s right to ask questions of this administration of his colleagues, they are setting an extraordinarily dangerous precedent"

Kristi Noem thinks her lie about Sen. Padilla not identifying himself is a real own when, in fact, her supposed inability to recognize a US Senator--who is the chair of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship & Border Safety--makes her goons' thuggery even more disgraceful.

From a dear comrade who was kind enough to let me share their video. Veterans stage a sit-in on the US Capitol steps and say, “Military off our streets!” Hell yeah!

Fake emergencies to justify crackdowns-not very original

1/ If accurate, this is almost certainly a conflict with the Posse Comitatus Act, which prohibits the use of the military for domestic law enforcement, including the National Guard if they are federalized.

FACT: Trump has fired more veterans than any President in our country's history, so spending taxpayer money on a military parade in his honor is a complete disgrace. Tell Congress to stop Trump's wasteful and authoritarian military birthday parade here: bit.ly/3EQEN9l #ResistTrump

So, according to MAGA, setting a parked car on fire warrants the National Guard, but erecting a pop-up gallows with the VP’s name on it does not. Do I have that about right?

The federal government is taking over the California National Guard and deploying 2,000 soldiers in Los Angeles — not because there is a shortage of law enforcement, but because they want a spectacle. Don't give them one. Never use violence. Speak out peacefully.

Is this just kind of like repeat it until you believe it yourself? Your boss pardoned everyone who assaulted law enforcement on January 6th. Ass!!!

Trump and Musk are feuding. Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn't know what was in the bill she voted for. Joni Ernst is walking through cemeteries and saying we’re all going to die. Would be funny if they weren’t kicking 16 million Americans off their health care.

Stephen Miller is privately raging over deportation numbers he deems too low. So he's shifting huge amounts of law enforcement resources away from fighting serious crimes and into his immigration crackdown. If voters knew about this, they'd recoil. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/1961...

Dean: When did we have a trade surplus? Lutnick: About 100 years ago Dean: It was the Great Depression.

Those who do not learn from history…

We need more plumbers, do we? My friend’s dad was a plumber in NYC. Got a big contract to work on a Trump property, back when Trump’s dad was in charge. Never got paid, nearly lost his business. That’s what the Trump family really thinks of plumbers.

RFK Jr. is reportedly going to forbid government scientists from publishing in the world’s most respected medical journals — the Lancet, The New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, etc. It’s going to take decades to repair the damage done by this administration.

Start masking again if you've stopped! 😷🦠 #MASKUP! ~~~~~ A Beijing resident, infected for nearly 10 days, experienced fever, sore throat, blood-streaked phlegm, nosebleeds, and extreme fatigue, calling this wave “terrifying.” greekcitytimes.com/2025/05/24/c...

This is why you don’t capitulate: not only does it reveal you to be lily-livered, it also never works www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/07/n...

“Unleashing” has a really bad sound to it in this context; as in, unleashing from the Constitution. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

At some point, Pete Hegseth is going to lose his job. And when that occurs, Donald Trump should get absolutely no credit for it. He knew this would happen the moment he nominated Hegseth. Donald Trump owns every bit of this mess.

They had lawyers, trials, most were given pretrial release, allowed to testify in their own defense, got discovery, could call witnesses, could cross-examine witnesses, could present mitigation at sentencing, and had a right to appeal.

Frost: I'm one of many. I'm not the first member of congress here and I'm not going to be the last. This is not about Maxwell Frost. This is about preventing our country from losing what makes it exceptional.

I think @velshi.bsky.social has the smartest show on tv. Always timely, provocative, and compelling. Thanks, Ali!!!

Why did Trump just cave? Because when the US borrows money it does so by selling Treasury bonds. Mostly to China, Japan, Europe. Overnight there was a sudden spike in holders dumping their bonds. Trump picked a fight with our creditors, and our creditors just won.

As a criminal defense attorney, the vast majority of my cases were NOT immigrants. So let's stop pretending immigrants are the problem when there's a 34-count convicted felon sitting in the White House. The hypocrisy is outrageous.

I’d argue that issuing EOs to direct the DOJ to investigate political enemies is crossing the rubicon.

These guys are good guys And also the President SHOULDN’T BE DIRECTING INVESTIGATIONS INTO AMERICANS EITHER PRIVATELY OR IN E.O.S

I do so have a girlfriend. You wouldn’t know her. She may or may not live in Canada.

The tariff policy changes every ten minutes. What a joke. It’s nuclear grade incompetence that would be laughable except they’re ruining people’s lives for sport. Just shameful.

FBI Director Kash Patel has been quietly removed as the acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives after he stopped showing up to facilities there, according to a report. Patel, who remains in his FBI role, had not been “seen inside an ATF facility for weeks.”

The cowards at Paul Weiss own this most of all, but they are joined in disgrace by Milbank, Willkie Farr, and Skadden. Trump suggested there are other firms that have agreed to debase themselves, but did not reveal the names.

Mediaite spoke to several military veterans and spouses, each of whom expressed outrage that the commander in chief appears to have prioritized the promotion of a professional golf event by Saudi-backed LIV Golf over honoring soldiers killed in service in Lithuania. www.mediaite.com/trump/vets-a...

Trump and Elon Musk are closing clinics that treat survivors of sexual assault and have forced an 88% cut to maternal and child health programs. This is the USAID funding they’re slashing. It’s horrifying.

And while the bodies of U.S. servicepeople are coming home

NEW -- President Donald Trump skipped the return of four soldiers who died in a training exercise to Dover Air Force Base Friday and instead spent $4.2 million of taxpayer money to attend a dinner for one of his business interests and to play golf. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

This message just went out to Ukrainians who were told they had to immediately leave the US "in error"

The Social Security website is crashing multiple times a week. Elon Musk's henchmen think it's a perfect time to fire half the IT team.