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Here for sharing of information after fleeing the other place. Very selective about who follows me. Dear USA.. we’re living through a real life spy novel, y’all!
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honestly does seem like the basic dynamic in american politics right now is that a critical number of voters treat Democrats like their (nagging) mom or their (bitch) wife and treat Republicans like the “cool” dad or husband who is at best a deadbeat

A Dem lawmaker and her husband were killed by a guy for their political views and it’s already out of the news.

Just a heads up: if we are in fact at war, the authorities Trump has been using — many/most of which are delegated wartime authorities — will only expand and be given more deference by the courts. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

This aged poorly

Disagree. It’s THEIR JOB to do something and to know what to do. The handwringing by non-R members is fecklessness in motion.

World War 3 kinda sucks, but you know, it was either this or pronouns

This weird shit about ICE guys really being Proud Boys or whatever bypasses the Occam’s razor explanation which is that a bunch of people doing something unpopular and maybe illegal in full public view have been given permission to conceal their identity

Awwh po babies. Make them face more “criticism.” Revolt against practices that put corporations first, and humans last. The time is now.

BREAKING: In a unanimous decision, a federal court of appeals has ruled that Louisiana's law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in all public school classrooms is unconstitutional. We’ll keep saying it: Public schools are not Sunday schools.

Here's a link to the ruling for those asking:

If you think it can’t happen here, remember that it already did. In 1942 soldiers came with rifles to our home and ordered us out. They put us in internment camps. Most of us were citizens.

“ICE in just a few weeks has transformed itself into the closest thing that the US has ever had to a ‘secret police,’ with more seemingly culturally in common with the Klan nightriders of Reconstruction than their federal agency brethren like the FBI or ATF.” @garrettgraff.bsky.social

Reuters: US JUDGE BLOCKS TRUMP ADMINISTRATION FROM REQUIRING 20 DEMOCRATIC-LED STATES TO COOPERATE WITH IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT TO OBTAIN TRANSPORTATION GRANT FUNDING

Maintaining a dead woman's body for 5 months then delivering a one pound highly premature baby from her corpse is a cruel medical experiment. If ever you wonder why there are high levels of medical mistrust in the Black community, remember this story. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

He’s lying. He knows he’s lying. And he’s lying to force us into a needless war. This is exactly what you impeach a president for.

The Tucker Carlson / Ted Cruz video really illustrates how Tucker has known all along that he and everyone around him have always been full of shit

This framing exists because the decision is instantly obvious as one of the legal atrocities of US history, like Dred Scot, the 1870s Civil Rights Cases, Korematsu. The Times doesn’t want to say “The Supreme Court stripped rights out of law” so instead it says “Here’s why they did it to themselves”

I feel this to my core

This is not normal. A sitting president refusing to call the governor of a state after two elected officials were shot, one fatally, is beyond words. A typical president, regardless of politics, would pick up the phone. Offer condolences.

Fetterman sounds like a guy who doesn’t want to be reelected, and if he does, he’ll flip to Republican

We kept being told that journalism was a bulwark against fascism, a "fourth estate". This is the liberal frame for perceiving the industry's worth. But the reality is the polar opposite: fascism has been allowed to thrive, and could not have done so, without journalism.

His wife, Erin Hawley, is an attorney for the ADF, which is trying to ban abortion. His only reason for getting behind raising the min wage now, instead of when it was on the table before, is because he’s a political climber. Do not let Josh Hawley ascend, cast him out!!

This is so messed up. Completely unnecessary tragedy

Sounds like some fireworks here today. Plaintiffs' brief: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... DOJ response: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

BREAKING: A federal judge in Massachusetts (the Reagan-appointed William Young) has declared the Trump administration's cuts to NIH grants — ostensibly over Trump's EOs on gender ideology and DEI — are "illegal" and "void." He's ordering many grants restored.

I don’t like the way this could g ADF is trying to get abortion completely banned in the US by chipping away at protections little by little, or a lot by a lot if they can get away with it. It’s time for some crushing legal action against ADF and its members as a whole.

assassinations, handcuffing a senator at press conference, marines detaining a civilian, and a military parade for the president’s birthday. rough week for democracy.

How are they allowed to manhandle Senators without any push back? That’s insane to me

Chair of history department at U.S. Naval Academy resigns after order to remove paper from symposium “for reasons having nothing to do with scholarship.” [James Matheson, Baltimore Sun]

💥 BREAKING: American Airlines shareholders voted today to reject an anti-DEI proposal at its annual meeting, tally TBA. Proposal requested AAL end its relationship with the Human Rights Campaign's Corporate Equality Index, benchmarking LGBTQ+ practices. AAL has had a perfect score for 20 years.

On roads: Sam Graves has been my Congressman for over 22 years. Sam is also one of Chairs the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee -- he voted against the 2021 Infrastructure Act. Missouri has some of the worst roads in the country, especially where I live, in his district.

Far from the first one to say this. But agrobusiness regions, even in blue states, are generally in red areas. They're heavily dependent on undoc'd labor. Take the dairy industry in Kristi Noem's home state or in CA. we're not seeing any of these raids there. not zero. but they're getting a pass.

The thing that fascists want is to commit violence. A lot of people have noted that the “ideology” of fascism is incoherent, and it is, because it’s really just an ever-evolving series of pretexts to engage in and celebrate violence. And right now that’s what Trump wants.

All I have to say about this is it’s cover for Signalgate, the Epstein files connection, the potential election manipulation by Elon, and the budget cuts for billionaires that will definitely increase the budget deficit

The National Guard arrived in LA. NOTE: If Trump can override California’s governor, he can override yours too. This is a trial run…

I love this one lol

ATTN: If you’re a member of the National Guard or you work for ICE and you’re asked to violate the law or your oath, contact Whistleblower Aid to safely, securely, and legally blow the whistle. You can support Whistleblower Aid HERE: whistlebloweraid.org/beans

The really important thing in ABC News' report is that the US attorney handling the matter submitted his resignation as the indictment of Abrego Garcia went forward, indicating that something seriously unethical has occurred... again. abcnews.go.com/US/mistakenl...

I disagree that we owe Elon anything at all, but the rest of the tweet, I do agree with