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RFK promised during his confirmation hearing to keep this committee of experts intact. He is truly a liar and is going to cause untold death and misery. apnews.com/article/kenn...

Reminder: The pending tax and budget bill would *vastly* expand the enforcement and detention capacity of the federal government. What's happening sporadically in cities like Los Angeles would be carried out on an unprecedented scale.

So ABC’s official position is that Stephen Miller does not have hate in his heart?

A friend just asked me what I do to stay hopeful and I told him one of my favorite strategies…I stay hopeful by remembering that no one has any idea what the fuck is going to happen, so as long as we don’t know, we gotta do what we can.

As the US Army celebrates it 250th birthday, Trump is celebrating the enemy that tried to defeat it.

One more post before we get some rest. A news article about the rally today. Thank you to those who stood up & stepped out. It takes strength and courage to raise voices when fearful of retaliation. We saw you. We heard you. We will keep fighting for science and public health. #saveCDC @nbcnews.com

If only there were masses of national guardsmen already in the area with nothing good to do.

Faith leaders and a crowd are gathered at the Federal Building right now. Video taken by a 50501 organizer on the ground. @50501movement.bsky.social

The founding fathers did not live and die to see this moment. It’s time for all of us to stand up peacefully.

Newsom: This Saturday, he's ordering our American heroes, the United States military, and forcing them to put on a vulgar display to celebrate his birthday, just as other failed dictators have done in the past

Newsom: "Democracy is under assault before our eyes. This moment we have feared has arrived. He's taking a wrecking ball to our Founding Father's historic project."

“‘If a fire occurs in the cabin, if we land on water, don’t check on the immigrants. Just make sure that you and the guards and the people that work for the government get off," one flight attendant was told. “It was as if the detainees’ lives were worthless,” said another. (Published April 2025)

ICE is rounding up individuals off the street with no warrants, including children. He’s playing with peoples’ lives like they’re pawns in his political game. California will never ever bend to the will of a tyrant.

RFK Jr.’s got bad news for anyone who likes living.

They're already failing to repress the people in one city- why not add five more on top of it? Every time they do this, they stretch their already thin resources even thinner and infuriate people across the social strata- including judges- even more.

Thou Shalt Not Fire Reporters for Standing Against Fascism.

Hundreds of protesters demonstrated in Lower Manhattan on Tuesday evening against President Trump’s escalating immigration crackdown www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/u...

ABC News has cut ties with its senior national correspondent Terry Moran after he posted that Stephen Miller is a “world-class hater” who “eats his hate.” Kudos to Moran for having the courage to speak the truth — and screw ABC News for not standing behind him and backing his right to free speech.

This is actually perfect. The emptiness makes it look as ridiculous and wasteful as it is.

Well this is awkward

it really speaks to how trump does not see himself as a steward of the white house or the presidency but as its owner. he will do with it as he pleases.

By deploying Marines and the National Guard to Los Angeles, President Trump thinks he’s sending a message, Barbara Walter writes. But he “may end up proving the opposite of what he intended: that he’s afraid, that the protesters are disciplined and that the threat isn’t the people — it’s him.”

I’m heading home now bc I’m pretty dehydrated but those were easily the most supportive bystanders on the street I’ve ever marched by. People hate ICE and want an opposition to cheer for

If Trump pulled the Guard and Marines out of Los Angeles and told DHS and ICE to stop manhandling people with disproportionate force, protests would largely disappear. That's not what he wants. This, him pouring more gas on this. He wants a death, badly, so he can justify brutal, lethal force.

ABC News can’t fire California Gov. Gavin Newsom for telling the truth about Stephen Miller.

look who learned what 86 means

Gov. Gavin Newsom: "Congress is nowhere to be found." "Speaker Johnson has completely abdicated that responsibility. The rule of law has increasingly been given way to the rule of Don."

Breaking: Gov. Gavin Newsom condemns Trump's deployment of troops in a televised address: "This brazen abuse of power by a sitting president inflamed a combustible situation, putting our people, our officers and even our National Guard at risk."

We are not afraid of you, Donald Trump, because even with the greatest seat of power, you are a spectacularly small man. We are not afraid of you because you are not worthy of our fear, because that would mean respecting you, and we do not. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/we-the-peo...

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/u...

BREAKING: Tonight, California Gov. Newsom will be addressing California — and the nation — LIVE at around 6:30pm PT regarding Trump’s illegal militarization of LA and his broader assault on our democracy. Watch exclusively on the MeidasTouch channel.

Veteran reminds active duty Marines to uphold the standard and refuse any illegal order to harm US civilians. #NoKings

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ABC supports fascism.

LAPD radio chatter about "protesters arming themselves with shields" and I will point out "arming" only applies to weapons, not PPE

I’ve been reading about the rise of Nazism a lot and one thing that’s really clear is that Hitler at the very beginning was envisioning massive violence against Jews and others, and backfilled everything else to get there. That’s how fascism works. And it’s what MAGA is doing.

There are nightly rallies against ICE in NYC at 5 PM at Foley Square. Tonight’s was massive, several thousand, and we ended up marching through Tribeca, now in the Village, taking streets the whole way. Lots of support from delivery and taxi workers

Trump has to keep feeding MAGA's bottomless appetite for the spectacle of him inflicting misery and suffering on the people they've been commanded to hate. Nothing ever quite satisfies them.

If you have never stuck a needle in the back of an infant and watched pus drip out please don’t tell me I am overreacting to RFK Jr.’s latest assault on science.

Constitution? What Constitution? Tell me he is not already a dictator in his own mind...and, in an increasing number of ways, in practice.

"Mainstream media has a duty to inform its audience that Trump/Miller policies are in fact hateful. But it rarely does so. Moran is to be commended for speaking truth to power. Speaking truth to power is, after all, what journalists are supposed to do." — @nberlat.bsky.social

If we have lost the right to free speech when the president doesn't like what we say, and the right to peacefully assemble when the president doesn't like what we stand for, we have lost the right to free speech and the freedom to assemble, period. The test is happening now.

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