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No Kings Day: Stand Up Now Or Lose It All I’m protesting Saturday. Because this is it. The line. Not here. Not now. Not ever. Because silence = surrender. Because our kids are watching. So is the world. Because if we don’t show up, who will? See 👇👇👇 open.substack.com/pub/mitchthe...

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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves... If we become even slightly more violent, shortsighted, ignorant, and selfish than we are now, almost certainly we will have no future. - Carl Sagan

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If the United States saw what the United States is doing in the United States, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States.

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I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III. Sound familiar?

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Born in 1975, I represent the one generation of women who had rights. I’m fighting for my daughters and granddaughters. Fuck this shit.

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For those of you watching what is going down and say, "This is not America," please sit down, as I have some unsettling news for you.

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Posting this for absolutely no reason at all.

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We Ride At Dawn (actually 10:30am)! Line the #ColumbusPride route tomorrow with #NoKings signs! 🪧 #LetsGo

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Bob Costas nailed it. 🎯

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""It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy," said Simon..." www.wnep.com/article/news...

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We’ve uncovered fraud, waste, and abuse! ICE has now exceeded its congressionally approved budget. ICE is violating the Antideficiency Act by spending beyond Congressional authorization.

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The work to defend people and democracy has never been more important, because democracy has never been more under threat than it is right now — and today’s hearing proved it.

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Ah yes, nothing says “tough guy” like hiding your face behind a mask while bullying unarmed people. But this response gives me life…

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Every thinking person fears nuclear war, and every technological state plans for it. Everyone knows it is madness, and every nation has an excuse. - Carl Sagan, Cosmos

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Any member of the "media" in that room should have said, "THAT IS SENATOR PADILLA! WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?" And called her ass out right there. Until every last one of them had been thrown out. They did not...and that is one of our biggest problems.

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I have a crazy idea what if we abolish private property and wage labor so certain people can’t be vastly more more wealthy than other people through economic exploitation and then buy power with that money to influence politics and the media

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ICE in CA with Texas plates 🤔

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This is a lie. We all saw the video. The Senator clearly identified himself, and he did not "lunge" toward anyone. If these miserable propagandists will lie to you about roughing up a U.S. Senator in a room full of reporters, what won't they lie to you about?

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A Senator asking tough questions of the executive branch is doing his job. If that now gets you roughed up and handcuffed in the United States, it does not look much like the Republic I grew up in. Americans should be very concerned.

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Newsom: "This is what he does. He creates a problem and then he tries to be a hero in his own Marvel movie ... he initiated those raids. He significantly increased the scale and scope of those raids. That's why he wants the National Guard."

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The Supreme Court unanimously revived a lawsuit from a pair of Atlanta residents seeking to hold the federal government accountable after FBI agents mistakenly battered down their front door and held them at gunpoint during a predawn raid of the wrong house.

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6.12.25 The truth will come out

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These are the people that make America great 🇲🇽🇺🇸

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Clearly a new wave of Israeli attacks is underway. In Borujerd, Iran, a missile and equipment storage facility was attacked.

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IMPORTANT: Before the fascist attack on Senator Alex Padilla, Kristi Noem said that her gestapo in California were staying to "liberate the city socialist and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country." Don't let that slide by.

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Not Walmart taking a leadership role, this... definitely was not on my bingo card!!!

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He’s dying. She’s pregnant. His last wish is to fight cancer long enough to meet his baby. This story, part of our series on the rise of cancer in young people, broke me and is well worth your time wapo.st/4kAk7lp

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Please don't say they're a smaller nation and more homogeneous than we are. That's a capitalist red hearing. They have a culture that values health and personal freedom and knows the way to that is through strong, healthy communities where everyone contributes their fair share! Even the very rich!

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California national guard troops and marines deployed to LA to help restore order have told friends and family members they are deeply unhappy about the assignment and worry their only meaningful role will be as pawns in a political battle they don't want to join. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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We are in the middle of a different constitutional crisis than the one we all expected. More on that in my newsletter tomorrow. Subscribe now to receive it and to access all Democracy Docket premium content. newsletters.democracydocket.com/member-meblu...

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It’s not a game, dipshit.

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Me literally holding up my water glass and saying “SALUD!”. @carbajal.house.gov

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Newsom: "The notion that the US active duty Marines, these heroes, would be used to militarized the streets of an American city is an abomination. The Founding Fathers did not live and die to see that happen in this country for no reason whatsoever than vanity."

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A DHS spokesperson defended the detainment, accusing Sen. Padilla of failing to properly identify himself during Sec. Kristi Noem's press conference. But multiple videos show Padilla clearly identifying himself as a senator.

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Gov. Gavin Newsom’s press conference. A must watch 👇👇👇👇👇 www.youtube.com/live/5KemI6V...

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"They took her in a car, in essence kidnapping her ... I met another young woman whose husband has quite literally disappeared" -- Newsom shares harrowing details of specific cases of ICE terrorizing immigrants in California

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A federal judge granted California Governor Newsom's request for a temporary restraining order, returning National Guard authority to the governor. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Arresting someone for asking a question ain’t a display of strength. It’s a display of weakness.

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We deserve this, Lord

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Putting their bodies on the line is pretty much all Dems can do, given minorities in the Congress, but it's powerful insofar as they're seen as the legitimate representatives of the people. These are YOUR representatives they're grabbing & shoving! These are YOUR representatives they're silencing!

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The first U.S. bishop appointed by Pope Leo XIV—a refugee himself—is mobilizing priests to accompany migrants at immigration court on June 20. (Via Christopher Hale)

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Enten: How many people watched Gavin Newsom's speech on just YouTube alone? Over 3 million folks. Joe Rogan, his average podcast episode over the last month has averaged only 1.6 million YouTube views, so Newsom's speech.. very, very popular.

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Newsom: "Speaker Johnson -- his eloquence was elevated when he called to 'tar and feather' the governor of California. Very religious man. I guess that's the spirit. The word of the Lord."

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