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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."

Every major Dem politician needs to realize that, in this environment, they can schedule a "speech to the nation," like Newsom did, and get tons of media coverage. Just do it.

Met an active duty member of the military yesterday who filed conscientious objector paperwork in response to deployment of military on U.S. soil. Was told multiple Army have filed, unknown quantities in other branches.

Being able to ignore uncomfortable issues is a privilege.

WATCH: “Holy f*ck — They literally just shot her point blank… I live here…” @lapdhq shoot a woman trying to get to her apartment at point blank range with a rubber bullet. Alexandria’s page (the woman who helps her): www.tiktok.com/@labyrinthlo...

Gee I wonder why people are angry www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/...

Durbin- You cut $18 billion in research. Instead of answering where that money went, Jay deflects and will not answer why universities haven't received their grant money Durbin -THE BUCK STOPS WITH YOU Jay-wants to have universities come to terms with cuts😡 #JayLies #TruthMatters #DefendResearch

I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving. There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later. They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.

RFK Jr.’s dangerous decision to fire all members of ACIP enables him to fill the committee with conspiracy theorists and endanger our public health.

By request from University of Michigan: Here's our bakery-fresh interactive map of sustainable transportation hotspots in downtown Chicago. Thanks to all the Streetsblog readers who helped out with this! @cylindricalsea.bsky.social @chicagocta.bsky.social @atalliance.bsky.social @bikegridnow.org

The brother of the attorney general reached for the cream cheese defense, claiming people spread awful things about him and his loved ones. Diane A. Seltzer crushed Brad Bondi, 34,982 votes to 3,490. The dude went from punching bag to punchline, bar none. www.huffpost.com/entry/pam-bo...

Make it so, VOTE!

Texans are protesting peacefully, and Greg Abbott has the National Guard on standby. 
Because nothing scares him more than the people standing up and speaking out. Let me remind y’all: the right to peaceful protest is in the Constitution.

I'm looking forward to having a conversation with @hcrichardson.bsky.social over on Substack later today. Tune in live at 2pm ET.

WATCH: Hegseth refuses to tell the senate how much the $400 MILLION plane Trump is getting from Qatar will cost taxpayers H/T @acyn.bsky.social

NIH staff and biomedical community sound alarm about agency politicization, funding slowdown | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

I waitress while I run for Congress. I know what it’s like to stretch a paycheck, juggle bills, and still show up for your community. Washington needs more people who live like us — not just talk about us. Derrick Van Orden talks the talk. I'll walk the walk.

Rep. McIver was conducting oversight. That’s her duty as a Member of Congress. This isn’t justice—it’s retaliation. A political stunt meant to silence anyone who dares to hold power accountable. They may think they can scare us into silence. They’re dead wrong.

I love this so much! Austin, Texas in solidarity with LA. 🙏🏽❤️

An LAPD helicopter claimed to have ID'ed protesters from above and threatened to "come to your house." The threat was greeted with extreme concern by civil liberties and digital privacy groups. It suggests the LAPD could be using facial recognition to identify and retaliate against protesters.

Avoid the USA Arresting the press. vm.tiktok.com/ZMSDqmFKD/

Americans know scapegoating when we see it. Authoritarians target, vilify and demonize small minority groups to whip up negative emotions and mask their own programs. It's up to the people to reject sinister efforts to dehumanize and stigmatize transgender Americans.

This ⬇️ is good news for democracy.

This is so much funnier when you realize that the city he's talking about becoming a "failed third world nation" here is *Santa Monica*

BREAKING: We're asking a court to stop the Trump administration's fast-track deportation policy. ICE should not be able to arrest people at their immigration appointments and deport them without any due process.

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

No, RFK Jr., sacking the best public health experts in America won’t ensure “the safest possible vaccines.” It will only make America sicker.

Well this is awkward

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem called Los Angeles a “city of criminals” and not a city of immigrants. But like its name, Los Angeles is a city of angels. We protect and look out for one another, especially the most vulnerable.

RFK Jr., who's supposed to be all about "facts and logic," is out here removing members of the CDC’s vaccine advisory committee?!? Y’all, these aren’t political appointees. These are public health experts—people who’ve spent their careers working to keep Americans safe from disease.

Simone Biles is a champion athlete in the vein of Muhammad Ali, Colin Kaepernick, Jesse Owens, and Billy Jean King. She’s bigger than gymnastics. She’s a people’s champion. Thanks for standing up for ALL athletes. @simonebiles.bsky.social

My thoughts on what’s going on in Los Angeles:

Hypocrisy. Leave it to Leavitt.

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

21 Year Marine Corps Infantry Combat Veteran.

What’s happening in LA is because of Donald Trump He said he’d go after murderers In reality, he’s going after clerks and servers-falsely claiming they’re murderers But Americans know the truth-that’s why they’re trying to stop him In response he calls them criminals So he can arrest them, too

Kherson once a proud port city near the Black Sea in south-west Ukraine is pummelled constantly by Russian forces and yet a spirit of defiance remains | Caolan Robertson #WarInUkraine #Ukraine

I love this idea from another post. What do you think? Protestors should dress in patriotic colors and themes, so that if they do attack us, it's clear WHO they're attacking —Not enemies of the state but Americans who believe in the constitution.