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Central Cali coast Dane mama, writer, attorney, retired firefighter
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I'm writing a retirement message for a mentor and remembered this wonderful quote from an article by Dr Suzanne Koven: "a true mentor is someone who has more imagination about you than you have about yourself"

What you're seeing are wet microbursts—intense downdrafts from thunderstorms that slam rain into the ground, creating those stunning lobes. Like a reverse explosion from the sky. Captured in Perth, #Australia

He’s Raffi youtu.be/n7-RetY7fGo?...

Abrego Garcia wasn’t deported. He was kidnapped. He’s not in a prison. He’s in a 💀 camp. He was denied his right to due process and everyone in the U.S., including those without legal status, have constitutional rights to due process under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments. 1/

Can’t believe I blagged an exclusive interview with Katy Perry!

Or this actual practice from Argetina's Dirty War (if it were done over international waters): www.cbsnews.com/news/finding...

Get yourself a senator willing to rescue you in a foreign country after your messy president wrongfully deports you… …seems like a sentence I shouldn’t have to write in 2025 but here we are. Senator Chris Van Hollen leaves for El Salvador tomorrow to initiate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

Let’s be perfectly clear… When the President defies the Supreme Court, it is ‘the role of Congress’ to remove him from office… Full stop. Any Questions?!

If Jeff Bezos was actually a feminist instead of letting Katy Perry buy a ticket to space he'd use his vast financial resources to oppose the president who is stripping abortion rights and bodily autonomy from women across the country

I’M GOING TO KEEP POSTING THIS STORY UNTIL ANDRY IS FREED: Gay Venezuelan makeup artist sent to Salvadoran prison after a disgraced cop's report Andry Hernandez Romero sought shelter in the U.S. because he was persecuted as a gay man, one of the "particular social groups" allowed to claim asylum.

Calling my New Jersey friends to pass this QR code around! Primary Day is right around the corner 🗳️🗳️🗳️🗳️🗳️

There’s just so much shady shit in this story, but this really sticks out. Folks in NLRB’s IT unit were so freaked out by what they saw DOGE doing that they wanted to notify the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Then this happened:

🚨 Democracy isn’t a spectator sport. This Saturday, 50501 Movement—50 protests, 50 states, one voice—against the Trump administration. It’s time to show that the ‘Hands Off Mass Mobilization’ was only the beginning! 🔥 Will you be there? Learn more: www.axios.com/2025/04/15/5...

NPR & PBS are now on the chopping block. Trump is silencing Democracy.

When you hear two opposing understandings of the same SCOTUS opinion the only option is to read the damned thing. Fortunately it's fewer than four pages long. Linking and summarizing in direct quotes here, because it is essential to understand what is happening. t.co/5ZodLDtnqt

A whistleblower says Elon Musk’s DOGE minions may have looted data at the National Labor Relations Board. Right after DOGE gained access to the NLRB, a Russia-based I.P. address tried to log in. trib.al/cb1WC4q? Watch Rachel!

Wow! HHS is hitting new levels of recklessness and incompetence… U.S. citizens are being threatened with deportation by Homeland Security. Nicole Micheroni isn’t just a citizen—she’s an immigration attorney. And she got a notice to leave the country within 7 days.

A town hall for Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia on Tuesday quickly deteriorated into chaos, as police officers forcibly removed several protesters and subdued two of them with stun guns. Read more: nyti.ms/42MLMZV

When American citizens have to worry about returning to their own country from travel abroad, you ain’t living in a free republic.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia lived in Maryland with his wife and their three children, and has never been charged with any crime. The Department of Homeland Security issued him a work permit, and he joined a union, working full time as a sheet metal apprentice.

4Chan was hacked, its source code was leaked, admin emails were leaked, AND a lot of registered users used their real names and .edu email addresses. Lotta CHUDs getting exposed to sunlight today.

I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article

Cohen: Take MeidasTouch Network. They’re beating Joe Rogan, they’re beating Fox, they’re beating the lame stream news. So when there’s a march, all you have to do is contact the Meiselas brothers — next thing you know, you’ve got ten million people showing up. That’s an army.

Your underwear is made in El Salvador.

I thought this "dictator for a day" bullshit was only supposed to last a day...?

Our foreign consulates play a vital role in supporting small businesses and U.S. agriculture by fostering connections between American entrepreneurs, farmers, and international buyers. My family has exported alfalfa to Japan, S. Korea and the UAE to buyers through connections made by US Consulates.

I did my masters in Canada. My spouse is a Canadian MD (now in US). You won't sorry! But, learning hockey is a prerequisite!!

I was just about to make this same comparison.

This should be stapled to every utility pole in Miami.

🧵: If you're wondering just how intrusive the Trump admin's demands of Harvard were, consider this one: "Every department or field found to lack viewpoint diversity must be reformed by hiring a critical mass of new faculty within that department or field who will provide viewpoint diversity."

Hanes. Fruit of the Loom. Gildan. All made in #ElSalvador. All possibly made by slave labor illegally removed from the US. I've seen multiple folks calling for a #boycott of everything made there. There are a lot of boycott lists going around these days but this one seems important.

Trump ends promising cancer research. USA! USA! “Two patients’ treatments using the experimental therapy had to be delayed because NIH’s capacity to make personalized cell therapies has been slowed by the firing of highly skilled staff..." www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

Judge Xinis in Tuesday eve order homes in on key issue: "Abrego Garcia appears to remain inexplicably detained in CECOT." She cites text in written agreement with El Salvador showing US control: That detainees are kept in CECOT “pending the United States’ decision on their long-term disposition.”

Reportedly, it is happening: people impersonating ICE agents, emboldened by their anonymity and lack of documentation for the powers they are exercising.