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Former lawyer/librarian, true Blue 💙. Don’t consider myself old, just more susceptible to things that might kill me. 🌈
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"On June 14, Trump wants tanks in the street and a made-for-TV display of dominance for his birthday. A spectacle meant to look like strength. But real power isn’t staged in Washington. It rises up everywhere else..." www.nokings.org

Susan Collins Concern Level: 3

Hear me out. Our protests could be sit-ins in the street. Silent. Signs & placards. Quiet. Immovable. There is power in silence. Remove the emotion from it. I think quietude in contrast to armed thuggish behavior by "authorities" would be a powerful message. And they'd have no excuse for violence.

Trump said he would deport 11 million people and I guess his voters couldn’t visualize what that would look like? That’s the same amount of people who live in Iowa and Nebraska and Kansas and Arkansas combined…

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Right now, Dems are hiding in their offices, scrolling their phones fearfully, wondering "how are voters going to feel about the National Guard being deployed?" The right, meanwhile, is vigorously *attempting to shape* how voters feel about it, filling every medium with coordinated propaganda.

Gavin Newsom is responding to red state critics who represent states with higher murder rates than California, including Mike Johnson (Louisiana) and Tommy Tuberville (Alabama).

My prediction: There's no logistics for all these forces, the DoD shows the WH the bill and they shit, Bannon goes on TV to argue there's a way to quarter them in people's homes despite the Third Amendment, then Trump learns the Guard is full of the relatives of the people he's trying to abuse.

What a disgusting thing for a public servant to say about any city

In March, VA officials across the US warned that their cancer-tracking databases were no longer being updated. Officials in the Pacific Northwest noted DOGE had marked its contract to maintain a cancer registry for “immediate termination.” By @ericumansky.bsky.social‬ @vernalcoleman.bsky.social‬

Little Rock, Arkansas

“The issue here goes beyond Los Angeles or California: If the president of the United States can, without notice to the governor and without the constitutionally required request of the governor, send the military into our city, he can do so in any city in America at any time and for any reason”

Cuomo’s earlier lead was primarily based on name ID. Now that both he and Mamdani are well known by the electorate…you have this:

They should’ve figured this out well before they deployed the marines to Los Angeles. The latest from the Trump regime’s shoot, ready, aim playbook: 📌 The Pentagon was scrambling to establish rules to guide U.S. Marines who could be faced with using force against citizens on American soil.

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Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho didn't hold back when expressing his anger and "contempt" after agents with Homeland Security attempted to gain access to two elementary schools earlier this week.

Never stop saying this.

something that started with signalgate and continues here is that trump clearly does not understand (can't/won't is a different q) that he is actually in charge. like, "tom" (homan) does not get to make that decision, you do, you're the president

BarragĂĄn: "This is not an effort to really get criminals. It's an effort to see 'let's see who we can sweep up along the way.' Why are they doing this? Bc this president said he was going to deport millions & the numbers have not been adding up. There aren't that many serious criminal offenders."

To better prepare for this violent insurrection, Marines and the National Guard are being taught how to line dance.

Today RFK Jr. fired every member of ACIP, the CDC committee that makes vaccine recommendations. Children will die. This is not ok. Lindsey Graham enabled this.

🚨 Department of Defense says that it took command of 2,000 additional California National Guard troops (bringing to total to 4,000) “to support ICE,” raising serious Posse Comitatus Act questions. Does this mean the National Guard will be will deployed to back up ICE worksite raids? No answers yet.

ACIP Membership page is gone! Are you still not calling for RFK Jr to be removed from the office as a public health threat? www.cdc.gov/acip/members...

BREAKING: LA solidarity protesters in Austin are occupying JJ Pickle Federal Building, which houses local ICE processing center

The NIH has, for now, walked back a policy requiring universities and other research institutes to certify that they do not have unlawful diversity, equity, and inclusion programs or boycotts of Israel in order to receive research dollars. www.statnews.com/2025/06/09/n...

Mikie Sherrill: To have someone like Hegseth say that he’s going to put the Marines on the streets of America, that’s really dangerous, it’s dangerous for our civilization population, it’s not good for the Marines

BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schools—told staff they had “parental consent.” They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.

The thing is there is no funding for this. That's why the Guard soldiers are sleeping on the floor and there are no toilets. The unit hasn't gotten funds to book port-a-johns. And once these units hit 30 days activated, every soldier is owed a ton more money because BAH benefits kick in.

"I voted for lawless, anonymous, masked, and unchecked police" is one hell of a jump from "eggs cost too much."

Gov. Newsom is inarguably cooking on the socials

This is on all the Senators who turned a blind eye and voted to confirm. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...

She was right.

This is the kind of thing that is going to happen constantly now that we have an unaccountable masked gang with complete impunity: Random scammers, stalkers and criminals are just going to pretend to be ICE, because why not?

UPDATE: David Huerta was just released from custody!