Profile avatar
ldmichaelis.bsky.social
Master procrastinator, PDX resident, smarter than MAGA, liberal boomer, film fan,Team Blue 💙. No DMs
227 posts 2,073 followers 2,338 following
Prolific Poster
Conversation Starter

The folks hollering about “family values” are out here tearing families apart with unlawful ICE raids, militarized police, & the weaponization of government. All while ripping away food & healthcare from working-class families. Are the family values in the room with us?

South Korea took on their lawless “President,” so should we

The federal government is taking over the California National Guard and deploying 2,000 soldiers in Los Angeles — not because there is a shortage of law enforcement, but because they want a spectacle. Don't give them one. Never use violence. Speak out peacefully.

I don't care if these monstrous ICE raids are a "federal operation". This is authoritarian violence, plain and simple. Just because Stephen Miller has kidnapping quotas for brown people he doesn't want to see on the street doesn't mean we have to think it's okay.

People in ICE detention are being denied health care and adequate nutrition, often given spoiled food or nothing at all. Our government’s cruelty to immigrants is a moral failing — not a policy solution.

What the fuck is the point of paying money to a police department if they won’t protect people from hostile masked kidnappers?

24 hours ago, a member of Trump's inner circle confirmed Trump is both a pedophile and stole the 2024 election. By Monday, it will be completely memory holed because our media is complicit in the coup.

Giving pennies to a problem they created, yeah fuck you. You're not a good human.

Could all of this drama be choreographed? Are they trying to distract us from something?

I think Trump will fold first. Because he always does. TACO.

A worker making $50,000 a year contributes to Social Security with 100% of their income. A CEO making $20 million a year contributes to Social Security with less than 1% of their income. Does that sound fair to you?

Not just me, right?

Emil Bove is the reincarnation of Leopold the Hogmouth.

Here’s the thing, if they are picking up folks working in the country illegally, I’m going to need to see some white guys also being arrested for employing people working illegally in the country. Otherwise, it’s just racism.

Who will tell the president what the Constitution requires? Certainly not Attorney General Bondi. And certainly not this nominee for the Office of Legal Counsel.

Guys, it's the oligarchs. If you want to blame someone for 2024, blame the oligarchs. Anyone telling you to blame someone else is part of the oligarchy. Dark money has been to blame since citizens united.

📌The Cabinet of the United States of America is a collection of the worst, most incompetent morons in history, and we are supposed to just suffer through it as if it was just another cloudy day.

Oregon is working on universal healthcare.

Billionaire tax cuts are a policy choice. Cutting healthcare for millions is a policy choice. Cutting food assistance for children is a policy choice. Taking from the poor and giving to the rich is a policy choice. Make no mistake: Trump and the GOP are choosing to do this.

first they came for the white South Africans, and I didn't speak out— because no one is coming for the white South Africans, you deranged paranoid lunatics. what the fuck is wrong with you

Donald Trump wants a massive military parade for his birthday—tanks, jets, 6,600 troops—all on YOUR dime. It’s grotesque. A wannabe king playing dress-up with taxpayer dollars. I introduced the HAPPY BIRTHDAY Budget Act to block this nonsense. If he wants a party, he can pay for it himself.

This is extraordinary. The Secretary of Homeland Security doesn’t know what the right of habeas corpus is (the ancient right to go to court to challenge government detention) and offers an incoherent definition which suggests she thinks it’s a presidential power to deport people?

It feels like an uphill battle.

What a liar!

share the money pigeon for 10,000 years good luck 💸🍀🤞

He’s got private golf resorts, personal jets, and towers with his name on them and yet he’s still begging oil despots for a luxury plane instead of helping people working two jobs who can’t make rent.

TRUMP ADMINISTRATION: “Whites only” immigration.

Blessed be thy fruit 😡 #AdrianaSmith

🤷🏼‍♂️

Tonight’s viewing. Bette Davis is deliciously vile. #movies

Not that this needs to be said, but bribery out in the open is still bribery.

High tea with my daughter today #MothersDay

Rümeysa Öztürk is home in Massachusetts! She can now return to her studies and community in Somerville while her case proceeds. This is cause for celebration, but our fight for Rümeysa is not over. The First Amendment is for everyone – we will not back down.