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Son of a proud Marine. Who survived Iwo Jima. 🇺🇸 I’ve seen the damage war can do, up close and personal. Spent 24 years around politics. Local & National. No messages
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Governor Newsom: "I have formally requested the Trump Administration rescind their unlawful deployment of troops ... and return them to my command. ... This is a serious breach of state sovereignty — inflaming tensions while pulling resources from where they’re actually needed." The letter:

We’re in the find out part of democracy now

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looks like an objective assessment to me

NEW: I analyzed nearly 300 federal cases involving the Trump administration. Federal judges—across the political spectrum—are using language I’ve never seen before. One called government actions “unconscionable.” Another quoted Kafka. They’re begging us to pay attention.

Judge in the lower federal courts are trying to play a role that are not used to, trying to wake up the public to what's going on, while remaining true to their constitutional role.

“Violent protest plays into the Trump regime’s hands; this time calls for nonviolent civil disobedience against a hostile government bent on implementing a police state with the use of our military…This act of defiance could not be more democratic & American.” www.americaamerica.news/p/trump-want...

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Adam Neumann's WeWork crashed from a $47 billion valuation to a spectacular flop, he walked away with a $1.7 billion golden parachute. The 1% fail upward workers drown in the wreckage of broken dreams, sinking deeper than the Titanic. #3E

MIKE JOHNSON: What's important about President Trump is he has no intention of spending higher levels of money. In fact, we're in the process of cutting KARL: Well, this is adding a lot to the debt JOHNSON: No it's not KARL: It is

Asked about Trump activating the National Guard in California, Klobuchar quickly pivots to talking about the economy and healthcare

Musk’s wealth — once a GOP testimonial to his brilliance — is now a GOP target zone. 🤡

Amazing

It was great to join @dahlialithwick.bsky.social on Amicus again to connect the oligarchic capture of SCOTUS (the Roberts Court) to the mess we’re in today. Without it, there’s no Trump-Musk feud, no second Trump term, and much more. 🧵 slate.com/podcasts/ami...

Protest. Protest your heart out. Protest against what Trump has unleashed as loudly & proudly as you can. But PEACEFULLY. Always peacefully. If you riot, if you engage in violence, you destroy your message, the American people will turn against you, and you will only help Trump.

BRENNAN: Deals is about negotiating down the tariffs. So that's a diminishing source of revenue over time. But are you saying that there will be blanket tariffs? HASSETT: Tariff revenue is not going away, that's what I'm saying

This is really bad www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

okay fine i'll do it

KARL: There's a provision that eliminates a tax on gun silencers. It's been on the books for about 100 years. Why? MIKE JOHNSON: The 2nd Amendment is a critical freedom in the Constitution, and there's no real rationale for adding taxes on these pieces of equipment.

Terry Moran told the truth.

Good Lord, we are in a battle for the soul and the survival of the Republic and this is the DNC Chair right now. WTH. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

Most Americans support Trump's deportation program but not his trade war, per new @cbsnews.com @yougov poll. Overall his approval rating remains at 45%. www.cbsnews.com/news/deporta...

Always remember this: Trump’s wet dream is to put the U.S. military on our streets to quash American citizens protesting. He’s just dying to do it. Well fuck him. We have a constitutional right to protest. Riot? No. Protest? Yes.

Kristi Noem on CBS: "He makes the decisions. He is the president that sits in that seat. And we are all very proud to work for him ... we're grateful to have the partnership and the leadership of President Trump."

President Trump has ordered 2,000 members of the California National Guard to be deployed to Los Angeles after protests erupted over ICE raids.

Former President Joe Biden is pushing back hard, after Trump ordered a baseless investigation into his cognitive abilities while in office. Biden stated, “Let me be clear: I made the decisions during my presidency ... Any suggestion that I didn't is ridiculous and false.” More here:

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He shouldn’t have taken the post down. He’s a reporter. And he was reporting facts.

Leavitt: "ABC is gonna have to answer for what their so-called journalist put out on twitter ... we have reached out to ABC. They have said they will be taking action, so we will see what they do ... hopefully this journalist will either be suspended or terminated."

Lankford: "This is an American city, and to be able to have an American city where we have people literally flying Mexican flags and saying 'you cannot arrest us' cannot be allowed."

We always knew where this was going

MARKWAYNE MULLIN: They were literally out there protesting, carrying a foreign flag. That's absolutely insane. They are not just peaceful protesters. These are illegals. BASH: Carrying a flag is not illegal M: A foreign fag -- a foreign flag while you're attacking law enforcement, it's pretty bad

The most concerning thing right now about these LA protests is that we don't have a definitive MSM source that we can count on to accurately report what is actually happening on the ground. The Trump team is desperate to spin this as insurrection and MSM is only helping him.

MARKWAYNE MULLIN: You can't find where we are reducing coverage for anybody BASH: If this passes the way it does, I would be interested to talk to you about what happens to the rural hospitals in your state MULLIN: It will pass