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Boston area writer on news, politics, Red Sox & LiverpoolFC. Novel LOUIE ON THE ROCKS out now & Multiple Sclerosis anthology UNCOMFORTABLY NUMB 2 in May '25.
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“Liberate”
a city from its elected leaders? Infiltrating a city with the military, against its will, to terrorize its occupants? Were the Jan. 6 insurrectionists trying to “liberate” the Capitol from its “burdensome” leaders?
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So the First Amendment is suspended on June 14?
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With the Jan. 6 pardons, this administration gave the green light to its followers/supporters to abuse, bludgeon, tase, and pepper-spray law enforcement to advocate for THEIR causes. Everyone else gets sent to the gulag.
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Americans want this kind of militaristic action to stop. Period. #ICE #LA #NationalGuard
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Because elementary school kids are a danger to us all? THAT’S what we’re going to be doing now, as a country, detaining children. “I Really Don’t Care, Do U” is the ethos of this administration.
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#FactsMatter
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This country is more dangerous, already poorer, unhealthier, less free, and soon-to-be more ignorant than ever. But sure, let’s give guns back to convicted domestic abusers. Oh, and pardon violent insurrectionists.
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On. Point.
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🧂🧂🧂
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I’d bet Trump asked that they be given orders to shoot protesters in the legs like he wanted done to Black Lives Matter protests in 2020.
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That same EXACT thought popped into my head. That hat?!
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The are line dancing in the middle of the protest while shouting Fuck ICE
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But beating Capitol
police officers with flag poles and shields, tasing them until they have heart attacks, that’s cool with this administration? Those people get a get-out-of-jail-free card?
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Is it okay to pardon insurrectionists who were tried and convicted of trying to obstruct the certification of a presidential election? Is it okay to beat police with flag poles and shields and tase them until they have heart attacks and then get all those crimes wiped away?
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“You cannot block a freeway like this.”
Ok but can you shoot munitions at protestors’ faces? Kettle peaceful marches to provoke confrontations? Or does just one side get scolded for ‘doing it wrong’?
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"You cannot block a freeway like this, so police are trying to clear the freeway," CNN reports. Well, people aren't supposed to be deported to another country and thrown into a despicable prison for life without getting due process. .
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#FactsMatter
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California Governor Gavin Newsom has formally requested that the administration rescind its unlawful deployment of National Guard troops in Los Angeles County and return them to his command.