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Liberal Democrat / War Veteran / I forever get to yell Bucks in 4, Bucks in 7 and Bucks in 6! Bucks won the ‘21 finals and I celebrated on the court with the team.
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People are absolutely going to put the Imperial March from Star Wars and/or some First Order speech to this charade and they’re going to be right to do it.

I forget where I read it the other day, but it has echoed in my brain ever since: US Marines are trained to kill the enemies of America.

PJ Tucker bear hugged me on the court after we won the 2021 finals. I’m quite sure he thought I was someone else but I was excited to get a huge hug from the man. Then Jrue and Pat also hugged me. I think they all thought I was someone else. That’s after Giannis dabbed me up for wearing Freak 1s.

If I needed any other reason to show you why so many #Veterans are pissed off. You all better keep this energy up in the coming years. Because I will NOT shut the fuck up. What is being done in our name is a goddamn travesty! WAKE UP!

More Senators need to use their voices and get on the right side of history.

This is a Paul Revere moment.

This IS not what I sacrificed 10 years of my life for and over 500 days in Iraq for. This is not democracy. My friends didn’t die for this. This is not who we are as Americans. #Veteran

Watch this brief clip. And then repeat after me: “We are ALL @AlexPadilla4CA.” And then ask yourself: What are YOU prepared to do?👇

This is a clear cut case of assault. And who were those people in plain clothes attacking Sen. Padilla? This is fucking outrageous.

I hope nothing but the absolute worst for KKKristi Noem. I fucking promise the people will prevail over this small minority of radicals that have overtaken our government

The Bullwark just posted this from Padilla's staff, that's Senator Padilla on the ground.

Cowards. You only do shit like this when you know you’re wrong and are too chickenshit to defend yourself. Noem is a weakling.

I think California needs to start arresting Feds. drastic but we’re there.

Trump’s goons are now assaulting a California Senator for asking questions. The gloves are coming off.

What they’re doing has nothing to do with immigration. She just said it out loud. The scary word. Socialism. As if the DOD isn’t the biggest benefactor of socialism in this country. But don’t tell the red hats that. They just roughed up a sitting US Senator for asking questions. Wake up!

Please take a moment to read this first hand account from a 20yo soldier’s POV at Kent State. Lessons not learned by the 🟠 regime as they put more young soldiers in a precarious situation. Two screenshots from Tom Joad’s harrowing recounting of that dark day.👇🏽 Thank you, @cajunblue.bsky.social 🙏🏽

You did. Your eyes did not betray you. The senior senator from CA.

My short film, ‘Real Artists,’ is free to watch on @kanopy.com with your library card!

If the courts don't stop Trump from deploying active duty troops on US soil to attack Americans then the experiment of the United States as a democratic Republic is over. Period.

Why so serious?! #travel

Huntington Park’s mayor, Arturo Flores, is a Marine veteran. He just gave a great speech at this press conference. Letting his fellow Marines know they are “taking orders from a dictator.”

I just talked to the director of the Center on Conscience and War, which is getting SLAMMED with calls in this emergency. As @taliajane.bsky.social just said, troops are aware that they have the right to refuse their labor.

Confederates took up arms against the US in order to protect violent white supremacy and oligarchy, so that checks.

Newsom: "Democracy is under assault before our eyes. This moment we have feared has arrived. He's taking a wrecking ball to our Founding Father's historic project."

Former Madison, WI police chief. Need more police and military leaders with integrity and the courage to stand up to fascism.

This reminds me of a time on active duty when another airman kept telling me that I was nothing more than a Yankee. I looked directly at him and said so are you you stupid fuck, the US military won the civil war and you enlisted in it. That makes you a Yankee too. We weren’t friendly after that 😂

I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving. There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later. They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.

A one square mile curfew? Ok just move out side the square mile. This is so dumb.

We have the right to protest. And ICE has the right to eat a bag of dicks. Those guys need to read a fucking history book.

“We don’t need another king, another tyrant, another dictator.” — U.S. Army Veteran, 101st Airborne We took an oath to the Constitution—not to serve the ambitions of any one man. What’s happening isn’t national defense. It’s a warning sign.

The optics are BAD, they’re mission accomplished levels bad. But now we know where senior Army leadership stands and it’s not with the constitution. They seriously cheers for confederate losers? What idiots. #veteran

Trump prattling that "It’s a beautiful sight to be with you in a place called Fort Bragg" that the idea that they were re-renaming Liberty for Pvt. Roland Bragg was always reactionary neo-Confederate trolling.

As a vet I am disgusted by those who serve not standing down or standing up to this attack on America.

I spent so many years covering propaganda anticipating this exact moment and so many of my peers bought the paid-for contrarian line that even covering disinformation was somehow, itself, censorship. Now we're at the event horizon. Celebration is protest is riot is justification for a police state.

But the VA budget must be cut, PTSD mental healthcare could never be funded. The Pact Act funding is being stripped away. Never forget that republicans don’t give a fuck about anyone who serves. You’re only useful to them until you’re dead. It’s why they wanted more of us dead. #veterans

You’re goddamn right we are. I will never shut the fuck up about this. I spent over 500 days in Iraq. My friends died at war, they died from cancers & suicide. They didn’t give their lives for soldiers on our city streets because ICE sucks at its job. #Veterans