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My great-great-great(?) grandfather signed the Declaration of Independence. My father fled to America in 1956 from Stalin’s Iron Curtain. My grandmother, father, and husband were all immigrants. I am America.

To quote Hannah Arendt: violence cannot create power, it can only destroy it. Solidarity with every Angeleno in the streets right now!

⚠️Brutality & depravity- ICE raids were reported in multiple locations in LA (with the FBI’s help). This ICE/FBI driver didn’t stop for a protester who stepped in front of the car. They accelerated then drove around the injured person. They didn’t even stop & render aid! #StopICE #LA @abc7la IG

Don’t forget that a small handful of Republicans in the House and Senate could put a stop to all of this.

“No Nazis” is a complete sentence.

I wish I had planned to buy Jake Tapper’s stupid book, so that not buying it could be more meaningful.

The felon focuses his illegal attacks on Columbia and Harvard. Where did Obama study again? Oh, right.

The uselessness and sloppiness of genAI is the legless Metaverse of this moment. Nobody wants it

I’ve looked deep within and examined my heart, and it turns out I feel pretty good about the creepy slave plantation burning to the ground.

The silence of Republicans, who SWORE A SACRED OATH TO THE CONSTITUTION is deafening! May they live in shame, shunned by the children and grandchildren they have betrayed. May they be run out of every restaurant, before the servers even get the chance to spit in their food.

Andrew Cuomo? More like Andrew no mo’ amirite?