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An orange leopard ate his face.

"It was probably not the reception the president was hoping for with his debut at the cultural center he took over and now chairs — half full, half booing, and with a strong contingent of drag queens." www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

Cary López is a U.S. citizen. ICE agents violently detained her while she was visibly pregnant, pushing her hard enough to make her lose balance. This isn’t “law enforcement.” This is state violence. Against women. Against citizens.👇

“.. Jesus, that ear. He should donate it to the Smithsonian. .. He made all his records with four tracks, but you couldn't make his records if you had a hundred tracks today.” - Bob Dylan, on Brian Wilson #RIP “Good Vibrations” (1966)

Good morning friends. This kid is spot on 👏🏼💙

Buh bye poll.qu.edu/poll-release...

Can’t emphasize enough what a disgrace this whole sad episode was

President of the Mexican Senate, "We'll build the wall and pay for it. But we'll do it according to the 1830 map of Mexico... Mexicans were settled in these territories before the U.S. The Mexicans living there are in what has always been their homeland."

My husband @robertcooper-us.bsky.social and I just returned from our youngest daughter’s destination wedding in Aruba. Her lifelong dream was to get married on a beach on a private island, and she got her wish! 🏝️🥰 Walking our daughter down the aisle was one of the greatest pleasures of our lives! ❤️

Karen Bass: "The 100 National Guard soldiers that are downtown LA are guarding one federal building, so there is no need for this...it's all part of an experiment that is taking place in Los Angeles...what happens when the federal government intervenes and takes power away from a governor & mayor?"

Why is ICE arresting employees but not employers? DOJ policy is to charge the most culpable people. The employers would seem to qualify.

Instead of using this money to fund, say, the National Weather Service right before hurricane season, they're using it to send Marines to Los Angeles. THIS is waste and abuse.

Senator Cassidy back in February, who singlehandedly advanced RFK Jr. out of his committee: “If confirmed, [RFK Jr.] will maintain the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices without changes.” Let’s check in a few months later…

The fact an American President got members of the military to boo American citizens should send chills through everyone. There's going to be a rump of the military that's prepared to do whatever he wants.

Antisemitism is very real in our world, the attacks in D.C. and Boulder showed that. But it is not antisemitic to say the Palestinian people deserve food, water and medicine. Dignity is not political, it is humane.   It's never too late to do the right thing.

ICE is now raiding homes and abducting children from foster care. Many of these kids are victims of human trafficking. via @aaronparnas.bsky.social @meidastouch.com

F*** Robert E. Lee

Our local food bank can feed a family for $655 a year. That’s 200,000 El Paso families that could have food on the table instead of wasting $134 million deploying troops to LA.

i think southern baptists should probably consider a ban on being led by child predators

Right off the gate #JayLies by creating a false sense that Americans don't believe scientists/researchers have best interest of public in mind. NOPE. Trust is actually moving higher. 76% do trust science. Here's the study so you can see for yourself. #FactsMatter www.pewresearch.org/science/2024...

NEWSOM: “.. California may be first, but it clearly won’t end here. .. Other states are next. Democracy is next.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/u...

Let’s keep this resistance party going ✊ TACO Trump is: ❌ violating the constitution ❌ deploying military against US citizens ❌ throwing himself a dictator's birthday parade But we don't do kings in America. 🇺🇸❌👑 Find a #nokings protest near you and hit the streets this Saturday. www.nokings.org

Focused on June 14 now. Let’s make a statement—democracy still lives!

i just watched a clip of stephen miller talking to hannity from a few days ago and my god is that guy a stone cold freak. like, everything about him is profoundly off-putting, like a bug in an eggar suit

We feed you. They hunt us.

I just met with Education Secretary Linda McMahon, and I gave her over 1,000 letters from people across the country who are worried about what she's doing to the Department of Education.

“They were really counting on the American people having a kind of bloodlust — about immigrants .. in particular. And the American people don’t have that bloodlust. In fact, what they have is empathy. .. And a willingness to stand up ..” @maddow.msnbc.com @katiephang.bsky.social @acyn.bsky.social

Trump told Americans he’d focus on deporting criminals. Instead, he’s set quotas that shift the focus to people with legal status and removing their protections. The Republican budget bill gives this effort more resources and tools, encouraging more dangerous crackdowns. 🧵

💚📣Huge thank you to all who came to the Save CDC rally and spoke out against the harm that RFKJ is doing to the health and safety of the American people. We know what will happen if vaccine confidence continues to fall and access is restricted. We cannot stay silent www.11alive.com/video/news/l...

@pelosi.house.gov: "On January 6th...we begged the president of the United States to send in the National Guard. He would not do it...And yet, in a contra-constitutional way, he has sent the National Guard into California. Something is very wrong with this picture."

The indictment brought by the Trump Administration’s Department of Justice against @replamonica.bsky.social are clearly politically motivated and aimed at punishing representatives for doing their job. I stand with Rep. McIver and call on this DOJ to drop these baseless allegations immediately.

“.. by the time this deal closes .., the company will have spent an entire decade shuffling ownership from one entity to the next, .. all while the stock price and cash flow have steadily declined .. with layoffs .. never ending but executive pay rising.” www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

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'He knows what he's doing': Doctor slams RFK for ousting vaccine panel www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sv2...

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.

Pam Bondi: "After the October 7 anniversary, they added new drinks to the menu. One was 'Sweet Sinwar' in honor, of tribute to the leader of Hamas... You can't do that. And so we've sued them & we're gonna stop this from happening. And anywhere in the country, if you do this, we're coming after you"

Good Wednesday morning Blue Sky's! “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” Margaret Mead

W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee: “Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu announced Tuesday that she signed an executive order seeking greater transparency from federal immigration officials. She said the city will submit regular Freedom of Information Act requests to find out who ICE is detaining and on what grounds.

The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices has been the gold standard for vaccine guidance for over 60 years. RFK Jr.'s decision threatens to undermine that mission and leave our nation less prepared to respond to public health threats.

Democratic governors are raising the specter that they will call lawmakers back for special sessions to tackle the potential financial fallout of Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.”

“If you saw all this in any other country — soldiers sent to crush dissent, union leaders arrested, opposition politicians threatened — it would be clear that autocracy had arrived,” writes NY Times columnist Michelle Goldberg.

𝗜𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗼𝗿 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗶𝘀 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗿 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼, 𝘄𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀. ✊🏻

Oh.

Great use of taxpayer funds.

Austin TX continued to use excessive force against their civilians into the night.