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Appalachia raised 🌳 In the PNW more than 20 years now 🌋Degrees in history, law, & library science. I love to read 📚 lifelong learner 🎓fav reads are sci-fi 🪐& fantasy 🧚 I’m chronically ill but persevering ♿️
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The U.S. Constitution and longstanding federal law strictly limit the use of the military to police civilians. Under the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, active-duty military forces are prohibited from engaging in domestic law enforcement unless explicitly authorized by Congress or the Constitution.

ICE crossed a line in LA

Booker: "We have a president who did nothing as people stormed our Capitol, & then when those people who viciously beat police & led to some of their deaths - therefore cop killers - were convicted, he pardoned them. So for him to be talking about responsive law enforcement is hypocritical at best"

I notice people calling what we’re seeing these last couple of days “riots.” I was here during the 1992 Los Angeles riots. That’s not what this is. Local police can handle this, but ICE needs to back off—especially with these amateur hires who don’t know what the f*ck they’re doing.

Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.

Don't be part of the problem Be the whole problem

Wait. This Kash Patel? www.huffpost.com/entry/kash-p...

What the immigrant community needs to do is refuse to work. Go on a national strike. Let America experience life without immigrant labor.

Project 2025 playbook—Trump wants to enact martial law. It’s a set up. If you protest, keep that in mind. DO NOT GIVE HIM AN EXCUSE! Share widely...

The illegitimate, lawless, and authoritarian regime in control of the government of the United States is at war with the people of the United States.

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Please Follow @godlessbitch.bsky.social She has some of the Best Post...

People often stop me in the street (never happened) and ask: “What do people like on Bluesky?” “Mountains and flowers,” comes my reply. Mt. Fuji with a sprinkle of flowers for #stunday. ❤️ ✌🏽 #photography #nature #art #eastcoastkin #stormhour #photohour #fuji #japan #flowers #bloomscrolling #scape

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:

Things are escalating fast on the freeway in Los Angeles. Tear gas canisters are being kicked back and forth

Please, please do not let them provoke you when protesting. He's looking for an excuse. Remain peaceful so that if something happens its clear who is responsible. Do what the Civil Rights protesters did- remain peaceful even in the case of attempts to provoke them www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

This is fantastic

While President Trump spends millions of taxpayer dollars to throw himself a birthday party, we’re taking to the streets. Fight the administration’s abuses of power with us on June 14. Find a rally near you. www.nokings.org#map/?utm_sou...

Did these storms "come out of nowhere" or has the highly accurate weather forecasting system that we came to take for granted in recent decades been decimated by Trump administration purges at the NOAA and other related agencies?

Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio tried to give a press conference to announce his lawsuit against DOJ. Much to my surprise it turned out to be the greatest press conference of all-time.

Reminder that California subsidizes red states.

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EVERYBODY WATCH. ICE IS OUT OF CONTROL. Video of SEIU California’s President David Huerta getting assaulted & arrested during an ICE raid in the warehouse district of Downtown Los Angeles today. He’s an LA native, American citizen and labor leader. Don’t turn away.

These are human rights abuses. If we were at war it would be war crimes. www.seattletimes.com/nation-world...

I wonder if they’ll catch the next one with the purge at the FBI and reassignments to immigration enforcement www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Demonize. Destroy. Privatize. It's all in #Project2025. All of it. It's about controlling the people and turning billionaires into trillionaires. Period.

We need more of this energy, at all levels of politics & society, right now.

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Not knowing about things doesn’t mean they’re not happening.

Lived in North Park 10+ yrs. I’ve eaten, shopped, and lived alongside South Park’s small business community. Friday’s ICE raid on Buona Forchetta was a disgrace. The response, however was inspiring. The community rose up without fear. No silence or complacency. This is how we fight back. #AbolishICE

The VA saved my life. Now whistleblowers are telling me how veterans are being cut off from care. I wrote about it—and I’m heading to DC on June 6 to fight back. Join us. 🔗 onoffense.substack.com/p/veterans-c... #Unite4Vets #Best4Vets

Chris Murphy: "The entire administration is a grift from top to bottom... it appears Musk didn't get everything that he wanted in this bill to help his companies, and so he's throwing a temper tantrum... you have to understand none of this is on the level. It's a bunch of thieves stealing from us."

The DOGE-led attacks on the civil service have decimated FOIA offices, severely weakening a key tool that helps the public understand what the federal government is doing.

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My kid got ear tubes and we don’t have ear infections anymore. Go fuck yourself

Even though America’s infrastructure is crumbling beneath our feet, Trump paused funding for the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act on Day One of his administration. Now, incredibly, he’s slapping his name on signs for jobs funded before his freeze and taking credit for progress... 1/2

A Guatemalan national who says he was wrongfully deported to Mexico is back in the United States, in what appears to mark the first time the Trump administration has brought back a migrant after a judge ordered the administration to facilitate their return.

if the budget cuts go through for nasa, we’re losing juno, which has given us these gorgeous images of jupiter over the years