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This is some sick shit

Where there is much pride or vanity, there will also be much revengefulness." – Arthur Schopenhauer

Dem’s project 2029 part 6

Glad House Dems are demanding a full briefing—because immigration agents showed up at L.A. elementary schools, and DHS lied about it. Watch the video. Hear the truth from L.A.’s superintendent. Then ask why the hell Homeland Security is targeting kids. Don’t let this go!!!

The S&P 500 surged more than 9% Wednesday afternoon after Trump announced the tariff pause. “THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!!” Trump posted on Truth Social minutes after the market opened on Wednesday, along with the letters “DJT,” which stands for both his initials and the ticker for his company.

#HandsOff in Fayetteville, AR today, despite the cold and wet.

CNN will host a town hall with Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, moderated by CNN’s Anderson Cooper, Wednesday, April 9 at 9p ET: cnn.it/43Jw0jC

HANDS OFF in Buffalo, NY! The threat of rain couldn’t stop the huge crowd that turned out in support of democracy, labor, immigrants, health equity, and human rights.

Traverse City, Michigan. HANDS OFF!

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Portland, Oregon #3E #Handsoff #FiftyFiftyOne 📷 @climatebrad.hillheat.com

Couple thousand rally in Ventura California today. Hands off!!

#handsoff My niece in Boston.

#HandsOff2025 in Chattanooga TN with a huge crowd defending Democracy! Stand up! Speak up! Act up! @indivisible.org @maddow.msnbc.com @chrislhayes.bsky.social @ezralevin.bsky.social @gtconway.bsky.social @50501movement.bsky.social @bradleydemocrats.bsky.social @thetnholler.bsky.social

Iowa City, Iowa #3E #Handsoff #FiftyFiftyOne 📷 @iowademocrat.bsky.social

Massive #HandsOff rallies across the country 🔥🔥🔥

To the world: We are fighting back. Our movement has been silenced by the media here—but we are not backing down. This is what our streets looked like across multiple cities. Tomorrow, there will be more of us! Raise a glass to freedom. —With love, Your American allies.

🔥 OBAMA: “IMAGINE IF I HAD DONE ANY OF THIS… I say this not on a partisan basis. This has to do with something more precious — who are we as a country, and what values do we stand for?” 🇺🇸

It's been interesting reading the angry and vile comments from the MAGA cult on social media about these protests. Sadly, they'll follow and take orders from their false messiah until the very last drop of Kool-Aid.

I asked the one high ranking policeman I saw on 5th Ave why there were so few police. He said “We did not expect anything like this. Don’t tell anyone but I’ve only got 44 officers out here — and it’s a great crowd, great event, no incidents.”

Granbury, TX #handsoff (Home to Stewart Rhodes, the Oathkeepers and the Constitutional Sheriffs movement.)

Pasadena I think

"Hands Off" rally! Muskegon, Michigan! Awesome!!!

Wow. #HandsOff rally in St. Paul, Minnesota is massive!

Spectacular view of 100,000 people attending the #HandsOff march in NYC

Thousands and thousands of people at Civic Center SF, @indivisible.org organizers doing a great job teaching people why confronting aggressive counter protesters ( I haven’t seen any) plays into the autocrat playbook

Photos we received from today’s protests in a Trump +33 district in rural Kalispell, Montana.

Norfolk, Virginia #3E #Handsoff #FiftyFiftyOne 📷 @freelancelawmom.bsky.social @screever.bsky.social

Worst two-day stock market crashes in the U.S. by percentage loss: 1. 1929 (the Great Depression) 2. 1987 (Black Monday) 3. 2008 (the Great Recession) 4. YESTERDAY AND TODAY And while this happened, the man responsible for it was golfing and dining with enemies of America.

"The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool." — Stephen King

"President Donald Trump is using the power of the federal government to intimidate or neuter potential sources of opposition to him: The legal establishment, academia and prominent cultural institutions, the media, the judiciary, the Democratic Party, Congress and independent government oversight."

No way! We will fight back! open.substack.com/pub/usaf8187...

This is the result of decades of civic poisoning by Fox News and right-wing echo chambers and channels.

Please.