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richardboyens.bsky.social
Retired, proud dad, husband. 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 💙 Believes in Democracy 🏴‍☠️All opinions unashamedly my own😉
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Stephen Miller—who's from the area and knows better—calls LA an "occupied city" as part of a ploy to justify a violent, fascist crackdown. Courtesy of Matt Snyder, this map of LA features a to-scale red dot indicating where the protests are. You'll have to zoom in and look hard.

This all comes down to policy choices. Do we want a nation with policies rooted in cruelty and punishment? Or do we want a nation with policies rooted in kindness and compassion? This is the choice before us.

The Oil Shell Game Is a Lie. youtu.be/oSm8X7IJANM?...

Exactly this 👇👇💯🎯 Read the full article…

LAPD STATEMENT: “The protests remained peaceful… without incident…”

@donwinslow.bsky.social nails it.

Major media are afraid to tell us that Trump is in the process of setting up a dictatorship. They know it — everyone closely following the news knows it — but they fear that telling such a stark truth would seem “partisan” and make them a target. Their failure to sound the alarm endangers us all.

How quickly and conveniently we’ve forgotten what the Greatest Generation fought to preserve and hand to us to protect. They’d be ashamed of what we’ve unleashed since then…..

March and April employment numbers revised DOWNWARDS ! Not ‘Making America Great Again’ after all….

81 years ago, America's bravest generation stormed the beaches of Normandy in hopes of freeing Europe from the clutches of a brutal authoritarian. Today, we face authoritarianism on our shores. We owe it to ourselves, our country, and that great generation to fight for freedom here at home.

Yes, Joni, we’re all going to die. The point is not everyone should die faster and poorer because you gutted their healthcare.

Well worth reading - a few ‘home truths’ highlighted….

This Memorial Day weekend, the best way to honor the soldiers who gave the ultimate sacrifice is to honor and protect the freedoms and the democracy they died for.

Looks like tRump and his cronies in the GOP got bored of supporting western NC recover from Helene ( largely Republican voting counties impacted) - FAFO !

Profits over Morals …. Corporate America at its most hypocritical…

…. and they’re going to get more tax breaks to make them even richer !!!! Meanwhile, us peasants will pay more tax to satisfy Johnson, tRump and the MAGA faithful cult….🤬🤬🤬

Then he arrived a decade ago: someone who gave them what they needed to finally abandon the performance completely: permission to be horrible; a person who erased any semblance of decorum, any expectation of decency, any level of accountability. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/this-presi...

After-tax income under the Trump/GOP budget: -People making less than $17/k year: LOSE $1000 -People making between $17k and $51k/yr: LOSE $700 -People making over $4.3M/year: GAIN $389,000 This is what class warfare looks like.

🎯 THIS !!!!

This is utter nonsense Medicaid is a needs based program If any American doesn’t have sufficient resources, they qualify-even if they’re working So if Mike Johnson wants to remove employed, “able bodied young men” from Medicaid, there’s a simple fix Raise the minimum wage But of course-he won’t

No, this doesn’t smack of desperation at all why do you ask www.wsj.com/economy/trad...

That sound you hear is Catholic MAGA heads exploding because the new American pope is far more socially progressive than Stephen Miller. And His Magasty fuming because another American has a higher title than his. Joy to the world!

Holy moly. Check out this tweet from the new American pope. I’m sure MAGA would hate it if you reposted this right this minute.

Thousands of people are ditching Tesla. Here’s one of them with a message you can see from space. Location: Black Rock Sands, Wales, UK Led By Donkeys is 100% funded by small donations.

Perhaps someone could do this with a Challenger, Leopard or Abrams too….

👀 Oops !

🏆 CHAMPIONS AGAIN OLÉ OLÉ!!!

Honestly this is just incredible content.

@msnbc.com @nbcnews.com ??? So the Canadian election ( and why it went to Mark Carney ) doesn’t warrant any mention in your 6:30pm EST ‘Nightly News’ broadcast !!? Thought you pretended to be ‘world news’ !!? Your groveling, ass kissing to the current administration is disgusting !!

@schumer.senate.gov THIS !!!! GET UP AND DO SOMETHING!!! Stop Being spineless…. Take example and lead like; @aoc.bsky.social @adamkinzinger.bsky.social @repjasmine.bsky.social @ocasio-cortez.house.gov @schiff.senate.gov @sanders.senate.gov

We’re all a little confused, disheartened, and yet… focused. So I recorded a message for all of us: adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/a-message-...

The housing market just had its worst March since 2009.

The Dispatch Acquires ScotusBlog! Please Share. youtu.be/fPacudfQSZM?...

90 days of historic failure? @katiephang.bsky.social opens the #KatiePhangShow with the latest on the Trump administration.

THIS ! The right to due process for “all persons” - that’s what this is about: The Constitution of the United States of America

Healthcare Is Probably The Biggest Thing In Getting Manufacturing Back youtu.be/rgRj-sScn6g?...

A co-worker of mine (who is a judge), traveled by train from Montana to North Dakota for work this week. The train made a stop in Havre, MT, where ICE agents—armed and dressed in full military-style tactical gear—boarded the train.

..and 🍊 / MAGA will claim victory ‘cause he bought the price of gas down 🤦🏼🤦🏼

#HandsOff - millions of people PEACEFULLY exercising their 1st Amendment right across America and what does MSM do ? A fleeting couple of seconds on NBC tonight🤬🤬 If MSM journalists want to be taken seriously-DO YOUR JOBS !!! And report the people’s voice @nbcnews.com @cnn.com @msnbc.com @npr.org

This !! Read the full thread… It’s the only explanation that makes sense …

james surowiecki has discovered where the completely fabricated trump tariff rate has come from for each country "...for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."

🚨 Not rolling over - Not going back !

Trump is dismantling democracy right in front of us. He operates on the principle that people will think that if he does it openly and in public, there can't be anything wrong with it. Do not be deceived.