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writer, reader, voter, mother. passionate about: dogs, democracy, decency. former journalist, policy wonk. Been here for quite awhile … not excited by an influx of trolls. (Mind your P & Qs - no DMs - or be blocked.)
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Happy No Kings/Obama-Biden Appreciation Day to all who celebrate!

I haven't heard of any raids taking place at gang hangouts. I know this can't be right but it's almost as if Trump and his toadies have been lying about the threat from illegal immigration all along.

A friend who works at Harbor-UCLA just told me that ICE was on the premises. Harbor-UCLA is a safety-net hospital & a level 1 trauma hospital. People are going to die because of these actions. This makes me so angry.

“Trump is a felon who is using his office to enrich himself as no other president did in history.” - Nicolas Kristof, NYT

@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social @bbcamerica Why are you interviewing Steve Bannon? He had just spent 15 minutes spewing lies. Instead of Karoline Leavitt, this is your choice of US govt information? Poorly done, BBC.

If you're a Marine or other service member being mobilized to Los Angeles and you'd like to apply for conscientious objector status, call the GI Rights Hotline to get some guidance on your options: 1-877-447-4487

The correct way to connect the authoritarian presence in LA and the Big Beautiful Bill is that the bill gives the government the resources to do this in dozens of cities at once. So if you don't like what's happening in LA, it's coming to your town if the bill passes.

Journalists: here’s the nut graf you’re missing: Trump worked against the bipartisan immigration bill, forced GOP to leave the bill un-passed so he could run on this. Offers no alternative, built no way to host programs and uses ICE to deport immigrants attending legal check/ins. He’s a do-nothing.

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

Federal officials prevented two members of Congress on Sunday from entering an immigration detention facility in Manhattan where the representatives were seeking to investigate reports of overcrowding, stifling heat and migrants sleeping on bathroom floors.

This isn’t even remotely legal what he is doing.

I’ve read too much science fiction too many dystopian novels and too many poems on civil rights to be quiet…

They tear-gassed a woman peacefully waving an American flag. Let that sink in. This isn’t freedom. It’s intimidation, and it’s happening right here in America. We must stand up and stop this, but not at night. That’s when the violence escalates and militarized police act with impunity.

Information on Governors' powers when a president mobilizes the National Guard. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

From the Editorial Board at the NYT. Better than nothing? I wish thatvwere true. Too little, too late is probably the right aphorism. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/o...

There is no bigger story right now than the White House asserting that California residents are in a state "of rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States."

The United Farm Workers, along with the entire labor movement, stands in strong solidarity with our comrade, labor leader David Huerta. We demand his immediate release and condemn indiscriminate sweeps targeting working class immigrants.

NPR speaks with a British orthopedic surgeon who just returned from his fourth medical mission to Gaza. He says many people he operated on were civilians and were shot while trying to reach food aid.

🧵 #AltCitizen action needed by June 16! Please comment on this anti-disabled Federal Register. Since 1980, federal facility projects and projects receiving federal grants have required accessibility in design and construction. They think accessibility regulations are “unduly burdensome” 😡

Ah, the golden age.

sometimes I regret warping my brain being so online. but not today. oh no, not today.

Very good question.

🚨🚨🚨 In the last two hours, the Trump admin: - Banned all immigrant visas from 19 countries, including Cuba, Haiti, and Venezuela - Banned all student and researcher visas to Harvard - Colluded with Texas to kick 20,000 undocumented college students off of in-state tuition.

How much of a coward do you have to be - how uninformed and afraid do you have to be - to do this?

In case anyone was confused about who, what, why, when and where our Medicaid dollars went, here’s one answer: Trump pardoned another Medicare fraudster today: www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...

Trump’s America tells the world: “We don’t need you.” Now the world is answering back: “Same to you.” From student deportations to tourist boycotts and brand backlash, we’re paying the price for Trump’s hostility. Read more adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/from-beaco...

Musk calls a major news source “liars” to manipulate the stock price upward and just NOW execs at Tesla are acknowledging this as true. Drugs, lying, manipulating markets. Hmmm. Tesla executives questioned Musk after he denied killing $25K EV project, sources say - www.reuters.com/business/aut...

Medicare for All isn't radical. What's radical is that we are the only major country not to guarantee health care as a human right. Don’t believe me? Listen to what these nurses have say:

“Trump is deeply corrupt.” The most important four words to be printed in the NYT in the last 10 years. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/o...

My pal Ben Cohen the ice-cream-man & I just released this article about why we were arrested this month, and why we’d do it again. This piece will circulate tomorrow -- spread the word and help us get it out there! religionnews.com/2025/05/22/w...

The Trump administration will do anything to rid this country of the slightest hint of anti-Semitism, unless anti-Semites have a million dollars available to bribe the president, of course.