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Michigan Wolverine living in PNW. Leadership coach/consultant who loves dogs, reading, wine, good food, running, cycling, hiking, x country & downhill skiing. Loves to travel. Trying to live like Christ but fail often....
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A heads up that the ICE tactic of “encountering” and detaining people at asylum hearings continues here in Portland. www.koin.com/news/portlan...

They believed that then, and they'll believe this now.

Free AC’s in Portland Oregon! Blue states rock!

ICE is gearing up to deploy to these blue cities: Chicago, NYC, the DC area, Seattle, and Philly. If any of these are your hometowns—get ready. If not—watch anyway, all the way through, because Trump’s unhinged order will affect you. Spread the word.

I genuinely don’t know how else to explain Americans seeing the federal government invade California and turn around to say “Gosh I hope those protesters stop being violent” other than a completely and totally brainwashed society

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.

You can't call immigrants lazy moochers looking for government handouts and then round them up at Home Depots where you know they are looking for work. You can't say immigrants don't follow the rules and then round them up in courthouses where they are following the rules. Get your lies straight.

IMPORTANT: Stop calling the troops in LA National Guard Troops. They are not. When Trump activated them against the wishes of the Gov they became FEDERAL troops… like the 82nd airborne with no Law enforcement power! Don’t let them confuse you!

While Trump blusters about "law & order," a reminder that his administration has dropped or halted nearly 150 corporate enforcement actions. And Trump himself has pardoned dozens of his supporters convicted of crimes like money laundering and bribery. The hypocrisy is staggering.

Costas knows full well the cost of him speaking up. @huffpost.com www.huffpost.com/entry/bob-co...

Never underestimate how much Republican messaging relies on their followers being: A) Scared of large cities B) Unfamiliar with large cities C) Unable to conceive of how large a city like LA (or Seattle or Portland or Minneapolis) is D) Too stupid and incurious to read maps Works every time.

Los Angeles population is roughly 4M+ people. It’s a massive city, folks. The combined 4700 National Guard and Marines have been sent to about a 3-block area to aggressively eat lunch and watch peaceful protestors sing and dance. 👇🏽 💃🏽🎶🕺🏼 So now you know. Keep lifting the veil, LA fam!

Memo to John Fetterman and everyone else in the country who is NOT in Los Angeles right now: The tiny red circle is where Trump ordered ICE to stir up civil unrest, by taking negative and completely unnecessary actions that they knew decent people would react to. #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice

WTF? Trump is now threatening the American people. He warned protesters to stay away from his birthday/military parade in D.C. this Saturday, claiming anyone who shows up to protest “hates our country” and will be met with “very heavy force.” This is authoritarian behavior, plain and simple.

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.

Los Angeles FC crowd chants, "Fuck ICE."

EXCLUSIVE: ActBlue is firing back at a House GOP investigation into its workings. The Dem online fundraising platform says the probe appears to be an unconstitutional abuse of power to help the White House.

The current occupant of the White House is threatening American citizens w/ force for exercising our 1st Amendment rights on the 14th. Question: All gun nuts at the NRA and GOA, WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU NOW THAT WE ACTUALLY HAVE A TYRANNICAL GOVERNMENT? ISN’T THIS WHAT Y’ALL HAVE BEEN PREPARING FOR?

If you want to understand why LA residents feel under attack, undercover DHS agents lying about their identity and authorizations to try to kidnap LA children seems a good start. People just do not understand the attacks LA is under by Trumpists right now.

Should corporations be able to weaponize your personal data to rip you off? Well, they may already be doing that thanks to a shady tactic called “surveillance pricing.” Former FTC Chair Lina Khan explains what we can do about it. youtu.be/-cbtUYshYM8?...

The hypocrisy!

Exactly.

PSA: If you think a guy standing on a vandalized Waymo car with a Mexican flag is a bigger issue than the president calling for the arrest of a governor for no reason, you may have lost the plot.

MADDOW: “What is this country going to allow him to do? This is an attempted authoritarian overthrow of the 🇺🇸 Constitution and Government… imposition of a dictatorial regime. The strength of the movement against him is what will determine our fate as a country.”

The folks hollering about “family values” are out here tearing families apart with unlawful ICE raids, militarized police, & the weaponization of government. All while ripping away food & healthcare from working-class families. Are the family values in the room with us?

When they think no one is looking. *Cops damaging their own cars?

The President of the United States is advocating for arresting the duly-elected Governor of California for his SPEECH He thereafter admitted that the Governor of California had committed NO CRIME—but he still wants him arrested Spend as much time as you need processing what that means for America

RFK Jr., who's supposed to be all about "facts and logic," is out here removing members of the CDC’s vaccine advisory committee?!? Y’all, these aren’t political appointees. These are public health experts—people who’ve spent their careers working to keep Americans safe from disease.

So does this also mean the ICE agents who are regularly hiding their identity with face masks?

ICE was "responding" to the chaos ICE itself created. It was not responding to the way LA is without intentional provocation from ICE. And now the National Guard is "responding" to the chaos ICE created. It is not responding to the way LA is without intentional provocation from ICE.

🚨BREAKING: Georgia Supreme Court STRIKES DOWN four State Election Board rules concerning certification and hand counting ballots last year. A big victory for GA voters and a stinging defeat for the RNC and election deniers. www.democracydocket.com/cases/georgi...

Sometimes I think the “this is just a distraction” crowd just can’t handle the chaos, and that’s their way of cooping. But this is our reality. All of it. We don’t get to pick one crisis at a time. Walk and chew gum.

This is what class warfare looks like. They’re gutting housing, Medicaid, school lunches, and food stamps—just so billionaires can hoard a $270,000 tax cut. This isn’t a budget. It’s a heist. And working families are the loot. —Greene County Dems

So, per the USMC being deployed to LA… they were deployed during the Rodney King riots, but some important things have since changed that makes this deployment different and illegal. 18 U.S.C. § 1385 was updated in 2021 and now includes the USMC (it didn’t previously). It was legal in 1992, not now.

I just called Congressman Sam Graves‘s office to ask about highway funding and the young man told me I didn’t know understand which district I live in and then hung up on me. Here’s Sam’s Kansas City number if you have any questions about highway funding: 816.792.3976

"An incompetent warning shot or the act of a coward, either way it needs to be properly investigated... how is it okay for your police force to be firing at unarmed Australian journalists?" Karl Stefanovic, an anchor for the Australian broadcast channel that @laurentomasi.bsky.social works for.

CNN’s reporter on scene in Los Angeles: I’m being detained..

🇲🇽ARE FLYING THE 🇲🇽 FLAG AT THE CONSTRUCTION SITES ALL ACROSS THE USA 🇺🇸

this is good

Here is a look at the "riots" in LA..... "Who's got the power? People Power." Peaceful. No National Guard or Marines needed. #FreedomToDissent

CNN’s Jason Carroll was zip-tied and escorted away—for reporting the news. But they claimed he wasn’t under arrest? Why are they shooting rubber bullets at and silencing journalists? We still have a First Amendment.

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Durbin to Bhattacharya: "I can't understand it. I disagree w/ this admin on so many things. But this is the one that really gets to me personally. To think this nation would walk away from medical research. For God's sake...cancer, your budget requests a 38% cut to the National Cancer Institute"

What is happening in Los Angeles is not a distraction from Trump’s Billionaire Bailout Bill. The bill explicitly gives ICE and DHS the resources needed to do around the country what they’re doing in LA. We should call that out.

Watching the right now oppose the part of the second amendment that guarantees a well regulated militia under state control is… something.

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