Francesca Fiorey

Your Prime Day reminder that Amazon...

-Provides cloud services that help fuel ICE's deportation machine
-Donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration fund
-Scrapped plans to display tariff costs after pressure from Trump
-Shelled out $40M for a documentary about Melania Trump

SCOOP: Johnson closed House hours after Congress received Epstein’s financial records The decision to shut down the House — and by extension the government — came hours after the Oversight Committee received documents from the US Treasury.

"Speaker Mike Johnson’s abrupt closure of the House may have more to do with stalling a congressional investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operation than previously reported, and appears to have been a direct response to the Treasury’s surrender of Epstein’s financial records."

If you’re not alarmed yet you’re not paying attention. 🇺🇸

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Posters in Acadia made by the Artists' Rapid Response team that say: "Is Acadia Wabanaki Land? You don't need to know! Sign removed" "How is cleaning mate changing Acadia? You don't need to know! Sign removed" "Why protect Acadia's plants? You don't need to know! Sign removed"

A poster that says "Why protect Acadia's plants? You don't need to know! Sign removed" in front of a trail marker

A poster that says "Why protect Acadia's plants? You don't need to know! Sign removed" in front of a leave-no-trace market

A man with a fist raised in front of the ocean, holding a sign that says "How is climate changing Acadia? You don't need to know! Sign removed"

Love this resistance work from the Artists' Rapid Response Team (ARRT)! 💙💚
#Inspired #UseYourGifts

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.

If the National Governors Association chooses to remain silent, Illinois will have no choice but to withdraw from the organization.

We should be standing as one against the idea that Donald Trump can call up the National Guard against our will.

Pam Bondi admits she spoke to Apple to "get the ICEBlock app taken down." Sounds an awful lot like coercion to suppress disfavored speech to me. A clear violation of the 1st Amendment.

Texas National Guard arrives in the Chicago area Texas National Guard members have arrived in Illinois. City and state officials say Donald Trump is using them as “political props” in Chicago.

The Texas National Guard has arrived in the Chicago area despite the repeated objections of Illinois officials.

Sen. Susan Collins criticizes Democrats for shutdown, Trump for layoff threats Maine's Republican senator said Monday that she has asked the Office of Management and Budget not to pursue mass layoffs of federal workers, something the White House has threatened.

Last December, every Maine media outlet dutifully reported that Senator Collins became the VERY powerful Chair of Senate Approps

Nine months later, she's powerless, got rolled by Vought and can only whine about Democrats

Feckless beyond
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Just as a reminder, Bondi’s origin story in Trump world is that she said she was going to investigate Trump University, Trump sent her a $25K check and the investigation disappeared. She later became Trump’s personal defense lawyer. So yeah, don’t challenge her integrity.

Question: what would the consequences be for red states if California and Illinois withdrew from the Governors Association?

If you ever wondered what Republican “governance” looks like, this is it.

A government shutdown.
Federal workers who don’t get paid.
A President who golfs during a shutdown.
National guards and ICE deployed to attack and arrest Americans.
Millions of Americans losing their healthcare.

> @governor.ca.gov

71.5% of ICE detainees have no criminal convictions, according to government data.

Don’t fall for Trump’s lies about targeting the “worst of the worst.”

As Trump's regime terrorizes communities to fill up detention centers, remember that some of his biggest donors are private prison corporations.

Imagine believing this. They’ve refused to expand Medicaid in Tennessee costing us $30 billion and counting

Illinois Sues to Block Trump’s Deployment of Texas National Guard in Chicago Read more here.

🚨BREAKING: Illinois filed a lawsuit Monday to block President Donald Trump’s attempt to send hundreds of Texas National Guard troops in Chicago, saying the deployment infringes on the state’s “sovereignty and right to self-governance.” www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Call it what it is

Senator @jeffyarbro.bsky.social on Trump’s invasion of Chicago & Portland…

It’s even less responsible for a Republican president to be starting one.

This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate. We must now start calling this what it is: Trump's Invasion. It started with federal agents, it will soon include deploying federalized members of the Illinois National Guard against our wishes, and it will now involve sending in another state's military troops. I call on Governor Abbott to immediately withdraw any support for this decision and refuse to coordinate. There is no reason a President should send military troops into a sovereign state without their knowledge, consent, or cooperation. The brave men and women who serve in our national guards must not be used as political props. This is a moment where every American must speak up and help stop this madness.

Statement from Illinois Governor JB Pritzker

It's bad enough if President Trump is demanding authoritarian powers in violation of the Constitution ...

But if his unelected aides are manipulating him to get their own authoritarian policies in place, that's sort of a bigger deal.

Pretty clear Stephen Miller, Noem, Hegseth and Trump are trying to provoke a Civil War at this point. What's interesting is they want to do it now, because even though they're unpopular, they seem to believe this is the most popular they'll be ever again. We can't let them win.

Look. Invading our own country is about as straightforward a case as you can have for impeachment. The GOP abandoning the Constitution is kind of the only story there is and it gets no coverage.

Idiocracy was unrealistic only because we got dumber quicker than the movie anticipated

Still waiting for it to trickle down...

The Pope, Jane Goodall, and the Nobel Peace Prize committee all came out and said MAGA and Trump are trash.

Jared Kushner is going to the Middle East to negotiate a deal on behalf of the U.S. government days after Kushner announced a $55 billion deal between his private equity fund and the Saudi government

One of the most brazen conflicts in history.

"For me as a veteran, this is more than just a personal injustice—it’s a constitutional affront." #KavanaughStop