Deb Legge

Excessive force. PERIOD!

They called them “violent mobs,” but the violence came from the guys with badges and body armor.

📌 Keep sharing videos, everyone, because they’re evidence.

Make it make sense. [Cartoon by Adam Zyglis]

We have f*cking war fatigue?! We're not the ones being murdered by a ruthless dictator. What a hack!

Raskin: "It's not lost on anyone that shutting the government down allows them not swear in our new colleague, Ms Grijalva from Arizona, who would be the 218th signature to discharge the Epstein files and to put a vote on that on the House floor."

Swear her in.

"A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people."

—The Declaration of Independence

Collins should hang it up before she gets wiped out in 2026. Her approval is 14% !!!!!!!!

Angus: We have American officials claiming that Canada is some kind of terrorist haven. They’re saying we’re sending massive gangs of El Salvadorans over the border. I’m sorry—have you ever visited Canada? Could you show us where these El Salvadoran gangs supposedly are?

“We are witnessing a capitalist class so drunk on its own power that it has become incapable of recognizing its own interests…So contemptuous of the institutions that created their wealth that they are destroying the conditions that make capitalism possible.”

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a couple of cartoon characters are holding rainbow flags in front of a crowd . ALT: a couple of cartoon characters are holding rainbow flags in front of a crowd .

LA PROTESTERS: How to annoy ICE, cops, Guardsmen & Marines “patrolling” the streets?

Blast “IN THE NAVY”, follow & dance party around them with BIG Pride flags, glitter bomb them & shout “Happy Pride Month”.

Believe me, the ridicule they’ll get will make them LOATHE being in LA.
#NotJoking

It's alarming how willing this Extreme Court is to ignore both precedent and the Constitution to advance their Project 2025 agenda and please Trump. I expect we will continue to see more very terrible decisions like this one.

right now, as I’m writing this, it’s 9:22am EDT, we still don’t have an actual ceasefire — and Preznit Fuckwit is still yelling at clouds. and — oh look! — Donny continues to hallucinate fever-dream ceasefires. what the fuck is a ‘friendly plane wave’? I’m guessing it involves dropping more bombs, because that’s exactly what happened next. because of course they did. so let’s review the last twenty-four hours: two nations with a loathing for each other went right on lobbing missiles, and everyone ignored the fluorescent tangerine rodeo clown barking CEASE FIRE into his phone — because he’s an impotent fucking joke. an international laughingstock. this behavior from a president is not normal — and it should never be normalized. are you listening, media? Donny’s on a plane right now, headed to a NATO meeting. let’s all hope to fuck that he goes sleepy-bye during the flight, and gives us a few hours of peace and quiet. because holy shit. that was a day. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

from today's post, on all the imaginary ceasefires that exist only inside Mad King Donny's squirrel-infested head —
please read the whole thing, thanks!
link is here: bit.ly/4eBVSBr
(and as always, there's a longer excerpt in the alt text)

Around 98,000 Voters Risk Disenfranchisement Under New North Carolina Plan Read more here.

Shameful. I expect they will be sued.👇

"Nearly 100,000 North Carolina voters will be required to take an additional step to verify their identity or risk being disenfranchised under a plan approved by the GOP-controlled state board of elections Tuesday." www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Stupidest regime ever.

My colleague laying it plain.

Thanks @senangusking.bsky.social

As the shortest kid in school, I was an easy target for bullies. When I was about eight, I befriended a kind teenager wh When the KKK Murdered My Childhood Friend | Robert Reich

61 years ago today, the Klan murdered three civil rights workers in Mississippi. One of them was a childhood friend. I'd like to share what he meant to me. https://youtu.be/u-kv3wdqqNo?si=Zc3Uh-CJOcODt-RW

Trump said yesterday that Putin should be allowed back into the G8. This was Putin’s response.

How did Republicans go from condemning leaders who threaten their own citizens to becoming sycophants for one? Here, too, we find a holdover of Cold War rhetoric: the use of Third World to describe multicultural communities such as Los Angeles. In the 1950s, the terms First World, Second World, and Third World emerged as a means to describe Western-aligned nations, Soviet-aligned governments, and emerging nations not allied with either faction, respectively. Third World soon came to be used as a pejorative term for poor, nonwhite countries—full of human beings who could be considered disposable.

And that’s exactly how Trump officials and their allies are referring to communities such as Los Angeles in order to justify using military force. Last night, following the massive “No Kings” protests across the country, Trump posted on his social network Truth Social that he was directing ICE to “expand efforts to detain and deport Illegal Aliens in America’s largest Cities,” which he called “the core of the Democrat Power Center”; he further described immigration as turning America into a “Third World dystopia.” The post echoed similar language from right-wing-media figures who, last week, began repeating the same rote talking points about the need to ban all “Third World” immigration. The conservative podcaster Charlie Kirk, who spoke at Trump rallies during the 2024 election campaign, displayed on his podcast, as part of an argument for Trump using the military to “take back the streets of LA. Do it and do it fast,” a chart from a white-nationalist website showing the white population of Los Angeles declining. Kirk also made explicit that he wasn’t borrowing just the chart from a white-nationalist website but also its ideological conclusions about the threat that nonwhite people pose. “This is the Great Replacement Theory,” Kirk explained. “Remember we talked about how they want to replace white Anglo-Saxon Christian Protestants with Mexican, Nicaraguans, with El Salvadorians.” The term Anglo-Saxon Christian Protestants is wildly archaic, 1930s racism. What’s next in the Republican-aligned podcast world? Rants about swarthy Sicilians and perfidious Jews?

For decades, US presidents from both parties used a simple formulation for defining a tyrant: a leader who threatens or uses military force to suppress their domestic political opposition. Now we have a president doing just that and conservatives are cheering. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Every time this clown leaves the country he embarrasses us on the world stage.

Karen Bass: "There is no comparison [with the 1992 riots]. And unfortunately that is what is being pushed, as though the city is in chaos, there's civil unrest everywhere. For most Angelenos, they're like, 'What city are they describing?' They are definitely not describing Los Angeles."

EPIC response.

This is how it’s done!
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Just a few days ago, Speaker Mike Johnson, the puritanical pixie twit, refused to rule out arresting Governor Newsom. He added that Newsom should be “tarred and feathered,” a form of torture popularized by vigilantes. He is a reckless hypocrite.

when no one attends your shitty dictator parade

Whoa! Hats off to ABC News reporter Matt Gutman for keeping his cool yesterday.

This LAPD officer needs to be relieved of duty if he can’t handle an alleged “touch” without snapping.

LMFAO 😂 it’s zero people for the 🤡 clown show.

Just want to take a moment to shout out the international reporters helping us get the real story out. When an 80-year-old veteran with a walker is hauled off with his hands zip-tied behind his back, and the media spins it as a “threatening breach” of a police barricade

Local news here reported hundreds of thousands at Trump’s birthday parade, and tens of thousands at No Kings rallies around the country.

Reverse that, you bootlicking, servile cowards.