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Mom of 4, grandma of 8, wife of a really amazing guy, recently retired Assistant Professor Emerita (Child Advocacy Studies & Public Administration) Parent of a 17 year old orange tabby named Izzy. I knew the assignment and I’m happy to live in ILLINOIS!!
A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.
ICE is running around Chicago harassing people for not being white.
Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace.
That’s not making America great again.
The president said, in a televised speech, that he's sending his new, less restrained, more violent military into US cities to practice their brutality on immigrants and minorities, to better train them to apply that brutality to other countries.
He said this out loud.
obviously the state of things is grim but i actually took a lot of comfort (not to mention schadenfreude) with the cold reception the generals gave trump and secretary breakfast gin
Our democracy is collapsing in real time.
Much of the damage will be irreparable.
If you’re waiting to say or do something, you better not wait much longer.
I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".
Weird that the FCC Chair had no issue with Kilmeade wanting to euthanize homeless people.
Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.
A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say.
This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.
All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.
Wow.
Trump just designated “Antifa” as a terrorist organization, on par with ISIS and Al Qaeda. As a reminder, “antifa” is short for “antifascist”.
They will use this lie to surveil, imprison, and kill Americans on the left.
This may be our Reichstag Fire moment. Wake up.
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Kamala Harris would not be secretly trying to deport innocent children to Guatemala if she was our president instead right now.
I'd just like to point out how weird it is that places with hundreds or even thousands of reporters — the NYT, WaPo, CBS, NBC, AP, etc. — are all getting pummeled on every major story by the dozen computerboys at Wired. To fumble the bag this consistently is, at some point, cowardice and a choice.
I have one guess left and I’ve tried everything that I have remaining letters to use - and enlisted the help of the dictionary. I’m totally stumped.
More than 16 million Americans are at risk of losing their health care because Republicans in Congress are rushing to pass a bill that would cut federal funding for Medicaid and weaken the Affordable Care Act.
Evil incarnate.
finally a worthy Alien vs. Predator installment
Was I wrong?
Felt good to unload him. 👍🏻
They received presidential pardons for this ‘message’ and it wasn’t seashells on a beach.
One reason I never really took to ‘reality TV’ is that it isn’t - indeed, cannot be - real. There are too many variables in real life to make a ‘guaranteed’ watchable show. And so you (meaning I) find most reality shows far less believable than fictional narrative.
Never in a million years. And if I had 5 minutes with him he’d not want to spend another minute more with me.
Yes, I’m sad, disgusted and done with him. We just made a joke that it had been 10 minutes since we’d last heard something about the book on his show. Meanwhile, we have the worst grift underway in the history of presidents and the main stream media is “meh”
Let me say a few words about Kristi Noem who showed up in my hometown to make a spectacle of her racist & cruel policies. I won’t even waste words when one will do: VILE. She was a coward who wouldn’t face the crowds. There’s more to say but I’m still in shock by what she then decided to do. 🤬
Pass it on…
My Governor. ❤️