MJP

Best sign from yesterday.

This Made Me Laugh!😆 You?😊💙

And Here We Are All At Once….

Scores of people took to the streets Thursday for May Day – or International Workers' Day – in response to the Trump administration’s controversial moves against immigrants and federal workers over its first 100 days. cnn.it/4lU8xCG

Graphic with a photo of Pete Buttigieg that reads as follows: Three of the most important things in this country are in danger right now: Our health, of course; Our economy, as we know; But a third thing is in danger and that's our democracy. Without our democracy, we've got nothing. Quote by: PETE BUTTIGIEG

Pete said this 5 years ago and it’s still true today. We’re now on the fast track to fascism. Trump’s vile authoritarian agenda is ruining the country an he must be stopped.

Arresting judges.

Threatening allies.

Lying about trade deals.

Trying to sell campaign merch from the White House.

Floating a 2028 run.

Deranged. Dangerous. Undemocratic.

We must retake our democracy.

Judge says 2-year-old US citizen appears to have been deported with ‘no meaningful process’ The girl was deported Friday with her mother to Honduras, despite her father’s efforts to keep her in the United States.

"A federal judge is raising alarms that the Trump administration deported a two-year-old U.S. citizen to Honduras with “no meaningful process,” even as the child’s father was frantically petitioning the courts to keep her in the country."
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

I'm certainly not the only one. But I've been saying this. The White House is losing the war over public opinion on the Abrego Garcia case badly. 26% is an astonishingly low number. Trump is losing a significant chunk of his core base on this. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

OH - MY - GOD! THIS IS INSANE!!!

1) Detailed plans and exact timing of attacks are classified as classified as can be.

2) "Left-wing reporters" didn't "get a hold" on the first Signal chat; Goldberg was literally added by Mike Waltz.

3) PETE, HEGSETH, RESIGN!

The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate.

The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns.

Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care.

The list goes on and on.

Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.

today’s grammar lesson

Folks need to pause and put themselves in García’s shoes.

He fled El Salvador at 16—running from gangs, scared for his life. He didn’t risk it all just to join one of the most notorious gangs here.

Bukele cracked down—but as one local said: “We used to fear the gangs—now we fear the government.”

And here we are…….

Hundreds of scholars say U.S. is swiftly heading toward authoritarianism Most — but not all — political scientists are deeply troubled by the president's attempts to expand executive power, according to a national survey.

"A survey of more than 500 political scientists finds that the vast majority think the United States is moving swiftly from liberal democracy toward some form of authoritarianism." www.npr.org/2025/04/22/n...

And Thom Tillis, up for reelection in 2026, was the key vote to confirm Hegseth along with Joni Ernst. Despite the fact that they knew he was unfit, they were afraid of Trump and put their political futures ahead of the country. Now they own every bit of this debacle.

Hegseth Said to Have Shared Attack Details in Second Signal Chat The defense secretary sent sensitive information about strikes in Yemen to an encrypted group chat that included his wife and brother, people familiar with the matter said.

"Unlike the chat in which The Atlantic was included, the newly revealed one was created by Hegseth. Named “Defense | Team Huddle,” it included his wife and about a dozen other people.... He used his private phone, not his government one, to access the Signal chat."
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/u...

Van Hollen on Fox News Sunday: "I'm not vouching for the man. I'm vouching for the man's rights. His constitutional rights to due process."

The Pentagon has collapsed into a state of complete disarray under the failed leadership of Pete Hegseth.

Signal scandals, multiple leaks, deceptions, and infighting have culminated to throw the Pentagon into a state of utter chaos.

All this according to former top spokesperson…

They’re coming for Medicaid based on a lie about “waste, fraud, and abuse.”

FIGHT BACK. TAKE A STAND.
They’ll gut care for the poor, sick, elderly & disabled—just to feed billionaires tax cut.

Social Security will be next.
If we don’t stop them now, we’ll lose everything.

Medicaid Cuts Kill US‼️

Grandpa Trump is hallucinating again. He claims:

📌Gas is $1.98
📌Grocery prices are “substantially down”
📌Eggs are easy to find and the price has dropped 92%

None of that is even remotely true.

Trump is now on Twitter posting doctored photos of the tattoos of Kilmar Garcia.

The whole world knows we have a deranged lunatic in the White House—and no one seems to know what to do about it.

He is so obviously mentally unwell that there is no longer any serious debate about whether that is so.

Bring home Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

A Palestinian student leader at Columbia was steps away from his final citizenship interview. He instead faces deportation | CNN A Palestinian student at Columbia University went into a Vermont immigration office Monday hoping to begin the final step to becoming a US citizen. But instead of having an interview, Mohsen Mahdawi –...

A Palestinian student at Columbia University went into a Vermont immigration office hoping to begin the final step to becoming a US citizen. But instead of having an interview, Mohsen Mahdawi – who’s been in the United States for a decade – was taken away in handcuffs.

Sign: IS THIS THE REAL LIFE? Books include: Erasing History, Autocracy, Inc, Fascism: A Warning, How Democracies Die

Sign: IS THIS JUST FANTASY? Books include; It Can’t Happen Here, 1984, Fahrenheit 451, The Handmaid’s Tale

Barnes & Noble in Georgetown with a stark “Bohemian Rhapsody”-referencing book display this weekend.

You in SC? Give these mutherfuckers a call.

Rep. Rob Harris 803-212-6788
Rep. Josiah Magnusor 803-212-6876
Rep. William Chumley 803-212-6894
Rep. James Burns 803-212-6891
Rep. Steven Long 803-212-6878
Rep. Jay Kilmartin 803-212-6963

Dear American citizens, whatever you wish more German citizens would have done in 1933, do that now.

North Carolina Supreme Court Pauses Lower Court’s Ruling to Disenfranchise Voters Read more here.

The North Carolina Supreme Court temporarily paused a lower court’s ruling to disenfranchise tens of thousands of voters in the state’s Supreme Court election, unless they fix their ballots in 15 days. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...