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Opinion: Moms for Liberty is just another political arm of MAGA - Watermark Out News Maurice Cunningham, J.D., Ph.D. shares his thoughts on Moms for Liberty, likening them to "another political arm of MAGA."

Moms for Liberty has a pretty disgusting track record:
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Is Trump’s war on the cartels a dress rehearsal for a domestic war on his “enemies within?” Donald Trump or whoever is running things for him in the White House – say hi to Keyboard Warrior Stephen Miller – has used the U.S.

It’s hard to put into words how dangerous all this is. Donald Trump wants a war with his “enemies within.” It might not happen this weekend, but American citizens will die in Trump’s undeclared war before this goes much further. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/is-trumps-...

No Kings Is More Than A Slogan Millions are preparing to march against Trump’s authoritarian chaos, demanding accountability, justice, and sanity. America’s patience is running out; but will anger finally turn into action?

There’s a moment in every abusive relationship when victim says, “I can’t do this anymore.” It takes yrs of gaslighting, denial & manipulation--pain, exhaustion & realization that the system you once believed in has turned on you. That’s where America is right now. www.meidasplus.com/p/no-kings-i...

Michigan’s Slotkin raises alarm in Senate over secret Trump-era terrorist group designation list • Michigan Advance Updated at 6:03 p.m. U.S. Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Holly) called a new policy enacted by President Donald Trump “unprecedented” and “straight out of an authoritarian playbook, where the President gets t...

Michigan’s Slotkin raises alarm in Senate over secret Trump-era terrorist group designation list. michiganadvance.com/2025/10/13/m...

The Online Tools That Fueled ‘No Kings’ and the Trump Resistance Social media platforms, collaborative online tools, and encrypted messaging are all helping to power a massive, decentralized resistance to the Trump administration.

“We're doing this now, because in a couple of months, what we're doing may be illegal. This administration is already doing everything within their power to limit free speech, and it's extremely important that dissenting voices not be silenced.” www.wired.com/story/techno...

How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force Trump’s DHS appointees have dismantled civil rights guardrails, protected agents’ anonymity and encouraged them to wear masks, threatened groups that stood in their way, and overwhelmed legal challeng...

The so-called One Big Beautiful Bill included an added $7.5 billion a year for the next4 years for ICE recruiting & retention alone. The agency has dropped age, training and education standards and has offered recruits signing bonuses as high as $50K www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Long Covid Is Real -- And It's Changing an Entire Generation Long Covid is affecting hundreds of thousands of kids in America, and many doctors and schools refuse to recognize their illness.

“When you have a disability people can’t see, you don’t get the same level of empathy,” Joy says. “It feels like the world has moved on.”

Long Covid is setting back a generation of kids--likely against their federal rights

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What do you think made America great?

I’ve traveled the world, and every time I come home, I’m reminded of what makes this place special: the culture, the mix of people, the constant diversity. I love this country.

And I also know who truly hates America:

• The KKK
• 3 Percenters
• Proud Boys
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Meanwhile at the Moms for Liberty national summit, one panel features former gay porn star Corey DeAngelis and Ryan Walters, who got caught watching porn in his office. watermarkonline.com/2025/10/14/o...

There is a stink emanating from the House of Reps created by the refusal of Johnson to swear in Rep-Elect Adelita Grijalva. Very reminiscent of the stench that rose from the Senate in 2016 when McConnell refused to hold a hearing re Obama’s nominee for Supreme Court.Someone please file a law suit.

The Legislature Goes to the Bathroom I remember the first time I encountered unisex bathrooms. I was traveling, with a backpack and not much money, in Europe, staying in youth hostels and tourist rooms, often in the homes of women I w…

Gender-neutral bathrooms are commonplace in Europe. Why is that? What do they understand that we don’t? teacherinastrangeland.blog/2025/10/17/t...

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New York Times: "Military Plans to Fire Artillery Over California Freeway on Saturday"

This is a profoundly absurd show of force that could put Californians directly in harm's way.

Flying live rounds over a busy highway without coordination between state, federal, and local partners isn't just wrong — it's dangerous.

The people around Donald Trump are taking advantage of his diminished capacity to break the law.

Whatever they do now, we won’t forget — and we will hold them accountable.

In the history of the House of Representatives there are no parallels to what Mike Johnson is doing to Rep Grijalva.This is all new ground. Johnson has also had the House in recess the longest since 1948. His actions are unprecedented. His legacy will be of failure, obstruction and lies #ProudBlue

Everyone sing along!

🎶Don’t cry for us, Argentina.
We’re like Canada, only much meaner.
And we gave up healthcare,
For your peso to be finer,
So you could steal our soybean exports.
That went to China.🎶

Murphy: "If we want to win the argument nationally on the economy, then we've got to break our addiction to incremental economic change. And we've got to talk about big, bold ideas that reorder power in this country."

“You shall be judged by the company you keep.”

North Carolina Elections Chief Demands Voters’ Full Social Security Numbers From DMV Read more here.

🚨BREAKING: North Carolina’s top elections official is pressing the state’s Division of Motor Vehicles for unprecedented access to voters’ full Social Security numbers — a move that could erode voter privacy protections and lay the groundwork for mass voter purges

The Legislature Goes to the Bathroom I remember the first time I encountered unisex bathrooms. I was traveling, with a backpack and not much money, in Europe, staying in youth hostels and tourist rooms, often in the homes of women I w…

Traumatizing little girls? Normalizing behaviors that contradict families’ religious beliefs? Not being allowed to talk about it, in 8th grade sex ed classes, even if your parents say it’s OK?

It’s all abt what’s happening in American bathrooms, evidently. teacherinastrangeland.blog/2025/10/17/t...

To be unaware of one thing you don't wish to talk about is convenient.

To be unaware of *everything* you don't wish to talk about is either lying or incompetence. Or both.

Immigration agents have held at least 170 citizens against their will. Our tally--almost certainly incomplete--includes Ams who have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased, shot and held for days w/out a lawyer. It also includes nearly 20 children, 2 of whom have cancer. (ProPublica)

The Legislature Goes to the Bathroom I remember the first time I encountered unisex bathrooms. I was traveling, with a backpack and not much money, in Europe, staying in youth hostels and tourist rooms, often in the homes of women I w…

Traumatizing little girls? Normalizing behaviors that contradict families’ religious beliefs? Not being allowed to talk about it, in 8th grade sex ed classes, even if your parents say it’s OK?

It’s all abt what’s happening in American bathrooms, evidently. teacherinastrangeland.blog/2025/10/17/t...

Make it make sense. [Cartoon by Adam Zyglis]

Bad Taste, Unfulfilling I regret to inform you that certain political pundits and education reformers are calling for the return of "high stakes testing." Or at least David Frum talked to former Secretary of Education Margar...

'You know that the elite are fresh out of ideas when they have to wheel out a member of George W. Bush's cabinet to talk about policy proposals they promise (this time, really) will revitalize the country.' 2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/bad-taste-un...

We Sail Saturday NO KINGS! 🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🗽

It’s painfully clear. By refusing to swear in Adelita Grijalva, Speaker Johnson’s covering up Jeffrey Epstein’s global sex-trafficking ring.

Hey GOP: Bring back the House, cancel your health care cuts, reopen the government and release the files.

Beth Lewis: Neighborhood schools are closing across Arizona. It’s because of vouchers. - Network For Public Education Beth Lewis is the director of Save Our Schools Arizona, as well as a Tempe educator and parent. This op-ed was originally published in the AZ Mirror. Arizona is facing an unprecedented school closure ...

Last yr, 20 schools were forced to shutter their doors, causing uncertainty & heartache for AZ families. Kyrene (Tempe) considering shuttering 1/3 of its schools.Amphi (Tucson) looking at closing 5/12 schools. Arizonans deserve truth: It’s the vouchers

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