Contrary Frog

It's not fascist to call fascists fascist.

It's not "dehumanizing" to say that terrorizing entire groups of people - which ICE does - is evil.

No executive order can change these facts.

However, people *can* mess things up for fascists by standing up for community and truth. Like this.

They Spent Years Covering L.A.'s Taco Scene. When ICE Raids Began, They Were Ready. "It's very personal to me," Memo Torres told HuffPost. "L.A. is home. So you attack my home, you’re attacking my people."

I got to talk with @lataco.bsky.social's @eltragon.bsky.social about his tireless documentation of immigration raids in LA, and how his knowledge of the city's street food scene makes him a better immigration reporter

Chicago ✊

There were more people at the No Kings protest in Boise, Idaho

Crockett debuts a new game called "Trump or trans," then displays a gigantic placard of Trump golfing

just so we’re all clear: the reason they keep using dolls as their example is because they’re trying to frame caring about material stuff as feminine and thus inherently shameful

UNDERWOOD: Do you believe that the US government has the authority to deport American citizens

NOEM: No, and we are not deporting US citizens

UNDERWOOD: Several American citizens have been deported

Neutral Switzerland 🔥

I love this so much…

also shoutout to every useful idiot who carried water for trump's anti-DEI crusade with the justification that things had "gone too far"

There are so many ambitious Democratic lawmakers who apparently don't understand how fast their star would rise with tangible, direct actions.

Before this week, Sen. Van Hollen was largely known only to Maryland voters and professional political circles.

Now, the country knows his name. That fast.

Please repeat over and over:

“Bending to the whims of a bully will not end his cruelty. It will only embolden him. The response to authoritarianism isn’t acquiescence. Bullies respond to one thing, and one thing only: a punch in the face.”

—Gov. JB Pritzker

WATCH: Sen. Van Hollen says he’s headed to El Salvador tomorrow morning to seek the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia—and to hopefully visit him in prison. "I promised his wife and his family that I would do everything I could 24/7 to try to bring him home. And that's why I am going to El Salvador."

Abrego Garcia's wife: "I will not stop fighting until I see my husband alive. Kilmar, if you can hear me, stay strong. God hasn't forgotten about you. Our children are asking when you will come home ... they miss their dad so much."

“Hey, hey, Elon, How many kids did you kill today?” admittedly doesn’t rhyme as well as the original.

But that’s not as important as Elon being responsible for the needless deaths of tens of thousands of kids.

You set the house on fire, watched it burn, and then lost your nerve and put it out. You now have a partially burned house. Great job.

we did a recent restock, but perhaps i should have doubled up on everything.

AP wins reinstatement to White House events after judge rules government can’t bar its journalists A federal judge has ordered the White House to restore The Associated Press’ full access to cover presidential events.

Take the small victories for press freedom where we find them. And this one is bigger than it looks. Trump-appointed judge’s ruling for the AP via @dbauder.bsky.social https://apnews.com/article/trump-ap-media-court-white-house-events-access-f346a0efe87c1dec4d6f90e6041abd09

A few thoughts about today's protests:

1) The April 5 Hands Off day of action clearly ranks as one of the very largest mobilizations in U.S. history, by two different measures:
-- total national turnout (~ 3 million)
-- number of local protests (~ 1400)

Marchers near WI Capitol

Protest

Big crowd

What we're seeing at #handsoff protests nationwide today and what we saw at the ballot box on Tuesday are not unrelated. The public is furious. It will not be silenced. And those who side with Trump and Musk—or refuse to fight back—will be swept out of office.

Large crowd in Daley Plaza Chicago

Protest just getting started here in Chicago.

The indivisible protest in New York is at least 5x larger than they planned. They originally cordoned off the sidewalk+bus lane on 5th but they've had to close the whole street, and it's not enough.

Tonight, we forced Republicans to take a simple vote:

Can we all agree that billionaire corporations like Amazon and Tesla - who take home over $1 billion in sheer profit a year - shouldn't get another tax handout?

Republicans said no.

December 3, 2024: Yoon Suk Yeol, President of South Korea, declares martial law as part of scheme to manufacture conflict with North Korea.

Dec. 7th: He apologizes to the nation.

Jan. 7th: Investigation begins on him for treason.

April 4th: Removed from office.

Yes exactly.

Wisconsin State Supreme Court PROJECTED WINNER Susan Crawford Decision Desk HQ

We deserved some good news!

Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble.
For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity.

What will you do?

Booker finally yields after more than 25 hours of speaking 👏👏👏

This is so on the mark. Does Booker see an opening here for himself? Absolutely. You want people like that.

Agreed, and the more we amplify what Booker is doing, the more we make it matter, in public perception and as an example to other elected officials. On the other hand, the more we disparage and tear it down, the more we make it not matter. It's not all up to him.