Deborah L Phillips •empathy•courage •gratitude

I have said it all along. He is intentionally provoking people trying to get the reaction he needs to invoke Martial Law and use force against Americans. He is just itching for a riot or some act of violence to use as his excuse to do so.

Q: We've seen images out of Chicago of federal agents shooting faith leaders with pepper balls and arresting journalists. Where's the limit for you on what's acceptable conduct by federal agents?

MIKE JOHNSON: I've not seen them cross the line yet.

Here are the vitally important questions Congress must ask of Time magazine. (Full details in today's column: www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...)

Hamas leadership just announced they killed 27 people in broad daylight because—wait, my mistake.

Trump announces he's drone killed 27 Venezuelans on boats, claiming without evidence that they were "narcoterrorists," & refusing to answer what gives him authority.

He WILL deploy this on US citizens

I’m an Oregon resident. Thank you, California AG Bonta for keeping Oregonians safe from attack by federalized troops.

Majority of Calif. voters back Prop 50 in new poll News: We’ve got some fresh polling on California’s redistricting ballot initiative ahead of the Nov. 4 election.

Encouraging news to start the day.

54% of Californians support the redistricting Prop 50 measure while only 36% oppose.

This comes as CA voters have already started to receive and return their ballots.

Leave nothing to chance, though.

We need every last vote.
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The end of federal funding for NPR stations cuts deep in Trump country It’s beyond bizarre that the federal funding cuts are going to devastate stations in places that put Trump back in offic

For communities in West Virginia and beyond, NPR has long served as a vital connector — linking residents to local and national news. Jeff Nesbit explains the harm of Trump’s decision to end federal funding for public broadcasting.

Using massive Medicaid and Medicare fraud.

If ICE agents are proud of what they're doing, then why do they cover their faces like cowards, refuse to identify themselves, and hide behind anonymity?

Dynamic Couple

THIS.

Primary enemies of American Presidents. 👇

I’m horrified by Trump’s order to send 300 National Guard troops to Chicago. We’re only nine months into a four year term and already the president is trying to invade an American city. If you’re in the Guard, you can and should refuse these orders.

If U.S. states have any degree of sovereignty, if there’s any states’ rights at all, it is the right not to be invaded by the armed forces of another U.S. state.

The image is an X post by Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney ) on X.com, reporting: "BREAKING: Immergut has granted Oregon and California's motion to block the new call-up of Guard troops to Portland. She says this effort to bring CA and TX troops to Oregon is in 'direct contravention' of her original order." The post includes a verified badge.

Thanks to the quick work by the judge here to stop this out of control White House.

It really is staggering to see so many people willing to abandon our 249 year experiment in democracy for an increasingly unstable criminally convicted reality show charlatan.

The thing that makes me the sickest is that these folks don’t even have a shred of compassion. It’s one thing to enforce laws and rules. It’s another to do it gleefully and celebrate the suffering of someone born into poverty and desperation

Former FCC Chair Wheeler: An autocrat's favorite tool is a monopoly on telling the story. And if you can control the people who tell that story, then you've got an autocrat's greatest dream.

Donald Trump keeps declaring war on blue states as though those states don’t have any GOP representation, and vulnerable representation at that.

It’s particularly ill-advised in California given that CA voters are now receiving ballots that allow them to give Trump a 🖕 directly in 4 weeks.

Beachfront home of South Carolina judge, ex-senator burned to ground, injuring 3 Ex-senator Arnold Goodstein, along with two additional people, were rescued by several neighbors and paramedics from a marshy, remote area behind the home after jumping from the fist floor.

No indication yet from major media that the FBI has any interest whatsoever in investigating this apparent attempted assassination of a well-known judge openly targeted on social media by the far-right activist—Harmeet Dhillon—currently calling herself Assistant Attorney General of the United States

We need to ensure that all kids get at least one decent meal a day. Hungry kids can't learn. Why is this such a hard concept for some people to handle?

He could’ve fought, but he faked bone spurs. So someone else had to go in his place - most likely a working class kid whose daddy couldn’t afford to bribe a doctor. Now he’s talking shit about how it should’ve been fought.