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Happy Momo Friday

Trump Is Normalizing the Unthinkable: Federal Troops in American Streets, Breaking the Law — and Getting Away With It If you think this ends with L.A., you haven’t been paying attention. This is Portland 2.0 — but scaled up, and aimed at the soul of American democracy…

Trump Is Normalizing the Unthinkable: Federal Troops in American Streets, Breaking the Law — and Getting Away With It
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Daddy why are you outside the yard and we have to be in the yard?

Homeland Security Dept. accuses lawmakers of ‘storming’ an ICE facility despite oversight laws saying they could be there | CNN Politics The battle over immigration came to a dramatic head Friday afternoon when Democratic lawmakers faced off with Homeland Security Department officers as they tried to visit a Newark, New Jersey Immigrat...

"Under the annual appropriations act, lawmakers are permitted to enter 'any facility operated by or for DHS used to detain or otherwise house aliens.'

The law is clear that members of Congress are not required 'to provide prior notice of intent to enter a facility'..."

www.cnn.com/2025/05/10/p...

Trump Republicanism at its finest.

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How Social Networks Are Torpedoing Truth — and Democracies across the Globe Here's Joe’s take on the arguments Harari makes in his book, Nexus, and how they help explain the loss of trust and corresponding decline of community and democracy in the U.S. and around the world.

How Social Networks Are Torpedoing Truth — and Democracies across the Globe
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Happy Momo Sunday everyone

BREAKING: we won! A federal judge has enjoined the administration's shut down of Voice of America

Another success for the Constitution and for us @sddaction.bsky.social & our many wonderful partners & clients

More details to follow--stay tuned!

Today's Zen moment

Courage is contagious Jo Ellen Grzyb, a member of this Substack community, noted in response to one of my posts that she’s seeing a lot of the phrase “courage is contagious.” She mentioned Bernie, AOC, Cory Booker, Tim Wal...

In Important read today!
Courage is contagious www.alternet.org/courage-is-c...

Easter Sunday Momo walk in the woods.

Ahh Michigan spring. Yesterday sunny and today snow. Happy Momo Wednesday

About sums it up

Afternoon wrestling between the two girls

Emails Reveal Top IRS Lawyer Warned Trump Firings Were a “Fraud” on the Courts The Trump administration cited “performance” failures to justify its mass firing of IRS workers. But this claim was “false,” a senior agency attorney warned officials, because the administration had n...

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Happy Momo Saturday

Wait. What??

Ahhh spring in Michigan. 70 degrees yesterday and snowing today. Gotta love it

💙💙💙😊💙💙💙

💥MEGA BOOM 💥 to Krasnov and the #Muskrat! 💥

Never Ever Ever! 👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾

#Thisiswhywefight #Bluecrew #Resistance #Resist

The United States must convince Russia to do this [30-day ceasefire]. That is, we agree, and if the Russians agree, the ceasefire will start at that very moment - President Zelenskyy.

While the ceasefire proposal isn’t ideal (still need to work out security assurance for Ukraine,) it’s a step in the right direction. The ball is in Russias court. It’s not over but it’s a step

Today's Zen moment

Momo walk Monday in Michigan

8 U.S. Code § 1451 - Revocation of naturalization

#DemsUnited
I say that we send Elon Musk packing. Naturalized citizens can have their citizenship revoked. It is called the denaturalization. Denaturalization refers to the legal process of the government to revoke a naturalized individual's citizenship.
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U.S. suspends commercial satellite imagery service to Ukraine Maxar, a leading provider of orbital imagery, said that the U.S. government has decided to temporarily suspend services to Ukraine. Soldiers on the ground are feeling the impact already.

The Administration has temporarily suspended satellite imagery services to Ukraine after freezing weapons shipments and intelligence sharing.

This is just empowering Russia.

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...