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“Parents who, after consulting with a doctor and a psychologist, allow their 15-year-old child to transition commit child abuse. The child is too young to consent!”

--Megyn R. Kelly

“Grown men who have sex with your 15-year-old? Big whoop! It’s not like she’s 8. LOL!”

--Also Megyn R. Kelly

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.

The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.

People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.

And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.

It's truly amazing how completely and totally feckless Democratic leadership is at a time when the GOP is malicious, incompetent and incredibly dangerous.

There is a moment here that needs meeting and no one in Dem leadership who seems to have any interest in even trying to meet it.

I have one like that. I call him Igor. I missed catching him in my living room but for sure caught him when he showed up in my bedroom. Ya. Outside he went and so far that's where he's stayed... I see him from time to time out there.

Pritzker: "When did we become a country where it's ok for the US president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything? Especially something we don't want. Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?"

This is Macarthur Park in Los Angeles. Republicans have turned the United States in a military police state. I could not even imagine what Fox and Republicans would be saying if Biden or Obama sent the US military to terrorize communities in Texas.

Not one minor or major outlet has reported that the white supremacist militia Patriot Front marched through downtown Louisville on July 5th.
Masked.
Coordinated.
Proud.
This silence is dangerous. We cannot allow racist extremists to feel emboldened—or ignored. Shine the damn light.

"When 8 men have more money than 4 billion people combined, folks relying on food stamps or Medicaid aren't the problem."

If it took 8 days to build a massive concentration camp in Florida then it means they could build and house the homeless at any point but choose not to

I know that Medicare/ Medicaid is Democrats’ native language & what they’re happiest speaking but I’d love for SOME prominent person to try the line “they increased the debt limit by $5 trillion in order to triple size of ICE & make its detention center bigger than the whole federal prison system.”

I will very, very surprised if by the end of his term, ICE has not morphed into Trump’s personal all-purpose goon squas.

Honestly, this is so much money and it’s completely unaccountable, very much feels like a completely unimaginable future, just the end of any America we know.

Senate Parliamentarian appreciation day! She BLOCKED GOP plans to sell off public lands, gut environmental protections, & force oil drilling—these provisions now need 60 votes to pass & 4 Republicans said they’re voting no.

This is momentum.
Keep calling.
Keep fighting. 🌲💪

ICE is also the fault of a complicit press.

How, where and who did ICE recruit? Why isn't every newspaper in the country devoting themselves to finding out who is in this brand new secret police force that now terrorizes America?

It's the definition of newsworthy. The answer is: they're afraid.

Masked ICE agents spotted swapping out license plates this morning in Bell Gardens, CA

AOC: Being taken is wrong, it is illegal, it is a violation of his First Amendment rights, it is an affront to every American, and we will not allow—and will continue to resist—the politicization and the continued political persecution that ICE is engaged in.

In Pasadena, CA, a Trump regime ICE thug drew a lethal weapon on an unarmed U.S. citizen for photographing his license plate. ICE agents are operating without identification, so citizens are bravely documenting them for accountability and safety. #StopICE #AbolishICE #PoliceState

#SanDiego #NoKings

I know there's a lot going on, but the Secretary of Homeland Security declaring that federal troops are in California and Los Angeles to "liberate" the state and city from its duly-elected leaders really is a fourteen-alarm fire.

Kristi Noem: "We are not going away. We are staying here to liberate the city from the socialists and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country and what they have tried to insert into the city."

Sen. Alex Padilla is then forcibly removed!

Maybe quit voting for their fucking bills then? Maybe quit confirming their nominees? Maybe shut down the Senate with the many procedural tools available to you? Maybe do something other than send sternly worded letters?

“ICE” as snatching people from churches now. Never forget they said this👇🏾

MAN AT CHURCH: “We don’t want this in our property.”

ICE: “The whole country is our property.”

No IDs shown, non-government out of state plates, basic tactical vests that just say police. Who are these men?

“This kind of thing doesn’t happen in democracies, and it’s becoming a routine part of our politics,” said Steven Levitsky, a professor of government at Harvard University, who has long warned that Trump poses a threat to American democracy. (Federal campaign finance records show that a person named Steven Levitsky who works at Harvard has made small campaign donations to Democratic candidates.)

I’ve never seem anything like this attached to a quote from an academic. But it is in keeping with the right’s contention that nobody has any legitimacy to speak out—or rule—against Trump if they’ve ever supported Democrats. WaPo is beyond broken.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Take a listen and seriously consider it. While this is not an uncommon practice, I am glad people are beginning to speak up about it.

This is what it looks like without a United States Congress.

Aside from the questionable conclusion of this answer, which is both stupid and dangerous, Mike Johnson was literally a constitutional lawyer before becoming a lawmaker.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement @ICEgov 📷Photos from today’s ICE Los Angeles immigration enforcement operation. Below are two photos. One shows a guy with a POLICE vest handcuffing someone. Next to him is a guy in military fatigues carrying a rifle.

Full photo. A guy with a POLICE vest handcuffs someone, alongside another guy in a plate carrier with his face half covered. Next to him is a guy in military fatigues carrying a rifle, no face covering.

Full photo. A guy with a POLICE vest handcuffs a different person., alongside another guy in a plate carrier with his face fully covered. Next to them are three men in military fatigues carrying a rifle. One of them is wearing a neck gaiter covering his face.

ICE appears to confirm that California National Guard are being used to provide security to ICE officers during immigration arrest operations.

New 14 words just dropped