Jeffrey Marlett 🇧🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸

Trump is — and always will be — Putin’s bitch.

Humor is kryptonite to Trump, so let's have fun tomorrow!

March, dance, sing, and laugh at your local No Kings peaceful protest on Saturday. #NoKings
@gtconway.bsky.social

Me on Trump pardoning disgraced former congressman George Santos:

"It's completely nuts, but he's completely nuts — and so is Santos, maybe that's the thing that joins them all together... Trump finds a fraudster appealing."

🛸 (@ltsmynature) on Threads One if by land, two if by DC

www.threads.com/@ltsmynature...

🤡 cabinet

Way to go, San Francisco!! 👏👏

He’s wanted to declare martial law from day one.

Bypass all checks and rule as a tyrant.

Many have speculated how he’d do it.

Now his gambit is clear.

DC was a test.

He’s using manufactured crime stats to send troops into blue states & cities.

This is not a drill.

Democracy is at defcon 1.

Whistleblower evidence suggests Trump judicial nominee Emil Bove misled Senate A third whistleblower has new information about a Justice Department official the president has nominated to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit.

Breaking news: A new whistleblower has shared evidence with lawmakers suggesting Emil Bove, the controversial former attorney for Trump and current top Justice Department official, misled lawmakers during his confirmation hearing.

Totally not a cult.

This is my Anthony Bourdain theory of politics (passage from kitchen confidential which has lived in my brain for 30 years, describing his first meeting with the obviously mobbed up head of his union upon becoming shop steward)

Trump is truly postmodern—truth is not a relevant concept in contemporary politics. Trumpism is an attack on the idea that things can be objectively true. Trump’s skill as a politician is he can bend collective perceptions to fit his interests.

Family pets are being left behind at Southern California shelters as their families face deportation. At Carsom Animal Care Center, dogs like Bruce and Coco are quiet, confused, and up for adoption. Shelter staff say they've seen emotional goodbyes as families forced to leave the U.S.

THIS IS NOT A DRILL: ICE has detained hundreds of U.S. citizens by “mistake.”

And now they want 100,000 beds and more planes to scale up?

They’re not deporting “illegals”—they’re running a kidnapping ring with government contracts.

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

ICE is about to get access to Medicaid records—a HIPAA violation.

Quick facts:
Undocumented immigrants don’t get full Medicaid. They only qualify for emergency care like childbirth or life-threatening treatment.

States like CA & NY offer limited coverage, but its’s state-funded, not federal.

Army veteran and US citizen arrested in California immigration raid warns it could happen to anyone A U.S. Army veteran arrested during an immigration raid at a California marijuana farm says he was sprayed with tear gas and pepper spray before being dragged from his vehicle on his way to work.

ICE detained a veteran and U.S. citizen for three days.

They didn’t let him contact his family or a lawyer. They didn’t let him change or shower. They didn’t give him a reason for his detention.

Under this regime, no one is safe. apnews.com/article/us-a...

Political Violence in America Is Here — And It’s Killing Our Democracy A deadly weekend shows how far we’ve fallen—and why we must stop excusing violence from “our side” before it’s too late.

A lawmaker and her husband were murdered. A senator and his wife nearly killed.
The suspect had a hit list.
And what did we do?
We blamed each other. We justified. We spun.

Political violence isn’t coming—it’s here. And we’re normalizing it.

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BREAKING: A federal judge reversed National Institutes of Health's terminations of hundreds of critical research grants that were canceled because of their alleged connection to disfavored topics, including diversity, equity, inclusion, and gender identity.

This is a major win for public health.

A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend”

Full emails below

Exactly.
Then: deploying the NG to protect individuals & the freedoms they peacefully sought.
Now: deploying the NG to arrest individuals and deny/eradicate the freedoms they justifiably and peacefully seek.

Not wrong.

Every accusation is a confession.

It's 24 days until July 4.

A good question to keep in mind is how something the President or federal law enforcement or a federalized guard unit does might have seemed to a colonist in Pennsylvania or Massachusetts if George III or a redcoat had done it.

Thinking of a hero I knew and admired.

Couldn’t help but notice that neither the Times or Post have a story up about Trump saying he’s not sorry that Joe Biden has cancer. I guess that’s just Trump being Trump ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The Trump administration is deporting people in direct violation of court orders, and calling it an “administrative error.” That’s not just unacceptable. It’s unconstitutional.

Today, I was denied access to seeing my constituent, Mr. Kilmar Abrego Garcia. If there is nothing to hide, cut the crap. Let his lawyer and I check on him.

Five concrete steps lead to a signpost with the word "HEAVEN" and an arrow pointing upwards against a clear blue sky.

real estate agent:
so, what do you think?

lady who's sure all that glitters is gold:
frankly, i’m a little disappointed

Today is the day we honor those who died overseas stopping the same thing many of you are ignoring here at home--fascism.

Goldman on McIver charges: "I want to know what prosecutor is going to put his or her name on that indictment ... Alina Habba doesn't care. She's a hack. She doesn't even know how to introduce evidence in court during a trial, and yet she's the US attorney in New Jersey."