Kirby MacLaurin

Obama’s message is clear: COURAGE over comfort. Don’t just tweet about rights, fight for them. #ProtectDemocracy #VoteBlue

Every one of us can bring a lawsuit…

Responses to why do you think most people chose to protest at No Kings. 45% "To oppose Trump's recent immigration policies, including raids, abductions and travel bans." 23% "To oppose Trump spending millions on military parade in his honor."

We asked folks, N=1166 national likely voters June 27-July 1, why they think folks marched for No Kings, offering a whole bunch of options.
The top selection - nearly double next highest - "to oppose Trump's recent actions on immigration."
Let's challenge our thinking on what gets people out.

Surviving, let alone combatting, anti-semitism requires recognizing that the white nationalists building concentration camps, running this regime are not valid judges of who is dangerous to Jews.

We’re calling for a Florida boycott over the inhumane “Alligator Alcatraz” detention site. Cancel your family vacation and choose a different destination this summer.

A better, more accurate term - “Alligator Aushwitz”

MAGA Republicans booed President Biden and called him a liar for exposing their plans to cut Social Security and Medicare.

Biden was right.

The American public is still sleepwalking through this; never seen anything like this. So we will continue to be shocked, gaslighted, and dominated in our torpor… time to move? Not yet, my tomato plants are flowering.

Great leader, and someone who actually follows Jesus…

Maxwell. White House.

Who else agrees with me

Let’s call job requirements for anything what it really is: penalizing and punishing people for an economy that doesn’t provide jobs.

This is devastating, but we must see it as an opportunity that we cannot sidestep - perfect opportunity to deeply organize, knocking our neighbors’ doors, convening town halls, holding house parties. It’s not “why won’t the Dems do something?” It’s “ME - I need to follow a PLAN.”

ICE “bounty hunters” dressed like they’re in a war zone to detain day laborers and a lady selling tacos at a Home Depot in Cypress Park this morning.

I’m so sick of these punks!

@anntelnaes.bsky.social

🗣️ The Senate is rushing to vote on a budget bill that has largest cuts to #Medicaid and #SNAP in history.
☎️ Call 202-224-3121 now and demand your Senators vote NO. Use the call script below. Get 5 friends, neighbors, family and community members to call with you!

I love witnessing waves of the future

AOC is a prime example of what a public servant should be - she actually cares enough to do her research, then presents the facts needed to promote benefit to the American public. It’s pretty simple really - but requires brilliance, utter dedication, and honesty. Bravo dear leader 👏🏽

Medical Research Funding — Unbreaking How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.

I urge everyone to read Unbreaking’s new page on everything the govt is doing to destroy & diminish medical research funding.

It’s the best thing I’ve read on this topic: @lizneeley.bsky.social & co have such done an incredible job.

unbreaking.org/issues/medic...

Welcome to the US, where public debate is "uninhibited, robust, and wide-open"! Remember not to say anything mean about any Americans and enjoy your stay!

at least he didn't do something truly reckless like try to forgive student loans

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.

The Trump Administration’s “Wars on Terror” – Old and New | Crisis Group The Trump White House is repurposing the potent framing of “terrorism” to go after a new set of enemies – drug cartels, migrants and domestic political opponents. Its words and deeds pose serious risk...

NEW:

My commentary for @crisisgroup.org on how the Trump administration has repurposed the terrorism framing and applied it to cartels, migrants, and domestic political opponents.

www.crisisgroup.org/united-state...

I worry that escalating war with Iran will be used to whip up more fear and hate for non-white immigrants, particularly those of Arab descent, and be used for unjust deportations.

BREAKING: Larissa Waters, Australian leader, calls Trump’s bombing of Iran “a blatant breach of international law” and “a fundamental threat to world peace.”

This isn’t diplomacy—it’s Iraq déjà vu with nuclear stakes

Allies are already using war crimes language
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Iran’s foreign minister:

Good point. Protesters are not being “sufficiently” violent to justify domestic terror by POTUS - got to jack it up.