Ralf W

These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.

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When Rev. Black lowered his arms, agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid.
“We could hear them laughing,” Black said

“Every time we have been attacked with pepper bullets or tear gas or pepper spray that I have been present, it has felt like it came from anger that we were there, and not from any determined safety need or protocol,” Rev. Kardon, a United Methodist pastor from Rogers Park said. “They are unhinged.”

"We look at video out of Portland and we don’t see 'war-ravaged' anything. We look at news out of Chicago and see the principal violence coming from federal officers... As Judge Immergut (a Trump appointee) put it...Trump is acting in a manner that is 'untethered to the facts.'”

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We own two Dave's, though that's not either of our names (esp not backwards).

"Top" doesn't mean what it used to, huh.
[They're not sending us their best.]

History says this is correct. But the pitchforks will come for Democrats -- from Dem voters, if they do this shit *again*.

↗️ This!

Anchovy paste is sold in Italian food aisles for a reason! Use it (a dab'll do ya).

France's Louis XVI in his very excessive finery, on a golden throne.

Among other things, the ridiculous plasti-gold ornaments on the fireplace over his shoulder make his "let the peasants STARVE" proclamations all the more effective.
Just screams Louis le Désiré.

And he does indeed say that mass mobilization will be needed. I think the need may come soon.

If SCOTUS greenlights Trump directing Nat Guards anywhere/everywhere, the public response has to be huge. But I don't see mass awareness that this is a gigantic tipping point.

Crucial piece. Also likely to wreck a few more nights of sleep for me (what else is new?).

When he says "I say 'seems' because it is possible that, behind the scenes, they are taking necessary steps" my immediate reaction is NOPE.

The only way through now is people power.
It's mass movement time.

Sort of puzzled why Rep. Morrison or her staff think it's smooth to post a variation on AMA and then over an hour later not have even fielded any replies?

Preying.

I mean, maybe she also thinks she's texting her BFF Old Testament Guy. But she's preying on Portland.

A lot of words to day Pam Bondi failed to discharge her duties to the body that confirmed her appointment, further damaging the very foundations of the teetering democracy.

We need, in a word, virtue signaling -- we need to be signaling to one another, and to ordinary Americans, that this *is* fucked up and everyone *should* fight back. People need something to rally around & they're getting nothing.

Everything they are doing & saying right now is very obviously meant to clear the way for mass repressive violence.

Fact checking is not going to do shit.

Talking about kitchen table issues is not going to do shit.

We need open, unapologetic defiance & conflict.

I'll try again. How is this even remotely permissable? Can y'all sue? At least hold a hearing?

Turning Congressional hearings into Fox Nooz slugfests is yet another deep degradation the Trump Admin seems to be getting away with.

Senator Wiener Responds to Governor Newsom’s Comments on Transgender Women in Sports Official website of Senator Scott Wiener, representing California Senate District 11.

I should have been more direct: Newsom sucks on trans issues, homelessness, and more. share.google/8KkBCEESOtDr...

Oh, they pissed off a bunch of electric utilities people a couple months ago (per people in the room when he nuked a transmission line subsidy).
I don't know if or when business figures out that his chaos machine is bad for them.

The people he hurt will never forget, but the people he's trying to impress will always pick the genuine fascist over the plastic imitator.

And Republicans will make up some transphobic shit to smear on him ANYWAY.

and I think we have to find effective ways to talk about it.

Like, imagine what we used to call a Kitchen Table issue, but now Dad can just laugh manically in the driveway seconds after Mom and the kids think there's a viable plan for the year.

If the Admin can just refuse to spend Congressionally allocated funds, what term should we accurately use for what we used to call Spending Bills (or Budgets)?
This is not snark, it's a real question. Republicans are midway through totally abrogating one of the three legs of the Constitutional stool

anyway I shouldn't have to be yelling at the fucking Democratic party in my state to pull their heads out of their asses while the Supreme Court is hearing arguments about whether or not it's legal to psychologically (and sometimes physically!) torture people like me! What the fuck are we even doing

This is where things get sticky, and when pro-democracy advocates need to explain why democracy is an *economic* issue more than anything else. When the bubble pops, people are going to seek solutions. We need to offer them one in the form of pro-democracy, and in turn, pro prosperity solutions. 6/6

IMO it is bad that congressional hearings involving Cabinet members have transformed entirely into public lying and groveling competitions for an audience of one

This is your takeaway?

She refuses to discuss the Tom Homan bribe. Refuses to discuss the half naked women & Trump photos.
She's belligerent, obstructive and you choose that moment, as if she has a shred of standing to demand an apology from Schiff?

"Hack" would be a compliment to Politico.

He has no brain. It's just gone!

And the silence in the political press about the obvious, plain as our noses truth is just enraging.