Cynthia Terwilliger

This has always been true

Simon Rosenberg & Stuart Stevens Live | Trump Wants You to Look the Other Way. Don't. The MAGA budget bill is up today in the Senate and Trump is hoping you won't notice just how horrendous it is.

NEW on Lincoln Square: @stuartpstevens.bsky.social & @simonwdc.bsky.social take a deep dive into the budget bill that’s so disastrous it’s causing Republicans to retire rather than face the music.

www.lincolnsquare.media/p/simon-rose...

Our system was built on one simple demand: no taxation without representation. One man doesn’t get to decide who gets funding and who doesn’t.

RNC Summer Retreat 2025 flyer

It’s so on brand Trump Republicans claim CA is under siege WHILE the RNC hosts its Summer Retreat…IN L.A. 🤣 Rumored to be at the Beverly Hills Four Seasons Hotel. It’s all so ridiculous. L.A…Safe enough for the RNC but not Angelenos 🤣🤷‍♀️ At least it’s not at a landscaping company this time

‘America First’ Is Dead And Donald Trump killed it.

While Trump is purporting to reform the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, there’s plenty of reason to think he’s stripping it down to the studs instead—in ways that may be counterproductive even for the reforms he himself wants. www.thebulwark.com/p/america-fi...

That’s … a detention facility.

YouTube video by CTFORUM An Evening with President Barack Obama

Last night in Connecticut. Former President Barack Obama and historian @hcrichardson.bsky.social .
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIBC...

Idiots. Morons.

Senate leaders just proposed legislative text for a sweeping budget bill that would mandate selling over 3 million acres of public lands. Congress must reject this bill and protect our lands and waters from lasting harm.

The Assault on Los Angeles Brought Jorge Ramos Back After a half-year away from journalism, the former longtime Univision reporter and anchor is one of many Hispanic journalists rushing to tell the story.

"'After his victory and endless fearmongering, Trump counted on America to welcome his anti-immigrant agenda, underestimating Americans’ own capacity to feel compassion for immigrants. Perhaps, Americans also underestimated themselves. Until now.'"

Trump Media's registration for bitcoin treasury deal becomes effective Trump Media and Technology Group said on Friday that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has declared effective the registration for its bitcoin treasury deal.

Trump Media's registration for bitcoin treasury deal becomes effective reut.rs/3SPRa8U

Kristi Noem, Dr. Phil, and ICE went to this woman’s home in Huntington Park, CA at 6am to make a spectacle and you want me to be satisfied with @governor.ca.gov flowery words? Watch. It’s disgusting. Noem belongs in prison.

Exclusive: US Marines carry out first known detention of civilian in Los Angeles, video shows Marines deployed to Los Angeles carried out the detention of a civilian on Friday, the U.S. military confirmed after being presented with Reuters images, in the first known detention by active-duty troops deployed there by President Donald Trump.

The first civilian detained by U.S. Marines in Los Angeles was an ARMY VETERAN on his way to a VA APPOINTMENT

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On the left:

June 12, Judge Breyer writing that THE test for whether the US Marines/Guard violate Posse Comitatus will be whether they've engaged in "detaining" civilians.

On the right:

June 13: See for yourself.

Note: The DoD has confirmed the detention of civilian to Reuters.

No Kings. No Surrender. Shows of force can work both ways.

"Trump is attempting to set the military against the American people and position himself as being on the military’s side—in the hope that, when push comes to shove, the military will then take his side in any showdown against the American people."

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Why Is Trump Trying to Fire This Museum Director? If he succeeds, it could put the whole Smithsonian under his thumb.

"If one may quibble with some of its more political content in recent years, some of the charges levied against National Portrait Gallery director Kim Sajet by the right are far more blatantly and ham-fistedly political."

Wayne County community rally amid ICE raid at restaurant Newswatch 16's Emily Kress spoke with people in the Honesdale community who are shaken after watching three restaurant employees get detained.

"It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy” www.wnep.com/article/news...

Narrator: he didn’t

Exclusive: State Department refugee office to assume USAID's disaster aid role, says cable The State Department office that handles refugee issues and works to cut illegal migration will lead the U.S. response to overseas disasters, according to excerpts from an internal department cable, a role for which experts say it lacks the knowhow and personnel.

Exclusive: State Department refugee office to assume USAID's disaster aid role, says cable reut.rs/3Fqa0QL

Medicaid changes in managers amendment are out and the drive to kill the ACA Medicaid expansion by a 1000 cuts accelerates.
1. Work requirement moved up to 12/26 with state option to go earlier
2. State directed payments limited more tightly for expansion states

Trump made $400m from his dinner tomorrow night. Along with the plane + improvements the dude pocketed $1b this week leveraging the Presidency. $1 billion - while he cuts health care for seniors and working people and raises prices on all of us.

You know, the USA seems like a bad reality show that everyone, including the military, are just letting a bunch of criminals take over. Then, on the other hand, people are putting a wonderful human being down, President Biden, who only did what he felt was best for the USA. He did so much right!

The Gulf of Anti-America How Donald Trump demeaned our country and its values in his tour of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE.

How Donald Trump demeaned our country and its values in his tour of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE.

This is a must read from @saletan.bsky.social

exactly

Robert “Ed” Smylie, the NASA official who saved the Apollo 13 crew in 1970, has died at 95. He cobbled together an apparatus made of cardboard, plastic bags and duct tape after an explosion crippled the spacecraft as it sped toward the moon. nyti.ms/3Sbusb3

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