Something we need to keep in mind as we write for a wider, and possibly uneducated audience.
https://www.al.com/news/2023/03/archibald-we-all-get-screwed-because-americans-cant-read.html
#Florida teacher unions score milestone victory in DeSantis’ war on public sector unions https://www.orlandoweekly.com/news/florida-teacher-unions-score-milestone-victory-in-desantis-war-on-public-sector-unions-39705028 #1u
Newsom:
“And by the way, Trump, is not opposed to lawlessness and violence, as long as it serves him! What more evidence do we need than January 6th?
Reflect on this perilous moment. A president who wants to be bound by no law or constitution, perpetuating a unified assault on American traditions. This is a president who, in just over 140 days, has fired government watchdogs that could hold him...accountable for corruption and fraud...”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=linJzM49ldI
Digby says it all this morning (as usual):
"Trump wants to be a king, Stephen Miller wants to be Hitler, Russell Vought wants to create an authoritarian theocracy, RFK Jr. wants to destroy medical research so he can be a wellness and supplement influencer, Elon Musk wants to go to Mars, Pete Hegseth wants a drink and JD Vance wants to be a real boy."
https://digbysblog.net/2025/06/09/this-viral-post-says-it-all/
If you are talking to anyone who is in favor of deploying Marines to LA, you should ask them if the next democrat should deploy Marines to Dallas or Oklahoma City or Tallahassee to combat the gun violence emergencies there. That simple. That’s the litmus test.
Also, if we survive this shit and dems win back the government, I hope we can all come together to demand such actions until Republicans agree we need better safeguards.
If Trump is serious about ending the war in Ukraine, says Edward Fishman in Foreign Affairs, he needs to impose secondary sanctions on Russia. These hit foreign firms which deal with the country. In the Obama administration, Congress sanctioned foreign financial institutions that worked with Iran. Dubai and Istanbul immediately backed away from Tehran, and Iran’s oil sales fell by 60%. The economy spiralled, and the Iranians froze their nuclear programme in exchange for sanctions relief.
ICE pretended to arrest a 21 yo in order to force her to call her undocumented mother to come leave the house (where she was safe from ICE arrest) to care for her baby. When the mother came, she was abducted and the daughter was suddenly of no interest to ICE. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
JUST IN: Judge finds #Trump admin in breach of agreement #Biden admin signed settling litigation over family separation https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220385063 #Immigration #Fascism
"This is America": Video of immigrant-owned restaurant helping pepper-sprayed cop sparks mixed reactions
#LAProtests #ImmigrationSympathy #HelpingHands #RestaurantGoodSamaritan #ImmigrantOwned
https://www.dailydot.com/viral-politics/restaurant-helps-pepper-sprayed-cop-la-protests/
🇺🇸 USA: Measles Is Now Showing Up in Wastewater.
"So far in 2025, 14 outbreaks have been reported in 33 states, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). (By comparison, in 2024, there were just 16 outbreaks reported during the entire year.)"
Source: https://archive.md/R74j2
Seattle Police Chief Shon Barnes told City Council members Tuesday that he plans to stand up for the First Amendment rights of Seattle residents and expects to be jailed at some point for making that stand.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/seattle-police-chief-barnes-says-he-expects-to-be-jailed-for-resisting-trump-s-orders
#KUOW #News #SeattlePoliceDepartment #Politics #TrumpAndTheNorthwest #SeattleCityCouncil #Government #ImmigrationAndCustomsEnforcement #ImmigrationInTheNorthwest
#Via Asawin Suebsaeng / swin24
June 10, 2025, 8:42 PM
"I have a hard time mentally processing any claims that Los Angeles is a 'distraction' given that deploying the military if he gets pissed off and also expansively cruel immigration crackdowns were like the top two things he ran on in 2024."
The FOTUS IS that fuckin stupid!
“After Trump’s failed insurrection, he claimed that he sat and watched on television as his cult members violently attack the U.S. Capitol for 6 hours because he was powerless to send in the National Guard. He said that it was Nanci Pelosi who was supposed to request the guard be sent in. Of course that statement is absolutely ridiculous. The Speaker of the House has no authority whatsoever to command the National Guard.”- Truth And Accountability Project
It actually makes perfect sense when you operate from the premise of the mailablity of antisemitism.
The throughline is, no matter what, the real cause of whatever any society believes is its greatest ill at any particular time is “the Jew.” It’s the Schrödinger nature of anti-Judaism. The real culprit is “the Jew.”
For the Christian, the Jew is the deicider. The communist, the Jew is the greedy capitalist who worships money. The capitalist, the Jew is the communist. The Arab, the Jew is the white colonizer. The European, the Jew is the Oriental/Levantine race polluter and well poisoner. And in the world of the nation-state, Israel is “the Jew” among nations, the bloodthirsty, genocidal, pariah that can do nothing right other than lay down and die.
“If the Jew didn’t exist, the antisemite would have to invent him.” -Sartre
So this makes sense, because in the mind of the Jew hater, “the Jew” is always responsible for whatever makes them angry. For them, “the Jew” is behind it all.
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