Entire Fulbright board quits in mass revolt over Trump's "blatantly illegal" assault, who has begun systematically destroying the program, canceling ~200 scholarships awarded to US researchers for intl projects, most b/c of RW ideological objections. https://www.rawstory.com/trump-quit-programs/
RS:
'Doesn’t make any sense': Guardsmen blast MAGA governor over protest deployment
Gov. Greg Abbott's (R-TX) decision to activate thousands of National Guard troops for protests has left guardsmen scrambling, with at least one officer slamming the move as senseless...
Two Guardsmen expressed serious concerns to the newspaper over the deployment, including an officer who said they should "never have been mobilized in the first place."
https://www.rawstory.com/texas-national-guard/
Steve Schmidt:
Handcuffing A U.S. Senator Undermines Our Entire Democracy
“We live in a magical country under assault from a purile leadership, fascists who have revealed themselves and bared their teeth, and we must say no more.
There are no kings in America, so... march with your chins up and your hearts clear, certain in the knowledge that you stand on the right side of history, against something terrible, in defense of something noble”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41qhkhFeIOo
I watched a segment on #CNN with Victor Blackwell who had a USMC veteran, a JAG officer, who said “Marines aren’t trained to know the difference between lawful & unlawful orders.”
I call bullshit, Sir!
Military Training on illegal orders happens in👇🏼
1. Boot camp training
2. Ongoing training
3. Reality-based training
4. Case Studies “My Lai Massacre”
I also received Law Of Armed Conflict training annually.
DO NOT FOLLOW UNLAWFUL ORDERS!
I have the world's best neighbors. They met in Germany, where she's from. I call their daughters my granddaughters. I love them. They had a summer trip planned to go back to Germany to visit family and show the girls Europe. Thanks to the DC clown show, they've cancelled their trip. Yes, I'm going to the local no Kings really this evening.
"It’s over, Donald.
You failed.
Today was going to be your big moment.
Your dictator parade.
You thought all opposition would be destroyed.
You were wrong.
The awful weather in D.C. The war engulfing the Middle East because of your weakness. The millions of Americans protesting you at the No Kings Protests across the country."
~ Ben Meiselas
https://www.meidasplus.com/p/trump-tried-to-destroy-meidas-karma
CNN - Several dozen sidelined Voice of America staffers have suddenly been called back to work as the Israel-Iran conflict escalates. https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/13/media/voice-of-america-iran-israel-trump
@AlliFlowers @vij May God let 250 years of disapproval rain down on Trump's 79 years of dodging service to "God's own country"!
Happy Saturday without Trump! Enjoy something else!
#RuleOfLaw #USMilitary #DefendTheConstitution #DefendTheRuleOfLaw #DefendDemocracy #DefendTheUnion
ICE agents ram and tear gas a car with a baby inside.
#Republicans are going to get rock hard erections when they hear about this.
11½-minute video
https://youtu.be/0tNXPzQc-wc
One of #MahmoudKhalil’s lawyers, Amy Greer, criticized the #Trump admin’s legal maneuvering as “cruel, transparent delay tactics” meant to keep her client away from his wife & newborn son ahead of their first Father’s Day as a family.
“Instead of celebrating together, he is languishing in #ICE #detention as punishment for his advocacy on behalf of his fellow #Palestinians,” she said in a stmnt. “It is unjust, it is shocking, & it is disgraceful.”
@AlliFlowers Trump's psychopathic RINO club members are having a sense of paid or unpaid, rather than any sense of right & wrong.
Unworthy of congressional & any gov seats.
"This is the fourth instance where Pam Bondi’s DOJ has charged a Democrat who did not meekly collude in DHS’ immigration gulag: Milwaukee Judge Hanna Dugan, Baraka, McIver, and David Huerta (they had to dismiss the charges against Baraka, and he is suing for malicious prosecution). A pattern is emerging:" Pam Bondi's Four Political Prosecutions - emptywheel https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/06/12/pam-bondis-four-political-prosecutions/
Judge denies to order the release of #MahmoudKhalil saying his preliminary injunction did not block the admin from detaining him on bases *other than* Secretary #MarcoRubio determination.
[under what other rationale is he being detained then???]
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.njd.564334/gov.uscourts.njd.564334.306.0_1.pdf
#Trump #law #immigration #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #ViewpointDiscrimination #SeparationOfPowers #judiciary
In the US, a female economics student makes a minute traffic violation and is then shackled and transfered to a privately owned detention center… because she is an immigrant.
Do not visit the US under the Trump regime.
Ron DeInsanitis publicly incites people to commit malicious injury, normalizing vehicle attacks on protesters opposed to his psychopathic views.
Psychopaths like Ron definitely pose a public health threat, that doesn't belong into even the least powerful public office, but into the psychiatric unit of a maximum security prison.
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