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Vicki Long
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BTW: if anyone has additional footage of this incident that they're willing to share, please send it along.

My Signal: jackmjenkins.60
From the people that pretend to be Christian, they hit a clergyman directly while protesting.

They’ve gone from attacking marginalized communities to attacking the community in general. Now they are openly attacking religious institutions.
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Oh wow — this appears to be footage of the incident from yesterday, in which Rev. Jorge Bautista, a United Church of Christ minister, was shot in the face with a pepper ball — which may have exploded before impact? Or is a slightly different munition? — by an apparent DHS agent while protesting ICE.
From the people that pretend to be Christian, they hit a clergyman directly while protesting.

They’ve gone from attacking marginalized communities to attacking the community in general. Now they are openly attacking religious institutions.
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The day after Donald Trump announced his plan for a ceasefire, Israel struck more homes in Gaza City, reportedly killing dozens, including a three-month-old baby. In a new essay, @mosababutoha.bsky.social shares what’s happening to people he knows in Gaza.
There is No Peace in Gaza
Since President Trump announced his plan for a ceasefire, people I know have continued to be killed. One described torture during a year in Israeli custody.
www.newyorker.com
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The Bay Area does not need federal troops. Mayors and their departments need to be trusted to do their job.
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“If the West Wing is the mind of the nation, then the East Wing is the heart.”

- former First Lady Betty Ford

The East Wing is gone.

Over a century of American history, reduced to rubble.

All to appease the vanity of a corrupt authoritarian.
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A man was arrested for playing Darth Vader's theme music, "The Imperial March," behind National Guard troops walking through Logan Circle.

Now the ACLU is suing on his behalf. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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What does this mean for us? It means we get organized so we can stop them.

• Get connected to the resistance: fiftyfifty.one

• Get trained on noncooperation:
nokings.org/rise

• Get bold for rapid response:
nokings.org/next

• Get engaged in politics:
pol-rev.com

• Get started:
Choosedemocracy.us
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Remember when we were comparing ICE’s budget in the “Big Beautiful Bill” to other nations’ entire military budgets?

Well, Trump’s Nazi regime is using that funding to build their own army, and it’s not for deportations—it’s to incite fear and do whatever evil they must to remain in office forever.
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“While most of the spending was on guns and armor, Legum reported that ICE had also purchased ‘guided missile warheads and explosive components.’ … It’s not immediately clear what part of a good-faith deportation operation would involve localized destruction and murder.”

They’re building an army.
ICE Spent 700% More on Weapons. What They Bought Will Terrify You.
Donald Trump is arming his masked immigration agents with increasingly lethal weapons.
newrepublic.com
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"Destruction of federal property is a federal crime-18 U.S. Code § 1361 defines it as willfully injuring or committing any depredation of U.S. gov't property-Damage exceeding $1k is a felony w/ a fine-up to 10 yrs in prison or both"

Meanwhile-took me forever to get permits to repaint my mailbox.
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Donald Trump just did something truly awful and is hoping you won't notice.

He fired all of the special education staff at the Department of Education.

What kind of person abandons kids with special needs?
What kind of person abandons kids with special needs?
YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren
youtube.com
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About 50 protesters walked back and forth through the crosswalk to block the entrance of Coast Guard Island. A line of at least a dozen cars were stopped in traffic at the stop sign.

🎥: Sarah Ravani
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The shrapnel that hit CHP vehicles over the weekend from Trump and Vance’s military live-munitions demonstration came from this type of ordnance.

It’s no small thing.

This is what the White House thought was fine to fly over civilians on a major freeway. Thankfully, the Governor closed it.