Jono
@jonothemerman.bsky.social
🏙️ Chicago
🏳️🌈 Gay
🧜🏻♂️ Merdaddy
🟩 Progressive Leftist (not liberal)
👾 Gaymer (tabletop, board, and video)
🐍 Snake dad
🦸🏻♂️ Geek
🧔🏻 DILF in training
Starting a new journey here…let’s see where it leads 😏
Love talking with new people, hmu!
🏳️🌈 Gay
🧜🏻♂️ Merdaddy
🟩 Progressive Leftist (not liberal)
👾 Gaymer (tabletop, board, and video)
🐍 Snake dad
🦸🏻♂️ Geek
🧔🏻 DILF in training
Starting a new journey here…let’s see where it leads 😏
Love talking with new people, hmu!
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Colorado's protected public lands BELONG TO ALL THE PEOPLE of the U.S. and are available for their recreation and enjoyment. The Big Bad Bill being rammed through by the GOP would SELL OFF our protected lands to the highest bidders (billionaires) for the purpose of funding their tax cuts. 1/2
June 18, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Colorado's protected public lands BELONG TO ALL THE PEOPLE of the U.S. and are available for their recreation and enjoyment. The Big Bad Bill being rammed through by the GOP would SELL OFF our protected lands to the highest bidders (billionaires) for the purpose of funding their tax cuts. 1/2
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Chicago’s ICE field director Sam Olson just can’t stop lying to the media: “He emphasized that immigration detention is not punitive but meant to ensure court appearances, noting that detention space is limited and costly”
They are literally arresting the people *at their court appearances *
They are literally arresting the people *at their court appearances *
ICE field director defends agents after ramped-up enforcement, arrests of US citizens at Chicago immigration court protest
The head of Chicago’s U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office Tuesday defended the conduct and decorum of federal agents who have ramped up arrests of undocumented immigrants.
www.chicagotribune.com
June 18, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Chicago’s ICE field director Sam Olson just can’t stop lying to the media: “He emphasized that immigration detention is not punitive but meant to ensure court appearances, noting that detention space is limited and costly”
They are literally arresting the people *at their court appearances *
They are literally arresting the people *at their court appearances *
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This isn’t law and order. This is abduction masquerading as authority.
Cause good trouble. Necessary trouble. Protecting yourself and your community must always come first.
Cause good trouble. Necessary trouble. Protecting yourself and your community must always come first.
June 17, 2025 at 6:56 PM
This isn’t law and order. This is abduction masquerading as authority.
Cause good trouble. Necessary trouble. Protecting yourself and your community must always come first.
Cause good trouble. Necessary trouble. Protecting yourself and your community must always come first.
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Sixth Amendment - Right to know the charges and the accuser
- People have the right to know who is arresting them and why.
- Masked agents who don’t identify themselves are violating that right.
- People have the right to know who is arresting them and why.
- Masked agents who don’t identify themselves are violating that right.
June 17, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Sixth Amendment - Right to know the charges and the accuser
- People have the right to know who is arresting them and why.
- Masked agents who don’t identify themselves are violating that right.
- People have the right to know who is arresting them and why.
- Masked agents who don’t identify themselves are violating that right.
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Fifth & Fourteenth Amendments - Guarantee due process of law
- The government cannot deprive someone of liberty without fair legal procedures.
- Secret detentions with no due process? That’s unconstitutional.
- The government cannot deprive someone of liberty without fair legal procedures.
- Secret detentions with no due process? That’s unconstitutional.
June 17, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Fifth & Fourteenth Amendments - Guarantee due process of law
- The government cannot deprive someone of liberty without fair legal procedures.
- Secret detentions with no due process? That’s unconstitutional.
- The government cannot deprive someone of liberty without fair legal procedures.
- Secret detentions with no due process? That’s unconstitutional.
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Fourth Amendment - Protection against unreasonable searches and seizures
- Requires a warrant based on probable cause.
- Masked ICE agents detaining someone without a warrant or identifying themselves likely violates this protection.
- Requires a warrant based on probable cause.
- Masked ICE agents detaining someone without a warrant or identifying themselves likely violates this protection.
June 17, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Fourth Amendment - Protection against unreasonable searches and seizures
- Requires a warrant based on probable cause.
- Masked ICE agents detaining someone without a warrant or identifying themselves likely violates this protection.
- Requires a warrant based on probable cause.
- Masked ICE agents detaining someone without a warrant or identifying themselves likely violates this protection.
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When agents show up with no warrant, no ID, and their faces covered, it’s not law and order. It’s something else entirely.
And yes, the Constitution is supposed to protect against this:
And yes, the Constitution is supposed to protect against this:
June 17, 2025 at 6:56 PM
When agents show up with no warrant, no ID, and their faces covered, it’s not law and order. It’s something else entirely.
And yes, the Constitution is supposed to protect against this:
And yes, the Constitution is supposed to protect against this:
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Because in the United States of America, law and order means:
- You need a judicial warrant to make an arrest.
- You must identify yourself as a law enforcement officer.
- You cannot detain people without due process.
- You don’t get to operate in secret, behind masks, without accountability.
- You need a judicial warrant to make an arrest.
- You must identify yourself as a law enforcement officer.
- You cannot detain people without due process.
- You don’t get to operate in secret, behind masks, without accountability.
June 17, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Because in the United States of America, law and order means:
- You need a judicial warrant to make an arrest.
- You must identify yourself as a law enforcement officer.
- You cannot detain people without due process.
- You don’t get to operate in secret, behind masks, without accountability.
- You need a judicial warrant to make an arrest.
- You must identify yourself as a law enforcement officer.
- You cannot detain people without due process.
- You don’t get to operate in secret, behind masks, without accountability.
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Mob rule is when force replaces law, when agents act without accountability, and when fear replaces justice. It’s not about protecting the public, it’s about control.
June 17, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Mob rule is when force replaces law, when agents act without accountability, and when fear replaces justice. It’s not about protecting the public, it’s about control.
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Trump administration has crossed a line, there is no law and order anymore. And when you cross that line, you enter what can only be called mob rule.
June 17, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Trump administration has crossed a line, there is no law and order anymore. And when you cross that line, you enter what can only be called mob rule.
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There is no excuse for this. Violence against politicians MUST stop.
#wethepeople
#wethepeople
Brad Lander Arrested by ICE
The comptroller and mayoral hopeful was handcuffed while demanding to see a warrant.
nymag.com
June 17, 2025 at 6:51 PM
There is no excuse for this. Violence against politicians MUST stop.
#wethepeople
#wethepeople
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1/2 This is appalling in principle—and shocking in detail, if you Zoom in on specific parcels offered for rush sale. www.wilderness.org/articles/med...
Eg (shown in dark green) Forest Service land people use for hiking, camping, horse-riding, general outdoors-ing in San Bernardino Mountains.
Eg (shown in dark green) Forest Service land people use for hiking, camping, horse-riding, general outdoors-ing in San Bernardino Mountains.
June 17, 2025 at 2:13 PM
1/2 This is appalling in principle—and shocking in detail, if you Zoom in on specific parcels offered for rush sale. www.wilderness.org/articles/med...
Eg (shown in dark green) Forest Service land people use for hiking, camping, horse-riding, general outdoors-ing in San Bernardino Mountains.
Eg (shown in dark green) Forest Service land people use for hiking, camping, horse-riding, general outdoors-ing in San Bernardino Mountains.
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Trump is alone, humiliated, surrounded by loser supporters, and extremely angry. This is when he'll be at his most dangerous and will do as much as possible to hurt America and the world.
June 17, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Trump is alone, humiliated, surrounded by loser supporters, and extremely angry. This is when he'll be at his most dangerous and will do as much as possible to hurt America and the world.
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Under the GOP budget proposal:
The lowest income Americans lose $1,600 a year.
Billionaires get a giant tax cut.
The lowest income Americans lose $1,600 a year.
Billionaires get a giant tax cut.
'One Big Beautiful Bill' boosts highest earners most, Congressional Budget Office says
The Congressional Budget Office says the highest earners would benefit most from the "One Big Beautiful Bill." Here's how and by how much.
www.usatoday.com
June 16, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Under the GOP budget proposal:
The lowest income Americans lose $1,600 a year.
Billionaires get a giant tax cut.
The lowest income Americans lose $1,600 a year.
Billionaires get a giant tax cut.
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Protests over the weekend in Tampa and Jax were largely peaceful with no protesters arrested. However, police did arrest two MAGA dudes for threatening to kill protestors.
www.wtsp.com/article/news...
www.wtsp.com/article/news...
Florida man arrested, accused of threatening protesters on social media: 'Just run them over'
Eloy Garcia, 64, was arrested on a charge of threatening communications or threats of a mass shooting, a second-degree felony.
www.wtsp.com
June 16, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Protests over the weekend in Tampa and Jax were largely peaceful with no protesters arrested. However, police did arrest two MAGA dudes for threatening to kill protestors.
www.wtsp.com/article/news...
www.wtsp.com/article/news...
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Just to say it again, the Big Beautiful Protests (the No Kings marches) involved 5 million people and were likely the largest day of protest in America EVER. News outlets that downplay this fact, are lying.
June 16, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Just to say it again, the Big Beautiful Protests (the No Kings marches) involved 5 million people and were likely the largest day of protest in America EVER. News outlets that downplay this fact, are lying.
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President Trump and Congressional Republicans are taking a sledgehammer to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
The result:
The result:
June 13, 2025 at 3:56 PM
President Trump and Congressional Republicans are taking a sledgehammer to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
The result:
The result:
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@enviroprotnet.bsky.social sounding alarm for Trump shredding #EPA.
“The costs will be borne by the American people who will breathe dirtier air and those around the world suffering from climate change. The benefits will go to a very small group of donors."
zurl.co/ZgDii
#StandUpForScience
“The costs will be borne by the American people who will breathe dirtier air and those around the world suffering from climate change. The benefits will go to a very small group of donors."
zurl.co/ZgDii
#StandUpForScience
Trump’s pollution rollback rewards wealthy plant owners — at the expense of Americans’ health
Proposals this week to weaken EPA restrictions will help tiny group of owners while ‘the American people will breathe dirtier air’
zurl.co
June 16, 2025 at 10:52 AM
@enviroprotnet.bsky.social sounding alarm for Trump shredding #EPA.
“The costs will be borne by the American people who will breathe dirtier air and those around the world suffering from climate change. The benefits will go to a very small group of donors."
zurl.co/ZgDii
#StandUpForScience
“The costs will be borne by the American people who will breathe dirtier air and those around the world suffering from climate change. The benefits will go to a very small group of donors."
zurl.co/ZgDii
#StandUpForScience
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The Hortman family helped raise and train dogs to partner with veterans. One of the many reasons we will miss Melissa and Mark.
June 15, 2025 at 11:49 AM
The Hortman family helped raise and train dogs to partner with veterans. One of the many reasons we will miss Melissa and Mark.
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Vance Boelter was an anti-transgender Christian Nationalist who delivered anti-queer sermons in the DRC, in case anyone was confused as to his political slant.
June 15, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Vance Boelter was an anti-transgender Christian Nationalist who delivered anti-queer sermons in the DRC, in case anyone was confused as to his political slant.
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Trump's vanity parade cost us $45,000,000, which is about a million dollars for each person watching from the bleachers.
June 15, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Trump's vanity parade cost us $45,000,000, which is about a million dollars for each person watching from the bleachers.
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seems accurate.
June 15, 2025 at 5:17 PM
seems accurate.
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The Truth is Out There.
June 15, 2025 at 1:30 PM
The Truth is Out There.
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"When you understand that the 2020 unrest did not exist in a bubble, that it wasn’t just an anomaly but instead a continuation of the fight for Black liberation and anti-capitalism in the face of police violence, we realize there can be hope that another mass movement can happen again."
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What the 2020 Protests Can Teach Us About Protesting Today
"It is up to us to change everything. But, against the doomers, I believe in this moment we may be uniquely poised to do so."
www.teenvogue.com
June 15, 2025 at 5:50 PM
"When you understand that the 2020 unrest did not exist in a bubble, that it wasn’t just an anomaly but instead a continuation of the fight for Black liberation and anti-capitalism in the face of police violence, we realize there can be hope that another mass movement can happen again."
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