MakeWinesNotWar
@michael-j-phillips.bsky.social
Politically Independent, Resistor, Writer, Photographer, Geographer, Travel, Wine Industry, Hospitality Industry. Fuck MAGA
August 15, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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"Mobilizing military forces into cities is going to be seen as an overreach, and it's going to be now met with peaceful, boisterous moms, dads, grandmas. kids and their dogs and families showing up, saying, 'we're not going to put up with this authoritarianism..."
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Planned ‘No Kings’ protests grow in number after LA militarization: What organizers expect
'The numbers have skyrocketed': protest organizers expect massive crowds nationwide on June 14, including up to 250,000 in Los Angeles.
www.usatoday.com
June 13, 2025 at 4:01 AM
"Mobilizing military forces into cities is going to be seen as an overreach, and it's going to be now met with peaceful, boisterous moms, dads, grandmas. kids and their dogs and families showing up, saying, 'we're not going to put up with this authoritarianism..."
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“As a veteran my oath was to uphold the constitution,” he said. “That’s what I’m here to do...
"If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem. You need to come out. A silent voice is just as bad as no voice at all.”
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"If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem. You need to come out. A silent voice is just as bad as no voice at all.”
www.wave3.com/2025/06/10/t...
‘They belong here’: Demonstrators in Louisville voice frustrations with I.C.E.
Signs read “Abolish I.C.E.,” “NO I.C.E.,” and “Louisville stands against I.C.E.,” just to list a few.
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June 13, 2025 at 5:44 PM
“As a veteran my oath was to uphold the constitution,” he said. “That’s what I’m here to do...
"If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem. You need to come out. A silent voice is just as bad as no voice at all.”
www.wave3.com/2025/06/10/t...
"If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem. You need to come out. A silent voice is just as bad as no voice at all.”
www.wave3.com/2025/06/10/t...
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SEN. PADILLA: “Saying I lunged is a lie, but that’s par for the course for this administration… I was behind the cameras listening, and at a certain point hearing Noem say they had to rescue LA from the Governor and Mayor was too much to take. So I raise my voice to ask a question.”
June 12, 2025 at 11:35 PM
SEN. PADILLA: “Saying I lunged is a lie, but that’s par for the course for this administration… I was behind the cameras listening, and at a certain point hearing Noem say they had to rescue LA from the Governor and Mayor was too much to take. So I raise my voice to ask a question.”
Right now, rail cars rolling into OUR nation’s capital!
Massive amounts of military hardware, wasting tens of millions of dollars for trumps #vanityparade.
DVIDS - Video - U.S. Army tanks, vehicles arrive in Washington D.C. for parade
Massive amounts of military hardware, wasting tens of millions of dollars for trumps #vanityparade.
DVIDS - Video - U.S. Army tanks, vehicles arrive in Washington D.C. for parade
June 7, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Right now, rail cars rolling into OUR nation’s capital!
Massive amounts of military hardware, wasting tens of millions of dollars for trumps #vanityparade.
DVIDS - Video - U.S. Army tanks, vehicles arrive in Washington D.C. for parade
Massive amounts of military hardware, wasting tens of millions of dollars for trumps #vanityparade.
DVIDS - Video - U.S. Army tanks, vehicles arrive in Washington D.C. for parade
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Over 70 legal experts have sent the Florida Bar an ethics complaint calling for an investigation and "appropriate sanctions" against U.S. AG Bondi, accusing her of engaging in "serious professional misconduct that threatens the rule of law and the administration of justice."
June 6, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Over 70 legal experts have sent the Florida Bar an ethics complaint calling for an investigation and "appropriate sanctions" against U.S. AG Bondi, accusing her of engaging in "serious professional misconduct that threatens the rule of law and the administration of justice."
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Share this far and wide. It will only get worse.
June 7, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Share this far and wide. It will only get worse.
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"Veterans know the layoffs aren’t about saving money. They’re about weakening the institution and ultimately privatizing and gutting VA disability funding, as spelled out in Project 2025."
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June 7, 2025 at 1:22 PM
"Veterans know the layoffs aren’t about saving money. They’re about weakening the institution and ultimately privatizing and gutting VA disability funding, as spelled out in Project 2025."
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THIS is what is needed everywhere these mercenaries wannabes show up.
These are supposedly “ice”?
Where are the badges? Their id?
Where on their costumes (clearly not real uniforms, way too bulky and overdone) does it say ice? They turn their backs to a crowd??
Wearing sneakers?
#deportice
These are supposedly “ice”?
Where are the badges? Their id?
Where on their costumes (clearly not real uniforms, way too bulky and overdone) does it say ice? They turn their backs to a crowd??
Wearing sneakers?
#deportice
San Diego neighborhood makes ICE agents retreat
June 3, 2025 at 1:21 PM
THIS is what is needed everywhere these mercenaries wannabes show up.
These are supposedly “ice”?
Where are the badges? Their id?
Where on their costumes (clearly not real uniforms, way too bulky and overdone) does it say ice? They turn their backs to a crowd??
Wearing sneakers?
#deportice
These are supposedly “ice”?
Where are the badges? Their id?
Where on their costumes (clearly not real uniforms, way too bulky and overdone) does it say ice? They turn their backs to a crowd??
Wearing sneakers?
#deportice
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The now 30 year old teenagers are back for the holiday season. #StrangerThings
The finale season of STRANGER THINGS will roll out in three installments:
Volume one: Thanksgiving Eve (11/26)
Volume two:
Christmas
The finale:
New Year’s Eve
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Volume one: Thanksgiving Eve (11/26)
Volume two:
Christmas
The finale:
New Year’s Eve
youtu.be/QlYrNC_1Xmk?...
Stranger Things 5 | Date Announcement | Netflix
YouTube video by Netflix
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June 1, 2025 at 1:47 AM
The now 30 year old teenagers are back for the holiday season. #StrangerThings
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This is the whole point of what Stephen Miller is doing with Harvard & other schools. It’s not about protests, anti-semitism or anything else. It is their plan, many years in the making, to dismantle the US university system. Schools must unite & fight together, not individually.
May 23, 2025 at 1:07 PM
This is the whole point of what Stephen Miller is doing with Harvard & other schools. It’s not about protests, anti-semitism or anything else. It is their plan, many years in the making, to dismantle the US university system. Schools must unite & fight together, not individually.
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The way Biden flipped the script on Republicans last time they tried to come for Medicare and Social Security. A masterclass.
May 25, 2025 at 2:56 PM
The way Biden flipped the script on Republicans last time they tried to come for Medicare and Social Security. A masterclass.
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ZELDIN: I understand you're an aspiring fiction writer. I see why.
SCHIFF: I understand your view that you can cut half of the agency and it won't affect people's health or their water or their air. That to me is a big fiction ... you could give a rat's ass about how much cancer your agency causes
SCHIFF: I understand your view that you can cut half of the agency and it won't affect people's health or their water or their air. That to me is a big fiction ... you could give a rat's ass about how much cancer your agency causes
May 21, 2025 at 3:28 PM
ZELDIN: I understand you're an aspiring fiction writer. I see why.
SCHIFF: I understand your view that you can cut half of the agency and it won't affect people's health or their water or their air. That to me is a big fiction ... you could give a rat's ass about how much cancer your agency causes
SCHIFF: I understand your view that you can cut half of the agency and it won't affect people's health or their water or their air. That to me is a big fiction ... you could give a rat's ass about how much cancer your agency causes
Now it’s our turn #8647
Bucharest is excited for their mayor, Nicușor Dan, to have been elected the new president of Romania!
The world is rejecting Trumpism.
The world is rejecting Trumpism.
May 19, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Now it’s our turn #8647
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Reducing funding for schools will not make America great.
Tax cuts for the rich will not make America great.
Tariffs will not make America great.
Republicans will make us sicker, poorer, and less educated.
Tax cuts for the rich will not make America great.
Tariffs will not make America great.
Republicans will make us sicker, poorer, and less educated.
May 19, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Reducing funding for schools will not make America great.
Tax cuts for the rich will not make America great.
Tariffs will not make America great.
Republicans will make us sicker, poorer, and less educated.
Tax cuts for the rich will not make America great.
Tariffs will not make America great.
Republicans will make us sicker, poorer, and less educated.
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Kicking millions of people off Medicaid will not make America great.
Cutting SNAP benefits which feed kids will not make America great.
Canceling funding for health research will not make America great.
Cutting SNAP benefits which feed kids will not make America great.
Canceling funding for health research will not make America great.
May 19, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Kicking millions of people off Medicaid will not make America great.
Cutting SNAP benefits which feed kids will not make America great.
Canceling funding for health research will not make America great.
Cutting SNAP benefits which feed kids will not make America great.
Canceling funding for health research will not make America great.
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🇺🇦 Ukraine will not withdraw troops from its own territory and will not give in to ultimatums from Russia, - Zelensky
▪️We are considering the possibility of another meeting of all teams.
▪️I asked Trump not to make any decisions about Ukraine without Ukraine.
▪️We are waiting for the Russian proposal.
▪️We are considering the possibility of another meeting of all teams.
▪️I asked Trump not to make any decisions about Ukraine without Ukraine.
▪️We are waiting for the Russian proposal.
May 19, 2025 at 6:41 PM
🇺🇦 Ukraine will not withdraw troops from its own territory and will not give in to ultimatums from Russia, - Zelensky
▪️We are considering the possibility of another meeting of all teams.
▪️I asked Trump not to make any decisions about Ukraine without Ukraine.
▪️We are waiting for the Russian proposal.
▪️We are considering the possibility of another meeting of all teams.
▪️I asked Trump not to make any decisions about Ukraine without Ukraine.
▪️We are waiting for the Russian proposal.
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Whoa! New polling shows that a majority of voters in EVERY SINGLE CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT oppose cuts to Medicaid.
Members of Congress should take note.
☎️ Flood the Capitol switchboard to voice your opposition to the bill from hell. 202-224-3121.
Defend Medicaid!
Defeat Cancer!
Members of Congress should take note.
☎️ Flood the Capitol switchboard to voice your opposition to the bill from hell. 202-224-3121.
Defend Medicaid!
Defeat Cancer!
May 19, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Whoa! New polling shows that a majority of voters in EVERY SINGLE CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT oppose cuts to Medicaid.
Members of Congress should take note.
☎️ Flood the Capitol switchboard to voice your opposition to the bill from hell. 202-224-3121.
Defend Medicaid!
Defeat Cancer!
Members of Congress should take note.
☎️ Flood the Capitol switchboard to voice your opposition to the bill from hell. 202-224-3121.
Defend Medicaid!
Defeat Cancer!
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AOC: The math is not adding up. Their claim is that one million undocumented people are on Medicaid. So why are they trying to cut 13.7 million Americans off their healthcare?
May 13, 2025 at 7:54 PM
AOC: The math is not adding up. Their claim is that one million undocumented people are on Medicaid. So why are they trying to cut 13.7 million Americans off their healthcare?