Politics, salsa dancing & red wine, not necessarily in that order. L.A. native, now in OC. Progressive, bilingual, 86 47. Good read suggestions? Focus your rage & activism on a Republican close to you. I focus on defeating Young Kim in CA40🇺🇦 🍉 🇲🇽 🇨🇦
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The lies' laughable implausibility is a feature, not a bug. They're not trying to convince discerning, skeptical, fact-based people. They're trying to give supporters a fantasy that validates their feelings and creates a sort of loyalty test, while flaunting the absurdity in everyone else's faces.
BREAKING: Belgium will recognise the State of Palestine at the UNGA later this month, FM Maxime Prevot announced, adding the country will also impose 12 “firm sanctions” on Israel aje.io/jw30im
🚨Let’s hear it for Columbus, Ohio! 🚨
Protest signs from our DWSOC Labor Day Protest 2025
And a yabba dabba doo to you all fascists! Happy Labor Day!
I had my New York Times op-ed today, but I'm also all over this story about Donald Trump, the worst unionbuster in American history. Trump makes Jay Gould look like Walter Reuther. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
An M.I.T. study found that 95% of companies that had invested in A.I. tools were seeing zero return. It jibes with the emerging idea that generative A.I., “in its current incarnation, simply isn’t all it’s been cracked up to be,” @johncassidysays.bsky.social writes.
WHO ELSE AGREES?! 🤚
West LA Freeway Brigade joined Civic Sundays and Tropical Meme Society for the #WeAreOverIt bridge action over the 5 freeway from Mexico to Canada! Fun morning! @civicsundays.bsky.social @tropicalmemes.bsky.social @indivisiblewestsidela.com #VisibilityBrigade
California Labor Day Protest 2025. We vote yes on Prop 50 soon. We organize, protest, stay vocal, and unite until then. Keep going! #50501Movement #Indivisible
Back when Donald was a failure in real estate, he was famous for not paying his contractors. He would come up with fictional fault in their work as an excuse not to pay them. Now, this unscrupulous cretin is short-changing the National Guard. www.rawstory.com/trump-infuri...
As we begin a new month, my law firm is litigation 51 voting and election cases in 25 states. 6 in Arizona 6 in Georgia 4 in Florida 4 in North Carolina 8 involve redistricting
Decent crowd at the HB pier, about a hundred people so far protesting Trump.
The Chicago Labor Day march is getting started. #WorkersDeserve
Happy Labor Day! Today we honor the workers who power our communities. I’ll keep fighting for fair wages, safe workplaces, and the dignity every worker deserves.
Find your people and SHOW ME WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE! DWSOC Labor Day Protest 2025. #50501Movement
Blocks and blocks of Chicagoans marching against Trump’s fascism.
great smile, Jen.
Coming up on #KTLA: I’ll be marking Labor Day with a look at how CEOs are being wildly compensated relative to workers. The highest paid CEO (by far) runs a car company whose sales and shares have plunged in recent months
They don’t work so you are correct in excluding them.
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
It makes me emotional to see Judge Sooknanan showing that she values each individual child’s life at a moment when this administration is doing exactly the opposite
For those who work in EU law, this debate is vital to the future of the Union. Can the EU survive with a dictatorship in its midst, using its veto on matters existential to the EU? Here are creative ways around the veto, honoring the rule of law.
Trump limits National Guard assignments to 29 days at a time to keep the called up service members from getting healthcare and housing benefits while on duty. And the NG troops are catching on. Stereotypical Trump. Don't give those losers and suckers an extra dime. www.rawstory.com/trump-infuri...
August 31, 2025 ORANGE COUNTY CA Irvine City Hall “DYKES AGAINST 🧊ICE🧊” Workers Over Billionaires Pre-Game Protest and Music Festival
Was the guy who crashed into him the husband or boyfriend of the woman Rudy was “rendering assistance” to?
Newsom responds to Trump’s odd post announcing he is going to bed early
I wrote about the humility of expertise and the arrogance of ignorance, the profound laziness that attends believing that you can find knowledge by ignoring the accumulation of inherited human knowledge, and the ways lazy arrogance fuels narratives of fascism. www.the-reframe.com/your-ignoran...
💯%. I've come to accept how morally depraved Donald Trump is. But I'll never get over how blindingly imbecilic he is. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
This is like letting an auto mechanic be the preeminent authority on fiscal policy. I hope these criminals haven’t thought of that yet.
As a doctor, I am disturbed by what RFK Jr. is doing to America’s public health system. It is time for medical associations, Republican doctors, and all who believe in science to step up and speak out about the lack of science behind these moves.
A circle jerk to be precise.
Just saw a clip on ABC news that showed a small Guatemalan child being led to a plane for deportation with her ankles shackled. This country has lost its soul.
At least 50 National Guard with long guns around Audi field and Navy Yard metro station as I leave the Washington Spirit soccer game. Free DC.
In DC, where mainstream media at? #dc #arresttrump
Every time I read a story like this, my anger is rekindled. These people in the administration are truly the worst.
The starvation crisis in Gaza is robbing parents of their babies. The Israeli gov't must allow greatly expanded humanitarian aid to enter Gaza, including baby formula. To not allow this is unconscionable. I join @pressley.house.gov & @pettersen.house.gov in urging Sec. Rubio to facilitate just that.
I heard it firsthand at Eloy Detention Center: women are given used underwear—causing rampant UTIs—and people with cancer are denied specialists. These human rights abuses are bankrolled under Trump with billions in taxpayer dollars. Unacceptable. We’re demanding change.
Perfect.
Irvine CA protest, August 31st, 2025. Cohosted by @50501oc.bsky.social & @ocindivisible.bsky.social
🌊 TOMORROW ✊ Labor Day Protest — Laguna’s Main Beach, 10am–12pm, Monday. Sept 1. Bring signs, sunscreen, and friends. Stand up for workers’ rights and our people—see you on the Beach! #lagunabeach #laborday
I can still shake a Dunn sandwich at these thugs, or is that illegal now, too?
JUST IN: Judge Sooknanan ordered the government to file a status report by 4 pm to address whether the children have been deplaned. DOJ blew the deadline. Now she orders them to show cause why they didn’t file the report in time — and sets new 6:30 pm deadline.
Connecting the dots is beyond modern corporate journalism.
President Trump’s travel bans are not about national security. They target populations he has publicly disparaged. bit.ly/45zhGJM
Everything is an act with this clown. Including the fake smile. The drugs he’s on to get him through the day are probably having less of an effect.
Please do, we deserve it for letting this criminal anywhere near the halls of political power.
Illinois is currently exploring the possibility of purchasing Covid-19 vaccines in bulk straight from manufacturers to make sure everyone will still have access.
"The lunatics are running the asylum."
Maybe he has an incurable speaking disease. How we wish.
He won’t let the press anywhere near him. This is getting weirder and weirder.
Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.
Kern County farm workers inspect the irrigation lines. The ground is bare, signaling the beginning of a new crop. #WeFeedYou Campesinos del condado de Kern inspeccionan las líneas de riego. El suelo está sin nada, lo que indica el comienzo de una nueva cosecha. #SoyEsencial
Israeli forces killed another Palestinian journalist, Islam Muhareb Abed, in an attack on Gaza City, bringing the total number of media workers killed in Israel’s war to at least 278, according to Gaza's Government Media Office. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/siqj7j
DC area folks — this non-partisan rally in solidarity with survivors exploited by Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell is happening Wed morning if you want to support.
Sickness and death terrify people. If these charlatans are making both more likely, it would be political malpractice to not push this message while also strengthening individual state policies to protect against these clowns.
New Mexico is overriding the federal government on the topic of COVID19 vaccines to ensure their residents can access them. States hold a tremendous amount of public health power. They should use it.
The entire fascist plot relies on us being terrified and sad. This is why they’re constantly trying to scare everyone with theatrics. They want you to see him as unstoppable and not as a 79-year-old with severe health problems who will die soon.
Government sponsored human trafficking is no less legal, and these DOJ criminals who are enabling this should be held accountable.
Thanks, Anna, you’ve earned a replacement holiday weekend off, for sure!
Judge Sooknanan: And again, I'm not going to force you to respond sooner, but if you need five days, my order is going to stay in place. I have done all I can to try to make a decision based on what's in front of me. The government hasn't put anything in front of me to counter plaintiff's narrative
Judge Sooknanan continues her monologue: And so, absent action and intervention by the court, all of those children would have been returned to Guatemala, potentially to extremely dangerous situations.
Judge Sooknanan: As I said at the start of this hearing, I got a call at 2:36 am [last night] because the government chose the wee hours of the morning on the Sunday of Labor Day weekend to execute a plan to move these children. That's why we're here.
Due process is a concept alien to and antithetical to MAGA and the criminals running the executive branch.
When she's done reading select quotes from the plaintiff's declarations, Judge Sooknanan sums it up as follows: "And so this doesn't quite line up with what I'm hearing from the government.
Sooknanan: Every one of these 10 children who are named plaintiffs speak about being afraid of going back to Guatemala. She reads a series of quotes in which the children express being afraid of return because they experienced neglect or abuse from one or both of their parents.
The government has argued that the children are simply being reunited with their parents. But Sooknanan reads from a series of declarations that seem inconsistent with that claim.
Sooknanan then says that she had an opportunity during the break to read some of the declarations filed by the named plaintiffs. She wants to read from them because they underscore the conflicting information she's received from the government about the children they want to remove.
This is the second judge in a week that has brought up the fact that the government can't be trusted with clear instructions - likely because the government ignored Judge Boasberg's order to turn the planes around last March saying "verbal orders from judges don't count."
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If you say 'heteronormative' or 'unhoused person' or 'food insecurity' you're basically talking gibberish and nobody can understand you but if you say you can see inflammation in children at the airport and that vaccines lower IQ or that germs are a myth you get to fire all the scientists.
George, to see things as clearly as you do is, unfortunately, a gift that is seriously under appreciated and in too short supply in some circles.
"'One of the things about people like Trump [...] is they like to accuse people of what they themselves are trying to do,' he continued. 'You’ve heard it said about Trump many times, every accusation is a confession.' "'Deep down, he’s a destructive force. Deep down, he wants to destroy,' he said.
"Conway...boiled it down to what he called the president-elect’s malignant narcissism, which means he is 'inherently destructive.' "'People like Trump, malignant narcissists, actually do, subconsciously or consciously, seek to destroy,' said Conway, a longtime critic of the incoming POTUS. ...
One thing that's particularly maddening about what's happening today—beyond that it's happening—is that when people talk about how we are moving toward authoritarianism, toward fascism, by a collection of narcissistic sociopaths, many Americans' eyes glaze over.
Flooding “blue” cities with soldiers on the pretext of fighting crime would be an unprecedented abuse of power that would violate states’ rights and threaten our most fundamental liberties. And it is illegal. bit.ly/4m6TG77
It’s like pulling teeth to get these jerks to answer questions and act.
Judge Sooknanan isn't buying it... The plaintiffs are telling me, she says, that the children do not want to go back to Guatemala, that no request has been made, and that they fear returning to Guatemala, and may be subject to harm
Knowing these criminals, probably.
He’s nuts.
One disabled Marine veteran has not had a primary care doctor assigned to him since his previous doctor left in the winter, his wife said. The VA “was never like this before. There’s a lack of staff, empty rooms, locked doors.”
Most underreported story of 2025: the absolute insanity of the American president.
Christian fundamentalist conspiracy theorists are besides themselves with anticipation. Of what? Only their fevered minds can say. Low grade mental illness is definitely a thing, been saying it for years with these folks.
SIGNS OF FASCISM 🪧
In recent public remarks about deploying the National Guard to Chicago, Donald Trump said: “I have the right to do ANYTHING I want to do. I’m the president of the United States.” Not even a King has that right. Certainly no president. Who knew a non-drinker could be so drunk with power?
But it was too late. To understand what happened, you *must* read @kimlanelaw.bsky.social's @jodemocracy.bsky.social article ▼▼ In fact, just drop what you're doing and read it now.
Life for Palestinians in Gaza has gotten worse under Trump, not better. So where are Jill Stein and Cornel West now? They aren’t leading protests in DC outside the White House, no rallies. Almost like the whole 2024 thing was just performative.
No doubt. But fortunately they are and will remain the minority in this state.
It’s true that MAGA are not insignificant in California, but the state is huge, and MAGA is still a minority in the Golden State.
7. Amazing! Why? Because in that brief moment, the Republican leader of the United States Congress sounded just like a Democrat would sound after being attacked by a Republican.
Since when did it become acceptable for federal or ANY police agency to hide detainees? If this isn’t illegal, it should be.
I’m SHOCKED! Ok, I’m not.
Just abolish ICE and DHS.
Torture is against international law. I would say Bukele and Trump are on the hook for these crimes.
“They knocked out one of my teeth. They messed up my knees. They messed up my ribs.” Now free, the Venezuelan men the Trump administration sent to El Salvador want the world to know what they lived through.
Join our virtual member meeting on Sept 7 where we'll talk about fascism in America, Project 2025, Proposition 50 & CA redistricting, & how YOU can FIGHT BACK NOW in your area. We'll focus on OC (some content is specific to the current CA-40) and everyone is welcome! www.mobilize.us/indivisiblec...
