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YpsiGal 🇺🇸🌎☮️
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I believe in science, facts, democracy & the rule of law. 💙🇺🇸💙🇺🇸🌎🇺🇸💙🇺🇸💙 We won't go down without a fight. #DemsDeliverForThePeople Republicans deliver for the wealthy and corporations-ALWAYS!
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"Technologies purchased by ICE in recent weeks include spyware that can hack into smartphones remotely and cellphone location software that can enable the tracking of a phone’s movements without a court warrant..."

www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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OK, so our "Secretary of War" currently has two big priorities: (1) murdering innocent fishermen in the Caribbean, and (2) endangering the lives of commuters in Southern California.

Perhaps, we are seeing one of the downsides to having a drunk TV talk show chatterbox running our military.
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I'm sure that Trump being *obsessed* with undermining Venezuela has NOTHING to do with the fact that it competes with his authoritarian pals in Russia and Saudi Arabia in selling oil.
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FOUNDATIONAL DOCUMENTS:

Republican Party: Project 2025.

Democratic Party: The Constitution.
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one category of show prep material for TRMS staff is something we've always called "subway reading".

it's something that's not exactly current events or new reporting... but nevertheless relevant food for thought given the news we're in.

today's subway reading:

www.bbc.com/future/artic...
The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world
Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change.
www.bbc.com
Everything with the Trump administration is either corrupt or shady.
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An immigration agent to a protester who was filming their vehicle’s license plate: “You can record all you want. We change the plates out every day.”
We desperately need the professionals in authoritarian takeover, to tell us what to do next to curtail it ASAP!!!

The protest showed Americans are not happy with Trump and his lawless administration.

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The networks took the much smaller Tea Party movement so seriously they broadcast a Tea Party rebuttal to Obama’s 2011 SOTU on top of the normal GOP one.
Reminder: We spent YEARS reading thousands and thousands of articles on the Tea Party and how it was a true expression of the American people's will, and it never mounted anything nearly as big as Saturday's No Kings rallies. [1/3]
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“We found over 35 cases in which the judges have specifically said what the government is providing…false information. It might be intentionally false information, including false sworn declarations time and again," says Ryan Goodman, law professor at New York University.
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I’m absolutely exhausted in the best possible way. I love us. We did it! #NoKings
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Sharing this 102 year old WW2 Vet who is fighting fascism a second time.
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Four bull elk took time away from mating to join the No Kings protest in Estes Park, Colorado. That’s how serious this is.
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If you think I'm exaggerating, read this ProPublica report in which national security experts say ICE is "an unfettered and unaccountable national police force" that "could eventually be turned against any groups the administration labels a threat." 2/2
How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force
Trump’s DHS appointees have dismantled civil rights guardrails, protected agents’ anonymity and encouraged them to wear masks, threatened groups that stood in their way, and overwhelmed legal challeng...
www.propublica.org
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An astonishingly large crowd!
Chicago
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They're carrying the Constitution
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Americans would be wise to understand what the Stasi was. The East German secret police "sought to infiltrate every institution of society and every aspect of daily life," with files on 6 million citizens, more than 1/3rd of the population. The Trump regime is building its version of the Stasi. 1/2
Stasi | Meaning, Facts, Methods, & Files | Britannica
Stasi, secret police agency of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany). It sought to infiltrate every institution of society and every aspect of daily life, including even intimate personal and ...
www.britannica.com
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I repeat myself: this is a town of 6000 people in Waldo County, Maine