Adventures in framing: Headline presenting this as a real-world question. Rather than as another sign of deepening vortex of narcissistic delusion and detachment from reality.

When Trump refused to send the National Guard on Jan 6, 2021 to stop rioters who stormed the Capitol, wounded 140 officers, and tried to block the transfer of power, he set his standard. Anything LESS than those bloody insurrectionary riots won’t trigger Guard deployment. Right?

No Kings in Bangor, Maine, and at a location NEAR YOU!! #nokings #IndivisibleBangor

“Why are federal agents able to escape that basic responsibility that democratic policing expects?” Dion said during the interview. Exactly.

Why would any foreign country invest in a nation that did this?

These young reporters wrote a perfectly decent story after the day's events occurred.

There is, as of right now, no coverage of this protest on the WaPo website or in their @washingtonpost.com feed. So, if you (you reading this) want people to SEE this protest, you must share it.

Washington DC - amazing 🤩 the crowd is getting bigger and louder! Awesome job of @freedcproject.bsky.social 💙

A couple more thoughts on this. There is exactly one crime defined in the U.S. Constitution: treason. The first definition is levying war against the United States. Trump is explicitly threatening that. U.S. soldiers are not only permitted, they are *obliged* to refuse an order to commit treason.

The labor market is deteriorating! For the first time in four years, the economy lost jobs. Our economy is in the toilet right now and everything in the grocery store is higher priced than it was during the pandemic. This is what losing looks like! Trump’s economy sucks!

Oh yeah, this will really help him win that Nobel Peace Prize. 🙄 Trump was a draft dodger and couldn't care less about our servicemembers, but he'll gladly puff his chest and warmonger because the consequences will never touch him.

Pro-tip. Destroy your doorbell cams! "The math rarely works in your favor, and you’re essentially trading detailed surveillance for pocket change while tech companies profit from your behavioral data."

🙃 #GavinNewsom #EpsteinFiles

WHY are they doing this? How is this waste? Reducing health insurance availability, closing hospitals, removing health information from the web, stopping vaccine research, and ceasing the surveillance of pathogens that are found in our food supply. You almost think they WANT us to get sick and die!

www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-... HE IS TELLING US TO OUR FACES!!!!! HE WANTS TO BE THE AUTOCRATIC KING OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!!!!!

Again with occupying enemy cities. Will he also address high crime in Louisiana, Florida, and Georgia?? This autocrat has to be stopped

Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” will kick 15 million Americans off their health insurance. But don’t worry: at least Amazon will pocket an estimated $16 billion extra this year.

There’s a word for this and it’s “cowardice.”

Listen as Democratic congressman Jared Golden defends authoritarianism in Los Angeles! We now know that if a city has too many "drive-bys and carjackings," it's time for Donald Trump to send in the Marines!!! Thanks, Jared!!!

The President is taking approx $1B of taxpayer funds from a military project to refurbish a plane given to him by a foreign nation, which he plans on taking with him when he leaves office. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/u...

From #DrummerMagazine in 1987. A portion of a letter from #PatCalifia in response to a review of a book that was in an earlier issue. This particular paragraph really resonates now. I have Advocate, Drummer, Playgirl from the 1970s and '80s that have interesting pieces AND pix!

Amazing what you can pretend to look for on a golf course. #ETTD #WTFAmerica #tRumpIsInTheEpsteinFiles

More Trump Insanity. "In late June, the Houston Business Journal reported that the Smithsonian estimated the cost of moving Discovery to Texas would be between $300 and $400 million, far more than the $85 million cited by Cornyn and Cruz in Trump’s massive reconciliation and spending package."

Tru dat.

The coup within the coup.

Trump’s National Guard Troops Are Questioning Their Mission in L.A. I would like to think all of them question being used as political props by a deranged power hungry mad man.

"Trump targeted his supporters who were critical of the administration’s decision not to release more information on Jeffery Epstein’s case, posting on social media that he didn’t want their backing anymore." Another example of how he demands loyalty, but discards those who no longer agree with him.

I don’t care if he doesn’t back this up with further action, in a normal time, this is a major scandal, showing the president of the United States has nothing but contempt for the first amendment, basic rights, and his fellow citizens and will act accordingly in various ways.

It. Won't. Stop. With. Immigrants. It. Won't. Stop. With. Immigrants. It. Won't. Stop. With. Immigrants. It. Won't. Stop. With. Immigrants. It. Won't. Stop. With. Immigrants. It. Won't. Stop. With. Immigrants. It. Won't. Stop. With. Immigrants. It. Will. Move. On. To. The. Next. Group. He. Hates.

By a vote of 51-50, the Senate moved to discharge the Rescissions Act of 2025 from the Appropriations Committee. GOP Senators voting no: Collins, McConnell, and Murkowski. VP Vance broke the tie.

Is this the same event where Donald Trump mumbled the wrong names and rambled about the Unibomber? This article doesn't mention this at all. Why does the NYTimes sanewash this man?

Donald Trump claimed that “Alligator Alcataraz” would hold the “most vicious people on the planet.” But in reality, it’s holding hundreds of people with no criminal record at all, according to reco...

Leaving a noisy pub in small town ME. Older guy getting into car with “Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War” sticker. “Thumbs up” I say. “Those other guys were traitors.” His friend leapt to defense not of Confederacy but of its veterans. “War is wrong and they are Americans who suffered.” 1/x

www.sfgate.com/news/bayarea.... Law enforcement agencies across Southern California [violated state law more than 100 times last month] by sharing information from automated license plate readers with federal agents, records show.

=================== GOOD TROUBLE LIVES ON Maine Events, Thur July 17 =================== Updated 7/13 10:30AM A national day of nonviolent action to respond to the attacks posed on our civil & human rights by the t2 administration. THE POWER LIES WITH THE PEOPLE! #MAINE #MEPolitics #GoodTrouble

NYC. Denver. Palo Alto. TOMORROW, you can protest against the tech billionaire who hides behind the scenes—Peter Thiel—and his surveillance company that empowers ICE’s cruelty: Palantir. This is just the beginning to another Tesla Takedown-like movement. Follow @purgepalantir.bsky.social for more.

I LOVE Justice Jackson. She is one of my top American Heroes of 2025.

ICE GOONS hanging out in the lobby of Glendale Memorial Hospital

What form of sociopathy required them to need a court order to stop doing this?

=============== DATA PRIVACY: What You Can Do About It =============== Your personal privacy depends on your awareness, tech controls that allow you to decide what to share, and public policies that take personal privacy into account. #RESIST theconversation.com/your-data-pr...

Snort laugh. We need humor

To be clear, these people are not being “arrested” (that would require due process) and “deported” (that would require being sent to their country of origin). These people are being abducted and trafficked to concentration camps, in the US and abroad, in violation of the law and court orders.

In America, speaking freely is a bedrock right that matters deeply to us all. You don’t defend democracy by silencing it. Speak up! #TruthBrigade truthbrigade.indivisible.org/s/mpO68uHS

I just left the Everglades Immigrant Interment Camp. No, I’m not using their ridiculous name. It was a very tough to witness humans in those cages. Every Floridian should be ashamed that our taxpayer money is being used for this.

Please stop calling it "Alligator Alcatraz." They are bullies who lock up brown people who are janitors, taco ladies, gardeners, and such, in cages to live in deplorable conditions. They sell tee shirts with this name. They celebrate the cruelty. "Alligator Auschwitz" is more appropriate.

Birds of a feather?

"We’re creating something even more dangerous to the country: A masked monster of a law enforcement agency, one uniquely unsuited for its new power, authority, reach, and funding levels."