I stand with the people of Iran speaking out and risking their lives to demand a better life for themselves and their children. The repressive and dictatorial Iranian regime must end its crackdown on demonstrators. 🧵

youtu.be/S6cgE6FOkQE Incredible!

Tim Dillon: " You have ICE — who the hell are they? We don't even know. These are people that like answered an ad on Craigslist. Who is joining ICE?… These are people who couldn't do security at a mall."

Truth

Everyone should read this. This is where we are headed if we continue down this path.

State’s rights. Prosecute this murderer.

“Exxon CEO calls Venezuela ‘uninvestable’ without ‘significant changes’
At Trump meeting with oil executives, he vows they will spend $100 billion. The companies worry the numbers don’t add up.” Reported in WAPO. We can only conclude that completely incompetent idiots are running the country.

This is normal. This is how a normal person behaves. This is how a psychologically healthy person behaves. This is what we need. ⬇️⬇️⬇️

AOC: “I understand that VP Vance believes shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, & I do not — That is a fundamental difference between VP Vance & I — I do not believe the American people should be assassinated in the street”

If only……

This evening's thought to ponder from Maggies Farm

Totally agree

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So Hegseth is also helping RFKjr with his awesome health insights for the country?

“Uphold and Protect the Constitution” SHOULD NOT BE A CONTROVERSIAL TOPIC

We should be ashamed and embarrassed to be a society in which people will willingingly, actively, point a loaded gun in the face of a fellow citizen. A free society should be one where government employees don't put a gun to your face when you're exercising a core tenet of said society: free speech

Appoint a special master!

Calling on mariachis! If ICE is coming to Phoenix as it’s been reported, we need to organize a large turnout of mariachis every single night they’re here, all night long. Not just a few, but a herd with a lot of trumpeters!

🥁DRUMMERS UNITE AGAINST FASCISM! 🥁

Vance has poor character as do his compatriots: Trump, Hegseth, Miller, Noem, RFKjr. They will be studied for years, not as statesmen, but as cautionary examples—poster children for the normalization of cruelty, the erosion of truth, and sacrificing democracy for personal and political power.

Great piece by my Cato colleague. “Since July, immigration agents have shot at least six people behind the wheel of a vehicle. The same playbook is used each time: the agent says they “feared for their life” as a vehicle was “weaponized” against them. Juries should decide, but we tie their hands.

We should all be channeling the great John Lewis. If he were still living, he’d been leading the charge. Protest on Jan. 20th and volunteer to register voters. 1 in 4 eligible voters are not registered in the US. Nothing is more strategically important than increasing the Democratic vote.

Renee Good forgave the man who killed her in the minute before he shot her. In the video he recorded she can be heard telling him “it’s alright” and “I am not mad at you.” Does this strike anyone as something profoundly Biblical, something Christians are very familiar with?

January 20th March should be the biggest protest march in the history of the US. March if you can to support our democracy. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

You know who the radical are, the extremists, the terrorists, those who want to tear down America and have no regard for sacred traditions like voting, the Bill of Rights, the rule of law, and peaceful protest? I refuse to normalize the Trump regime and refer to them as anything but radicals.

➡️Just asked both Grok&ChatGPT about paid protesters like Vance claimed today. “Short answer: no credible evidence has been publicly verified that large public demonstrations in the U.S. — including recent ones the Trump administration has criticized — consist of people being paid to protest.”

{gift link} www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...

Proclamation from Gov Waltz, a day of unity tomorrow, Friday 1/9/26.

“God damn them all.”

“Everyday these law enforcement officers put their lives on the line,” said DHS’s Noem re the murder of Renee Good in Minnesota. Should have added“….as do the protesters. We will look at whether the officer followed his training and policy. Our deep condolences go out to the family of Renee Good.”

This is how authoritarian governments behave. ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

I can only conclude that our country has been taken over by extreme radicals. The protest march on Jan. 20th is important, but nothing is more important than getting people registered so they can vote Blue in numbers too large to fiddle with.

She was an American, a young mother of a 6 year old. She was murdered by an ICE agents. Her car grazed him; this does not give him the right to use lethal force. The people of this country are going to rise up and come next Nov. and many future elections, there will be a tsunami of Blue votes.

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, Academic freedom is under significant threat. Chair of philosophy dept at Texas A&M wrote a perfect response. “Please note that my course does not “advocate” any ideology; I teach students how to structure and evaluate arguments commonly raised in discussions of contemporary moral issues.”

Acclaimed banjoist Béla Fleck is pulling out of three Kennedy Center concerts, joining a growing number of musicians canceling events after the board voted to add President Trump’s name to the venue.

What do these companies have in common? -Cigna -Comcast -General Mills -Allstate -Marriott -Hilton -Walmart -Amazon -Microsoft -Meta All promised after January 6, 2021 to stop funding lawmakers who tried to overturn the 2020 election. And all have broken that promise.

Jan. 6, 2021:

You can't make me forget.

I think the Greenland threat is a troll. I think. But it would sure be nice for some senators and GOP house members to speak up now and make it clear that an attack on a nato ally would lead to removal from office

"I doubt Senator Kelly will see this blog, and if he does see it, I imagine he will not be pleased with it. He’ll probably find it embarrassing. His humility likely makes him bristle at stuff like this. Well, that’s just too damn bad, Senator."

Still not distracted, are you?

Now you know why Trump won’t allow Machado to be President she’s a strong supporter of a constitutional democracy. “Her Freedom Manifesto, influenced heavily by America’s Constitution, is the best outline for Venezuela’s future. The details would be tricky, but she would easily win a free..”(WAPO)

The sheer hypocrisy along with the lack of shame in this administration shouldn’t surprise me, yet it does. Need to study Machiavelli.

I’m not even going to tell you what my husband said after exclaiming, “See what you can do with steamed milk art!”

What is the cost to American taxpayers of Trump’s foray into Venezuela? If Iraq cost us anywhere from &3-$8trillion, what is the cost&benefit to the people of the US? How long will we be mired in this so called regime change? How is regime change possible without a civil war and US troops?

So good….