Could there be a clearer metaphor for our country nowadays?

I mean, how could they have known Trump is a fucking monster …. 

#politics #uspolitics #bbc #news #trump #DonaldTrump #gop #republicans #MAGA #uspol #nokings #iran #israel #gaza #ww3

#Democrats want for new leadership, esp at the #DNC.

Dems' dissatisfaction is playing out in leadership changes, incl this wk's resignation of R Weingarten -pres of the American Federation of Teachers, from the DNC *in a resignation letter to CHM Martin: she felt "out of step with the you're forging."

A new Reuters/Ipsos poll found that Dems want the party to focus on their day-to-day needs & want wealthier Americans to pay more in taxes.
#USPol
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/democrats-want-new-leaders-focus-pocketbook-issues-reutersipsos-poll-finds-2025-06-19/

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/19/dnc-chair-ken-martin-infighting-00413409

I wrote about the second strangulation of the Voice of America hours before the US attack on Iran. The piece was quoted by AP and BBC. It's even more relevant now considering that VOA Farsi has been reduced to a skeleton. https://newsguy.substack.com/p/zombie-version-of-voa-slain-again

"The idea that we are getting bogged down in yet another war in the Middle East, after having finally and painfully exited two protracted wars in the region earlier this century, is stomach turning. That it came from a president who promised 'no more wars' is a deep betrayal to many of his most ardent followers, though they are unlikely to ultimately abandon him over it.

They are, after all, in a cult."

~ Jay Kuo

#Trump #Iran #war #MAGA
/27

https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/trumps-war

"Trump’s Presidency is failing and unpopular, and he had to do something. Elon attacked and emasculated him, and made him weak and stupid. Global leaders are not bending the knee, and there has been no 90 trade deals in 90 days. Putin is treating him like a coffee boy, and Zelensky has made him look like a clown."

~ Simon Rosenberg

#Trump #Iran #war
/24

Federal ICE and immigration agents are getting protested at hotels they are staying at.

"People now frequently turn out in the evenings at hotels where ICE agents are believed to be staying, to bang on pots and pans and play sounds on bullhorns to prevent the agents from having a good night’s sleep."

Agents are also aggressively interviewing the hotel worker, cooks, housekeeping, etc regarding their immigration statuses. Hello, haven't they heard about "Don't piss off the cook that prepares your food?"

#ice #deportation #immigration #USPol

https://lapublicpress.org/2025/06/federal-agents-stay-at-la-area-hotels/

The People Being #Disappeared by #ICE in #LosAngeles

As communities across Southern #California document & #protest the escalating #raids, loved ones grapple with the unimaginable.

In Los Angeles in recent weeks, a popular phrase has been revived on protest signs & social-media posts: “Solo el pueblo salva al pueblo,” or, “only the people can save the people.”

#Trump #law #immigration #TheCrueltyIsThePoint
https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-los-angeles/the-people-being-disappeared-by-ice-in-los-angeles

“We saw #ICE agents on farms, pointing assault rifles at cows, and removing half the workforce.”

These immigration raids are impacting red states & red areas of the country,
& everyone in the nation depends on the immigrant WF for their food. Yet most GOP MOC aren’t calling on Trump to stop detaining & deporting hard-working undocumented #immigrants.
#TrumpRegime #StephenMiller #DHS #Detention #Deportations #DueProcess #Resist #USPol
https://apnews.com/article/trump-immigration-ice-raids-undocumented-workers-aa451dc90dda76004fdc5636b21bde97

#ICE took her mother in Chicago.💔Now a 6-yr-old is left w/o a guardian or a legal path to reunite in Honduras.

A story about the children left behind by #deportations +lack of INFRA to care for them in the US or for reunification.

I thought about apologizing for the heartbreaking articles I post, but I believe the more they're amplified, the better. The world needs to know of the atrocities occurring here, & the🚨perpetrators: #TrumpRegime, #StephenMiller, Rs...
#USPol https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/22/ice-chicago-honduras-mother-child/

5/5 "This is a moment for resistance and for accountability, in whatever ways are possible today, and more forcefully once the people can take our country back. And it starts with this basic understanding: that Trump is revealing the fallacy behind “strongman” rule.

He bombed Iran because he is a weak man."

I deeply resent the fact that I have to spend time otherwise needed to help solve serious #climate and #water problems to trying to defend America, science, and democracy from homegrown fascists, ideologues,war mongers, and just plain dangerous idiots. But here we are.

"Where’s the nationwide INJ against what #ICE is doing? There’s clearly a conspiracy against the CON.

Imagine if Biden shut down 80% of ICE & shifted all the agents to the ATF to do gun chks in TX. That's exactly what has happened in reverse since Jan. We don't live in a country where the rule of law has meaning. We'll fix this w the Rule of Law Act of 2029."

This is the GOP. Explicitly for purging citizens from America...🚨It’s closer to ethnic cleansing.
-D Bier
#USPol
https://abc7.com/post/us-citizen-arrested-federal-agents-says-he-heard-bragging-how-many-people-grabbed/16804805/

Really good commentary and information from Rebecca Solnit on Trump bombing Iran. Highly recommended. https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/were-at-war-and-were-not-because-only-congress-can-declare-war-some-notes-tonight/

The #UN’s office for the coordination of #humanitarian affairs said Sunday that it is witnessing “a chilling pattern of Israeli forces opening fire on crowds gathering to get food” in #Gaza.

#Israel began allowing food into Gaza this past month after cutting it off completely for 10 weeks. Most of the supplies go to the #GazaHumanitarianFoundation, an Israeli & #US backed private contractor, which operates 4 food distribution points inside Israeli military zones.

https://apnews.com/live/israel-iran-war-updates#00000197-9897-d77f-a797-ffbf34000000

J6 crew going full mask off nazi to a rousing chorus of fake #iran bombing videos

p.s. this guy is running for congress and i won't be surprised if he at least wins the primary

#JakeLang #J6 #january6th #pardons #uspol #uspolitics #nazis #fascism #christiannationalist #christiannationalism #muslims #WWIII #israel

If Will Bunch wrote it, you should read it.©

" #Trump said you can measure a presidency by the wars you avoid, and for once he was right. Saturday's Iran bombing was the exclamation point on his abject failure

Trump is copying dictators from Mussolini to Putin in seeking glory through pointless war"

1/...

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/donald-trump-bombs-iran-20250622.html

The Dangerous Consequences of Donald Trump’s Strikes in #Iran

Why even a successful attack might do less to curb the Islamic Republic’s #nuclear ambitions than a diplomatic deal would have.

On Saturday, #Trump brought the #UnitedStates into #Israel’s #war against Iran. American planes & submarines struck 3 sites in Iran, including 2 nuclear enrichment facilities—at #Natanz & #Fordow—& a complex near #Isfahan that was believed to contain stores of uranium.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/the-dangerous-consequences-of-donald-trumps-strikes-in-iran

This is incredibly beautiful storytelling.