Letter to a #Senator / 22 June :: Mr #Tillis_ Last night, #America launched strikes on sites in #Iran. As you know, only# Congress holds the #constitutional authority to declare war. Yet once again, the #Executive has acted #unilaterally. 1/5
#Senator
Letter to a #Senator / 22 June: Mr. #Tillis, I oppose the provision in the #OBBBA that permits the sale of #federallands to offset the #taxbreaks included in the bill. Relying on the sale of assets to cover ongoing expenses is demonstrably poor fiscal policy. It’s not #sustainable. 1/5
#Editorialcartoonists eulogize #Progressive #Senator Robert M. #LaFollette of #Wisconsin 100years ago: https://bergetoons.blogspot.com/2025/06/fighting-bob-tko.html
2/2
"She called for #government #transparency, acknowledging the #KokRiver #pollution as a #critical #security #threat.. #Senator Angkhana Neelapaijit, chair of the Senate Committee on #Political #Development, visited the area with #civil #society members. She expressed shock that #provincial #authorities had known about the #arsenic #contamination but were allegedly asked by higher-ups to #suppress the #information."
#Thailand #governance #publichealth #UNSDG #CleanWater #wellbeing
##Senator #handcuffed, people #snatched in public, military deployed: Trump’s slide to autocracy quicker than critics feared
Reads like checklist of milestones on road to #autocracy
- Opposition politicians handcuffed, arrested for only questioning authority or voicing dissent
- Judge arrested in her own courthouse
- Masked squads arrest, #disappear people in consciously #intimidating scenes
- Trump uses #military against #protesters
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/19/trump-us-autocracy-authoritarianism
Hello World!
I just spoke with a #US #Senator office about the #fediverse . They're asking for more information to help spread around #Capital #Hill in small bite sized easy to understand pieces. I'm obviously going to give them @elena beautiful #movie on the #fedi (with some light editing which she's agreed to).
I'll of course show them https://fediverse.info/ and https://fedi.tips/ which are great websites. I figured I'd give them examples of amazing #AP projects such as #mastodon , #pixelfed , #peertube , #bandwagon , and #bonfire ; even things like @admin .
I'd love to know from folks any EASY to understand projects that best encompass the Fediverse and explanations of it.
What are some projects you'd hand to your friends and family that would explain and display to them what we are?
I'll say this isn't going to happen over night. There's lot of questions around regulations, trust & safety, etc. But I feel it's pertinent to at least get the conversation going, especially considering the current state of disdain for big social media and the impending legislation around these things.
I'll finally state if there's anyone in this list that does NOT want to be involved with this, that's totally fine and I understand and I can exclude you from the materials I give to them.
#boost #boostplease #government #laws #activityPub
@benpate @peertube @bonfire
@stefano @dansup @Mastodon
#Republican who mocked #assassination #victims CONFRONTED by #Democratic #Senator
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xIpX1_HgxM
#mikelee #terrorism #domesticterror #utahGOP
Demand your #Senator reject #Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” before it guts #Medicaid, destroys #SNAP, and hands the wealthy a tax giveaway we all can’t afford. https://click.actionnetwork.org/ss/c/u001.qUXRBnqZ7T8nxbpAcIVwoUsWLkUMWlo_0JmZttSlm39flXHMmeMQ4GTaibnjUGBRM2tFq4w9sym9DJrbS27K9u-sqjXDP1VrDQ-6vdrI0XbF6mpxOdDJKGVNSPZoyKcgWlAlWKg5fcUWq8xgBITIcADKcKbUG_w9USMabm2NE98mLT5NlAASGTklCJYKs3j8MKGgLchBootTa-hTfjpDcxqMDC_unxrMxWoCS0Ph8NTHgBigfppd0UCvSiowxXjyEti4xly7WVMbUiu0r-lG33RfjnU5EO8IMIXgvhBpa6pMYLj5-8e88NwFlZiGujef1QkOJm61ZvBoQhoBXqsMKLMoVFpNEFLGj5jgzTS0Ymx9wOQJOb38x32worPX--luzQCMjEnsQYTZtYwMYP_LH0F3cCIp4XgxqXAXmrOMnNKaBAOdJChpkP29miIoQYvtL3jwaaYhWBgLQWDxbZNEfr5-GWeGr0mdK8SthH4-xKrLiUyeEk1hiLMKr1-tvAe5PqzhkBl2eM8mdefwN-OuTbXyfww8CgJ05v0Trx0kpSsiS9cW3oIvJl10onizhxZf/4he/nFt6SNh3SVCHPs2lxL7Inw/h0/h001.i4cEWXqeplkyjDGGx5IRiW0nIykS7B3wbfKvuKO3XFU
OHNOES what will Emperor Trump's minions do?
(BTW: Subscribe to The Onion. I subscribe to the monthly paper & it's so worth it. https://membership.theonion.com)
#trump #California #senator #humor
✅ FBI Warns Second California Senator Still At Large - The Onion
https://theonion.com/fbi-warns-second-california-senator-still-at-large/
Den Mörder von #MelissaHortman, #demokratische #Staatsabgeordnete von #Minnesota, und ihren Ehemann Mark Hortman und von #Senator #JohnHoffman und seine Frau Yvette Hoffman während er sich nach Angaben der #Gesetzeshüter als Polizist ausgab, ist wohl gefunden worden.
Er soll einen Sicherheitsdienst betreiben und mit einer evangelikalen Organisation verbunden:
Vance Boelter allegedly shot, killed #MelissaHortman, #Democratic #Minnesota state #representative and her husband Mark Hortman at their home early Sat morning while according 2 #lawenforcement, impersonating a #police officer. Also allegedly #shot state #senator #JohnHoffman +his wife Yvette Hoffman @ their home. Runs armed #security service https://www.pguards.net/services https://archive.is/oc3UN#selection-569.2-569.158 he was targeting protestors +70 dem person hit list believes America under demonic possession #votes #gop
#California #Senator Alex #Padilla Forcibly Removed and Handcuffed After Interrupting #Noem
How do you call a state where the in-charge leader arrests his #political rivals ?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/us/politics/senator-alex-padilla-handcuffed.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/us/politics/senator-alex-padilla-handcuffed.html
#California #Senator Alex #Padilla Forcibly Removed and Handcuffed After Interrupting #Noem
How do you call a state where the in-charge leader arrests his #political rivals ?
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/u...
Calif. Senator Forcibly Remove...
So proud to call Alex Padilla my #Senator: "This son of Mexican immigrants grew up in working class Pacoima U went to MIT before returning home to help found a political machine that gave a voice to Latinos in the San Fernando Valley that they never had. He was the 1st Latino president of the L.A. City Council, served in both chambers of the state Legislature & also as CA's sec. of state before becoming CA's 1st Latino U.S. senator."
Wenn es beim letzten #Senator angekommen ist, dass er nur auf des Führers Gnaden im Sessel sitzt, dann wird auch der ersetzt.
#US-Senator bei #Pressekonferenz gewaltsam abgeführt.
Während einer Pressekonferenz der #US-Heimatschutzministerin ist es zu einem Vorfall gekommen, der für Empörung sorgt. Der #demokratische #Senator #Padilla aus #Kalifornien wollte Fragen stellen, wurde jedoch aus dem Raum gezerrt und in Handschellen gelegt.
Annette #Dittert
@annettedittert.bsky.social
There will be no #midterm #elections
#Hoodlum 🇺🇸
@nothoodlum.bsky.social
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Alex #Padilla , a #US #Senator getting dragged out of Kristi #Noem's press #conference for asking questions.
This is not #America
https://bsky.app/profile/nothoodlum.bsky.social/post/3lrgndtvpsk24
US Senator from California forcibly removed from DHS press conference #Senator #California #DHS #socialnewsxyz
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