"It's just wrong to require grown people to get a permission slip to roam about freely. So, I resisted, I objected, the only way I knew how."
TX State Rep. Nicole Collier on why she will remain locked inside the Austin statehouse chamber until the House reconvenes.
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With his proposed plan in California, @governor.ca.gov is bringing a bazooka to the knife fight with Trump & his illegal gerrymandering scheme.
But thereβs opposition in CA to Newsomβs plan & youβd be surprised to hear who it is & why.
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D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowserβs statement:
"Having American soldiers and airmen patrolling American streets against American citizens isnβt patriotism β itβs a betrayal. Itβs not who we are. Itβs Un-American."
WOW. @marcelias.bsky.social goes off on the failures of legacy media: "We have an absolute collapse and failure by the institutions that have promised us that democracy would not die in darkness, that in fact, they stand for the proposition that democracy will die in plain sight of daylight."
Brett Meiselas: Newsom is giving Trump and MAGA a taste of their own medicine.
And Fox, Republicans, and MAGA propagandists β they simply do not know what to do. They donβt know how to handle it.
Newsomβs strategy here is working brilliantly.
NEW:
βIβve had enoughβ¦Iβm refusing to back down.β
Texas state Rep. Nicole Collier speaks to MSNBC from the Texas State Capitol. She is stuck there after the Texas GOP required police surveillance as condition for release. She is refusing to sign a waiver for the law enforcement escort.
People on overpass with letters spelling out: Be Brave Defend Democracy
#OceanCounty #NJ
#VisibilityBrigade
"Witnesses β including the Post reporter β asked the officers to identify themselves numerous times. All but one, who was wearing the ICE badge, refused.
βOh, are you guys the cops?β one agent, who was wearing a mask, responded. βThen shut the f--- up.β
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Exclusive: An internal planning road map obtained by The Post shows the strategy behind ICEβs breakneck expansion, a chaotic effort that has already triggered lawsuits and accusations of cruelty. wapo.st/41FWkck
We are from former Czechoslovakia and we know the history.
Strongholds given to dictators today = wars tomorrow.
#Munich2025 #StandWithUkraine #Sloviansk #KramatorskοΏΌ
Ukrainians didn't surrender in 2014, when the world refused even to recognize russian aggression.
Ukrainians didn't surrender in 2022, when the world expected us to fall in 72h.
Ukrainians won't surrender in 2025, either.
For us, freedom and sovereignty are not empty words.
Sporadic protests have sprouted up across D.C. this weekend, as GOP-led states announced they would send their own National Guard troops to augment President Trumpβs federal takeover in the nationβs capital.
Hereβs what we know:
When they talk about "land swaps" to end the Ukraine war, what is being swapped? Is Putin actually giving any Russian territory in exchange for the Ukrainian territory he has seized by force? Wouldn't a more accurate phrase be territorial concessions?
RADDATZ: The president went in to that meeting saying he wanted a ceasefire and there would be consequences if they didn't agree on a ceasefire in that meeting, and they didn't agree to a ceasefire. Where are the consequences?
RUBIO: That's not the aim
RADDATZ: The president said that was the aim
As Americans struggle with higher prices due to Trumpβs tariffs, his administration is telling them their concerns arenβt βmaterial.β
As former White House Deputy Press Sec @andrewbatesnc.bsky.social writes, βTrump is not a populist at all. Heβs just an a**hole.β
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "This guy is trying to get a Nobel Peace Prize? When he's bringing war to the American people? He sent the United States Marines into the United States of America."
Every Democratic member of Congress should be in the streets of DC saying this dangerous authoritarian escalation must stop. Do they not grasp whatβs going on here?
Most Americans recognize Putin as a dictator, says Putin foe @billbrowder.bsky.social. And that used to include Marco Rubio. Now, Browder says Rubio and the GOP are "scared of crossing Donald Trump." @vkaramurza.bsky.social calls Trump's "shameful" Alaska summit "a major victory for Putin." #Velshi
Federal agents violently detained a food delivery driver as he emerged from a D.C. coffee shop Saturday morning.
The incident captured on video showed the officers throwing him to the ground and beating him before sweeping him away in an unmarked vehicle. wapo.st/45Egtkc
β "ATESH" Agent successfully disabled a relay cabinet on one of the sections of the railway used by Russian troops.
π₯ This route connects the Rostov region with Luhansk region and is actively used to transfer equipment, ammunition, personnel and fuel.
The Alaska summit was more than a failed negotiation; it was a public abdication of American leadership. By rolling out a red-carpet welcome for Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump offered legitimacy to an indicted war criminal and shattered the international consensus of his diplomatic isolation.
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "Wake the fuck up to what's going on in this country... We're going to put everything on the damn line... People haven't given up yet. We're going to do this. We can win this November. We can win next November, and then we can get this country back on track."
ππΊπ¦ The situation in Dobropillya direction is stabilizing, β General Staff
AFU are taking all necessary measures to detect and destroy groups of Russian invaders.
To strengthen the defense in Dobropillya and Pokrovsk directions, Syrskyi has allocated additional forces.
Jordy: Weβre seeing who the players are and who the pretenders are. Newsomβs showing what this country needs β not lip service, but urgency before 2026, 2028, and beyond. Gone are the days of βwhen they go low, we go high.β When they go low, you take them out by their knees β metaphorically.
"Straight out of the Twilight Zone." Rep. Jimmy Gomez explains why the conditions he witnessed at an ICE facility in downtown Los Angeles felt staged after months of being denied entry to conduct an oversight visit. "That's what we knew would happen if we gave them notice."
Rep. Ro Khanna says there will be at least a dozen Jeffrey Epstein survivors who will have the floor at his September 3 joint press conference with Rep. Thomas Massie.
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "I think he should start with Shreveport, Louisiana, and Speaker Johnson's district that has 6x the per capita murder rate of Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco. What about the carnage, Mr. President, in Shreveport? Why aren't you protecting the folks there? What bullshit."
"Blatant lie and a cover up." Rep. Jimmy Gomez calls out ICE for cleaning up their facility before his oversight visit.
"Why would we turn the US military against American cities when we have police officers and law enforcement officials whose job it is? I understand that crime is a major issue, but it's not the military's job to be able to do that. We have law enforcement whose job it is to counteract crime."
