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Dog dad, CA geologist, musician, 1stE D&D DM, and tractor rider. Emergency Responder for watershed protection after CA fires. Global traveler to see and hear music I love. Ween, KGLW & Dogs in a Pile chaser. Mutate, don't stagnate!

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

friends with large accounts, I'm not going to pester you personally but just generally speaking, I would sure appreciate a signal boost on this thing. We seem to have leveled out, and since this is a one-shot (won't be in bookstores) I'd like to get it out there as much as possible.

Our Long National Nightmare by Tom Tomorrow

Relive the trauma of the last five years through the cartoons of Herblock Award winner and Pulitzer nominee Tom Tomorrow.

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It's so easy to hate. That's why it's so much harder to make peace than war. The best thing we can do is understand the other side. They honestly believe the world is out to get them. They "know" that they're right and only want to show people truth. Don't hate them. Pity them.

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our press team asked if I wanted to be included in a media advisory about trump's national guard dictator behavior. No clue if they'll actually dare to use what I sent them, but I'm just going to say how it is

The technical legalities of federal interference with state law enforcement are less important than its fundamental challenge to our constitutional system of government. The whole point of the system of state control of local law enforcement and of state militias is as a check against federal abuse of power. This has been true since the founding of the United States, and the only alteration to this system of divided power was after the Civil War, when the federal government was given the authority by the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth amendments to intervene directly in state governance to purge the taint of the system of slavery from our nation. Since then, the only time that the federal government has used military force to overturn the autonomy of state governments over local law enforcement was yet again in order to further purge the taint of slavery by enforcing desegregation at the end of the Jim Crow period. 

Now Donald Trump’s authoritarian impulses are turning this basic constitutional presupposition of our federal system of government on its head. Federal control over military power is being abused to support a system of due process-free snatch-and-grab immigration β€œenforcement” against state opposition that’s bears a shocking resemblance to the conflicts over the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act, to suppress lawful protest that is protected by the First Amendment, and to take over criminal jurisdiction from localities on the pretext of racist stereotypes about urban criminality. This is yet another way in which the current president has betrayed the basic constitutional structure of the United States and yet another ground for impeachment by any Congress that would be faithful to that structure.

The military in CA are so intertwined with ICE and other civilian law enforcement agencies that they are practically indistinguishable. Indeed, the military and law enforcement even look the same, often wearing uniforms so similar that it is nearly impossible for civilians to tell them apart.

Soldiers are embedded with the agents themselves. The reason for this could not be clearer: The federal government wants a display of military force so great that any lawful opposition to their agenda is effectively silenced.