A San Bernardino born Hispanic was arrested by masked men wearing “border patrol” vests. A popular Oregon vineyard owner was taken into Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody outside his church in Oregon on Thursday.
If you have brown skin you are subject to arrest. Donald Trump’s words saying immigrants are ‘poisoning the blood of our country.’ The Biden campaign likened the comments to Hitler.
The raids by ICE are stunning but no surprise.
Terry Moran defends ‘fair and accurate’ post about Trump that got him dropped by ABC News. Both ABC and CBS have been sued by Donald Trump because he did not like their reporting.
Where does this end?
If Trump has his way he will be a dictator or a king.
Today is Flag Day but it has turned into Sad Day as the president has an Army Parade, people are demonstrating calling this No Kings Day, and thousands of Hispanics have fear of arrest and deportation.
The lawn was not cut. I called the gardener. His wife said he feared for arrest and told me he is in hiding.
Hotel workers, restaurant workers, farm workers and many other groups are living in fear.
A map of Los Angeles. Near the area labeled “downtown” on the map is a tiny red dot. That represents the area where protests are happening and that are being shown on TV. The dot is so small it would not be noticeable if an arrow had not been drawn towards it.
Below is a map of part of metropolitan LA followed by a map of the downtown area.
Copied from today’s Los Angeles Times. This is a beautifully written article.
I’ve lived in Los Angeles long enough to know that this city weathers fire, quake and fury and still manages to bloom. We grow food in our backyards, paint our pain on walls and find beauty in the struggle. But right now, there’s a pressure in the air thicker than smog, a national fear winding through our streets, and its name is Donald Trump (“National Guard arrives in Los Angeles as fallout from immigration raids continues,” June 8).
The helicopters overhead aren’t just news choppers anymore. They’re echoes of something ancient and dangerous: Fascism rising on American soil. I never thought I’d say this in my lifetime, but we’re watching a man try to bring down a republic with the smug grin of a game show host who already knows the final answer.
President Trump, you can stop now. Turn on your TV. Watch what you’ve done. You will not be remembered as a patriot. You will not be remembered as a liberator. You will be remembered as the worst leader this country has ever produced. A divider. A destroyer.
We write, we paint, we protest and we plant seeds of hope in cracked concrete. But we are exhausted. We need moral leadership, not messianic delusion. What do we tell our children when their leaders praise dictators, vilify the press and mock the weak? That chaos is power? That empathy is weakness?
Mr. Trump: History is not on your side and neither is Los Angeles.
President Theodore Roosevelt said “To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
In merely four months Donald Trump has turned the United States from a functioning democracy into a country on the edge of a fascist dictatorship.
Trump’s war on California has begun. These news items are not my imagination.
Trump deploys National Guard as Los Angeles protests against immigration agents continue. California Gov. Gavin Newsom condemned the Trump administration’s move to send the California National Guard into Los Angeles to handle immigration protests.
The Trump administration is preparing to cancel a large swath of federal funding for California, an effort that could begin as soon as Friday, according to multiple sources.
Agencies are being told to start identifying grants the administration can withhold from California. Sources said the administration is specifically considering a full termination of federal grant funding for the University of California and California State University systems.
ABC News has suspended its senior national correspondent, Terry Moran, after he called White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller a “world-class hater” in a since-deleted post on X.
Trump has sued both CBS and ABC over their reporters saying things that Trump does not like.
The president has now called for the arrest of California governor Gavin Newsom calling him grossly incompetent.
Days after attacking a megabill that advances President Donald Trump’s legislative agenda, Elon Musk slammed it again, calling it a “disgusting abomination” in a post on X. https://abc7.la/45DCMIk
“I’m sorry, but I just can’t stand it anymore. This massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination,” Musk wrote of the House-passed bill.
“Et tu, Brute?” (translated as “And you, Brutus?”) is a famous Latin phrase from William Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar. It is spoken by Caesar as he is being stabbed to death, having recognized his friend Brutus among the assassins. It is often used in a general sense to describe a betrayal by someone you trust, according to the Dictionary.com.
President Theodore Roosevelt said “To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
In merely four months Donald Trump has turned the United States from a functioning democracy into a country on the edge of a fascist dictatorship.
The following reports I found on the internet from reliable news sources confirm what my beliefs.
The courts including the Supreme Court have given the power for Donald Trump to do as he wishes. The Supreme Court has ruled that President Trump is at least presumptively immune from criminal liability for his official acts, and is absolutely immune for some “core” of them — including his attempts to use the Justice Department to obstruct the results of an election.
Since late February, President Trump has used the power of the presidency to punish law firms that he accuses of weaponizing the justice system and undermining the national interest, part of his promised campaign of vengeance against his perceived political enemies.
Donald Trump expanded on his threats to the media suggesting actions of the press should be deemed illegal and subject to investigation.
“I believe that CNN and MS-DNC, who literally write 97.6% bad about me, are political arms of the Democrat [sic] party and in my opinion, they’re really corrupt and they’re illegal, what do they do is illegal,” the president said during a contentious speech at the Department of Justice.
The Trump administration is seeking to exert extraordinary influence over American universities by withholding the kind of federal financial support that has flowed to campuses for decades. His claim it’s all about anti-semitism. His initial attack is on Harvard, a private university. But it has been expanded.
So far, seven universities have been singled out for punitive funding cuts or have been explicitly notified that their funding is in serious jeopardy. They are:
Columbia, which is hoping to regain about $400 million in canceled grants and contracts after it bowed to a list of demands from the federal government.
Northwestern, which Trump administration officials said would be stripped of $790 million.
The University of Pennsylvania, which saw $175 million in federal funding suspended in response to its approach to a transgender athlete’s sports participation in 2022.
#Harvard#LaurenceTribe worked at Harvard Law School for over 52 years. He graduated from Harvard College in 1962 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics and later earned his Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from Harvard Law School in 1966.
He joined the Harvard Law School faculty as an assistant professor in 1968 and received tenure in 1972. He taught at Harvard Law School until his retirement in 2020, mentoring notable students like former President Barack Obama, Chief Justice John Roberts, and Justice Elena Kagan.
After retirement, Tribe holds the position of Carl M. Loeb University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University.
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