Dan Mayasich, son of Evelyth's John Mayasich, brought a vintage Team USA jacket to Milan that belongs to his 92yo father. The jacket now hangs in Team USA’s locker room as inspiration. The jacket was worn by John when Team USA won its first gold medal in the 1960 Olympics in Squaw Valley.
The ICE surge in Minnesota cost $280M of our tax money, to detain 4k people of whom only 30 were accused of violent crimes, plus another 530 with minor traffic violations.
$9 million per capture of the "worst of the worst". Plus two civilian deaths.
Your tax dollars hard at work 🙄
The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.
The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.
Read that back.
When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
The White House is now deploying federalized troops of another state’s National Guard into the cities of states that the president has publicly declared are “enemies” of the United States. We are approaching an extremely dangerous point in this country as well as likely one of the largest challenges to “States' Rights” since the Civil Rights Movement, possibly even the Civil War.
The president of the United States just declared war, actual military war, not a metaphorical one, on a major American city, and one governed by his political opponents.
In any other period, this would be impeachment-worthy.
Those of you who don't know what authoritarianism looks like...this is it. All the gaslighting about previous presidents "what about...!!! Is bullshit. I've been talking about the slide towards NOW for 30+ years. Those earlier concerns were nothing. Now we are HERE.
Absurd.
There are a few protests downtown, and yesterday’s drama was in a suburb 30 minutes away. We’re the biggest county in America, with 10 million people, and you wouldn’t know anything is up unless you read the news or happen to be downtown.
BREAKING: State Farm, one of the biggest insurers in California, canceled hundreds of homeowners' policies last summer in Pacific Palisades—the same area which is now being ravaged by a devastating wildfire, per Newsweek.
Additional Drone Footage from earlier today shows Hundreds of Homes in the Pacific Palisades, to the Northwest of Santa Monica, having been reduced to Rubble by the ongoing Wildfire.