Annabel Park 🇺🇦

A media-maker and activist trying to live an examined life and do positive things in the world.

[Annabel Park 🇺🇦 @annabelpark]

Love is what makes America great! This is happening at Dulles right now. #MuslimBan #Dulles #NoBanNoWall

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

In Springfield, Ohio, people are preparing in advance of a “large deportation” promised by the president. To all appearances, the city is two or three days from a federal ethnic cleansing, grounded in a hate campaign organized by the vice-president and American Nazis.

[Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine]

How to win over Trump supporters. (It's not complicated).

[Joe Jaworski @JaworskiForTX]

Glad I paid the $120 to access Tarrant County District Court records so I could read details of what’s going on in Paxton’s suit against Beto and PxP.

As y’all know on Aug 8 Paxton got a TRO against Beto and PxP which prevented Beto and PxP from transferring money to quorum-breaking House Dems for out of state travel, hotel or dining accomodations or services and daily fines and from raising money for same via ActBlue.

The Court, at Paxton’s urging, restricted Beto/PxP from removing property or funds from the State of Texas during the pendency of this lawsuit. Paxton also used the lawsuit to place a “lien” on PxP’s “property” and paxton seeks to end PxP from doing business in Texas

The Court set a Temporary Injunction hearing for 10am August 19, 2025

Beto’s defense team has filed an emergency motion to transfer venue of the matter to El Paso County. They’ve asked for an expedited ruling on that venue motion on or before the TI hearing on the 19th.

Beto held his rally on Saturday Aug 9 in Ft Worth, in the very county in which he was sued. It was a spirited rally, an American masterpiece of exercising his First Amendment protected speech.

Paxton flipped out, and on Monday Aug 11 filed an emergency motion to modify the TRO and asked the court to hold Beto in contempt - and to jail him - because Beto said “f*** the rules…” and “there are no refs in this game” which Paxton falsely told the court was meant as defying the judge and the TRO.

Beto’s lawyers have provided the court with the full quotation of the remarks in question, and the transcript makes clear that Beto was referring to the act of redistricting among the several states.

Paxton intentionally misrepresented Beto’s protected political speech, claiming falsely that Beto “bragged about violating the Court’s temporary restraining order,” and Beto’s lawyers have alerted the court that a motion for sanctions against Paxton will soon follow.

Then at 1:22pm today Paxton filed an emergency request for expedited discovery, seeking a 2.5 hour deposition of Beto, a separate 2.5 hour deposition of a corporate representative of PxP on selected topics and production of documents and communications relating to planned or actual arrangements, accommodations or meals outside of Texas for any Texas legislators, their staff or their families, and six other categories of documents.

Paxton seeks the two depositions to take place and the documents to be produced by Friday Aug. 15 so he can prepare for the Aug 19 TI hearing.

As of 5:30pm this afternoon Judge Megan Fahey had not ruled on Paxton’s several “emergency” motions.

[Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen]

Stop what you're doing and listen to this warning from @marceelias about the real reason for Trump's National Guard deployment in DC.

[Jay Bookman @jaysbookman]

ICE is deporting a permanent legal US resident from Korea, a scientist researching a Lyme disease vaccine who has lived here since age 5, citing a minor pot possession charge 14 years ago for which he did community service.
My fellow Americans, this is absolute madness.

[Annabel Park 🇺🇦 @annabelpark]

This is #MyAmericanDream. One day, the majority will reject narratives that scapegoat the most vulnerable members of our society, choosing instead to protect them. The majority will call out lies and stand up to abuses of power.

[Repairers of the Breach @BRepairers]

We are in a battle for the soul of this nation. Tomorrow at 11:00 AM ET, join Bishop William J. Barber II and faith leaders at the Supreme Court to demand a moral budget that defends life, lifts the poor, and protects democracy. Now is the time to act. #MoralMondays

[Ed Markey @SenMarkey]

I filmed this yesterday on my way to Lousiana where my constituent Rümeysa Öztürk is being wrongfully held by ICE. I’m there now demanding her release. More to come.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

BREAKING: This is one of the most chilling Judicial opinions I have ever read.

The Conservative 4th Circuit Federal Appeals court Judge in the Abrego Garcia case stated:

"The way that the administration is behaving appears to signal a crumbling of American democracy”. He then begs the administration to "follow the Constitution in a way that preserves American Democracy while there is still time”.

The Judge Continues: “If today the Executive claims the right to deport without due process and in disregard of court orders, what assurance will there be tomorrow that it will not deport American Citizens and then disclaim responsibility to bring them home? And what assurance shall there be that the Executive will not train its broad discretionary powers upon its political enemies?”

[Seung Min Kim @seungminkim]

"Shortly before he was forced to resign, the nation’s top vaccine regulator says he refused to grant Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s team unrestricted access to a tightly held vaccine safety database." https://t.co/8QGV6njKOg

[Liberal Tear Creator™ @LibTearCreator1]

Make this girl famous!

@catturd2 she needs to be #1

[Conor Lamb @ConorLambPA]

Democracy is alive in Pittsburgh.

[Wisconsin Democrats @WisDems]

🎉 Congratulations @crawfordforwi on a hard-won victory!

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Jim Cramer tears into Trump over the stock market free fall:

The market was doing great — until the Trump Administration sowed a level of uncertainty I haven’t seen since Jimmy Carter…I cannot think of another president in my lifetime who could knock down the stock market simply by opening his mouth

[Conor Lamb @ConorLambPA]

81 year-old still working here in Pittsburgh, just $900 a month on Social Security.

I propose DOGE be changed to the Department of Generosity and Excellence and its 1st task is to undo any possible disturbance to these benefits.

The 2nd is she needs more than $900 a month.

[Sen. Cory Booker @SenBooker]

Let’s get in Good Trouble.

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

"It is evil, and anyone that is involved with it is evil."

Trump and his cronies sent Andrys, a gay Venezuelan man, to an El Salvador prison camp to be beaten with no due process. @Timodc responds with a message of action and fury.

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

I was wrong about you and I’m sorry 😭

Where do I submit my Conor Lamb apology form

[Annabel Park 🇺🇦 @annabelpark]

@SecRubio @POTUS I know you're probably awake right now, regretting your decision to ally with Trump to advance your ambition. You know what Trump and Vance did today is wrong and harms America. History will judge you harshly if you don't resign. Resign.

[Tyler Englander @TylerEnglander]

About 40 people are here in Midlothian at @RobWittman’s mobile office hours. They are concerned about what they say are Republicans’ efforts to make cuts to Medicaid, Social Security, SNAP, and other crucial services.