“Keep close to Nature's heart & break clear away, once in awhile & climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.”
—John Muir
#SundayMorning
🚨 MAJOR BREAKING: Federal Judge Breyer rules that Trump's federalization of the California National Guard was ILLEGAL and orders control of the Guard be RETURNED to Gov. Gavin Newsom. The order is STAYED until noon tomorrow.
This assault is not only on @SenAlexPadilla, but on freedom of speech and expression in our country.
These actions taken by Trump’s DHS communicates a message to all Americans that none of us is safe.
Today they have crossed a deep red line.
We, the people, must hold the president and his appointees accountable for this outrageous abuse against American liberty.
I was a reporter and anchor for ABC News. And as you may have heard … I'm not there anymore.
Now I'm on Substack, that amazing space, and I can't wait to get into the important work that we all have to do.
California will keep fighting on behalf of all our people including in the courts.
If some of us can be snatched off the streets without a warrant, based only on suspicion or skin color, then none of us are safe.
Authoritarian regimes begin by targeting people who are least able to defend themselves. But they do not stop there. Trump and his loyalists thrive on division because it allows them to take more power and exert even more control.
Happy birthday to Mabel. Despite her occasional worries about the world, she would follow you to the ends of it. Which she proved again a couple of days ago.