Brian Gerd

[Mueller, She Wrote @MuellerSheWrote]

I’m not going to hail Barrett and Roberts for allowing us to count our votes. It’s a huge win for democracy, but it shouldn’t have even been a question. That we were one vote away from disenfranchising votes is all the more reason to expand the court in 2029.

[Sara McGee for Texas HD 132 @SaraForTexLege]

This is the moderate position. This pledge should be a litmus test for every single candidate in 2026 and beyond.

[Kerry Kennedy @KerryKennedyRFK]

Last year, protesters took to the streets outside an ICE jail in Texas. This week, nine of them were sentenced to decades-long prison terms. Elizabeth Soto received a 50-year sentence for owning a "printing press” used to print leaflets for the protest and "being part of a leftist book club." This is outrageous.

This case was the first tried and convicted under the Trump DOJ’s “counter-terrorism” initiatives. But Elizabeth and her husband Ines weren't even at the protest by the time the situation escalated and guns were drawn.

When we see members of this administration and its loyalists weaponizing the law to target protestors, what message are they trying to send to the American people? That dissent against its policies, dissent protected by the First Amendment, will be met with extraordinary punishment? It appears to be so.
https://t.co/9A7JST4WqH

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

If Iran and Egypt don't want to see Pride flags at their match in Seattle, that's just too damn bad.

LGBTQ folks were intentionally erased in Qatar in 2022 due to "respect for local culture."

Seattle supports LGBTQ people. Respect the local culture.

[Chasing Ennui @rwlesq]

Katie Miller has a master's degree and a career. It appears that she has consistently worked since she was 20. She can open a bank account, own property, and have a credit card in her name. She has access to no-fault divorce and would be entitled to child support for her baby if she and Stephen Miller divorce. She has laws protecting her against physical abuse and rape by her spouse. She had access to birth control and abortion, meaning that having a baby was a choice.

She is very much not living the life that the "propaganda. . . convinced" women was oppressive. She is living the life that feminism made possible.

Of course, she knows this. She's just a liar.

[Billy Ray @BillyRay5229]

In 1960, the average age of a first time homebuyer in America was 23.

23.

It’s now 40.

This man - whose home was paid for by YOUR tax dollars, wants to push that number higher.

Dems, run on this.

[DFWSupportCommittee @DFWSupCommittee]

From an experienced immigration attorney. Let’s not forget why the protest was happening in the first place.

Free the Prairieland Defendants AND all Prairieland Detainees!

[Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @JudiciaryDems]

BREAKING: A 63-year-old has died in ICE custody, marking the 51st death in detention since Trump retook office.

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

The administration's legal architecture around this case is worth naming directly. Trump issued an executive order declaring antifa a "domestic terrorist organization" - a designation that does not exist under U.S. law. He then issued NSPM-7, expanding the definition of domestic terrorism to include constitutionally protected political beliefs: anticapitalism, extremism on migration and gender, and "hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family, religion and morality."

That is a presidential directive that defines political opposition as terrorism. Five of the government's own cooperating witnesses denied under oath that they or their associates considered themselves antifa members. The far-left movement has no formal membership or central structure. What exists is a legal framework designed to apply terrorism charges to protest activity the administration opposes - and a sentencing result that makes the consequences of that framework visible. One hundred years for a shooting. Clemency for an attempted coup.

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨Texas is showing the new direction of America:

30 days for child sexual abuse.
30 years for opposing the government.

[chimera @chimeraxmachina]

A judge for the Texas trial openly admitted that the sentences are about deterrence, not establishing justice. This was a show trial designed to send a message, to deter people from attending protests because they might face decades of prison time for it.

[peoplepowerpodcast @peoplepowerpod1]

by definition they are political prisoners, based on the judges remarks, and hopefully will be successfully appealed

[Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib @RepRashida]

These sentences are a travesty and totally unjustified, but that's the point. Americans hate the fascist Trump regime, so the only way they can try to cling to power is brute force. NSPM-7 is a grave threat to all of us and more bullshit "terrorism" charges like these are coming. https://t.co/LBREZVVY6D

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

The maximum a person could donate to a candidate in 2024 was $3300.

Larry Ellison donated $45M to Trump and got political favors in return.

Citizens United let billionaires buy elections and bribe politicians.

If you care about election integrity, overturn Citizens United.

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

This is absolutely insane. Total Soviet gulag shit.

People who did nothing but show up and leave when things got out of hand got double the sentence of Enrique Tarrio.
https://t.co/pg95p7GH7o

[Paul Blest @pblest]

Just a straight-up political persecution

[Exiled Arizona 🎃 🎅👻 @exiledarizona]

To note, the Prairieland sentences are more than several times higher than the ELF during the Green Scare.

They outrun essentially any other crime apart from pre-meditated murder.

Purely political. I don't see this as the end, the way this is going...

[Guillermo Mena 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇵🇷🇺🇸 @GuillermoMena]

The most outrageous sentencing since Harmelin in peak drug war 90s.

50 years for being in an Antifa book club and leaving an ICE protest when told to by police. These are not terrorists. These are thought crimes. Guilt by association. Gross violations of 1st and 2nd Amdt rights.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

This is what fascism looks like https://t.co/rQPc6ta2Df

[Krystal Ball @krystalball]

These sentences are outrageous and clearly intended to silence dissent