Liz🏝

Microwave & RF engineer, mom of two, wife of one. Not necessarily in that order. Obsessed Disney lady. Always looking for ways to escape the cubicle.

[Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton]

ICE agents in Maine killed a father on his way to work yesterday: Joan Sebastian Guerrero, 26.

The week before, agents in Houston killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, 52, a father of three.

The Trump administration isn't returning America to a nostalgic past. It's plunging children and families into a horrific present.

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

Weird, right? It's almost as if...and ride with me here...Trump is a lying liar who lies.

[Morrígu66613 @AngelaLark66613]

Mitch McConnell is reportedly brain dead. The journalist who broke his cardiac arrest is at the hospital waiting for them to move his body. Her name is Desirée Townsend.
She's the independent reporter who obtained the EMS scanner audio confirming paramedics performed CPR at McConnell's D.C. home on June 14. NBC and CBS spent a week catching up to her.
Yesterday she tweeted that she's physically at the hospital, that multiple sources have told her the 84-year-old senator has been declared brain dead, and that his Capitol Police detail was still there as of 3:39pm ET.
Laura Loomer posted the same claim, citing a White House source. McConnell's office will not confirm or deny. They insist he is "continuing to improve."
The brain-death claim is not yet verified. Here's what is.
McConnell has been hospitalized for three straight weeks with no public explanation.
His office has never said why he was admitted. His last vote was June 11.
His wife Elaine Chao was photographed in Beijing meeting the Chinese vice president three days after her husband collapsed. She has not come home.
His daughter deactivated her X account.
Neighbors of his D.C. townhouse say no one has come or gone since the ambulance took him away. Not family. Not staff.
Kentucky's Democratic Governor Andy Beshear says McConnell's office is not returning his calls.
Now the politics.
Kentucky Republicans quietly rewrote the state's succession law in 2024. If McConnell's seat opens, Beshear cannot appoint a replacement. A special election gets triggered instead.
And the timing matters. If he can't finish his term after August 3, the special election just rolls into November. Before August 3, the GOP has to hold a standalone race.
They’re watching the calendar.
The election they're trying to avoid is the GOP's nightmare. Thomas Massie, the Republican congressman who has become one of Trump's loudest critics, would be a heavy favorite to run and split the red vote wide open.
Every day they hide McConnell's condition is a day they don't have to hold that race.
Whatever is actually happening in that hospital room, this is the picture from outside it: a senator who has not been seen in three weeks, a wife who left the country, a family that has gone dark, a governor being frozen out, and a party racing the clock on a succession law they wrote themselves.
Townsend is still at the hospital.

[Olivia Julianna 🇺🇸🦅🗳️ @0liviajulianna]

To be clear: ICE shot and killed a man who was not their target. He had no criminal record, was seeking legal status, & was pushed off the road by unmarked cars.

There’s “no body cam footage”, his family can’t recover his body, and the witnesses in his van have been detained.

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Read the timeline again slowly. A man who spent a decade risking his life alongside American Special Forces gets picked up by ICE while dropping his kids at school. He complains of chest pain that evening. By morning his tongue is swollen. Within an hour of that, he is dead.

Out of more than fifty deaths in ICE custody under this administration, his is the first ruled an accident. The death certificate has a date on it that predates his own arrest. The county will not release the autopsy that might explain that discrepancy, because ICE asked them not to. That is not how an accident gets investigated. That is how one gets managed.

[Jared Shult @jared_shult]

We are not angry enough.

[Books Behind Borders @MHTruthUltra]

You’re not poor because you bought coffee and avocados. You’re poor because billionaires bought Congress and the Presidency.

[Cameron 🇺🇸 🗽🦅 @CameronCorduroy]

ICE killed a father of three on his way to work yesterday

[climate.us @climateUS_]

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[Matt @stealth_riot]

Went to planned parenthood with my old roommate and there were church ppl outside accusing her of abortion so I said “We’re here to find out if she has cancer. So we’ll see if your god is good or not” And I shit you not when we came out they weren’t there anymore

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

For most of us, seeing the Klan 2.0, a.k.a. Patriot Front, march through Washington, D.C., unchallenged by authorities overshadowed any celebration of America’s 250th anniversary.

My ancestors lived through this. And no one today can say with a straight face that racism is behind us.

[John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz]

The moral alteration in an unthinkable expanse of people who call this place home has been stunning in its velocity and stomach-turning in its depths. The worst part is that we can’t reach them in the ways reasonable human beings can be reached.

Before Fox News, we could meet the people around us on the common ground of our shared faith in Jesus, our respect for the Constitution, the clarity of objective truth, or shared compassion for vulnerable people. Now, they no longer have use or tolerance for such things.

Those of us who’ve lost people we love to this curated pestilence should file a class-action suit against Fox News for thirty years of malpractice and murder: for the relationships they’ve destroyed, the deaths they’ve been complicit in, the betrayal of the public trust, and for purposefully killing the goodness in human beings who will never be who they might have been otherwise.

https://t.co/ROP6EohIcb

[The Green Dragon Tavern @greendragonhq]

👏DO👏NOT👏LET👏THIS👏STORY👏DIE👏

Texas Attorney General, and now Republican nominee for the Texas Senate Ken Paxton gave his friend 28 days in jail after he repeatedly raped a young boy.

He does not have to register as a sex offender.

He didn’t even lose his license to practice law.

[Todd Spence @Todd_Spence]

In 1982, Robin Williams did a routine as the American Flag for the Norman Lear produced tv special "I Love Liberty" created to bridge political divides - and it's one of the greatest pieces you'll see 🇺🇸

[jamie @gnuman1979]

No argument from me.

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

It's weird to me how trump never lets go of a grudge, he still bitches about Obama, Biden, Hillary, and even Rosie O'Donnell for some reason.

He never says a word about any of the people who supposedly tried to assassinate him.

Nothing. Weird.

[scary lawyerguy @scarylawyerguy]

It turns out the great egg price increase that helped topple Joe Biden's presidency was <checks notes> due to an alleged conspiracy among egg producers to artificially increase prices and the coverage of that fact is a blink-and-you-miss-it story on the NYT website 🙃

[Janice Hough @leftcoastbabe]

When you can't find a park ranger or a working bathroom at a National Park this summer, console yourself with the fact that POTUS is walking on fancy Italian granite...

[Maryam @hell_line0]

I love how they found a way to use a blood test for men’s prostate cancer, but I still have to get my titties slammed in a press and my cervix scraped with a brush...

[Covie @covie_93]

Can everyone just step back and realize how insane it is that the US Supreme Court had to rule on the constitutionality of the US CONSTITUTION and the vote to uphold the Constitution wasn't unanimous!!!