Michelle Bacon

Teacher. Math geek. Always looking for a smile!

[The Resonance @Partisan_12]

Just a reminder a 5-year-old boy in a bunny hat spent more time in jail than any billionaire pedophile on Epstein's client list

[The Wild North @TheWildNorthTV]

Remember this at the ballot box: Republicans voted to allow copper sulfide mining - which has NEVER not polluted - to be built in the headwaters flowing directly into the BWCA. Republicans just sold out our pristine public lands & future generations for Chilean billionaires.

[Matt Little @LittleCongress]

The U.S. Senate just voted to pollute one of Minnesota’s most beloved places: the Boundary Waters.
Let’s be clear why: more money for billionaires.

Twin Metals and its parent companies are mega-corporations owned by a billionaire family based in Chile. They have a long track record of pollution and environmental devastation, and despite their assurances that this mining is “safe,” decades of research show otherwise.

Twin Metals would bring fewer than 750 jobs to the region, with most of its operations being autonomous and remote, but it risks thousands of jobs in tourism and hospitality. The BWCA is the most visited wilderness in America, attracting almost 150,000 tourists and over $80 million in annual spending to the region.

This won’t bring long-term prosperity. It will cost us millions in healthcare and environmental cleanup.

Mining can be done right, only in the right places. This is the wrong type of mine, in the wrong place.

All watersheds are connected. What happens in one place harms another, and pollution near the BWCA will migrate into the BWCA and the surrounding watershed.

Republicans are in the pockets of big corporations that want to threaten our Minnesota heritage and one of the most pristine environments in the nation.
We must take back the U.S. House and overturn this reckless policy.

[S.V. Dáte @svdate]

“He has gone insane”

That would be 25th Amendment territory.

[Joe Nelson @JoeyBrainstorm]

This wasn’t just an attorney losing her cool.

It was a federal judge sounding the alarm about hundreds of lawful residents being arrested, and court release orders being violated. https://t.co/Bx94vfZ27E

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

"The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."
-George Orwell

[ᗰᗩƳᖇᗩ @LePapillonBlu2]

This is Alan Page protesting in Minneapolis today. Alan was a Minnesota Viking, is in the NFL Hall of Fame and is a retired Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court. RESPECT!

[Keith Olbermann @KeithOlbermann]

Donald Trump is the most dangerous terrorist who has ever threatened this nation.

[Amy Klobuchar @amyklobuchar]

Donald Trump and all your lieutenants who ordered this ICE surge: watch the horrific video of the killing today. The world is watching. Thousands of citizens stopped and harassed. Local police no longer able to do their work. Kids hiding. Schools closed. Get ICE out of Minnesota NOW. And Republicans in congress: Stop your silence and stop being complicit.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

A very special fuck you to the 7 so-called Democrats who just voted to fund this Nazi kill squad shit.

[Frank Conniff @FrankConniff]

More disturbing to me than the bruise on Trump's hand -- the finger that Hakeem Jeffries didn't lift to stop more funding for ICE.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

ICE agents pointed their weapons at a Minnesota police officer who’s an American citizen. She tried to film the encounter and they knocked her phone out of her hand.

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

BREAKING: Bruce Springsteen at the light of day concert, tells ICE that they should get the f**k out of Minneapolis.

“ICE should get the f**k out of Minneapolis! If you believe in the power of the law and that no one stands above it. If you stand against heavily, armed, masked federal troops invading an American city, using Gestapo tactics against their fellow citizens, if you believe you don't deserve to be murdered for exercising your American right to protest, and send a message to this president and as a mayor of the city has said, ‘ICE, you get the f**k out of Minneapolis.’”

[S.V. Dáte @svdate]

NEW -- ICE and Border Patrol agents do not wear name tags. They don't identify themselves in their encounters with civilians. Many wear masks to hide their identities.

Donald Trump has created a de facto secret police force to terrorize communities.

https://t.co/jR3wsI67qU

[TheBossRoss 🇪🇺 🧶 ❄ 📷 6x💉 @BettinaSRoss1]

There's a saying in Germany:

When there are 11 people at the table and one of them is a Nazi and 10 don't speak out, then there are 11 Nazis at the table.

I know life is never as easy and clearcut as this, as on a moral level. I just wanted to leave it here.

[ᒪᗩᑎE @lanechanged]

"Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged from their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, & children separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared"

-Anne Frank's 1/13/43 diary entry

[Ted Lieu @tedlieu]

Dear @JDVance: As a congressional democrat, I will answer your question.

The reason investigations are conducted before reflexively making a judgement is because no one knows all the facts in the immediate aftermath of a tragedy. You unfortunately have already concluded, without all the evidence, that the victim was a deranged leftist trying to run the officer over, and that the officer was defending himself.

New evidence, however, suggests the victim was a U.S. citizen, a mother of three, a Christian and had recently dropped her child off at school.

Additional video footage also suggests the second and third shots fired by the officer occurred when the officer was to the side of the vehicle as the car was driving away. Under the law each firing of the gun is analyzed separately.

Witness testimony also suggests one of the ICE agents told the driver to MOVE, MOVE, MOVE. The driver may have been trying to comply with potentially conflicting instructions from different agents. Slow motion video from various angles also shows the vehicle appears to have been turning when the officer fired the first shot, and certainly that was the case by the second and third shots.

Your reflexive never admit wrong approach is not only based on zero investigations, it also leads to increased risks to federal officers. The American people will get increasingly agitated and angry if they believe the Trump Administration will never hold anyone accountable ever.

If you want to bring down the temperature, if you want to reduce the risks of violence against federal officers, then you need the American people to believe that you and the Administration will make decisions based on facts and will comply with the rule of law.

It is also highly suspicious that the Administration is refusing to cooperate with local and state officials as they conduct their investigations. There is no reason to make the American people think there is some sort of coverup. Allow all the investigations to be conducted fairly and with transparency.

So I respectfully request that you and the Administration stop pre-judging this case, and stop making incendiary or smear the victim comments that appear to be contradicted by additional new evidence. I also request that the federal officials cooperate with all the state and local officials. That is the American way, and will help calm the situation down.

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

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[Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @JPHilllllll]

We should all sit with this. Any one of us could be executed by ICE, and our government wouldn’t bat an eye. Instead they’d just lie about us to the world.

[Justin Amash @justinamash]

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
—George Orwell, 1984