Michael Beedenbender 🌻🌊🏳️‍🌈 🟧

草月流 Sogetsu Ikebana (Riji) student, Ikebana International Lifetime member, Ikenobo admirer, dog dad, Dem, IT, Retail, Customs Broker, he/him.

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

FEC is without a quorum to act.
EAC is without a quorum to act.
DOJ is under Trump's direct control.

This is a very dangerous time for elections. My advice and request is to sign-up to Democracy Docket to stay informed. https://t.co/99sX9k2DLV

[Covie @covie_93]

There is so much diversity in the new recruits sworn in to the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division. There are white men, white women, tall white people, short white people, white people with glasses, white people without glasses, white people with blonde hair and white brunettes!.

[Sandi Bachom 📹 @sandibachom]

ICE agents killed a man in cold blood at a traffic stop in Houston who had been in this country for 35 years. His son heard about it on a Facebook post and recognized his father’s voice, pleading for help as they left him to bleed out on the street.

If you don’t think ice are the American Gestapo listen to my friend, Werner Reich who was taken by the Nazis when he was 14 years old and put in three different death camps. He was in Auschwitz the year I was born 1944.

I have filmed Holocaust survivors for many years. Their stories have never been more important. #neveragainisnow

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

James Talarico: “We are here at Corruption HQ which is the office of Attorney General Ken Paxton where behind closed doors a sweetheart deal was given to a well-connected lawyer who abused an 8-year-old boy. We don’t need anymore pedophile protectors in our government. I filed a public information request to release the Hoffman Files, Ken Paxton just rejected it”

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: Psaki: “Multiple outlets are reporting tonight that Donald Trump has essentially wiped out what is left of the US Election Assistance Commission that is a bipartisan commission that helps states and local officials run elections. They certify election equipment, they distribute federal election funds, they maintain the national mail voter registration form, they basically do a whole bunch of things that help elections across the country run smoothly. But as we have seen through his actions over and over and over again, Donald Trump does not want elections in this country to run smoothly, quite the opposite.”🤦‍♀️

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

🚨 ICE thugs in Illinois just caved a man’s skull in — hands already cuffed behind his back — then turned on legal observers like animals.

They slammed his head into stone. Fractured his skull.

When they spotted the cameras? Full meltdown — assaulting witnesses, threatening to tase them, one clown waving the taser gangster-style like a wannabe gangster.

Taxpayers funding skull-cracking goons who freak out the second someone films their abuse?
No bodycams.
No restraint.
Pure power trip.
How many more skulls before someone actually gets held accountable?
This is tyranny wearing a badge.

Drop your thoughts.

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

This is code red. Trump is not screwing around. We will lose this country unless we are vigilant with what’s going on in terms of election security.

WAKE UP PEOPLE! Trump is coming after democracy as we know it.

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

This is what leaders do when they don’t want free and fair elections. I’ve studied these activities in other countries moving towards autocracy.

[Rep. Jim McGovern @RepMcGovern]

Won’t wear a mask to protect others during a pandemic…

…but will wear a mask to protect themselves from accountability for their radical hate-fueled bigotry.

Cowards.

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

😂 Who doesn’t love Team Belgium mocking Trump’s Double Jerk-Off Dance in their locker room after annihilating USA 4-1?

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨CAUGHT ON TAPE: Trump ADMITS the SAVE Act is designed to disenfranchise voters: "Republicans have to win this one. We'll never lose a race for 50 years."

He’s talking about YOU. Your vote gone. Your voice erased. So they never have to answer to YOU again.

#SAVEActIsPayToVote

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

An illegal betrayal of information so secret that Congress wrote into the law that it cannot be shared; the Trump admin is going to get people tortured.

[Wu Tang is for the Children @WUTangKids]

Lmao even better….the Belgium team kept trolling Trump in their locker room after destroying and humiliating the USMNT in Seattle….absolutely delightful!

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

We do not live in the greatest country on earth. That is the lie they tell us to conceal that we live in the greediest country on earth.

[Feisty is proud to be a Democrat! @FeistyLibLady]

Gavin Newsom knows exactly who Trump is and he isn't afraid to speak the truth.

"Trump didn’t drain the swamp—he gave it a gold-leaf presidential suite. He works for one man: himself. $4B richer while sitting in a public trust. This isn’t politics, it’s a heist. No king, no foreign power ever came this close to breaking American self-government."

America needs to hear more from Gavin and a lot less from Trump.
#DemsUnited

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: Hayes: “…according to Haberman and Swan, the price to get into Trump’s good graces would be high. In conversations with a Republican fundraiser who acted as a go-between, Trump would DICTATE the number, the EXACT dollar figure he wanted her to extract from each CEO. Within days, they write, MILLIONS of dollars and then tens and hundreds of millions were pouring into Trump’s various fundraising accounts. Worth considering for a moment, what are those fundraising accounts for? Can’t run for president again. Can’t run for anything. Where’s that money going to go?”🤔

[Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan]

Trump's DOJ had a court order to release the remaining Epstein files and simply refused. That should be a much bigger story right now.

[LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @LongTimeHistory]

ICE shoots protester in stomach with "less than lethal" bullets—had to be rushed to hospital.

Agent leans out of moving car to shoot with one hand—while driving with other.

Injures protester in abdomen at point blank range.

Car was not blocked—attack was completely unprovoked.

Video clearly shows every other ICE vehicle exiting the driveway unobstructed.

Protesters were just holding signs on the public sidewalk.

Incident occurred outside the Broadview ICE Processing Center in Illinois.

Person filming doesn't have an account on this platform—so posting first full length and credited video here to help raise awareness.

[House Judiciary Dems @HouseJudiciary]

Indeed, Mr. President.

Here are a few of the "crypto guys" you pronounce "lucky" to have you as President:
-CZ Zhao who was pardoned after allowing criminals to launder money on his crypto exchange, Binance
-Ross Ulbricht who was pardoned after running a crypto-powered online black market that powered more than $283 million in criminal drug trafficking
-Trump donors, like Justin Sun and the Winklevoss twins, who are suddenly no longer under SEC investigations for defrauding investors and customers 
-The Trump and Witkoff families who made billions while investors in their crypto ventures lost their life savings

[Scott MacFarlane @MacFarlaneNews]

ALERT: More than 1,200 former Dept of Justice employees have signed etter urging Senators to block Todd Blanche’s confirmation

There are so many signatures… this letter consume 59 pages. It was distributed by @Justice_CXN

https://t.co/trnrzYcQiu