marysmac

Retired teacher, cat owner, world traveler, white ally.

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: Senator Chris Coons is officially demanding answers after Elon Musk's company Space X sabotaged Ukraine's access to Starlink. Democrats need to be aggressively going after Musk for pandering to Putin and damaging America's national security interests.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

It is a basic principle of American democracy that the government can’t selectively target individuals simply because of their political beliefs or what they say. But that’s exactly what the Trump Administration is doing to Congresswoman Ilhan Omar of Minnesota.

To understand why this is so appalling, it’s important to know the facts. Congresswoman Omar came to this country with her father when she was 12 years old. Five years later, her father became a naturalized citizen. If Ilhan had been 18 at the time, she would have had to apply for citizenship separately. But because she was 17, she became a naturalized citizen automatically.

Congresswoman Omar went on to graduate from college, work as a community organizer, become the first Somali-American legislator elected to public office in the U.S., and win a seat in Congress. There, she has been one of the Trump Administration’s fiercest critics, which has led the president to repeatedly single her out as someone who he believes does not belong in this country.

Now the Administration is actively trying to deport Congresswoman Omar, seemingly based solely on the unsubstantiated theory that she was actually 18 when her father was naturalized, and therefore is not a citizen. Federal agents have raided her home, confiscated personal records, and seized her phone — all to try and uncover a nonexistent smoking gun from 20 years ago that will somehow make their case.

Think about that. The full weight of the federal government is being brought down on a law-abiding elected official because she has dared to criticize the president. And it’s not the first time this has happened. Under President Trump, the Justice Department has repeatedly gone after those he considers his political enemies — from the Attorney General of New York, to the former head of the FBI, to members of the Federal Reserve.

In those cases, the prosecutions either stalled or were dismissed for having no basis in law, and the same is likely to happen in this case. But not before Congresswoman Omar’s life has been turned upside down, her legal bills have piled up, and she’s been forced to spend time fighting unsubstantiated charges instead of serving the people of Minnesota.

The fact that any president, or any administration, is willing to engage in such transparent efforts to intimidate someone should outrage all Americans, regardless of how they feel about Congresswoman Omar’s political views. Because if this becomes the new normal, there’s no reason to believe it will stop with her — or that future presidents, in either party, won’t do the same.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

BREAKING: FBI agents fired over their involvement in the investigation into Donald Trump’s handling of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago are now suing to get their jobs back.

The agents allege their firings were unlawful acts of “political retribution”.

Hell yeah!! Keep fighting back!

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

This morning, the federal government turned the full force of the Department of Homeland Security against a sitting member of Congress for the offense of disagreeing with the White House.

The path to citizenship should not be weaponized against anyone, including Rep. Ilhan Omar, a naturalized American who swore an oath to this country — the same one that I took.

The promise of citizenship should not be contingent on someone agreeing with the federal government.

[The Halfway Post @HalfwayPost]

BREAKING: Dozens of countries are reportedly using Donald Trump's words about Zelenskyy against him and announcing in official press conferences that the Iran War never should have happened, and the US needs a new president.

[Willie Nelson @WillieNelson]

To whom it may concern and to everyone else as well,

[marysmac @mmrfarley]

@PatRyanUC Thank you!

[Orlando Curioso @Orlando71156528]

Víctimas inocentes asesinadas por ICE. Nunca olvidar.

[Farm Girl Carrie™️👩‍🌾 @FarmGirlCarrie]

Right?!

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: A group of Maine nurses just showed up at Susan Collins’ office to demand she vote against funding ICE following ICE’s killing of nurse Alex Pretti. This is what solidarity looks like. This is power.

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

BREAKING: A video has leaked from an immigration detention center believed to be at 31 Hopkins Plaza, in Baltimore Maryland where legal immigrants are not even allowed to bath for over 10 days.

The person speaking Spanish is saying the following:

"Look at how they have us here. Look at how immigration is treating us. There are people here who are legal, there are people who are not legal, there are people who are losing their families. They are kidnapping us. They have us in a warehouse here in Baltimore. They beat us, they beat an older man. We can’t take it anymore. They have kept us here for more than 10 days without bathing and enduring hunger.”

[Boo @AuntBoo143]

@EdKrassen

[Sgt Pepper @MzSgtPepper]

We lost a helper. RIP beautiful soul, Alex Pretti 😔

Be Good
Be Pretti

#BeGoodBePretti

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: The innocent man who was executed by federal agents in Minneapolis has been identified as 37-year-old nurse Alex Jeffrey Pretti.

His blood is on Trump's hands.

Pretti has an address listed in South Minneapolis and had no serious criminal record with only a few parking tickets. He was a lawful gun owner with a permit and had a nursing license that was issued in 2021 and remains active.

It's absolutely paramount that we spread the truth about this man far and wide because Homeland Security is already rushing to smear him. The department released a lie-riddled statement, claiming that Pretti approached federal agents with a 9mm handgun. In reality, footage shows that he approached them with his phone to film. The agents then swarmed him, beat him into submission on the ground, and then executed him by firing multiple rounds into his helpless form.

If indeed Pretti did have a gun on him —and it's safe to presume that everything that this administration is a lie until proven otherwise — he had a legal right to carry it. The video offers no indication that he attempted to draw it on the agents. Apparently the Second Amendment only applies to Republicans.

Please ❤️ and share to demand that the agents be identified and prosecuted!

[BreakThrough News @BTnewsroom]

BREAKING: University of Minnesota students gather outside the Graduate hotel, where ICE agents are reported to be staying. This marks the second day of a wave of students demanding ICE out of Minnesota.

[Really American 🇺🇸 @ReallyAmerican1]

BREAKING: In a stunning moment, Rep. Pat Ryan "Marco Rubio personally and explicitly lied to me and the Congress," briefing about whether regime change was being planned in Venezuela.

This demands a full investigation.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: PENTAGON MELTDOWN! Pete Hegseth explodes at veteran senator after being pressed on deadly Caribbean strikes.

The cracks inside Trump’s national security team are no longer hidden behind closed doors.

During a classified briefing this week, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reportedly got into a heated argument with Sen. Mark Kelly — a decorated Navy combat veteran and former astronaut — after Kelly dared to ask questions about the administration’s lethal boat strikes in the Caribbean off the coast of Venezuela.

Yes, asked questions, just as his job as Senator required.

According to multiple reporters, Kelly, seated in the front row, pressed officials about the ongoing military operations — strikes that legal experts have warned could amount to war crimes if civilians were targeted without proper justification or oversight.

Hegseth never answered the question. Instead, he lashed out.

Rather than addressing the substance of the strikes, Hegseth reportedly pivoted to attacking Kelly over a video the senator made with other Democratic veterans, warning active-duty service members not to follow unlawful orders — a basic principle drilled into every U.S. soldier since Nuremberg.

Kelly interrupted, making clear his question had nothing to do with the video. That’s when the exchange reportedly turned fiery, with witnesses describing an unusually tense confrontation inside the classified briefing room.

Meaning that when confronted with accountability, Hegseth went personal.

And it gets worse.
Hegseth’s Pentagon is currently investigating Kelly — a sitting U.S. senator and veteran — for that very video, a move Kelly’s legal team is now calling blatantly political and illegal. On Monday, Kelly’s attorney fired off a warning letter to the Department of Defense, signaling the senator is prepared to take legal action to stop what they describe as a retaliatory probe.

Let that sink in — the Trump administration is investigating a combat veteran senator for reminding troops to obey the law, while the defense secretary dodges questions about potentially unlawful killings.

The boat strikes themselves have already sparked alarm among lawmakers and military observers, with concerns about civilian casualties, murky rules of engagement, and whether proper oversight was ever in place. Instead of transparency, the response has been intimidation and deflection.

This wasn’t a policy disagreement. It was a stress fracture.

When a defense secretary can’t handle questions from a veteran senator without erupting — and resorts to weaponizing investigations instead — it sends a chilling message about how dissent is treated under Trump’s Pentagon.

Mark Kelly asked the right question, but Pete Hegseth provided the wrong answer — and proved exactly why Congress is worried.

Please like and share to spread the news!

[marysmac @mmrfarley]

@Rosieartist1 Happy birthday!! I see a lot of beauty in your picture

[marysmac @mmrfarley]

@sophia_artx Happy birthday 🎉🎂🎁! What a beautiful picture