Reposted by Chef RobertMother Jones @motherjones.com · 13/06/2025By now, we've all seen the video of Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA) being forcibly removed and handcuffed for asking a question during Kristi Noem's press conference. But what Noem said just moments before the video was taken is "classic authoritarian red-baiting," points out @davidcorn.bsky.social. 779157706211
Chef Robert @resistdrumpf.bsky.social · 08/06/2025tRump and his entire regime needs to be taken out 051
Reposted by Chef RobertThomas Neville @goobermunch.bsky.social · 07/06/2025The images today are chilling. Tanks being moved into DC while ICE drives through protesters and barricades. 12344921040
Reposted by Chef RobertACLU @aclu.org · 07/06/2025People in ICE detention are being denied health care and adequate nutrition, often given spoiled food or nothing at all. Our government’s cruelty to immigrants is a moral failing — not a policy solution.npr.orgIn recorded calls, reports of overcrowding and lack of food at ICE detention centersICE detentions have surged, but deportations have not. In the past month, NPR spoke to dozens of detainees, families and lawyers who spoke of overcrowded centers in Florida lacking food and medicine. 19265702609
Reposted by Chef Robertdigby @digby56.bsky.social · 07/06/2025L.A. is a Mexican-American city. The majority of the population is made up of racial and ethnic minorities. We are all happy living together and really do not want to see our friends, neighbors and families being terrorized by federal robo-cops. This is bullshit. 232164403154
Reposted by Chef RobertMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 08/06/2025We never had to worry about the U.S. military being used against our own country when Biden was president. But that’s exactly what’s happened under both Trump administrations. 20380282059
Reposted by Chef RobertJon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 07/06/2025"Veterans know the layoffs aren’t about saving money. They’re about weakening the institution and ultimately privatizing and gutting VA disability funding, as spelled out in Project 2025." share.google/pz6mLWSzZIYC... 548162255949
Reposted by Chef RobertRep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 06/06/202581 years ago, courageous young soldiers faced unimaginable danger to turn the tide of WWII. We honor the bravery and sacrifice of the Allied forces who stormed the beaches of Normandy to stop Hitler and his regime. They remind us that democracy is not guaranteed, and must be protected every day. 626138
Reposted by Chef RobertAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/06/2025Kristi Noem less than a month ago: "There is no scenario where Abrego Garcia will be in the United States again." (No matter what happens, bringing him back to the US is a climbdown for the administration) 1334186203701
Reposted by Chef RobertMorgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 28/05/2025TACO: Trump Always Chickens Out 1262485649
Reposted by Chef RobertJon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 29/05/2025RFK Jr’s Department of Health and Human Services has notified Moderna that it is canceling a nearly $600 million contract with the company to develop, test, and license vaccines for flu strains that could trigger future pandemics, including the dangerous H5N1 bird flu virus.statnews.comHHS cancels nearly $600 million Moderna contract on vaccines for flu pandemicsHHS has notified Moderna that it is canceling a nearly $600 million contract for vaccines for flu strains that could trigger future pandemics. 82245272475
Reposted by Chef RobertBrian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 29/05/2025Meltdown on Truth Social in 3, 2, 1... 1586349136974
Reposted by Chef RobertMack Butterfield @mack2114.bsky.social · 25/05/2025REMINDER: ANY MEMBER OF GOVERNMENT WHO VIOLATES THE U.S. CONSTITUTION IS SUPPOSED TO BE REMOVED FROM GOVERNMENT. NOT WARNED. NOT VOTED OUT. ARRESTED AND REMOVED. 35061602549
Reposted by Chef RobertBiggie @biggienotsmalls.bsky.social · 25/05/2025Speak Truth......💯🎯🔥 9751391487
Reposted by Chef RobertThe New Yorker @newyorker.com · 25/05/2025Today marks five years since George Floyd was killed by police. Our June 22, 2020 cover “Say Their Names,” by Kadir Nelson, illustrated how Floyd’s murder embodies the history of violence inflicted upon Black people in America. nyer.cm/UmfefJw 330154433925
Reposted by Chef RobertRicky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 25/05/2025The orange felon’s vendetta against Harvard in just one photo. 785354106142
Reposted by Chef RobertGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 25/05/2025This Memorial Day weekend, the best way to honor the soldiers who gave the ultimate sacrifice is to honor and protect the freedoms and the democracy they died for. 351197454702
Reposted by Chef RobertKurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 21/05/2025From WWII through 1980, as Americans fairly shared the wealth, the federal tax rate on incomes over half a million or so was never less than 70%.Then in the 80s it was cut in half, where it remains—37%. Since 1980 U.S. debt increased 10X. In no small part due to reckless GOP anti-tax extremism. 18462183
Reposted by Chef RobertJonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 21/05/2025It's not really deportation if people are sent to countries where they never lived. It's a human trafficking ring. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...theguardian.comUS ‘illegally deported’ Vietnamese and Burmese migrants to South SudanImmigrant rights advocates say White House violated court order and ask judge to order nearly a dozen people’s return 18078432654
Reposted by Chef RobertLaurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 21/05/2025How permanent is the harm done byTrump’s savage rampage of destruction? For the many who have died because of his folly, it is already permanent. For the rest of us and those still unborn, it will surely long-lasting. Tom Edsall’s question sadly answered itself www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/o...nytimes.comOpinion | ‘I Even Believe He Is Destroying the American Presidency’ 961752637
Reposted by Chef RobertCongresswoman Sara Jacobs @sarajacobs.house.gov · 20/05/2025Members of Congress have a constitutional responsibility to conduct oversight – and bogus, trumped-up charges won't intimidate us or stop us from doing our jobs. We will keep showing up and fighting for the American people. I stand with Congresswoman LaMonica McIver. 10654861147
Reposted by Chef RobertGrandmaSheila Keeper of the Flame🌮 🔥🔥🔥✈️🌻 @grandmasheila.bsky.social · 21/05/2025For the magats in the back: They want to GUT Medicaid so they can raid the funds to run the government because their tax cuts for the oligarchs create such a huge revenue deficit they have no choice. That's it. You're about to find out what that means if they get their way. 1113
Reposted by Chef RobertGary R Simonds @garys79.bsky.social · 20/05/2025EVERY member of ICE must face a tribunal for crimes against humanity 2033092
Reposted by Chef RobertSeth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 21/05/2025The very definition of evil is incarcerating for life in one of the worst hellholes on Earth men who did everything right. But it’s beyond evil—beyond demonic—to then not try to do anything to save the men you consigned to Hell, *and* to in fact libel and slander them daily when they cannot reply. 419137785561