Elbows Up for Canada!

Zelenskyy: "We are not ready to give our freedom to this fucking terrorist, Putin.”

Hey, neighbors, here on the border, we practice vacation diplomacy, by going to Canada to see theatre, dine out, spend a week at the cottage, look people in the eyes, apologize, eh. 🍁🫎 But you can support our Canadian neighbors from afar, too:

Elbows Up, bitches. We say, "No kings."

Haha, a more fitting logo for Google.

Ice agents commit war crimes, tear families apart, traumatize children, murder people in the streets. Ice agents are not welcome. We're gonna remind them of that.

We’re not changing it.

Mark Carney: "The name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontari’io, which, appropriately, means “the lake is beautiful, the lake is big”." The name Trump was anglicized fr the German, Drumpf, & may, etymologically, have been a nickname for a 'large man' or 'someone who was bent / misshapen.'

Lake Release the Epstein Files, is it now?

(h/t to Burning River Brigade) Eight locks, twenty-seven miles, all of it in Ontario. There is no other route. $26.3BN of American trade depends on gates we don't own. "The United States has the clear leverage," the White House posted yesterday. Somebody get this idiot a map.

Mark Carney: "This fall we will begin intense discussions with the European Union, the world's second-largest economy, to build a much stronger and deeper economic and security partnership"

On 9/11, US airspace closed, Canada launched Operation Yellow Ribbon. Gander, a town of 10,000, received 38 airliners. Residents immediately sheltered, fed, clothed, and supported stranded passengers for days, providing this hospitality free of charge. interestingengineering.com/culture/oper...

This policy of the First Occupant is so colossally stupid and short-sighted. Like Gollum, he cannot see past his naked need, his acquisitiveness, his greed. He is driving our allies, our nearest neighbors, our trading partners away. #ElbowsUp

Michael McFaul Is Spot On.......

AOC: Ask Peter Thiel. Ask Elon Musk. Ask Mark Zuckerberg if they want one of these data centers in their own backyard. Ask any one of us here on this committee. If anyone wants to live right next to one of these centers, please raise your hand.

Reinforcing the stupid and the greedy right here, right now.

Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”

The vile stupidity/rage baiting of the Current Occupant knows no bounds. When we have forest fires intensified by human-provoked climate change, Canada comes to our aid. This dude threatens tariffs. Our Canadian friends, I am so deeply sorry for the toxic stupid wafting into your atmosphere.

"JUST ICE."

Yo, Buffalo, come join the Gender Justice Task Force and celebrate the beautiful diversity of voices in our community! Sun., April 19th from 2-6 pm at the Ukrainian American Civic Center on Military Road.

No kings, no jesters, no child molesters. Come be brave with your neighbors. Stand up to tyranny. You'll feel better and figure out your role in the work.

Anywhere else, any of these circumstances would lead to impeachment.

No crowns, no kings, no ranch on wings! Will you join us? Stand up. Bundle up. Fight back. #NoKings

Call your senators. If they are Democrats, tell them not to cave on DHS funding. If they are Republicans, tell them to get it together. This is a false choice that the Republicans have set up. They could pay TSA agents if they wanted to, and separate out the ICE issue. They are choosing not to.

Rep. Rosa DeLauro, top Dem on the House appropriations panel, says DHS is *choosing* not to pay TSA workers while paying its other employees. She says: 85% of ICE + CBP are being paid 75% of Secret Service 0% of TSA workers "The Department made that decision," DeLauro says on the House floor.

Come on out and practice being brave with us this Saturday, friends. There are 3K+ #NoKings events across the United States to say no to wars of whim, to Kavanaugh stops, to random sweeps of terror. Bring someone w/you who hasn't stepped into the work yet. Be in community as we fight for democracy.

Come on out and practice being brave with us this Saturday, friends. There are 3K+ #NoKings events across the United States to say no to wars of whim, to Kavanaugh stops, to random sweeps of terror. Bring someone w/you who hasn't stepped into the work yet. Be in community as we fight for democracy.

Reopening the Strait has emerged as the main objective of the war—an issue that was caused by the war.

"All that was needed was an unending series of victories over your own memory. 'Reality control', they called it: in Newspeak, 'doublethink'." —George Orwell, on the brutality of Donald Trump towards facts, people, anything that might hold him accountable in any way

"I define movement narcissism as the impulse for self-aggrandizement attached to organizing for social transformation, movement narcissistic abuse as the destructive tactics that serve this desire, and movement narcissists as those individuals who exhibit both ..." —Carol Zou

“Can you believe the Epstein guys aren’t being punished? We’re supposed to protect children,” says a person who lives in a country where children go hungry in order to pay for weapons that will kill children in other countries and to enable genocides where children are called terrorists and targeted

The morally bankrupt Trump administration has partnered with another morally bankrupt authoritarian to declare an unprovoked war on Iran, already killing scores of civilians. We need an immediate vote from Congress on a War Powers Resolution. Then articles of impeachment.

Scott Nakagawa: "The tools built to repress Black communities don’t stay contained there: When you give police the power to stop-and-frisk without probable cause, that power exists for use against anyone...When you build mass surveillance infrastructure, that infrastructure can be redirected."

Friends, have you called your Congressional Rep today to tell them to oppose H.R. 7147, the DHS appropriations bill? Get on the phone NOW.

Liam Ramos, yesterday, when he was used as 'bait' by ICE agents. “Why detain a 5-year-old? You can’t tell me that this child is going to be classified as a violent criminal,” Zena Stenvik, the Columbia Heights superintendent, told reporters Wednesday.

"In a long, rambling address that was by turns bombastic, aggrieved and self-congratulatory, President Trump pronounced last rites on American leadership of the liberal democratic order forged by the United States and its allies after World War II."

Special Counsel Jack Smith this morning:

Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it."