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AlterNet Crooks and Liars Daily Kos (Note: these articles are from RSS News Feeds websites, and are deleted after 30 days, June 11, 2025 at 4:45 PM EDT Someone needs to give California Gov. Gavin Newsom's social media team a raise. President Donald Trump decided to illegally federalize thousands of National Guard members and send 700 active duty Marines to Los Angeles as part of his push to deport an untold number of immigrants""and Newsom has had quite a reaction to it. June 11, 2025 at 4:00 PM EDT Donald Trump's speech at Fort Bragg on Tuesday was a disgrace""full stop. It's not just that the sitting president spoke to the soldiers at the Army base as if he was holding a campaign rally, because Trump always speaks as if he's holding a campaign rally. It's not just that the speech contained a ton of lies, because Trump always lies. June 11, 2025 at 3:45 PM EDT Things did not go smoothly on Wednesday for Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who testified before the House Ways and Means Committee. Democratic Rep. Lloyd Doggett of Texas was undeterred by Bessent's robotic demeanor and pressed him on the legality and nature of data privacy and sharing between the Treasury Department and Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency, which still exists despite Musk's departure from the Trump administration. June 11, 2025 at 3:00 PM EDT The House on Wednesday will re-vote on President Donald Trump's "One Big, Beautiful Bill," when GOP leadership puts a new version of the legislation on the House floor that strips out some provisions that would allow Democrats to filibuster the bill in the Senate. And that means that the House Republicans who have been crapping on the bill they voted for a few weeks ago will have the chance to show whether they actually stick to their laurels and vote against the legislation that slashes Medicaid and food stamps yet still explodes the national deficit in order to pay for tax cuts for the richest Americans. June 11, 2025 at 11:30 AM EDT When an unidentified woman at an Iowa town hall told GOP Sen. Joni Ernst that "people are going to die" from cuts to Medicaid in the "One Big, Beautiful Bill Act," her cold response set the tone for how Republicans are handling President Donald Trump's beloved bill. "Well, we all are going to die," Ernst responded in a clip that has since gone viral. June 11, 2025 at 10:30 AM EDT California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom has been meeting the moment as he responds to President Donald Trump activating the military against civilians in the Golden State, dismantling Trump's lies in real time to stop a false narrative from taking hold. In a Tuesday night speech, Newsom drew attention to Trump's latest authoritarian actions: illegally calling in the National Guard and the Marines to squash protests against his unpopular Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids. Newsom warned Americans that it's Los Angeles today, but could be their state or community next. June 11, 2025 at 9:30 AM EDT Though most of the Trump administration is engaged in a full-court press to make Los Angeles burn, not all agencies are playing a role in the wretched and illegal endeavor. Take the Federal Trade Commission. Even in President Donald Trump's most fevered imagination, the agency charged with protecting businesses from antitrust practices and protecting consumers from deceptive advertising isn't going to help Immigration and Enforcement Officials crack skulls and terrorize cities. June 11, 2025 at 9:00 AM EDT In the wake of ballot measures that increased abortion access and improved sick leave for workers, a coordinated effort is unfolding across the country to restrict direct democracy -- and shift power to partisan legislatures. By Jeremy Kohler for ProPublica June 11, 2025 at 8:30 AM EDT To support this work and receive my weekly newsletter with background on each cartoon, please consider joining the Sorensen Subscription Service! Also on Patreon. Follow me on Bluesky or Mastodon June 10, 2025 at 9:00 PM EDT I served in the U.S. Army 36 years ago. And my son""who's had opportunities I never did as a Salvadoran immigrant""chose to follow in my footsteps, joining the California National Guard. After spending a year in the Middle East, he returned home and was activated to help in the aftermath of the wildfires that devastated Southern California in January. He was stationed in Altadena, a hard-hit, working-class city, where he did what the Guard is meant to do: help people in crisis. June 10, 2025 at 9:00 PM EDT I served in the U.S. Army 36 years ago. And my son""who's had opportunities I never did as a Salvadoran immigrant""chose to follow in my footsteps, joining the California National Guard. After spending a year in the Middle East, he returned home and was activated to help in the aftermath of the wildfires that devastated Southern California in January. He was stationed in Altadena, a hard-hit, working-class city, where he did what the Guard is meant to do: help people in crisis. June 10, 2025 at 8:30 PM EDT For a man claiming that Los Angeles has descended into such violent chaos that it requires the immediate and illegal deployment of federal troops, President Donald Trump sure seems to have time to fixate on trivial things. This is not a man behaving like the government is on war footing, but instead is the same old Trump, flitting from grievance to grievance. And he's not the only one. On Monday, when Trump was taking questions about reporters from the California protests, he was asked about his decision to send active-duty Marines to Los Angeles. That is a very important question, given that it is unprecedented and illegal. But Trump used the opportunity to bash California's high-speed rail project connecting Los Angeles with San Francisco. |
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