What a week. It’s difficult to watch the current administration turn the National Guard and Marines on people exercising their first amendment rights in Los Angeles. Heather Cox Richardson’s post from June 8th outlines the events that led up to this escalation. That escalation seems designed more to fan the flames than protect anyone.
Later in the week, Senator Padilla was shoved to the ground and handcuffed by agents for daring to ask a question at a press conference. Once again, Cox Richardson’s summarizes the events and points out that Noem’s comments about “liberating” Los Angeles from the democratically elected government are as shocking as a US Senator being roughed up by someone’s security detail for asking a question.
Then, early Saturday morning, a Minnesota lawmaker and her husband were assassinated in their home and another lawmaker and his wife were shot several times in their home. If the President denounced this political violence, I certainly haven’t heard it. The President denounced the shootings. Then, staying true to his character, he called the Governor “grossly incompetent”.
This is just a bit of what happened in the US. Meanwhile, things are far from peaceful abroad. Yet the President seemed most focused on his birthday military parade.
On a somewhat brighter note. Thousands of people all over the country took to the streets on Saturday in an overwhelmingly peaceful protest of this administration’s many encroachments on our freedom.
Links
- Would Zohran Mamdani’s free bus plan actually hurt NYC transit?
- Washington Post’s Privacy Tip: Stop Using Chrome, Delete Meta’s Apps (and Yandex)
- Engineer Fixes and Re-Installs Old Payphones, Provides Free Calls to the Public
- Conversation with Secretary Buttigieg
Really looking forward to what he does in the future.